WORD.
there are 6 types of people you can’t help. You better know who they are so you don’t waste your energy
1) you can’t help anybody who doesn’t think they have a problem
2) you can’t help anybody who thinks you are their problem
3) you can’t help anybody who refuses to embrace the scriptural solution to their problems
4) you can’t help anybody who wants you to make a bigger investment in them than they’re willing to in themselves
5) you can’t help anybody who does not have a goal
6) you can’t help anybody who does not have a picture of their desired outcome
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de·ci·sion (d-szhn)
n.
1. The passing of judgment on an issue under consideration.
2. The act of reaching a conclusion or making up one's mind.
3. A conclusion or judgment reached or pronounced; a verdict.
4. Firmness of character or action; determination.
5. Sports A victory won on points in boxing when no knockout has occurred or in wrestling when no fall has occurred.
decision
Noun
1. a choice or judgment made about something
2. the act of making up one's mind
3. the ability to make quick and definite decisions [Latin decisio a cutting off]
Main Entry:
choose Listen to the pronunciation of choose
Pronunciation:
\ˈchüz\
Function:
verb
Inflected Form(s):
chose Listen to the pronunciation of chose \ˈchōz\; cho·sen Listen to the pronunciation of chosen \ˈchō-zən\; choos·ing Listen to the pronunciation of choosing \ˈchü-ziŋ\
Etymology:
Middle English chosen, from Old English cēosan; akin to Old High German kiosan to choose, Latin gustare to taste
Date:
before 12th century
transitive verb1 a: to select freely and after consideration
NOW THAT WE KNOW WHAT DECISIONS ARE... IT'S TIME TO MAKE BETTER ONES, EVERY DAY!
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LILY ALLEN IS A HILARIOUS DRUNK... BUT I LIKE ELTON JOHN'S MUSIC MORE:
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KIM OSORIO IS THE BITTERSWEET TRUTH:
http://www.sohh.com/2008/09/confessions-of.html#more
"Former Editor in Chief of the Source magazine Kim Osorio reveals the stories behind the stories from her upcoming tell-all Straight From The Source: An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible.
There are things I left out of the book. Things that did not fit into the story I was telling. But because I couldn't squeeze a lifetime of hip-hop into 75,000 words, I chose to tell the story of my time at The Source and things that led up to the much-publicized trial and how it went down here in this Confessions blog for the next two weeks. I mean, let's be real, I know what everyone really wanted to know. But now that I have your attention, let me start with a little story in the beginning.
I could give you details and a lot of random info here, but you might not be interested because it¹s void of any celebrity, and only the celebrity stuff seems to make its way around the internet. I mostly grew up in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx (spent my earlier years on Grand Concourse and 165th Street). Anyway, some time between holding down jobs at Kiddie City and the Children's Aid Society at Milbank on 118th st in Harlem, I found time to build up an incredible collection of hip-hop vinyl.
So I did what any true hip-hop fan would do, I bought some turntables. Cost me 400 bucks a pop. I bought a pair of Technic 1200s, a Numark mixer, and a specific set of needles that Silver Surfer told me that I needed to get. It took me about a month to figure out how to catch the beat and blend one record into the next. When I think about it now, I was not that good, but back then, because I knew how to mix records, scratch and flash, I was better than your average. It was the early 90s.
I can't remember how I came to meet Buckwild, a Diggin' In The Crates producer, but we became cool. (Sidebar: Now, try to grasp the idea of two professionals in the hip-hop industry forming a platonic relationship to help one another on the come up. I know it's too hard for some of you to comprehend, but is it a conflict of interest to have friends in the industry too? Or is it only a conflict when you have sex? Hmmmm. That's going to be another blog I write for you in a few days, but I digress). In any event, one day I picked Buckwild up from Parkchester and we rode in my Toyota Camry to the studio where the Artifacts were recording. I sat in the studio and waited for him while they laid down vocals to a song called "Wrong Side Of Da Tracks." Funny, I almost forgot I was there when that song was recorded. Seems like so long ago.
On our way back, Buck was listening to some beats he had been working on. He popped in a cassette (yes, a cassette) and there was this beat that I thought was hot. Or maybe I thought it was "fresh" back then, or I think "dope" may have been the right term. I don't remember. A week or two later, I heard that same beat, with vocals though, on the radio. It was a rapper I hadn't heard of before, but the song was hot. Sorry, I mean, dope. I blasted the sh*t out of the song in my wack car stereo (that was later stolen from my Camry while parked on Sedgwick Avenue). Anyway, I bought the 12-inch of that record. Actually, I bought two. I practiced scratching that record on my turntables. It was O.C.'s "Time's Up." I still love that song. If you listen to the lyrics, it even applies today. He was saying to other rappers that their time was up. That they weren't good enough to stay in the game. That rappers were in danger."
