RIP To Nate Dogg
I’m listening to Fight Night and I hear, RIP to Nate Dogg, I had to regulate.
Usually I’d be like, that’s a dope ass line and shout out to a pioneer (every era has its pioneers. To honor them isn’t to dishonor others).
But seeing that Takeoff is no longer with us, I begin to think, we as a people take death for granted.
Let’s explore the word honor. What does it mean to honor someone?
Assuming we are saying RIP in honor of someone, what does honor mean?
We learn definitions, not so we can memorize them, but so we can embody the meaning of the word we identify with.
So I am not asking what does Webster say honor means. I am asking, what does honor mean to you?
To me, which is the filter I choose to view this through. To me, honor is a growth opportunity.
An opportunity to improve upon yourself as a way to show gratitude, or be in service to others.
Nate Dogg died under whatever circumstances he died. It would be logical, to honor his memory by working on living a little less reckless than the person who has no opportunity to live.
I was thinking to myself that this was a weak comparison, but spirit reminded me how Takeoff died.
Takeoff died exactly as Warren G described in Regulators.
RIP to Nate Dogg, I had to Regulate. That lyric hit a lil different now…
How did these young men honor Nate Dogg’s memory by placing themselves in the same circumstances Nate tried to warn them about?
How is that honor?
Our fellow brothers and sisters are sacrificing themselves by making the wrong decisions, and we owe it to them and we owe it to ourselves, to learn from their sacrifice.
THAT is true honor. Improvement of self in honor of. I will live better because of the warnings you left.
Stop throwing RIP around all willy nilly, it has meaning.
Time to redefine.
Lonee Appleton
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