To promote my upcoming book
I opened an IG (@thecipherbook_miami)
posting pics from back then and book-related stuff

So today for #tbt I posted an unreleased pic from the night I interviewed Phife (in 98, around when ATCQ broke up)
tagged and shouted out those in the pic with me

One of these (who was my man back then but like Nas said "best friends become strangers")
Takes the pic and tweets it to his +7k followers
no shoutout, no credit, no mention of my book, nothing

My first impulse was to DM him asking WTF?
but I fell back (I didn't DM him)

Thinking on it some more
yeah let him get his shine, whatever
I'm updating my db and keeping all receipts

The other person in the pic
DMs me "yo dope pic, thanks for posting"

I mean, that's the social media age now
once it's posted, it's out of our hands
But I still feel a way