14 of the Most Influential Albums Of My Life (In No Particular Order)

The Dream "Love Me All Summer/Hate Me All Winter"- The album has some of the most incredible track transitions I have ever heard. The Dream as a producer put everything together so smoothly and it went together so well. I still to this day listen to every single song off this album. Favorite Tracks: Nikki and Purple Kisses
Clipse "Lord Willin"- I remember I made my Nana sit and listen to this album and she loved Pusha T's voice. I remembered listening to album and I thought being a drug dealer would be cool. Pharrell did an incredible job on the beats and Star Trek did their thing on the guest appearances. Favorite Tracks: Virginia and Comedy Central


Mase "Harlem World"- I remembered when I lived in Appomattox this was the ONLY hip hop CD I had until I started making my own money. I loved how Mase had a skit after about every two songs. It reminded me a lot of Biggie's Life After Death Album. Favorite Tracks: Cheat On You and 24 Hours To Live


Ludacris "Word of Mouf"- God, I remember no matter where we were going or how long we would be gone Dad would play this album in the car alllllll the time and Mom would get mad we would know every single word of every song. Definitely a classic and there isn't a song I don't like. Favorite Tracks: Crybabies and Get The Fuck Back


A Tribe Called Quest "The Anthology"- Probably the jazziest hip-hop album I have ever heard. Me and brothers would know every word of every song including the ab-libs and who produced every song. Q-Tip's flow and easy delivery was amazing in this album. Favorite Track: Sucka Nigga and Scenario

Kanye West "808's and Heartbreak"- Kanye West absolutely pushed all boundaries for this album. He caught a lot of slack for using Auto-Tune on the whole thing, but he def made up for it for it by using the 808 drum on every beat (see my music review on this album from November) Favorite Tracks: Streetlights and See You In My Nightmares


Rage Against The Machine "Evil Empire"- LOVE Rage Against The Machine. The guitar riffs and lyrics are pretty sweet and Bulls on Parade was is one of my all-time favorite songs. I caught a lot of shit from my mom because they cussed a lot, but she had no room to talk lol. Favorite Tracks: Winds Below and Bulls On Parade


Jay-Z "Hard Knock Life: Volume 2"- This the first hip-hop album I listened to all the way through. I remember when I was little I wanted to be Jay-Z, because he had the swag and confidence that was incredible. I remember Dad let me have his version when I went and visited him. I love this hip-hop classic. Favorite Tracks: Hard Knock Life and Money Aint A Thing


Nirvana "In Utero"- The first true rock album I absolutely loved. I remember my Dad played one track in the car and told me to just listen to Kurt Cobain . I loved it and I went bought the album the next day. I remember I got made fun of a lot for listening to rock, but I thought Nirvana was incredible. Favorite Tracks: Heart-Shaped Box and Rape Me



N.E.R.D. "Seeing Sounds"- This was my favorite album of last summer, but it really caught fire when we got back to school and when they came to VCU for homecoming. The blend of hip-hop and modern rock was really refreshing and its good riding and driving music. Favorite Tracks: Anti-Matter and Sooner Or Later


Eminem "The Marshall Mathers LP"- I remember when I was absolutely STUCK on this album. Eminem says the most outlandish and craziest shit and this was his best work. His subject matter ranged from raping his mother to killing his wife and hating his fans. In a deranged way I loved every single second. Favorite Tracks: Criminal and Drug Ballad


Dr. Dre "2001"- Haha the craziest thing about this CD is that I think I was the only kid at Forest Middle School with this CD. I must have burned this exact album like a thousand times for a thousand people. Dre had everybody and their moms on this classic. Favorite Track: Forgot About Dre


Notorious B.I.G. "Ready To Die"- The best hip-hop album ever assembled. Period. Favorite Tracks: Suicidal Thoughts and Me & My Bitch



Lupe Fiasco "The Cool"- Probably some of the most refreshing works of Hip-Hop I have heard in a long time. This was the only album I listened to over and over winter break last year and it was hilarious me and my brothers got 3 copies of this same CD for Christmas that year. I really hope his next release will be out by this fall...Favorite Tracks: Dumb It Down and Gold Watch

Quicksand

FIRST thing... I have been looking for a new feel good R&B CD for like a few months now and I think I finally found one.


This dude is an amazing talent. Graduated with a Economics degree from Harvard at age 19 and later took up music. He has an amazing insight on love and passion. It is one of those albums you have to turn the lights out, lay in bed and listen to the album all the way through. Ryan Leslie is that amazing. His swag and style is out of here...I appreciate music for shit like this.

Anyways...to recap my week. It really wasn't anything special. I downloaded a ton of music, went to a few classes, missed a few classes, went to work and kicked it with some good people. It finally seems like everything is fine for right now. My car is finally street legal, I got a new Voyager after my first one completely snapped in half and my mom's birthday was yesterday so that was pretty straight. I finally got word that my parents got my 2nd VCU refund check so I have to go home and grab that soon.

Next week I have no choice but to be productive with more exams and papers quickly approaching. This part of college sucks but I wouldn't trade it for the world honestly. This situation forces kids like me to grow up and realize that shit could be worse. Just aiming for that degree and staying positive.

Ready for the weekend though...YESSIRRRRRR

How I Feel About You

Whoa...look how baby roll
She rockin her body, really look at shorty go
She rock it to the beat, She rockin it for me
And all i can think about is rocking her to sleep
Her face is like a model, Body shape is like a bottle
I wanna hit that more I wanna hit the lotto
She revving me up and she got her hand on my throttle
So i wanna get on top of her and zoom like a Yamaha
You can call it switching gears when I zoom inside of her
And If it tastes how it looks I'ma try to swallow her
Call me Mr. Shoe-shine, baby I'ma polish ya
And I'll leave it spit clean, I dont use no polisher
Your my biggest fan, tell your friends I demolish ya
Cause I'm that nigga baby, I can make you popular
Get another shot of that Ciroc in ya, Cause I'm gonna be rocking ya
Treat you like a first lady and I'll put that Barack in ya

Let me take you to a place far and beyond, in a whole other galaxy
Travel in your mind and explore your sexualities
Melt your imagination and mold into reality
Your heart is my art gallery,
Can you feel the pictures that I painted
Because all of them are related
Like a mother to a son but none of them overrated
Aint no others, You're the one, Now destiny is to make it
Now I have to thank you for sharing your world...
It's so real,
The Inspiration or no reason for thinking I'm incapable
Of taking on the duty of making you interchangeable
The thought is sensational, It's perfect bliss
I'm ready to take your Milky Way to your Hershey's Kiss
So don't worry about the pain, I have the situation under control
Let me dive in your heart and swim around in your soul

Im in love with you babyyyy

"Now shes the definition of fine, but I told her that her body looks better with mine"

A few things that I love, that doesn't have a heartbeat lol

- Zip-Up Hoodies
- MLB fitted baseball caps
- Novels about magic
- Plain vodka (flavored gets played out)
- Cell phones with full keyboards
- Cinnamon Pop-Tarts
- Skull Candy Headphones
- Hip-Hop
- Converse Chucks
- Late Night Conversation
- Spanish Accents
- Japanese Food
- Superrrr Cool Camry and Honey Honda :-)
- Cuddling
- Night Photography
- Cheesy reality shows on MTV
- Nick at Nite
- Reading Psychology books
- Reading the background information of Playboy bunnies
- Spearmint Chewing Gum (preferably Orbit)
- Art by my little brother
- XBOX 360
- Santogold
- Autotune (when used by the right people)
- High school football games
- Playing music as loud as possible
- My college