Barbershop Pimpin…Come and Get Baptized

“I never f*ck nobody’s b*tch and I never bought a Jakob…”

-Andre 3000 “Art of Storytellin Pt. 4″

The older I get, the more I realize that being able to recognize good advice is a rare skill, and being able to take good advice is rarer still.  But I digress.  So, from time to time, I will share jewels I have learned from experience or other older players in the game on a variety of topics.  I should really charge yall ninjas, but anyway…

Recently, the transcripts from the Kwame Kilpatrick investigation were released.  Besides it being a generally fucked up situation for the City of Detroit and all other involved parties, one thing stuck out to me: it seems like the Mayor’s paramour was the driving force behind the text messaging.  While she was skerv and silly as hell to fuck her shit up over this dude, my main qualm with Kwame is that he broke a cardinal rule of the game: DO NOT FUCK ANOTHER MAN”S WOMAN!

Many of you so called pimps violate this rule, and you are “sh*tting your dick” on a number of fronts.  It may seem like an ideal situation to deal with another man’s woman, especially if you got a shorty of your own.  But this is reckless.  First, if that man finds out, who knows what he might do.  Cats have been killed for less, and poontang is on that short list of things cats will constantly avenge themselves over. 

Second, what does this say about you as a person.  Most men have cheated on a woman in some form or fashion, but as an adult, it boils down to a character flaw or weakness.  Either you are greedy, selfish, easily influenced or too much of a punk to end a bad situation.  A man and a playa does not enter a situation in which he cannot control the outcome, not too mention create that damn situation.  The game is based on control, of one’s self and then, well you know.  Unless you Harry Houdini, you should be risk averse to the female drama. 

Third, the woman you dealing with is probably sub-par as an individual.  And if she will do this with you, her treachery knows know bounds.  You are a reflection of the company you keep, and I don’t make a habit of laying down with people I do not trust.  If I do, I keep them at a distance.  These women are more snakish than the average.  And men instinctively know what women they can wife and trust, and the ones that will never meet their mother.  But some fool will turn a ho or scandalous ass woman into his wife and/or the mother of his children (another reason I know God has a sense of humor).  As the saying goes, “you don’t pay your mistress to screw you, you pay her to leave.”  Ya dig?

Fourth, like Too Short said, it is too many women out here to go after another man’s.  If you gonna disrespect someone’s situation like that, that says a lot about your character and integrity as a man, and you deserve whatever you get you piece of sh*t. (J/K!)  And expect that same disrespect to be shown to you.

You cannot be a man and be lazy, you cannot be a pimp/playa/mack/balla/miscellaneous shot caller and be lazy.  The fundamental tenet of the game is that “Pimpin aint easy.”  If you are lazy then you will get taken advantage of.  And creepin with another man’s woman is the epitome of lazy.  If you want another man’s woman and she feelin you, you tell her to choose up.  Make a choice and leave her man.  Then get with your program, on your terms.  Don’t let her half-step with you and another man.  It’s all or nothin.  And if you about playin, don’t drag someone along who aint about that.  Respect their time.  The world is full of potential that will “play with you.” Another rule is that if you can help it, you never leave anyone worse off than you found them or else you go around creating bad karma and nobody needs that shit.

A true pimp, playa or mack, as well as a man, uses the truth and still gets his way.  If you are 18 and over, you should not have to lie to anyone ever again.  The truth is so much easier in the end.  So I guess the bottom line is: STOP F*CKIN THE NEXT MAN’S WOMAN AND GET YOUR OWN YOU LAZY BASTARD!

Learn from Kwame.  When women’s emotions get involved, they are less than rational and will light yo’ shat up in it heartbeat. 

Cav out.