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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:30:32 GMT

i feel like i've pressed the reset button on life. it's good

blog, vlog, isipko

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:54:24 GMT

damn. I was browsing through some posts tonight and this dude posts his 250 greatest rap songs and some of his choices i agreed with others not.. but what's funny were the people's responses to his choices... "50 cent? are you retarded?" I lol'd.. by myself. in my room... and then, like I do pretty frequently, I said to myself.. shit.. I could do that.

I do that A LOT. Hear a story about someone, or watch a TV show or movie, and compare myself to the main character.. I could do that.. or oh hell no, this mf is TOO bad ass... yall ever do that?

I've been throwing applications to advertising agencies, web design places, and marketing companies.. kinda redundant though, because I don't have an online portfolio for them to look through. SOOO before I make a useless list that will not help me in anyway, I'll be buying some webspace soon and start posting.. well.. shit that will hopefully get me hired somewhere...an online portfolio, and since I know a couple other mf's that are artistically inclined open up areas for them to display their.. portfolio? too. damn i need a job.

I came back and edited this post to include this guy's blog, which can be found here. The title is, who is the greatest rapper alive? and holy shit he has some funny ass commentary. Here's where he talks on weezy...

Lil Wayne: Where does it start with this guy and where does it end? He's like the existence of life. (Overstatement) Saigon on Kay Slay's show insisted its his dreds that got some super Jedi effect. I don't know what it is but lets face it Wayne has mastered the art of making the most subpar shit sound pretty good. More often than not Wayne doesn't say a damn thing. He gets away with it with his great mic presence and maybe his dreds does actually plays a role as well, thats debatable. I'm not gonna grow any dreds to find out. Wayne is the self-proclaimed "best rapper alive" whether he gets the nod from me or not. In Hip Hop if you say something enough times and actually sound believable like any good speech giver, the people will believe you too. Wayne believes he's the best rapper alive cause he outshines his daddy Baby, Mannie Fresh, and Paul Wall a couple of times. Unfortunately that doesn't convince people like me. Also you can't just make up your own words and use them in a setence and then correct yourself in the next line. Thats not witty to me. Wayne sometimes goes off on tangents and says shit that makes zero to little sense. His fans however love amazing lines like "call me Captain Kangaroo cause I got money in my pouch" or "I'm a venereal disease?" I know that lost me too. Some people are still dumb-founded that he kissed Baby his self-proclaimed daddy in the mouth. I'm more dumb-founded of how easy he got away with it in this Homophobic culture called Hip Hop. That shit was pretty gay. There's no debating that shit even Obama can call it. So Wayne is eliminated off this list. Too much homo shit and not making sense won't win you any points on this list. His hype will only make you want to listen to him more but unforuntately Public Enemy had the best response to that shit. I'll let you tell it.

I've bolded and underlined som of the lines that had me lol... it's true.. I've tried spitting some of the things weezy says and it just doesn't sound good coming from me.. lol.. and the making up words and correcting yourself the next line.. rofl.. i do that. when i sit in my car bymyself trying to free something, i do that, and that's pretty funny.. at least to me. *sigh* I drank an ass load of sugary drinks after the gym and now i'm wired. fuck.

a milli

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:51:30 GMT

a milli a milli a milli a milli a milli a milli a milli a milli a mill... ion sales.. that's wassup. Congrats to Weezy F. for being the first artist to sell a million copies during their first week since 2005... 6th top ten album since he first hit the charts at 16 years old.

damn. mixtapes and leaks sell records ladies and gents. in my eyes, it was marketing success...and i haven't bought it yet... i'm also missing the concert HERE IN DALLAS:

06-07 Bridgeport, CT - Arena at Harbor Yard
06-08 Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues
06-10 Baltimore, MD - 1st Mariner Arena
06-11 Chicago, IL - House of Blues
06-12 San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
06-15 San Diego, CA - House of Blues
06-16 Los Angeles, CA - House of Blues
06-20 Fresno, CA - Selland Arena
06-27 Lafayette, LA - Cajundome
06-28 Sunrise, FL - Bank Atlantic Center
07-12 Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Theatre (K104 Summer Jam)
07-12 Shreveport, LA - Hirsch Memorial Coliseum
08-10 Baltimore, MD - Pimlico Race Course (Virgin Mobile Festival)

Same day as my PCs bday... fuckin a. no more shows in all of Texas either.

