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I hate when I’m so tired my eyes are watering but I can’t sleep. It’s been happening to me a lot lately. then I wake up feeling like I haven’t slept at all. I need some sort of sleep aide or something.
“Bomb cyclone” my ass. I made it to the gym in my Honda Civic no problem
Boyfriend only went to work today because he could finally drive his Subaru through a storm.
I foolishly went out to my breakfast spot afterwards and hung around a little too long. I wasn’t able to drive up the hill to my house, so I had to drive around town on less steep inclines so I could reach the top of my hill and then drive down towards my driveway.
I feel like I'd need to do laundry every other day with that many layers. Y'all must have huge closets in the north.
We use the closet in the spare bedroom year round. Right now it's stashing the summer clothes. Probably around end of May or early June it gets switched.
At my parents house, they have a closet that's big enough to be considered a third bedroom by the town assessor.
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I don't watch that much tv comparatively, but someone at the crib is marathoning Ash vs Evil Dead. I really have to say I've looked away more times in the last hour than I have ever. It's like a giant eyeball or eardrum operation or some shit. Yow.
I am trying to lose weight and my mom is trying to convince me to eat more.
BUT WHY
Because she's a mom and wants you to be fed and happy. You can eat more trying to lose weight provided a lot of what you eat is healthier options. Like if you eat 4 bags of chips a day, drop 2 of them for a banana, orange, peach or apple. There are plenty of diet gimmicks, so skip those. You might get some temporary weight loss, but most people put that **** right back on when they jump off their diet. If you eat a lot of fast food, cut that shit out for healthy choice steamers which only have about 250 calories. If you drink a lot of soft drinks, switch at least a few of those up with sparkling waters until you get used to not having the sugar and syrup and basically don't want a soft drink anymore. Finally, at your age, if you drink a lot of beer or mixed drinks, lighten that up. When I'm drinking beer (e.g. many festival weekends), I'll put on an extra inch or two on my gut and can feel it when I get dressed up to go to work the Monday or Tuesday of the following week. I f'n learned to love beer too. But now I mostly drink whiskey with Perrier so I can still have that mixed drink feel without the extra calories. I've only known a couple of people with CP, and they were severely handicapped making it almost impossible for them to exercise (at least cardio stuff). And I don't know what your situation is. But your diet and intake is the one place you can directly affect whether your weight is on an upward, downward or stable trajectory.
Then again, if my mom was still alive and put a plate of spaghetti and meatballs or whatever in front of me, I'm probably going back for seconds or thirds. :0
The fact that someone like fucking Post Malone tells you that “If you’re looking for lyrics, if you’re looking to cry, if you’re looking to think about life, don’t listen to Hip Hop.”"... all I can say is fuck you and "Broken Glass everywhere / people pissing on the station / man they just don't care / Can't take the smell, can't take the noise / Guess I got no money, so I got no choice."
The fact that someone like fucking Post Malone tells you that “If you’re looking for lyrics, if you’re looking to cry, if you’re looking to think about life, don’t listen to Hip Hop.”"... all I can say is fuck you...
He's wrong about that in a lot of ways, but he's also not all that wrong depending on where you get your hip hop. I'm not a fan of his music and have skipped him at least twice that I know of. But he seems like a pretty down to earth kind of guy. He doesn't engage the haters, just smiles and says if you don't like what I'm putting out, that's fine. Seems pretty genuine and an otherwise regular guy who's just doing his thing.
The fact that someone like fucking Post Malone tells you that “If you’re looking for lyrics, if you’re looking to cry, if you’re looking to think about life, don’t listen to Hip Hop.”"... all I can say is fuck you...
He's wrong about that in a lot of ways, but he's also not all that wrong depending on where you get your hip hop. I'm not a fan of his music and have skipped him at least twice that I know of. But he seems like a pretty down to earth kind of guy. He doesn't engage the haters, just smiles and says if you don't like what I'm putting out, that's fine. Seems pretty genuine and an otherwise regular guy who's just doing his thing.
It's just disingenuous if you understand that rap is infected by culture vultures. It's all good for someone to make pop music, pop-hop and celebrate; what is disturbing is that this is music invented to describe a reality not reachable to most of the world while using outward expression. The point is, hip-hop is multi-dimensional and having someone I see as a culture vulture tell us that we aren't supposed to be lyrical, intelligent, feeling beings because he gets to live "his best life" -- his utter bullshit in my eyes.
