GAH

Sat. Jan 30&31 \ 2010

Right. So I just had the most boring and useless day of my life. I woke up, had breakfast, went to math class, and came home. That was my afternoon. I ate lunch, did some math homework, went out go get a haircut, followed my parents around some stupid store, and came home. And now I`m doing this. These kinds of days honestly chip my life bit by bit until I go crazy. I could tell this would be a bad day too because when I first woke up I felt as if life was pointless, just for a good 5 seconds. Why is that? I wonder to myself all the time. I think it`s because I need things in life to cheer me up, and I use those things to look forward to everyday. If I don’t have these things then why am I living? every other moment I live in life is to wait for the times I enjoy in life, and once that`s over I start all over again. How sad is life? So today was one of those days where I had completely nothing to look forward to, and I guess I realized this when I woke up this morning. So it is clear that I was right, but it`s fine now that the day is almost over. Since I lead such a lackluster life I look forward to little things such as seeing my friends or just being able to go out for a bit. So I will update you with the latest thing I can deem good enough to look forward into in my sad and boring life. Hmm, yes I have my skit coming up tomorrow. Church tomorrow can be for God and seeing my friends. I find that oh so uplifting.

I need to confide in people. I need to interact with fellow human beings otherwise I will go crazy. Do you get that feeling where there are some people you enjoy seeing and being around with? Because you know you will see that one person and it is enough for you to put everything else behind. I`m sure all of you have felt the same way. So there is that special someone I can see tomorrow and that gives me hope, to be able to look forward to it. Yes it is a girl I`m am looking forward to seeing, not a guy. I am not gay, just to throw that out there. : )

Um okay so this post is continued off yesterday, because I totally forgot about this. So this is now me writing after church. I am sad. Just a bit. Once again I have been opened to the fact that other people don’t have time for me. I look forward to seeing other people and what happens? They don`t want to see me, simple as that. I hate this feeling, when you look forward to something so much, and then it`s gone just like that. I have had that happen to me so much, I can`t do it anymore. I don’t want to look forward to anything because things happen and it shatters everything I put so much into. But if I don’t look forward to anything then life turns useless. So what the hell do I do? It looks like I can just make the choices either to give up on life and one day lose it? Or do I keep looking forward to fake things and let it trick me more and more? Either path doesn’t seem too appealing to me, but what can I do? I usually go play basketball Sunday night, because my parents do not mind letting me exercise. But now I`m afraid to look forward to that because what if I don’t get to go? Trust me, that`s happened a lot of times when my dad agrees and pulls out last minute because he believes I don’t deserve to go. I`ve had enough of that. I have had enough of all this. I guess it`s time for me to seclude myself from everyone else. I will do it. Watch me. Not that you would care. I just wish I could find that one person who will really understand me…

Song I`m currently listening to:

Beautiful – Eminem

I love how all these songs can relate to my post. I`m thinking of posting another song of my life with this song, but it`s really long so that might take awhile.

Facebook Fan Page of the Day:

I wish I could see how someone else saw me from their point of view ~

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To that special someone if you are out there and you`re reading this.

~`–DomDom–`~

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Editor's Pick #271: Green Day's Grammy Performance

Punk-Rock idols Green Day will perform at the 52nd Grammy Awards

PREVIEW: LISTEN to Green Day performing “21 Guns” with the cast “American Idiot” on YouTube.

Hey did you know that The Grammy Awards are on TV this Sunday! Yeah, neither did I. It’s true that The Grammy Awards are getting further from relevance every year, but there’s at least one thing to look forward to this year. Green Day will perform with the cast of “American Idiot” the musical. Having a broadway show based on your incredibly popular, mainstream CD might not be “punk-rock,” but the musical has been getting rave reviews. Recently, the musical wrapped up a record breaking three month stint at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, and on April 20th the show will make it’s Broadway debut at the the St. James Theater. So, be sure to check out Green Day and a performance by Eminem, Lil Wayne, Drake and Travis Barker. On second thought, The Grammy’s might not be too bad this year.