Tomorrow Katt Williams show... it's nice to have something in the middle of the week, cause the weekend is always fun, but the mon-fri grind is torture..

graduated.. and.. I'm pretty sure no one is going to hire me because I don't have a working portfolio. I would say, "Go look at the Dallas Lambdas site." but.. we didn't pay our bills and now there is no dallas lambdas site. dammit. Soooo I decided to take the opportunity to go ahead and build more of a portfolio and teach myself the new photoshop and flash cs3 progs.. but my computer wasn't up to par... so i bought a new computer.. then my monitor was too small.. so i bought a monitor that takes up more than half my desk, and everyday since I've gotten it in I've watched movies and TV shows. *FAILURE*

I now sit here trying to decide whether to start fuckin with tutorial sites and get into it or procrastinate/throw more money at the problem and buy a book. I mean, I've already started fuckin with it.. but if I had a book I could read at work.. and I know you're thinking, will you really read at work?? yes. Because I have nothing better to do during my break since the people I used to eat lunch with go relocated... and it makes that 9-5 *cough* 4 grind suck that much more. BUT tomorrow :) and this weekend :D, and next week PAY DAY.. the two sweetest syllables in the english language.

Some chica ran into my front bumper and fucked it up SO her daddy cut me a check for 5 bills.. gonna take that and try and do all the work myself along with a whole lot of other maintenance and aesthetics that were long over-due. If everything turns out well, there will be before and after pictures.. if it doesn't, there will still be before and after pictures but a lil less pride.

Like father like son

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:04:28 GMT

Often we overlook our blessings aka don't appreciate something/one until they are gone. Father's Day, an opportunity to let your dad know what's up.Too many times I've heard stories of fathers and sons who don't say, I love you.. and have had their differences in the past. I know I have. For a year or two I even resented my father, I told myself I'm gonna try, really try to be different..

My father was a Technical Illustrator, went back to school to study Finance. Hobbies: basketball, billiards, and cars.

I graduated with a degree in Arts and Technology with a minor in Business Admin and I share the same hobbies. Looks like I didn't try very hard did I?

We all have our personality traits that aren't particularly well liked, but my first lessons in humor came from my Dad. My respect for others, eagerness to host, small talk, love to teach and explain, and hard working attitude. For good and for bad, I will take after my Dad and can be thankful that, even though I did not realize it, he's been my role model.

I wouldn't do ya wrong, listen to this song:

Atmosphere - Yesterday

I thought I saw you yesterday
But I didn't stop cause you was walking the opposite way
I guess I could have shouted out your name
But even if it was you I don't what I would say
We can sit and reminisce about the old school
Maybe share a cigarette because we both fools
Chop it up and compare perspectives
Life< Love< Stress< and Set backs
Yes'
You could tell me how hard you had it
And you could show me all the scares to back it
And we can analyze each complaint
Break it down and explain these mistakes I make
I like to tangle up the strings of the puppetry
But you knew me back when i was a younger me
You've seen Sean in all types of life
And I've been meaning to ask you if I'm doing alright

(Chorus)
Yesterday, was that you
Looked just like you
Strange things my imagination might do
Take a breath reflect on what we've been through
Or am I just going crazy cause I miss you

Yesterday, was that you
Looked just like you
Strange things my imagination might do
Take a breath reflect on what we've been through
Or am I just going crazy cause I miss you

I'm Shook
I know
I pushed when I should of pulled
Took it all back if I could I put that on my soul
And I would make a top notch good listener
If you could block off a little time out to give it here
Since we went our separate paths
I hit a couple of snags
That remind me of the past
I cant front I'm having a blast
But damned if I ain't afraid of how long its gonna last
Sitting here wishing we could kick it
Gimme your opinions I do miss the criticisms
I didn't mean to be distant
Make a visit
Ill wait up and keep the coffee brewing in the kitchen
But who am I jokin' with
Theres no way that you and I will ever get to re-open it

It doesn't matter this is more then love
And maybe if I'm lucky I'll see you out the conner of...

Yesterday was that you?
Looked just like you
Strange things my imagination might do
Take a breath reflect on what we've been through
Or am I just going crazy cause I miss you.

Yesterday was that you?
Looked just like you
Strange things my imagination might do
Take a breath reflect on what we've been through
Or am I just going crazy cause I miss you.

