In America I ordered a milkshake and the young man turned it upside down over my head.
I did not move. A samurai does not flinch, even when the ice cream is above him and gravity is the law.
Nothing fell.
The cup hung there, upside down, defying the sky, and the boy held it over me with the calm of a man who has done this ten thousand times and buried his fear long ago.
This is the Blizzard. This is Dairy Queen.
If it falls, they told me, you get it free.
I understood at once. This was not dessert. This was an ordeal.
The boy was not showing off. He was swearing an oath, with his own arm, that he had made the thing thick enough to hang against the earth, and he was betting the price of it on his honor.
The flip is not a trick.
It is a vow.
In my land a smith proved his blade by cutting.
Here a boy of seventeen proves his by turning it over a stranger's head and looking him in the eye while the whole line waits to see if he lied.
He did not lie.
He set it upright, handed it to me, and said "there you go, man," then turned to the next customer as if he had not just gambled his good name across a counter.
I tipped him everything in my pocket.
He tried to give it back. He said it was just a Blizzard.
I told him it was not just a Blizzard.
I could not explain the rest in English, and there was a line, and he was busy.
So I bowed instead.
He said, "You too, man."
That answered nothing I had said.
It answered everything I had felt.
you don’t have to listen to me, but listen to the riddim dj’s that have BEEN w/ the shits and make valid points.
screenshots are from Instagram (lexus, nuh, martaze, and AKIRAH aka some of the most talented riddim artists in the scene)
got 12 seconds into that zingara video and immediately closed app
“girls riddim tour” with……. no girls…….. and no riddim ?
no love for the actual women in riddim like leafy, noxx , otsukare, casey… distasteful at the very least
save your tears man, do better
I think its insane how people u talk to just disappear from your life when you just stop reaching out. Like 6 fucking years and u can just cut someone out like that?
It seems that no matter what I say (or type) no one seems to understand anything I’m saying so I’ll try bullet points:
- Vol 7 is the last NSD Compilation (I’m never doing one of those again)
- NSD as a label is back (but don’t expect it to be like it was 4 years ago)
I’m going to do an AMA on IG next week and wanted to get that out of the way and (as nice as the words are) - I kind of want everyone to stop talking about me like they’re at my funeral 🤣