I can’t believe how much music and technology have changed over the years in relatively a short manner of time. From balancing a heavy, 8 – D Battery powered boom box on our shoulder to clipping a small iShuffle to our clothes…MY OH MY how things have changed.
How many of you remember when the Walkman was the IN thing? Tape cassettes were the only option and once that joint wore out from getting continuos play, pardon the pun, but it was TRULY a RAP for your tapee. As the late Notorious BIG would say..”I let my tape rock til the tape pop.” Some of the cheaper Walkmans had only 3 buttons: Stop, Play, Fast Forward or Rewind. And depending on what side of the tape you were listening to, in order to hear your favorite song again you had to take out the tape, flip it, pop it back in and hit either REW or FWD to advance on the reverse side, just to get to the right part on the other side..MAN!!! The real heads know what I’m talking about.
And now look at the cycle of things, the 8o’s are coming back, which to me seems kinda corny since a guy like myself has never forgot those memories which are in my heart. As my man Trev (Black Bauer) would say…”They are studying to become B-Boys, meanwhile we have polaroids.”
Have you looked at yourself today? Have you told yourself how special you are?
We are taught throughout our childhood to fear, praise, admire and learn about everything outside of ourselves, and discover as an adult that we don’t know anything about ourselves. We know who Santa and his reindeer are. We know that Bunny’s lay eggs of various colors. (Sorry if I ruined your dreams there) Whether 20, 30, 40 or 50 years old, you have lived with yourself and actually know very little about who you are. What do you like to do? What do you love to do? What gifts were bestowed upon you at birth? What is it that you do better than anyone else? What brings you happiness? It’s truly shameful and painful to realize that you have been living and existing by the standards of those around you, whether they be family, friends or strangers. Imagine living in a home for 30 years or so, and every time you blow a circuit/fuse, you have to hire someone to walk and simply turn your circuit breaker back to ON, when THAT you can do yourself. That’s how I feel about those of us who live in our bodies for however many years and can’t tell you what makes them tick, what they love, what they’re good at or where their internal circuit breakers are so to speak.
I encourage you all to have a talk with yourself today. Look in the mirror and check out the person whom you never really got a chance to know. Other people see you, but you have been turning a blind eye to yourself, and that self needs some attention. More than just wiping your face with a cloth in the morning. Look into your eyes and start off by saying “Hello or What’s Up (name) …It’s a pleasure to meet you!” When you say that, you will see what other people see when they meet you, as the wonderful and special person you are.
By the way, all material posted here (music and otherwise) are always 100% clean (edited), except for when it’s about “Yo Mama!” lol
DUI: The blazing hot track produced by Tone X aka Black Beard the Pirate.
Some pretty bad things happen when you are found to be DUI, (arrests, crashes, bumps and bruises, memory loss etc.)
The same applies across the board whether operating a vehicle, cooking or listening to music, being DUI can have you doing some pretty dumb stuff. Like “cranking the superman” when the song is actually calling for you to “crank dat batman.” OR…living DUI may even influence you to make your own song about “cranking” some other super hero and putting it on YouTube and hoping for successs.
If the picture above appears blurry…then maybe you are DUI right now!!! Or maybe you need to take a break from your screen.
We can all spare a little change. Whether regarding change in the world, in your personal life or shoving a little change into the hand of someone who is in need, we can all spare some change.
Well, today people are hitting the polls and casting their votes for the next presidential candidate. I won’t share my ENTIRE view on how I feel about voting, but I can sum it up like this:
It’s amazing to me how people still think they have the power to ELECT someone. Now before people get all crazy and telling me about how it’s our right and how many people died to vote, the same argument that’s always presented when this is a topic, lets be clear that people did not die ONLY to vote. Voting was only a facet, a page, “one” hair follicle on the nasty balding head of injustice that people were fighting and dying for. Civil Rights in its entirety was the fight.
Now, that we can all vote, women as well as those of african decent, I feel and have always felt it to be a slap in the face that we aren’t actually able to ELECT anyone. Elect means to choose something or someone by a vote. Since we can’t vote for just anyone whom we feel may be qualified, for example, (the awesome professor you had in college, or the kind bus driver or whomever…) it seems like such a joke. We aren’t able to “elect” whoever we want, we can only “SELECT.” It should be called the Presidential Selection. So to that effect, it’s like choosing which is going to harm you less since you know they all play on the same team in the end. It’s like being a vegetarian and all they have on the menu is: A) Steak, B) Chicken, or C) Pork. What do you do, just enjoy the water they serve and not choose at all..OR…SELECT the one that will harm you least?
Above is a picture of a vinyl toy that I customized with my unique black and white line art. It’s called an IWZL, pronounced as it looks [eye-wizzle]. What makes this little guy so valuable is… there will be “no more.” He is “one of one” and the company has actually discontinued this particular model. You can find other vinyl collectibles at HERO on Allen St.
At the success of the I LIKE IT video, we are showing our gratitude by throwing you all some FREE goods by way of a Contest.
The IWZL above, will be one of the many prizes that you may be eligible to win once we release the details for the “I LIKE IT” Contest. Stay tuned in. PEACE
Oh! This IWZL was provided by my main man BA (Bee – A), who will “knife” ANYONE who calls his growing vinyl toy collection, “DOLLS.” He’ll do it too!
