Friends!? WTF Are Those!?

Soundtrack

I got my system hooked to my laptop, so when my alarm goes off 6 n tha a.m., it plays my iTunes. This morning it was a Styles P song and he dropped a big ass jewel that rippled thru the carpet, up my bed post and kicked me smack n the chest. Hellova wake-up rye?

"And I ain't got friends - I got enemies
So if they with me, then that means they my brother nigga"

I sat back n my bed and analyzed that for a second...i don't got to many enemies that im aware of, but i kno for certain that errbody i really get down wit is more family than a friend.

Hip, Gin, Hatmaker, G-Christ, Vitamin, Killa Marktwon, Kween Aja, Big Twinn, Fueg, Arafat, Chopps, Yamz, Nuri, C4, Big Ant, Araba, May-B and a gang of others. Yall are my brothers, sisters, gods, earths, 8 Point Sunz, Crescent Moons, all that good stuff.

If u kno me...like really kno ME, like kno Michael, u my fam. trust. if u only kno what ur allowed to see, srry. ur kinda jus there. close, but not necessarily family. If u had to question if u were family or not, chances are i dont build wit u on that kinda level. nuff said. back to this 48 Laws of Power (this goin on the same shelf wit my Bible and Qur'an)

Extremist and Let Downs

Soundtrack to this blog (vintage weezy, the weezy i like)

-no i'm not random. it's just me speaking my inner monologue. nobody told ur chump ass to lissen, so next time i speak off topik, shut tha fuck up before u make judgement.

-i hold down a kween, niggas been together for monfs, but it's still a new thing to me. sorta like i'm still adjustin to this whole relationship thing, but i'm very well aware of the situation. patience....yeah kid. i got a lot of that.

-she graduated the same day obama grabbed the spot. great day.

-how come errbody from philly on smack dvd sound the same...i was n a party and these niggas was spittin...nuffin special jus a bunch of murder, guns, drugs, pussy, and whips...nuffin that hasn't been said before. yeah guys really original.

-summ rappers should get smacked for shytt they say n they music. I fuck wit jeezy, but u had summ stupid ass lines. (u was more than family, u was like my brother....) and (im so fly if i tok off this parachute i'll fall and die) luckily he stepped his bar game up.

-summ rappers should get smacked in the mouf wit abelt for shytt they say outside of they music. Wayne can rap, but we all kno u aint no gangsta pah. (i'll kill u, and ur kids, and ur family. SU WU!!!) fuck outta here.

-what i hate more than half the shytt wayne say now is his bitch ass fans that luv errthing he says, but dont kno wut he fuckin sayin, cuz half the time now he aint talkin bout nuffin. i swear they holdin his dick for ever dear life. if they let go____________flatline. dick biters. Carter 3 is bullshyt anyway. 17 songs 6 good ones. niggas waited for 6 songs.

-i'm up to my neck in music projects that i'm knockin off like water. Magnum Opus album comin soon, AKZionz' ReAKZion mixtape comin soon, Full Metal Brothers Tape comin soon. and im doin an EP wit Banquo n Hipno.

-i saw a video of some Black Israelites mocking the holocaust on soapboxes when a Jewish kid contested them for being racist. the boy cried. I cried with him. Sad shyt. i dont kno if thats how the israelites get down for real, or if them soap box niggas are just extremists. I hope the latter. If so, they paint a very nasty picture of what following god is.

-i have 3 days until i'm home

-i miss all my brothers, i miss my sisters too, and the kween. i miss my younger gods, i miss creatin on a free reign. i fuckin hate livin on a schedule. im too much of an artist to b contained like dis. if it wasn't for my blogspot. i prolly woulda lost my fuckin mind.

-if u still lissenin to wayne turn it off. Sean Price is iller at this point n my night

-ayo araba, u that nigga son. real tiddalk. u hold me down like steel plates yo. thanx for bein understandin n all that other sensitive shytt. punk ass nigga lol

-i got a final later on...am i sleepin?...no. am i gon pass?...i guess. i studied for it

-ay for every body that still rock those Hip-Hop is dead t-shirts ridin skateboards n shytt, u killed Hip-Hop. U prolly that nigga that hopped on the band wagon. never heard a nas song a day n ur life but started throwin up star trak signs n shytt when skateboarding was kool.

