I'm a straight ridah.. My word.

For the first time in what feels like 70 years, I don’t have an essay to do for an entire week! So I’ll be savoring the weekend via movies, girlfriend, friends, and more movies.

I’ve found tons of great stuff the last couple days.

First of all… these sugary sweet sneakers

I need a (good) Lil’ Wayne t-shirt like nothing, just a strange urge for some reason. I think I’ll ask for this one for Christmas (but in a small. Because I need the polar opposite of a long tee if I’m going to be reppin’ a rap artist.)

And I can’t wait to get my new jacket ASAP

Also, the Crystal Castles CD is kicking my ass currently.

And I’m indulging in a lot of guilty pleasures this week:

T-Pain – Chopped N Screwed (I feel like I should never blog about T-Pain again, this is getting embarrassing)

Tupac – Ambitionz Az a Ridah (I probably like most that almost every single track on this double album is spelt wrong).

 

And I’ve been thinking all night how I want to write a short story about a parallel universe in which Biggie Smalls and Tupac made up before they both died in reality and made a quadruple-album that became the best-selling CD (tripling Thriller's sales) in the entire world and the magnum opus of rap in general. This leads to companies wanting to cash in on the success and trying to make huge albums with super groups and it ends up ruining the entire music industry and making every major company go bankrupt. All because of Tupac and Biggie.

It’ll never be written.

"Stronger than Teflon"

The Cool Kids have been rocking my world for the last little while, here's a favorite of mine right now:

The Cool Kids - Delivery Man

Another favorite is Jay-Z's new track from his upcoming album The Blueprint 3:

Jay-Z - History

Rap is slowly getting a more epic, orchestral sound to it in general. Which also brings me to my next favorite song of the day:

Young Jeezy - My President Is Black

The good/bad thing is that every time I listen to certain songs like the last two is that more and more people are name-dropping Obama and trying to discuss politics in their songs. Obama I think really will be as awesome as he appears to be, but now that all of the sudden there's a black man in the white house, faster and faster every rapper is becoming politically charged and democratic and even sounding like they.. care about stuff? 

I don't know, it may just be an illusion. This all just feels like a flash back to the golden age of hip hop though, it's nice. 

Especially when I was thinking Soulja Boy was literally going to be the first to pull the trigger on hip hop.

Top that!

The 80's seemed to have been amazing and horrible at the same time. I'm both glad and disappointed I missed them. I can't help think of them as the generation of puberty; always appearing a bit unnatural and uncomfortable, trying to figure itself out (mostly resulting in failures), but it's still something so distinct and universal, everybody can recognize it.

90% of the music is pretty rotten, and the movies are no exception either.

The 80's movie that comes to my head immediately every time is Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan. It came out in '89 and it should signify the closing of the decade, but it looks and sounds like the very essence of the 80's. 

It's strange to think 9 years before it the first in the series, such a different movie, was made and how timeless it can seem, despite the goofy characters (that includes you, Kevin Bacon). 

Amazing how much 8 sequels can change a concept.

Actually, on second thought, not that amazing.

"Watch me do me! Watch me do me!"

I thought it would be a good idea to get my own blog so I could tackle some universal issues, like the ethics of stem cell research, and the state of the war in Afghanistan.

Just kidding.

Most of my posts will probably be about the latest weird movie i've watched, a cool CD I found, or what Kanye West was wearing the day before.

So I think the ideal place to start is with T-Pain's new music video, obviously.

There are so many great things to note in this video, some of which:

1. T-Pain apparently can rap (and.. really fast?)

2. T-Pain apparently has a human's voice, not a premature robot's.

3. T-Pain does not wash his hands after he uses the washroom.

4. DJ Khaled is becoming more recognizable for saying "We the best!" and YELLING than actually creating the music rappers.. rap over.

5. Lil' Wayne is REALLY busy. Like, too busy to make an appearance on his best friend's music video (who name drops him).

6. Akon is hilarious (if you can make it to the very end).

Anyway, I hope other people get as much enjoyment out of that as I do, but I truly doubt it.

I have to begin so.. much.. homework.

I'll be bahck.