Mac Miller...

Witty syntax, thoughtful punchlines, and creative beats all seem to converge when Mac Miller takes the mic. This 18 year old rapper from Pittsburgh, PA is the newest member of the Rostrum Records label. "It's a good situation here at Rostrum, I love the team around me and I'm prepared for a very bright future" Mac tells Hip Hop Press. His future seems to be already bright with over 500,000 views on his Youtube for his top 5 videos and collabos with the emerging star, Wiz Khalifa. This Tuesday Mac Miller will be on the Hip Hop Noise special with Devin Hester and Tom Hasby. Tune in to Pittburgh area's own WPTS 92.1  at 8 pm or listen online for this exclusive interview. Enjoy...

Passenger Plane Crashes

An estimated 152 people died this morning in a Pakistan plane crash. I knew none of them but this hit me hard this morning. This is me sending my condolences out to all of the families who have had to bear a deeper hurt in response to this crash. I wish you all well. May peace and prosperity enrich the rest of your lives. Don't blame the Pilot, Airblue, or your creator. The plane simply lost signal with the airport towers.

Miscommunication Kills.

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Google BOLD Immersion 2010

Late last week I had the pleasure of attending Google's BOLD Immersion program. BOLD is an acronym for Building Opportunities for Leadership and Development in which Google has mastered. Using an uncanny method of teaching, Google has blessed me with knowledge of Google products, creativity enhancers, and team building skills that I'd receive no where else. Only to sweeten the deal, my team won the case competition and was rewarded a free all expense paid trip to the GOOGLEPLEX in Mountain View, California!

Safer Sex. Poorer Nation.

Today I came across a new gel that decreases the chances of women getting AIDS by as much as 51% if used before and after sex. Last week an article was published about a new vaccination rids 91% of HIV within the body. Realizing an erupting pattern, I wonder if these discoveries are actually good for our economy. Although these discoveries won't be applicable to the body for a few years, the mere promulgation of their existence ensures one that there is more safety in unprotected sex. Therefore heightening the sex usage rate, birth rate, and poverty rate amongst Americans.

Posture Is a Leadership Skill

I've found that releasing my thoughts here allows them to escape from the scratched track in my head. Before I begin to expose my noggin, allow me to say that even the most distinguished "scholars" state the obvious in their most praised works. Meaning that this epiphany is very basic, far from profound and could have been discovered by an infant. However, I must get this out of my head. Observation has shown me that posture conveys power. It's something about fridgid necks, balanced heads, and cocked shoulders that scream "respect me". While passive necks, tilted heads, and hunched backs confiscate any respectful impulses.

Today Was A Good Day

Ice Cube - Today Is A Good Day

What’s better than a baked bean sandwich with barbecue sauce and ground beef? One thing: my day. Today started early with intense studying and nature sounds. For some odd reason the sounds of bird calls and trickling water increase my capacity to consume knowledge when I’m alone. When it was time to put this consumption to test, I waxed my test in 37 minutes tops. I felt like a beast. Much like the feeling I had during high school cross country. The peaceful sight of the sun setting on a calm lake during a mild summer night compelled me take a jog. . . . Accomplished, I felt. So I read up on some articles as I stretched the pains away. The news of a company I may be working with in the near future, J.P. Morgan, increasing 2^nd quarter profits significantly, the capping of the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill, and the Senate passage of the Financial Overhaul Bill made me even happier. The realization that I predicted all this to happen during this time early last month accentuated my beast mode. Today I didn’t climb the Great Wall of China but I did accomplish happiness. Ironic how it coins with my studies of the Buddhist culture.

Big Sean - Bullshitting

It was long awaited... but I expected more. 

Shabazz on Gerald = Frivolous.

W.E.B. DuBois talked about "double consciousness" in which he spoke of the Negro's ability to have different personalities in different settings. However, I do not believe that he was referring to such an inconsistency of one's character. Malik Zulu Shabazz says that he is concerned with the betterment of black people yet uses rhetoric that encourages more violence and a warlike mentality. He uses fiery language similar to such of Malcolm X yet Shabazz's usage is untimely. His language includes the observation of the black plight but condones the black perpetuation of the plight. It also alludes to a "division" between blacks and whites but concurrently encourages further separation. Shabazz has slowly chiseled away at the little respect that many held for him. This video destroyed whatever was left.

What are your thoughts?