-if u see a skateboarder concerned wit bein fresh he aint a real skateboarder, i make the same argument for rappers. these aint pretty nigga sports yo. there's no such thing as lookin the part. posers.

-las night i was talkin to mrs. marilyn. she the tall lady that live n my room. she lissen mad well. i luv her for that. she aint no mail order chick, but i got her on the internet, and she came here from cali at my rekwest...thats luv yo. (im not cheatin on Jenna dumb asses, Marilyn is my mic. Personification nigga)

-i luh yall niggas, even if u hate me i luh yall....who am i foolin, if u hate me go fuck urself. that'll take ur mind off me. go get constructive stare at a wall u fag.

-ayo adam remember this las friday
adam: (angry) PARTY'S OVER, UNLESS U FAMILY OR U LIVE HERE GET THE FUCK OUT
random bitch: Y U YELLIN AT US!?
adam: BITCH GET THE FUCK OUT!!! CUZ I'M MAD!!! THIS IS MY PARTY!!!

....i'm gone to sleep g'nite niggas

GHOSTFACE catch the blast of a hype verse/ my glock burst leave n a hearsr i did worese// (first one heard las one seen) first rapper to rock a mask

Good Hair

Setting: Blackout BBQ, today around 4 o'clock. A big group of black people at my skool i never met before, doing black people things (enjoying food, frollicking, playin music, playin spades, talkin n shytt)soundtrak: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qeGpBoTTgho

Me: (lookin around at wus goin on) Man we some beautiful ass people son
(niggas nod n agreeance). Ay maurice u need a haircut son (group laffter).

Moe: U need one too nigga

Me: thus me wearin this hat, but i got that good shytt. I got african n me. (crackin a joke, but dead ass serious)

Chick: wut afrikans u kno got good hair.....

(silence....she got me started)

Me: brainwash...fuck dat. i got good ass afrikan hair. u see wyte people tryna get cornrows and locks now. thats afrikan shytt. and they can't flex it right, cuz they hair aint built for that son.

Chick:...

Me: People always tryna look like us. It's a reason mufuckas go tanning kid. Mufuckas don't go tannin jus because. It's a reason wyte joints gettin ass injections and lip injections. it's a reason they gettin ribs removed to b curvier. that shytt aint jus because. u think people rock OUR styles jus cuz. If Pharell rocked a koofi, i bet u'll c wyte boys gettin koofies leff n rite. We the most sought after beings on this fuckin planet yo. No matter where we go we hated, but more imitated than anything. people go out on a damn limb tryna b us(niggas noddin summore) real talk son.

ay son, blak people do the Nalij. keep ur eyes open, these images don't fall on blind eyes. Errthing is rite n front ur phaces. Aknalij it.

Peace to Allah, the father.

I really b feelin like this kid

race matters. good ass book. Cornel West is the man

It's Jus Not Pretty No More...

(I WROTE THIS IN FEBRUARY 2007)

Hip-Hop is dead? No. I honestly think it's one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. Hip-Hop was just fine and dandy for everyone until Nas's latest album dropped. Now all of a sudden everybody holds a huge funeral for her.

No disrespect to the god Nas, but his album only extends on how emcees aren't real anymore. The last time I checked Hip-Hop was more than emceeing. It was a culture that consists of the other three elements of dee-jaying, b-boying, and graffiti. Though these elements aren't at the peak of where they could possibly be, they still exist.

As far as the state of emceeing is concerned, there are a large number of rappers that are rapping just because and are heavily saturated in watered down party lyrics and drug tales. But, instead of putting on a black armband for Hip-Hop, as a "real" fan you would question the longevity of the current subject matter in the music.

Hip-Hop is like a real living breathing human being--"it is subject to change". If you observe the art of rhyme, it's clear to see that it moves in cycles. In the genesis, emceeing wasn't too much about lyrical content anyway. It was loud party music just like it is now. If Chuck D never came with the politics, we would probably still be doing the wop or something like that. If Ice Cube never kicked in the door with gangster rap, we would probably still be uptight all the time talking about how corrupt the government is.

