CHAPTER 28: 'NOVEMBER 18TH'

(Originally Posted Friday February 20, 2015)

“I’m so high even when I’m coming down/

Just met a girl, said she from the H-Town/

I say my name is Drizzy, and ain’t nobody realer/

Cup inside a cup, smoking Ghostface-Killah/

Got these boppers going crazy, n***a I’m the man/

I sent yo’ girl a message, say I’ll see you when I can/

She sent me one back/but I ain’t ever read it/

‘Cuz p***y’s only p***y and I get it when I need it …”

I feel like the next song I have to feature was one of the first, from off of So Far Gone, to show Drizzy in a more “Down-South” light. I had heard about his roots in Memphis prior, but in this track they became apparent and there was no denying his upbringing. Back in these days, Drizzy was still “double-cupped” and basking in the life of being ‘The Man’ with plans to do even bigger things.  

The song is a shorter one with an interesting assemblage of verses, but the fact that it samples the famous Biggie line: “It’s the ones that smoke blunts wit’ya/see ya pic’cha/now they wanna grab they guns and come and get ‘cha …” and carries an original beat by “the homie” DJ Screw, it was very hard for me not to love this song – and all the nonchalance that came with it – right away.

As the general public, we may never know what November 18^th really stood for, but it might very well become a national holiday if Drake’s fans have anything to do with it. ;)

DRAKE - NOVEMBER 18th            

Chapter 28: November 18^th. / Written By: Jae Antoinette

KENDRA:

Devastated. I knew Daunte had made the choice to leave me, but I just never … Damn.

            This has been an ongoing thing between us since the day we met two years ago: November 18^th. I’d call and he’d come, a type of cat-and-mouse, but I was always the winner, the one who stood on top.

Not Valentine’s Day. On Valentine’s Day I found out who really hand the upper hand, and she wasn’t a ‘she’ and her name wasn’t ‘Kendra.’ I thought I had it all figured out, but it turns out I don’t. I don’t know what I was thinking! Not that I’m necessarily ashamed, but I just didn’t know it would go down like that. Me looking all pitiful—and only to myself because he was so over it. He was past what I was hoping to do. The Man literally left me in the room to pack up my belongings, grabbed me something to eat from room service, and brought me to the bus that would take me home. 

I wanted to die, I was so embarrassed. It just made me realize this dude wasn’t playing. All of the things I had taken for granted in him turned around and bit me in the butt. And the worse part is I know he will only be stronger from this and possibly cop a next girl who he won’t joke around with. She will either be ‘the one’ or not far from it because he has learned to be assertive—something he never was with me. He asserted himself in caring about me and wooing me to the max but, in doing so, he could never put his foot down the way I felt a man ought to and I took advantage of that to the point that he broke. It’s not always a bad thing to break, but it is for me right now because now I’m on my way away from where I had intended to be and devoid of any Daunte.

What’s even more sad is that I wasn’t far off from being correct. I saw a glimmer of something reminiscent in Daunte’s eye right before the punch-line. I saw that he still found me attractive and that he still cared, but I saw him shift into his own feelings—feelings in which I hurt—and choose himself. And I guess he had to. At some point in life a person has to stick up for him—or her—self and just say that enough. Yes, you can love me, but not in a way that is continuously harmful for you. I wasn’t thinking about Daunte’s feelings or considering his thoughts … Hell! I wouldn’t even bend and tell him the truth when he straight out asked me! But I’m better than that. I knew what I was doing and I continued to do it, so he finally made the choice.

What’s sadder is knowing I could have quit this thing with Affion before any of this happened. I was so close to achieving it, too, but that dirty rascal had me titty-up and I was goo for the charm. He was more the kind of guy I wanted and that’s obviously what attracted me to him, but he’s not as comely as Daunte and wouldn’t have fell for my shit …   

TO BE CONTINUED …



         **Bonus Track**

         DRAKE - UPTOWN
         (FT. BUN B & LIL WAYNE)