SONG OF THE DAY: Making Cash Money

I love a good “making cash money” song because I am, in fact, the opposite of this vibe. I’d guess the bulk of folks throughout the times of hip hop who have bumped songs about making cash money are of the same lot in life, and it’s one of those situations where we happily manifest the opposite of reality. It’s a great release that helps you forget how crushing an economic system we live in, which is even more so now with digital tracking and credit scores and shit that wasn’t even hitting as hard when this song first came out. We really did create one fucked up way of living here in America. Anyways, I could really use a magical influx of cash money; or I could use the end of this system we currently live in. I’d be good with either one to be honest. I think my escape the crushing conditions is more individualistic – the end of this horrible system would be collective. That’d be painful too, to navigate the transitions, but there’s no reason we can’t make catchy songs for that, too, to sing around the pallet fires at night together. Or we could just keep singing how we’re making cash money around the pallet fires. That’d be wonderfully dystopian, and actually happens already, in houseless camps everywhere. What an amazing country, lol.

Aki Basho 2018 Honour Tanka Day Ten: KISENOSATO (8-2)

[ya boy dirtgod needs a fat stack of them envelopes like that] 

Kisenosato's 

return as yokozuna 

has been eventful 

he's hardly looked dominant, 

but he made kachikoshi 

it's been a year since 

he's accomplished such a feat - 

bad look for sumo 

gyoji called multple 

mattas (false starts) on Endo 

poor sad Endo - he's 

having an ugly basho, 

struggling entirely 

still a threat though, except when 

matta policing happens 

few bouts have true two 

hands down - it's performative 

motion in action 

but Kisenosato shall 

get all the help he can get 

official sumo 

federation wants their star 

to shine (for money) 

sumo federation wants 

Japanese yokozuna 

Kisenosato 

brings about a fat stack of 

sponsor envelopes 

thus after three false starts, we 

finally have some sumo 

Endo easily 

pushed backwards out the ring, 

a potential "work" 

"was Endo working hard, or 

hardly working?" as they say 

Kisenosato 

got his kachikoshi, and 

still only two back 

but let's be real - this is not 

the same Kisenosato 

TRY1NG T0 L1V3 C4SH 0NLY...

trying to live cash only

lifestyle, at unchained stores where

immigrants will congregate

Natsu Basho 2017 Honour Tanka Day 2: CHIYONOKUNI (1-1)

Chiyonokuni

faces yokozuna to

end day two's events

Kakuryu the Mongol,

bastard of agile technique

hands touch sand quickly,

two immense objects smash/slap

unto each other

the yokozuna is stunned

just enough for gravity

Chiyonokuni

follows stunner with pushdown -

hatakikomi

they call it kinboshi, or

gold star, earning fat bonus

maegashira beats

yokozuna - underdog

toppling a top star

Chiyonokuni smug smiles

as folks throw cushions with glee

celebrate like holiday

but ain't shit except Friday

with that direct deposit