Black Friday

So it is the most homicidal day of the year, Black Friday. My mom left at about 1am...to buy what you may ask? I don't know. I'm sure it is going to be a ton of stuff for Nicholas rather than anybody else considering that Nicholas is 8. I only asked for three things for my Christmas. A 16 Gig Ipod Touch, a new electric shaving kit and clothes. A few games for my XBOX 360 would be incredible also, but I know I am getting way less than everybody else because I am 19 years old, but a guy can dream right?

Thanksgiving was amazing. We made the turkey, the ham, collard greens, stuffing, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato casserole, potato salad, amazing dinner rolls, cranberry sauce and a few other things. It was nice having everyone sit down and eat dinner while we watched the Maryland Terps whoop ass against number 5 Michigan State in basketball. It was an awesome Thursday night that ended kind of rocky, but capped it off with another video game marathon with my brothers. DAMN...I miss these days, not a care in the world except high school and playing video games until my eyes are bloodshot. It makes coming home very worth it and makes me appreciate my family and the high speed wireless internet we have too.

Right now im laying on my futon in my brother's room watching the movie "Rudy" and listening to my brother laughing about random youtube videos. It's crazy how warm it is here a walked to the Amoco yesterday for rolls in a t-shirt and i was kinda warm. I dont plan on moving from this futon any time soon and at the same time i have some work to be doing. Holla at me

R>B>

He's fucking back...UNFORGIVABLE lol

Next Semester (Spring 2009)

- Sociology 101: Introduction to Sociology

- Political Science 109: Comparative Politics

- Psychology 321: Social Psychology

- Psychology 323: Interpersonal Relations Psychology

- Psychology 407: Psychology of the Abnormal

-MCV Hospital (Senior) Clinical

+ Work....

...pray for me

My Music Review--- Kanye West- 808's and Heartbreak

Ok,

When I first heard Kanye West perform 'Love Lockdown' on the 2008 VMAs, I was completely confused about what I was hearing. Kanye West using the Autotune singing device singing some sad song over tribal drums. After reading a couple interviews and actually locking myself from the world and listening to the music, it really touched my soul. Love Lockdown was the tip of the iceberg and leak after leak, song after song, drum after drum, I finally realized Kanye was absolutely punishing this pop music thing.

808's and Heartbreak will not be coming out until Monday but I downloaded the entire album from a reliable source a few days ago and after listening to every track about 5 times that I will gladly go out and buy my first album since Lil' Wayne's Tha Carter III on Monday. I feel that strongly about this album, it is a killer. I love every single song for different reasons. Every song has at least 4 stars for me. Now...for the actual review...


1. Say You Will- awesome intro...there are long periods of time with no lyrics and I like it, it really gets you thinking-- 4 and a half stars ****1/2

2. Welcome To Heartbreak (feat. Kid Cudi)- Kid Cudi did an incredible job on the hook and the lyrics on the verses made up for a mediocre beat...awesome job Kanye West-- 4 stars****

3. Heartless- My favorite beat on the album because it is the most hip-hop and not that much AutoTune...I love the whistles mixed with tribal drums veryyy classic...-- 5 stars*****

4. Amazing (feat. Young Jeezy)- This song STAYS on repeat in my room...the AutoTune is prefect, the bass is rediculous, insane tribal drums, Young Jeezy killed his part and I love the eerie part before Jeezy goes on-- 5 stars*****

5. Love Lockdown- The song that started it all, but not my favorite out of the bunch...the tribal drums were changed like 5 times but the lyrics are incredible...I HATED this song at first but now it stays in my head-- 4 stars****

6. Paranoid (feat. Mr. Hudson)- One of my favorite joints because it reminds me of Michael Jackson mixed with Daft Punk and Mr. Hudson on the hook is awesome...absolutely awesome, debatable as one of my 2nd favorites-- 5 stars*****

7. RoboCop- motherfuckin RoboCop...i have to admit that I didn't like the version that leaked out a few weeks ago but this new version that is on the album is incredible thanks to Herbie Hancock...the robot effects in the background of the beat are freakin' awesome and the AutoTune blended incredibly-- 4 1/2 stars****1/2

8. Street Lights--lyrically THE best song on the album, i love the pianos but the beat is extremely eerie...but the tribal drums truly make up for eeriness...when I downloaded this song I instantly fell in love with the lyrics-- 4 1/2 stars****1/2

9. Bad News--my least favorite on the album for no particular reason, the drums are awesome, the lyrics are ok and overall the song is pretty awesome, but definitely my least favorite-- 4 stars****

