Yesterday I wrote about my early inspiration for getting into hip-hop. The plan for today is to go more in depth into some thoughts I have on hip-hop, as a genre of music and also as a culture, both past and present. There are a lot of aspects of hip-hop that, if I’m being completely … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 14: Hip-Hop as Powerful Poetry
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500 WORDS, DAY 13: My Relationship to Hip-Hop
This is my 13th daily post of 500 words or more. Today’s topic loosely follows yesterday’s topic, and the same is true for mostly every day so far. If you want to start from the very beginning, start on DAY 1. If you want to start from yesterday’s post, start on DAY 12. So, now … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 13: My Relationship to Hip-Hop
500 WORDS, DAY 10: A Fascination With the Strange
This is my 10th day of posting 500 words on my blog. Today's topic loosely follows from yesterday's topic, which is a continuation of everything I've been writing about from when I started this endeavor 10 days ago. If you want to start reading from the beginning, check out DAY 1. If you want to … Continue reading 500 WORDS, DAY 10: A Fascination With the Strange
NEWEST RELEASE: ‘back to the beats’ vol. 1 (2011) (500 WORDS, DAY 5)
This is the third edition of my ‘back to the beats’ series, the medium I’ve finally chosen to get all of my rap beats out, meaning beats of mine that have a rap track structure, usually consisting of an intro, a couple verses and hooks, and an outro section. I have way too many dope beats just sitting on my hard drive since I don’t really rap as often as I produce, beats dating all the way back to 2011 when I was only 17, and listening back on them it just felt like a shame to keep them all only for myself to listen to.
DAY 33 (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
Although I'm not even close to passing my previous record of 81 days straight of writing a thousand words for my blog, I'm actually thinking of cutting it down to 500 words a day. Now, you might be thinking that I'm starting to get lazy or running out of things to write about, but that's … Continue reading DAY 33 (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
DAY 26 (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
Day 26 of writing on my blog, nice. It's also my fifteenth or sixteenth day of posting daily beats on Beatstars, and now that I have a decent catalogue of beats I have to start looking into marketing strategies to try to generate sales. One strategy is simply messaging artists and letting them know that … Continue reading DAY 26 (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
DAY 13 (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
Day 13 of a thousand words. I figured I would write about one of my favorite songs of mine, It Is What It Is. This is a song I wrote and recorded way back in 2012. It was released on my February 2012 mixtape Running Rebel. To this day, I consider this mixtape to be … Continue reading DAY 13 (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
DAY 12 (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
Day 12. Sober day. Right now I'm only doing 2 sober days per week. I know it's not a lot but it's definitely a challenge for me, coming from smoking every day for so many years. It's been a couple weeks now and I've stayed consistent with this goal, so I'm definitely happy with my … Continue reading DAY 12 (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
DAY 9 (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
One day away from day 10, nice! In a way I'd say it feels a bit therapeutic even, writing these thousand words daily, I really think more people ought to try it, at least once in a while if daily's too much. To be honest I think daily might even be too much for me, … Continue reading DAY 9 (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
DAY 5: Eternal Words (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
Day 5 of writing a thousand words from my mind. I'm glad I'm sticking with this goal so far, it's only been five days but I'm feeling really motivated to keep this going this time. The second time I attempted to do this daily I got up to Day 81, then when I failed it … Continue reading DAY 5: Eternal Words (1000 WORDS, 3rd attempt)
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