A Better Alternative

Have you ever felt like an ultimatum has withheld you from making a decision. In fact, you'd prolong making the decision because you were afraid to commit to one for the sacrifices being made for the other? You'll often hope that you come across an alternative that will allow you calibrate the two. Well, I have decided to take on a pledge that Graham Hill proposes: a weekday vegetarian. While the benefits of vegetarianism are obvious, the benefits of being a partial vegetarian are even more bountiful. Check it out:

For This Or That..Or That?

It was seven of us. All seated... in chairs, the bed, the computer desk, and a few standing to create a deformed circle. What we were about to do was unprecedented, well for me anyways. Sights of the bong and sounds of the blunt in preparation increased my anxiety to finally get elevated. I suppressed that anxiety for the sake of my coolness and waited patiently for my turn.

Lebron James's "Father"....Negro Please.

Really, Bruh?...

No words for this pig.

Asher Roth - Tony Braxton

I'm still waiting for him to blow up...

...#sigh....

Fight Sajjad! FIGHT!!

Envision yourself helplessly watching your mother cry out for help while getting whipped 99 times for adultery. How about speaking to your mother only 15 mins a week for five years. Once those five years have passed, imagine attempting to get your mother off a death-by-stone sentence from a harsh, inconsiderate, and assumptive gov't. Can' t can you.

Unfortunately, Sajjad Mohammedie Ashtiani doesn't have the capacity to snap out of this imagery; it is is reality.  He is on a mission to free his mother from something she is getting re-punished for after an inconsiderately heartless judge suggested that she should be further punished, five years later. Sajjad is attempting to obtain a letter from the only two men who can stop this, supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Judiciary Chairman Sadegh Larijani. His help advocate says that external pressure and support from gov'ts from Europe and America will help catalyze this process. He asks if we can all spread the word. Please.

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High School Sucks: The Musical

I laughed hysterically when I saw this. So blunt, yet so true!

Travis Porter/ Jody Breeze -- Jump the Line

I like it...

Truth Is...

 I don't know how to be a friend.

Obama, You Are Not Kobe.

Are you serious? I appreciate you thriving on the notion that "anything helps" but at some time you have to stop teasing the unemployed. After all, the reason you exposited that mini speech was in response to the loss of Census jobs (another teaser). Our unemployment rate is back to where it was last November. True enough we are on a slow track to recovery but on the track that we are traveling, we are soon to become a completely govt employed country. Through these broadband internet expansion projects, you will create more jobs that are not only temporary ad govt owned. Why not pass the ball, Kobe, and invest in companies to privately hire people to work on these projects? Just because Kobe got a ring by leading his team off an air of selfishness doesn't mean the govt can do the same thing.

Teach Me to Teleport

I'm reminded of a time where my mom almost died in my arms. This day, to no surprise, was the day I understood my role as the self acclaimed "man of the house". I was quickly endowed with duties no 16 year old should have to take up. I remember I looking deep into her eyes only to see her soul absent from within. Her head hung low with no strength or energy to raise it herself. Suddenly, my little brother bursts into tears and inadvertently exacerbates the situation. As bad as I wanted to join him , I abstained; fore it was up to me to save my mother's life.

Boondocks Episode Banned

....because Tyler Perry was offended. Here's the episode he complained angrily to Steve Koonin, entertainment chief of TBS and Phil Kent, CEO of TBS to get it banned from being played again.

I don't think it was a good publicity move for Tyler Perry.

Boredom...

Staring out of a window illuminated by an orange glow from the street lights, I write. Writing seems to liberate me. It allows me to go places I've never been and kart-wheel in the midst of phantasmagorias. However, sometimes I encounter this hurdle of writers block which can only be overcame by "keeping on", as my grandmother would say so... I write. Looking frantically in various directions for an intangible key to a treasury of thoughts, I find nothing to alarm my sensory. That is until I stumble upon the floor.

What  I find is a weird shadow of my grandmothers "decorative masterpiece". It's saturated in the window's reverberation of the street light yet housed by the uncanny shape of the window. Happily I smile, fore my inspiration has just come! But sadly that was short lived....

Obama at AU

Thursday Obama addressed a crowd at American University on the plight that immgrants have been facing and how he plans to chisel away at their problems. If you missed it, enjoy here.

"On the one hand, we've always defined ourselves as a nation of immigrants. A nation that welcomes those willing to embrace America's precepts. Indeed, it is a constant flow of immigrants that helped to make America what it is."