And when you left I didn't see it coming
I guess I slept it ain't like you was running
You crept out the front door slow
And I was so self-absorbed I didn't even know
And by the the time I looked up, it was booked up
You put it all behind you, the bad and the good stuff
A whole house full of dreams and steps
I think you'd be impressed with the pieces I kept
You disappeared but the history is still here
Thats why I try not to cry over split beer
I can't eve get mad that your gone
Leaving me probably the best thing you ever taught me
I'm sorry, its official
I was a fistful
I didn't keep it simple
Chip on the shoulder, anger in my veins
Had so much hatred, now it brings me to shame
Never thought about the world with out you
And I promise, I'll never say another bad word about you
I thought I saw you yesterday,
But I know it wasn't you, cause you passed away dad

Looked just like you
Strange things my imagination might do
Take a breath reflect on what we've been through
Or am I just going crazy cause I miss you

other names considered for this entry:
Who's your daddy?

throw back

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:53:00 GMT

damn. since 02. i've been on this hoe since 02... how long have you been an active member of the internet society? I remember my first email account was created at the Richardson Public Library, we didn't have internet at my house then.. it was tot baller.. too baller to have that 28.8 modem that would later wake up my parents while I tried to get online at night. I also remember i used to borrow ppl's AOL accounts to go chat and download music. One song took all night and was shitty quality but I would later make mix CDs and hustle them in middle school, and as usual I go off on a tangent. elf_14@hotmail.com <~~ my first email address(i now use it for all junkmail)... because I was 14 at the time. do you remember asian avenue? playing black jack to win points? or friendster? shit. i totally forgot about that one, just found out that site is still up and running. Amazing when you consider how absolutely dominating facebook and myspace are.

lately.. I've been lost in mind, trapped in my head, inarticulate and unable to convey my thoughts. frustrating... and ironic that I would write about an inability to communicate.

it's a bird.. it's a plane..

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:14:30 GMT

In an attempt to sell shoes, and using the power of yoututbe, I am now convinced that Kobe Bryant can fly. Cases in point:

not closing a chapter but taking a step forward

Fri, 16 May 2008 04:05:27 GMT

should i get lasik?

i hate my glasses. i've worn them since the fourth grade. .... the only reason i wear them so much is my contacts always fuck up my eyes.

you like that close up? that was a random shot at a recent formal. am i retarded? a lil bit.

I've been ridiculously happier lately. I think this semester I really.. really hated life now that it's over... I can look back on it..

I felt this burning hatred towards something intangible, this concept that wouldn't come naturally to me. I've never been the type to care about grades, I don't know, it just was never something that concerned me. most classes you can sit through and pass, and this was one of the only ones that I couldn't wrap my mind around because it didn't make sense. This one subject came in three parts and i retook it countless amounts of times because... I really really really didn't care about it. Has anyone ever started talking to you, not even really talking-but lecturing or educating you on a topic that you have NO INTEREST in? like the atmospheric pressure of the earth or the chemical composition of sand or the various temperatures a rock changes during the day... point being, I learned to study the last semester of college and I learned that if and when it makes sense, it's actually kinda fun. I learned that the biggest thing stopping me was this mental block that I had put up for myself. After getting over the fact that I hated my material and just needed to learn it...then i actually found some of it interesting.

My parents have always been supportive of me of whatever career choice I pursue, and this year, I finally understood why. Instead of epic-ing like i did in the previous paragraph, i'll just say this, I learned that I need to enjoy my job.. because it's the bulk of what I'll be doin for the rest of my life. it's incredible how i can go in feeling great and happy and wanting to work and in two hours be brought down to such a humbling level where i just clear my mind, block everything out around me and just push through it. You don't want to be doing that for a living.

I'm just sayin.. there have been a lot of life lessons learned.. a lot of parallels.. a lot of seemingly 'fate' or 'master plan' moments.. and it's been quite a ride. And I feel like music has meant much more to me. (mmm's) On that note, (a pun to easy to pass up) if i were to put the way i felt to words it would sound like

Lupe Fiasco - Superstar Remix

*also find at http://songza.com/isipko

Not in the sense that I blew up superstar status.. or just the lil retarded things like the honda accord reference.. but the second verse kinda feeling like something big is coming to an end...feeling like i failed on purpose so that it wouldn't end.. and in the end knowing that i still have so much more to learn... and then straight up feel TI on the last verse.

I write this in the middle of the year, and it feels like a freckle minded "end of year" kind of topic.. But it wasn't just this semester i reflect over.. it's been this entire experience over the past couple of years... this journey that's tested every part of me with it's "worst day ever. hate my life moments" and it's "I love my life, best thing ever moments" it's.."ok what SHOULD i do moments?" and "ok what do i WANT to do moments?" it took me a long time to get here, but... I do everything on MY own pace.. and now I can just.. heave out a great.. big.. sigh.

This weekend I'm going to jamaica for what i'll probably consider the first REAL vacation I've had in i dont know how long... bc if it's not workin, it's playing, and when it's playing.. it's playing too hard. Now i can go and just CHILL.. things are lookin up.

don't forget to tell me if i should get lasik or not... i hear it's like 299 per eye now.

