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Im at work today and usually im all like ugh but 1) I didnt have to come in till 7 which is like sleeping in for me, I only work 5 hours and its a beautiful morning today. I stepped outside and I automatically thought of this song...

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K-OS' "Sunday Morning" from the Atlanits:Songs for Disco album, one of my fave albums from 2007, you should check it out, just a side note.

You Need This In Your Life

So for a while now a lot of people have been looking forward to Kid Cudi's debut album
Man on The Moon: The End of Day and whether this dude will deliver on all the hype that has been surrounding him for a year and change. I have to say that he delivers big time! There will be a lot of haters and nay-sayers because that's just the way the world works. You can be the person who cures cancer and SOMEONE will say condem you for it, that's the way it is. Hardcore hip hop heads, old rappers and back-packers may want to hate but this is a great album. Kid Cudi and I are about the same age (he 25 me 24) and to me as an artist he represents and era of kids who grew up on mid to late 90's MTV where say a Metallica video plays and Dr. Dre and Tupac plays after him the maybe some Sneaker Pimps after that. Its a generation of kids who embraced many different genres of music. He takes this and in my humble opinion takes the art of conception and hip hop as a whole to another level. The album is set up as a play/movie/dream/musical if you will being split up into 5 scences. The transition into some of those scenes are narrated by Common who's like this generation's James Earl Jones. Listening to this album is truely cinematic. There are some songs that on an individual basis that I would not turn to like "Simple As..." and "Pursuit of Happiness" but this is a project that needs to be listened to as a whole. There are some standout tracks "Soundtrack to my Life" "My World" "Cudi Zone" the best song on the album to me is "Heart of Lion" which Cudi describes as "Eye of the Tiger"-esque which it really is. Its dark yet triumphant with a pulsating beat. I mentioned on twitter the other day how I was surprised of the number of interviews and articles I have read about Cudi how no one mentions Bone Thugs N Harmony's influence on his sing song-y style. This is well demonstrated on the song "Hyyer" feat his friend, artist and fellow Cleavland-ite Chip the Ripper. On that song its so blantantly obvious, its so blantantly Cleaveland as us outsiders are familiar with. As a whole this album really does push the musical envelope, it engages ALL musicians and artist in all genres to step their game and imagination up. However; I believe the pressure is really on for the Kid now, how could he possibly follow up to this, is he able too? He has so far proven himself very sensitive when it comes to this whole music game, threatning to quit, deleting his twitter account because of 'negativity'. So I say get this album and listen to it whole preferably in the dark cause this may be as good as it gets from Kid Cudi.

Today.

What is there is to say that already has not been said about 9/11. We all remember where we were when we heard about it. I was in marketing class at the time and our teacher brought out the television so we could see what was going on. I remember thinking 'This can't be real' it seriously looked like something out of movie. I knew, we all knew that nothing will be the same after this, and it hasnt. Since then we have been in a war or wars and there seems to be no solution. I always try to look at the bright side of things but there just isnt a bright side to this all we can do is remember, reflect and pray. My uncle Chris made this video about how he and his family left NY a bit after 9/11 and the community whom he felt made him feel better. I found this video very beautiful and touching, enjoy.

Pic of the Day: Super throwback

Just got tagged in this picture yesterday on facebook. Its me 1999 in the 8th grade at Lindsay middle school when we went to Kings Dominion for a band competition and to visit the amusement park. I am all the way to the left on the first row.

Old rappers are having the best week ever!

Hip hop over the past few years has been all about the new dudes coming into town. Most of them have came and went. This year has been thrusted with new dudes thanks to the now infamous XXL's Freshman 10 cover from late last year (by the way that 'class' has like a 40% success rate). And because of all this attention old rappers no likey. It came to a point where all these dudes sounded like those grumpy old men who sits on a stoop all day, drink beer and play dominos or cards or chess. They were all talk and no action, if there was action there was no re-action to their actions. But these past few days old rappers are back with two major hip hop releases this week Raekwon (feat Ghostface Killah) Only Built For Cuban Links II and Jay-Z's Blueprint 3. Im happy for these dudes especially Rae cause he does not have the same machine as Jay-Z has behind him, I mean we all know that Jay was going to do well even though BP3 is Kingdom Come part 2 aka very dissappointing. Raekwon is getting numbers because of his skill, the respect that real heads have for him and that is extremely commendable regardless if your an old head or a freshmen.

Oo Im Dangerous.

So I am on my morning commute which I already dred,and today its raining AGAIN. So I get to Hampton get off at the Hampton U exit and make my way to Burger Kang, I make a left at the stop sign then BOOM blue lights. Great. So I have one headlight out which I already knew and apparently and didnt make a total complete definite stop at the sign. Oooh Im such a criminal. To top it off it was 3 of them 3 cops and for what reason? One cop doing the whole process, another cop on the passenger side of the car shining a flash light into it, and another standing behind him. I mean is there someone killing someone somewhere? I guess not at 6:30 in the morning. I now have a summons to show up in court sometime in November for "failure to obey a traffic sign", whatever im paying that ish off so I wont have to go to court. In closing thank you Hampton City cops so glad that you are following the motto To Serve and Protect meaning to Serve me papers and Protect your quota rep, good job.

My New Favorite Song/Video Dedication

"Walked in the club like who dat?" I discovered this video over on Va$htie's Blog and um I love's it. This is Ninjasonik with "Somebody Gonna Get Pregnant" I also wanna dedicate this video to my girl LEY, I was talking to her saturday night and I told her to look up this video and I loved her reaction.

Summer 2009

^^^This is the face I give summer of 2009
Well today is Labor day which marks the end of the summer season. The summer of 2009 will go down in infamy both in pop culture and in my personal life. The biggest i guess event or occurance in my life this summer was the passing of my father something that took us all by surprise and something that we will never believe. We (my mother, brother and I) try to look at it as he went in peace without pain, he lead quite the life, and will forever be missed. This summer also marked the passing of many Ed Mcmahan, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Walter Kronkite, DJ AM and sooo many others, too many to count it seems. Alright so that's the bad stuff, let's focus on the good stuff. I didnt do too much because of my job. Summer's arent what they used to be, after you graduate summer is just another season as opposed to THE season, know what I mean? I did attend some really cool concerts including Santigold and The Great Hangover Tour. At the end of the day the Summer of 2009 can bite me, I am not sad to see it go AT ALL. Besides autumn is my FAAAVORITE season. The weather is getting cooler, the colors are changing. I have a weakness for pumpkin patches and I dont know this season just warms my soul. Hopefully this season will bring better things. But the Summer of 2009 gets a grade of F---- that's four minuses.

This Video Is So Wrong, but Right at the Same Time

This is the video for Major Lazer's "Pon De Floor" I guess I should have parental discretion cause its pretty dirty, but its hilarious. I brought Major Lazer's Guns Dont Kill People...Lazer's Do yesterday. Haven't got the chance to really listen to it but the stuff I did hear I like. Who knew 2 white boys could make such a good reggae album ey? Well one of those dudes is Diplo, and Diplo is dope! So anyways here ya go

Major Lazer "Pon De Floor" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.