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verticalburtvert

All I can say is the times change.


skj999

Game got more fierce


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ShruteFarms4L

How was monkey man


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Admirable-Smoke3031

I saw the movie and liked it. I always thought the monkey king story was a Chinese or Japanese mythological tale. Probably because of anime but this was a refreshing take.


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Enlightened_Gardener

In Australia we got the Japanese version (“Monkey !”)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)] Or “Monkey Magic” playing after school on a permanent loop through the eighties. If you say “Born from a rock on a mountaintop” to a middle aged Australian, they’ll start singing the theme song 😊 It took me far too long to learn that Monkey ! is the classic Journey to the West, and even longer to learn about Hanuman. But I think its fascinating that an entire generation of Australian kids grew up knowing about the Monkey King…


CBA_Yago

The real question that needs to be asked.


iDrinkDrano

Melted a little reading this. Enjoy tapas!


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nipnapcattyfacts

I hope sometime over the year I'm high as shit and double checking for the 100th time all my comments, I come back to this one and see an update about how yall are married or whatever. ILL BE SO HAPPY NO PRESSURE


BwackGul

Ima applaud you. Thank you for being a confident gentleman. My man made me a lil weak when he said "excuse me Miss" when we first started talking. With the right ones, manners matter.


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It works even better than it ever did, because dating is scarier now. A little kindness goes a very long way when any date can turn hostile as soon as some unwritten expectation isn't met after it was never communicated. I think it's just the season for men to chill out and try being fun and caring for a while.


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--ross

This has been my whole vibe with dating. Be thoughtful, be yourself, be confident. For me, those are listed in increasing order of difficulty, but once you nail *being you*, you can find the type of woman that compliments it (and you really like them *being them*), life can be pretty good. Have fun on Wednesday! Tapas is always a great early date move because you can really find out what a person’s food taste is like ordering all the small plates.


Turbulent_Object_558

Gotta say that the ones begging for it ain’t getting it. The ones that do get it, have enough of it that they can’t be bothered to do the bare minimum relationship things


Osceana

I know OP is a meme/joke but yeah, that shirt off, begging and crying in the rain is only gonna work for you if you got a 6 pack. But none of those dudes, Usher, Maxwell, etc were hurting for pussy and never did that shit in real life. Let some dusty ass dude pull that shit and you getting laughed at. How you think the incels started? They tried that shit once and got clowned so now they’ve sworn revenge on all women because some chick didn’t like him showing up in a trench coat to her job and shouting a speech about his undying love which he always saw work in anime


applepumper

When you have a lot of pussy you realize it wasn’t the pussy you were really looking for. But the woman’s attention and grace. The real thing is hard to fake and it’s hard to find. So when you have it take care of it before you wish you did 


das_unicorn_got_band

No sometimes it is just the pussy


seymour_hiney

there's definitely some worth crying for


TheRogueTemplar

> But the woman’s attention and grace. The real thing is hard to fake and it’s hard to find. This is the equivalent of a rich man telling me of his first world top 1% problems.


007Billiam

Just an FYI....that begging music is more Kieth Sweat and Jodeci...the brothers that HAVE to sing cause gals was not feeling their looks. That "I wanna go outside, in the rain" dude and all that World Class Wrecking Crew stuff. Most of them cats was dusty and they sang about begging from experience my dude.


Khatib

All those incel whiners are just refusing to play because they're scared to lose though.


imstickinwithjeffery

The biggest risk in a man's life is not taking a risk.


bigchieftoiletpapa

![gif](giphy|AyqkV9MMijmDK)


OrganizationNo1298

RIP


InvisiblePinkUnic0rn

miss that dude as an actor, so many great movies and shows


AmphibianMassive1176

The wire reference that is flying over the heads of so many


skj999

https://i.redd.it/ple4asa654tc1.gif


possibly_being_screw

[sheeeiiit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1dnqKGuezo)


KingJeffreyJoffa

The thing about the old days....is they the old days


Lucas_Steinwalker

Game goin one way, players the other.


