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murdocsagaypirate · 6 years ago

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Russel and 2D G-Mix #10:

8/13/18 Russ is doing fine and 2D is not.

2D:

Starts with Tranz and ends with Fire Flies but we’ve talked about that shit enough.....

The Less I Know The Better - Tame Impala

I’m fucking shaking. ok. So. This is a song a person wrote to someone they’re in love with. It’s fairly safe to assume they are in the midst of an affair. The writer wants to the subject to leave the person that is actually in a devoted relationship with to be with them. The subject says they will, they just have to wait. “The less he knows” about what the person he loves is doing or feeling with the other person, the less pain he’ll have to endure, while he’s waiting on his lover to finally choose him. It was noted to me that this SAME song has been ong MURDOC’s G-mix in the past........ soo...........

Psycho Star - King Tuff

Aw~ this is such a nice song of universal existential crisis. Very 2D.

Multi-Love - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

So. this is a song about struggling with a relationship where one person brought a third person in, made it poly, and made the songwriter feel used and left out. He specifically talks about feeling like a painkiller (I’ll be her Vicodin) for the other person... I don’t know what to say anymore, dude. do I even need to say it? are we one the same page here?

Nobody Cares - Superorganism

EE! I love this song! It’s a very double-edged sword kind of meaning talking about how you’ll realize eventually that people don’t notice most of the things you’re insecure about but then you’ll also notice that no one really notices YOU, and like the things you’re legitimately struggling with.

BTSTU (Edit) - Jai Paul

*looks straight into the camera*

Don’t fuck with me Since you shipped my ass off to sea I never knew where I was going I went where the water was flowing

I know I've been gone a long time but I'm back and I want what is mine I know I've been gone a long time but I'm back and I want what is mine The ship was the love of my life We went down together that night I surfaced and married a shell And for years I just cruised on the run

So don't try and fuck me about The worst thing that happened was I was standing too close to your heart I'm tired and about to wake up

If you’ve been paying attention there isn’t a goddamn single word I need to say about this song. But I’ll say it anyway: 1. Plastic Beach. 2. 2D is so fucking done.

ruby - Ben Khan

I’m not sure what the first verse is about, but the rest goes into two people doing drugs together and having fun and having this like unspoke "if I say I love you out loud it will ruin this” kind of thing.

Double Dutch - Superfood

Omg this song is cute. A part of me worried there something dark about it but I can’t find it. It just seems like the tale of someone that find something they were good at, joined a group of people that share that interests and now that thing is part of their identity!

Don’t You Forget About Me - Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

I’m fucking sorry... but... “Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs “... really??? ALso jUsT FUck oFF?!! Lyric Selection:

I never understood you How you'd press on my heart till it broke Nothing lasts forever Where do those feelings go? Don't you forget about me Said you couldn't live without me That I gave you the warmth that you missed Always knew there'd be others How many lives have you had since we kissed? Tell me you'll always remember What we had before it all fell apart Don't you forget about me, baby Is it right if I love you more? (Don't you forget about me)

(Also apparently there are 5 more songs for each character if you go to the spotify app, but I kind of only want to touch on Play God by Refs because........ oh boy)

You're making it easy Whenever you tease me To think that there might be something there I know that I won't be Won't ever be happy Sticking around, cause you don’t care I don’t know why I’m always hypnotized I try so hard to look away I can’t move anything, I’m paralyzed When we’re close I don’t have anything to say I’m happy to help you Whenever you want me to Boss me around and hang me dry I know that you need me More than I need you But I love when you look me in the eyes

this is so sad alexa play tranz

Russel:

Can’t Get Enough - DJ Manny

The singer wants to have sex with the person the song is about.... there's a lot of interesting... tapping. I found this song a tad annoying, Russ.

Superstar - Popcaan

Ok so this song is by the same dude that was in Saturnz Barz who raps in Patwa... Soooo. It’s hard to understand and. theres a lot of words. I think it’s about, he grew up in poverty but always knew he’d be great, aaand now he is.

Mirage - Toro y Moi

“I just want everybody to have a good time“ He’s trying to fix something, worrying about it, but there nothing he can do because nothings really lining up.

Pet Cemetery - Tierra Whack

His dog/friend is gone/dead/killed and misses him and keeps his name alive because he would do the same for him :((((( I really enjoy this song for Russel combining the imagery of like dead fluffy animals and the idea that his friends were shot down. ... sad.

The Feeling (Roberto Echo Remix) - Summers Sons

Keep it on, keep it loopn on... He’s got a lot to say and he loves his friends and he’s just gonna keep making music with his buddies and staying strong. Hell yeah, Russel, you have fun over there being stable.

Hip Hip - Mos Def

SO there’s a lot going on with this song, it’s pretty amazing, and you should go listen to it. But for the purposes of this little tumblr post it just further characterizes Russel as very passionate about black american and international black issues.

Runnin’ - The Pharcyde

dude why do all of Russels song have so many words... I believe, with only reading it once, its about finally deciding to stand up to people bullying you.

Jazz - Mick Jenkins

People. are out here. lying. and doing drugs. just like the last one. Lots of rap lyrics. really good. about social issues. not long enough attention span.

What did we learn? Russel is out there being a good boy, just caring about his community and making music and being stressed out about stuff a bit. 2D is regretting allowing himself to be with someone that didn’t fully commit to him because of all the pain it’s caused him AND FUCK MY LIFE UP DUDE. I JUST WANT THEM TO HUG IT OUT OMG!!!!

