Plies dropped a verse on Spend Dat. He said “I ain’t buying a bitch a purse, that’s lil boy shit. I’ma send ya kids to college, I do raw shit.”
That’s the Plies I remember.
They shooting the messenger, but she ain’t wrong. Dating and sex were heavily demonized in a lot of our homes. We were told to stay away from boys and focus on school. The problem is that relationships are a skill set too and many Black women were prepared for careers but left to figure out dating, boundaries, and healthy partnership on our own.
i was shocked to discover that there are some people who actually can't visualize images when reading a book coz for me, an entire movie is playing out in my head with the perfect cast
The older you get, the more you realize luck is mostly exposure. If you sit in the same place, have the same routine, talking to the same people, nothing new really happens. You have to tackle the world to succeed. Travel more. Talk to people.
A bird has never paid rent to live in the sky. A tree has never paid to stand in a forest. The sun has never been charged for rising. The river has never paid to flow.
Yet humans spend their whole lives trying to earn permission to exist on earth
She comes from an era with Disney required their stars to know how to sing, dance, act and everything in between. That’s why the Disney stars of her era are successful to this day. Star power was a must when it came to the girls!