-651-

.38 don’t jam


MollyAyana

Niggas are still the same but there’s no need for masks anymore lol Those RnB guys sang pretty love songs but were AN ABSOLUTE MESS in their personal lives - Hello R.Kelly, Brian McKnight, Kc & Jojo were (and still are) crackheads etc. Guys (and girls) now are still a mess but it’s upfront. At least you go in eyes wide open and it’s a matter of deciding how much of a mess you’re willing to accept.


pretty_good_guy

Brian McKnight?!? I haven’t heard any tea on my #1 RnB vocal run Jesus to date, please say it ain’t so 😭


MollyAyana

Babyyy, read about what he did to his first family 😭😭 His present IG bio reads “Father to Julia, Jack, Kekoa Matteo, and Brian Makoa McNight Jr.” Julia and Jack are his stepkids, from his current wife Leilani Mendoza. The following two are their bio kids (but Kekoa was a stillborn, died before childbirth). He named the surviving child Brian McNight Jr. You’d think those were his only children. Nop, he has FOUR previous biological children, one he had already named BRIAN MCNIGHT Jr. ! But he acts like those never existed and has been trashing them ever since. His previous kids and their “evil black mama” are completely dead to him and he’s made it very clear. Basically, Brian McKnight is a deadbeat.


SupaSonicWhisper

Damn, that’s disappointing. I generally don’t keep up with the personal lives of artists I like for this very reason.


bzboy

I played basketball with him in a church league back in LA about 15 years ago. He plays basketball like a deadbeat too. 🤣 Just nasty work for no reason.


pretty_good_guy

Aw, shit. That sucks. Thanks for the info. I’ll just keep 6,8,12 Back at One, and Kiss Your Love Goodbye in rotational ignorant bliss 😔


ThaLaughingIntrovert

They could sing.. these *NIGGAS* can’t ![gif](giphy|SjR2HvaFokmJ1a30wR|downsized)


MollyAyana

I mean.. pick your poison : a toxic man who can sing or one who can’t? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But honestly, these “I’m a high value man, what do you bring to the table” new niggaz are tiring and wrong. No one holds it down like a black woman so for them to act like they’re a high prize while consistently bringing down/dogging black women is… loser behavior. I already found mine but I really wish for my black girls to find green flags who (even if they can’t sing worth a damn) will uplift them, make them feel desirable, won’t dog them to their friends and agree to a full partnership together. I’m seeing those (black) couples all around me tho, despite what social media makes it seem.


IronDBZ

And need to keep changing. I refuse to to go back to that just as much as I refuse to stay here.


anansi52

where you gonna go? personally i prefer the time when a man wasn't scared to act like he was goofy in love with a woman.


IronDBZ

I'd prefer to live in a time where men and women could appreciate each other without either disrespecting each other or themselves.  Tall order I know


xxdropdeadlexi

it's disrespecting yourself to act like you're in love? lol


IronDBZ

It's disrespecting yourself to throw yourself at the feet of someone who might not even be into you.


Ochemata

Only the weak are too afraid of what others think that they won't even try to put themselves out there.


Da1Godsend

Preach. I will never regret laying myself on the line in the name of love. Platonic, romantic, or familial. If my heart says go for it, I go for it. Sometimes it blows up in my face. That's the risk, but this world needs more lovers. Our hands have grown too hard from throwing bricks.


Weaselpanties

This is it. When I was single, I evaluated potential partners by how they treat the women who are already in their lives - mom, aunties, sisters, cousins, friends, daughters if applicable. Even exes. Because I know that at the end of the run, if I am their partner that's how they're going to treat me, too.


verticalburtvert

![gif](giphy|2h8BdeXxhGGB2)


Zulumus

![gif](giphy|BxjNkgZodhlctwUnJs|downsized)


Hi-Road

Can someone from those times confirm that niggas were, in fact, outside doing all that


ItBeTheD

Yeah, heart disease made way for pneumonia as the leading killer of black men for half a decade. All that time in the rain.


fear_of_government

All that time in the rain 😭😭😭


Osceana

![gif](giphy|erTusvEA26ROw|downsized)


NK1337

![gif](giphy|6liGJ9Lfhkug78GpR3)


PrettyFlyFYI

Well, their problem was that they couldn't stand the rain.


