#Machine Gun Kelly 27

[jinx-on-mars-19xx]

[papercuts33]

.Songs Make My Heart Bleed.

"ANGELS & DEMONS" - Jaden Hossler

You don't fit in. Life is a nightmare. The demons and voices inside your head never stop screaming. Sometimes, you'll wake up so startled you wonder if it was real... Or... If you were dreaming. You feel useless, and you get high every night to hide your true feelings away from the light.

"Lonely" - Machine Gun Kelly

Somehow, Colson Baker phrases it just right. The lonely feelings, breaking apart after someone close to you dies. Someone you thought would stay forever, your only sliver of light in a broken life. Then they die, leaving you alone. You're lonely.

"27" - Machine Gun Kelly

27. Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, the list goes on and on. The age that many young artists faced their final demise. 27. Colson said he thought he'd die at 27, and in case he did, he wrote out his feelings about it. Saying goodbye to those he loved, especially his daughter.

"Drunk Face" - Machine Gun Kelly

"I'm still young," says singer and rapper, Colson Baker. From the sound of "Drunk Face" the age of 30 was still young enough. Yet, Colson says he realizes how quickly he's wasting his life away. Which leaves me with my futile question, aren't we all wasting our lives?

[findingmyself08]

.Songs That Break My Heart.

"ANGELS & DEMONS" By Jxdn.

You don't fit in. Life is a fucking nightmare. The demons and voices inside your head never stop screaming.

"Lonely" By Machine Gun Kelly.

I mean, who wouldn't put this song? Somehow, Colson Baker phrases it just right. The lonely feelings, breaking apart after someone close to you dies. You're lonely.

"27" By Machine Gun Kelly.

27. The age that many young artists faced their final demise. Colson said he thought he'd die at 27, and in case he did, he wrote out his feelings about it.

"Drunk Face" By Machine Gun Kelly.

"I'm still young," says artist, Colson Baker. From the sound of "Drunk Face" the age of 30 was still young enough. Yet, Colson says he realizes how quickly he's wasting his life away. Which leaves me with my futile question, aren't we all wasting our lives?

[prettytoxicrevolver]

can I request an mgk fic w/ prompts - 2. 'you're shivering' and 27. cold hands ? Ik it's pretty common but something different too, maybe Colson and y/n making out near the bonfire and getting caught ? 😭 thank u hehe

“Alright I'm headed in,” Slim says, standing from his adirondack chair.

“Don’t stay up too late,” he lifts a finger to point between you and Colson.

You both murmur a response and Slim leans down to kiss the top of your head before walking away leaving you and Colson alone. Your eyes gaze over the flickering fire before shifting over to Col who is staring ahead, an unreadable expression on his face.

You wrack your brain trying to think of something to say but the nerves have gotten to you first. Your crush on the famous machine gun kelly has once again rendered you speechless. An issue that was not had before when you were friends but the moment your brain switched on you all of your social skills seemed to follow out the same window.

“(y/n)?” Colson’s voice snaps you from your thoughts and your eyes flick over to his.

“Sorry, say that again?”

“You’re shivering,” he says and you look down to see your hands are actually shaking from the cold.

“Oh uh,” you stutter, pulling your hands close to you and rubbing them together in the hopes you'll warm up. “It’s fine.”

“Come here,” he murmurs gently and you tilt your head at him.

He holds a hand out to you and you stand from your chair. Your hand slips into his and he pulls you down so you’re resting on his lap, his arm circling your waist as you burrow your shivering body into his warm one.

“Your hands are freezing,” he says, cupping them into his chest, the warmth and his heartbeat taking over every other thought you have.

You try not to think too much of it, just focus on the warmth emanating from the boy you were madly in love with, the fire roaring near you and the quiet of the night.

“(y/n)?” Colson calls your name quietly and you turn to gaze into his deep blue eyes.

His eyes flick between yours and your lips and you feel yourself gravitating towards him slowly. When your lips meet you’re sinking further into his touch and you know your body would be melting if he wasn’t holding you tight.

Your hands tangle into his hair, tugging lightly until his lips part and your tongues crash, sliding over each other and passion flows from the two of you. His hands roam your waist, kneading slowly at your curves and you don’t think you’ve ever felt so heavenly in your life.

“Get a room!”

You pull apart slowly, both of your heads whipping over to glare at the voice above who has interrupted you. You spot Rook, Baze, and Slim all standing on the porch of your vacation home smirks adorning their faces.

“We did dickheads,” Colson yells back and you giggle lightly, dropping your head onto his chest.

“Remind me not to look at the security footage,” Slim adds and you lift your head once more, throwing a middle finger towards the three.

“Get a life,” you yell out and this sends the three into chuckles.

They finally back away from the porch railing and before you can say anything, Colson is pulling you in again.

