My room for the summer. Yes im sleepin on an air mattress lol (Taken with Instagram at Scranton, PA)
Grand piano beats (Taken with instagram)
Too good (Taken with Instagram at The Clam Box)
Don’t Want to Miss a Thing
Finished this beat yesterday. I sampled ‘I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing’ by Aerosmith. The idea for sampling this song came up pretty randomly. A couple of weeks ago, I was chillin in my friend’s room and he started playing this song through his speakers. I haven’t heard this song in a really long time, but when I heard it, I knew I had to do something with it because it would be a fun song to work with. Back in the late 90’s, I remember this song being really popular when that movie ‘Armageddon’ came out. I’ve always liked beats that take popular songs like this and spin it into a hip-hop version. Songs like ‘Dear Professor’ by The Dean’s List or ‘City Kids’ by OCD: Moosh & Twist are great examples of this. Anyways, take a listen and I hope you enjoy!
What I Stand For
Finished this new beat earlier today. I took a sample from ‘Some Nights’ by Fun. Take a listen!
I really like sampling random songs that you wouldn’t expect to hear in a hip-hop beat. I originated as a hip-hop fan but I’ve grown to love other types of music, which makes it fun for me to combine different genres together. I also find it very fascinating to take diverse elements of music and find a way to make it into my own. In the past, I’ve taken samples from songs by artists like Brad Paisley, Joanna Newsom, Enya, Yael Naim, and Coldplay. I’m also finishing up a beat that samples ‘I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing’ by Aerosmith. That beat should be done by tomorrow, so make sure you check it out when I release it!
Fat baby tyty (Taken with instagram)
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My grandmother is a G! (Taken with instagram)
Ta Ta For Now
It’s around 3:30 am here and I don’t feel like going to sleep. There’s been something that’s been on my mind for the past week and I really feel the need to write about it.
So last Sunday was an important day in my life as I finally graduated college. Four years of trials and tribulations are over. Well…not necessarily, because I’m coming back to CMU for an extra semester to finish my Masters. Still, it was a really weird feeling to be done with my undergraduate career. To be honest, it really hasn’t fully hit me yet, even though it’s been almost a week since graduation. I can’t believe how fast time flew by these past four years. It felt like just yesterday when I moved into my freshman dorm, met tons of people during orientation, and acted like a stupid little freshman getting used to the college life. But somehow, four years have passed and I have graduated college, along with many of my closest friends.
Saying goodbye to my friends at school was the hardest thing I’ve had to do in a while. I didn’t really expect how bad it was going to be for me. I guess it has to do with the fact that for the past five or six months, I pretty much ignored the idea that I was graduating and wouldn’t be seeing these people for a very long time. Every time the thought of graduating came into my head, I just blew it off and pretended like it wasn’t really going to happen. Even during graduation weekend, it still didn’t hit me that it was the last few days of being with my closest friends. It’s such a shame because I don’t think I took advantage of my last times with these people. I didn’t get to appreciate these final moments as much as I would have liked. But I guess that’s the way I deal with these sort of problems - by pushing them aside and not dwelling on them until they finally arrive.
It all eventually hit me, though, when I started to say my goodbyes. It was hard, man. Giving someone a big hug and knowing that they were going off in their own direction, I was overwhelmed with emotion. I don’t want to describe this feeling. It just sucked. It really, really sucked. Just thinking about it is making me tear up a little bit right now. It was hard back in high-school saying goodbye to all my friends, this was so much worse because I know that in the back of my head, I may never see some of these people again. These people are some of my closest friends. Many of them I call brothers. And these people were leaving me for good. This shit sucks. It really does.
This past week has been a tough one for me. I’ve been home for about four days now and I’ve have a hard time coping because I don’t really having anything here that can keep my mind off this. However, there was one thing I read that cheered me up a bit and gave me a more positive perspective on this situation. One of my fraternity brothers who also graduated wrote this as his Facebook status, and I think it describes everything perfectly:
As long and real as it felt going through them, the last four years are starting to feel like a dream…. It’s going to take a few weeks for it to hit me. But if there’s anything I’ve learned…. it’s that we’ll all just settle into a new way of interacting with each other and being in each others’ lives. It might take a while, but we’ll figure it out.
After high school, I did a pretty shitty job of keeping contact with my people back home who I no longer am friends with. I just hope that I don’t make the same mistake this time around. I have met some incredible people these past four years. I know that these people will always be special to me, and I will try my very hardest to keep them in my life somehow. While it’s going to be hard not being able to see these people for a while, I know that it isn’t actually a goodbye. They’ll still be with me, no matter how far they are, so it’s more like ‘see you later’, or ‘Ta Ta For Now’.
My workstation for the week (Taken with instagram)