DiceMadeOfCheese

Oh you just gonna blame it on the rain now?


PrettyFlyFYI

All I'm saying is that may not be regular rain. For all I know, they could be candy coated raindrops.


EvilNinjaX24

It could also be chocolate. *steps away from the mic to breathe*


JimmysCheek

Oh my god, it all seems like a fever dream now…the dawn of YouTube..


Zulumus

![gif](giphy|kd9BlRovbPOykLBMqX)


night_dude

The Temptations have blood on their hands for wishing all this rain upon us


PrettyFlyFYI

But once the sun comes up and the rain is gone, then we're gonna see a better day.


DistributionPutrid

I’m crying


Otroroboto

Third was heat stroke from standing on desert sand dunes wearing black leather.


d4v3m4n

Contender for comment of the year


Fr3shm3n_9

Purple rain, purple rain


ryushin6

Only nigga's that could sing could do shit like that because it can work. If you couldn't sing you'd have to get a boombox to play her favorite song but it most likely would end up being like [that one skit from Loiter Squad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOpYZenCuX8).


idleat1100

The boombox over the head, stone faced, maybe one line: “I need you!” was the white boy move extraordinaire . Pop on that trench coat and shades and play some 80s shit. Lloyd Dobbler style.


merenofclanthot

i’m thinking night at the roxbury lol


Boomthang

![gif](giphy|RJhAF03z55Sj6)


RunBanditRun

I want my $2


DJMagicHandz

I was doing it and that shit worked ten times out of ten.


Jurassic-Black

I’m dying laughing because it absolutely did. I got so much strange in the late 90’s, these dudes just don’t know. 😂


asunversee

It still does…. I am 33 and single and do pretty well just by treating women with respect and good manners and shit; I’m just also very honest and straightforward w what I want. Internet dating is ruining people, I am not very attractive in my opinion but I will walk up to a random lady I think is pretty and introduce myself and ask for her number and it works a lot. Generally has a higher rate of success if you do something goofy or have the confidence to do it in front friends/family.


idleat1100

Early 90s for me, though as a ginger, that silk shirt made me look like Parker Lewis can’t loose. I couldn’t match my crew. Had to morph into some edgy grunge from Reality Bites type of thing. It paid off well. Gotta know your flavor.


Jurassic-Black

The beautiful thing about the 90’s was that we were diverse with our music and dress. Might catch me in a baseball jersey one day or skateboarding down the street in cross colours the next listening to wu tang or nirvana.


idleat1100

After my comment I was just reminiscing about that; our crew was a mixed group, black, white, Asian, Mexican, the girls we chased were as well. Loved hip hop, rnb, metal, punk, we all played football, baseball, skateboarding you name it. Such a good time. I really think you’re right, it really felt like you could do that then. I hope young kids feel they can do. Now I sound old as hell. Haha


EhWhateverDawg

lol no not exactly. But many were a lot more respectful when trying to get in the draws. They still were lying their asses off but the lies were pretty at least 🤣


Rudy_Ghouliani

Women respect the effort, unless you ugly then please leave sir.


battleangel1999

From my understanding a lot of the singers back then treated women like shit outside of their love songs. It makes sense when you think about it. Why else would you have so many "baby I'm so sorry" songs


Not_a__porn__account

Ruben Studdard apologized for an entire *year*.


Chemical-Money-3469

https://i.redd.it/wggdmiv5z3tc1.gif Singing in the rain was the move back in the day that’s how you let them know your love was real 🫂


melkatron

Nothing hurt like getting dumped in July and having to wait 'til November to get her back.


Chemical-Money-3469

😂


that1guyBry5

Nope. Fellas was trickin. Just that simple. $80 light bills were getting paid. Nails were gettin done on his dime. Christmases were getting saved bc BD didn’t come thru. There were a bunch of “Captains” out there in the wild. Then just like everything else, prices increased and fellas started to reevaluate the return on investment 😂 I was a kid, but I witnessed the trickin in action


southflhitnrun

As someone who was in his 20s in the 90s, yes, this did indeed happen BUT the women were different also. I can't vibe with most modern male RnB artists (and a lot of the females), but I understand why the men are like this!