#lyric analysis #g-mix analysis

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naijastudio · 3 years ago

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Kanye West Biography, Age And Net Worth

Kanye West is a Grammy Award-winning rapper, record producer, and fashion designer who is known for his outspokenness. Kanye West: Who Is He? Kanye West first rose to prominence in the music industry as a producer for well-known acts. With his 2004 debut, College Dropout, he demonstrated his rap ability, and albums like Late Registration (2005), My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010), Yeezus (2013), and Yeezus (2014) confirmed his spot atop the hip hop world (2018). West is a Grammy Award winner who is also noted for his awards show antics, excursions into fashion, and his marriage to Kim Kardashian. Kanye West Life Style And Birth Kanye Omari West was born on June 8, 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia. Ray, his father, was a photojournalist for the Atlanta Journal and a member of the Black Panther Party; he eventually became a Christian counselor. Donda West, West's mother, was a teacher who went on to become a professor of English at Chicago State University and then her son's manager before dying in 2007 at the age of 58 from heart illness following cosmetic surgery. Her death would have a huge impact on West's musical career as well as his personal life. When West was three, Ray and Donda split amicably. Following that, he was reared by his mother in Chicago's middle-class South Shore neighborhood and spent summers with his father. West traveled to China with Donda when he was ten years old, where she taught as part of a university exchange program; he was the only foreigner in his class. West was lured to the South Side's hip-hop scene after returning to Chicago, and he befriended DJ and producer No I.D., who became his mentor. West received a scholarship to study at Chicago's American Academy of Art after graduating from Polaris High School, but he dropped out to pursue music full-time, a move that would later inspire the title of his first solo album. Kanye West Net Worth Net Worth: $6.6 Billion Date of Birth: Jun 8, 1977 (44 years old) Gender: Male Height: 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) Profession: Record producer, Songwriter, Singer, Actor, Film Producer, Rapper, Businessperson, Screenwriter, Fashion designer, Music Video Director Nationality: United States of America Kanye West Music Career West created a trademark sound known as "chipmunk soul," which features sped-up soul samples, after spending time producing for local musicians. Following that, in 2001, he relocated to New York. He got his big break here, working on the production for Jay-song Z's "This Can't Be Life," which debuted on the album Dynasty: Roc La Familia in 2000. He reinforced his rising fame the following year by producing four songs on Jay Z's The Blueprint, widely regarded as one of the best rap albums of all time. West went on to create for other notable artists including as Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Ludacris, as well as singers Alicia Keys and Beyoncé. West, on the other hand, was not content to be a sidekick. He aspired to be the main attraction, but found it difficult to be taken seriously as a rapper at first. He begged Roc-A-Fella Records to let him rap, but as co-founder Jay-Z told Time magazine later, "We were all raised as street kids who had to do whatever it took to get by. Then there's Kanye West, who, as far as I'm aware, has never worked a day in his life. I couldn't see how it could possibly work." Other labels reacted in a similar way to West. He said, "I'd leave meetings crying all the time." Damon Dash reluctantly signed West to Roc-A-Fella in 2002, but he did so only to keep him as a producer. West was injured in a head-on vehicle incident while driving home from a recording session in a California studio in October of that year, leaving him with a cracked jaw. With his jaw still wired shut after reconstructive surgery, he wrote and recorded "Through the Wire," a song about the experience.While recuperating in L.A., he wrote the most of the rest of his debut album. However, once the album was finished, it was leaked on the internet. West chose to improve it by revising and rewriting songs and fine-tuning the production, which included the addition of heavier drums, gospel choirs, and strings (he paid for orchestras out of his own pocket). Dropout from College The album was finally published in February 2004 and quickly became a hit, selling 2.6 million copies and propelling West to stardom. The College Dropout defied the gangsta-rap mold, including topics like as consumerism (of which he was critical at the time), racism, higher education, and his religious convictions. "They say you can rap about anything but Jesus," he rapped on the tune "Jesus Walks," "That means weapons, sex, lies, videotapes/But if I talk about God, my album won't get played." The College Dropout reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart, and West garnered ten Grammy nominations, winning three of them, including Best Rap Song and Best Rap Album for "Jesus Walks." West formed his record label, GOOD music — an acronym for Getting Out Our Dreams — with Sony BMG shortly after the album's release. He'd release songs by John Legend, Big Sean, Common, Pusha-T, and others. Registration after the deadline West spent a year and $2 million on his sophomore album, enlisting the help of an orchestra and composer Jon Brion, who had never worked with a rapper before. According to the New York Times, West, the restless bourgeois-creative, wanted to "see how far he might expand" hip hop. The results were outstanding, with Best Rap Album winning again, as well as Best Rap Song for "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" and Best Rap Solo Performance for "Gold Digger," and Best Rap Song for "Diamonds from Sierra Leone." Late Registration premiered at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 200, a feat West would replicate with each solo album release after that. In Rolling Stone's five-star review of the album, Rob Sheffield stated, "On Late Registration, the Louis Vuitton Don doesn't just want to create pop music — he wants to be pop music." "As a result, he improves his lyrical game, displays his epic production skills, reaches higher, pushes harder, and declares the entire world of music to be hip hop turf." West appeared on an NBC program in September 2005, a month after the release of Late Registration, to collect donations for Hurricane Katrina victims. When he declared live on air that "George