The Tell Tale Heart

This story captures your attention from the first line as the rest of the paragraph continues the debate between the voices in the main character's head. The debate that they are having is whether the main character is crazy or not. Well I believe if the person  is constantly having a full debate with the thoughts in his head, it's safe to say that the person has an issue. Especially if one of the voices was encouraging the person to kill the old man that they were living with. But some people say that he might not be crazy because some people that are crazy don't have a conscience and would kill the man with ease. But, this person sounds like they are really sick in the head considering they let the voice in their head convince to kill the old man. Another example is when he was hearing the old man's heart beat when he was dead and the police were standing there in front of him. He didn't have a "special power" that would let him hear a heart beat, it was obvious he was just hearing things. So in conclusion, the man was crazy, simple as that.

Lil Wayne-Hustler Muzik

Goddamn, missed and hit a nigga in his head with dis one
I'ma paint da city red wit dis one
I'm ahead wit dis one
See u fuckin' wit da boys
Who tote toys way before Christmas
No assistance just

That persistence with
That commitment if
I don't get it, somebody gon' die tonight
I know my vibe is tight
And I deserve da throne
And if da kid ain't right
Den let me die in his songs

See I'll be ridin' just
Ridin alone'
Wit my daddy on my mind, like u gotta be kiddin'
How da hell u ain't here 2 see ya prince do his thing?
Sometimes I wanna drop a tear but no emotions from a king

Shant be, so I be who I be, that's me
Dats Weezy F. Baby and
Please say da motherfuckin'
So I be who I be, that's me
Dats Weezy F. Baby and
Please say da motherfuckin'

Baby u gotta kno dat I'm just out here
Doin' what I gotta do 4 me and u and we eatin'
So bitch, how da fuck iz u trippin'?
I'm takin' dese chances

My head 2 da sky
My feet on da ground
My fingas 2 da judge
If da money don't move

Then I won't budge
(Won't budge)
No I won't budge, no Lord

Money iz da motivation
Facin' da avenue
Back touchin' da wall
Got da weed, got da gun

Gotta run when I hear da bird call
Dang, hop in dat thang and merk off
Swerve off
U kno me dey call me Birdman Jr.

Anybody murderer
If Birdman sponsor it
Phantom of da Opera
All black, guap tent, locked in
I can let them shots out
U can't get no shots in

Bullet proof, leave a nigga wit a bullet roof
Shoot ya in ya mouth, Leroy
They call ?em Bullet Tooth
I'm like, what it do, what it do
There's a full court pressure
I'm just going for da 2

If I'm open for da 3
I'ma take it in a second
Even if there's one second
I'ma make it, it's nothin'

I don't take it for granted
I don't take it for nothin'
I take it for what it's worth
To da derf motherfucker
(Yea)

Baby u gotta kno dat I'm just out here
Doin' what I gotta do 4 me and u and we eatin'
So bitch, how da fuck iz u trippin'?
I'm takin' dese chances

My head 2 da sky
My feet on da ground
My fingas 2 da judge

If da money don't move

Then I won't budge
(Won't budge)
No I won't budge, no Lord

I ain't neva killed nobody I promise
And I promise if u try me
He gon' have to rewind dis track
And make me go back
Dat thing a go rrrat
Dat boy will lay flat, so flat

Dat act is wat I perform amongst u hatas
Got Nina in my palm and I'm masturbating
Black Peter Pan, fly till I die, what u sayin'?
Bathin' ape, Eve Saint, Evisu wat I stay in

Got me feelin' like Scarface
Light da Cohiba, streets reply
I look right in the 4 seater, u know I be high
Get right in the 4 seater, top floor of da Four Seasons
4 of dem whores, and they all kno how to cook it up

And look I got some
And only one know how to bag, bitch bundle up
See it's a cold world so homie bundle up
We ain't on dis grind for nothin'
Now get ya hustle up

