Happy Thanksgiving!

This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for my amazing best friends: Alyssa, Savannah, Melissa, Edwin, and Paco, as well as my other good friends. I am thankful that I am blessed to come home every day and eat what ever food I want and watch what ever channel I want to on TV. I am thankful for my truck. I am thankful for my crazy stepsister Courtney, who I can always act crazy with. I am thankful to still have my grandparents. I am thankful for my ability to express myself with words. The list goes on and on.

What are you thankful for?

-B

Take Care

The Brand New Album from Drake

     All right, I have been talking about it for months, and the time has finally come! Drake's latest album titled "Take Care" was released today, and I went immediately after school to purchase my copy!
     I did not download the leak, because I wanted to listen to the album in its entirety on the day it was intended to be released. I have already listened to the whole album about 3 times, and I have to say that I am seriously impressed! I know that's not shocking, but Take Care is everything I expected and more! It is no surprise that this album is incredibly real and emotional, in the lyrics, vocals, and the music itself. Every song has an amazing beat to it. I know it's so typical for me to say this about an album from someone I majorly admire- but I absolutely love every single song. Drake was definitely not wrong when he said he would escape the "Sophomore Album Curse". Take Care is very much like a sequel to "Thank Me Later" in the sense that the songs are more mature. Drake has grown as an artist over the past couple of years and this album completely proves that. Go buy your copy now! I promise you won't regret it!

Here is the track list:

1. Over My Dead Body
2. Shot For Me
3. Headlines
4. Crew Love (featuring The Weeknd)
5. Take Care (featuring Rihanna)
6. Marvins Room
7. Under Ground Kings
8. We'll Be Fine (featuring Birdman)
9. Make Me Proud (featuring Nicki Minaj)
10. Lord Knows (featuring Rick Ross)
11. Cameras/Good Ones Go Interlude
12. Doing It Wrong
13. The Real Her (featuring Lil Wayne and Andre 3000)
14. Look What You've Done
15. HYFR (featuring Lil Wayne)
16. Practice
17. The Ride
18. The Motto (featuring Lil Wayne) [Bonus Track]
19. Hate Sleeping Alone [Bonus Track]

As most of you know, I admire Drake so much. He is one of the most real artists out there right now.

He is creative. He is authentic. He is Drizzy Drake.

Take Care,

-B

 

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-B

11/11/11

What will your wish be?

-B

Just A Thought About Life

From The One and Only: Drizzy Drake

     This quote from Drake is the perfect example of the fact that not all rappers are airheads and only care about half-dressed girls in music videos. This is the reason I look up to Drake so much. He is real, he is authentic, he puts a meaning to his life. I hope you read this quote that he just posted on his website, and I hope you take time to sit down and really think about it.

“I’m really scared for my generation, you know. The thing that scares me most is Tumblr. I hate what Tumblr has become. Because it like, it reminds me of those clique-y girls in high school that used to make fun of everyone else and define what was cool, but in five years, when you all graduate, that shit doesn’t matter. No one gives a fuck about that shit. Instead of kids going out and making their own moments, they’re just taking these images and living vicariously through other people’s moments. It just kills me. Then you’ll meet them and they’re just the biggest turkey in the world. They don’t actually embody any of those things. They just emulate. It’s scary man, simulation life that we’re living. It scares me.”
-Drake

Please try to learn from this. Think about how you want to represent yourself, and live up to your vision. Allow others to be themselves, too. There is not one definition of 'cool'. We are all human- life is all about empowering each other to be the best that we can be, and encouraging each other to be ourselves, 100%.

-B

P.S. Don't forget to pick up "Take Care" in stores November 15th, 2011.

Friendship Quote

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
-George Washington

Love it,

-B