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Lost in the (Billy) Woods: Ray Garraty’s Year in Hip Hop

Some years, you want to check more new music. Other years, you don’t.  2022 was one of the latter.  As always, music journalists race to name the Next Big Thing, but when you go check it and it turns out Not a Big Thing at all. And the next big thing, you just walk past it.

In the rush to discover something else, people don’t properly follow an artist they discovered a month ago. Yet, often, the artists they gave up mature, get better or even reinvent themselves. Nobody pays enough attention to those artists. We have fewer and fewer listeners and more and more streaming platform passengers. Thus, this year it seemed that nobody properly listened to Louie Ray, Bandgang Lonnie Bands, Chief Keef, even though they created their best music right NOW. For most listeners, they belong to past years.

That is why I was dreading the 2022 end of the year lists. I was sure that we’d get two types of lists. The first would be hype lists, full of Hot New Artists nobody will remember after January 1. The other would be those created by and for a highbrow, white, middle-class public who wants its rap to be “smart.” Thus, we get thousands of lists full of billy woods and the like, which is only good to show your college professor how brainy your music tastes are.

Anyway, 2022 had plenty of good hip hop music. Probably the best music this year was the one we didn’t get to listen to. Boyz Ent, a label holding Rio Da Yung Og catalogue, had some managerial trouble, and despite the promises from the CEO we got only two new songs by Rio (not counting his EPs with Boog and Wayne616). Which is a shame. On to the next one!

Best releases of the year

Louie Ray — My Signature (Still Grinding)

Kookei — Mr. Incredible (H$G)

Bandgang Lonnie Bands x ShredGang Mone — Shottas (TF Distribution)

Wayne616 — Grease Files (Still Grinding)

Z Money — Back 2 The Blender (4EverPaidRecords)

Best tracks

Roc Marciano — Bubble Bath

Kookei  — Chris Brown

Z Money  —  Bounce Back

BandGang Lonnie Bands & ShredGang Mone — 3 Kids

Cashclick Boog x Rio Da Yung OG  —  Sneak the Balls in

Rio Da Yung OG — Professional Shit Talker

Louie Ray —  Back Home

Chief Keef — Bitch Where

Best production

Sav: Kookei  — Chris Brown

???: BandGang Lonnie Bands & ShredGang Mone—Greatest Bome Back

???: BandGang Lonnie Bands & ShredGang Mone —3 Kids

Fre$co: Cashclick Boog x Rio Da Yung OG — Sneak the Balls in

???: Louie Ray — Crazy 22

Best produced albums

Louie Ray — My Signature

Wayne616 – Grease Files

Non rap releases

Apogeion — Astrolatria I: Initiatio

Blood Chalice — The Blasphemous Psalms Of Cannibalism

Ignorance of the year

Bizarre — He Got a Gun 

ShredGang Mone’s verse on “3 Kids”

Bizarre, of D12 fame, was long ago discarded as a washed up Eminem sidekick by ‘serious’ rap fans. But he steadily releases new music, of the weirdest and goofiest type. Imagine the worst B-movie, and Bizarre will surpass it with over-the-top amount of ignorance.

Mone on his verse claims he robs rappers, and ironically, his partner Lonnie Bands got his chain took this year. One has to wonder if it was Mone’s job.

Ray Garraty

[theeauthor01]

Stories I’ve made

I’ve got three stories so far that are in progress for all to see

Diabolical Once More: The DuckTales reboot mixed with the Duck Avenger Comics (you don’t have to know the comics to understand this story) 

 https://archiveofourown.org/works/26281696/chapters/63982543

Summary:  The houseboat landed in a big crash, shaking the occupants inside, pictures and furniture lay strewn on the floor. "Ugh, what happen...?" Louie groans, trying to shake off the disorienting feeling and nausea coming upon him. "I... erg... I don't know," Donald replied shaking off the effects, doing a little better than Louie. He walked slowly over to the viewport window. Outside the mansion was gone, instead, they were in a large white room, "Uhh, that's not good." Louie stumbled, "what's not.." "Duck Avenger! I know you are in there, come on out to play." A loud voice, coming from everywhere, sung. "I can't wait to meet you!"

Connected to this I made a timeline for the DuckTales universe

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26237521

Becoming A Hero: My Hero Academia crossover with the Pokemon Anime

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27536998/chapters/67345027 

Summary:  Ash Ketchum has been through a lot. He has seen a lot of things. But now he woke up in another world with no explanation as to how he got there, where Pokémon aren't Pokémon, and almost everyone has a power called a quirk. Plus his aura is acting unusual. There's this kid who angry at everything, and a kid who wants to analyze everything and people are telling him to go to a school especially for heroes. This is definitely on the top five on the scale of weird things that have happened to him.

