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[yaszminethesunqueen]

I think this stance came from me trying to finesse my photographers assistant into giving me more hors d'oeuvres. I like to believe I still hold the power of the finesse, but you be the judge.🥰🍯😌 ——————————————————— At midnight tonight the Remix of “FINESSE ” by @rapbaum featuring @yaszminethesunqueen(ME) goes LIVE!!!!!!! I’m so excited for you guys to hear it. Go and PRESAVE it for me. The link in @rapbaum bio. 💋🍯 #throwbackthursday #tbt #finesse #rapbaum #remix #newrelease #dropstonight https://www.instagram.com/p/CRpFTQsrb1f/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thesunonmyback-blog]

Twice Upon A Time

I don’t believe in anything anymore, but I believe in you

Lost faith in all that once upon a time I thought were true

Lost myself inside yourself once upon a vacant heart

And lost my senses ever since the day, you chose that you'd depart

  I worry now, that never will I find my head,

Toss and turn at night without you inside my bed

If twice upon a time, I shall be given chance with her

I will not slip nor sway, no matter the circumstances which occur

[austinrapbaum-blog]

I got a job...

So I know I haven't posted on here in a while and my bad about that but I've been super busy and it's just hard to post sometimes.  I'm probably going to start posting a little less anyways cause I don't see myself getting less busy any time soon.

Anyways I got a job.  And it's a really good job.  I didn't want to write about it before I got it because I was nervous I would jinx it but now I got it so it's all good.  Basically I got a job on the board of directors (as the COO) of a company called Vital Sounds.  Vital sounds is a recording company on Loyola University New Orleans campus.  We run the studios and such.  It's a complete company run by students and we have supervisors (who we met with today) but it's completely our company, and we make actual money recording both students and local musicians.  My job as COO is to handle marketing and advertising.  I also help with the other members of the board in making decisions like salary changes and new equipment.  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I pick which sound engineers work with which artists.  So that means that If I have someone who really loves hip-hop and rap I can put them with artists that they'll like as opposed to artists that will put them to sleep.  The best part is that when the sound engineer likes the music more he will put more effort into it and it will come out better.  

Today we had a meeting and we discussed a lot of stuff.  There is a website change coming, which I get to be in charge of.  I'm excited for that.  Also we met with our two supervisors.  Both of them are professors here, one is named Jay Crutti and the other is named Elliot.  I don't know Elliot's last name but he's the cooler one.  They're both cool but John Snyder, the head of the music industries department, basically shouted out Elliot at forum the other day for being a badass DJ or something so my vote goes to him.  Anyways it was pretty sick cause I got to meet these guys, and being a member of the Vital Sounds board shows that I at least kind of know what I'm doing.  I think I'm going to start to stand out more infront of my music professors and I'm very excited for that.  I think I have a lot to offer and pretty soon some people who can pull some strings are going to start realizing it.  Anyways, that's all for now y'all.  Peace!

[austinrapbaum-blog]

Feels Like Happy Feet

A couple of nights ago I met up with my friend Matt who is a senior at Loyola.  We know each other from Independent Lake Camp where we both went as campers and now as staff members.  A few of our long time counselor friends are doing a road trip across America and they decided to come visit us.  We went out to this bar and saw a band called the Brass-A-Holics.  They were fucking epic.  I honestly felt like I was that little penguin in the movie Happy Feet who just can't stop dancing.  It was an absolutely awesome show.  In other news, someone from a different music industries class asked me to possibly be the artist in their project.  I don't know if it's going to happen yet but that'd be pretty sick.  That's gonna be it for now, not cause I'm out of stuff to say but cause I'm really hungry and can't concentrate anymore until I eat. Peace y'all

[austinrapbaum-blog]

"If there is ANYTHING else in this world that you can do and still be happy, do it."

Bold words from a professor on the first day of class, but I couldn't agree more.  I spent a lot of time toying with the idea of being a musician before I made the commitment to study music in school.  I realize that there are other things I could be successful at but that doesn't matter to me.  I'm doing music because I love it and it makes me happy.  If I only have one life then I'm going to do more than just get by, I'm going to live.  Just a few months before I left for school I told my dad that I'd rather fail as a musician than succeed as anything else, and I truly meant that.  I still mean that.  