10. See You In My Nightmares (feat. Lil Wayne)- HOLY SHIT for once Lil Wayne did an incredible record thanks to AutoTune and Kanye West. EVERYTHING about this song is crazyyy. I had to take the beat and make a whole new track with it because I loved it that much. Wayne killed and Kanye killed... the end-- 5 stars*****

11. Coldest Winter- incredible sample from the song 'Memories Fade' by the band Tears for Fear with awesome tribal drums and incredible lyrics. The song is based on his mom and I love it-- 4 1/2 stars

12. Pinocchio Story- A crazy freestyle that he did on stage in Singapore, it started crazy slow but it ended crazy...powerful track and the crowd in the background gave it an incredible effect...love it-- 4 1/2 stars****1/2

I'm about to listen to the album all the way through and go to bed. Overall this album was incredible work and I love it. True Kanye fans are getting a treat November 24th...know that
Good Night
R.B.

My 3 Favorite Blogs Right Now...

...in no particular order

http://www.ohthegrace.blogspot.com/


http://www.bradcleofus.blogspot.com/


http://www.thepowerlines.blogspot.com/

Realizations

< There are three weeks left in the semester and I only have two real finals (SWEET!)
< Champagne is absolutely disgusting and I don't know why rappers brag about having it
< Plies is the softest and most illiterate rapper I have ever heard
< My high school is one win away from playing in the state championship (WTF)
< My major is now Psychology with a concentration in Medicine (its the best thing for me)
< The window to my car is finally getting fixed tomorrow
< I don't care what people say, Autotune is a fun singing device to use on songs and it sounds amazing
< Cutting body fat off your frame increases your sex drive (psychology project conclusion)
< I can't decide if I like Boxer puppies or German Shepherd puppies better
< Moms are fucking awesome (they pushed you out of their vag, give them some credit)
< Scarves contain more warmth then I thought
< Hop-Ons can parrish
< Jadakiss is top 5 dead or alive and thats off of 2 LPs
< Men who have the audacity to be upset about abortion are really retarded (YOU DON'T HAVE A FUCKING UTERUS)
< I have 0 respect for the people who have their 16th birthday party on MTV
< There is nothing like snow in the city...
< I'll probably be living in Carriage House for a couple more years
< We need to have a party at Carriage House soon
< I haven't been intoxicated in like 5 weeks
< Louis Vuitton over Gucci all day
< The Barack Obama Inauguration Party is going to be bananas
< I need Christmas spending money...seriously.
< "I gotta see you work, see you dance, without that shirt, without them pants..." ;-)
< I finally caught up on my sleep...

Agenda For Sunday...

...since I don't work for the first time in a bazillion years!

1. Organize my class schedule for next semester (All Tuesdays and Thursdays Classes: 19 credits)

2. Send my Health Professions Interview Questions in to Aundrea

3. Write my Health Professions Shadowing Paper that is due tomorrow

4. SAM VCU Computer Proficiency Test (Graduation Requirement) Due Tomorrow (I'll be in Hibbs Hall for a little bit)

5. Start on my CPR Manual for CPR class (Clutch!!!) Due December 1st

Text me with distractions please!

Sup Readers

Its noon on a Thursday and there is a torrential downpour outside.
What am I doing instead of writing my paper for Health or studying for my Stats Exam?

Laying in bed in my underwear, watching SportsCenter and looking at the Blackberry Storm. The Storm looks like an amazing device, but I just got my Voyager and I want a new iPod Touch before I invest in another phone (plus my mom would kill me). I'm looking around my room and I'm quite happy with how clean my house is. It is awesome how someone can just come in and take over cleaning up while I'm at work. Freakinnnn Awesomeeee!

I am obsessed with 4 songs at the moment three of which by Kanye West. They are pretty much my songs of the week. Can you say motivation? (with download links!)

---"Go Hard"- DJ Khaled featuring Kanye West and T-Pain
"I'm going to tell you Like George Bush told me, Fuck you niggas I'm outta here!"
http://www.zshare.net/audio/17245061f560ad23/

---"Amazing"- Kanye West featuring Young Jeezy
http://www.zshare.net/audio/51198405cc08f03d/

---"See You In My Nightmares" Kanye West featuring Lil Wayne
http://www.zshare.net/audio/5120568896727805/

---"Ransom" Drake featuring Lil Wayne
http://www.zshare.net/audio/50672179eec04dcb/


Listen to the tracks, they are amazing songs
I cant wait for 808's and Heartbreak
R.B.