[peggysaidso]

Kanthony Spotify Playlist

Okay.. I worked too hard on this.

Kanthony Playlist 

14 Songs 52 Minutes

Btw if you have any recs it’s forever changing

It’s Okay to Be Me, performed by: Sincerely, Me (3:25) (Anthony’s Theme)

Wild Horses performed by: Grace Power (2:43) (Kate’s Theme)

Bois Lie performed by: Avril Lavigne, Machine Gun Kelly (2:43) (ep 1/2 First impression friction)

Electric Touch performed by: Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy (4:26) (ep 3/4 Realizing feelings, bee sting, hunting trip, storm)

Dancing On My Own performed by: Anna of the North, Drum & Lace, Ian Hultquist (3:57) (ep 4 Dancing and Talking at the “Hearts and Flowers” ball)

Treacherous performed by: Taylor Swift (4:03) (ep 4 Almost Kiss in his study)

Head Above Water, performed by: Avril Lavigne (3:41) (ep 4/5 Anthony and Edwina are to get married, and Kate and Anthony are secretly dying inside)

Stop And Stare performed by: OneRepublic (3:44) (ep 6 During the wedding, Kate and Anthony cannot keep their eyes off of each other)

What About Us preformed by: P!nk (4:30) (ep 6/7 The wedding is a disaster and does not happen; the families are in ruin)

Stay performed by: Rihanna, Mikky Ekko (4:01) (ep7 Kate and Anthony finally give in their feelings)

Somewhere Only We Know, performed by: Keane (3:56) (ep8 After their night together, Kate freaks out, and after her falling off her horse and injuring herself, Anthony finally breaks through the feelings he has been pushing down.)

Wrecking Ball performed by: Miley Cyrus (3:41) (ep8 Kate and Anthony dance at the Featherington Ball where Edwina, The Queen, Lady Danbury, and both of their families smile at them approvingly.)

Heartbeat Here performed by: Dashboard Confessional (3:27) (ep 8 Outside the ball, Anthony professes his love for Kate and proposes marriage. Kate professes her love well and accepts, and they share a passionate kiss underneath the fireworks.

Let My Love Open The Door performed by: Luminate (3:18) (Kate and Anthony unity theme, They think they don’t deserve love but the other shows they do.)

[sunbeamstress]

IDOL 02/27/24

still on the title screen, though for good reason - i'm still getting the hang of godot, namely how to do things in it. my first attempt at animating the title was a bit naive, with all the animation being handled in GML:

today i learned that godot actually has an animation engine, one that isn't actually super difficult to figure out! i added two new screens: a "made by sunbeamstress" and "made in godot" panel, and then converted the hardcoded stuff above into a proper animation:

so much easier. i see, you godot.

my favorite part about this is that instead of a massive ugly hardcoded block, the entire title screen is controlled by two lines of code:

up next was the music. up until now, i'd been using a loop of copyrighted music, the intro to Machine Gun Kelly's Hotel Diablo album. i like the idea of using music as a placeholder to sort of remind me what tone i'm going for, but obviously i couldn't ship a game with this track in it, so it was time to make my own:

FL Studio is super intimidating to me, but i think it, too, is something i'm starting to understand. the game's first track, Will Wonders Never Cease, is born. it isn't super exciting but i also don't want it to be.

anyway, i learned what i wanted to; the title screen is now in a place where i want it and i can move on to actually developing the rest of the game. later on i want to animate the main character and add a proper background, but for now here's where we are:

i have no idea what i'm doing but i'm having a blast!

[pimento-playing-hopscotch]

hiii! 10, 27, and 35 for the end of year ask meme please 🧡

Hello 🥰🥰

10. What song sums up this year for you?

All I Know by Machine Gun Kelly- because truly the only thing that I know for sure is I don’t know anything lol (also the person on the inside was crumbling a LOT of this year hahah)

27. Have you done anything that scared you?

Yes- only because I am scared of everything- but I did get a new job twice and the second one, I quit when I had been offered the job but hadn’t gotten the offer letter yet- which I got the offer but it felt risky- also after I cut my finger open on an industrial meat slicer, I used the slicer the next day which freaked me out a bit lol

35. Who was important to you this year but wasn’t important last year?

One word, three letters-

YOU.

