" ALL THINGS GO " - G.O.D JEWELS

First time I ever heard of G.O.D., was June 11th 2009. Saw a post on Death of a Genius’s blog and pretty much liked the cover. At first though, when I saw the whole G.O.D. I wasn’t really down to hear the tape. Why? I was a little concerned about what kinda blasphemy I might hear when I pressed play after downloading. Now, I still read the review though. Laughed at some of his comments and seesawed back and forth with downloading the tape or not. I’m not gonna be slick with it and listen to it now and act like I heard it before, cause I didn’t. To tell the truth, I left homes out there, without giving him a chance.

And boy was I wrong. When I listened to “All Things ‘Go”, I was sitting on my couch like:

“Did I really just miss out on this from summer of 2009 to spring 2010?!”

Needless to say I need a slap.

Now, a little while back, with the help of Twitter, I stumbled back upon G.O.D. And this time, he wasn’t going away. The first time around, it was just a little stumble-shake yourself off and keep moving type of thing, but this time around, it was a get jumped and tied up before they haul you off into a warehouse someone where and beat you until you listen type thing.

Okay, that’ll be the last time I exaggerate in this review. Anyways, since every time I tried to unfollow, someone else I was following would retweet him. I couldn’t get rid of the G.O.D. So finally, I gave up and did a little Google-ing. For me personally, a person’s about me on MySpace is the deal breaker.

So trust, when I saw this: "A breath of fresh air is something that you can't truly appreciate until you've nearly been suffocated, taken a step out the house on an early spring morning, or until you've gotten so accustomed to low quality material that you find yourself tolerating underachievers because they sound better than what everybody else is putting out. If you have a room full of women, with ten of them being 3's, and then you insert a 6, yes she may look better than the rest of the women, but a 6 she still is." (ESPECIALLY THE BOLDED PART, HAD ME ROLLING), I felt entitled to give him a chance.

Now, with the dropping of this “All Things ‘Go”, I was excited. He’s from Chicago, I love Chicago. It’s a win-win kinda thing. So let’s do this.

So homes goes from scrolling past my screen to being smack dab in the middle with what I’m guessing is the Chicago skyline from a driver’s perspective. With street signs and bodega signs precisely placed, it’s pretty dope. The Obama, Sox, and Bulls references, I’m more then excited.

Now, this entire video is a personal touch. From the photographs of him as a baby (adorable yo), his mom and pops, a few uncles and his grandparents, G.O.D does something that many rappers now a day wouldn’t, showing and sharing memories. Which is exactly what this video made me do with my pops. I grew up watching the Bulls play. I remember being a toddler basically watching these games with my dad at like, ten at night; pissing my mother off cause I wasn’t in bed. Sneaking behind the couch so that I could stay up and watch Pippen and Jordan play; an experience I’ll never forget.

Thanks for bringing it back Joe.

All of those Jordans in the video! I freaking love it. Being an ex-sneakerhead baby (shoutouts to my aunties and uncles getting me kicks from 94-99), I love those extra touches. But the walking on snow in em, nah bruh, that made me cringe. By the way, all of those different varsity jackets are hella dope. If someone can get me one in small, that’d be dope.

Maybe not the Sox’s one though, I’mma Yankee girl.

Stop reading me. Please go watch the video while I listen to this last tape.

Did I mention this man is handsome? No? Well, he is. Very in fact. Nice voice too. Eh, I‘m being a groupie.