Hip-Hop is far from dead. She just got a lot of surgery and doesn't look as cute as she used to be. It's hard for me and many other people to swallow that, but it has to go down or you'll choke. I don't necessarily like where Hip-Hop is right now, but just because I don't like her as much doesn't mean she's dead. I still love her.

Me vs. Night Train at Hell is For Heroes

I Do This Shytt

I do this Hip Hop shytt. Don't start to argue with me about what Hip Hop is. I'm tired of mufuckas that don't kno shytt about Hip Hop comin' up to me tellin me what Hip Hop is. I'm a Wu-Tang fan, Saigon fan, Jeezy, Lil Wayne, Aesop Rock, Sean Price, M1 P, Kanye West, Rick Ross, Talib, Mos Def, Reef the Lost Cauze, and C-Rayz Walz fan. This goes to show my range in taste. I ain't one of those tofu eatin "THIS IS REAL HIPHOP" mufuckas. Good Musick speaks for itself. No such thing as bad Hip-Hop. This is simply the emceeing element of Hip Hop.

Don't approach me telling me who u think is hotter than the other based on sells and earning power and award nominations. there are greater emcees that im sure ur close minded ass would never hear. u judging a rapper by their awards won is like judging kids by they test scores. it's not an accurate account of lyricism/artistry. Souljah Boy is a grammy nominee and how talented is he?....really? Bow Wow is a grammy nominee (did he ever winn one? idk), but tha kid can't even write his own lines.

I can go on forever, but just kno that, i am a student of this shytt. i've been doin this since i was 14 years old. 5 years later, i've attained so much knowledge on my field of choice. if this pays the bills, so be it, but i luv tis shytt. go talk about ur spice girls or watever tha fuck u lissen to, but don't tell me what Hip Hop is or isn't or who's hot and who's not.

Brothers In Arms Mixtape Done

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Kween Piece on the Board (dusted free write)

This is the soundtrack for the blog (ST dont got nuffin to do wit the blog tho...deal wit it)

...uhhh.
idk, she breathes on the fone. not like, that "DAMN BITCH STOP BREATHIN N MY EAR" breathin either. It's perfectly fine when she do it.

i kall late n she's tired...this happens far too often. Maybe i should call earlier she said...
???
Good Idea. I guess that'll work, but i sorta look forward to talkin to sleepy u, it's real as hell. I get a lot of answers when u aint really answerin...nah mena? (spelled mena on purpose)
When ur lil narcoleptic ass doze off, i let u go for a while. The silence is cool. The only thing that breaks that silence (aside from the irresponsibly loud mufuckas n my hallway) is ur breathing, not to b confused wit snoring

I like to lissen to the breaths son. it holds a certain innocence that we too old to attain anymore, but of course u miss out on it cuz ur sleeping lol .

I feel like i'm 5 again when u breathe youth in my ear. worry free, concerned wit lil ish like kool-aid bursts (remember them) and chips ahoy when they only came in the blue bag.

I guess what i'm saying is u make me feel young...that sounds gay as shytt. Well...okay i got it...
U MAKE ME FEEL FUCK FREE. I'm free to make moves, and at the same time I don't give a ____ cuz i'm 5 again. No priorities for that lil 5 minutes. then i wake u up, and ask if u wanna go to sleep.

Me: U tired?
Her:No
Me:...
Her:....
Me: WAKE UP NIGGA
Her: U'm nnnm sleepit (u should really hear urself)
Me: Luh u son
Her: Aight I'm goin to sleep...(punk ass half sleep laf) Luh u too

Then i roll over and empty my pockets n kick off my tims n doze off.
RING RING
It's a drunk bitch askin for directions

Me: U have the wrong number
DB: Dale, i hate u. U said call u for help. UR AN ASS HO- (I hung up)

word to my drink of choice, Gin n Tonic where u at (inside).

Hi Skool Philosophy (explanation for power0u splurgin)

HOW COME?

How come:

>Heathens want to get all religious on u when u tell them u aint christian.

>Girls pick the same DUMB ASS niggas over and over and then wanna say all men are jerks...All men aint jerks, u just wasted ur first round draft pick three seasons str8.

