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What more can I say about Little Brother other than they are the reason I am the person I am today. Lovin’ It was the first track I heard from them, a track it took weeks for me to make the decision to sit down and listen to. To be honest, I wasn’t a fan of their style of music before then. It wasn’t because I didn’t like what was being said; I didn’t know what was being said because I wasn’t truly listening. At the time, I was a person so stuck in my ways, never wanting to venture outside of Jay-Z or Dipset that I couldn’t see what I was missing out on. However, something told me not to pass this up, so I didn’t. I listened and I fell in love. I attribute all of my enjoyment and appreciation, not just for Hip Hop but for music as a whole to Little Brother. They are the reason I take the time to actually hear what the artist is saying. They are the reason I no longer rely on beats to tell me whether or not I’m listening to a good song. Because of Little Brother, I’ve been able to discover and rediscover songs from my childhood that I never quite paid enough attention to. I missed out on a lot of great music growing up. There are times that I wish I could go back and do it all over again. I swear I’d keep the radio playing during old school Wednesdays. I can’t say that I don’t love listening for the first time now though. In a way, it means more, so much more. As an adult, I can understand so much more than I could’ve as I child. In any event, I thank you, Little Brother, for helping me see Hip Hop in a new light. Thank you for helping me see that I can’t be so quick to judge. You are one book cover I’m glad I didn’t ignore.
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As I watch this latest episode from JoeBuddenTV where someone brought up the point that boxers aren’t the same way they used to be and this got me to thinking about how much I’ve been hearing statements like that.
“Boxing ain’t what it used to be.”
“Why Hip Hop ain’t what it used to be?”
“Man, you know the NFL ain’t what it used to be.”
Of course, it’s not what it used to be. There’s a new breed of people now. There are newer concepts and ideas. Whether those concepts and ideas are questionable is a different story. All I know is, this isn’t always necessarily a bad thing.
There will always be something about what you love that you don’t like. In Hip Hop, there are going to be artist that you don’t like. There will be those who you listen to and are left feeling like they don’t belong. The same goes for boxing and football, basketball, or whatever else. There will always be that one defender that you look at and scream, “Why didn’t you make the fucking tackle? Stop being such a pussy!” But when you sit back and focus your everything on the bits and pieces that you hate, that’s when you lose sight of why you fell in love in the first place. Nine times out of ten, there will be someone in that profession with the same feelings as you. Someone who’ll want to remind the fans that, even though change happens, its not over. They’re doing whatever it is that they do to keep that alive.
For me, I love the feeling of nostalgia. I love to go back to an old album and remember where I was the first time I heard it. But at the same time, I love building new memories with new music. You can call me stupid, crazy, misinformed, or whatever you choose but this is what I believe and I’ll keep believing it because it makes me happy.
I can’t be happy complaining about how lame Soulja Boi is or how Wayne is fucking shit up. In fact, I like Wayne. Hell, I like Rick Ross. I think Deeper Than Rap was a great fucking album and I’ll play it ten times in a row, no questions asked. It’s all about putting your focus into the positive and refusing everything else. You don’t have to repeatedly express hate.
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I haven’t listened to GCH in a very long time. The Quilt just wasn’t the what As Cruel As School Children was for me so I didn’t give it much of a shot. This video popped up on my tumblr dash today, posted by Travie himself and I decided the drought was enough and got over myself enough to give it a listen. Let me just express how glad I am that I did. I love this song. I adore the video and it is a must that I get The Quilt off my external and give it another try.
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It was a beautiful Autumn day today. A beautiful Autumn day with Spring weather. Somewhere in the 60s though I didn’t get to experience that because I was in the classroom all day long. Lately, I’ve been really camera happy. It started when I went to NYC as shown in my previous post and today, as I was sitting in my school’s Student Center, it struck again. I go to a rather small school, a community college, with a pretty decent sized campus but a beautifully landscaped campus nonetheless. The trees around this time of year are amazing to look at. As you can see, they’re amazing to photograph too. I wish I would’ve been able to catch the rest of them before the leaves were left hanging on by a thread. I suppose I should have shot them anyway. I have to learn to just let go and do what I feel instead of thinking about it.
Speaking of thinking, I went over in my mind just what this blog would be about. I was vague about it before. I have a very huge appreciation for music and an even bigger appreciation for being introduced to everything new, unheard of, or simply overlooked. I will be posting a number of tracks, CDs, and mixtapes that appeal to me and each of them will be available for download, just in case any followers feel the urge to have it for themselves. I made this with intentions on sharing music, works of art, interesting sites, and even giving the unknown and unsigned an opportunity to be heard. If this is you and you want me to give you that chance, there is an email address provided, one that I check on a daily bases. If I like what I hear then I’ll most certainly add you to the Daily Dose, granted you have a mixtape. If not, I will make available any single tracks provided. The same goes for graphic designers, web designers, photographers, and writers. I’m open to giving everyone the opportunity they deserve.
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It isn’t often I hit up New York. I live in Jersey but getting up there with no money and no willing parties isn’t exactly easy. Because of that, I take any opportunity to get to NYC. This year I was blessed with two, one planned and one spontaneous. I won’t even go into the spontaneous trip. It was decent but the planned trip turned out much better. As I said before, I’m an Advertising & Graphic Design major and a member of my schools graphic design club. We took a trip Friday, visited a few agencies and a short conference at FIT but the true highlights were walking around Times Square, being a true tourist and snapping all of the pictures I could take. When I got home, I wished I would’ve taken more but I’ll take what I can get and share what I have.
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This switch has been a long time coming. I guess you can say I’m something like a blog hopper. I’ve gone from having my own personal blogs to having a message board diary to having a Tumblr along with a lot of empty places in between. All of them were good but none of them were me. My Tumblr remains open but it’s still not really me. I started La Dosage to, not only find me but allow people to get to know me while at the same time putting myself out there business wise. I have plenty of goals, plenty of dreams, and plenty of interests. I guess all that’s left for everyone to do now is Get Familiar.
I am a writer. I’ve been writing since I was eleven. I am twenty-one now, almost fully evolved, and in the process of writing my first book.
I am a designer. I am in college, an Advertising and Graphic Design major a semester and a half away from graduating. This time next year, I expect to be in New york attending SVA, FIT, or Pratt.
While I intend to write and design professionally, I expect to run a small clothing line, rightfully named after La Dosage. I am inspired by the founder of Shortypop, Chandler. Everything he’s doing is amazing and I can only hope I gain the type of success he’s coming into.
With that said, I present La Dosage. Love and support or leave it alone.
