Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. - Anonymous

Robert Frost - "Freedom lies in being bold."

Interesting. I never had that thought... now I will live it. Fortune favors the bold, right? RIGHT?! :)

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Hood Cinema. You can never go wrong with these. (Well, you can. Sometimes they are SHIT. But this one should be dope sauce):



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50 Cent has a point here:

Obviously there's been so much controversy surrounding the N-word lately, but when it comes to the B-word, 50 Cent senses something of a double standard. The leader of the G-Unit, while on tour in London, quipped with a grin recently that nobody said anything about Britney Spears saying, "It's Britney, bitch," on the beginning of her first Blackout single, "Gimme More." Let a rapper try to say that at the beginning of his song, chances are he might get censored.

"I guess they have their rules that apply individually to each artist separately: 'Oh no, he can't say that, 'cause he feels like that about that person,' " he said. "But it's not a rule that applies to everybody else. Matter of fact, my next single, I'm going to start it [with], 'It's Britney, bitch!' "

50 just dropped his newest video, for "I Still Will." Don't think he's too excited about having to change the title for broadcast purposes.

"The real title is 'I'll Still Kill,' " he said defiantly, pointing out the name of the track as it appears on his Curtis LP.

"It's [renamed] 'I Still Will' for MTV," he added. "It's amazing because right after that [video plays], they'll have a group on TV called the Killers. There's always more pressure on hip-hop music. It's the stepchild of entertainment. ... In fact, my new project with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Donnie Wahlberg will be out April 12th called 'Righteous Kill.' Nobody has a problem with that, but 'I'll Still Kill' is the wrong title for a song. It's easier to fight one CD, one artist at a time — that's really what they're doing."

50 has been on tour overseas for about 25 dates and is only halfway done.

"The tour is great," he said. "I'm really enjoying myself. I've had to make some minor changes because I've been using a live band in parts, so it's a really different show [from] anything I've done before. I wanted to make sure it was a different show to what everyone has seen in the past. There's a lot more showmanship this time. I feel good about it. But as I change territories, I change the songs."

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I FINALLY KNOW: THIS IS THE WRONG WAY TO DEAL WITH IT.
I'VE BEEN HIDING IN MY (EL-P ENDORSED) PAIN CAVE FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS, AND NOW I'M COMING OUT, READY TO FACE THE REALITY OF THIS PLANET... WHILE OTHERS ARE GOING IN! THE APOCALYPSE IS NEAR, ONLY BECAUSE ~HUMANS~ ARE CREATING IT. NOT GOD!:

Sect holes up in cave to await end of world
By Tatyana Ustinova

MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 30 members of a Russian doomsday cult have barricaded themselves in a remote cave to await the end of the world and are threatening to commit suicide if police intervene, officials and media said Thursday.

"They have covered the entrance and refuse to come out and are threatening to blow themselves up," an official in the local prosecutor's office told Reuters by telephone. "They threaten to detonate a gas tank and blow themselves up."

The cult members, who include 29 adults and four children, are hidden inside a snow-covered hillside in the Penza region of central Russia. A Penza police spokeswoman said they had moved into the dug-out on November 7.

"No one wants to take on the responsibility of provoking them ... because our information is that there are children among them," said the official.

They are thought to have taken food and fuel supplies in with them and Russian television pictures from the scene showed smoke or steam coming out of a hole in the snow-covered ravine where it was built.

A police patrol was guarding the area to prevent anyone provoking them.

"They are simple Christians," a local priest, Father Georgy, told NTV television station. "They say: 'The church is doing a bad job, the end of the world is coming soon and we are all saving ourselves'."

I AGREE WITH THE 'CHURCH IS DOING A BAD JOB' PART THOUGH, LOL!

