My President is Black

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Life After Death

Life After Death was released just 2 weeks after Biggie was murdered in LA leaving his record release party. The album in whole was a different look from Ready To Die with more mainstream tracks, but the lyrics and storytelling that Biggie is known for remained. "Hypnotize" was the first single released and followed with a video that at the time was different from anything done before. There was a car chase, boat chase, Big even had mermaids in his tank. We saw the playa side of him on "Fuckin' You Tonight" with R. Kelly then he turned around and came with "I Love The Dough" feat. Jay-z which sounds like a summer banger to me. "Mo' Money Mo' Problems" is a song that everybody loves (in my opinion) and always received well even today when played. "I Got A Story To Tell" is probably my favorite song on the 1st disc, the way he just tells the story is ridiculous. Disc 2 starts with "Notorious Thugs" which is one of those songs that when you hear the first note of the beat you stop what you're doing and say "that's my shit". The beat is crazy but when Big got on the track and flipped his style to match Bone Thugs that just took it to another level, I think I could of got on that and it still would have been a hit. On "Another" Big and Lil Kim go back and forth about what to do when your cheated and just another solid track from Big. "Going Back To Cali" was in the same catagory as "Hypnotize" to me, but "Ten Crack Commandments", man. I heard so much about the song and when I first heard it I was like what?, but after listening to it some more and the lyrics it wasn't hard to see what the all the fuss was about. I can remember my sister always playing and attempting to sing"Playa Hater", so when I was listening to it I couldn't help but laugh. Big's attempt to sing is slightly better than her's (I think Puff got her too) but its not something we expected to see from him and shows his versatility, his having fun at what he does. To me Disc 2 is better than Disc 1, not taking anything away from it but Disc 2 is just the shit, you feel me? Overall, I put this album in my top 3 Rap albums of all time, it was certified Diamond (10x platnium). I put the video for "Sky's The Limit" I thought this was a sick concept. Tomorrow is Born Again. One


Life After Death

Ready To Die

Ready To Die was considered to be the album that brought the east coast back, it dropped in '94 a time when the west coast had Snoop, Dr. Dre and Tupac. The west had control of the rap music scene, until Biggie dropped Ready To Die. With the first single Juicy, the album began to soar. Going into my listening process of this album I was expecting big things (no pun intended), and i was not let down. After the 2nd song "Gimmie The Loot" I could see the story telling ability that he was known for. The album has plenty of what I call hidden gems in, "Suicidal Thoughts", "Everyday Sturggles", "One More Chance" and "The What". The what features Method Man, and the way that he and Big Rhyme going back and forth is bananas. Lyrically they both bring, Big even said that he thought Method Man got him on the track. I call One more chance a hidden gem because I had never heard this (the original) version. When I first looked at the ipod to see what track was playing you should have seen my face when it read "One More Chance", after listening to it a few times I thought it was (lyrically) better than the remix which is the more popular version of the song. The album is filled with what I consider east coast beats, (duh, he is the king of NY) which made it a little harder for me to listen to at first but actually grew on me. Puff Daddy, is prominently on the album his voice is on 9 tracks thus starting his trend of jumping on his artists albums. The 4 singles that came off this album "Juicy", Big Poppa", "One More Chance" remix and though it isn't officially a single there was a video for "Warning". Most of your favorite rappers (cough, Jay -Z) use lyrics from this album in their own music. Overall it was very easy to see why this album received the accolades that it did, and was considered a timeless classic going 4x's platnium. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Stay tuned tomorrow is "Life After Death". One.

Ready To Die

The Greatest of All Time?

After watching the trailer for the new movie NOTORIOUS in which they proclaim that he is the greatest rapper of all time, i had to sit back and really think about the statement. Being that he was in his prime while I was in elementary school, he was ahead of my time so I felt as if i really had to listen to his music something that i never really did. So I decided to listen to all of his albums and each day this week will be a personal review of each.

Black Jesus

Nothin to really say. These videos were produced by Aaron McGruder, the creator of The Boondocks. This is for entertainment purposes only.

It Aint Trickin If You Got It

The video is funny yet informative, gives you both sides of the males perspective. Me personally am torn between the two.  I'm a lil older now so I do understand that doing something for someone you may like, care about or just want to do something nice for is not wrong, just make sure that you keep things in perspective.  Just cuz you bought her that doesn't mean you're entitled to anything, at the same token don't just take blood shit cuz he givin to you.  Now for yall that can't get none and keep payin fa everything, buyin her hella shit and still aint gettin none you should have learned ya lesson by now.  Just think about all the dudes wit the A.O.B mentality, thats a good indicator that your money should stay in your pockets.  Ladies don't think I'm hatin or nothin cuz if u got blood doin all this fa you mo' power to ya, just don't come round here thinkin its good cuz you will get ya feelings hurt quick fast and in a hurry.

 

The One For You

"In your mind you prolly thinkin we don't love you but on the real we just not used to what love do and please consider that we were taught to love money, ice, cars and clothes love pussy but you don't love them hoes" Lil Wayne 

You wouldn't believe how much I hear females complain about they nigga problems, he aint doin this , he aint doin that.  Did it ever cross your mind that he doesn't know what you want or expect from him?  As males we are told to never cry, show emotions that you have to be strong.  After being told that and acting accordingly there isn't a switch that just be turned off and instantly become what you expect him to be.  The Wayne quote above, is a general statement but pretty much the truth.  

My father growing up encouraged my brother and I to "get on females", giving us incentives if we got her number. My mother recently told me that I am too young to be worried about a girlfriend and I need to go be hoe. So with that in mind how do you expect us to be? From birth males and females are taught totally different game plans when it comes to dating and dealing with the opposite sex.  Every female is told that she is special and that she deserves the best, so now she's out looking for this Prince Charming that just doesn't exist. I will say that the B.O.B (bruhs over bitches) and A.O.B (all on a bitch) mindset does nothing for either of us, but it is something thats real and has to be dealt with.

For those of you females that feel that there are no good dudes out there, you can thank yourselves for that.  It isn't that there aren't good guys, the problem is that somewhere in his past he was probably done wrong and as a result of that he's not going to let that happen again. Or, like I previously stated he just doesn't fit all the criteria that you're looking for (as if you're perfect).  Then we have the female that feels she is oh so solid but just can't find a guy thats going to treat her right.  Your problem is that you're probably attracted to the kinda guys that have the A.O.B and B.O.B state of mind or maybe your not as solid as you think. Either way something has to change.

All I really wanted to say is don't be so closed minded, you never know what kind of guy you might meet once you loose your list of things that you're looking for.  Don't put materialistic values over a man's character and integrity.