(I can’t figure out the spacing, I was trying to put this under the gif but it won’t let me)

But talking to you has been the highlight of my day these past months (even though I’m not as good to talk to because I take too long tk respond sometimes which I’m sorry about that 🫣) but being able to scream about everything with you has meant everything to me 🥰🥰🫶🫶

[shrimp-apocalypse-now]

RADIO WRAPPED

you said "fuck this song" and forcefully changed stations 437 times

we overplayed 27 songs that you liked and made you start hating them

you heard 1 good cover, 2 covers that are so bad they make you laugh, and 7 covers that are so bad they piss you off

you listened to "cruel summer" by taylor swift 5 times during one workday! not because you wanted to but because we played it

you heard cuss words we mistakenly forgot to censor 13 times

your enjoyment of "my ex's best friend" by machine gun kelly increased by 200% after watching the green goblin niles frasier amv

[jinx-on-mars-19xx]

[cyarskaren52]

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Jack Harlow Knew This Was Coming

Well, sort of. But now he’s got a smash hit, a new album featuring Adam Levine, and he may have accidentally altered the course of NBA history

January 27 2021, 10:00 AM ET

DJ Drama was in no rush to return from his lunch break.

Sandwiched between the outskirts of Atlanta’s Bankhead neighborhood and the sprawling campus of Georgia Tech University is Means Street Studios. This hub of hip hop recording has played host to a litany of stars since its 2013 inception. Playboi Carti, Gucci Mane, Lil Uzi Vert and the late Nipsey Hussle are just some of the artists who’ve graced its halls.

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However, on this day in November 2017, the Means Street corridors were not especially glamorous. Atlantic Records had selected the studio complex to host its quarterly A&R conference in which DJ Drama, legendary mixtape arbiter and co-founder of Atlantic’s Generation Now imprint (Lil Uzi Vert, Killuminati), played a significant role.

Overnight success stories often begin at conferences like this one, long before viral TikTok challenges and feature placements on streaming services come into play. It can sometimes take years for an artist to build enough trust with a label to earn a star-turning album or single rollout. Drama knows a thing or two about this waiting game. It was his seminal free mixtape series, Gangsta Grillz, that helped rappers circumvent this indefinite layover and maintain relevance during the 2000s.

“I was just kind of, you know, taking my time to get back,” he admits over a Zoom call, reminiscing. He was, after all, DJ Drama. He was far past the stage where he needed to outhustle fellow A&Rs and executives. New music needed to hustle its way to him.

Still, as 2014 signee Lil Uzi Vert inched closer to international superstardom, Generation Now was in the market for a second star. When Drama finally returned from his break, something extraordinary happened.

“Right as I walked in just a little bit late, ‘Dark Knight’ was on. They were playing ‘Dark Knight’ in the meeting.”

A few months prior to Atlantic’s A&R summit descending upon Means Street, during the waning days of summer 2017, DJ Drama sat in a room at the studios beside his fellow Generation Now execs: Don Cannon, a similarly legendary mixtape DJ, and their partner Leighton “Lake” Morrison. Meeting with them were KY, a renowned engineer from Louisville, and a lanky, curly-haired white boy, also from Louisville, whose brand of brash-yet-self-conscious raps had built a fanbase whose support had him teetering on the brink of vested major label interest. This was Jack Harlow, Drama was told.

He knew who the 19-year-old rapper was. Drama’s friend and colleague Randy had hipped him to Jack’s Instagram page several months prior. Intrigued, Drama followed it and listened to a handful of the young rapper’s songs. The night before the formal introduction at Means Street, Jack had been thrust into a studio session by this same friend, Randy, to record with Generation Now’s inaugural signee, veteran rapper Skeme.

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Harlow has endeared himself to a wide array of musicians in a short time CREDIT: Noah Schutz

“The way Randy talked about it,” Drama recalls, “He was like, ‘I just wanted to see if [Harlow] had his chops. ‘Cause, you know. Skeme ain’t no hoe.’”

However, despite Harlow’s passing grades at his session with Skeme, Drama and company weren’t ready to set anything in stone. “It wasn’t final,” he says as he remembers how the meeting with KY and Jack concluded. “I don’t know, it was like everybody wasn’t sold.”

In the aftermath of the inconclusive meeting, Harlow, sensing Generation Now’s hesitation, returned to Louisville and got right back to work. He would be releasing Gazebo, his fourth and breakout self-released project, the third week of November 2017, and he needed to fire a warning shot. One that both his fanbase and GN would heed. That materialized as “Dark Knight,” a bruising ramble introducing listeners to a reenergized Harlow, who did not appear to be reeling from the effects of leaving Atlanta without a deal.

“Know this shit boom when we came down south and I had to bring my own lil’ Metro,” Harlow rapped, likening a member of his crew to Metro Boomin, the multi-platinum Atlanta-based producer. The song ends on an even more confident note. “Funny how it all works out / Right before this I was feeling burnt out / Now the whole city ‘bout to get burned down.”

Harlow wasn’t quite peeved, but there was a specific edge to his delivery. The chip on his shoulder was just big enough. “Dark Knight” made exactly as much noise as Harlow hoped it would. Because of it, he quickly outgrew DJ Drama’s circle. Label offers were imminent, regardless of whether Generation Now was interested. Harlow knew this. So did Drama.