Bush doesn't care about Black people," echoing widespread criticism of the president for not visiting the damaged city of New Orleans straight away, he ignited a national media storm - his first, but by no means his last. West's remark enraged Bush, who subsequently described it as a "disgusting moment." Graduation West was motivated to create hip hop more anthemic, to be performed in stadiums and arenas, after traveling with U2 in 2005-2006. He began to incorporate elements of both rock & roll (the Stones, Led Zeppelin, and the Killers) into his music (which originated in his hometown of Chicago). Graduation, his third album, was released on September 11, 2007. It was released on the same day as 50 Cent's album Curtis, in a struggle for hip-soul hop's between the educated showman and the bullet-scarred street thug. But there could only be one winner with Graduation's breakthrough (for hip-hop) palette of layered electronic synthesizers and sloganeering wordplay — "I'm like the fly Malcolm X/Buy any jeans necessary," he sneered on "Good Morning" — West's album went straight to No. 1 after selling 957,000 copies in its first six days. With the music industry wringing its hands over the internet's impact on profit margins, West simply embraced the change with his video for the single "Can't Tell Me Nothing," in which he hired comedian Zach Galifianakis to lip-sync along to the lyrics on an alternate version, resulting in a YouTube viral sensation. The Death of Kanye West Mother West was on top of the world, acclaimed as the musician who had put gangster rap on the verge of extinction. Then catastrophe happened in November 2007. Donda, his adored mother, died of a heart attack after cosmetic surgery. He dedicated a performance of "Hey Mama" to her on his first show after the funeral. West split up with his fiancée, Alexis Phifer, a few months later. 808s & Heartbreak, his next album, was released 12 months after his mother died and was laced with grief, agony, and isolation. West even gave up rapping in favor of singing through an Auto-Tune vocal processor, which gave his voice a robotic tone – a technique that is now commonplace in hip hop. "Hip hop is done for me," he declared after describing the new album as "pop art" (not to be confused with the visual art movement). (It wasn't; he won Grammys for guest raps on Estelle's "American Boy" and TI's "Swagga Like Us" that year.) Kanye West Earnings By Year Follow Money Year Earnings 2007 $17,000,000 2008 $30,000,000 2009 $25,000,000 2010 $12,000,000 2011 $16,000,000 2012 $35,000,000 2013 $20,000,000 2014 $30,000,000 2015 $22,000,000 2016 $18,000,000 2017 $22,000,000 2018 $90,000,000 2019 $100,000,000 2020 $200,000,000 Total: $437,000,000 Taylor Swift's VMA Feud and Diss The fragility of West's mental health was brought into question the following year at the MTV Video Music Awards. He stormed the stage during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for the Best Female Video award (for "You Belong to Me") at Radio City Music Hall in New York to argue that Beyoncé should have won instead. The reverberations from that moment are still being felt. West apologized, then retracted his apology in a New York Times interview in 2013. By 2015 they had become friends and were even spotted at dinner together. Then in 2016 Kanye rapped on his song "Famous": "I feel like me and Taylor might still have s*x/Why? I made that b**** famous." Swift responded from the stage at the 2016 Grammy Awards, this time unapologetically, with the words: "To all the young women out there, I want to say something: There will be people who try to undermine your success or take credit for your successes along the way... Don't let those folks get in the way." Fashion West took a break from music after the Swift fiasco to focus on fashion. Since 2006, he'd been collaborating with limited-edition sneakers with brands including A Bathing Ape and Nike. To obtain experience, he reportedly interned at Gap in 2009 and later Fendi. In 2011, he debuted his first collection in Paris, however it was critically lambasted. Long Nguyen, style director of Flaunt magazine, sniffed, "You can't just dump some fox fur on a runway and call it luxury." At the show's after-party, West delivered a wounded-sounding address. "Please take it easy," he said. "Please give me the opportunity to mature." After a lackluster response to his second collection a year later, West stated that he would no longer be presenting in Paris. In 2013, he collaborated on a capsule collection with the French label APC, and in October 2015, he struck a $10 million agreement with Adidas, launching his first sportswear collection, Yeezy Season 1, with the brand. The label has received mixed reviews, while Anna Wintour praised his Season 5 collection in February 2017. She told the New York Post, "I really liked it." "A little more attention than we've seen from him before." My Dark Twisted Fantasy West returned to music in November 2010 with his fifth album, a bombastic and towering monument to self-aggrandizement that sounded "like an instant greatest hits," according to Pitchfork. It was a bombastic and towering monument to self-aggrandizement with paranoid celebrity and rampant consumption as the dominant themes: it was a bombastic and towering monument to self-aggrandizement that sounded "like an instant greatest hits" according to Pitchfork It was Kanye West's best and worst all bundled into one: a magnum work that bordered on the insane. It spawned four songs, including "Monster," on which West, Jay Z, and Rick Ross were famously beaten into second place by Nicki Minaj's furious guest verse. In 2011, West and his old sparring partner Jay Z released Watch the Throne, a joint album that delivered seven songs, including "Otis" and "Niggas in Paris," as well as three additional Grammy awards for West and Jay Z. Relationship In 2012, West released Cruel Summer, a compilation album including artists from his GOOD Music label. However, his romance with reality-TV star Kim Kardashian, which began in April, dominated the headlines that year. They married on May 24, 2014, in the medieval Fort di Belvedere in Italy, after West proposed at the AT&T baseball stadium in San Francisco on October 21, 2013. As Kardashian came down the aisle, Andrea Bocelli performed, The designer Rachel Roy, tennis champion Serena Williams, film director Steve McQueen, and music performers Legend, Q-Tip, Rick Rubin, Tyga, and Lana Del Rey were among the visitors. North (born June 15, 2013), Saint (born December 5, 2015), and another daughter are the couple's three children (born via surrogate January 15, 2018). Psalm, the couple's fourth