>they still call them blackboards when they green now

>Niggas b wantin to loaf when u serious

>Birds walk...u got wings nigga, fuck u walkin for

>butch lesbians b lookin more manly than me, like i'm talkin bout beards an all that

>Good people r so often overlooked

>I'm always the nigga that gotcha back, but u b actin all ??? when u chillin around ur wack ass friends

>some of y'all take advantage of me havin ur back, that shytt b makin me look like a bully sometimes

>niggas dont rapp like they used to in '94

>bitch niggas become bloods and crips and never get exposed for bein bitch made...nigga i knew u when we was 11, my man took all the Charizards out ur pokemon deck, and i got at u in 9th grade by the cafeteria steps. dont remember that do u?...didnt think u would

>good girls are so hard to find in dc, and all the aiight ones b dumb as hell

>how come u 30 years old and listen to all "Hip-Hop", but never heard of Kool G Rap

>lil wayne b soundin like he just learned to read

>Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 aint out yet

>Rich niggas b askin broke niggas to change they 50s and 20s...

>I'm the only nigga in my hood thats leavin for kalij

>we can cry in front of eachother but nobody else

>The Brisket Tape was such a ill ass album, i h8 u chops, settin the bar n shytt lol

>u post pictures of urself wit gunz out...it's all good son, go ahead and get indicted if u want to.

>loafin niggas even loaf when they bein proactive

>That cute mixed girl loves the help a nigga give her, but dont b respondin to me no more...!?...I hope she aiight

>im 18 and still aint got around to hittin up a strip club yet

>girls b wantin to tell u thay like u at the last minute; nigga im bout to go to kalij, u woulda been betta off keepin that to urself.

>niggas b actin like girls and get mad when u treat like such

>They let the terminator win the election, come on pay attention lol (i had to get that one out)

**Feel free to add on**
**B ready for pt. 2 of this soon**

Hold Up, U mean to tell me that...

Hold Up, U mean to tell me that y'all are so caught up in time u gon go back twenty years in time. Like, AKzionz says do y'all thing but come the fuck on. Y'all niggas should just grab yall rope chains and hang yall selfs. like for real. I'm not bothered that yall dressin like the eighty's, but most of yall niggas was born in '93. damn near everything to do wit the 80s u missed it. U missed Rayful Edmonds, Alpo, AZ, Rich Porter (the crack era) U missed the golden age of HipHop, U missed the AIDS epidemic, U missed Bush and Reagan lol (yung as shytt boi)

Y'all niggas was just pissin in potties when the first playstations came out in '95. y'all missed gigapets and tamigachi watches, and u gon tell me what the 80s look like. I barely made it so I aint gon front on it. '89 all day, 80s baby 90s child nikka. Grimy rapp wit a chewstick lol. if u gon do it, do it big...dress like the 1780's. Grab ur Knickerbockers and corsetts. throw on a thomas jefferson wig nigga. that aint been done yet (and for everyone of yall i c lookin like ben franklin walkin in gallery place or georgetown, i'm sprayin yall wit cyanide). Y'all look like clowns...and stop takin gun pictures and throwin up gang signs yall aint hard!!!

Man I B Feeling Like Huey from Boondocks watchin this Shytt

Man...I be feelin Like Huey from the Boondocks Watchin this shytt. so dig this right. i been watchin the series beef for a while. i seen all the dvd's and all that,but the click moment just occured like 10 minutes ago. i was watchin this gillie da kid flick i stumbled across on you tube, and in this video he exposin cassidy for bein a fraud. he takes his camera to cassidy's old hood and get summa his niggas to expose him.

this shyt b killin the god, str8 up.every time i see this shytt i feel like yall mufuckas pushed niggas back another 3 years. we like in '62 again rite about....now. its always summ established nigga in the game against summ nigga thats still in the hood and that nigga thats still in the hood is more theatrical then the herb he tryna diss.

and what pisses me off more than the rapper dissin the other nigga, it be them clown ass extras in tha background talkin shytt lookin dead in the camera wit they guns out in shytt. smokin weed rite in front of the camera talkin all this "fuck u, come back to the hood. nigga u cant come back to ur own hood nigga." mufucka, get ur ass in the house dog. u mus b tryna get indicted. and wit me bein from the hood, i kno how beautiful it truly is lookin at it thru a hood boys lens, but at the same time, if u in gov't housin who the fuck wanna come back to live there if they soul lifes mission was to get out.

trust big ak, if i get out the hood, don't get on no smack dvd or beef tryna soil my name. i'll give it to anyone of y'all niggas. u kno how i get down. but in the meantime let me sip my mango juice in the shade sumwhere in florida.

