"Ain't this a bitch!!!" Fuck! Fuck!! Fuck!!!" I yelled.
My choices were either call AllState Road-Side service, or change the tire myself? I popped the trunk, got the jack, and pulled the tire out the wheel well of the trunk. It was cold, rainy and 18 wheelers were blowing by me at terrific speeds. I could feel the wind as the vehicles violently blew pass me. Changing a tire at night on the highway is dangerous. It was the front right wheel that blew out. After I jacked the car up, I put the jack to the wheel and started to un-loosen the lug nutz one at a time.
Finally, I had risen above my emotions, cleared my head and simplified the situation, it was a living math problem that had to be solved. The faster I changed the tire-the faster I'd get to the Kingdom. There was a ditch in back of me that ran parallel to the road, at first I paid it no mind, and then I saw a bluish, purple curcular light, not smokey, but smokey in texture. It was a spinning vortex in mid-air just a few yards past the ditch.
"What da fuck is that!?!" I asked myself curiously. It was a bright light approximately 6 feet in diameter and spinning slowly. It was UFO type shit but I wasn't high, drunk or dreaming-I'd just gotten off the justice cipher born and was perfectly sober. This shit was bugged da fuck out. I calmed myself, remembering that everything in this universe has a logical explanation. Walking closer with that 'white person in a horror flick' curiosity, armed with the investigative tool of Supreme Math, Supreme Alphabet, 120 and my .45 caliber I bravely investigated the strange spinning light.
The swirling of the bluish mist was hypnotic as I peered into the center of the bright vortex. The closer I got, the more I realized that what I was seeing was unexplanable by normal standards: strangely, I was drawn to it. I put my finger in it curiously and it shocked me, compelling me to further walk into it. I stepped into the vortex and stepped out the other-side. The next thing I know, it was broad-day light and I was in a completely different location.
"What da fuck!" I was standing in the middle of the street and a car was coming directly at me. Quickly, I dived to the side-walk, and the car that just missed hitting me angrily honked the horn at me as it sped by. I stood up, wiped myself off, and immediately recognized my surroundings. I was at the bridge that separated the Diamond Street Projects from my old neighborhood. The projects were still there, they had been torn down years ago. What the fuck was this? I'd just gotten off work that night in Ohio, and now I was back in Philly in the middle of the day? I squinted my eyes in complete confusion, because nothing was making sense and then I looked across the street and saw the young me walking my High School sweetheart, Rasheema home after school. It was me! I was looking at me!! It couldn't be-but it was me. I turned away quickly, so the young me wouldn't notice the old me.
Rasheema had on those big ass gold bamboo earings I had bought her. As I watched myself as a young man I could tell I was beginning to grit my teeth in a sneer, slowly turning on my ice grill, because I wasn't gonna tuck my dookie rope chain with the 'Dollar Bill' medalion in my shirt. I was walking into the projects boldly. Only pussies tuck their chain in. I wasn't gonna take off my rings. Fuck that! Ain't no niggaz gonna snatch my shit or my bitch's earings, at least while I was there. At that age I thought I was invincible. The old me could tell what the young me was thinking.
I started walking behind me causing the younger me to look back at the older me suspiciously. Da Young Emblem couldn't tell that it was himself that he was looking back at. I must have looked scary to my young self and Rasheema. I had on Rocawear jeans, and timz that were 25 years ahead of any clothes or boots made in the 80's. After a few hundred yards the young Emblem got tired of the old Emblem walking behind him. And the younger Em turned around confrontationally ready to fight.
"Yo-you got a problem old nigga, cause we can do this shit right now?" The young me screamed at the old me, squaring up, ready to fight as I came closer.
"It's me!" The old me said to the young me.
"Me who?" The young me asked.
"I'm you!" I said to da young God.
The young Emblem punched the old Emblem in the face fast as fuck with all them damn rings. Young Emblem hit me so hard that my eyes watered. Those young hands I had were fast as fuck! He let go three punches before I could get set and throw one.
"Kick his Old ass God!" Rasheema yelled.
"Rasheema, it's me!" I yelled at my ex high school sweetheart.
"Stop! Who is you, and how you know my name nigga?" Rasheema asked me, cautiously moving closer.
"The two teenagers looked at me closely! I'm you young God." I said to my young self, holding my face in pain. Rasheema goose-necked even closer, as the young me put his hands down, relaxing from his boxing stance. He looked at his older self with a raised and furrowed brow. Rasheema figured it out first and it scared the shit out of her-her eyes opened up wide with horror. It freaked her out. She didn't understand and ran into her project building as if she had seen a ghost.
"What da fuck???!!!" The young me mouthed in utter amazement. You- me? You're really me? How da fuck is this even possible?"
"I don't know. I was changing a tire at night and somehow got caught up in some sort of vortex and was transported back to this time."