child, was born via surrogate in May 2019. Yeezus West's sixth studio album, Yeezus, was released in June 2013 and had little evidence that the rapper was living a happy life. West had engaged producer Rick Rubin to make sweeping alterations just days before the album's release, thus the sound was aggressive, raw, and almost entirely melody-free. On "I Am a God," which featured the iconic phrase "Hurry up with my stupid croissants," West sounded neurotic and egocentric to the point of bathos. With the exception of the excellent glam-rock-inspired hit "Black Skinhead," West stated the album was a "attack against the commercial," and it certainly included nothing that was radio-friendly (the first of only two singles from the album). Yeezus is the only album by Kanye West to have sold less than one million copies in the United States. Nonetheless, it was highly welcomed by critics, including rock veteran Lou Reed, who told Rolling Stone that "It's as if you're crafting a movie with each tune... The guy is incredibly gifted." Beef on Jimmy Kimmel In September, West and Jimmy Kimmel had a Twitter dispute after the talk-show host ridiculed an interview West had given to the BBC in the United Kingdom. On his show, Jimmy Kimmel hired young actors to recite some of West's more bombastic remarks. West, on the other hand, was not amused. One of a series of outraged tweets said, "Jimmy Kimmel is out of line to try to mimic in any manner the first piece of honest media in years." During his next episode, Kimmel happily read out West's tweets, eliciting more ire from the rapper, who shared a link to a Slate piece headed "Kanye was right." West returned on Jimmy Kimmel Live the following month, and the conversation lasted the most of the broadcast, with multiple free-flowing Kanye monologues covering everything from his career to his thoughts on the paparazzi, Steve Jobs, and Jesus. "I don't know whether you're aware of this, but a lot of people believe you're a jerk," Kimmel said, before complimenting West's portrayal. West had been hurt by Kimmel's characterization of him, as it turned out, because the two had known each other before to the disagreement. "When I'm cooking up a comedic routine," Kimmel said, "regarding a celebrity's feelings is not something that comes to mind." They had cleared the air by the end of the show. More Public Outbursts, Collaboration with Paul McCartney, and Rihanna West made history as the first rapper to collaborate with Paul McCartney, releasing the tune "Four Five Seconds" alongside the Beatles icon and Rihanna at the start of 2015. But a month later, there was yet another award-show snarl, this time at the Grammys, when West protested to Beck winning Best Album. After the ceremony, West remarked, "Beck needs to respect artistry, and he should have presented his trophy to Beyoncé." In an interview with The Sunday Times newspaper in England a few months later, he withdrew his comments. "My image of a gentleman who plays 14 instruments not respecting craftsmanship was incorrect," he admitted. West, along with other artists such as Beyoncé, Jay Z, Rihanna, Madonna, Chris Martin, and Nicki Minaj, was introduced as a co-owner of the music-streaming service Tidal in March. Despite a petition with 135,000 signatures requesting for him to be removed from the lineup, he headlined the Glastonbury festival in the United Kingdom in June. The Life of Pablo Picasso In the lead-up to his seventh album, The Life of Pablo, there was even more controversy. West made headlines before the film's release on February 14, 2016, for a series of inflammatory tweets, including one declaring Bill Cosby, who is on trial for drugging and raping women, to be innocent. He began a feud with Wiz Khalifa, a musician he mistookly believed had ridiculed his wife, Kim Kardashian ("I am your OG and I will be respected as such," West tweeted.). He also expressed regret for appearing to disparage Michael Jordan in his lyrics. West then oddly advised his fans to lobby Facebook founder Mark Zuckerber the day after his album was released. He also expressed regret for appearing to disparage Michael Jordan in his lyrics. West then oddly pushed his fans to lobby Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to spend $1 billion in West's "ideas" the day after his album was released. He also claimed to be in debt for $53 million. Thealbum was yet another departure from the norm, as well as a triumph. It has a considerably broader sound than Yeezus, integrating a wide range of sounds, styles, and inspirations, ranging from trap to gospel to Auto-Tune crooning, avant-pop, vintage soul, and dancehall. Frank Ocean, Chance the Rapper, Rihanna, Desiigner, and Kid Cudi were among the guest vocalists. It was West's sixth solo album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 list in a row. Cancellation of the Tour and Return to the Spotlight West paused a show in Sacramento on November 20, 2016, while on his Saint Pablo Tour, to go on a rambling diatribe about radio playlists, MTV, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Beyoncé, and Jay Z ( "Call me, Jay Z... I know you've got killers. Please don't shoot them at me "(Imaginative+ paraphrase). He had ranted onstage and proclaimed support for Trump for the second time in a week, and this time it seemed like a public breakdown – he did not finish the act. He canceled the remaining 21 concerts of his tour the next day, citing tiredness, and spent the next eight days in the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Pusha T, the president of GOOD music, revealed in an interview in February 2017 that West was working on a new album. Rumors about the album's progress persisted, with some stories claiming that the Grammy winner had sought creative inspiration in the Rockies of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. With the announcement that he was authoring a philosophy-themed book, Break the Simulation, in April 2018, West re-entered the news cycle. Days later, he verified the rumors of new material in a rapid-fire sequence of tweets, announcing that he will release two albums in June, the second of which would feature longtime collaborator Kid Cudi. The artist then caused a sensation when his tweets turned to his admiration for President Donald Trump, referring to him as "my brother" and claiming that they shared "dragon energy," even sharing a selfie wearing Trump's "Make America Great Again" cap. West later clarified the situation by adding that he adored Hillary Clinton as well and that he didn't agree with everything the president stated. "I don't agree with anyone except myself 100 percent," he wrote. Read the full article