Today in my music industries class we were told about a project that will be assigned in the near future.  In this assignment, we will be put in teams of six.  Each of the six people have completely different jobs.  As a group it is our job to record a 4 song EP of some artist we find, we need to create videos and merchandise and advertise the EP.  Although it isn't one of the six jobs, I want to be the recording artist.  The professors said that someone in the group could be the recording artist BUT they still have to do the job they're assigned.  I emailed the professor and asked him if it would be possible to do a sort of Roots esq. thing with a full band.  My roommate Cyrus plays trumpet and he and I have been talking about getting a group together so I already have some band members in mind.  If I get the opportunity to make this EP the way I want it I truly believe it will be amazing, but I understand that it is going to be extremely hard and WAY harder than it was to record Color Spectrum.  Needless to say I'm pretty excited.  That's all for now, peace y'all.

[austinrapbaum-blog]

First Day Evacuation..

So it's literally the first day of classes, I wake up at 10 so I can get to my business class by 10:30 and I have a text from my school.  It says that all afternoon classes are cancelled AND there are no classes on Tuesday or Wednesday due to the storm.  I have one class to attend all week until Friday when classes resume.  As of now Loyola isn't evacuating us but we can leave if we want and a decent amount of people are.  As of now I'm chilling because it isn't supposed to be that bad.  If the forecast gets worse or they start evacuating downtown New Orleans I'm gonna have to fly to Philly.  The crazy thing to me is that it's my birthday on Wednesday.  So at first I thought I'd be spending my birthday with a bunch of strangers and now it looks like I'm going to have one of three things: A half empty school, a hotel room in some random place (if I can't fly to Philly), or my friends and family.  I'm kinda hoping to have a hurricane party at school though.  I guess we'll find out soon enough.  That's all I really had to say, peace y'all.

[austinrapbaum-blog]

Classes Start Tomorrow

I'm pretty excited.  I honestly feel like college is weird until classes start.  Even though I am going to have a shit ton of work and junk like that I think it is almost "too good to be true" to just have all the benefits of college with no work involved.  My schedule is totally free on Tuesdays and Thursdays but unfortunately that means I have a bunch of classes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.  My schedule is as follows: Intro to business 10:30-11:20, Political Satire 12:30-1:20, Critical Reading / Writing 1:30-2:20, Intro To Music Industry Studies 230-320, Intro To World Religions 3:30-4:20, and finally Music Industry Forum 5-6.  I only have music Industry Forum on Mondays so my schedule will be a little more light on the other two days I have class.  I haven't found out what my work study is yet but I'm hoping to either work in one of the recording studios on campus or to work in the office of the dean of the music college.  Either job would be pretty awesome.  There is some talk of a potential evacuation from New Orleans but it hasn't even started raining here yet so I'm honestly not worried at all.  My RA says that probably the worst thing that could happen is they tell us to stay in our dorms for a day (and I wouldn't mind the sleep).  If we did evacuate however (and if I made it back home) I would most likely be home for my birthday (August 29) which would be totally awesome.  As of now college has been chill and fun, by the end of the week I think I'll be much more at home.  Peace y'all.  

[austinrapbaum-blog]

Life Sinks In Too Slowly For Me

I don't even know if that makes sense, but what I'm trying to say is that I wish you could just snap your fingers and be 'in the swing of things'.  I'm sure college is going to be awesome, and the people here seem cool, but it just doesn't feel like home right now.  I don't know how else to explain it.  I'm still having an awesome time though.  Today I met the dean of the music school and I also met my academic advisor.  My academic advisor is this music professor named professor Hinderlie.  He's a pretty cool dude and he is helping me find a work study job.  I think I'm going to end up working in one of the recording studios on campus, I'm not really sure what my job would be yet but no matter what that would be pretty cool.  One of my roommates (Cyrus) is a jazz performance major who plays trumpet and today he and I started talking about getting together some type of jazz-hip-hop ensemble possibly next semester.  I think it would be really sick, and honestly I'm doing anything I can to connect with other musicians, perform, and get my name out there.  In other news, my dad and sister (who drove me down here and helped me move in yesterday) left today.  I wasn't upset when we were saying our goodbyes or anything, but as I walked away from them I kind of realized that I had just lived the end of my childhood.  It's not as if that specific moment marks the initiation of myself into adulthood but I feel like it is a huge symbolic point in my life.  I don't know though, maybe I'm thinking about it too much.  I'm just as immature as I was a week ago.  I guess that's all for now, peace y'all.