"What year did you come from?" the young Em asked.
"2011. I'm 42 years old! What year is it now?."
"It's 1987, I'm 17 almost 18. "
"What's 2011 like?" I asked the older me as We began to walk back to my old neighborhood.
"Well for one: we got a black President."
"Get da fuck outta here! A Black President?"
"Barack Obama! Yelp! No bullshit."
"He a muslim or something?"
"I don't know, but he's black-got a caesar fade, a black wife with a perm, fat ass and the whole nine."
Did I ever finish 120?" I asked myself .
"Young God you got one of the sharpest recitals of 120 on the fucking Planet Earth and your understanding ain't too bad either."
"Are you serious?" The younger me said with a goofey, surprised grin.
"I shit you-not!" I told my young self confidently. "As the future approaches I think it would be wise if I shared with you some valuable info regarding our future."
"What's going to happen? Are me and Rasheema still going to be together?"
"Little Nigga are you crazy!?! She's gonna be throwin' pussy out of both legs as soon as you go away to college. I hate to break your little heart young God." Puttin' the news to myself bluntly.
The younger me stopped walking, his jaw dropped in shock. What was my past was his future. Young Emblem started crying. I forgot how much he had cared for his high school sweetheart Rasheema, how they had planned their lives, and vowed to stay together forever. Ahhh-the innocence and naivite' of puppy love. I gave my young self a comforting hug like a Father to a Son. I didn't mean to hurt my feelings.
"Look, young God she is not even the one you're gonna marry, or have a son or for that matter divorce."
"I'm gonna get a divorce!!!"
I made the young God cry even harder. In less than a minute, I told him his High School sweetheart was not gonna be with him forever, and that a woman he has yet to meet would be his wife, have a child by him and that they would eventually get divorced. I was dropping too much total weight on myself at one time. How much was I changing the future by telling myself about the future? Did I just wipe-out my son's existence by telling myself about the trials and tribulations of future relationships before they happened?
I had to cheer myself up-I couldn't leave myself in tears. So, I had a plan: change the future.
"You'll eventually find the right wisdom for you, she's about six or seven years old right now, so be patient. Also you're gonna be a billionaire." You're gonna have a company called Microsoft, and a social network called 'facebook'. It's the new crack. In order to do this, you're gonna have to study math and computer science diligently and stop selling drugs. 18 year old Emblem went into his pocket and pulled out a G-pack of crack viles.
"Hell naw nigga! I gotta get this pack sold old nigga!" The young me said defiantly.
"Fuck that drug shit young God. Everything that seems cool now is corny in the future. All those damn gold rings, that dookie rope, the Gucci glasses, those jeans, those Adidas will be corny in the future. Everything. Cool quickly becomes corny as time passes. 120 is peace, take it undercap and whatnot but whatever you do, don't become a religious zealot with that shit. Remember: niggaz is niggaz! Read books on computer programming, master real math and learn everything you can about computer science and the future will be yours."
"I'm not really interested in computers. Right now I'm on the culture degree in the 1-14. I'm interested in my lessons."
When he said that, I pulled out my Blackberry and showed young Emblem.
"This is high mathematics in the palm of your hand. Your culture degree builds on '...where knowledge and wisdom of the original man started...' well right here and right now I'm telling you to go at that Knowledge and Wisdom real hard. That knowledge and wisdom is Math and Science little nigga. Real Math-not that all being born shit. The math and science class you've been falling asleep in from time to time-you gotta wake up." I was adament as I told the young Emblem what the deal was for-real-for-real!
"So What is it? A pager?" The young me asked with a perplexing look on his face as he took the strange device under perusal. "This looks like some Star Trek shit!" He said.
"Now cipher! It's not a pager. It's a Blackberry smartphone, a computer, it's a MP3, Video camera and whatever else."
"What's an MP3?"
"A Sony Walkman but smaller and better." At that moment the vortex opened up in front of us. I couldn't tell myself everything I wanted to because this might be my only chance to get back to 2011.
"You keep it-it's called a Blackberry-study it, play with it, and don't break it."
I took the phone charger out of my pocket and gave it to the young Emblem.
"When I get back to the future I'm gonna call you. Remember what I said, 'Microsoft' and 'facebook'-it's gonna be da new crack. Don't tell nobody. Peace Young God!"
"Peace!" The young me said to the old me throwing the peace sign.
I stepped into the vortex and came out the otherside again. I didn't go back to the future, intead I went further into the past. When I came out the vortex I saw a six year old big headed boy playing with two pieces of steel. I knew it was Yacob. I pulled out my .45, and put it to his big ass dome. The darkskinned child looked at me innocently with no fear in his eyes and I considered what would be different if I pulled the trigger and murdered the innocent looking six year old.
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