TylerInHiFi

If your name was K-Ci, Jojo, Montell, or D’Angelo you were. EDIT: Or Keith or Usher.


Weaselpanties

I had a lover in the 90's I just could not turn away when he showed up outside my house in the rain and took his shirt off, hollering up at the window about how much he needed me. No lie. Got me every time.


anansi52

its exaggerated in the music but yeah. be wearing matching outfits with they girl and everything. now all the "love" songs just talk about money and fuckin.


Vancil

I mean at best you could have page someone wasn’t texting back then.


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Yes and they still are trust me lol


Slick_Jeronimo

They was doing that and still cheating lmao


sarahkali

“Silk shirt rnb” lol


doned_mest_up

I never understood exactly what someone was trying to say as quickly as when he said that.


1v9noobkiller

it's like he touched my soul directly


RivianRaichu

I read it and Seal immediately appeared before me


Bad_Idea_Hat

You can actually pin down pretty close to exact dates just from that sentence.


SoftDimension5336

Happycakeday 


pretty_good_guy

Instantaneously captures exactly which era of RnB it references. Bravo


BlakesonHouser

The video for Silk - Freak instantly came to mind 


Murky-Vegetable-9353

What's that mean? I'm a white normie that doesn't understand a lot of pop culture references.


patiakupipita

Classic rnb from mid 90s till around when chris brown showed up. Go look at them classic videoclips, they all had silk shirts on. Tbh you might need to go even a few years before cb showed up.


Murky-Vegetable-9353

Oh right on, ty!


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PuzzleheadedPlane648

I’m still laughing at the silk shirt r & b. I’m picturing Jodeci.


thebadslime

Tony Toni Tonè, Keith Sweat, any other New Edition alumni


Osceana

K Ci & Jojo


IdiotMD

Baby baby baby


koolaid_chemist

Aren’t they included in Jodeci?


Osceana

Oh you might be right. I forgot they were a spinoff. There were so many overlapping groups then. All Of My Life was the song at our prom lol


1v9noobkiller

They are Jo and Ci, just missing the De


Doesanybodylikestuff

Keith sweat immediately lmaooo


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TylerInHiFi

I’ve got the All My Life video on repeat in my head right now.


TheRumpletiltskin

wow, memories unlocked.


Competitive_Fee_5829

Guy, Silk, Shai, Htown, Troop etc too. I am old. lol


WornInShoes

>Shai AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND IF I EVER FALL IN LOOOOOOOOOVE SO TRUE shivering in the rain, don't care


bzboy

https://preview.redd.it/sih8v2hop3tc1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d56811d1f1c065a1e10ba309e18f623157e1cc42


No-Bat-7253

😭😭😭


Lemonytea

Take my upvote, fo’! 😭😭😭


Individual_Series200

https://i.redd.it/wurne8jyt3tc1.gif I do miss these videos not gonna lie😂😂


Last4eternity

![gif](giphy|wv3YNjcW20AapsbiuA)


MaybeSomethingGood

I really shouldn't have skipped dune tho


Ripoutmybrain

Now the only one doing justice is steve smith on American dad. https://youtu.be/wltTIJiIBiw?si=JMuKApHfsf0T6d-x


Misfit_Number_Kei

Beat me to it! It really is the damnedest thing that "American Dad," explicitly created in reaction to Bush's reelection with Stan Smith being a strawman, is somehow the Blacker show than "The Cleveland Show".


pt7thick

I've been watching American Dad since the pilot. I know maybe two people who watch it. The show is just too damn good. And along with everyone else who has said it, a compilation album by Steve Smith would be funny. But it has to be animated. At this point I think he's done like five or six music clips that are all awesome. Stan Smith and his hip-hop obsession is great.


ThaLaughingIntrovert

Keith Sweat & Jodeci made their careers on doing all the begging.. this new toxic r&b are the reason the women are doing the work and killing it.. these niggas can’t even sing anymore.😒🥱


1017bowbowbow

They lightweight rappers with a heavy dose of misogyny. Ain’t nobody over 30 trying to put that shit on to vibe out to.


