This is Y You Should Treat Ppl RIGHT!

I've blogged before about the group Brutha and how talented I think they are. However, their first CD crashed and burned, and I'd been hoping in my heart that they would make a victorious re-emergence.

So too funny, I go to FYE at Oakland Mall yesterday, and I see these gentlemen have a mixtape (along w/a completely new image). However, this mixtape was literally being given away with the purchase of an Usher or Monica CD. Said mixtape didn't even have a bar code, so you couldn't purchase it if you wanted to.

We browse the store a bit and my dude buys this old Kanye CD. He's thinkin' it's a long shot, but he picks up the Brutha mixtape and asks if he can get it with his purchase.

We weren't even expecting what happened next - The cashier went off! Here's a summary of what he said:

"Take it; I don't care. Those guys aren't nice people at all. They came out here and did an appearance. They didn't speak to anybody and then they just left. They just weren't nice guys. If you wanna pick that (CD) up, then go head, you can have it."

So I asked if I could have one too. (Sh*t, since we givin stuff away) Homeboy (who had on a turquoise hippie headband, btw) said, "Yea, I don't care. Take it."

I would never have guessed these soft, a capella gospel-singin' brothers would be a**holes (even though we knew they had extreme issues, thanx to that BET dramedy). But this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you need to treat ppl right. You just never know... Maybe they were mad at having to be in sum random metropolitan Detroit-area mall. (which is understandable, coming from sum1 who works at said mall.) But damn, you could feel the resentment in the cashier's heart as he spoke of their visit.


(SIDEBAR: you can listen to this mixtape online for free, and well, I LIKE it! Even though, they are clearly following in the sex-thug footsteps of Yung King Tremaine Songz...)