In 1974 The Rubik's Cube was invented. It's creator originally called it 'Magic Cube'. In 1980 Ideal Toys decided that the name we're all now familiar with would be the way to go. A metaphor for life is this 3 dimensional cube of color that tells us that though it may seem impossible to complete, the puzzles of life are not unsurmountable. Challenges can be met . How long it takes depends on various factors. But in order to meet those challenges you must take them on. You may at times put them down. Then pick them back up from where you left them. The amount of time taken to complete each puzzle depends on you.
Wednesday
Rubik's Cube: Like Life's Puzzles?
In 1974 The Rubik's Cube was invented. It's creator originally called it 'Magic Cube'. In 1980 Ideal Toys decided that the name we're all now familiar with would be the way to go. A metaphor for life is this 3 dimensional cube of color that tells us that though it may seem impossible to complete, the puzzles of life are not unsurmountable. Challenges can be met . How long it takes depends on various factors. But in order to meet those challenges you must take them on. You may at times put them down. Then pick them back up from where you left them. The amount of time taken to complete each puzzle depends on you.
Monday
Monday Music: Sumkid
I have a short list of emcees that personally inspire me to wanna continue to write when I feel as though I've reached the point of no return.Sum(kid) Majere
Andre 3000
Ghostface Killah
Today the the free downloading begins with Trans-Am produced by Belief. Its quality Sum lyricism over pretty dope production. These two guys are making awesome music together. New Millennium Gangstar.
Trans Am - mp3
And for my next trick...!
[Click Here] to download The Doors - People Are Strange
Music Monday Waaaaaaaaay Late: The Beatles
When favorite albums by the Beatles are discussed, often times Revolver is the record of choice of many die hard Beatles fans. It is quite an album.
[Click Here] to download The Beatles - Got To Get You Into My Life - mp3
Totally unrelated to the previous offering. I noticed I had the link to another song up on Zshare. It's a rough track I've been messing around with.
[Click Here] to download Conscious - Smilin On the Inside - mp3
[Click Here] to download The Beatles - Got To Get You Into My Life - mp3
Totally unrelated to the previous offering. I noticed I had the link to another song up on Zshare. It's a rough track I've been messing around with.
[Click Here] to download Conscious - Smilin On the Inside - mp3
Monday Music: Let's Get Funky!
I can't begin to break down the importance of Parliament's contribution to funk music. George Clinton's unwillingness to be ordinary and submit to what the radio deemed playable and his profound affect on future musicians. There's so much history and so much music that came from the likes of this legendary funk explosion. Let's not forget Boosty Collins significant role without it well you know wouldn't have this post...Today I have to drop a song (Gettin' To Know You') that I just really love. This album though is tremendous and this in my opinion isn't the best song on it but for some reason I'm just attached to it.
[Click Here] to download Gettin' To Know You - mp3
[Click Here] to download DJ Jazzy Jeff- Shake It Off [Instr] - mp3
Music Monday: MF Doom, The Chambers Brothers, The Sex Pistols, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins
Monday is back. Didn't seem to have been gone for long at all. Today I'm posting a few instrumentals produced by MF Doom from the Special Herbs series.MF Doom - Special Herbs Vol. 1&2
John Coltrane - Soultrane
Sonny Rollins - Saxaphone Colossus
As always I hope you enjoy the tunes. I'm sure you'll gain some sort of inspiration from at least one of this random selection. Please drop a comment and let me know what's going on, on your side. I'm sure everyone that's checking out this blog will appreciate your convo as well. I don't like doing all the talking.
Wednesday
60 Second Review: Kanye West - Graduation
I just tossed up a new review on 60 Second Review blog for Kanye's latest album.60 Second Review: Kanye West - Graduation
Tuesday
Monday Music On Tuesday...
As promised, to make up for missing Monday's music post, here's double the tunes... and I'm going to start off with some words that to some of you may be a bit inflammatory.
The Sylvers were better than the Jackson 5.
Yeah I said and I ain't takin it back jack. Go ahead and get mad. Just make sure you get the downloads.
The Sylvers
[Click Here] to downloadWe Can Make It If We Try - mp3
[Click Here] to downloadCry Of A Dreamer - mp3
Blue Oyster Cult
[Click Here] to downloadLet Go - mp3
[Click Here] to downloadTake Me Away - mp3
The Sylvers were better than the Jackson 5.
Yeah I said and I ain't takin it back jack. Go ahead and get mad. Just make sure you get the downloads.
The Sylvers[Click Here] to downloadWe Can Make It If We Try - mp3
[Click Here] to downloadCry Of A Dreamer - mp3
Blue Oyster Cult
[Click Here] to downloadLet Go - mp3
[Click Here] to downloadTake Me Away - mp3
I wrote this a while ago...