Also connected to this story is an explanation how a Pokémon battle would work in the MHA universe

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27718928

Entangled War: A Star Wars The Clone Wars Crossover with Transformers (during the beginning of the War on Cybertron)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26246230/chapters/63885130

 Summary: War has broken out in Cybertron, in order to defeat the Decepticons, Orion Pax is sent with a small team to find powerful relics lost to history. The Clone Wars is still going strong, Jedi knights Obi-wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, along with Padawan Ahsoka Tano has been sent by the Jedi counsel to find a mysterious force that has been foreseen to have great power. They must find it for the Republic to help them succeed in this war or to destroy it. They must also make sure Count Dooku and his Separatist army do not get a hold of it. (You don't need any knowledge for transformers)

[adamarinayu]

So with thing where everyone hated Paperinik, and Donald retired. What if Paperinik took a bullet for Scrooge and was like, bleeding out. And he accidentally lets something slip because he's focused on not dying.

Straight-up had to pause everything else just to write something for this, thanks.

It was supposed to be a normal adventure with his nephew and the children- with Donald, Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby. A normal adventure with Donald, Huey, Dewey, Louie and Webby, however, would mean Donald was there, snapping at Scrooge for getting them in danger.

Again.

Donald was not there snapping at Scrooge for getting them in danger again. Instead it was Paperinik.

The masked menace of Duckburg who disappeared nearly thirteen years before.

“I can’t believe you got your children put in danger- AGAIN!” Paperinik hissed, holding his shield up to block Glomgold’s onslaught. The children were quietly being ushered away behind debris by Launchpad, the pilot’s sidekick senses kicking in at the sight of a self-proclaimed hero (even if it wasn’t his hero).

“I didn’t ask ye tae come here!” Scrooge snapped in response, eyes scanning around for his nephew. Where was he?!

“Come on, old man, we gotta go. Forget the treasure-”

“This isn’t about the treasure!” Scrooge interrupted the other duck. “Where’s me nephew?”

“The kids have been taken back to your plane already,” PK said impatiently, grabbing the old duck’s arm and shoving him beside a collapsed stone wall. “You’re lucky I was here or else you’d be swiss cheese right now!”

“Donald!” Scrooge said, glaring at PK. The other duck’s eyes widened slightly. “Donald was here, ye menace, I need tae find him before Glomgold!”

“He’s safe!” PK insisted, grabbing and holding onto Scrooge’s arm before he could run out into the open cavern again. The shooting fell away, probably out of bullets. Glomgold’s Scottish cursing as he fumbled with the gun only confirmed it.

Glomgold meant business this time, it seemed.

“What makes ye think I’d trust a criminal?” Scrooge asked simply, yanking his arm away and darting out from behind the wall. He needed to find Donald.

“Crazy old man!” 

His eyes scanned every inch of the cavern, passing right over the crystals set into the ceiling. His nephew wasn’t anywhere. What if Glomgold already got him?

He couldn’t lose Donald, too.

“Un- Mr. McDuck!”

Scrooge whipped around just in time to see Glomgold with a simple pistol, taking aim at him from behind. He had a split second to realize he’d been running in a perfectly straight line, and had practically handed Glomgold an opportune moment- an easy strike.

A novice mistake.

He just wanted to find Donald.

And then PK was there, eyes screwed shut and mouth twisted into a grimace- shield up, but in the wrong direction, and blood quickly began to seep into the suit, hardly noticeable if not for the light of the crystals above.

Scrooge hadn’t even heard the gunshot. The so-called hero collapsed onto the ground within a second, and Glomgold upon seeing the notorious, feared masked duck fall dropped his gun and ran.

“I’ll get you yet, McDuck!” he yelled as he fled the scene, clearly not wanting to be around when PK recovered.

Except Scrooge wasn’t sure if the duck would recover.

PK pulled his shield off and reached over to his side. When he brought his hand back the white feathers were stained red. The duck didn’t look all that alarmed.

“Ah geez- Uno always warned me this would happen one day,” he laughed breathlessly, blue eyes locked on his hand. 

Finally Scrooge understood what had happened. The masked menace- the self-proclaimed hero who had, at the beginning of his career, been a mischief-making petty criminal- jumped between him and a bullet.

He needed to find Donald.

He couldn’t just leave PK there.

Making a decision, Scrooge dropped down beside PK. He might not like the duck, at all, but he would never be able to live with himself if he just left him there, injured.

Especially after the other just took a bullet for him.

For a ‘crazy old man’ like himself. Maybe Donald’s claims that Paperinik was a hero weren’t so unfounded after all?