And acceptance of this hollows out the fact that there is trap rap, science rap, comic rap that is intelligent - deals with struggle and depression and should move you to tears if you analyze it. I'm upset as a child of the culture that we are being further dumbed down by these people. But it's cool, I'll just put on Vince, Freddie, Tyler, Aesop, The Roots and shut the fuck up. Cuz you know hip-hop is all about the jiggle, shake, and money making without consequence.
The fact that someone like fucking Post Malone tells you that “If you’re looking for lyrics, if you’re looking to cry, if you’re looking to think about life, don’t listen to Hip Hop.”"... all I can say is fuck you and "Broken Glass everywhere / people pissing on the station / man they just don't care / Can't take the smell, can't take the noise / Guess I got no money, so I got no choice."
Man, fuck him. Also I don't believe I've heard any of his songs, that I know of.
The fact that someone like fucking Post Malone tells you that “If you’re looking for lyrics, if you’re looking to cry, if you’re looking to think about life, don’t listen to Hip Hop.”"... all I can say is fuck you and "Broken Glass everywhere / people pissing on the station / man they just don't care / Can't take the smell, can't take the noise / Guess I got no money, so I got no choice."
Man, fuck him. Also I don't believe I've heard any of his songs, that I know of.
I believe this pretty much puts it in context. Especially the actual video. I use to in college, fake rap songs at shitty dorm parties because I saw the direction things were going. In 2015 and beyond we somehow reached an apex of exactly what I was mumble rapping in 2007.
edit: Also born in '95, the idea that this guy is younger than my brother.. who I still need to like drop hip-hop gems on reminds me of a great Schoolboy Q line: "But claim he got a kilo, been born in '93 though / He tryna fool the people"
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Man, fuck him. Also I don't believe I've heard any of his songs, that I know of.
I believe this pretty much puts it in context. Especially the actual video. I use to in college, fake rap songs at shitty dorm parties because I saw the direction things were going. In 2015 and beyond we somehow reached an apex of exactly what I was mumble rapping in 2007.
edit: Also born in '95, the idea that this guy is younger than my brother.. who I still need to like drop hip-hop gems on reminds me of a great Schoolboy Q line: "But claim he got a kilo, been born in '93 though / He tryna fool the people"
Yea, I'm not going to listen to that. I've gathered enough from what I've read about him.
I get what you're saying. I go back to the 80's with rap and hip hop, but I'm not going to drop the "fake" shit on him because I just don't know enough about him. Probably if you're a kid growing up in Texas in this day and age, rap is as much a part of your life as country music, rock or anything else. I get annoyed when the uber left goes off the rails like they did to those ladies in Oregon blaming them for cultural appropriation or whatever. So I try to be careful not to accuse without knowing which is why I'm asking you. Like I can be as left as they come, but when shit goes politically correct squared or cubed, it's over the top. Me as a white southern guy from New Orleans can cook Creole, Soul Food, Northern shit, Italian, French or whatever. And if I want to have a restaurant where I cook and serve my shit, fuck some haters if they don't like it because I'm white and maybe mostly of German ancestry (wouldn't have a clue how to make anything German). I'm a native to here but who do I think I am if I was to dare hate on other people for boiling crawfish or making pots of red beans and rice or Jambalaya?
Also, how much early rap (even shit I love like Cypress Hill) was based on bullshit bravado and act-specific mythology? A couple of years later, how much Gangsta rap was legit and how much was showboating and trying to prove how bad some motherfuckers were who maybe had it kind of easy? I'm not talking about a completely made up phony mythology like Vanilla Ice, because his early claims fit right into what you're saying. But how many "real" and "keeping it real" rappers beyond guys like Chuck D in the social/political realm and say Ice Cube in a street realm really did keep it real? Still, Ice Cube wasn't even from Compton.
As for Post Malone, and forgive me because I just don't know enough about him, but are you basically saying that you think he's similar in this generation to out the projects or trailer parks Vanilla Ice who happened to be a middle class kid sold to the masses on bullshit? If so, is that a fair category as in he's pushing some image that really isn't him?
I get what you're saying. I go back to the 80's with rap and hip hop, but I'm not going to drop the "fake" shit on him because I just don't know enough about him. Probably if you're a kid growing up in Texas in this day and age, rap is as much a part of your life as country music, rock or anything else. I get annoyed when the uber left goes off the rails like they did to those ladies in Oregon blaming them for cultural appropriation or whatever. So I try to be careful not to accuse without knowing which is why I'm asking you. Like I can be as left as they come, but when shit goes politically correct squared or cubed, it's over the top. Me as a white southern guy from New Orleans can cook Creole, Soul Food, Northern shit, Italian, French or whatever. And if I want to have a restaurant where I cook and serve my shit, fuck some haters if they don't like it because I'm white and maybe mostly of German ancestry (wouldn't have a clue how to make anything German). I'm a native to here but who do I think I am if I was to dare hate on other people for boiling crawfish or making pots of red beans and rice or Jambalaya?