Guess what? Yesterday morning my hardrive said, 'screw you I'm done!' Well there's no sense in crying over it. I'll make my way to reclaim the only seriously important thing on it, that being all of music I should have already completed and gotten mixed, mastered and published. Anyway, my old comp was sitting in the closet. I'm working from it now. Upon rebooting this dinosaur I first noticed a document on my desktop. I wrote this few years ago.
Independent thinking these days seems rare, but I insist that it does in fact exist.
From out of the corners of my thoughts scattered, attempting to make sense of low scoring basketball games, newly installed slum doors with working intercoms pried offah hinges and that button near some intersections that is supposed to make the light change for every guinea pig pedestrian that expels the necessary energy to press it; I find balance.
Unfortunately, finding the meaning of life isn’t as simple as brandishing a miniature Mag-lite and rummaging through cobwebbed storage bins in a dark attic. I didn’t grow up in a house. But my mother did. Even still she didn’t learn the meaning by that method either.
If you stop to watch the low flying aircraft in awe, or walk slower when the rain begins to pour. You may be close to or already know the answer to the age old question of ‘What does it all mean?’ When I say this I think of the chorus of the De La Soul song Three is a Magic Number, which ends with Prince Paul scratching in those same five words. The O’Jays sang that there was a message in the music. Kenneth Gamble wrote: In this day of confusion, we must find the root of the problem in order to solve it. The problem is a lack of truth and communication between man and woman. Therefore, the wrong interpretation of life and life’s purpose has been exposed…
I purchased a record player some time ago partially because I’m a producer that does, let’s say, ‘musical research’ and also because I realized that my little sisters never experienced what it is to hear the sounds of music lifted from vinyl by a needle then tossed into a receiver and right back out through speakers to ultimately, end up dancing in your ears. I figured, perhaps in doing this I’d help them add pieces to the puzzle of this life’s game. So, in the future when they’ve grown older and left the hands of parents and guardians, they won’t be caught trying to fit all those pieces they’ve collected over time in with a hammer.
Independent thinking these days seems rare, but I insist that it does in fact exist.
From out of the corners of my thoughts scattered, attempting to make sense of low scoring basketball games, newly installed slum doors with working intercoms pried offah hinges and that button near some intersections that is supposed to make the light change for every guinea pig pedestrian that expels the necessary energy to press it; I find balance.
Unfortunately, finding the meaning of life isn’t as simple as brandishing a miniature Mag-lite and rummaging through cobwebbed storage bins in a dark attic. I didn’t grow up in a house. But my mother did. Even still she didn’t learn the meaning by that method either.
If you stop to watch the low flying aircraft in awe, or walk slower when the rain begins to pour. You may be close to or already know the answer to the age old question of ‘What does it all mean?’ When I say this I think of the chorus of the De La Soul song Three is a Magic Number, which ends with Prince Paul scratching in those same five words. The O’Jays sang that there was a message in the music. Kenneth Gamble wrote: In this day of confusion, we must find the root of the problem in order to solve it. The problem is a lack of truth and communication between man and woman. Therefore, the wrong interpretation of life and life’s purpose has been exposed…
I purchased a record player some time ago partially because I’m a producer that does, let’s say, ‘musical research’ and also because I realized that my little sisters never experienced what it is to hear the sounds of music lifted from vinyl by a needle then tossed into a receiver and right back out through speakers to ultimately, end up dancing in your ears. I figured, perhaps in doing this I’d help them add pieces to the puzzle of this life’s game. So, in the future when they’ve grown older and left the hands of parents and guardians, they won’t be caught trying to fit all those pieces they’ve collected over time in with a hammer.
Thursday
Hiphop Rukus - Conscious Music
Today on the Hiphop Ruckus Blog you can find 2 tracks of yours truly's available for free download. I really like this picture...
Monday
Monday Music: Ike & Tina, Dean Martin & Thelonius Monk
Alright we're gonna start this week off with something a little different.. Well for the blog that is. I need music. I need to listen to it. I need to create it. I need to share it. Today I'm going to share a few songs with you I randomly pulled from my cd collection. I used to do this more when I first began this blog. But as you know, I'm all over the place. I like to switch it up. Today I'll toss you some Ike & Turner, Thelonius Monk and Dean Martin. There's no real method to this madness... There's no theme that I can imagine at this point. Just simply some music to share with you all.
[Click Here] to downloadYou Are My Sunshine - mp3
[Click Here] to downloadHouston - mp3
Don't Blame Me - mp3
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