Chester French - Two Normal Guys

And you can download their latest mixtape here, which is a good listen if you ask me.

Chris Cooley Is My Hero

I need a picture like that above my bed when I get rich and marry a hot woman.

Life is Too $hort, Would You Agree?

You hear it all the time, "life is Too $hort . . ." to stay mad, not make the best of everything, drink cheap beer. All great pieces of advice right? I know I'm guilty of taking life granted almost everyday even though I try my best to stay positive and appreciative. But it's all relative, right? Sure I might live in America and be better off than a lot of kids my age, but I have this fucking test tomorrow, so FML. Why is it that in a world where life is so precious, where people die too young everyday, people still hate, still choose not to make the best of things, still take life for granted?

Well, like 50 told me (Not really, he said it in Many Men but I took the advice to heart. Close enough.), "Sunny days wouldn't be special, if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good, if it wasn't for pain. Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard." So maybe that's whats up with all this hate stuff. I mean after all, how could any one thing be more joyful than another if some things didn't just plain suck balls? We all get a little overwhelmed with the troubles of life now and then, but just think. If it wasn't for the fact that your parents just don't understand, your teachers all conspire against you, and your car just broke down - again, then the good things in life just wouldn't mean anything. Like hitting the last cup in beer pong, or you know, something actually constructive like winning your March Madness bracket!

So screw all those beauty pageant girls and their speeches about world peace and hunger! Bring on the hate and I'm going to do my best to stay positive and use it as motivation and do something with my life. Of course, I wouldn't be able to stay positive if it wasn't for my good friends, family, and of course

(Reeeemix baaaby!)
Life is Too $hort, how could you not agree?
That's why I'm all about my baby like it's just her and me
Phone on silent, I can't be reached today
Out spendin' money like nothing because all my problems are far away
When I'm with her, I'm high like Kanye on Mercury
'Cause she's in my soul and system

Stressed Out

Yo I know the feelin', when you feelin' like a villain
You be havin' good thoughts but the evils be revealin'
and the stresses of life can take you off the right path

No doubt. Everyone knows the feeling when you try to be positive but it just seems like everything is against you. Even the littlest things don't go your way and get to you when you know they shouldn't. Everyone deals with it differently, whether it's Bone Thug style: "Me and my radio doin' 90 on the freeway no other the way to go . . . gimme a drank and a song and I'll be stress free kickin' it all night long," or like Phife Dawg: "Now a days I go see wifey just to cure me from stress/lay my head on her breast, sugar dumplin' knows best/explain' all my problems to her gettin' things off my chest."

For me, it's both. And they almost come together sometimes. Music can chill me out and relax me like no other, and so can just venting to my girl. Or the paper. A lot of the times that's when the best music seems to be made, when no one will listen and you just gotta get your frustrations out! That's when you get people like ATCQ, Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie, 2Pac, Blu, and countless others that makethe whole world listen and relate to their words because they're hungry to be heard.

In the words of Jay-Z, we're all going through the same thing, and sometimes we need someone to lean on to make us stronger: "you ain't havin' it? Good, Me neither/ let's get together and make the whole word believers." 'Cause if you ask me, all you need is love and you better balee dat!

So what are some favorites of anyone else out there? Ya know, to just vibe out, forget, and relax to? For me, there's a few songs that always do the trick below.

ATCQ - Stressed Out
Blu - Below the Heavens (Yeah, the whole CD)
Bone Thugz - Hip Hop Baby
Fashawn - Relax (ft. Thurzday)
Jay-Z - Can't Knock The Hustle (ft. Mary J. Blidge)
Jay-Z - Can I Live
Kanye West - Never Let Me Down (ft. Jay-Z)
Kanye West - Everything I Am
Kanye West - Heard 'Em Say (ft. Adam Levine)
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liqour (CD, again)
Modest Mouse - Float On
Morphine - Buena
Motion City Soundtrack - Everything is Alright
The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
Pacific Division - How We Chill
Pacific Division - Relax
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Especially in Michigan
TLC - Waterfalls

And that's juts getting started, haha.

Ludacris & Shawnna - Everybody Drunk As Fuck

I could use a night like this real soon here (thur?), balee dat! Haha!

As usual, from your favorite dopeboyz!

SXSW G.O.O.D. Music Showcase

I had nothing to do Saturday night since I was still getting over being sick, so I ended up watching what was probably one of the dopest shows all year... online, haha.

For those who missed it, you can download the whole show in good quality, here! Balee dat!

Amazing (Kanye West)
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (Kanye West & Consequence)
Don't Forget 'Em (Kanye West & Consequence)
Gone/Drive Slow (Kanye West, Consequence & GLC)
Big Screen (Kanye West & GLC)
Spaceship (Kanye West, Consequence & GLC)
Disperse (Consequence, Really Doe & Tony Williams)
History/We Major (Kanye West, Tony Williams & Really Doe)
Plastic (Kanye West & Really Doe)
Crack Music (Kanye West & Really Doe)
Diamonds (Sierra Leone) (Kanye West)
Getcha Some (Big Sean)
Way Out (Big Sean)
Anyone But Him - There Will Be Tears (Mr. Hudson)
Stay Up! (Viagra) (88-Keys & Kanye West)
Fonzworth Bentley Medley
Welcome To Heartbreak (Kanye West & Kid Cudi)
Sky Might Fall (Kid Cudi)
Buggin Out (Kid Cudi & Consequence)
Day 'n' Nite (Kid Cudi)
Universal Mind Control (Common)
Get 'Em High (Kanye West & Common)
The Light/Freestyle (Kanye West, Common & Erykah Badu)
Heartless (Kanye West)
Paranoid (Kanye West & Mr. Hudson)
Good Life (Kanye West)
Love Lockdown - Outro (Kanye West)

Good Morning, Fam!

Start your day off right with some fresh feel good music from your favorite artists, put together by NappyAfro, YFWB, and KevinNottingham. Link.

And if you're looking for some more morning songs I included a few personal choices from my own iTunes morning playlist.


What I Got - Sublime
This Way (ft. Kanye) - Dilated Peoples
Good Day - Nappy Roots
Wake Up - Pacific Division
Beautiful Day - U-N-I
Morning Do - Asher Roth
Good Morning - John Legend
Beautiful Day - U2
Fly - Sugar Ray
1st of Tha Month - Bone Thugz
Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson


What does everyone else like to wake up to? Balee dat!