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alastoring-blog · 7 years ago

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ALASTOR MOODY is AN ORDER MEMBER in the war, even though HIS official job is as A SENIOR AUROR. the THIRTY ONE year old PUREBLOOD is known to be JUST and RESILIENT but also ABRASIVE and DESTRUCTIVE. some might label them as THE BLACK HOLE. fc: bob morley

→ alastor moody was born into a family of aurors and ministry workers, a family guided by duty and patriotism and an intense need to PROTECT others and make the world and magical britain a little more peaceful. he grew up attending ceremonies for medals of honor and orders of merlin and he grew up attending funerals.

→ his parents themselves were rather inspiring aurors and to this day he’ll defend them restlessly, saying that they were bad parents, but good people and great aurors. they believed that the key to survival in the face of danger was to hide, and when alastor was born, they saw no other choice - the couple had too many enemies who might want to harm them and their son. so they packed up and moved to a nearly inhabited island in the highlands

→ you think moody was the og paranoid? his parents were so overzealous they willingly moved into a house in the middle of nowhere. the house they moved in, previously owned by other paranoid moodys had secret tunnels, hidden rooms, hallways that led to nowhere. it was a maze of suspicion

→ isolation fucked him up. as a kid he knew so little of the world but his family, the occasional trips to the ministry (parents always too buried in work and too uninterested to really take him anywhere else) and the handful of muggles in the island. he was very socially stunned when he got to hogwarts and that was really hard to unlearn and in many ways he never really did

→ you know what was a great distraction? stars. alastor loves them so so much. his childhood bedroom had constellations in the ceiling, and the only thing he ever asked for were books and telescopes, better every time, eyes on a bigger more unknown universe than what he knew

→ he is an hufflepuff through and through. loyal to a fault, committed to a fault, hard working to a fault, not for one second did he doubt his place there. was a quidditch beater (ask to be captain twice. invited to go pro too. denied all things - never has wanted any type of leadership position, and he always knew that his future had been picked by him through his name). told slughorn to beat it too. only really cared about astronomy and DADA

PARENTAL DEATH TW:

→ his father died during his sixth year, some big auror mission gone wrong. his mother two years later, some illness not letting her heal from what would have been minor injuries after a mission. he knew he would become an auror, but alastor had made this brilliant plan in his head of leaving the job after only a couple of years ( doing his time ). their deaths meant he had a legacy to uphold. their deaths stopped all plans.

END OF TW

→ hated the isolation so so much that the moment he got out of hogwarts he left the manor behind and hasn't looked back since. moved to the busiest street he could find in muggle london, the kind that doesn’t let you sleep, and honestly thinks he’d go mad without the noise

→ rose through the ranks inside the auror office so quickly, but made a lot of enemies on the way. older aurors felt jealous that a young shot got all the missions they wanted, accused nepotism, or even pity for the fallen moodys. others did not enjoy how much he liked to stretch the limits of the law. nevertheless, he presented results.

→ has this intense interest in dark magic and especially in all objects and artifacts that use dark magic. he doesn’t think about using them, he’s more of a collector?? which means he’s often in shady bars with shady people doing shady deals

→ dude won’t tell you anything about his life unless he really wants to, but he’s so candid? absolutely hates lying, so so blunt

→ dumbledore knew he liked to ignore the law, and that it often got him in trouble. he knew something relentless was inside moody and, by inviting him to the order right from the beginning, he knew he could use that. alastor sees what he’s doing, and highkey respects it? it’s very smart? ‘a dick move but brilliant’. he’s a wild card that will stop at nothing to get the cause all it needs, even if it costs him his soul. moody organises a lot of missions, and has a high rank inside the order - the amount of untrained civilians running around?? stresses him. catch him training as many as he can

→ that’s also something he loves doing, teaching aurors. when he can, he tends to volunteer to help out aurors falling behind of the training program, in risk of being cut from it. he loves teaching so much

→ okay alastor has a plan: once the war is over, he’s gonna stick around for a year or so to help bring everyone in, and then he’s gonna QUIT and go learn about stars !!! and planets !! and then become a teacher !!! we all know how that goes. a year turns into two, and three, and ‘i can’t go now they need me’ which is really a ‘i don’t know what to do if i’m not running or bleeding’ ptsd is not fun

→ he’s?? so hopeful? and the hope is slowly being drained out of him?

→ doesn’t sleep. doesn’t let his wounds properly heal. walks around bruises and battered 90% of the time, and scars are piling up but he’s too busy being intense and hardworking and devoted to the cause. catch him asleep in his offices (bc he def has one in the order hqs fight me)

→ has the messiest hair possible. truly is fighting the potters there.

→ writes his personal notes in code. has the most well protected house in the world. owns 70% of the order’s safe houses. worried all the time.

→ parallel characters: harvey specter (suits), frank castle (mcu), burce wayne (dc), ron swanson (parks and recs), bellamy blake (the 100), raymond holt (brooklyn nine-nine), jim hopper (stranger things), steve harrington (stranger things), wolfgang bogdanow (sense8), eliot spencer (leverage), jay halstead (chicago pd)

→ fun thing i discovered only last month while going through the books: alastor moody, war hero, died for a better world, was burried in an empty coffin. bye.