- ramblings of an inebriated man

1 <3 hip hop

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:10:52 GMT

ok first of all.. please listen to the two dudes that ride the track before weezy. please. it's so fuckin funny. it's mocking him on his own track. Don't even listen to it when you hear him come in. Yeah I like his music, but it's so... pertinent(is that the word i wanna use?) to a previous post commenting on the whole idea of making it rain...

Cool Kids ft. lil wayne - Gettin it

their execution is pretty nice but in case you wanna read and listen at the same time:

If I had a hundred grand
And I'll be god damned if I throw it in the air Like I didn't care
And I must say it's is no way nowhere
There's no pocket full of cash too be thrown in tha air
Cause I could take that and spend pair of
M8 gears with the front tips and the lights in the rear
Use my spare change with the green handle bars where the grips is clear

[Mikey:]
The cool kids in the sandbox ya'll can't play
Say ya abc's not a bay bay
I got the all blues 3's light one two tres
No espanol then thass okay
Cause back on my west coast L.A lakers, 32 Johnson jersey
Call me senor fresco, thass more Spanish
Thass English, I'm mikey, wayne vanish

I go to some hip hop websites every once in a while and you have TWO people: the fans, and the haters. The way i see it, if there is anything to attack it's his subject matter. BUT it's not like he's not tryin to change the world with his music, or even say anything especially worth saying, but gooottt dammit, he is entertaining. His subject matter isn't surprising or particularly inspirational, but his delivery is. Great punches, jokes, delivery... laughs at his own jokes on the track and it becomes part of the song. at this moment, i can't think of an artist who made their laughter, a part of their song. I'm still gonna buy his album, and go to the concert if it ever happens around here, i'm just sayin... greatest rapper alive? probably not. but definitely the most entertaining, hardest working rapper in the game right now. Check out this track fresh off the new Drought Is Over 5 mixtape.. once again, do not focus on the repetitive hook by w.f.b, but listen to this kids flow.. then when you listen to it again, catch the part where he flips the whole "my bad" phrase to change out adjectives.. it's a lil bit after he asks us if he's cold for being 12 years old.. (lol i'm sorry.. lol... i know the lyrics are simplistic, but we're talkin delivery dammit.)

Lil Chuckie feat Lil Wayne - Too Clean

HOWEVER.. please don't be comparing him with Em. In an article entitled, "Eminem 'Scared' to Record With Lil Wayne" I had to read.. http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.6587/title.eminem-scared-to-record-with-lil-wayne damn.
He had to go and say Em would be scared of him. That's pretty retarded in this author's opinion. Em is much more complex, although I actually have no love for songs like "My Name Is" tracks like "Toy Soldiers" Let me stop there.. I know I've gone over the topic before, if you wanna read about it, look through old entries. I do like how he finishes the interview when they put him in the corner about his lifestyle.

Want a couple more tracks to look at?

busta rhymes - lights camera action
lupe jeezy TI - superstar remix
*TI. I like him on this one. not typical gun and dope man talk.
ice cube nas and scarface - gangsta rap made me do it
** reminds of all that talk about how metal and rap influences the youth. however you feel on the topic, i think this track is interesting.
glasses malone feat akon bunb weezy - certified
*** he's gotten to the point where he's references himself and honestly, it's funny.. the whole 'dog' theme. sick.

All these tracks can be found on this mixtape:
http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/mixtape-pro

*Okay now.
Anyone who know me, they know me to ride
But when the shit was selling slow it's just my homies and I.
Had to get rid of all the phonies and the homies disguised.
So you speaking, I don't reply, homie don't be surprised
You ain't gotta ride for me, I didn't ask you to.
Take the journey on my own, I would gladly do.
You gon' and turn around now, I'll call a cab for you.
I stand up on my own 2, he kiss the ass of who.
No way Jose, we pot Rose, blow dro, that's more than okay.
See but don't say, my folk, they flip more yay than Cirque du Soleil.
Keyser Soze, oh they kill people and get off like OJ.
You catch your case, just shut your face, don't get caught singing do, re,
Mi, fa, say, la, ti, do, ghetto hero, G-code I obey.
He's so gay, didn't have no business hanging around me no way.
It's okay, life lesson learned I suggest that you go your way.
I be straight, no conversation man.
That's all I'm gon' say (hey).

Monday, April 07, 2008

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:14:08 GMT

i don't usually watch the videos i post.. i just turn on the music and have it play in the background, if you're like me, just go ahead and take the 3 minutes out from multitasking to watch the video.

Lupe Fiasco - Hip Hop Saved My Life

had to post something real quick..

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:36 GMT

Em and Wayne on a Track together?!!

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.4557/title.lil-wayne-f-eminem-the-reincarnation

read the comments AFTER listening to the track. Fun stuff.