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A LITTLE BULLSHIT WILL MAKE THE TRUTH TASTE BETTER. YUNG BERG'S BROTHER SPEAKS ON SOMETHING PROBABLY NOT THAT IMPORTANT:
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FRANCE IS OUTTA CONTROL:
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DIDDY APOLOGIZES TO ALASKA:
PEACE TO DEF JUX, LOL!
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FUCK SARAH PALIN.
AND FUCK JOHN MCCAIN.
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A BANNED MR. T COMMERCIAL? LOL!
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WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?
BLACK IS OUTTA CONTROL.
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ILLMATIC, THE BOOK!
Hip Hop scholar, author and activist Dr. Michael Eric Dyson announced yesterday that he is currently writing a book on Nas' debut album Illmatic. The 1994 release received the coveted five mic rating from The Source magazine, and is considered by many, to be the greatest single Hip Hop album of all times.
"Every song on Illmatic will be analyzed, interpreted and then re-articulated in a kind of intellectual sense from his own base in Hip Hop and we’re trying to deal with that seriously," Dyson told AllHipHop.com Wednesday.
Late Wednesday, Nas' mentor, and producer of three of the album's 10 tracks, Large Professor, spoke on the significance of his work going from the musical to the literary world.
"It means a lot. That’s what we were working for though," revealed the musical creator of "Halftime," "One Time 4 Your Mind" and "It Ain't Hard To Tell," two of which were album singles. Large Professor added, "It’s finally paying off. It was a lot of hard work put into getting that album how it was – even getting Nas to that point. It’s finally payin’ off. Sometimes it’s a delayed reaction with things. Back in the days, my father would tell me, ‘You’re ahead of your time.’ I didn’t know what that meant. Sometimes that’s a good thing and a bad thing. You get a grasp on it, and you understand what it is, and you realize it."
From first appearing on 1991's "Live At The Barbeque" from Large Professor's then-group Main Source, the unit spent nearly three years readying the debut, which finally achieved platinum status a decade later in 2004. "That was a lot of power, a lot of energy that went into that. That wasn’t just [a year-long project], that was years in the making. The power is there. It’s still alive.”
According to Amazon, Dyson's book, formerly titled Born To Use Mics: Reading Nas' Illmatic, is planned for January 2009 publication on Basic Civitas Books.
Presently, Large Professor - now recording as "Large Pro," is releasing Main Source September 23 on Gold Dust Media. The album's intro "The Entrance," can be heard.
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http://www.zshare.net/audio/181327384223a61c/
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YEAH, I COULDN'T FORGET GLORIA VELEZ EITHER! LOL
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AND ON A FINAL, FIRST TIME EVER "WHOA!" NOTE, I PRESENT TO YOU: THE LATEST GAY RAPPER ACCUSATION: SOULJA BOY!
P.S. FUCK BLENDER:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dead rapper Tupac "2Pac" Shakur, the hip-hop icon who sold more records after he was murdered than during his brief career, is the most overrated person in music, according to music magazine Blender.
Shakur tops a tongue-in-cheek list that also includes "places, trends and other junk in rock," Blender said in its upcoming October issue, due on newsstands next week.
Other overrated finalists included the Grammys at No. 7, encores at No. 12, Pink Floyd at No. 14 and "the music you loved as a teenager" at No. 23.
Shakur, a "gangsta" rapper who showed his sensitive side in movies, was killed during an unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996. More than a dozen albums have been released in the ensuing years, and his image is almost as ubiquitous as that of Che Guevara or Bob Marley.
But while Shakur was a decent rapper with "insane rock-star charisma," according to Blender, he also "larded records with self-mythologizing, mediocre filler."
It's not the first time the pages of Blender have been used to bring down Shakur a few notches. In its June issue, rapper Lil Wayne listed him among his top five rappers, but then admitted: "I can't front: I was never into Pac."
As for the Grammys, the music industry's top awards, Blender said sitting through the ceremony was "like watching paint dry on Celine Dion's forehead."
And encores were notable chiefly for allowing bands to go backstage and do drugs while fans wonder if they should beat the rush to the parking lot, Blender said.
Veteran British rock band Pink Floyd, meanwhile, were responsible for "unbearable LSD slapstick" and "self-important bombast." And Blender warned that teenagers' brains "can inflate a great band to Christ-size proportions" and turn a bad song into the most meaningful.
(Reporting by Dean Goodman; editing by Jill Serjeant)
TIME TO CREATE A BETTER UNIVERSE THAN THIS ONE.
LOVE, MINDBENDER
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