Homeboy Sandman: Attack of the Clones: How Lack of Topical Diversity is Killing Hip Hop and Its Listeners. I love going into schools and talking with kids.
Before making music I taught high school full time. Ironically, students pay infinitely more attention now that I'm a rapper. Class always begins the same way. "What is hip hop? When you think about hip hop, what comes to mind? " "Money! " "Cars. "The streets. " They laugh, then correct me. I thank them for the clarification, and ask if there's anything else. "Sex! " If my opening question were asked to 100 people on an episode of Family Feud, it would be pretty easy to sweep the board.
But it wasn't always that way. Who knows what would have become of me had I grown up in an era where my idols, the preeminent examples for success from communities like mine, limited their content to the four or five themes that dominate today's hip hop landscape. KRS-One questioned the health benefits of red meat on "Beef," and at the age of 10 I learned that you didn't have to eat what everyone else eats. The Anxious Idiot. Anxiety: We worry.
A gallery of contributors count the ways. One day last year, I called my brother Scott in a state of agitation, self-hatred and incipient despair. On Nas & Amy Winehouse's "Cherry Wine" And The Reality Of A Soulmate. Transitional periods in life often times provide the greatest lessons.
For practically all of 2012, much of my time has been spent in the air and/or highway attending weddings of childhood and college friends. And through it all, via random conversations with people I’ve known for years and some I haven’t seen or heard from since, suddenly life made a tad bit more sense. This past Sunday while driving back from Virginia Beach following being a groomsman in my seventh wedding this year, my iPhone was on shuffle. Before moving forward though, let me be clear. As digital immigrants we have a responsibility to tell the story of our transition online. This is a guest post by Tac Anderson, Head of Digital Strategies EMEA at Waggener Edstrom.
You can follow him on Twitter @tacanderson Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y don't always get along. But these three generations share one common moniker that no group since or any group will ever share again: we're digital immigrants. We all, to varying degrees, have lived in a world before everything became digital. Home taping didn’t kill music. Ben Goldacre The Guardian Saturday 6th June 2009 You are killing our creative industries.
“Downloading costs billions” said the Sun. “MORE than seven million Brits use illegal downloading sites that cost the economy billions of pounds, Government advisors said today. Why Black Women Are Fat. Jobs in Hell News, Video and Gossip - Gawker. Get Over It: The Truth About College Grad 'Underemployment' Guest post written by Abigail Johnson and Tammy Nicastro Abigail Johnson is president of Roeder-Johnson, a Silicon Valley strategic communications and PR firm.
Tammy Nicastro is Executive Director of Development at UCSF Medical Center and Benioff Children’s Hospital. This article represents their personal opinions and not those of their employers. In recent weeks, there have been a slew of articles that reported how difficult things will be for this year’s college graduates because they can expect to be unemployed or “underemployed”. When did we start thinking that someone who is gainfully employed is “underemployed”? It’s just plain arrogant for anyone to consider their job underemployment. First, when people get a job, there is nothing stopping them from making their own luck. Let’s talk about making your own luck: One woman we know was a graduate of one of the finest universities in the U.S. with a very high GPA.
We all know stories like these. Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake! The iconic writer scolds the superrich (including himself—and Mitt Romney) for not giving back, and warns of a Kingsian apocalyptic scenario if inequality is not addressed in America.
Chris Christie may be fat, but he ain’t Santa Claus. In fact, he seems unable to decide if he is New Jersey’s governor or its caporegime, and it may be a comment on the coarsening of American discourse that his brash rudeness is often taken for charm. In February, while discussing New Jersey’s newly amended income-tax law, which allows the rich to pay less (proportionally) than the middle class, Christie was asked about Warren Buffett’s observation that he paid less federal income taxes than his personal secretary, and that wasn’t fair. “He should just write a check and shut up,” Christie responded, with his typical verve. Hipster Racism Runoff And The Search for The Black Costanza.
All you "but that's just the way life is" people are boring.
You're entitled to your opinions and worldview but I think it's fucking boring and tired and limited and lazy and terribly uncreative.