By no means am I writing this to offend anyone with that word…RAPE…Some people use it in many ways, and today I am using it for one….All of the meanings are negative, so you know how that goes. It’s close to the holidays, we got jacked for our gifts…No prob…hopefully insurance will handle that check, so no sweat off my back or the hubby’s…But for a few years now, I’ve had the craziest dream of becoming an author…And…I AM ONE!!!!!! But I don’t feel like one anymore…I GOT RAPED!!!!! True story…
So there I am on world famous MYSPACE…and I come across a page of another “Author”, doing her signing in my area…As I scroll through the profile, I notice that she is a “Publisher” as well….Hmm….Anyways…Me being the hungry, impatient Sagittarius that I am…I went to the book signing with aspirations of being published under her “Company”….(You notice how I use many quotations???)….So, I sign a contract…like others have with her…No advance…no problem…I know that I have a great book, so that won’t be missed…I wait patiently after signing the contract in mid 2007 for my book to come out April 2008…I’m excited, she’s excited…I wonder why…Maybe because she is going to give it to me hard…with no vaseline!!!!1
After the second month was over, she tells me that personally…by hand…she sold 1100 of my books..Not including what was sold online and in stores…Me and my support system (Husband) sell some too…So around the time for the big pay up…she tells me after months of my book being out, after signings and spending my own money to travel and promote…only 800 books were sold…So i run to the mirror…I check for some signs of fatigue or an actual sign on my forehead that says “IDIOT”…Come on dude…You look like shit every time I see you…your ”Street Team” ( brothers) “Hype Men (brothers) look like they just put that pipe on hiatus last week…and you have just about your whole family in your household…Your phone is disconnected ever so conveniently more than a few times out of the year, Yet you brag about being a CEO and making over $75,000 on myspace…You hype yourself up and others about being “So Real”…when in all actuality…You are a thief and a bum!!!!!!!!!! LET”S GET RAPED
So here I am minding my own B.I…when I stroll through the mall…I stop in Forever 21…May be a mistake, may not be…But yes…I was in there…I notice a pair of tights that look just like a pair I wanted to get from Hellz Bellz…There was a circle of female gang members…or at least I was under that assumption because they all had on atrocious red t-shirts and matching sneakers…It had to be a gang and not a fashion statement…But anyway…two of them picked a pair up…held it in the air…and one chick declared that this “Was fly as hell!!!!” and had to be purchased…
Hellz Bellz got raped, and so did I because I now can not own a pair of those tights….
LET”S GET RAPED
So, I’m watching television with my husband…and a PLIES video comes on…”Who’s Hotter Than Me?”…I’m laughing…my stomach is hurting…tears run down my face from amusement…i happen to look at my husband who is unusually quiet…he is actually listening to this shit…we usually laugh together….Is my husband transforming into a regular dude? Did he conform to the typical, Young, Black Society????? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I must help him see the light before it’s too late…thank goodness I see Kanye West on t he screen…But did I just get raped?????
