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stfuconservatives:

Scenes From #OccupyOakland today and tonight.

citizen-earth

drasticraptactics

The crazy thing is, I’ve grabbed a cup of coffee at that Tully’s on the corner before. I’ve walked these streets. Fucking wild.

truedemocracy:

A newly regrouped Occupy Oakland has been confronted once more by a large force of riot police using tear gas. There have been several reports of protestors injured by rubber bullets and by gas canisters. The Oakland Police Department denies using rubber bullets but says that other departments involved in the action may be using them.

goronnie

Perfect albums. (pt. 1)

These are perfect albums. Timeless albums.

People keep asking me what some of my favorite albums are and most of my favorite albums are timeless. Not just hot for the moment, not something I swear by for a year then stop playing it the next….but TRUE CLASSICS. I feel like “hype” is selling 90 percent of the music that gets released now and a lot of that shit doesn’t have lasting power….yet people swear by it and praise it as classic.

This is classic.

These albums (and others I will post later) are albums that not only challenged the status quo of the genre they represented but also had dimension in them. Albums that had exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouements and resolutions. Albums that played like books, that told a story…not a literal story but songs that just sonically made sense with the song that preceded it.

Perfect albums.

cirkface

I don’t remember taking this, but fuck it looks like we were having a blast! Love these people!

drasticraptactics

Anytime I bust out the Russian dance on the dance floor, I’m having a good time. Beanies in the cluhhhhh. Happy Birthday Ricky!

shinyandloud

One of the most consistent findings in educational studies of creativity has been that teachers dislike personality traits associated with creativity. Research has indicated that teachers prefer traits that seem to run counter to creativity, such as conformity and unquestioning acceptance of authority (e.g., Bachtold, 1974; Cropley, 1992; Dettmer, 1981; Getzels & Jackson, 1962; Torrance, 1963). The reason for teachers’ preferences is quite clear creative people tend to have traits that some have referred to as obnoxious (Torrance, 1963). Torrance (1963) described creative people as not having the time to be courteous, as refusing to take no for an answer, and as being negativistic and critical of others. Other characteristics, although not deserving the label obnoxious, nonetheless may not be those most highly valued in the classroom.

….Research has suggested that traits associated with creativity may not only be neglected, but actively punished (Myers & Torrance, 1961; Stone, 1980). Stone (1980) found that second graders who scored highest on tests of creativity were also those identified by their peers as engaging in the most misbehavior (e.g., “getting in trouble the most”). Given that research and theory (e.g., Harrington, Block, & Block, 1987) suggest that a supportive environment is important to the fostering of creativity, it is quite possible that teachers are (perhaps unwittingly) extinguishing creative behaviors.

ayomari

that explains a lot.

goronnie

100 Ways To Save Hip Hop by Henry Adaso

Stop playing the same 5 songs on the radio.

Stop listening to radio stations that play the same 5 songs.

Stop blaming Diddy.

Stop Diddy.

Stop dubbing every new jack “the next great” this and that.

Stop charging body parts for shows.

Stop fabricating feuds to sell records.

Stop putting Lil Wayne on every song.

Stop saying hip-hop is dead.

Stop hating Kanye for being weird.

More battles, less beef.

Stop biting Jay-Z’s flow.

Stop biting Biggie’s ad libs.

Stop putting weed carriers on your album.

Stop trying to please everyone.

Stop leaking entire albums song by song.

Stop making posthumous collaborations.

Stop getting arrested for dumb things.

Stop being homophobic.

Stop blaming record labels.

Stop whining about how much you miss the golden age of hip-hop.

Stop cluttering albums with corny skits, unless you’re Prince Paul.

Support creativity with your wallet.

Stop making 50-song albums with 90% filler.

Stop faking the funk.

Stop calling people who disagree with you “haters.”

Stop hating.

Stop kissing ass for favors.

Stop saying you miss “real” hip-hop.

Stop hating Jay-Z.

Stop saying you’re carrying ___ city on your back. That’s not even possible.

Stop acting too cool for school at concerts.

Stop rapping about the same three topics.

Stop rapping about UFOs.

Stop promoting sexual violence under the guise of hood reportage.

Stop defending misogyny.

Stop being a Twitter groupie.

Stop taking contrarian views for the sake of being different.

Stop hating people who disagree with you.

Stop dissing Soulja Boy.

Stop Soulja Boy.

Stop dissing people who make dance-tastic rap. It’s been around forever.

Support innovative DJs.

Actually make the effort to move the crowd.

Stop radio payola.

Stop blog payola.

Push the envelope.

Stop biting.

Stop yelling on mixtapes.

Stop blaming bloggers.

Make meaningful music.

Stop obsessing over airplay (or lack thereof).

Stop showering undeserving veterans with blind praise.

Stop sleeping on unsigned talent.

Stop hopping on trends.

Stop making everything a race issue.

Stop being so gimmicky.

Stop calling everything a concept album.

Stop making tinkerbell beats.

