The grind, hustle, work never stops no matter how bad, challenging, disappointing the outcome initially is. Remember who you are and why you do what you do. Don’t allow anyone take you away from you. (****Reminder****)
I’ve been doing this a minute 😂
Jalen gave me a lot of stories. So did Jayson. Nothing is overnight. You don’t pop up one day able to build connections and conduct lasting interviews. My old tapes were SO BAD. But I kept working. It’s a grind. So to everyone out there in this early position - keep going! It’s coming 🫶🏾
Watching Cincy vs BC. I noticed BC rolled the single high safety to the dominant receiver side and plays man-on on the opposite side, a couple of plays. #CFB#CollegeFootball
Rutgers Women’s Basketball hosted 2028 Five-Star forward Khloe Nicholson (Quincy, IL) — No. 7 overall per Rivals — for an unofficial visit this weekend.
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Eminem's comments on Rakim's hiphop with these word;
Look — people mix up their favorite rappers with the best rappers all the time‼️. That’s fine‼️. Favorites are personal‼️. But when you talk about who actually moved the needle, who changed what the microphone was even *for*, you keep coming back to the same name‼️.
Rakim‼️.
Greatness ain’t only how well you do something‼️. It’s if you were the first to do it‼️. He was the first person I ever heard take inside rhyme schemes and treat a bar like it had rooms inside it‼️. He’d start a thought in the middle of the measure, fold a second rhyme underneath it, then come back at the end and *hit* it — like he’d planned the landing from the first syllable‼️. Nobody was thinking in that geometry yet‼️. He just did it‼️. Calm‼️. No yelling‼️. No gimmick‼️. Just a dude from Long Island writing like a saxophone player because that’s how he heard time‼️.
That’s the part people still undersell‼️. Before him, a lot of rap was end-rhyme, punch, pose‼️. After *Paid in Full*, the whole craft got denser‼️. Internal rhymes, off-beat placement, ideas that didn’t have to sit on the four‼️. He single-handedly pushed the genre forward to be more complex lyrically — and then Kane and G Rap and the rest of that wave grew out of the space he opened‼️. You can hear the family tree if you listen‼️. I was a sponge for that stuff‼️. Compound syllables, Juice Crew, the guys who treated words like puzzles‼️. Rakim was the one who showed you the puzzle could be three-dimensional‼️.
I said it on record: I’m a product of Rakim‼️. That’s not a throwaway line. When I was coming up, every time I thought I’d figured out how far you could stretch a bar, I’d go back to “I Ain’t No Joke” or “Microphone Fiend” or “Follow the Leader” and realize the ceiling was higher than I thought‼️. He made the pen feel like an instrument instead of a weapon you just swing‼️. The confidence was quiet. That’s harder than loud. Anybody can bark‼️. He made you lean in‼️.
And the thing is, he never had to chase the moment‼️. The moment chased him‼️. Four albums with Eric B. and the template was already set — how you ride a loop, how you leave space, how you sound like you’re thinking in real time even when every syllable is placed‼️. Later cats interpolated him without even knowing they were doing it‼️. That’s influence that doesn’t need a press cycle‼️.
I put him on every list I make because the list without him is incomplete‼️. Not because he sold the most or toured the loudest. Because after him, rappers had to get better or get left‼️. He changed the way people thought about rap. That’s the whole job, if you take the job seriously‼️.
The rest of us are still writing in the rooms he built‼️‼️.
The ONLY QBs I’m taking over Deshaun Watson this season 🚨🚨
1. Josh Allen
2. Lamar Jackson
3. Drake Maye
4. Jayden Daniels
5. Joe Burrow
6. Jalen Hurts
7. Justin Herbert
8. Jaxson Dart
9. Trevor Lawrence
10. Brock Purdy
11. Caleb Williams
12. Bo Nix
13. Dak Prescott
14. Matthew Stafford
15. Patrick Mahomes
16. Jared Goff
17. Kyler Murray
18. Baker Mayfield
19. Jordan Love
20. Tyler Shough
21. Malik Willis
22. Sam Darnold
23. C.J. Stroud
24. Daniel Jones
25. Cam Ward
26. Bryce Young
27. Jacoby Brissett
28. Aaron Rodgers
29. Geno Smith
30. Fernando Mendoza
31. Michael Penix Jr.
32. Shedeur Sanders
33. Tua Tagovailoa
34. Kirk Cousins
35. Carson Beck
36. Mac Jones
37. Ty Simpson
38. Justin Fields
39. Anthony Richardson Sr.
40. Jameis Winston
41. Joe Flacco
42. Cade Klubnik
43. Marcus Mariota
44. Joe Milton III
45. Taylen Green
46. Gardner Minshew II
47. Quinn Ewers
48. Tyrod Taylor
49. Davis Mills
50. Tyson Bagent
51. Jalen Milroe
52. Spencer Rattler
53. Trey Lance
54. Riley Leonard
55. Tyler Huntley
56. Carson Wentz
57. Jarrett Stidham
58. Drew Allar
59. Sam Howell
60. Jack Strand
61. Mitchell Trubisky
62. Andy Dalton
63. Kenny Pickett
64. Dillon Gabriel
65. Jake Browning
66. Mason Rudolph
67. Jalon Daniels
68. Kyle Allen
69. Joshua Dobbs
70. Tommy DeVito
71. Cooper Rush
72. Drew Lock
73. Kyle McCord
74. Jimmy Garoppolo
75. Tanner McKee
76. Garrett Nussmeier
77. Will Howard
78. Zach Wilson
79. Hendon Hooker
80. Chris Oladokun
81. Nick Mullens
82. Stetson Bennett IV
83. Cole Payton
84. Kurtis Rourke
85. Haynes King
86. Aidan O’Connell
87. Athan Kaliakmanis
88. Case Keenum
89. Behren Morton
90. Sam Ehlinger
91. Joe Fagnano
92. Jake Haener
93. Brady Cook
94. Will Levis
95. Kyle Trask
96. Brandon Allen
97. Matt Barkley
98. Luke Altmyer
99. DJ Uiagalelei
100. Skylar Thompson
101. Bailey Zappe
102. Sam Hartman
103. Josh Johnson
104. Shane Buechele
105. Dorian Thompson-Robinson
106. Desmond Ridder
107. Matt Corral
108. Seth Henigan
109. Brett Rypien
110. Devin Leary
111. Ryan Leaf
112. JaMarcus Russell
113. Nathan Peterman
THAT’S IT! That’s the list.
Deshaun is going to make the entire league UNCOMFORTABLE this season 🔥🔥🔥
Late-night story: @JSSInsider No. 1 @CaseysSports bounced back after a Week 0 loss and stood tall in the fourth quarter to take down St. Anthony's (N.Y.) in a wild 62-41 shootout.
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