I Understand Adam Levine and Ime Udoka
Man Rule #1: The p*ssy is just as wet
While most of my media consumption is limited to business news, I couldn’t avoid the recent social media headlines on Adam Levine and Ime Udoka.
For those who missed the melee, it’s just another story of two women getting cheated on by their partners. Oh, and everyone has lots of money.
No one cares about the thousands of men AND women cheated on daily, because they’re not rich, beautiful, and famous.
Adam Levine, frontman for Maroon 5, apparently cheated on his pregnant wife, Behati Prinsloo. The affair was with one Sumner Stroh, an Instagram model, who stated she was young and easily manipulated during the year-long affair with Adam.
So why did the Internet go crazy?
The Internet went crazy because Adam, a heartthrob (not my words) in his own right, has moves like Jagger, which is still not enough to give him a pass to cheat on a Victoria’s Secret Angel (i.e. model).
Man Rule #2: Never cheat on a Victoria’s Secret model (if you can get one)
To make matters worse, Adam has on multiple occasions tried to walk the fine line of being the rich rock star guy who is still a family man first. He even put his wife Behati in his music video.
Adam has a different recollection of the improprieties, but either way, the damage has already been done.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Internet, Ime Udoka is getting raked over the coals for cheating on his Black Queen, Nia Long. Ime is the head coach of the world-famous Boston Celtics NBA team. While Ime is probably less known than Adam Levine, his partner/wife is very well-known and adored by everyone, especially in the Black community. Nia is a gorgeous actress who has starred in multiple films and even one of Kanye West’s music videos.
Ime decided to have “an improper intimate and consensual relationship” with a female member of the Boston Celtics staff. He is facing a long suspension due to his improprieties, but the Black community would prefer to take him in the town square and beat his ass to a pulp.
Like most professions, employees in positions of power/authority cannot have any type of relationship with other employees in the organization, especially when married to Nia Long.
Man Rule #3: Never cheat on a gorgeous actress (if you can get one)
Like Adam, Ime’s life is now blown up financially and emotionally. Apparently, he and Nia were just about to start looking for a new home in Boston when this news broke about the relationship he had months ago.
Profound Words, Dumb People
All of this reminds me of an incident that took place in a boys’ high school locker room over twenty-five years ago. I clearly remember it because the person, let’s call him “Rob,” was so adamant about his stance on cheating.
A friend was recalling a recent event where he had been caught by his girlfriend kissing another girl. A few of the guys were shaking their heads exclaiming how stupid this kid was for going behind the girl’s back. I was never sure if they were madder about him cheating or getting caught.
Rob was a hot head — lifted weights, always looking to get into something and show his strength. His attitude was all about taking whatever he wanted from the world and not apologizing.
This conversation was right up Rob’s alley.
He yelled into the debate, “Dudes, you don’t get it! I could be dating Miss America and would still f*ck my neighbor next door.”
The crowd of guys now standing around half-dressed in the locker room looked perplexed. We knew there would be more coming to this statement before someone could ask why…
“Because she’s just as cute and the pussy is just as wet!”
These were the profound conversations often had by a bunch of macho seventeen year old boys who thought they would conquer the world while getting every girl on the block.
As idiotic as the statement was from Rob, I couldn’t help but recall these words when I heard about the Adam Levine and Ime Udoka scandals.
In the irony of life, sometimes the most honest observations come from the most improbable sources.
While Rob was not the guy you wanted your daughter ever dating, he managed to summarize the whole problem with a lot of men.
In the quest to “feel good” men will throw away their entire lives just for another piece of ass that looks or feels good enough. She doesn’t have to be rich, or famous, or intelligent. What they already have at home is irrelevant. It’s all about the here and now of another person who lifts your boat.
“Who cares Behati was a Vicky Secrets model; this other girl is pretty hot.” That’s what Adam was thinking.
“Who cares I’m Nia Long’s lifetime partner; this other woman wants me now, and I know it’s going to be good.” That’s what Ime was thinking. Ime was willing to take on the whole Black universe for another orgasm from another woman.
Conclusion
Lust is a very real and very dangerous thing. It is an incessant gravitational pull that never goes away from the time you hit puberty. It’s what guarantees the perpetual existence of the human race.
It’s laughable, but understandable that people get more upset when a woman or man is cheated on when they’re rich or extremely beautiful.
“If I had them, I would never cheat,” is what most say.
It’s also quite sad that people don’t realize that lust must be guarded against at all times. Comedian, Steve Harvey, famously said when asked how he stays out of trouble — “I make sure I take my ass home every night!”
The diversity of women and men in the world is infinite. There will always be another person around the corner that does something to your soul that makes them “almost” irresistible.
The almost is where logic and reason must prevail.
I heard many years later that Rob was killed in an altercation only a few years after high school. It didn’t surprise me at all. Toxic behavior in one area of your life tends to infect everything.
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