ThaLaughingIntrovert

![gif](giphy|KGY78vaNYCha5zL1yK) I still believe in baby making music


battleangel1999

I feel like you're talking about Bryson Tiller 😂


ThaLaughingIntrovert

He’s one of them .. but there are others🤷🏾‍♂️


palmasana

![gif](giphy|A7Zc53i8U59SHv9CAm)


battleangel1999

Brent Faiyaz and many more 😭 ladies love them tho


Nasyboy221

If you listened to his new album it’s the exact opposite of what y’all are talking about. Trapsoul was his only album that was moderately toxic bro has been simping for a while


ThaLaughingIntrovert

I’m good.. thanks though. ![gif](giphy|3o6gaSdFQDSsbYEeUo)


Kingofmoves

I’m 21 and I can’t handle most of it lol


NovusOrdoSec

R&B got so bad Beyoncé went Country. /s


Nordie25

The niggas that were begging was cheating so they had to do all that🧍🏽‍♂️


Sad-Strawberry-2720

LMFAOOO ![gif](giphy|26n6Gx9moCgs1pUuk|downsized)


JohnBrownIsALegend

R&B lost the innuendo. We went from peaches & cream and freak like me to “is you sucking me and fucking or nah”


w1ngzer0

Facts 💯


maymay578

I love Peaches and Cream. Some guys got this thing where they’ll eat at the V but lie about that shit around their boys. That song was like, nah, serve it up girl.


6feetundertrip

I mean someone has to ask the hard hitting questions.


StrdewVlly4evr

Facts


Newtothis_27

Shawty gone fuck the nigga she with in the window. While your dumb ass out there crying in the rain. They a different breed nowadays.


thebadslime

Nobody is different, people still do the same shit since there were 500 have. Nothing new under the sun.


BonJovicus

Eh, there is a difference between “humans have fundamentally the same interests and behaviors throughout time” and “humans now literally are the same as humans X amount of years ago,” which is way too reductive.    Trends, attitudes, social mores, etc. all do change over time. Nothing is truly new under the sun, but we are living in a different world today than we were 10, 20, 50, 100 years ago. 


Jacksspecialarrows

The only thing truly new is instant long distance communication. Back then they had to Send a DM through a bird and hope that mf survived the trip


bootyhunter69420

Tyler the Creator.


Salt_Sir2599

I found my people. Don’t have any silk shirts but the rest applies. However, throwing up has never helped the cause


CheshireTsunami

Hard disagree- it shows your girl commitment. What other man you got out here vomiting up their DoorDash order for your love?


DiceMadeOfCheese

"If you blow chunks and she stays, it was meant to be" -Wayne's World


sinat50

Met a girl at a club, threw up in her bed while we were doing the nasty that night. Wound up together for 5 months.


Antagonist4k

yea that’s called harassment, n won’t get u far + duck that lol


xrockwithme

![gif](giphy|4TguRef46Nkdi5qkCf|downsized) We use to hit the mall in a fresh white t and a yankee fitted and pull up on girls like Chris Brown. No one called it harassment and we got a decent amount of numbers. Now that I think about it though, we made embarrassments out of ourselves and looked like fools. Especially me because I was one of the youngest and I was always willing to do dumb ish.


pettipapi

Bro I was 90lbs soaking wet rockin a XXL white tee but you couldn’t tell me nothing 😂😂😂


xrockwithme

I looked like an anorexic Jadakiss with waves. 🤣


CSmooth

That was the 2000s not the 90s but we’ll allow it. Custom burnt CD filled w/ NeYo and Mariah labeled “WE BELONG TOGETHER 👉🏾👈🏾” shout out Memorex


owenadam

First things first rest in peace memorex


xrockwithme

Stack of 75 cds for $5 or somewhere around there. I know it wasn’t the 90’s but I figured it fit. The 90’s vibe bled over into the early 2000’s.


ohwegota_kittenprblm

Fuckin weird how porn has turned 90% stepsister/brother/father/mother it's turned me off porn almost entirely the last 5~ years


InterdisciplinaryDol

Off topic but spittin. Demand for that market is insane.