Also, how much early rap (even shit I love like Cypress Hill) was based on bullshit bravado and act-specific mythology? A couple of years later, how much Gangsta rap was legit and how much was showboating and trying to prove how bad some motherfuckers were who maybe had it kind of easy? I'm not talking about a completely made up phony mythology like Vanilla Ice, because his early claims fit right into what you're saying. But how many "real" and "keeping it real" rappers beyond guys like Chuck D in the social/political realm and say Ice Cube in a street realm really did keep it real? Still, Ice Cube wasn't even from Compton.
As for Post Malone, and forgive me because I just don't know enough about him, but are you basically saying that you think he's this generation's Vanilla Ice? If so, is that a fair category as in he's pushing some image that really isn't him?
I don't think him being white has much to do with it. The main thing is he's getting rich off hip hop but obviously if he made those comments, he knows nothing about hip hop. That's fake. That's bullshit.
I get what you're saying. I go back to the 80's with rap and hip hop, but I'm not going to drop the "fake" shit on him because I just don't know enough about him. Probably if you're a kid growing up in Texas in this day and age, rap is as much a part of your life as country music, rock or anything else. I get annoyed when the uber left goes off the rails like they did to those ladies in Oregon blaming them for cultural appropriation or whatever. So I try to be careful not to accuse without knowing which is why I'm asking you. Like I can be as left as they come, but when shit goes politically correct squared or cubed, it's over the top. Me as a white southern guy from New Orleans can cook Creole, Soul Food, Northern shit, Italian, French or whatever. And if I want to have a restaurant where I cook and serve my shit, fuck some haters if they don't like it because I'm white and maybe mostly of German ancestry (wouldn't have a clue how to make anything German). I'm a native to here but who do I think I am if I was to dare hate on other people for boiling crawfish or making pots of red beans and rice or Jambalaya?
Also, how much early rap (even shit I love like Cypress Hill) was based on bullshit bravado and act-specific mythology? A couple of years later, how much Gangsta rap was legit and how much was showboating and trying to prove how bad some motherfuckers were who maybe had it kind of easy? I'm not talking about a completely made up phony mythology like Vanilla Ice, because his early claims fit right into what you're saying. But how many "real" and "keeping it real" rappers beyond guys like Chuck D in the social/political realm and say Ice Cube in a street realm really did keep it real? Still, Ice Cube wasn't even from Compton.
As for Post Malone, and forgive me because I just don't know enough about him, but are you basically saying that you think he's this generation's Vanilla Ice? If so, is that a fair category as in he's pushing some image that really isn't him?
Don't have a lot of time right now, but to hit this point by point quickly: I am a black, Jamaican-immigrant New York/NJ kid from '85 with a Dad into reggae, hip-hop, and rock (Jimi Hendrix tape sat in that old VW right next to the Grateful Dead and Peter Tosh). My knowledge of hip-hop comes from years up in the Bronx, watching street parties, crews, family get arrested for drug possession, the ravages of the city life and the sprawling burbs for those coming up in the East Coast. Public Enemy, Lost Boyz, DTP records, Ice T records, Heavy D, De La Soul, Tribe, Sir Mix-a-Lot being a prolific producer and not just the "Big Butts" guy, Bun B, Outkast, Pac more than Biggie *until I grew up a bit more, 213 records (Nate Dogg productions out the frame), Redman, and etc etc.
The issue here is that these are prolific people, who had stories - emotions - and variation; this boy IMHO is degrading the value of hip-hop's emotional content.