Stop blaming skinny jeans.

Stop blaming hipsters.

Stop explaining your art.

Let your music speak for itself.

Stop playing it safe.

Invest in better artwork and packaging.

Stop promoting ignorance.

Stop burning bridges over stupid things.

Stop bragging about sales.

Stop showing up six hours late to your own shows.

Stop blaming the South.

Stop putting people in a box.

Stop tossing “classic” around.

Stop congratulating yourself on every other song.

Stop trying to sell the same album twice.

Stop looking for the next 50 Cent.

Stop hating people who color outside the lines.

More rapping, less singing.

Stop wasting your budget on video hos.

Do tell me, how do you get in those jeans.

Stop getting murdered by Eminem on your songs.

Stop telling me to “bring that sh-t back!”

More improvised freestyles, less written freestyles.

More originality, less biting.

More RZA, less Bobby Digital.

More effort, less ghostwriting.

More albums, less mixtapes.

Stop using auto-tune to mask a lack of singing talent.

Stop making contrived girl songs.

Stop wearing obnoxious gold chains.

Stop calling everything a movement. Civil Rights = movement; Bugatti Boys = not a movement.

Stop shooting up the clubs.

Stop wearing jackets that look like LV handbags.

Stop nominating idiots for Hip-Hop Honors.

Stop handing out awards to the same 5 people every year.

Stop sending impostors to your show (I’m looking at you, DOOM).

Ban Diddy from Twitter.

Stop putting baby pictures on your album cover.

Be aware that the roof is not literally on fire.

Retire the word “swag.”

Stop trying to save hip-hop. It doesn’t need saving.

p.s.- i didn’t write this. found it here. love Ronnie.

anjaelica

Rough

anjaelica

We survived.

djroxthebeat

70 years:

This was the finished product shown this past sunday at the reception. Still needs fine tuning but its good for right now.

anancientheart

Everything is as it should be. You always end up where you’re meant to be - even the most tragic and stressful situations eventually teach you important lessons you never dreamed you were going to learn. Remember, oftentimes when things are falling apart, they are actually falling into place.

Not until you are lost in this world can you begin to find your true self. Realizing you are lost is the first step to living the life you want. The second step is leaving the life you don’t want. Vision without action is a daydream, and action without vision is a nightmare. Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.

It’s usually the deepest pain which empowers you to grow to your full potential. Without pain, there would be no change. But remember that pain, just like everything else in life, is meant to be learned from and then released.

One of the hardest decisions you will ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or take another step forward. If you catch yourself in a cycle of trying to change someone, or defending yourself against someone who is trying to change you, walk away. But if you are pursuing a dream, take another step. It’s okay if the plan changes, or if you even have to create a new one.

You have to take care of yourself first. Before befriending others, you have to be your own friend. Before correcting others, you have to correct yourself. Before making others happy, you have to make yourself happy. It’s not called selfishness, it’s called personal development. Once you balance yourself, you can balance the world around you.

One of the greatest freedoms is truly not caring what everyone else thinks of you. As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval outside yourself, can you own yourself.

You may need to be single for a while before you realize that the issues that came up in the relationship were half your fault as well. For how can you stand confidently alone, or see the same issues arising in your newest relationship, and not realize which broken pieces belong to you?

The only thing you can absolutely control is how you react to things out of your control. The more you can adapt to the situations in life, the more powerful your highs will be, and the more quickly you’ll be able to bounce back from the lows in your life.

Some people will lie to you. Remember, an honest enemy is better than a friend who lies. Pay less attention to what people say and more attention to what they do. Their actions will show you the truth, which will help you measure the true quality of your relationship in the long-term.

If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never have enough. If you are thankful for what you do have, you will end up having even more. Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul. Abundance is not about how much you have, it’s how you feel about what you have. When you take things for granted, your happiness gets taken away.

Yes, you have failed in the past. But don’t judge yourself by your past, you don’t live there anymore. Just because you’re not where you want to be today doesn’t mean you won’t be there someday. You can turn it all around in the blink of an eye by making a simple choice to stand back up - to try again, to love again, to live again, and to dream again.

Everything is going to be alright; maybe not today, but eventually. There will be times when it seems like everything that could possible go wrong is going wrong. And you might feel like you will be stuck in this rut forever, but you won’t. Sometimes it’s just a matter of us staying as positive as possible in order to make it to see the sunshine break through the clouds again.

goronnie

2Pac understood that HNGRY shit. #HNGRY

musicforthesouls

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Cool Calm Pete | Wishes and Luck Just discovered this hidden talent a few nights ago after searchin for some new tunes and I gotta say I really like what I hear. His flow is pretty solid and lyrics are simple and clean. He really reminds me of MF Doom or his style slightly resembles MF’s. This particular track is off his Album Lost that came out way back in 2005 and has been his only once since. He has a few quite a few mixtapes that have come out after his debut album, but I haven’t found yet. I’d love to hear more of his music and hope he returns to the scene in full force.