Baby u gotta kno dat I'm just out here
Doin' what I gotta do 4 me and u and we eatin'
So bitch, how da fuck iz u trippin'?
I'm takin' dese chances

My head 2 da sky
My feet on da ground
My fingas 2 da judge
If da money don't move

Then I won't budge
(Won't budge)
No I won't budge, no Lord

Baby u gotta kno dat I'm just out here
Doin' what I gotta do 4 me and u and we eatin'
So bitch, how da fuck iz u trippin'?
I'm takin' dese chances

My head 2 da sky
My feet on da ground
My fingas 2 da judge
If da money don't move

Then I won't budge
(Won't budge)
No I won't budge, no Lord

Man, man this be that Hustler Musik
Young Weezy got that muthafucking Hustler Musik, yo
So ride to it yo, and vibe to it yo
I'm asking y'all please, please

Young Weezy got that Hustla Musik
Young Weezy got that muthafucking Hustler Musik
Ride to it yo, vibe to it yo
Vibe to it yo

It's trill shit man, it's real talk man
It's how we do it, how we did it, how we done it
It's trill shit man, it's real talk boy
It's how we do it, how we did it, how we done it

I ain't bragging, I ain't boastin', it's the way it go
I ain't bragging, I ain't boastin', that's the way it is
Better guard your kids, guard your face, better guard your body
We warned the place, we here
Fuck bitches, it's young money, nigga

In my eyes, Lil Wayne is one of the best rappers that walks the earth today, not only because his rhymes and metaphors are crowd pleasing and what not. But the real reason in my eyes that Lil Wayne stands out so well in the rap game is because he brings messages with his rhymes at times. Lil Wayne only raps about what he knows and what he has experienced in life, so he raps about killing someone or selling drugs sometimes because he grew up around it and had to provide for himself at a young age. This song is a prime example of what Lil Wayne stands for within his music, how he spent a huge portion of his life dedicating it to hustling, whether it be drugs, music, whatever his hustle was. This song was dedicated to the people out there that had to resort to that type of lifestyle, and it says it in the chorus, " Baby u gotta kno dat I'm just out here, Doin' what I gotta do 4 me and u and we eatin' So b***h, how da fuck iz u trippin'?". Within the chorus, Lil Wayne is trying to say that he is doing whatever he needs to do to put food on the table for him and his girl. Throughout the whole song you can see the struggle he has within his life, and it comes out in the third stanza, when he talks about his dad being gone. He starts to say, "Wit my daddy on my mind, like u gotta be kiddin', How da hell u ain't here 2 see ya prince do his thing? Sometimes I wanna drop a tear but no emotions from a king" as he pours out his true emotions. But he is displaying how he must stay strong because showing love in the world he is living in can get you killed any minute if someone catches you slipping. This song touches me in a way since I know too many people living this lifestyle and sad to see that they feel as if they must do this in order to survive. They feel as if breaking the law is the only way to survive, which hurts to see knowing that anytime my guy can get slip up and get caught. Wayne tells the stories of many people across the whole world, and it touches many people with the pain he sings it with. Seems as if the whole song he sings it as if he has a chip on his shoulder, letting people know that this lifestyle isn't something someone WANTS, but what some people NEED. And this comes out at the end of the song when he says,"I ain't bragging, I ain't boastin', it's the way it go. I ain't bragging, I ain't boastin', that's the way it is". Within this one quote, he says that basically he isn't bragging about all of this, it's just natural when you grow up in that type of environment. So this song is really special to me and something I can never forget.

