nigga apples.

working overnight, you find yourself having to freshen up a bit at times. your hygiene times are all skewed, so even if you did take a shower when you got off, sometime you still feel dirty when you are awake at 4:30am. mouth might taste a little ripe too. such was the case last night. mouth was a little overcooked, so i go hit my stash toothbrush and toothpaste.

brush is in the bag.
toothpaste awol.

now i'm down bad. cause contrary to popular brushing opinion, all paste aint the same. close-up and pepsodent simply enhance the rebellious tastes and odors running roughshod in and on your palate.

baking soda and peroxide? makes my mouth feel like i ate chalk laced with hemlock. and your knocked out the oj game for at least 16 hours.

every kid on my floor has one of those 3. even the kids to whom i gave quality toothpaste (crest fresh mint, whitening, colgate total advanced clean...even luminous, cause my dumb ass saw a diamond on it on the box) always comes back from the weekend with the family dollar flagship brands in tow. except k. he's relatively new, so i never checked his paste game official. he's the fat kid, so i have high hopes and expectations for him. he's got big, wide and leaning shoes to fill from his 34 waist, 29 length, size Husky forefathers.

so i wait until they start to wake up, and hit my my man k. it takes about two tries, cause my little big nigga might have a little case of the sleep apnea. i aint kicking up no dust.

"big homie, let me see what toothpaste your working with."

he hands it to me. it's in one of those plaste squeeze bottles, so i'm thinking some premium shit. i'm a little boosted. i can end the holy war in my mouth with relative ease. i flip the bottle around.

watermelon?
you pudgy bastard. watermelon? that's worse than fruit gum. gum doesn't, by definition, have to freshen your breath. toothpaste does. that's what it does. and you got watermelon.

"it taste real good doe mr. singleton. it really do." heavy cheek smile. i aint mad little big nigga.

just gotta make sure he aint eating it.