Thus, when the DJ returned from his lunch break that day at Means Street to hear “Dark Knight” blaring from studio speakers, he knew immediately he had a decision to make. On his own accord, Harlow had quickly gotten better, sharper and grown more polished. So much so that Atlantic would surely be preparing to take its own chance on him by meeting’s end, leaving Generation Now out of the picture.

“Oh! That’s just Jack,” he hastily announced to the room. “I’m already on that. We got that, you can tuck that,” he remembers saying. The room quickly moved to the next order of business. If DJ Drama was on that, the conversation was over.

Truthfully, neither Drama nor his partners were actually on that. But that would soon change. “I went to text Cannon to tell him they played ‘Dark Knight’ in the meeting,” Drama says, as he cracks a wistful smile.

“It forced our hand in a way, thankfully.”

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Jack Harlow photographed in Los Angeles, January 2021 CREDIT: Noah Schutz

It’s a Friday night in January 2021, and Jack Harlow is seated in complete darkness. The COVID-19 pandemic will soon be a year old, so instead of doing something like eating tacos and playing H-O-R-S-E—which, I’ve decided, would have been my suggested activity for this interview in a safer world—I’m staring at a Zoom screen as Harlow, whose camera is switched off, describes his current setting. I’m not allowed to see it. “I’m sitting in the dark right now, you don’t want to see me in this mood right now,” he warns. For a moment, it sounds like a very vulnerable-rapper way of saying I was in the zone right before this. My next question is, “What are you doing, writing?” His deadpan reply: “No, I’m doing an interview.”

It is exactly this type of shrewd and subtle wit that allowed Jack Harlow to become Jack Harlow.

Born in March 1998 to the proprietors of a family-run sign business in Louisville, Kentucky, Harlow’s narrative isn’t the most compelling. Unlike many of his peers, he didn’t have to escape extreme poverty or take penitentiary chances in order to provide. He’s not from a city that regularly produces rap stars, and despite his obvious skill level, it would be fair to mistake him for a math tutor. His free time would often consist of riding around with friends in search of adventure, hoping to catch a cute girl’s attention along the way. As exhausted of a character trope as this is, young Jack Harlow was very much just a regular kid. His writing ability is what made him irregular. It also gives him a puncher’s chance at becoming the preeminent star of his generation.

In the 2020s, as microwave TikTok fame continues to prove reliable as a launching pad to Billboard success, emphasis on range and craft in the mainstream will continue to dwindle across the board. In hip hop specifically, descendants of 808’s & Heartbreak-era Kanye West have spent much of the last 15 years redefining how much traditional rapping is necessary to be successful in the genre. These dynamics don’t interest Harlow as much as they could. His duty is to his wordplay, and the techniques he employs to keep listeners on their toes. Sometimes it’s a stretch of alliteration that he’s able to effortlessly maintain. Other times, he’ll thumb his nose so nonchalantly you’ll forget that it’s slick talk. “The ones that hate me the most look just like me. You tell me what that means,” he raps on the 2020 single, “Tyler Herro.”

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Jack Harlow is ready to roll CREDIT: Noah Schutz

In present-day hip hop, recognition is less contingent on lyrical ability than it ever has been. Despite scattered worlds that continue to place the technical art of rapping on a pedestal—the J. Cole-led Dreamville imprint and Westside Gunn’s Griselda immediately come to mind—being a Good Rapper has long taken a backseat to marketability. This transition has created somewhat of a perfect storm for an artist like Harlow, who isn’t going to blow you away with metaphors or dizzying flow switches. But his unassuming charisma, coupled with a sturdy pen and the attention to detail to execute a line like, “Been tryna pop, now I’m on like Shumpert,” provides for a lane that he can dominate.

“You know, for some odd reason, it’s been what I’ve wanted to do for so long that I can’t even pinpoint what it felt like to not want to do this,” Harlow says. “Like, sometimes I wonder, ‘What was it like to be a purposeless child that was simply enjoying life?” His mother, a hip-hop fan, would soundtrack the household with Jay-Z, OutKast and Black Eyed Peas. Perhaps unbeknownst to mom, her young son was taking meticulous notes. He wasn’t just enthralled, he was inspired. “What’s Poppin’” was an eventual outcome, but an inevitable one.

Harlow’s biggest hit song to date (and of 2020), “What’s Poppin’” materialized in the way that an innumerable amount of hit songs have come together. Hotshot producer slides into hotshot rapper’s DMs with hopes that they can form a mutually beneficial partnership. This particular exchange made perfect sense. JetsonMade, the Roc Nation-managed producer behind DaBaby’s breakout hit, “Suge,” was looking to diversify his portfolio. And Harlow was in album mode.