WANTED CONNECTIONS:

+ star gazing friends. someone who also spends too much time looking up into the darkness. something very passionate and pure

+ an old flame. some relationship from the past that he was most certainly the one to ruin (because he's him)

+ questionable occasional stress-relief hookup. they don't talk about it to anyone else, and just don't talk a lot in general

+ an order rival. someone inside the order who fundamentally disagrees with every decision he makes, and vice versa. moody is quite honest when he disagrees with someone, so definitely not easy to ignore

+ old hogwarts friends !! after a period of adjusting to being around people, he was more open than he is now, less paranoid, joked around, so someone who knew him then

+ i really like the idea of there being various ranks withing the auror career and of aurors fresh out of the academy/training/thing being junior aurors with one specific main auror as their partner for a bit, until they get a bit of the hang of it ?? i feel like it gives some fun connections because it isn't something people PICK so give me alastor's. someone he did not like, someone who was far too different from him, far too opposing approach, and they just hated working with each other so so much

+ all the ministry enemies. you know this dude has many

+ ministry friends !! few, because he's moody, but a couple of people besides his maybe 3 friends that he'd actually go grab lunch with, have real conversations in the hallways and elevators

+ someone he recruited for the order. this is open for a handful of characters because, while moody doesn't do a lot of recruiting because 1) not a charming dude lbr 2) way too high standards, he still has brought in a few people - and he cares about them very deeply, and also sets for them a very high bar

#maraudrshq:intro #❛ : ( holding both lightning and thunder. )

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Hey! Please can you do a jaylos fic where Carlos tells jay he used to be a girl? Carlos thinks jay won't be happy but jay is really supportive. Thank you cxxxx

of course!! so… unfortunately isle of the lost would not work at all like american/european legal systems and they probably wouldn’t be the kind of place to just give kids meds or honestly any help at all. but i wanted to fit it into the canon universe bc there are trans people everywhere so carlos could def be trans in that story. so, for background purposes, i would think carlos would go to the library, read every book ever written on trans heroes/villains and on a book that one of them DEF wrote on gender therapy/hrt/etc., and then steal what he needs starting with puberty blockers and probably start on t right before getting sent to auradon when he was fifteen (ish?). also in this au they didn’t meet until they were like thirteen, just to make things work, & jay never met cruella bc… carlos is def not out to cruella. she isn’t the best parent ever ya feel. and bc carlos is clever af, he emailed auradon prep posing as his mother pre-arrival and let them know that he is trans and should be registered as a male/called by his chosen name and pronouns/etc and auradon, way more accepting/accommodating of this kind of stuff, helps him out. anyway, various mentions of ftm transition, trans characters, and discussion of gender and the importance of gender.

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Carlos hasn’t been this nervous since the day he left the Isle. His whole body is buzzing with anxiety; he can feel the nerves in his fingertips singing with it. He’s terrified.

He’s always had a very set mindset about the subject. It’s nobody’s business but his own; he controls his gender and who gets to know anything about it. Not his mom, not anyone else. As long as

But he thinks that Jay should know.

He texts Jay and asks him to meet him by the Enchanted River after school. Jay agrees easily, cheerfully even. His good mood makes Carlos’s stomach turn even worse; he doesn’t know how Jay is going to react. He just hopes it doesn’t completely ruin their relationship altogether.

Carlos packs up some sandwiches and drinks and hightails it to the Enchanted River. He arrives a full twenty minutes before he and Jay agreed to be there, so he paces up and down the riverbank. He feels sick to his stomach.

Eventually, he hears a shout and sees Jay heading down the path towards the lake. He feels his entire chest clench, but he shakes himself and walks back towards the gazebo. If Jay knew about the problem, he would tell Carlos to be brave and hold his head high. But unfortunately, Jay can’t know, because he is the problem.

Carlos meets Jay on the picnic blanket and sits with him. Jay is smiling, and smiling, and God, Carlos can only hope it stays that way. “So, what’s up?” he asks, reaching out to take Carlos by the hand. “You said you wanted to talk.”

Unfortunately, Carlos can’t muster up a level of enthusiasm. So he just gives him a half-smile and says, “Yeah.” The smile slips from Jay’s face a little, and he shifts closer so that their knees are touching. Carlos feels, at once, better and even more nervous at the touch. “Listen, there’s something I need to tell you.”

“Well, this doesn’t sound good,” Jay murmurs.

Oh, God, if only you knew. Carlos swallows. He is completely prepared for Jay to run for the hills. Well, he’s not prepared. Honestly, over the past few months they’ve been dating, and the entire five years they’ve been friends, Jay has become a complete lifeline. He seems himself completely falling for him and if Jay leaves now, it could crush him. Not to mention, the four of them - Jay, Mal, Evie, and himself - have always been together. What happens if they split? What happens to their friends?

But he can’t keep this to himself. It’s a huge part of him, and if Jay isn’t comfortable with it… maybe it’s better off. He can’t help but feel like that it won’t be, that it’ll hurt like hell.

He shakes his head. “I just… we’ve been together for a couple months now, and I don’t really tell a lot of people this, but I can’t just keep it from you because it’s such a huge part of my life.”

Jay squeezes his hand. “Carlos, you’re starting to scare me,” he murmurs softly. “You don’t have to tell me anything you don’t want to tell me. I want you to always be comfortable with me and with us and I would never want you to feel obligated to tell me anything.”

That makes Carlos raise an eyebrow. “I thought we don’t have secrets?”

“There’s a difference between secrets and our own personal business,” Jay says.

Carlos shakes his head. “It’s a secret. And couples definitely don’t keep secrets this big.”

Jay shifts so that they’re sitting across from him, eyebrows furrowed looking him in the eyes. “You didn’t kill anyone, did you?”