I don't care about him being fake. I care that he is lowering the standard and celebrating it, while being a higher bought artist than clearly talented song-writers like Vince Staples (going purely off album sales, and festival rankings)
No, I hear that sang. I'm not only talking about the white side at all. Vanilla Ice was sold as a white thug kid and turned out to be some middleclass or upper middle class kid from Dallas. So it was all pure bullshit and Madison Ave. What I'd equate that with is a lip synch show. I have very little respect for pop stars for what I think the same reasons are that deto might be getting at but from a different angle. I would never knowingly go to a lip synch show, and my assumption is that most pop probably is just that - made in a studio in New York City, overproduced and sold to the ignorant masses. I don't think that's where he's going with the Post Malone side, but you can go all the way back to Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince where there wasn't much emotion (good writing in some cases though). Not everyone can be Big Daddy Kane, Ice-T (if he's 100% real), Chuck D or whatever. Lots of rap and particularly pop rap over the last 30 years wasn't rooted in emotional plights. Plenty of it was light hearted, pop bent or whatever. So that's what I'm trying to figure out, because I don't think that many people have listened to as much rap as I have just based on how old I am. Shit, even the first rap act I loved (2 Live Crew) was essentially a party rap band in it for the chicks and parties and shit. They were crude, which is what set them apart. But in some ways, it was like the early Van Halen era of rock - everything didn't have to be super orchestrated (coming out of the progressive/art rock era) or didn't have to be a protest against war or the power structure. It was okay to rock for rock's sake if you get what I'm saying. Which would mean it would seem to be okay to rap whatever provided someone wasn't trying to be something they aren't - which is where I'd draw the line. Otherwise, if I'm not into it, I'm not going to listen to it.
I get what you're saying. I go back to the 80's with rap and hip hop, but I'm not going to drop the "fake" shit on him because I just don't know enough about him. Probably if you're a kid growing up in Texas in this day and age, rap is as much a part of your life as country music, rock or anything else. I get annoyed when the uber left goes off the rails like they did to those ladies in Oregon blaming them for cultural appropriation or whatever. So I try to be careful not to accuse without knowing which is why I'm asking you. Like I can be as left as they come, but when shit goes politically correct squared or cubed, it's over the top. Me as a white southern guy from New Orleans can cook Creole, Soul Food, Northern shit, Italian, French or whatever. And if I want to have a restaurant where I cook and serve my shit, fuck some haters if they don't like it because I'm white and maybe mostly of German ancestry (wouldn't have a clue how to make anything German). I'm a native to here but who do I think I am if I was to dare hate on other people for boiling crawfish or making pots of red beans and rice or Jambalaya?
Also, how much early rap (even shit I love like Cypress Hill) was based on bullshit bravado and act-specific mythology? A couple of years later, how much Gangsta rap was legit and how much was showboating and trying to prove how bad some motherfuckers were who maybe had it kind of easy? I'm not talking about a completely made up phony mythology like Vanilla Ice, because his early claims fit right into what you're saying. But how many "real" and "keeping it real" rappers beyond guys like Chuck D in the social/political realm and say Ice Cube in a street realm really did keep it real? Still, Ice Cube wasn't even from Compton.
As for Post Malone, and forgive me because I just don't know enough about him, but are you basically saying that you think he's this generation's Vanilla Ice? If so, is that a fair category as in he's pushing some image that really isn't him?
Don't have a lot of time right now, but to hit this point by point quickly: I am a black, Jamaican-immigrant New York/NJ kid from '85 with a Dad into reggae, hip-hop, and rock (Jimi Hendrix tape sat in that old VW right next to the Grateful Dead and Peter Tosh). My knowledge of hip-hop comes from years up in the Bronx, watching street parties, crews, family get arrested for drug possession, the ravages of the city life and the sprawling burbs for those coming up in the East Coast. Public Enemy, Lost Boyz, DTP records, Ice T records, Heavy D, De La Soul, Tribe, Sir Mix-a-Lot being a prolific producer and not just the "Big Butts" guy, Bun B, Outkast, Pac more than Biggie *until I grew up a bit more, 213 records (Nate Dogg productions out the frame), Redman, and etc etc.
The issue here is that these are prolific people, who had stories - emotions - and variation; this boy IMHO is degrading the value of hip-hop's emotional content.
I don't care about him being fake. I care that he is lowering the standard and celebrating it, while being a higher bought artist than clearly talented song-writers like Vince Staples (going purely off album sales, and festival rankings)
I got you. Not a Bronx kid but I'm 100% NOLA. And the streets here which fostered shit like No Limit and Ca$h Money are probably on par with the struggles that led up to the art form. I listened to a lot of that same shit your dad did, and as a fan, I've seen Vince Staples twice (and a third time when Dave Chapelle had him rap at the Juke Jive for the NBA All Star Game last year) while purposely missing Post Malone that many times. So if I got you right, you're basically calling out Post Malone for what he said. And I agree with you deto like I usually do. However, had he used a caveat or qualifier like "today's mumble rap" or emotion isn't in "all rap", I'd probably tend to agree with him. It's hard to know without the full context which is why I asked you - and because I generally trust your posts. It seems like something's missing with his quote though unless he's basically mocking himself as well.