“I heard those piano keys, and I was just taken,” Harlow recalls. After a weeks-long back-and-forth with Jetson while touring in 2019, Jack had finally carved out time to get into the studio with the in-demand producer. On day two, Harlow heard the sound that changed his career. “I think I probably reacted how a lot of people reacted when they heard that beat. It’s fucking hard.”

Incidentally, it wasn’t even the featured beat of the night. In a recent interview with Genius, Jetson and Pooh Beatz, a producer Jet often partners with (“Told Pooh he a fool with this shit”), recall the night they flipped through instrumentals, looking for something for Harlow to “pop his shit” over. “You’ve got to give the artist room to be creative as well,” Pooh said. “So I’m always listening for that simplest piece.” 

That beat, accentuated with that bouncing, accelerated piano loop, gave Harlow more than enough room to be selective with his approach. “I said to myself, ‘Jack, don’t think too hard. Don’t bear down on this beat and smother it. You know, don’t try to go crazy on it. Just have fun with it.’ So that’s what I did. I said the first thing that came to mind.”

What’s poppin? Brand new whip, just hopped in I got options, I could pass that bitch like Stockton

Then,

Just joshing, I’ma spend this holiday locked in

Seriously? “Just joshing?” I had to ask.

“That was a line I’d always planned on replacing,” Harlow admits as he chuckles. Given the opportunity to address the subtle audacity of this cheesy-but-effective line, he perks up. “I was always going to get rid of it. It was a placeholder. It was literally just something that rhymes with the other shit.”

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By the time he’d completed the song, it was far too late for replacements. For just over two minutes, on “What’s Poppin,” Harlow’s subdued-but-sharp flow darts in and out of the accelerated piano loop, buoying the dancing bassline Jetson and Pooh concocted. The beat doesn’t rush Harlow, and in turn, he doesn’t stifle it. After wrapping his sessions with Jetson, he played the song for confidantes on his team and friends back home in Louisville. Their response was the confirmation Jack needed. “What’s Poppin’” was the one. “I really treasure that moment because I use it as a lesson now when I’m trying to write,” he says. “I’m just like ‘go, go, go’ because look at the success that song is giving me when I just let go. It’s a lesson, you know, you just gotta let go and…” Harlow trails off briefly, perhaps rummaging through his brain for the word that will summarize this lesson. Seconds later, he finds it.

“Be instinctual.”

Shortly after its January 2020 release, “What’s Poppin’” was added to Spotify’s Rap Caviar playlist, the leading gatekeeper in the hip hop playlisting world. Securing a placement on a playlist like Rap Caviar in the streaming era is akin to being named a member of XXLmagazine’s “Freshman Class” during the early 2010s blog era. It won’t guarantee a successful career, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a more effective springboard into the national conscience. Once “What’s Poppin’” hit Rap Caviar, it never looked back.

The song and its remix, which features DaBaby, Lil Wayne and Tory Lanez, have now been streamed over 700 million times on Spotify. Consequently, Harlow is a millionaire and Grammy nominee at 22. In case that was unclear, he announces it just 10 seconds into his debut studio album, That’s What They All Say, released in December, on the album’s intro, “Rendezvous.” The album, which features Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, Lil Wayne, Lil Baby, and an appearance from the late R&B legend Static Major, is his biggest flex yet. The world had just learned his name, and already he was getting A-list stars out of bed for a set of tracks so versatile, comparisons to Drake are unavoidable.

“You know, it’s funny because, I remember my dad said to me he was proud of me because, you know, his dad was broke on a farm and grew up incredibly impoverished. Then my dad grew up a little better than him. And now, I’m a millionaire,” Harlow says, unable to disguise his pensive tone. “And he just wanted to point that out to me. It’s a huge step. I mean, I know that seems obvious for me, but it’s a huge step for him. I never met his dad—rest in peace—but if he could see the success, shit would be a whole ‘nother world to him. So it’s just nice to put it in perspective. You know, that’s the one thing I’ve been really careful about doing.”

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Jack Harlow's trajectory continues to trend upCREDIT: Noah Schutz

The way Harlow ended his thought, it felt like a cautionary tale was coming. My hunch was pure. “Sometimes I think all these millionaires and artists get so wrapped up in entering the world and becoming friends with all the other millionaires when they get to L.A.,” he starts, “They get wrapped up in the world and it does become normalized. And they think to themselves, ‘Well, then, I have room to be depressed. Everyone around me is a millionaire and I’ll find something to be unhappy about.’”

