" THE DISAPPEARING TELEVISION"

In 1991 when my girlfriend moved in with me for the most part Buddy moved into her apartment. He was probably there 4 or 5 months until we broke up (her and I that is). Needless, to say she wanted out of my place and into her place. She frantically and hystericall told Buddy to GTF out asap and that he had like a week at most.

Well Buddy moved out and when she moved in her TV was missing. She badgered him as to where it went but he said he had no clue and didn't even recollect it being there. Six months later he told me he took it and gave it away to a friend. As I recall him saying "I eff her in the

a-- there, the broad threw me out with no place to go so I took her TV, bees that way".

Gotta luv it.

The Pirate weighs in.........

........."Bees that way"....this expression by Buddy, cited here by DBG, represents a critical aspect of Buddy's talent.

Buddy was really, as many have pointed out here, a total leader in forseeing new trends such as body-building and upcoming fashion. But the most fascinating "vision" that he ever displayed was the total prediction of Rap Culture.

Many people have remarked at the irony that the White woman singer Blondie created the first widely accepted Rap Song, Rapture, realeased in January 1981. Well, Buddy Rapped that song non-stop for about three years, while every single White guy and girl in America never even new what he was saying. It was probably a decade later before Rap music became a House-hold phenomenon. Buddy had been speaking in Rap for years by then.

He was far ahead of his time, and, as I have said before, it was always obvious to me that this was a gifted aspect of his personality. He never really made any huge coin off this talent, but he was continually ahead of the curve much to the delight of all his friends.

-Pirate (aka Bobby Labarre)