Essay Alert!
There’s a lot of sensitivity around lyrics in Rap Music these days, much to the ire of hardcore fans and cultural supporters alike. Beyond the OBVIOUS, REASONS, many of us wonder why members of The Media are quick to call out rappers so quickly as of late. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Saw this great article by Evan Narcisse from Kotaku today. To be honest, I didn’t read it all, because it started to get super heavy with historical references that I found myself drowning in about halfway through reading. I need to go back, research, familiarize myself with Black History in Video Games, end-of-February be damned, and lay eyes back on this article with a sense of context that I probably should’ve had in the first place, considering my passions.
If I may, let me geek out on my passion for gaming for a little bit.
I’ve been playing video games since approximately the age of 5, captivated by the interactive stage productions spanning cities, worlds, and entire dimensions for as long as I’ve had any worthwhile memories of entertainment of any form. The first game that I remember being in awe of was The Legend of Zelda, way back in about 1987 when I was still too young to be allowed to play video games of such magnitude. I never owned an NES, but my cousins did, and man-oh-man, did I watch them play for HOURS. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m 2 days into my 10-day vacation, and had it not been for the OUTSTANDING Brazilian Churrascaria I went to tonight, I’d be all about some comic-strippin’. The good news is that I have 8 more days to just grind out some strips. I’ll be doing shifts of some sort, kinda like a part-time job (as I should, I suppose), and get several cranked out before it’s time to go back in to Ye Olde Grinde.
tl;dr: No strip tonight, but one soon, and a decent backlog by EOW.
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Oh hey! Did I mention my Tumblr? You should go check it out sometime. I’m trying to post more bite-sized stuff on there as well as the meat & potatoes here. Also things are connected to my Twitter account.
It’s so funny that trailer after trailer uses some ‘relatively’ popular rap tracks (and by ‘relatively’ I mean they maybe weren’t the leading single or the longest #1-holding billboard track from their respective albums, etc., but they’re still pretty recognizable if you know who a Kanye West or a Just Blaze or a Jay-Z is).