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Excerpt from Jay-Z's Rolling Stone interview. This man knows things I need to know:

In one corner of the backstage area at the House of Blues on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, Jay-Z is sitting on an arm of a leather couch, facing the wall. He has slung a black hand towel over his head, his aviator shades are drawn over his eyes, and the back of his GIVE TO RECEIVE T-shirt faces his entourage, which tonight includes Jermaine Dupri, Beanie Sigel and Solange Knowles, the little sister of his girlfriend, Beyoncé, who is on tour in Asia. P. Diddy, one of the proud producers of Jay's new album, American Gangster, fills up glasses of Ace of Spades champagne and distributes the bubbly to the congregation. When Jay gets his glass, he turns to Diddy and offers a Hebrew toast. "L'chaim!"

Minutes ago, Jay was on the stage of the packed club, wrapping up his very first show on this intimate promotional tour. The fans in the house, many of whom paid scalpers north of $1,000 for the chance to see Hova, the God MC, certainly got their money's worth. Backed by a crack band, Jay dipped into his deep catalog - American Gangster is his thirteenth album -­ busting out favorites like "Heart of the City," "Jigga What, Jigga Who," "Big Pimpin' " and "99 Problems," which was taken to a whole other level when the band augmented one of the verses with the riffs from AC/DC's "Back in Black." Given that American Gangster was released that morning, Jay is surprised that the crowd knows the words to his new bangers. "You make the music selfishly," he says, "then you put it out there and hope that it connects with the people. The third part is going out and performing it - that's the part I love."

Though he weaseled out of his self-imposed retirement from rap to release Kingdom Come in 2006, that album did not satisfy his fans. "My intent was to push art forward," he says diplomatically, but lyrically the album pushed Jay further away from tales of his hardscrabble youth -­ guns, drugs and drama -­ to address life as a CEO (he is the president of Def Jam) and the inevitable post-retirement malaise. (A collaboration with Chris Martin on "Beach Chair" surely sank the ship.) In that sense, American Gangster is Jay's true comeback album, full of the soul and R&B grooves he grew up on in the Marcy housing projects in Brooklyn. The album also features a dizzying and vivid flow that ought to re-establish Hova as the premier MC, a title that has been hanging in limbo -­ yet to be fully claimed by upstarts like Kanye West and Lil Wayne - since Jay stepped out of the spotlight in 2003.

By continuing his legacy, Jay says he's "maxing out his era." He compares himself to Michael Jordan -­ there will be the "LeBrons" and "Kobes" in hip-hop, but no one will ever duplicate Jay's successes or longevity. "I've got this Elvis thing going on right here," he says. By that he means that if opening-day projections are correct, American Gangster will be his tenth Number One album, tying him with the King. (Only the Beatles have more, with nineteen.) "What's great about that," he says, "is that I've never had a Number One single on any of my albums. People buy them for the body of work."

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THE NINE MOST RACIST DISNEY CHARACTERS IN HISTORY. GOTTA LOVE IT:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15677_9-most-racist-disney-characters.html

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RZA's KUNG-FU SAMPLES! This is a great article, don't sleep on it!

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/15-11/pl_music

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Diane got sick last night, and threw up like 9 times. I spent a good 2 and a half hours keeping her dreadlocks out of the toilet, continually flushing it so she didn't have her head one inch away from her vomit, holding her, cradling her head, and doing all sorts of other methods of healing. She got up twice from laying down in bed to go throw up again, after I thought it was all over... I thought about calling an ambulance, and I really think that someone spiked her drink. I'm really happy that she's doing okay now, but she even threw up her anti-oxidant grape drink that she had this morning... I've never been THAT sick, where after passing out, you end up barfing the next day. Yeesh. It was cool to take care of her, I really enjoyed being there for her and talking her through the spinning, swirling, stumbling insanity of intoxication. I kept thinking of that great EPMD song, "you over did it homes, you had too much to drank", LOL! But yeah, no more drinking for her. And no more drugs for me. I'm really fucking myself up by gambling with my mind like that. Did anyone enjoy those Jim Morrison quotes I threw up here? "Drugs are a bet with your mind." Truer words were never spoken.

I must stop gambling with my future. The world is fucked up beyond all recognition, and I gotta get my shit together. Period.

tonight, I see Method Man. And Gracie. I will be happy.
love, Adhimu

peace to 4th Pyramid. you know. others don't. their loss. our gain. one love.