Beat Street

Beat Street... a movie I must say that caught my attention once I seen it on TV and again once it was shown for the class. I sometimes forget how the movie went so it was nice to get a reminder on the movie went and the messages that may come along with it as well. The main message that was being stressed through the movie was would be to be able to beat the hard cold streets out there that has no love for anyone? If you are strong enough to beat all of what happens on those streets and reach a better place. When I first seen the movie I didn't pay attention to it as much, I just looked at it like it was another regular movie. Maybe another reason I didn't pay attention to it so much because it was nothing really new to me, but maybe the break dancing. All of that stuff in that movie I have seen so many times before and after a while things like that don't compel to you as much anymore. I love the meaning that the movie brings and how it shows that in life you will not always have a good ending but as long as you get something positive out of it. At the end of the movie the boy Ramo had to die a tragic death due to him trying to catch a another tagger that was an enemy of his. It was his pride and anger that drove him to his death while his friend Kenny tried to stop Ramo from committing this action that caused his death. I had to deal with some of this within my life seeing people die over foolish things because their pride stepped in the way of their conscience and led them to dying. This movie to me was just another movie, nothing significant about it because most of the things I seen in this movie I have dealt with in my life. But it was interesting to see that other people were really dialed into the movie and it must have really caught their attention. I sat their and wondered if they were so interested in the movie because of the flashy break dancing, or the weird clothing, or the message itself?

Propaganda is Amongst Us!

Propaganda has been a very common topic dealing with the United States within the past since this country has dealt with plenty of issues that influenced propaganda to take over. It's sad to say that plenty of people may have to encounter that action of propaganda when someone may have spread something about a certain group to ruin their image and what not. A big piece in history that has been apart of propaganda within the United States has been racism. Racism falls into the category of propaganda since the oppressor which in this case would be the white man would have negative thoughts about the minorities, the oppressed, or in this case the black people. They would do whatever they could to get the message out that black people weren't good for the communities and they have no business being on the same soil as these white folk. For example, within the book "Black Boy" they have a young black kid named Richard who was just trying to make some extra change by selling the papers to the neighborhood he was assigned to. He didn't know what he was selling until one day a man stopped him and asked him why was he selling that crap in the neighborhood? The reason the man wanted to know was because the papers Richard was selling was published by the notorious racial group called the KKK and was of course talking bad upon the black community saying how they all should be wiped out off the face of this earth. Things like this shows a great deal of propaganda which is sad to say still may exist amongst people today. We just as people have to be strong and stand up to these hateful rumors that may spread do to extreme ignorance in this world.

Needing Any Attention Lately?

Within the book "Black Boy" has a lot of controversies dealing with the main character Richard who is a little boy that is talking about him growing up. Richard is ordinarily is craving something all the time and it normally revolves around the hunger. Now he is hungry for the attention that he craves so much as a little boy and it shows when he began to commit those actions he did. When he lit the house on fire, I don't believe that was so much of a cry for attention, it was just for curiosity being a little kid. One day he was in the house bored and then he realized that fire amused him and when it would burn something to tiny little ashes. We all know that when a little gets curious they tend to look into it much more even though it was a horrible thought. He had to learn from trial and error, which he did. Even though it may have caused one big disaster, I don't believe that this one boy was crying for attention. He was just one very curious boy that doesn't mind sticking his nose into something that doesn't need to be investigated by a 4 year old.  

Letter From a Birmingham Jail

This blog is based on the notorious letter that came directly from the Birmingham jail on the day of April 16th, 1960 written by the famous Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The letter contains plenty of material that was going through his mind at the time that deals with his many concerns for the colored people around the nation that is receiving no justice what so ever. He begins to stress the fact that how justice is missing throughout the world at the time and is trying to find as many solutions as possible besides resulting into violence, which he believes will cause much more chaos then before. Martin Luther King Jr. was a very passionate man when he spoke about the justice that was not being served throughout the African American communities around the nation as well as the other minorities that live within the United States of America. Most of his emotions spilled into this one note that he inspired someone to reveal the note to the public of Birmingham and the whole world that Dr. King's patience is being tested with these conditions that is being brought upon the African American communities and how is starting to use direct action.

