NO TIMELINE FOR DISCOVERY

NO TIMELINE FOR DISCOVERY

  With the untimely passing of Nipsey Hussle, it is natural that people would stream his music. His passing has led fans to dive deeper into his music and casual fans started to discover his discography before his debut album Victory Lap.

“One week after his tragic murder outside of his Marathon Clothing shop in Los Angeles, @nipseyhussle’s 2018 album ‘Victory Lap’ has re-entered the Billboard 200 chart at no.2 ‘Victory Lap’ sold 66,000 equivalent album units after peaking at no. 4 when it debuted last March.”

-hypebeastmusic

if for some god forsaken reason you HAVEN’T heard this yet, please click this link : https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/so-far-gone/1452017773

I thought about the magic people must experience when they hear something for the first time when I was listening to Uptown by Drake, Lil’ Wayne, & Bun B. I remember when that song and the mixtape its featured on (So Far Gone) came out in 2009. I remember clicking on the tape w/o even knowing Drake was, it was the first day it dropped and I just seen it on a blog and thought the cover was cool. 10 years later Drake re-released the mixtape for a special anniversary and it re-enter the Billboard Charts. I imagine, even as odd as this sounds, many Drake fans first time hearing So Far Gone was from the re-release. 

However that is the beauty of music and art in general. Creators shouldn’t create with the thought of “oh this bout to impact millions right now I got one”, no. Instead creators should play the long term game knowing if people missed out this time, things always come back around and the door re-open for discovery, making the creation seem like it was just made yesterday.

I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles

The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael

- Q-Tip, “Excursions”

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BUT HE WORKED LIKE SUPER HARD THOUGH

 BUT HE WORKED LIKE SUPER HARD THOUGH

 The ongoing debate about whether to attend school or not continues almost each and everyday. To plainly nip the problem in the bud, YOU DO NOT NEED SCHOOL TO SUCCEED. That is extremely  generally speaking though because the main people who stick by that rhetoric are more often than not lazy and don’t put in the necessary work to succeed.

 The main argument people use is the “Bill Gates Dropped Outta Harvard” stance. That stance is extremely flawed for several reasons. After more life experience and hearing about how Microsoft came about, it was revealed to me that Bill had access to early innovative tech before anyone, you realize that first you gotta have the ability to even get in Harvard, then you gotta spend all your time working and not having a life.

 People say they don’t need school but don’t put the hours on hours on hours on hours on hours on hours into creating, failing, failing , failing , failing, failing, failing, creating, sweating, failing, innovating, etc.

 People expect to cut corners and get it quick and never realize how they are setting themselves up to lose. People who would always be adamant about NOT going to school, I would always remind them “Aye that 4 years is going on anyway might as well put it to use.” Then people make arguments about not having debt and I always thought like why is you worried about debt and you already broke lol.

Not a training sequence but this was a kick ass fight ! 

 I even thought about how the success of fictional characters embraced the idea of working super duper hard. Like in the anime NARUTO, the two strongest characters NARUTO and SASUKE trained the hardest out of everyone, nonstop and reaped the benefits. However on paper they’re rank as ninjas is still the lowest because they never passed the exam required to move up in ninja ranking. The feat of being the strongest is even more amazing for Naruto because is also the leader of his village. The leader of the village often attains the highest ninja rank before becoming the nation’s chosen leader.

 Even though they are anime characters they are prime examples of people who didn’t take a traditional route and still succeeded. But like I vocalized throughout this article don’t shun school or any form of education unless you’re going to outwork everyone that’s enrolled in school by at least a 100 times!

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ASSUMPTION OF THE WORST FOR THE BEST

ASSUMPTION OF THE WORST FOR THE BEST

 Recently I was having a conversation with someone who appeared completely harmless, he was burley and over 6 feet but still he didn't strike any intimidation, he just appeared as a person with a cool vibe. During our conversation he mentioned that he always keep two guns with him and he proceeded to show me the location of the guns. Immediately I was like wow I didn't even suspect he had weapons on him, imagined if I would've gotten into a confrontation with him, I would've been in hot water.

 With that discovery, I realized that it is best to assume to the worst for the best. That means assume that a person is capable of the most violent or wildest thing possible so that you may be prepared if such situation occur.

 In my foolish state of mind I let appearances impair my judgement instead of keeping my guard up. But as I stated earlier there was absolutely no tension, he even offered me a job, ha!

 This just serves as a friendly reminder to not judge books by their covers but keep your mind open to the content that lies within.

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IT WILL BE STRIPPED AWAY

IT WILL BE STRIPPED AWAY

 In the phenomenal blockbuster, Black Panther, there are two scenes in which the powers of the Black Panther was stripped away from T'challa , however the significance of those scenes didn't hit me until I listened to a T.D. Jakes sermon the other day.

  In his sermon he spoke about how our blessings is not in what we have (expensive bags, cars, and fancy tech, etc.) but it is within our character. 

  I realized that T'Challa had to be the Black Panther w/o being the BLACK PANTHER. Our possessions is not there to form us but to enhance what we already have. If we had none of the material things we cherished, who would we be? 

 Would our essence of being caring, charitable or even a cold-hearted son of a bitch change because our lack of material possessions or would our character shine through no matter what.

 Our blessings in life is like T'challa's throne, to prove that we are worthy of such a thing we must be stripped of possessions we hold dear to truly test our character.

 Once we can prove we are something with nothing, it becomes nothing to have everything.

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