Don’t let the depths of Harlow’s self-awareness disarm you; he knows he’s the guy right now. He always has. His account of the events surrounding his initial meeting with Generation Now at Means Street mirrors DJ Drama’s. Jack just sprinkles a little ego in, like parsley. “Drama was fucking with me, but he took a second. The label took a second. And I remember I ended up having to drop “Dark Knight.” I said, ‘I’ma just drop it.’ And that really got the buzz going. Labels started, people were interested. And I was like ‘O-K, yeah, yeah, no, I got it.’”

“So you sort of had to trigger your own bidding war,” I ask. He agrees. “Yeah, exactly. And they were on it quick.”

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He's laid back and ready for a big 2021 CREDIT:Noah Schutz

This Cinderella ascent has not come without setbacks, however. With fame comes heightened visibility, which can trip up even the most vigilant of stars. The NBA’s announcement that it would resume play following its March COVID-19 stoppage came with a strict set of safety guidelines. Players were prohibited from leaving the Disneyland campus that hosted the remainder of the season, fondly known as “The Bubble,” unless they had explicit permission from league authorities. Even so, they were still encouraged to stay clear of high-risk areas, like densely populated public venues.

Strip clubs—I’m guessing—would probably qualify as high-risk during a pandemic. That’s where Harlow was when he snapped a selfie with Los Angeles Clippers guard Lou Williams less than a week after the league had resumed play. They each wore masks, but Williams had been granted permission to leave The Bubble so he could attend a relative’s funeral, not pop up on a rapper’s Instagram Story while at the strip club. Lou Will maintains that he was simply picking up chicken wings when Harlow snapped the selfie, and not ripping wrappers off packs of singles. The NBA, however, would hear none of it and forced Williams into a 10-day quarantine. He missed the first two games of his teams’ restart, the Clippers never redeveloped their chemistry, and they were eliminated from the playoffs so quickly, their season became fodder for a Freddie Gibbs chorus several weeks later. “Hoes get fucked and sent home early, just like the Clippers.”

Naturally, no one blames Harlow for this. Not even Lou Will. “[Lou] called me like, ‘Don’t even fucking trip. I’m Lou. I don’t get in trouble.’ I was like well shit, you just gave me the pass to relax,” Harlow reveals as he fights back laughter. Still, one can’t help but wonder how things might have turned out if the restart to the Clippers’ season was less turbulent. After they were eliminated, the team fired its coach, retooled most of its roster, and saw its star player, Paul George, spend the entire summer soul searching. What a sequence of events.

There is also the matter of the aforementioned remix to “What’s Poppin,” one of the most successful remixes in recent hip hop memory. Just a few weeks after the song was released, Lanez was accused of shooting Houston hip hop star Megan Thee Stallion in her feet following a party in Los Angeles. With increased social attention to misogynoir and violence against women as the wind in their sails, scores of Twitter users “canceled” Lanez and began lobbying for industry figures to blacklist him and his music. Harlow, stunned at the news, didn’t know how to react. The very mention of it makes him uncomfortable. I asked him what his initial reaction was.

“It’s crazy,” he says. “The news broke right after we dropped the video. I was like, ‘I wonder how this is going to go.’ I was curious, I was shocked, I was just like, damn.” He would comment no further.

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Don't mess with Jack Harlow CREDIT: Noah Schutz

Eventually, Harlow’s whiteness had to be addressed. He knew it, and I knew it. In listening to his music over the years, I’d observed how many of my Black friends and colleagues were accepting of him in a way that they weren’t accepting of other white rappers. It’s comforting to have a white rapper just be a white rapper, and not cosplay their Black peers with guerilla music videos and disingenuous displays of gunplay and drug use. Maybe too comforting. Last year, Harlow trended on Twitter because the platform had somehow just discovered his race. He poked fun at the confusion on Instagram, posting a screenshot of his discography, which features his very white face on every cover art. “I did everything I could do to show y’all I am white,” he wrote.

Harlow expresses an understanding of what it means to be a privileged outsider. When Breonna Taylor was unjustly murdered at the hands of Louisville police last March, Harlow hit the streets as marches and protests swept the nation. “People have asked me, as if there was a strategy involved, ‘What made you do it?’ I grew up with Black people, and the empathy I have for them is ingrained in me. It’s not something that arrived this past summer, but I was charged up by the movement. It happened where I’m from and there’s a responsibility that comes with that.”

One of the earliest memories critics will have of Harlow is his visit to Sway Calloway’s Sway In The Morning show on SiriusXM. In the footage, Harlow, wearing a brown Ecko Unlimited long-sleeve T-shirt, is even more baby-faced than he is now. Sitting next to the much stockier DJ Drama, it almost looks as if Drama is the talent and Harlow is the management. He’s quiet and fidgety, slightly deer-in-headlights, and doesn’t look much like the guy who “forced” the hand of a legend.

I remind Harlow of this moment and ask him to consider everything that’s happened since. What will his legacy be?

