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Posts Tagged ‘music’

The Top Undiscovered Websites

November 30, 2008

 
PCmag has released the list of their Top 100 Undiscovered Websites.  Here are a few of my favorites.

 
 

App and Services

drop.io
 
Drop.io is, put simply, the best file-sharing service we’ve seen. Just type in the URL you’d like to use, upload your files (up to 100MB), set a password and/or privacy setting, and choose how long the [...]

808’s and Heartbreak

November 25, 2008

Listen free on MySpace.  Just choose 808s and Heartbreak under the playlist menu.
Kanye West dropped his new album this week titled 808’s and Heartbreak.  The album is interesting because it has an underlining art theme that is missing from most rap music these days.
 

With heavy use of auto-tune’d singing Kanye probably has a lot of [...]

Loneliness Vs. Depression

September 14, 2008

I once read that you spend most of your life alone.  It’s fairly true.
 
 I just looked up the definitions of lonely and depressed, and found that there is quite a difference.  I used to think they were basically the same.  Not quite true.  Lonely is categorized as ‘without companionship’ where depression is more of a pessimistic view, [...]

Hip Hop Just Died This Morning

September 9, 2008

(SHORT VERSION)
 
“Rap is all the same.  It’s just a bunch of black guys talking about drugs, violence, their GATS and how many HOES they got.”  My Friend, TURN THE RADIO OFF!!!  The truth is most rap music, that is sold like dope to middle class white kids, is mostly about ICE, Bitches and the dude [...]

Black Connotation

August 5, 2008

We diluting ourselves drowning in illusions
Foolin ourselves wondering why blacks is loosin
We the minority but the majority of America is idiots
With that being the case why would we wanna fit in
Tryin to trap us up
We keep ourselves doped up
Kids can’t eat
But fresh Nikes on our feet
Social condition is inhibition
TV keeping our attention
From the truth
To dumb [...]