Ladies….tomorrow is the deadline….after a slow start, the competition is fierce….there is a young lady in Atlanta who SHOULD be the winner, she came as close to perfect as anyone is gonna come….but she’s in Atlanta and couldn’t be my Valentine anyway (**shedding a tear right here**) **sigh**….there is someone here in Nashville that is in the lead right now….I’ll reveal her identity this weekend, sometime between parties….

Now back to your regularly scheduled rant!

Every now and again I get on a musical kick where I’ll just listen to/download songs from a particular artist or group….

Right now I’m on an NWA trip….I think it starts with my conversation with O.J. the other night about how I needed to get another copy of Ice Cube’s “Death Certificate”….

See, more than a year ago, before my dad got sick, he was gearing up to get back on the radio….he borrowed about 10 CDs from me that he was going to use to get his music that he used coming in and out of commercial breaks (Dad was a radio talk show host….and the music got the engineer in the other room ready to cue his commercial spots)….and Death Certificate was one of the CDs he borrowed….

Well, unfortunately Dad isn’t able to remember much that happened after my Grandmother’s death in August of 2001….so I hold out any promise of finding that CD….but Death Certificate is one of those CDs that you re-buy when you lose it….

I owe my Dad for getting me hooked on that CD in the first place….I’ll never forget, back when he was on his first stint in Atlanta radio, we’d go to just about every Hawks game….well one day he popped in a tape and said, “I want you to listen to this”….before that moment my Ice Cube experience was limited to a “Straight Outta Compton” maxi single with “A Bitch is a Bitch” and “Express Yourself”….I liked Cube’s music, but I didn’t really know anything about him….

Man….hearing that tape changed my life….every track was great….full of memorable (if raunchy/racist/violent) lines….from “The Wrong Nigga To Fuck Wit” to “No Vaseline” the jams didn’t stop….I even thought about putting on some weight and getting a jheri curl (only for like a quick second)….

It’s a shame Cube fell off….damn….