Ready or Not..

So Epic its not even a joke..

Artist...B.o.B

I Don't even know how to properly describe how much I love this dude. He's ILL to the max. One of my favorite rappers to emerge in these past few years by far. He's got so much skill, and the creativity and sound that he brings to the hip hop world, is anything but cliche. He's a breath of fresh air, he's tall glass of water, he is music to my ear drums..

In one of his most recent doings, he has teamed up with Janelle Monae (whom I love with my whole heart) and covered one of Vampire Weekend's songs "the kids don't stand a chance"...the result..golden...i mean, could it be any other way??



BTW- His debut album drops this week...I'm buying it twice..

Please Don't stop the Music

Good Music can always put you in the right frame of mind I find. To put it simply, its perfect. It's not just the thing that I turn on when I need uplifting, its the actual soundtrack to my life. I swear at any given moment a full on philharmonic is playing Beethoven's 9th over my everyday movements. This is how I view music, as very integral part of my world, its like breathing to me. So in saying all of that I always LOVE when I can 'breathe' new music. All types will suffice non are excluded, here is some music that i recently started to add to my 'soundtrack'..




Danami is a dude that goes to my college. He's Not one of those run of the mill hip hop artist who's a carbon copy of every other rapper that came before him. No, he's poetic, he's lyrical, he's deep, he has meaning to everything he says, even his beats speak to you. This mixtape is one of the best I've heard. It sounds like it should be a professional release. To call this a mixtape is a definite understatement...in that case I'm just gonna go ahead and say that this is just his pre-album..So download it!




Donwill from the amazing hip hop group Tanya Morgan released his solo mixtape. To put it bluntly and simply, its the best. Warm beats, concise lyrics, perfectly put together songs. Its very aesthetically pleasing piece of music.





anything that I say in reference to this album will be an understatement. So I will just simply say words that I hope will provoke some sort of response that will even dignify the recognition this collection of music deserves. Amazing, pure, passionate, driven, heart infused, love, classic. Nneka is that artist the world has been crying for. This album was a need, it surpassed that of want.

Always Love

In spite of hurt, pain, travesty I find that there's always some for of love floating around. The presence of disaster with its quality to suck the life and happiness out of things always seems to make extra room for love in lives. And in recent weeks, we've seen that in abundance with many Haiti relief efforts. This song, video, performance is one of those things that remind me of the power of love. It surpasses all, and of course above all God's love is never far and is always present. Love this song.

Redemption Song.

Wow it has been a minute since I've been on here spilling my thoughts onto this electronic mode of communication to the masses. what can i say, life tends to sidetracks you. In any case here we are now in 2010, new year, new country, new city, new school, new life. A whole bunch of newness. I don't believe in New Years resolutions so I'm gonna just say that, I'm going to TRY to keep this blog up and running. I'm not exactly sure yet what its spose to be exactly but, bear with me while i figure it out. This year looks like its gonna be an interesting one so I'm going to try and document it as much as possible.
Ok, enough rambling from me.

if you haven't already seen/heard/ been aware of the devastation in Haiti then you've obviously been living under a rock. There's many organizations out trying to make certain provisions for Haiti, One in particular Every Drop Counts, is based out of Chicago and they are a group of young artists and activists in Chicago who came together with the goal to raise funds in order to send filtration equipment that will provide sustainable, clean bathing and drinking water (Thus, the name Every Drop Counts.)

(I pretty much copied and pasted that from their website) but In any case, the cause that they are working for is immense and what they are doing is monumental. They're having a show in Chicago on Jan 31st 2010 and all of their proceeds are going to get clean drinking water into Haiti.

Help. Support. Aid.


that's what being a human is all about