He’d have to think on that later. “Just keep breathin, lad, an’ let me check the damage.” He grabbed ahold of PK’s cape- out of fashion, but PK never struck him as one to care about fashion any more than his own nephew did- and, after a quick scrutiny, ripped it to make damages. PK didn’t protest.

“Aw this is nothing,” PK said dismissively, even though his breathing was uneven and his gaze started darting around. He pressed his hand against the wound again, trying to stop the bleeding. “I’ve- I’ve been through worse.”

“Tell me about it,” Scrooge invited- it would be good for the younger duck to focus on something other than his current situation.

“Fighting the Evronians,” PK immediately answered, as if Scrooge knew what the Evronians were anyway. Maybe those weird purple things Angus Fangus claimed PK was in cahoots with? “And don’t gemme started on when Uno made me fight him in virtual reality- might not have been real but geez, in hindsight I was in ‘is world at that point so I should’a known-”

PK cut off with a hiss as Scrooge tightened the makeshift bandage around his abdomen.

“I won’t pretend tae know what those are,” Scrooge told the masked duck, glancing up and studying his face. His eyes were somewhat distant and his muscles seemed to be relaxing, not exactly a good sign when he knew very well the duck was in pain. Scrooge needed to get him to a proper doctor- Scrooge didn’t know if the bullet had hit anything vital, but he was losing a lot of blood…

“Ha ha, ya’ must’a been livin’ under a rock,” the other almost laughed as Scrooge applied another layer of bandage and pulled out his phone, sending Launchpad a text message telling him to come back. “Then again after the- the Kurezei of Lansophorema nothin’ would really phase ya’.”

Scrooge paused.

The Kurezei of Lansophorema.

Scrooge remembered that well. It was an adventure he and Della took, nearly twelve years ago. One that Donald refused to talk about- ever. One they all agreed to never talk about again. One none of them wanted to talk about.

Seeing the empty eyes of your dead loved ones bearing down on you was… unnerving, at the best of times. Even when you knew it was only an illusion.

Donald had to fight them. Scrooge and Della- they just couldn’t.

He never really knew where Donald got that strength, or what he saw that day that sent him into that rage. All he knew was one moment the duck was on his knees by them, and the next he was screaming and crying, throwing himself at the nearest creature- shouting, You’re not them! You’re not them! 

You’re not real!

Scrooge never asked. Donald never told.

“Y’know, I think, one thing about tha’ trip,” the duck continued to ramble, seemingly unaware that Scrooge had frozen, “I saw- saw so many people. People I cared about. People I- I couldn’t save. Ma, Da, Xadhoom, Uno, Poriophloon, Geena, all those Coolflames… so many people. Y’ asked me, what made me so mad tha’ I broke out- tha’ I broke outta the trance- but how could I tell ya’, when… when it jus’ brought everything back? Seein’ all our failures thrown at us- how coul’ ya’ not… not…”

The duck trailed off and Scrooge’s gaze snapped up to his face, seeing the other’s eyes fixed on the wall somewhere across the cavern. They were dull and distant but they were blue. Very blue.

Familiar blue.

Scrooge felt cold.

Carefully, fearfully, he reached up and slid his thumb under PK’s mask. The menace- hero- whatever he was, gave no reaction, and Scrooge pulled the mask off.

He felt like an idiot. It was so obvious now. How could a mask just hide it? How could he have not recognized his own nephew all those years?

“Donald,” he whispered, the name snapping PK’s- Donald’s- attention back to him.

They just stared at each other for a few seconds.

“Sorry,” Donald mumbled a moment before his body finally gave in and he collapsed, Scrooge catching him before he hit the ground.

Perhaps for the first time in a long time, Scrooge found himself screaming for help.

[djs-party-edm-italia]

GAMF Golfo Aranci Music Festival 2018 (V Edizione). Sul palco Bob Sinclar, Benny Benassi, Alex Gaudino, Get Far Fargetta... a costo zero

La V edizione del GAMF Golfo Aranci Music Festival 2018, si prevede quantomai infuocata, grazie alla presenza di autentiche superstar djs come Bob Sinclar, Benny Benassi, Alex Gaudino e Get Far  Fargetta. 

Tutto rigorosamente a costo 0, per chiunque voglia godersi 5 giorni di autentico spettacolo.

Il Famoso GAMF, Golfo Aranci Music Festiva è giunto alla V Edizione, una manifestazione che anno dopo anno è cresciuta sempre di più rafforzando il concetto di intrattenimeto a scopo di incentivazione turistica, perché interamente gratutito e per sua stessa natura, fruibile ad una fascia di pubblico quantomai estesa e variegata. Infatti la Proloco, di Golfo Aranci, si è fatta promotirce dell'Evento supervisionando ogni singolo aspetto e affidando all'Associazione Culturale "Una Scuola Sarda", l'organizzazione esclusiva e totale dell'intero evento.