-Eric Hoffman, Managing Editor

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You've Been Sleeping on the Best Rapper Out There. (Part One)

This is part one of a three-part series of posts I will write on the best rapper out, Tech N9ne.

That’s right. I said it.

The best rapper alive is not Kanye West. It’s not Eminem (at least right now). It’s not Lil’ Weezy and it’s not Jay-Z. The best rapper alive for this guy’s money is Tech N9ne.

Considering all the rap posts I’ve put together since this blog started five weeks ago, you at least have to know I listen to a lot of rap. It’s my favorite kind of music — not just for listening, but for debating.  And the greatest debate in this genre is “Who’s the best?”

For a long, long time, I said the best rapper alive was Eminem. Marshall was my favorite — not just because I was white and related to his stuff, but because I genuinely believed his rhyme scheme and his lyrical content was the best.

Then, a few years ago, I swore on my life Lil’ Wayne was the best rapper out there. Weezy busted into our lives using the mixtape circuit and put so much incredible material together it was hard to not believe him when he’d calmly say, “I’m the Best Rapper Alive since the best rapper retired (Jay-Z).” But with the way the Rebirth Fiasco (http://thekidisback.com/2010/01/08/rebirth) has gone, it’s only fair to say Lil’ Wayne just isn’t where he used to be.

Is there room to ascend? Sure there is. And maybe we’ll be writing about Drake as the biggest star alive after Thank Me Later drops in 2010. Maybe Em will re-ascend to the throne. There are a lot of maybes and ifs now in the rap game.

But the truth of the matter is the one artist who is continually putting out great music is Tech N9ne. There’s just indisputable evidence to prove it.

Some of you might be unfamiliar with the number one hip-hop independent artist in the world, but he’s been positively influencing my life since 2002, when he dropped the classic album Anghellic.

For whatever reason, Tech N9ne is incredibly popular in Northern California, where I grew up. I can remember riding around in my baseball teammate’s truck when he first threw Tech into the radio and told me I needed to hear him. And the first song I heard, of course, was his first original classic.

In college, you might have heard some of Tech’s classic bangers. The most famous song from Anghellic is, without doubt, Einstein Tech N9ne. Have a listen:

This song is a perfect example of what makes T9 one of the greatest rappers to be a fan of. He can rap as fast as Twista, only with significantly better lyrics and a more devilish, exciting quality to his music. He will throw in elements from theater and movies into his music (witnessed in the “KC, MO Rolllllll,” which is clearly an homage to The Wizard of Oz.)

Similar to Lil’ Wayne, I could link literally hundreds of Tech N9ne songs in this post because he’s developed such an amazing collection of records under his label, Strange Music. That’s not to mention one of his Kansas City protégés, Krizz Kaliko, has released two albums within the last two years under the label. Kali is featured on a number of Tech’s songs, including another of my favorites, I’m a Playa:

Kaliko is incredibly talented and his contributions to Tech’s music will be featured in another post on this site. That said, he’s been along for this incredible ride with Tech for the last few years as Strange Music’s popularity has exploded (relatively speaking, of course).

To give you an idea of where the Independent Hip-hop scene has taken this group of talented rappers, Tech’s last CD (my personal favorite of 2009), K.O.D. debuted at number 14 on the Billboard charts this past year.

That fact is incredible when you think about it. This guy literally doesn’t have a single on the radio at any point and makes such incredible music that his fans never miss a release. And there have been an unbelievable amount of releases over the past four years.

Starting in 2006, when Tech came out with his first full CD since the epic “Absolute Power,” he’s released FIVE full-length CDs (two as Tech N9ne Collabos, where he works with a number of Strange Music and other artists to create a number of songs, many of them with guest appearances).

