A street dedication to not only the city of Philly I grew up in, but the neighborhood, down to the very block I was not only born and raised in, on and around — and the corner of my street which would uncontestedly become our block, and remain so as long as our reign did — as well as those who were there with me for all of it. — The first time I ever recall another kid I wasn’t friends with putting their hands on me was for starters, a story I’ll never forget.

Once again paying homage to not only one of my favorite rappers, and entrepreneurs, but people I never met also. — By now, you probably heard either some of the hype surrounding Jay-Z’s verse on the recently released title track of DJ Khaled’s latest album ‘God Did’. You don’t even have to be a fan of rap to have run into some of the hype I mentioned, as late-night host Jimmy…

Whether in love or untimely death, all kinds of losses hurt, just in different ways and for different reasons — but it doesn’t all have to be for nothing. — My late best friend’s youngest son turned two last weekend, his father was my childhood friend from age twelve on, who passed away on March 25th, 2021, when his son wasn’t even 6 months old. I had the idea to voluntarily write a sealed letter to him, to be opened…

This isn’t writing advice, it’s my writing experience, shared in a manner I want to, how I remember it. — Oh, boy. That title is asking for it. But before you spend minutes of your life you’ll never get back, writing paragraphs I’ll probably never read — hear me out. Though it may not appear so at first glance, my title is low-key self-deprecating, and hiddenly humble. I wouldn’t consider…

Fraud has gone far beyond the markets of every kind and has integrated itself into our everyday way of life. — We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball… What bothers me isn’t that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. It’s because, for fifteen thousand years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not…

A national decline in mental health as well as mental health care, an opioid epidemic, crooked pharmaceutical companies and doctors, 24-hour pain clinics identical to any known illicit drug corner, the overprescribing and underprescribing problem, a global pandemic, and the overworked and underappreciated frontline healthcare workers who are beyond short staffed as they find ways to cope with all of the above and below.

They exist digitally and IRL, in fact, some of us have been all of them and all of us have probably been some of them if we’re being honest. Let’s talk about it. — The times we live in are bizarrely interesting. As intriguing as they are troublesome and as fascinating as they are completely fucked. Our leaders are incompetent and your average person in modern-day America is more concerned with impressing their social media followers or how to gain new ones than they…

Everything ain’t for everyone and this includes traditional work. — Sure, I’d be lying if I said my early views on work weren’t formed based on the fact, that others I grew up with and called friends, found ways to make easy money selling weed in High school. We were teenagers and making more money than some of our working…

I’m writing this for me, read it if you want. — Every morning when I wake up, part of me is drastically disappointed I did. The hope that keeps me moving forward, becomes utterly harder to hold onto with each passing hour. I question whether the pictures on my walls of loved ones and best friends who passed well before their…