"that nigga cassidy aint real, he went to the smartest hi skool in all of philadelphia..." hands down the most ignorant shytt ive ever heard in the world. the nigga aint real cuz he intelligient? get the fuck outta here. y'all niggas is dumb. thats y yall stuck. get from in front of the camera actin like sambos wit gats and "read a mufuckin book. raise ur kids nigga. and buy some land, fuck spinnin rims" (word to d-mite back home).
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***AND STOP SAYING U ON UR GROWN MAN SHYTT NIGGA, ALL OF US KNO UR 29 YEARS OLD.

The Return of The Estrogen Series

Niggas that kno me kno about the acclaimed estrogen blogs i used to write on my old myspace joint. well, here go anotha 1. this time its gon b a bit different tho. instead of doing a list, im gon talk on 1 issue that bothers me....ok, here we go.

So las nite i was finishin up some homework, and Hipno called the god. he was mad about a certain song he had heard. i he put the fone to the speaker and said wtf son, look a these niggas, y am i not signed? idk. i heard it but i wasnt lissenin so i got off the fone to get done the task at hand.

afterwards i walked out and i ate this grape fruit, brainfood at its finest and crept back into my room around 1 30 n the mournin. after vibin to a playlist i made for the occassion i started watchin "How High" n it dawned on me to look up this song Hipno played to me.

O My Fuckin God, r u serious son. What the fuck is wrong wit u...is this shytt susposed to be cool or sumthin. idk maybe im late but this lil dumb ass minstrel got a song about being flyy and havin a wack ass report card...and niggas buy this shytt. come on dogg. 13 year old girls lissen to u man. niggas destroyin kweens b4 they can even advance. 13 year old boys lissen to u nigga. u fuckin up kings before they can advance. and when boys think that shytt is cool, they go out and do it and little girls run after lil dumb ass niggas like dat.

idk, but i think this shytt is bothersome yo. niggas com in the game get a bullshytt lil chain and slice they eyebrows up and be the top shytt of the night after they snap a few time and make up some steps...now u can't rap for shytt but u at the top of the rapp charts, stealing from real talent like me n my niggas god. get ur money nigga, but u publicized as a millionaire in blackface.

that made the food n my stomach digest kwik as hell. im not mad, iaint hatin, im jus statin the obvious. i feel like a grea painter gettin overlooked because some nigga made his whole canvas black and got rich off of it. there's no artistry in sumthin any nigga can do. anybody can rapp like soulja boy. that niggas a chump. word to everything

peace this AKZionz signin out. I feel like huey from boondocks watchin this shytt. lls, but im dead ass srious. niggas kno. and go see for urself now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq9uUxj8Jww&feature=related

...niggas make me sick

I really feel like this nigga, the only difference is age and a haircut.

I Had To Let This Out

so i was layin back las yessuhnite lissenin to this edgar winter song dying to live (the joint eminem sampled for that runnin joint wit big and pac).and the gears n my mind started shiftin. nice song. poured his heart on that page. here go a link to tha song

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MfPy4KwuujE

...i can cook. i cooked for one of my wizzes she loved it. best breakfas she ever had. eggs, grits, and turkey bacon (i don't dine on swine, so it aint no pork on her fork)

i painted one of my pinky nails black as a conversation piece. bitches luv'n it

skool goin aiight i guess. i overslept two joints today tho. my alarm was set for pm instead of am. o well.

nobody here understand me here for real. i wanna go back to hi skool, but it's all good. life moves forward and im at peace wit that.

i got these two birds i chill wit. they cool most of the time. they b doin sum wack shytt too i aint gon lie.

luckily emmaly wild ass is a 10 minute $6 train ride away in Camden, New Jerusalem.

she got a cute roomate, but i aint approachin it like dat. she cool peeps. she indian.

jus got over a 4 week writers block. gotta finish this album now. when banquo get back on trak i gotta hit him for beats

one of my kweens n trainin needs to grow up and realize the sun dont rise and set on her

to all my women out there self esteem is a must. stop dependin on niggas to do shytt for y'all. niggas aint shytt. b happy for u, not because what niggas put in ur head.

