Yesterday I retired from The Source Magazine. I know that most of ya’ll prolly don’t care, but for the last six years I have put my heart and soul into "The Bible", first as a freelance journalist and then as The Politics and Culture Correspondent.

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one of the many stories that I wrote for The Source over the years


And I know that a lot of folks think the magazine jumped the shark around 2000, but every month since 2002 I prided myself on the stories that I was turning into my editors. Over the years, I even stirred up some hate with controversial articles, like the infamous G-Unot cover. (Please don’t believe the hype, Benzino wasn’t writing all those stories...and check the article out if you haven’t read it. I pretty much predicted what was going to happen [ie inner camp turmoil etc, lackluster album sales] to G Unit in the fall of 2005).


But I just can’t f*k with them anymore. Not only is the magazine’s design starting to look like Word Up but them cats owe me like 60k for my work over the years. Not to mention the fact that its hard to see a magazine that was built on consciousness filled with pictures of half naked women. It’s just a mess over there. (Although I got to give Executive Editor Ryan Ford credit for keeping them alive this long.) I know that people hated on Dave and Ray, but trust me, The Source was much better off under their leadership.


However, I don’t regret the time I put in at the magazine. I still got mad love for the current Executive Editors Ryan Ford and Soren Baker and will alway appreciate the game I learned from folks like Fahiym Ratcliffe, Chloe Hillard and Jerry Barrow. But it’s about time for me to focus on projects that are appreciated.4