More Than a Test Score

Who is the best rapper alive? What a stupid question. This is one of the most debated topics in the music industry, but the debate is completely unnecessary. The answer is obvious: Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., undisputed rap champion. Watch out less important rappers, he might “eat you alive”. Known as Lil Wayne, Carter has developed a fan base unlike any in music history. Lil Wayne stepped into the rap scene as a teen and is now at the peak of his fame. What is the key to Wayne’s seemingly endless fan base? Is it is wicked dreads or tattoos? No. Is it the constant mentioning of sex and drugs in his songs? No. It’s his seemingly endless supply of quality music.

Much of Lil Wayne’s music is too inappropriate to be played on the radio, but can be previewed on web sites like www.hotnewhiphop.com and www.hiphopearly.com. Lil Wayne has been known as one of the most popular artists to feature in songs by other musicians. Using clever word play and a voice like no other, he has become the addiction of countless listeners across the country.

It almost seems as if music by Lil Wayne is its own genre. Genres now include rap, pop, hip hop, techno, country, alternative and Lil Wayne. How many times have you heard “Lil Wayne” as the answer to “What kind of music do you like?”. Not country; not hip hop; just Lil Wayne. The success of Lil Wayne is unprecedented and one cannot help but respect this influential figure.

Everyone knows this guy doesn’t have such a good criminal record. He has been arrested several times and even admitted in an interview with Katie Couric that he often smokes marijuana. Many of his songs include lyrics about these experiences. However, most fans are not turned off by this behavior. Many actually admire Wayne’s boldness to admit what he does and not hide from the truth. It is obvious that Wayne’s success will not end any time soon. Drugs or no drugs, any artist that can maintain a following of millions while providing an incessant flow of new music gets an A in my book.

                                         Song of the day: “Hot Revolver” by Lil Wayne

It was an average day at the local high school, as people arrived in the parking lots around 7ish in the morning. The lower lot was filled with it’s usual suspects: upperclassmen lucky enough to drive, their awkward tricked out minivans, beat-up sedans, and even more worn down pick-up trucks. Nothing seemed to be astray at our quaint little learning facility. That is until closer examination was to be taken. On this day something very odd stood out amongst the four-doors and king-cabs.

And no it wasn’t a shiny silver Volvo. Good grief, the DVD doesn’t come out for like a month. Focus!

IT WAS A TRACTOR!

Aww, you’re disappointed aren’t you? Maybe not, but personally tractors don’t excite me that much. Especially when I get stuck behind them on back roads. Then they just infuriate me.

Anyhow, this particular phenomena wasn’t a joke as some of you city-dwellers must be rationalizing it as right this very moment. “Ride Your Tractor to School Day” was sponsored by the FFA, and I’m assuming was the creation of their overzealous president. To those of you who don’t know what FFA is, it stands for Future Farmers of America and is arguably the largest student organization in my school. Unless you count all the kids who are totally unmotivated and do nothing at all as their own group( but thats just paradoxical). While what I’ve already noted pretty much sums up the day’s activities(and the story of my struggles as an intellectual youth living in an agrarian society), the occurrence did remind me of another burning issue of mine. (more…)

…so I’m not really feelin’ doing anything anymore. I mean, I checked out mid-December when I got into college, but it literally just hit how much stuff I’ve just stopped doing. I’m straight up gone like Spicoli. Instead of studying for calc, econ, and lit, I’ve just been chillin watching TV on the net – all day. Seriously, I’ve now seen every episode of House, Lost, Heroes, Smallville (but only seasons 1-6. Once I realized they weren’t gonna kick that original chick Lana off the show, I just got way too pissed and refused to watch. Louis Lane is damn fine though), How I Met Your Mother, GG, 30 Rock, Reaper (which rocks ass), Battlestar Galactica (yeah, I’m a nerd herder), Chuck, Burn Notice, Californication, Entourage (Johnny Drama is that dude), Dr. Who, Mad Men, The Mentalist, Fringe (haha, whenever I hear that I start thinking about the fringe on the side of a sheet of paper. That shit’s so annoying), The O.C., and I’m now on the 4th season of Gilmore Girls. And just saying that last one is embarrassing.

But it’s like…I’ve run out of TV to watch, and I’ve got nothing to do. It’s not like I’m about to go out and party on a Tuesday night. I tried going rock climbing with my one friend, but that turned out to be booty. Then I tried Frisbee, but I honestly I just can’t get into that sport. Like…it’s not fun.

So now I’m just off surfing the web. Fmylife.com is probably the funniest thing I’ve ever read, but when you’re checking it ever five minutes, you realize that your becoming a loser. So FML, I need to find something to DO.

And that’s when I stumbled upon a cooking show, hosted by Coolio. Yeah, Coolio. The rapper. The one who sang gangsters paradise – the greatest song ever conceived – seriously if Jesus had been born as a song, that’s what it would have sounded like. So that got me to searchin around on youtube for other rappers that cook – and I only found one. Yeah, that right, some dude named DJ Gingerbread and EZ Bake made a song that actually taught you how to cook in the lyrics! I mean, so what if none of tham can actually rap (infact they probably sound like what you would get if Martha Stewart seriously pursued a career in lyricism), but whatever, it was the thought that counts.

Basically, here’s the moral of my story. If your bored right now and you’ve got a bad case of senoritis, instead of watching Gilmore Girls Season 4, like me, take a break and throw on “Cooking with Rappers” (feat. the two most renowned rapping cooks in the world).  And once you’re done, you can go back to trying to find some new TV show to watch, or seeing if someone posted anything new on fmylife.  Maybe you can even find a tuesday night party or something.

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Love it when…you have a substitute teacher in a couple of your classes, so then all you do is watch movies the entire day?

Most of the time, substitute teachers have no experience in the subject they are teaching and don’t have a clue what to do.

Whenever a sub is needed, classes always seem more fun without someone nagging.

Hate it when…people stare blatantly, like with their mouths open? Some people don’t realize that this is weird and uncomfortable. I mean, didn’t their parents ever tell them that staring is rude?

Many things aren’t that fascinating to be staring at anyway, so why waste your time looking like a creeper?

Everyone has heard the cliche “take a picture, it’ll last longer.” Although annoying to hear, some really do need to take a hint.

After all, everyone knows not staring is caring.