Everready released in 2006. The album features an insane amount of classic jams – some of which were actually featured in the Justin Timberlake film, Alpha Dog. Of those, the one that may have defined my senior year of college and which resonates with even the most casual of rap fans has to be the incredible Caribou Lou:

I can almost guarantee you can play this song at any dance party across the United States and you’re going to get the party jumpin’ and the hotties humpin’.

Since Everready’s release, Tech’s come out with the aforementioned Tech N9ne Collabos albums, Misery Loves Kompany and Sickology 101. Both albums are incredible and feature 18 songs apiece, but of those 36, this song is the best in my opinion:

In any event, I’ll be spending a lot of time on this blog talking about Tech being underrated and alerting you any time he’s featured on a song because his talent needs to be more widespread.

Tech, at least this half of TKIB salutes you – and I’m hoping we can get more people to feel the way I do.

[Via http://thekidisback.com]

Lose Yourself by Eminem, L. Resto, and J. Bass

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity

To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment

Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Yeah,

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti

He’s nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready

To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting

What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud

He opens his mouth, but the words won’t come out

He’s choking how, everybody’s joking now

The clock’s run out, time’s up over, bloah!

Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity

Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked

He’s so mad, but he won’t give up that

Easy, no

He won’t have it , he knows his whole back’s to these ropes

It don’t matter, he’s dope

He knows that, but he’s broke

He’s so stagnant that he knows

When he goes back to his mobile home, that’s when it’s

Back to the lab again yo

This whole rhapsody

He better go capture this moment and hope it don’t pass him

(You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo)

This soul’s escaping, through this hole that it’s gaping

This world is mine for the taking

Make me king, as we move toward a, new world order

A normal life is boring, but superstardom’s close to post mortem

It only grows harder, homey grows hotter

He blows us all over these hoes is all on him

Coast to coast shows, he’s know as the globetrotter

Lonely roads, God only knows

He’s grown farther from home, he’s no father

He goes home and barely knows his own daughter

But hold your nose cause here goes the cold water

His hoes don’t want him no mo, he’s cold product

They moved on to the next schmoe who flows

He nose dove and sold nada

So the soap opera is told and unfolds

I suppose it’s old partner’, but the beat goes on

Da da dum da dum da da

(You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo)

No more games, I’m a change what you call rage

Tear this motherfucking roof off like two dogs caged

I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed

I been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage

But I kept rhyming and stepwritin the next cypher

Best believe somebody’s paying the pied piper

All the pain inside amplified by the

Fact that I can’t get by with my nine to

Five and I can’t provide the right type of life for my family

Cause man, these goddam food stamps don’t buy diapers

And it’s no movie, there’s no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life

And these times are so hard and it’s getting even harder

Trying to feed and water my seed, plus

Teeter totter caught up between being a father and a prima donna

Baby mama drama’s screaming on and

Too much for me to wanna

Stay in one spot, another day of monotony

Has gotten me to the point, I’m like a snail

I’ve got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot

Success is my only motherfucking option, failure’s not

Mom, I love you, but this trailer’s got to go

I cannot grow old in Salem’s lot

So here I go is my shot.

Feet fail me not cause maybe the only opportunity that I got

(You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo)

You can do anything you set your mind to, man

[Via http://poemfortoday.wordpress.com]

Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group

For duo, group or collaborative performances of Rap only. Singles or Tracks only. Too Many Rappers Beastie Boys & Nas [Capitol] Crack A Bottle Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent Track from: Relapse [Aftermath/Interscope] Money Goes, Honey Stay Fabolous & Jay-Z Track from: Loso’s Way [Def Jam] Make Her Say Kid Cudi, Kanye West & Common [Universal Motown/GOOD Music] Amazing Kanye West & Young Jeezy Track from: 808s & Heartbreak [Roc-A-Fella]