Cypher

I'll tell you one thing hip hop is not dead
Change is gonna come just like Barack said
Money, Power, Respect just like The Lox said
You'll be the man of the house my pops said
Eat the streets up real quick it's all timing
Gucci everything with Sierra Leone diamonds
You can all know so much and know nothing
If I don't know nothing else, bet I know hustlin
This aint even rhyme, its a controlled substance
I'm strictly iron swinging with no tussling
And as long as there is money involved with it, I'm in
You dont have to second guess the best I'm him
I can rap circles around these new Urkels
Everything is digital while my hats are still purple
Me? I gotta a powerful mind, such a powerful mind
You would think I was on Obama hours sometimes

I wish I could be this dude (I would die feeling accomplished)

Some Other Shittttt

This a two minute clip of Jadakiss freestyling to "A Milli" by Lil' Wayne but if that wasn't crazy enough, my uncle used to live on this same block in Yonkers, New York. He Youtubed me this video and I almost flipped out because I recognize the red house in the background when they are talking to the cops. But Jadakiss killed the beat so ENJOY!!!

Porn Star

I been watching you awhile now
And I just wanna find a way to make you smile now
Why you blushin?
Forget about them other guys now
I know you ain't going try and tell me that you shy now
I realize that your beauty could intimidate
Them suckers you ain't got no business with them anyway
With such a pretty face, big booty, little waist line
I wanna grind from behind to the baseline
Have a great time, pour yourself a shot girl
Chase it with a lime, now you feeling like a hot girl
I know you probably use to dealing with them wannabes
But honestly I gotta say I'm who they wanna be
I promise all I wanna see is you up under me
And we can disappear whenever, when you wanna leave?
I can guarantee the ride of your life
Any fantasies on your mind we can try them tonight

We're sitting here
(I'm looking at you like damn)
We're sippin on Patron, something's on my mind
(You wanna leave wit me tonight?)
It's been killin me all night long and I wonder
(Listen baby let me tell you what I'm thinkin bout)
Oh girl, I wonder
(For real, baby let me tell you
what I'm thinking bout)
It's the end of the night
I thinkin your might, wanna leave the bar
Park the car, turn into porn star

Yes, I love to hear about your interests
I gotta say your intellect got me impressed
See your panties through your dress like a silhouette
Patron got me thinkin sex, is you feelin that?
No disrespect though, a simple yes/no
Hey let yourself let go, baby let's go
Pull up to the crib, get you through the threshold
Kiss you from your pretty lips to your red toes
Time tickin it's the end of the night
And you can leave wit your friend if you like
But I'm sayin though
We can ride out, back to my house
I wanna see you satisfied inside out
Once I'm in you ain't gonna want me to slide out
You tell your girlfriends they gonna wanna try it out
A little more of this will loosen you up
What we can't do in the club, we can do in the truck...

Goodness, Goodness, GOODNESS...

Finally...a kinda slow week...
An exam Friday, I have to shadow a physical therapist some day this week and a Nutrition paper due Thursday. Thats all really...

I haven't drank in a few weeks and removed red meat from my diet for a few weeks and I already feel better. It was really a personal health choice more than anything and I feel I needed to make major changes in my lifestyle. More time in the gym, more focus on expressing my feelings on paper, more time making my money and less time stressing. Munchkin told me I needed to see a doctor because of my stress build-up, but I feel better now that my work slowed up for a little bit.

I talked to my mommy for TWO hours about everything and I realized that God couldn't have gave me a more perfect person in my life to help guide me through my struggles like her. I'm connecting with amazing people now, conversations are now making sense and its great to know that you have people in both sexes who really care about you and what you think. I'm just trying to make the most of this crazy college life and I'm going to. I'm pretty much on my "You buy a bottle, I buy the bar" status and it is crazy and I love it. Amazing people can do that to you. An amazing woman WILL do that to you every time.

"I love you son, you make me proud every time I hear your voice. Fuck what some sleezy broads or some unreliable niggas say to you. You are a dope, reliable, trustworthy, honest and dependable young man and you will soon reap the benefits. I promise."

--------Mommy

Rhoads 17-- (2.0: Sex On Speakers) Tracklist!!! NOVEMBER 25TH!!!

YAY!!! The final track list is FINISHED! We're finishing the cover art and the album will be doneeee! The only songs that were released from the album were 'Do Ya Dance', 'Missin' You', 'Find Me On My Deck'. The college kids are going to enjoy this record and the ladies will love this record!

1. Ain't For Girls
2. Dr. Love featuring Donnie Klang
3. Find Me On My Deck
4. Full Capacity
5. Do Ya Dance
6. Incredible featuring Cory Gunz
7. Interlude- Future Teller
8. Just Chill
9. Talk To Her
10. Laidbackandsexy
11. Interlude- Cruz Chronicles
12. Everybody Nose Remix
13. Beat It
14. Missin' You
15. Drunk Text
16. Close To You
17. 6-4-6
18. Missin' You Part 2
19. So Fly with Slim and Yung Joc
20. Just A Little Bit
21. Outro- Park The Car

The Future of Music (THANK GOD!!!!!) Asia Cruise

Google Her...she has amazing talent

You are...