“I want to be someone that’s true to myself, and someone that’s wholly original to the game.” He says that he’s been that person in spurts and that his goal is to intentionally chase that for the rest of time. “The beauty of making art and music is, ideally that’s what should live forever. That’s what gives me purpose. I think that’s what we’re all looking for. Mortality is in the back of all of our heads, and I found the thing that makes it bearable.”

I ask him, “Does that scare you? The thought of dying before you reach your full potential?”

“Oh yes. So much so, I don’t even want to talk about it.”

Jack Harlow is styled by Metta Conchetta.

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[machinegunkellymexico]

▫️ Machine Gun Kelly & Megan Fox.

➖ Annual Casamigos Halloween party | Fiesta anual de halloween de Casamigos. 🎃

📍Los Angeles, California. 🇺🇸

📅 10/27/2023

[unfeelingmyself]

can you take me higher?

now, can you take me higher?

now, can you take me higher?

can you take me higher?

[sagehaleyofficial]

HERE’S WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEK (11.16-11.22.22):

NEW MUSIC:

- You Me at Six released a short film to go along with their new song “Mixed Emotions.” The band also recently announced their new album Truth Decay, releasing on January 27, 2023. - Weathers announced their signing to Sumerian Records and dropped a new appropriately-named song titled “Where Do I Sign?”. The band is currently on tour with Set It Off. - The Sound of Animals Fighting released their first new song in 14 years titled “Apesh*t.” The song was revealed to be the title track of a new EP releasing on December 8 via Born Loser Records. - YouTuber and musician Alex Melton released a cover of Four Year Strong’s song “Seventeen.” The singer will be releasing his debut country album Southern Charm on January 23, 2023 via Pure Noise Records. - One OK Rock released a music video to go along with their newest track “Vandalize.” The song is featured on the soundtrack of the new video game Sonic Frontiers, which also features Sleeping with Sirens’ Kellin Quinn. - City and Colour released a new song titled “Meant to Be,” which was written in tribute to his late friend and producer Karl Bareham. It’s the first new music from the project since 2019’s full-length A Pill for Loneliness. - The Dirty Nil released a new song titled “Bye Bye Big Bear.” The band released their last full-length album F*ck Art back in early 2021. - Palaye Royale released a music video for their new song “Oblivion.” The band’s newest album Fever Dream is out now via Sumerian Records. - Waterparks revealed the track listing for their upcoming studio album, which is yet to be titled. The album will feature their songs “Funeral Grey” and “Self-Sabotage,” as well as their collaboration with Blackbear titled “F*ck About It.” - Phem released a new song titled “Never Goes Down Like That” featuring Ezekiel. The song follows on from her previous singles “Watery” and “Brkdwn.”

TOUR ANNOUNCEMENTS:

- Slam Dunk Festival announced they are expanding into Europe next summer with two new events taking place in France and Italy. The Offspring, Billy Talent and Simple Plan were announced as headliners for both events. - Against the Current announced they will be livestreaming the footage from their recent tour stop at Cologne’s Carlwerk Victoria back in the spring. The event will be taking place this Saturday, November 25, via Maestro and there will be two showings. - 2000trees Festival shared the lineup of bands who will be attending next year. Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes will be headlining and will be joined by The Wonder Years, Cancer Bats, Joyce Manor, Dream State, Microwave, Koyo and others.

OTHER NEWS:

- The nominees for next year’s Grammy Awards were announced, with Turnstile up for three different categories. Joining them are Ghost for Best Metal Performance and Machine Gun Kelly for Best Rock Album. - Simple Plan’s classic track “I’m Just a Kid” is now certified Silver in the United Kingdom. It appears on the band’s debut album No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls, which is also certified Silver. ___

Check in next Tuesday for more “Posi Talk with Sage Haley”!

[jennathearcher]

I posted 15,116 times in 2022

That's 9,814 more posts than 2021!

185 posts created (1%)

14,931 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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@murakel

I tagged 6,754 of my posts in 2022

#favorite shows - 1,901 posts

#stranger things - 1,538 posts

#favorite movies - 1,288 posts

#eddie munson - 1,155 posts

#amazing art - 1,104 posts

#favorite people - 1,103 posts

#house of the dragon - 580 posts

#marvel - 572 posts

#otp - 543 posts

#i am the devil that you forgot - 536 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#one of those sets of brass knuckles with lil blades on them sort of like a dyi wolverine thing just with shorter blades for sneak attacks

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

tap on my window, knock on my door (even if saving you sends me to heaven): a ship playlist for eddie munson and chrissy cunningham from stranger things