Si puo' affermare senza ombra di dubbio che il GAMF è l'Evento musicale dell'Estate a Golfo Aranci, infatti ogni anno l'attesa è sempre crescente, tutti aspettano la presentazione dei grandi fuioriclasse del mixer e non vedono l'ora di vederli esibirsi sul grande palco di Piazzale La Piccola. Una chermesse nazionale e internazionale di dj, ballerini, performer, animatori etc etc, perfettamente in linea con quanto accade nel resto del mondo, come Ultra Music Festival di Miami, Coachella etc etc In questi anni alla consolle del GAMF si sono avvicendati alcuni tra i migliori guest  Internazionali, come: Benny Benassi, Louie Vega, Roger Sanchez, Tim Cullen (Ministry Of Sound), Paul Darey (Space Ibiza), Sorrentino (Jimmy'z Montecarlo) ma anche Fabio Rovazzi, Djs From Mars, Dj Albertino, Alex Gaudino,Get Far Fargetta, Roger Sanchez, Robbie Rivera, Gabry Ponte, ...e molti altri. Ma non ci si è fermati solo ai dj superstar, perché questo è un vero e proprio festival dell'arte, nella sua accezione più estesa, presentando; performance pirotechniche e teatrali, ballo sincronizzato, Live mic, lasergrafica, ledwall show e molto altro.

Per la Stagione 2018, in occasione della V Edizione, che si terrà dall'11 al 15 Agosto, il GAMF presenta il dj pop star mondiale Bob Sinclar, artista tra i più famosi al Mondo, che con il brano "Love Generation" è entrato nell'olimpo degli autori e produttori che hanno venduto più dischi nella storia della musica pop, per non parlare della collaborazione con l'Icona Raffaella Carrà, con il remix del brano "A Far l'Amore", "World Old On" altro successo intramontabile e molti altri… La sua serata al Pachà di Ibiza, "Paris by Night" è in assoluto la più frequentata di tutta l'Isola. Insomma un fuoriclasse che per la prima volta forse al Mondo viene offerto gratuitamente al pubblico, solo ed esclusivamente a Golfo Aranci!

Per l'occasione l'Art director Nello Simioli ha richiamato i grandi della consolle che hanno reso famoso questo meraviglioso Festival, riconfermando a pieni voti anche la presenza di del vocalist Gaty, divenuto ormai vero e proporio mattatore delle notti Golfo Arancine.  Tra i nomi altisonanti: il 13 Agosto si esibirà Benny Benassi, (vincitore di un Grammy Awards per aver remixato il brano "Celebration" di Madonna, per non palrare degli enormi successi discografici, come Satistaction, Beautifull People, Cinema e molti altri. Questo artista in America è osannato da folle oceaniche; memorabile la sua esibizione recente all'Ultra Music Festival…), in apertura del suo set sarà coadiuvato da Max Zotti in arte Sidekick, produttore della famosa hit "Deep Fear", Get Far Fargetta, si esibirà il 12 Agosto, (Vero e proprio porta bandiera di Radio Deejay e della dance Made in Italy), Alex Gaudino (non c'è persona al Mondo che non abbia ballato il suo famoso brano "Destination Calabria"," I'm In Love""What a Feeling" cantata da Kelly Roland delle Destiny's Child, si esibirà il 14 Agosto in Back To Back con Simioli,

Suark, il giovane talento svizzero che si esibisce nei principali festival europei invece aprirà le danze del Festival il 12 Agosto.

Come ogni anno il Festival darà spazio, fiducia e visibilità ai talenti isolani e infatti l'11 Agosto ascolteremo e balleremo la carica musicale irrefrenabile del duo olbiese Laser & Dejan e a seguire uno dei dj più famosi e apprezzati dell'Intera Isola; Trasko.

Il 12 Agosto a coadiuvare get Far Fargetta uno dei dj storici dell'intera Gallura, Corrado Appeddu, mentre il 14 in apertura a Gaudino e Simioli, Matteo Canu.

Insomma anche per questa Estate il GAMF regalerà autentiche emozioni in un clima di festa e divertimento che renderà la vacanza a Golfo Aranci e nell'intera Isola, ancora più indimenticabile.

Una grande festa che si rinnova ogni anno offredno continue novità per intrattenere il pubblico in modo piacevole, allegro, pulito... e assolutamente gratuito!

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