R.I.P. Kobe Bryant

I came online this afternoon to the news that Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash. I actually felt myself stop breathing in the shock, like what the FUCK? This is one of those deaths that's just hard to believe. I had to read 6 articles from official news outlets before I'd accept it as truth. The shit is just unreal. Just one day after publicly congratulating LeBron James for having surpassed his 3rd highest of all time scoring record, this happens? CRAZY.

And now TMZ Sports is reporting that his 13-year old daughter Gianna was among the other 4 deceased in the wreck. I haven't seen any confirmation from any other outlets confirming ANY other identities, so I sincerely hope it's not true. Reckless reporters are also attempting to place former Laker Rick Fox aboard the helicopter, but thank God, all accounts I've come across seem to refute that.

I've never been a Lakers fan but I loved me some Kobe when he first got in the league. As the years went on, he lost me with all the antics, but one can never take away what he was. Dude KILLED the game, and he won a lot of my respect back post-retirement. Give the man a microphone and the floor and he'd have you believing you could do anything.

41 years old....SMH. 2020, please don't be that year.

R.I.P. #KobeBryant

Thoughts In The Elevator

Every morning for the past two months or so, I’ve waken up with a song in my head. I can’t say they’re random songs because most often it’s one on rotation via my T.I. station on Pandora (What can I say? That ratchet/trap shit gets me going in the morning LOL). I’m most thrown when it’s not – or when it’s one I haven’t heard ANY time recently – but that sometimes happens too. For the past 3 days, it’s been the same song: “I do,” by Cardi B. It’s not often a song runs it back 3 mornings in a row. Even if it skips a day and comes back around, it’s never 3 days straight, so now I’m wondering what I’m supposed to pull from that.

Should I smack a bitch cause I feel like it?

Do I need some Givenchy shoes?

I definitely don’t like niggas that been in and outta jail.

But I do, do what I like. 2020 might just want me to keep doing me. I'm allllll for it. Hey, it's been working out pretty well for me so far. 🤷‍♀️