Hopeless

You really are. No one really cared like I really cared, but you say that I was being fake to you. That's fine I guess, actually it was more funny fine because you will see that your actions will lead you to having absolutely no friends. You are acting on actions that I didn't make and that is probably one of the immature things you can ever do. I put my heart out there for you and told you things that I haven't told anyone and you have done the same. It feels like I'm dealing with my 14 year old sister. I hope you turn to a better person after all this because I know I already am. I never lied to you and I have never thought of you less than one greatest friends a guy could ask for. But when people see through your irrational, attention whorish and fake ways you will end up being alone (trust me, I'm not the only person that thinks this). I will always have people by my side. You...ehhhhh...quite the opposite.

If they are really willing to drop you that fast over a retarded disagreement that wasn't you fault then they really didn't care about you anyway.
Marc Rainey

Love

She's Crazy, I'm Crazy
We're gonna make some insane babies
Just a little bit of that love you made me
Now I'm addicted, heartbreak save me
So, I can be done with this mess
Eyes keep drifting down your chest
I'm so stressed, Get undressed
By the fire, on the table is your request
You say that, I'm the best
I feel cocky, Kanye West
Is this love song just a test?
Do you really think I'll give you a rest?
Naw...I love you a little bit
Naw...I like you and that's it
So let's not fight, lets be legit
In the future, I so see it...

Life is so...

Cool

I'm trying not to stress small stuff, because in the end, life is only what you make it. Why stress when the world is passing you by? My family coming by on Saturday was awesome, my mommy made dinner for the next week and paid for parking for the month. I got some info about my Ski Trip in January before 4th semester of college starts. I got an awesome Barack Obama bumper sticker in the mail that I put on my laptop. Songs seem to be pouring out lately and my creative fold has been pretty amazing.

I stopped trying so hard to make everyone happy and started trying to make myself happy, which I feel I haven't done since high school. It started with bringing me back to my roots of myself, which contains Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirts, contemporary underground hip-hop music, tying loose ends with beautiful people :-), dance parties, fitted baseball caps, pushing boundaries in the gym, pondering whether God is a woman and reading 'Where the Wild Things Are' because it is one of my favorite books...EVER

Life is only what you make it...I guess I learned that the long way
So you just do you. I'm going to do me.
R.B.

Nikki

Baby, I really wanted to be everything you need
Come on, come on, come on baby
Who knows what would've happened if you stayed that, that night with me
Come on, come on, come on baby
I told you to come and get with me, promise I wouldn't leave you
Come on, come on, come on baby
You never thought that he would be the one, one, one, one to deceive you
Come on, come on, come on baby

Now it's awful cold in the house he bought you
and I've gotten over living without you
Springtime, summertime, fall time, winter
And all of our love we had just starting to remember

But you was off the game
and everything done changed
Because now I'm making love to Nikki
And I don't feel bad and no I ain't sad
Because I been making love to Nikki
He was the one that you ran to
the one you gave your hand to
so don't say you didn't plan to
So every time that you think of me
know I been making love to Nikki
Love to Nikki

She loves me back

Now everything that he told you when you were with me, you believed it
Come on, come on, come on baby
Considering the fact that it was you, you were the one that was cheating
Come on, come on, come on baby
He told you I was with the girl up in The Palms
We up in the studio, baby all on my arms
We all up at the park throwing back shots at Patron
My whole life was in a lane, what kind of shit were you on

But it's awful cold in the house he bought you
and I've gotten over living without you
So springtime, summertime, fall time, winter
I'm here to leave you with the last thing you remember

See you was off the game
but now everything is changed
cuz I've been making love to Nikki
And no I ain't mad, hell no I ain't sad
Baby I been making love to Nikki
He was the one that you ran to
the one you gave your hand to
so don't say you didn't plan to
And every time that you think of me
know I been making love to Nikki
Love to Nikki

And she loves me back
She loves me back
She she she she loves me back
She loves me, she she she she loves me back
She loves me

And now you calling me saying you didn't mean to do me wrong
You've gotten in my heart, so go ahead and lit in his arms
My loves out the window, that's everything though
He's so done ride out
Cuz I'm sitting in the six-four,
Girl as the wind blow, baby imma ride out
When you heart is broken,
Go ahead pick it, go ahead pick it up
Go ahead suck it up

You was off the game
now everything is changed
I've been making love to Nikki
Now...