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Yearly Countdown 2009

100. Jet – She’s A Genius

99. Paramore – Ignorance

98. The Fray – You Found Me

97. Tori Amos – Welcome To England

96. Placebo – For What It’s Worth

95. Kris Allen – No Boundaries

94. Florence and The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)

93. Ashley Tisdale – It’s Alright It’s OK

92. The Whitest Boy Alive – 1517

91. Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johannson – Relator

90. Passion Pit – The Reeling

89. A Fine Frenzy – Blow Away

88. The Veronicas – Untouched

87. Peter Bjorn and John – Nothing To Worry About

86. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – 15 Minutes

85. Death Cab For Cutie – Meet Me On The Equinox

84. Boys Like Girls – Love Drunk

83. Kid Cudi feat Kanye West & Common – Make Her Say

82. Lady Sovereign – I Got You Dancing

81. R. Kelly feat Keri Hilson – Number One

80. Kleerup feat Lykke Li – Until We Bleed

79. Raygun – Just Because

78. Chris Brown feat Lil’ Wayne – I Can Transform Ya

77. Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning

76. Sean Kingston – Fire Burning

75. Flo Rida feat Ke$ha – Right Round

74. Mary J. Blige feat Drake – The One

73. John Mayer – Who Says

72. Pet Shop Boys – Love etc.

71. Marié Digby – Avalanche

70. 3!Oh3 – Don’t Trust Me

69. Amerie – Why R U

68. P!nk – Sober

67. Pussycat Dolls – Hush Hush, Hush Hush

66. Usher – Papers

65. Depeche Mode – Wrong

64. Regina Spektor – Laughing With

63. Miley Cyrus – Party In The USA

62. Dave Matthew’s Band – Funny The Way It Is

61. Snow Patrol – Just Say Yes

60. The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition

59. Linkin Park – New Divide

58. Joss Stone – Free Me

57. Katy Perry – Waking Up In Vegas

56. All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell

55. Colbie Caillat – Fallin’ For You

54. Kasabian – Underdog

53. Gym Class Heroes feat Estelle – Guilty As Charged

52. OneRepublic – All The Right Moves

51. Ciara feat Justin Timberlake – Love Sex Magic

50. India.Arie feat Musiq Soulchild – Chocolate High

49. James Morisson – Get To You

48. Eminem – We Made You

47. Whitney Houston – Million Dollar Bill

46. Timbaland feat Nelly Furtado & Soshy – Morning After Dark

45. Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone

44. Jordin Sparks – Battlefield

43. Jason DeRulo- Whatcha Say

42. Mika – We Are Golden

41. Dashboard Confessional – Belle Of The Boulevard

40. Natalie Imbruglia – Want

39. Rihanna – Russian Roulette

38. Rob Thomas – Her Diamonds

37. Mario – Thinking About You

36. Green Day – Know Your Enemy

35. Michael Bublé – Haven’t Net You Yet

34. Britney Spears – 3

33. Pearl Jam – The Fixer

32. Madonna – Celebration

31. Daniel Merriweather feat Wale – Change

30. Ke$ha – TiK ToK

29. Robbie Williams – Bodies

28. Pitbull – I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)

27. Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You

26. U2 – Get On Your Boots

25. David Guetta feat Kelly Rowland – When Love Takes Over

24. Lenka – The Show

23. Little Boots – New In Town

22. Akon – Right Now (Na Na Na)

21. Pixie Lott – Momma Do (Uh Oh Uh Oh)

20. Shakira – She Wolf

19. Muse – Uprising

18. Kings of Convenience – Mrs. Cold

17. Owl City – Fireflies

16. Keri Hilson feat Timbaland – Return The Favor

15. Norah Jones – Chasing Pirates

14. Imogen Heap – First Train Home

13. Leona Lewis – Happy

12. The Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow

11. Alicia Keys – Doesn’t Mean Anything

10. Maxwell – Pretty Wings

9. Jay-Z feat Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind

8. Mariah Carey – Obsessed

7. Taylor Swift – You Belong To Me

6. Lily Allen – The Fear

5. The Gossip – Love Long Distance

4. Paloma Faith – New York

3. La Roux – Bulletproof

2. Beyoncé – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

1. Lady Gaga – Poker Face

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