“No!” Jay breathes a sigh of relief, and Carlos begs himself off of laughing. “No, I just - I’m…” He takes a deep breath. “I’m transgender.” Jay blinks, confused. “I was born, biologically, as a girl. But I transitioned to a boy. It’s pretty common, there have been a lot of examples of it throughout history, a lot of famous villains and heroes were rumored to be trans. Little Red Riding Hood, Rumplestiltskin, and Snow White’s first husband, Ferdinand. It’s really pretty interesting…”

He hangs his head and sighs. He can feel himself blabbering, but he’s so nervous and he can’t stop. Suddenly, he feels hands reach out and gently touch his face. “This is what you were so worried about?” Jay asks, gently.

Carlos looks up at Jay, whose brows are furrowed but he’s still smiling, gently. Meanwhile, Carlos feels like he’s about to burst into tears, but instead he just nods miserably. “Babe, I don’t care about your gender.” Jay winces at his own wording, shakes his head and starts again. “No, that’s not right. I do care about your gender, because obviously it means a lot to you. It’s a big part of who you are as a person, a whole chunk of your identity, and that’s amazing. But it’s not the determining factor of how much I like you.”

Carlos frowns. “Really?”

“Of course,” Jay says, immediately. “Like… you really, really love dogs. You like video games. You can be a slob. You’re kind and loyal. You’re beautiful.” Carlos feels his cheeks go warm. “These are all parts of you, but I like you because you’re… you. Does that make sense? Like, the sum of the parts equals the whole - you’re the whole, and that’s all that really matters.”

All the sudden, Carlos feels his face get wet with tears. Before Jay can really say anything else and before Carlos’s crying gets out of hand, he reaches out and throws his arm around Jay’s shoulders, burying his face into Jay’s hair. “You have no idea how much this means to me,” he murmurs, feeling Jay’s arms come and wrap around him. “I love you.”

Jay pauses a moment, then holds him even tighter. “I love you,” he says. “So damn much.”

#jaylos #otp: he's kind of like my brain #descendants #katie writes #a disclaimer: i am cis #carlos's feelings in this fic are based purely off of stories of those who have kindly shared them with me or with the world at large #anonymous #what kind of woman doesnt have an ask #in every universe in every timeline in every gender #i firmly believe that carlos is a nervous talker

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.:If YYB was an OTOME GAME:.

A/N: Here’s Miyu again losing her time with stupid thingies but hey, if we did make an otome game with this entire plot damn- I would def pay money for a game like that istg.

Also, this is a long ass post so gonna put a ‘read more’ thingie and yeah. Enjoy.

Genre: Mystery, Romance & Fantasy.

Routes: 20 routes (11 boys, 9 girls) [11 normal routes, 8 deep routes, 1 secret route] (3 ends per character)

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Common route [General description]:

You’re a high-school student of the YYB High school; your grades are regular and you live every day of your life normally as you can. However, there’s something always off in your mind, as if you’ve forgotten something each year you’ve been there. Like usual, a new year started for you as this was your senior year but you noticed something different which you used to ignore all this time: The dream club.

Normal Routes

Girls:

[Aaricia Stoffels]

A second-year girl, who’s pretty mature for her age. However, she hides inside herself a joyful girl who can be as childish as she wants; she likes to discover new things and is ready to give a smile to anyone as well as is ready to hit anyone who wants to mess with her or her friends. In her necklace, there’s a big secret of her past and the reason as to why she’s still kind of reserved.

[Jennifer Hollows]

A kind of reserved second-year girl, her shyness is just too much and that’s why she tends to stay out of big groups and just watch over them in the distance. Despite all of this, her mind is quite strong and she’s not scared of anything, she has always a calming yet dangerous aura surrounding her.

[Elize Faith]

A first-year girl, she’s always kind and giving to the others. Showing a smile to strangers isn’t a problem for her and she lives every day of her life fully with high-spirits. What everyone doesn’t know is that she’s the step-daughter of the Faith family, a powerful lineage of rich people who want to gain more with their new heiress.

[Gene Park]

A second-year girl, she’s well known around the school, not because of her good grades but because she’s always messing around and making the principal go crazy. Her temperament isn’t easy to control, as she needs someone to help her stay calm, her family is the boss of the Faith Family and they’re in a pretty relationship. The question Gene always asked herself was... Who’s her real mom?

[Kiwi Kat]

Always full of energy and happiness, this second-year girl is a transfer student in YYB. Always having fun with her new friends, she never misses out anything fun and is ready to give memes to everyone. She’s said to have a long-distance relationship that still makes her kind of sensible. There are some rumors that said they saw her changing of form but everyone thinks that’s a lie.

Boys:

[Kim Taehyung]

He’s well-known for that boxy smile he always gives to everyone. He’s the guy with a deep ass voice and the soul of a child, innocence is his second name. He’s a second-year guy who worked hard to be where he is but he still regrets things that happened in the past.

[Jeon Jungkook]

He wrote “Meme” in his graduation report. He’s a first-year boy who tries to act cocky but it’s actually super scared of girls. He becomes a flustered mess and tends to act super shy, people say he’s a god when it comes to singing. Every time someone asks him about his past schools he just ditches the topic and changes to another one and no one knows what’s the reason behind that.

[Park Jimin]

People say there’s no one that can imitate his graceful moves. He’s a second-year guy who’s always following birdies and because of his kindness, they’re always following him as well. Inside though, he hides a weak guy who suffers from anxiety and is every day scared of breaking down.

[Jung Hoseok]

Known as “J-Hope” because he told everyone to call him like that, he’s a transfer student in his second year. The reason behind his beautiful smile that could literally kill the light of the sun is still a mystery for a long of people, he’s always happy and doesn’t show weakness. The main reason as to why he moved, however, is a mystery even for himself.

