CONSCIOUSLY CENSORING

CONSCIOUSLY CENSORING

Lately I’ve been constantly monitoring the cursing in my life. For some reason I’ve been feeling like its time to lay off on the cursing and I’ve been actively trying to handle it. I don’t know why I chose to pursue this, is it faith reasons? Is It simple maturity? Could be those things and some other things all I know is all the cursing isn’t necessary.

I remember starting cursing consistently in the 4th grade, I would curse so much in school it was ridiculous and that trended upwards as I got older. Now I think I should know how to communicate better without foul things leaving my mouth every two seconds.

But you know cursing in my life and cursing in the arts are two separate things to me. I hate hearing censored versions of music, especially rap. Clean versions of rap songs sound so stupid. Think I’m Lying? Go Listen to the clean version of “WAP” and see how dumb it sounds.

I just feel like clean versions of music messes with the artist’s intention and expression. An artist has to be allowed to express themselves fully so you can really feel and connect with their music. Matter fact clean versions are such a hinderance that for the classic Dr. Dre song, Xxplosive, its a whole verse that doesn’t even get played on the radio! If you remember it skipped straight to Nate Dogg’s verse, his verse was the best part of the song fasure but you needed that first verse from Kurupt to set Nate up for the kill.

Even in my life, I’m hard on censoring myself in real life but in my music I still let free with the curse words. I probably should ease up there too because of my Christian faith but, man its just a couple bars in my raps really need a f*** or a s*** there to get my point across.

All in all this is NOT an overnight journey and the day may never come when I completely don’t curse. But to be at peace with myself, its going to be something I continuously work on. #love

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HALF THE TIME

HALF THE TIME

  Just recently Cardi B tied Nicki Minaj as the female rapper with the most #1’s tin Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart history (4 each). This accolade undoubtedly sparked more Cardi/Nicki comparisons and probably had people saying look at how Cardi did it in such a shorter time than Nicki. 

The thing is she’s supposed to do it quicker and that’s not a knock to Nicki, its actually a credit to her. When people pave the way it shouldn’t take the people that come after them the same amount of time it took their predecessor to accomplish the same feat. If it did then what was the point of the accomplishment anyway?

George Lewis Ruffin, American attorney  

All the accomplishment show is that its possible! Once a person see that its possible that should be enough ammo to go head on into reaching that goal. This is fact in fiction and even non-fiction. Once Goku reached super saiyan it didn’t take a long time for the next saiyan to become super saiyan as well. When George Lewis Ruffin became the first black student in 1869 to earn a degree from Harvard Law School it didn’t take until 1969 for another black to earn a degree from there as well. When these impossible feats happen eventually it should become a common feat. We see black law students enter Harvard all the time, its a gazillion super saiyans, so on and so forth. 

look at all those damn super saiyans

However, no matter how common the feat becomes it should still be celebrated because it took immense hard work and dedication. When a goal is reached in half the time, the predecessor shouldn’t feel a way nor should the successor feel superior. As time progress a person will always accomplished what you did in a shorter time but only because they’re supposed to and when that happens don’t be afraid to give them room to shine. 

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THE QUIET MVP:YG

 THE QUIET MVP: YG

 2018, as I mentioned before as been one hell of a year for music. But while everyone is looking at the biggest name in music , Bompton’s all star has been having a quiet MVP year.

YG never been short on features as you’ve heard him tear up tracks like “Gucci on My” and “Want Her”, this year seemed to unlock an even more consistent beast.

NIKE SWOOSH

listen here: https://tidal.com/track/88263181

YG sounds very fluid on the track with Memphis breakout star, Blocboy JB and its probably my favorite song from his mixtape.

PROUD

“Me and these hoes can’t get along (why?) cuz my mama ain’t no hoe”! Easily one of the best lines from that song. Not to mention he has his mother throwing up gang signs and rapping his verse, how fire is that?

SHE BAD

listen here: https://tidal.com/track/86900562

 Man so simple but so got damn catchy. And it make you want every damn bag this young man is talking about. “Louis Bag (Aye), Gucci Bag (Aye), Prada (Bag).”

 Basically beloved if you haven’t been paying attention to YG this year its never too late to start. His new album Stay Dangerous is coming soon.