1. starving - hailee steinfeld & grey ft. zedd 2. lil red riding hood - bowling for soup 3. treat you better - shawn mendes 4. rock god - selena gomez & the scene 5. just so you know - jesse mccartney 6. king of my heart - taylor swift 7. she will be loved - maroon 5 8. hold on to my heart - w.a.s.p. 9. sex on fire - kings of leon 10. this side of paradise - coyote theory 11. your guardian angel - the red jumpsuit apparatus 12. better than drugs - skillet 13. you belong with me (taylor’s version) - taylor swift 14. the middle - jimmy eat world 15. craw-fever - elvis presley 16. telescope eyes (original version) - eisley 17. you’re beautiful - james blunt 18. scotty doesn’t know - lustra 19. what the hell - avril lavigne 20. i want to know what love is - foreigner 21. little talks - of monsters and men 22. crush - david archuleta 23. nothing else matters - metallica 24. hold my beer - aaron pritchett 25. good girls go bad - cobra starship ft. leighton meester 26. eighteen - anarbor 27. eddie my love - the teen queens 28. in the air tonight - phil collins 29. broken smile (my all) - lil peep 30. this is what you came for - calvin harris ft. rihanna

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#4

more than death or mortal strife: a playlist inspired by the locked tomb book series by tamsyn muir

1. reborn - colin stetson 2. fire temple - bobby krlic 3. let me hear you scream - ozzy osbourne 4. everybody’s fool - evanescence 5. dear john - taylor swift 6. ribcage - andy black 7. battlefield - jordin sparks 8. dead is the new alive - emilie autumn 9. paul’s dream - hans zimmer 10. the king - robin carolan & sebastian gainsborough 11. where is my mind? - yoav 12. my beloved monster - eels 13. virgin state of mind - k’s choice 14. i love you - woodkid 15. unholy - sam smith & kim petras 16. body - mother mother 17. kiss with a fist - florence + the machine 18. just as much - delaney jane ft. virginia to vegas 19. organs - of monsters and men 20. baroquetech - saunder jurriaans & danny bensi 21. skeletons - brothers osborne 22. the sound of silence - disturbed 23. emo girl - machine gun kelly & willow 24. nothing else matters - ramin djawadi 25. yellow flicker beat - lorde 26. i’ll sleep when i’m dead - set it off 27. god ends here - abel korzeniowski 28. hand of sorrow - within temptation 29. abracadavre - treyarch ft. elena siegman 30. i will follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie 31. don’t fear the reaper - gus black

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@murakel​ @piratespencil​

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#3

sentence starters inspired by bdylanhollis on tiktok (part two)

107 notes - Posted January 4, 2022

#2

“You don’t think I’m a bad person?”

“All I think is that I love you.”

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My #1 post of 2022

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[theweirdkidinside03]

Dann & Mujin snatched this week’s top spot from Jimin

1. Traffic Accident - Dann & Mujin

2. Chemical - Post Malone

3. Satellite - Harry Styles

4. Curtains - Ed Sheeran

5. Double Fantasy (feat. Future) - The Weeknd

6. THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS (feat. Dan + Shay) - Charlie Puth

7. Karma (feat. Ice Spice) - Taylor Swift

8. Wild Tonight - Josh Cullen

9. Like Crazy - Jimin

10. WHERE SHE GOES - Bad Bunny

11. Miracle - Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding

12. Heaven - Niall Horan

13. Eyes Closed - Ed Sheeran

14. Jaded - Miley Cyrus

15. Rock And A Hard Place - Bailey Zimmerman

16. Princess Diana - Ice Spice & Nicki Minaj

17. Last Night - Morgan Wallen

18. Waffle House - Jonas Brothers

19. Crushed - Imagine Dragons

20. Middle Ground - Maroon 5

21. Talm’ Bout - Chris Brown

22. They Don’t Love It - Jack Harlow

23. Red Ruby Da Sleeze - Nicki Minaj

24. Satellite - Bebe Rexha & Snoop Dogg

25. River - Miley Cyrus

26. Mother - Meghan Trainor

27. Grown Man - Marshmello, Polo G, Southride

28. End Of Time - Zara Larsson

29. Dance The Night - Dua Lipa

30. Alone - Kim Petras & Nicki Minaj

31. GENTO - SB19

32. Never Ending Song - Conan Gray

33. OK - Jeremy Zucker

34. Flower - Miley Cyrus

35. Withdrawal - Austin Mahone

36. Running Out Of Time - Paramore

37. Die 4 Me - Halsey

38. Wings - Jonas Brothers

39. Padam Padam - Kylie Minogue

40. PRESSURE - Machine Gun Kelly

[i-think-i-did-it-again]

What is your favorite machine gun kelly song if not just one what is your favorite album?

My favorite song is die in california.

Album is Hotel Diablo

Ooo I love this question! My favourite song is 27, which is off my favourite album Bloom! 🌹