Asa’s “fire on the mountain” is playing on the radio, and you know what? For a song released when I was in primary 4, the lyrics are quite…something.
It is well.
I told my dad something, I told him not to tell my mum..barely a day after, my mum called to told me my dad told her what I told him.. but I shouldn't tell my dad she told me what I told him not to tell her 🤦🏽♀️
Since both of them are aware, I decided to call and tell both of them together and make it an open discussion. Guess what? Both of them pretended to be hearing it for the first time 😭 I was so pissed and confused. I ended the call.
God bless the niggas who are 100x bigger than us and still fuck with us, put us on, and genuinely wanna see us win alongside them.
That shit will always be respected.
Get a haircut every 2 weeks to stay sharp, wait 5 secs before answering the phone to control the rhythm, always arrive 15 mins early, stay away from free lunches, never talk about people who aren't in the room, and when anger rises, wait 10 mins before reacting. These habits may look rigid, but they're the hidden discipline of the elite.
Best cartoons , introduced social media , food was good , we played outside , watched cell phones evolve , had to know how to actually talk to a girl you liked , PS2 ….
Platonic boyfriend theory strikes again 😂 Why does it always have to be a male? Why can't you get this from a female since there is no sex involved? Is it possible that you deep down know that this is exploitative and have no good intentions for men?
See, this is the luckiest time to be born. In fact, not just childhood the level of things we got to experience growing up, whether it was basketball, music, football or technology, was different.
This generation grew up watching Bolt, Ronaldo, Messi, Nadal, Federer, Hamilton, Djokovic, LeBron and Kobe at or around their absolute peak. Then watched the upcoming goats 🐐 like they’re our younger ones. We didn’t just watch great athletes, we watched entire eras being created in real time. You could literally pick a sport and find someone who was redefining what human beings thought was possible.
Then look at music. We grew up when CDs, MP3s, radio, MTV, music videos and physical albums were still a thing, but we also witnessed the transition into YouTube, streaming and social media. We went from downloading songs on our phones and sharing music through Bluetooth to having virtually every song ever made available instantly with streaming platforms.
And that is what makes the 1992–2003 window so special.
We were basically the bridge between two completely different worlds.
We knew what it was like to play outside until your parents started looking for you. We knew cartoons, DVDs, VHS, CRT televisions, PlayStation 1, PS2, Nintendo, FIFA/PES, Nokia phones, Snake, ringtone downloads, Bluetooth and going to a cyber cafe just to use the internet. We met everything even coins.
Then suddenly, the internet became normal. Google became normal. YouTube came. Facebook came. Smartphones came. Instagram, WhatsApp and eventually TikTok changed how the world communicated. We met sending letters, late night calls.
We had a childhood before everything became digital, but we became adults in a completely digital world.
We remember when you had to wait for a song to come on the radio. We also became the generation that could discover an artist on YouTube. We watched football highlights on television, then moved to watching them on YouTube and eventually social media. We went from handwritten notes and physical books to Google, smartphones and AI.
Even football itself was crazy. We witnessed the final years of Ronaldinho, the rise of Messi and Ronaldo, the dominance of Barcelona and Madrid, the evolution of the Premier League, Neymar, Iniesta, Xavi, Modric, Salah, the greatest rivalry between two players we may ever see and we were young enough to actually enjoy all of it as it happened.
You can think of any sport and it’s almost the same.
And the beauty of it is that we weren’t completely consumed by technology yet.
You could spend 5 hours outside with your friends, come home, watch a football match, play PlayStation, listen to music from a CD or MP3, then maybe go online for the first time that day.
That balance probably won’t exist in the same way again.
We didn’t just grow up during a great period.
We grew up watching the world change from analogue to digital in real time.
That is what makes our childhood so rare. Like so so Rare.
One thing about working 9-5 in Lagos is that you can be “Team Lead, Operations,” with ACCA, MSC, ICSAN and so on, in one of those glass buildings on the island, and still borrow money for rent.
Funny how most prostitutes are women, but at home it's magically a man's duty to initiate sex.
When it's unpaid, it's for men. And when it's profitable, it becomes 'women's liberation'
1/ An investigation into how Greavys (Malone Iam), Wiz (Veer Chetal), and Box (Jeandiel Serrano) stole $243M from a single person last month in a highly sophisticated social engineering attack and my efforts which have helped lead to multiple arrests and millions frozen.
It’s so crazy to me how a nigga could come from nothing, work so hard and turn his life around, his whole trajectory. Like look at zlatan’s child bro, proper burti pikin driving in a lambo to school while his dad probably never entered a car to school