Love In The Club

So as it's outlined in my brief profile I'm a music junkie. Usher has a new single featuring Young Jeezy titled “Love In This Club,” I dig it. When I sing the lyrics whether it be due to boredom or because it's playing on the radio I often hear mixed reviews of people's opinion of the song and its lyrics. If you never heard it first of all you need to be evicted from under that rock your living under and have your shit thrown out on the streets, if you have then you know Usher sings about "not caring who's watching" and wanting to "make love in this club." Now considering I'm writing this blog on the weekend when clubs are usually at their peak I thought about the ever so tempting club and the love that is shown within it.

I just came from Vegas 2 nights ago and I went to the club out there and the women definitely show love if you on some T-Pain shit buyin' drinks and letting them bask in the glow of your champagne bottle service. Since I was on the solo tip that night, there were no table reservations for me and I noticed that the men who weren't “tricking” so to speak were getting little to no love in the club. Here on the east coast it’s like that to some degree, but there are a few handfuls of women who come just to party. In Vegas I didn’t see that this trip or the previous trip I took for All-Star weekend (NBA). The women out there are just trying to get seen. Kanye said it best “the only dream of the ghetto prom queen was to make it to the screen, maybe get seen, maybe get chose by a nigga from a team, head so good he don’t ask for a pre...nup.” And that’s the vibe I got both trips out there especially on my most recent trip because Rick Ross was in the building, Suge Knight, and Oakland Raiders WR Javon Walker were all in attendance. As a result all the women gravitated toward those roped off sections. So if u ever travel to Vegas spend money and you will get love, simple.

As far as making actual love in the club...I don’t know how I feel about that, I have friends, who will remain nameless, that have told me stories of their sexual encounters with “sckrippers” inside the club. Usher’s scenario on the track is with a girl that he meets, and she “tells him what she’s sipping on” and he’ll “keep it coming all night long.” TRICKING! And before you know it he’s taking her home but at no point does he actual make love in the club. Which is why music shouldn’t be taken so literally. Because there has been plenty of women that I have met in the club in various cities in the world that were so physically stunning that I would have bumped uglies with, smack dab in the middle of the club. Mostly what there is to gain from the song is that there are some people that we meet at the clubs that were are just naturally attracted to and since stereotypically men “only think about sex” and it’s inevitable to think of sex with every woman we are attracted to and women don’t do that with every guy they’re attracted to. Right ladies? Yeah, right! Women think of sex just as much as we do, if not more. They just rather not express it out of fear of sending out the wrong message (seeming like a hoe). We know a hoe when we see one, ESPECIALLY in the club. Women give themselves entirely too much credit in thinking that they are the only ones surveying the club and judging books by the covers. We’re looking too! And we’re watching the range of encyclopedias, novels, and even coloring books as you take drinks from guys and only entertain their company until the drinks stop flowing...giving up a little bit of your time for some sort of reward...that’s what hoes do.

There’s no real formula for success in the club, it’s a chess match. But these are the basic steps that my crew and I have followed over the years: 1. Get in and go straight to the bar for drinks and vantage points 2. Hit the dance floor 3. Run the “Two-Minute Drill.” If you’re wondering what the two minute drill is, stop whatever it is your doing when there’s a little to under an hour left in the club, that’s when it’s crunch time and men are doing all they can to “score” if you will, whether it be a girl’s number, or some action for that night. That last hour is when the drill begins, but it gets more intense the closer it gets to Frankie Beverly and Maze’s “Before I Let Go” pouring through the speakers and the lights coming on. Whether it be making Love or being the recipient of some form of Love in the club, how it’ll play out depends on who you are, who the givers of the love think you are, and how you’re partying...but that’s just What JLB Thinks