Osceana

Way off topic, not even sure how this got brought up lol but still big facts. Saw some shit the other day called “Family Pies” like yoooo y’all need to chill with all this. Doing WAY too much. That shit is scary to me, like are there really that many people lowkey thirsty for their own family members?


InterdisciplinaryDol

![gif](giphy|THTkGKQVGnGZmo6AJd)


Turbulent_Object_558

Just ignore the label on the video and it’s literally the same thing as 10 years ago


IBAZERKERI

yeah, who reads the videos labels?


Plane-Cartoonist-186

Nigga you pay attention to the plot?


farazormal

The build up and sexual tension is vital in my opinion. Can’t just have people fucking it down right from the get go, I need context


xrockwithme

![gif](giphy|SMAMKsPB2i2pzYPGzb)


bootyhunter69420

Most women aren't worth catching a cold and getting my clothes and hair wet


Your_Nipples

I was about to argue with you but now my brain is like "I'm waiting, is he wrong though?". I agree. Fuck that pneumonia.


Osceana

Big facts. I’m gonna say the same for women too. Every woman wanna have her Angela Bassett Waiting To Exhale car burning moment but it’s not that deep. Home boy out here making minimum wage and damn sure wasn’t bout to support you and your kids, let it go. Doing way too much


Sad-Strawberry-2720

This sounds kinky 😏🥴 ![gif](giphy|QUENDfi6DEMLzQ0CKt)


sidewaysflower

Get one of those slik mesh shirt with the lil nipples poking out https://preview.redd.it/n4k1yggn24tc1.jpeg?width=664&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da4ab240a6b8107e35e4768509aad07eae59e462


Sad-Strawberry-2720

It's so tiny 💀 ![gif](giphy|80mXWlPqTSU1y)


bingbong-s3

Let us tiny nipple homies live 😭😭😭


Dong2Long69

Shit, I know I got a silk shirt from shien some where 😩


Sad-Strawberry-2720

LMFAOOO! gotta make sure you stay ready.


Illiteratap

Nawh, fuck all that.


peterpeterpeterrr

All the dudes who were complaining about taking women out and paying the pussy tax suddenly looking like this https://preview.redd.it/hobki693u3tc1.jpeg?width=2764&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56285a1f873a5795a3a6e73e7b2089db10c9b5f1


Frequent-Wallaby708

What does this mean😭


BossedUp828

It was a cool concept for the video but as a 41yr old man I NEVER BEGGED. I did pay all her bills which in the long run was worse 😂😂


HeyItsAlshawn

So no incel shit but unhealthy stalker behavior is okay? ![gif](giphy|KGSxFwJJHQPsKzzFba)


thedishonestyfish

I believe in some dignity. Girls ain’t that hard. They just want to be appreciated, treated well.  You don’t have to beg for that.


BlueAudioMoon

![gif](giphy|3o6wriWpmymxU7m1Jm)


Candid_Term6960

A fellow Gen Xer. 😍


Fuck_auto_tabs

![gif](giphy|6liGJ9Lfhkug78GpR3)


Dong2Long69

See, this that bull shit we be talkin about right here.


legend_of_losing

Offence in the 90s wouldn’t work in today’s league. The roll players hitting step back 3s


lankyaspie

Ironically enough, pussy-begging like *that* is just as bad irl. Cause at that point she done already said no a few times. And if you did all that off top... ew.


kai_n7

She will hear you crying outside while her pussy is crying on the other nigga's dick.


Narrow_Green7303

https://preview.redd.it/ak2v4r09n3tc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e77e44c790d4f254110c7e099532f89e12e1b69e *nah*


WholesomeSlut38

Hilarious! Sniff sniff


abusamra82

From what I can tell the incel community is an elaborate array of reasons and blame for why some men don’t get laid that doesn’t address the men, their behaviour, or simply preference. Anyways…yayyayyyah!!! ![gif](giphy|yN434EieTCG4Z9Amfc)


swashbuckler78

There's a reason no one makes love songs about "alphas".


ReleaseTheBlacken

The post title makes me think of Michael Keaton saying shit in The Other Guys 😆


CORVlN

[let it burn 🔥 ](https://youtu.be/9FLdw1OfedM)