Business…let’s all laugh at Lamar Thomas’ monologue on TV, shall we?
Further, here’s a glimpse at how I became the sorta guy I am today.  I sent my brother a copy of the draft of this piece a couple of days ago.  I do that from time to time because his job is has blocked espn.com.  Anyway, he then responded with his own Lamar moment, this being based on the hilarious mollywoppin Jerry Stackhouse gave Jeff Hornacek in 1995 or 1996.  I can’t find a clip online, so just ask someone about it if you haven’t seen it.  Anyway, Mumba J. drops the following pearl.

I don’t know why y’all trippin.  That was pure comedy son.   Hornacek ran up on my man with no plan.  Buddy looked like he thought he was gonna have a close up conversation.  Stack was like,  just what I needed., Tak, tak, Bow!!  Just like justifiable homicide, free shots.  You can’t turn that down just cause the cat runnin’ up on you ain’t really gon throw.  Free shots man.  Hard to come by at the U, cause everybody is down to throw dog.  Everybody. 

And yes, I am such a typical little brother.  How did you know?
Right fast, something interesting’s going on here in rap music.  Fabolous got locked up the other day on a weapons’ charge.  The reports on that have listed his age as 28.
Interestingly, no one’s made a peep about this.  I say that because his people have kinda been careful about making sure people didn’t realize he was too damn old to be rappin’ like that.  I’m friends with one of this cousins, and I once asked her how old he was.  Her response was that she’s signed paperwork that precludes her from sharing that.  I doubt she actually signed something, but that’s nothing you can tell a writer.  Understood there.  But she did give it a way when she talked about what a Big Daddy Kane fan he was, which isn’t something you hear too often about someone from the age range he’s been kinda purported as being.
Now, when Lil Wayne got locked up not too long ago, we found out that he was much older than previously thought.  The word was that he was 16 when he did stuff on 400 Degreez.  That would have made him a couple of years older than me.  I don’t remember exactly what the numbers were, but he’s actually older than me.
And no one cared.
It’s actually a pretty big deal with Weezy because much of the hook with him has been precociousness.  We compare him with Tip because they’re supposedly the young guns in this rap thing, the two cats that’ll take the South into the future.  But uhhhh, Weezy ain’t that young, really.
But really, no one cared a lick about either.  I’m not sure what to make of that, but I found it to be rather interesting.  All that care was taken to misrepresent these dudes ages…and they ain’t even have to do all that.