to all my niggas (jus dudes period, dont mean u black or hispanic), stop bein bitchmade. fuck ur staxx. u from the burbs takin gun pictures, knowin u won't bust a grape in a winery. bitch ass niggas out here. b real.

niggas b on summ bull shytt. like u got errthing, then u go and fuck it up, knowin what u did was wrong. now u sittin in the back of a squally joint cuz u wanna shoot niggas

Nalij of self and common sense is a must. stop tryna act like rappers cuz u been watchin smack dvd's.

i think this note like that video joint Alektra fine ass did when she was waitin....nah no it aint.. but i fucks wit them joints tho

idk.....

Ashley Boo got this face she made that i want to be part of my backspread tat.

Big Ak 5'10" 285 who want what. 15 punds shy of the 300 club.

Las weekend i had a long ass talk wit nina from like 2 to like almost 6 in tha am.

Lil wayne is hot, but he aint the greatest rapper alive...thats a title u can't claim that on urself.

...Gillie da Kid is a internet ho. Startin shytt wit Wayne and Cass tryna get a deal. He wont fuck wit Beans like dat. Tone Trump is nice, chek him out. jus got signed to g-unit congrats big homie.

"no no no little buddy i smoke, ur a drug addict." lol

my beard is lookin healthy and im eatin good. what more can i say.

fly ass song if yall still lissenin to it. or played it in the first place.

aiight. i gotta get dressed.

...hungry. chicken caesar salad sounds nice

Deuces

Alektra, Wuddup SON!? lol

This the face i was talkin bout. U that nigga Ashley. Word is Bon Jovi.

Flowers, Birds, C.S. Lewis...and Shackles!?

(the theme song for this blog is secondary protocol by wildchild http://youtube.com/watch?v=8Ah82f1PADc)

* I'm getting old....19 creepin up on me, and i'm gettin college fat lol. i stopped workin out to dedicate time to math101 n still failed ain't that a bitch.

-las nite i was buildin wit Jenna, one of my kweens. i really appreciate how she take it upon herself to holla at me on AIM since my fone got yanked. I luv her to deff and wish her nuffin but the bess. She got that voice like somebody mother, it's nurturing as hell. I luv her voice, i really notice that since i lost my jack and can't hear it no more.

*Hipnosis is my nigga. My bestfriend. I really respect him and his work ethic. In the past 3 years we watched each other become men. I think his name might be my seeds middle name or sumthin. He holdin it diddown for gangsta cakes (his god daughter).

-I got my first splash of permanent art back in November. I'm thinkin of my next few joints. A back spread is expensive. I think I wanna get my calf done next. It's gon b birds, flowers, this C.S. Lewis quote about manhood and childhood, and a shackle. This is a liberation piece. Like my liberation shackle of sorts (disregard how it's an oxymoron).

*I'm not a black nationalist or nuffin like dat, but my History 163 class is bullshytt so I'm gon say bullshytt as much as I can in this lil block starting...now. America being the land of the free is bullshytt unless ur white. The white man being the saviour of the world is bullshytt, it aint a culture he ain't stolen from or pillaged entirely. bullshytt history class with a bullshytt teacher. History should be taught from a poor minority persepctive...unless its that way ur gon get bullshytt shoved in ur brain and down ur throat. (doesn't taste too good class is disgusting).

-I'm directing all of my excess energy to create now. My mic is coming soon. Can't wait yo :-D. Siced as shytt boy

*I'm tired of obviously grown men sayin "I'm on my grown man shytt"....no fuckin DERRRRRR!!!!! Ur a grown man.

-Tabitha u the fuckin man son lol. Luh u like family. Barely kno u, but u remind me of hi skool soooooo much. That was a wonderfu era in my life. U one of the only people here that understands me (prolly cuz u not a civilian [non-artist]). U r appreciated son...shotgun (inside)lol

wuddup Jenna. thanx for keepin me outta tha matrix. I'm already surrounded by fake, i need ur real.

Hipno, wuddup king. Like I said, all we got is us. Great minds click like seatbelts son.

This nigga aint do a damn thing for black people in America. Do the knowledge and u'll c wussup.

Goofy ass Tabitha

Gorgeous ass Tabitha lol...shotgun