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lucyleslie11: I Love Lupe Fiasco <3

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:44:55 -0400

lucyleslie11:

I Love Lupe Fiasco <3

onethoughtmedia: Lupe Fiasco JUST released a new track called...

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:42:44 -0400

onethoughtmedia:

Lupe Fiasco JUST released a new track called “Around My Way” and the producers of it borrowed the horns form Pete Rock and CL Smooth song “They Reminisce Over You” TROY… Pete Rock was outrage check his twitter trant…

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Wed, 23 May 2012 14:37:44 -0400

newyorkapollo: And he gets the girl - Lupe Fiasco

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:32:58 -0400

newyorkapollo:

And he gets the girl - Lupe Fiasco

djstoxafranz: In my opinion, Lupe is finally back. Well, with...

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:31:39 -0400

djstoxafranz:

In my opinion, Lupe is finally back.

Well, with his newest single, I feel the same way. Around My Way is clever, and makes a clear point. The track is sampled from Pete Rock’s T.R.O.Y., and the second I heard it, I hit download on iTunes. However, even though I dug the sample, Pete Rock, himself, didn’t. Pete Rock delivered his opinion via Twitter, stating that when TROY was released, He and CL Smooth were still reeling over the unexpected loss of their close friend TROY “Trouble T” Dixon, and the song was to pay tribute to his memory.

Releasing the first off of The Great American Rap Album/Food & Liquor 2, Lupe Fiasco wins us over once again. To be honest, I was not happy with LASERS. It was garbage, and we all knew it wasn’t just because of Lupe. The album was the product of a controlling record label and conflict with the artist. However, when Lupe dropped Friend of the People, a his latest mix tape, he won me back over. I felt like I was hearing Lupe Fiasco again, not his record label.

Pete Rock tweeted, “No disrespect to lupe fiasco and i like him alot but TROY should be left alone. Feel so violated,the beat is next to my heart and was made Outta anguish and pain. When it’s like that it should not be touched by no one” after he heard Around My Way.

Lupe then began to bring up a good point, saying that T.R.O.Y. is a sample in itself, and Pete Rock has remixed with numerous other artists. Lupe was not only paying dues to Pete Rock and CL Smooth, but Lupe’s song is also paying tribute to loss a friend.

To be honest, I’m siding with Lupe. I love the song, I love the new Lupe, and I think Pete Rock need to support the young artist as he tries to steer away from auto-tuned radio ish, and bring back an old classic.

Song is available on iTunes. Story via MTV Rap FIx.

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Wed, 23 May 2012 14:26:23 -0400

emmauber: Nightcap oil on canvas 60cm x 60cm

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:21:40 -0400

emmauber:

Nightcap

oil on canvas

60cm x 60cm

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Wed, 23 May 2012 11:16:30 -0400

A man in Japan effectively used the solar eclipse to propose to...

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:14:32 -0400

A man in Japan effectively used the solar eclipse to propose to his girlfriend.

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Wed, 23 May 2012 11:11:00 -0400

A Life Worth Ending

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:10:37 -0400

A Life Worth Ending:

In 1990, there were slightly more than 3 million Americans over the age of 85. Now there are almost 6 million. By 2050 there will be 19 million—approaching 5 percent of the population. There are various ways to look at this. If you are responsible for governmental budgets, it’s a knotty policy issue. If you are in marketing, it suggests new opportunities (and not just Depends). If you are my age, it seems amazingly optimistic. Age is one of the great modern adventures, a technological marvel—we’re given several more youthful-ish decades if we take care of ourselves. Almost nobody, at least openly, sees this for its ultimate, dismaying, unintended consequence: By promoting longevity and technologically inhibiting death, we have created a new biological status held by an ever-growing part of the nation, a no-exit state that persists longer and longer, one that is nearly as remote from life as death, but which, unlike death, requires vast service, indentured servitude really, and resources.

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It’s funny ‘cause it’s true.

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:07:51 -0400

It’s funny ‘cause it’s true.

An Afghan girl practices martial arts with a sword at a Wosho...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:07:50 -0400

An Afghan girl practices martial arts with a sword at a Wosho training club in Injil, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, April 6, 2011.