Mood Music Moments: Party Life

By Judah

It was coming...you knew it. Only a matter of time before the greatest MC of all time graced his presence in Mood Music Moments.

Regardless of circumstance Jay-z is the most consistent rapper of all time. Jay-z is 12 plus albums in the game and still is producing heat. Jay-z's work ethic is the total embodiment of mastering a craft.

Today we have a cut from the album American Gangster. Party Life is a grown and sexy record with an R&B touch. I can appreciate Jay-z due to the fact that as he grows as an artist I have had the pleasure of growing with him. The older you become the more experiences and situations mold your perspective. At one point he was rapping about guns, coke, weed, and hoes. Now at this stage of his life he has calmed down a bit and is now rapping about things relevant to his life.

This track is about confidence. You control how your universe views you. If you want people within your environment to respond to you, one must project the desired energy.

Don't be afraid of your woman

By Samson
It's better to speak your mind and agree to disagree than to be her little "yes man."

Don't pick fights, but if you have an opinion, SPEAK ON IT. The last thing you want to do is be the guy who does everything in his power to avoid conflict--all this will do is make her resent you. It's like you're afraid of her. In her mind she thinks, "If he's afraid of me, or can't handle me, how can he protect me from anything?"

When it gets to this point your woman will start picking at you and testing you to see how you respond. That's a bad place to be in. A little healthy conflict means there is energy in your relationship. Energy can be a good thing depending on how you use it. Judah touched on this a little earlier with: Let's Build: The flow of energy.

Standing your ground in the midst of conflict can create admiration, because she knows you're not a punk. That energy from the conflict, mixed with admiration, or PQ, can lead to, you guessed it, make up sex.

Now bad energy can screw you over in a relationship if you let the balance fall out of whack. I'll touch on that in a post tomorrow. Til then, ya'll be good.

Story of one of my exes: Good could be better, learning how to learn

By Judah
Last night, I was enjoying my down time after putting in my 8+ hours at work. I was watching the Basketball Housewives show on VH1, and noticed Chad Ochocinco was making a guest appearance and hanging out with his brand new piece on camera. Something he said struck a nerve in me while watching and made me sit up and pay attention.

He told his new piece, “Baby you fine, no question. ... But I can help you get to that level of ‘God damn’ if we just change a few things here and there.”

Her facial expression said it all. After maybe a few seconds of silence, she said “I’m already ‘God damn!’”

Yes, this is a simplistic example and it is TV, but it just made me think about my experiences and how I personally receive and give game to those in my surroundings.


I used to date this girl…we’ll call her Beth. Beth was a sweet, honest, smart girl who I was seeing off and on for a good 6 months when we had time. I had been in my career for a good two years and had some life experience dealing with contracts, employment, benefits and salaries. As a result, when it came time for her take her own career to the next level, I wanted to give my knowledge and experience freely to her so that she had a basis of what the corporate world was like.


Anybody who is in it knows it’s a dog eat dog world. But I digress. Anyways, Beth didn’t take too kindly to me offering suggestions, or telling her stories about my time in the world. She took it as me telling her what to do, or that I felt she didn’t know anything about the real world. On the contrary, I just wanted to tell her about my experiences, so she could apply it on whatever level she needed. I knew she was smart and didn’t take her intelligence for granted, I just wanted to build with her so she could be a success.

Shortly after her outburst, I ended the “relationship.” I can’t be with a person who is incapable of learning. Personally, if someone has some knowledge in any facet of life, I’d like for them to give me all of the information they have to help me grow. I’m not one who believes knowledge should be power. It should be spread for the good of society.


When you are under the bosom of your parents, you’re expected to accept knowledge without question. These ideals or ways of thinking can be forced on you and often are, be it; religion, how to handle finances, dealing with people, or just overall game that will help you develop yourself for when the real world attacks.


Now once you enter the real world it’s a freedom that’s indescribable--a freedom that may give you the inclination that you already know everything there is to know about everything. There is nothing wrong with having the belief that you can make your own choices on your journey of life, but it is a problem when you become incapable of accepting new suggestions.

This can go both ways. It’s not just about a woman who doesn’t listen or want to listen—let alone learn, but about people who think they have it all figured out. Those people are the most confused and unsure within there own lives. Next time someone wants to give you some game on a topic, analyze it then go from there.

Let's start the conversation

By 2 Cent Tab
Pull up a chair and allow us to welcome you to what we hope to be an ongoing conversation. Today you’re bombarded with news, thoughts and opinions that have a way of shaping the way you think and feel. Every little variable counts and plays a role in our conditioning.

The two of us go back for some years, and whenever we get together have a tendency to build on everything that makes us human in this funny game we call life. Life; love and war, money, sex, religion, politics, human nature--everything that makes up the human condition. We hope to share with you our humble opinions on a consistent basis to provoke some good dialogue, share some game that we’ve picked up and maybe teach something along the way.

We need you to do the same. This blog serves as an open ended forum for whatever is on your mind. We’re starting the conversation with our posts, but aren’t here to preach or claim that our thoughts are the end all be all.

We’re sharing our two cents and hope for you to show us the other side of the coin.
Leave some feedback early and often and we can watch this thing grow into something beautiful. Allow this to be a constant source for some food for thought, and allow us to pick up the tab.