This note really had an affect on me as I'm pretty sure it did with many others that read this very powerful note explaining why he ended up in that disgusting jail cell and if they are trying to use that cell to stop him, that it will be just a waste of time. He will not stop pushing with his marches, sit-ins, all the organizations he is leader of, the speeches, etc. until there is a change amongst the colored people of the United States of America. This showed me how motivated he was to create an opportunity for the people of his own ethnicity and other minorities as well and how you can't let one road block clog up your lane of success. Dr. King didn't choose to give up once he ran into a very challenging obstacle; instead he tucked his head and kept moving along.  This note can touch many other people that would want to read it as well, because I know it showed me to never give up until you get what you asked for!

Is King Still King?

As the day is right around the corner that dedicates itself to celebrate a fine man's birthday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The accomplishments this one man made for mankind is very remarkable to look back at what they are and how he sacrificed himself in order to bring the peace to the communities around the nation that he was fighting for so much. Since the nation realized how much impact his speeches, marches, and organizations they assigned his birthday as a national holiday to pay your dues to the man that stood for what he believed in by doing it the right way, non-violence. But the question that remains is if Dr. King still remains "King" in this new era of people that only knows of him through text books and movies?

From I see, and probably from what others see as well, not many people, mainly African Americans appreciate what all Dr. King devoted his life for and finally got it. If Dr. King were here today to witness all of the black on black crime that is happening and all the chaos that is occurring within the black neighborhoods amongst each other, he would be disgusted. But to be honest with you, he probably couldn't even change these problems between these neighborhoods full of minorities in them. They have became so immune to these actions and they believe violence and crime is the only way to survive since the world isn't offering them anything else. So I think that Dr. King wouldn't be King in this generation... money is the King now a days, since anybody does anything for it, and that is how it is.

"To Be Young, Gifted, and Black"

The story that is revolved around a young girl growing up in the urban southside streets of Chicago called, "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" relates to so many kids across the United States as you begin to read this story. The young girl name was Lorraine Hansberry and she was explaining her growing up within the black southside community and the feeling I, as a reader, received out of this writing was the vibe of a family sticking together. It seems as if what ever this family did, they were able to manage a way to do the same thing together. They had the unity, love, encouragement, everything to become a very close family and it seems as if that was the message they were trying to get across. The author would explain how on hot and steamy nights in the summer, the whole family would take trips out to the local parks and would sleep out there. How the elders that originated from down south would tell as many stories as they could to impress the little children as they continue to impress them with the various of tales they have for them. But also, how the mother would make sure she took care of her own four children while the father would be off somewhere handling business for the NAACP as she sat on the porch with a loaded rifle warning anybody that dares to try her. Family back in those times meant something valuable to people and they made sure that their own was protected and had everything they needed. It showed the unity that they all displayed and how they were able to maintain it throughout life.

"Never Let Me Down"

This song is one of those rare songs that constantly that touches something within and makes you sit back and think about what is happening in your life. Once I first I heard this song I brushed it off since it didn't have a meaning to me at the time and didn't relate to me as much as it does now. This song that is sung by the very well-known two rap artists, Kanye West and Jay-z, strikes a chord deeper than somebody could ever imagine with the simple lyrics and loud beat that constantly that is pounding into my ear drums. But normally when I listen to a song, the lyrics stop at my eardrums and don't really go much deeper than that. The chorus that is sung by a choir and woman lead singer replays within my head over and over as they cry, "When it comes to being truly true to me, one thing I found, is that you will NEVER let me down". As I take in this song I think about my cousin that was taken from me through gun violence and my grandfather how they were always there for me when ever I needed them. They answered when ever I called, when ever I would struggle, I could count on these two people to be there when I needed them. So the only thing they asked from me was to make it to the NBA, and I feel like I owe them something. But this also applies to my whole family; they would love to see me in the league and I feel as if that's how I can repay them with the help they protection they gave me. So when ever I hear this... I feel as if I have to give my best to anything I do since my family is counting on me.

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