[Jung Tye]

This quiet and tsundere transfer student is always locking forward to ending school and just stay in his bed until the next day and repeat the cycle. Behind his mean words and sharp glares though, lies a soft guy who just sometimes doesn’t notice how scary words can sound on him. What’s the reason for him being this way?

[Kwon Valence]

This third-year transfer student shows all the qualifications to be considered the next genius of the world. His grades show he’s really intelligent, although it makes people around him confuse his real self. He’s just a normal guy like others with a high IQ that loves art, has his room in a mess and just tries his best every day. Students say he was blessed by God as he’s as lucky as his grades, but what they don’t know is what that lucky brings with it...

Deep Routes

Girls:

[Yoon Isa]

This girl who often shows an introvert side of her at first is actually a lovely girl with good sense of humor. Her friends love her and she has already made many even in her first year of being in YYB. She possesses a big strength inside of her body, enough to make her break a house in two just with a single punch and bring down big trees with a few kicks. Still, even with all that strength her heart is weak and suffers from a very difficult illness not even doctors could control. She still asks herself every day, what’s the real cause of her inhuman strength?

[Kim Aryaa]

Lifeless, almost like a puppet. Aryaa is on her second year in YYB, she never shows any interest in the world and often tends to stay out of big groups. She felts betrayed as if there’s something that’s missing on her and she still doesn’t know what is it. She started having strange dreams where she could see the past, the present and somehow the future; however, there’s always a missing part of her puzzle that she cannot really find out about: What are her true origins?

[EILEEN]

Darkness, an empty world without a single soul to help. She’s a third-year girl that actually no one knows, always hiding behind the doors of a certain club. She suffers from several headaches that could probably kill a normal human being but she’s used to having these even since she was a child. She has a harsh way of acting and reacting, always with a smirk on her face but never really showing any kind feelings in her eyes. Deep down, she wants to free her friend from all the chains that attach her to that school.

[MIYU]

There’s a girl that’s always helping everyone, that is always watching you without you noticing. Miyu is a third-year girl who seems to always be busy, always in her world and usually always there to prevent anything bad to happen. No one knows which one is her classroom as everyone sees her move around but never getting into any classrooms. For her, wishes are a must and she must fulfill everyone’s happiness so they could make true their wishes. She’s always there, for everyone, when there’s no one for her.

Boys:

[Kim Namjoon]

A smart guy in his second year, he was used to living his life just like any other student and was used to being called the “God of destruction” because of his silly movements. Namjoon has this strange mark around his body that he knows must mean something, but what can that mean? Even if he searches in his memories he cannot find the reason behind that mark, because it’s a story deeper than his own life.

[Kim Seokjin]

Everyone knew him well, he was the third-year student who was caring just like a mom and always wanted to look out for everyone. That changed somehow at the start of his senior year, the smiles he gave everyone weren’t the same they used to be and even if he acted all cheerfully there was a new aura surrounding him that screamed darkness and danger. He's getting lost and slowly losing himself.

[JAY]

This guy is a mystery, he didn’t introduce himself neither did the teachers. He just... Appeared, and the way he stares at you makes you notice he’s not thinking anything good. His words are cold, calculative and he has a dark objective as to why he’s in that school... And for that, he must break down everything.

[Min Yoongi]

A third-year student, he’s always laying around and just going at his own pace through life. Behind that guy who loves to be alone, lies a soft and gentle person who knows when he should talk and act and is actually extremely accurate in all the decisions he takes. There’s always a strong aura around him, like if he’s powerful enough to protect anyone.

SECRET ROUTE

“Somewhere in this world... In this universe or maybe another galaxy, we’ll meet again... And for that, I must finish my work. So we can meet again so we can be born again... So I can finally fulfill my promise.”

Common route ending:

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Deep route ending:

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Secret route ending:

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#BTS as #OC as #If #OC #BTS #BTS rp #Ref

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Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony ALBUM REVIEW

I never thought that I’d ever get to write this review. During my last radio show of 2019, the very last question I asked my friend was if he thought that Jay Electronica would put out an album in the 2020s and we laughed and said absolutely not. This is because we have waited so damn long for one album. The very first words said on Exhibit C (one of the best songs ever) are “it’s coming.” Nothing came. On Road To Perdition, Jay Electronica finishes one of his verses with “I been patient.” His fans have def been more patient. Since 2009, the incredible songs Exhibit A and Exhibit C have been the only official Jay Electronica releases. However, there are a handful of fantastic songs that he’s put out on Soundcloud randomly. If you haven’t heard songs like Jazzmatazz, The Announcement, Dear Moleskine, Dimethyltriptamine, and Victory Is In My Clutches, do yourself a favor. All we’ve ever wanted from Jay Electronica was an album and because it took so fucking long for it to come out, all we wanted was more music. The last song we heard from Jay Electronica was in 2017. I understand that great art takes time to make and that you have to experience life in order to put it into the art but Jay Electronica has had plenty to say for a while. Plus he had been teasing it for so long. The highly-anticipated debut album, Act II: Patents Of Nobility (The Turn) was announced not very long after Jay Electronica signed with Roc Nation in 2010. I really want to know what that contract looked like because it was ten years ago and he hadn’t dropped anything at all. Ever since I started doing my most anticipated albums list every January, I have included Act II on every single list because I knew it wasn’t going to come out. Even when Dr. Dre and Lil Wayne released their long-anticipated albums I still knew that Jay Electronica wasn’t dropping. Making the fans wait a long time for an album can be both good and bad. A long wait can be rewarding because great music takes time to make but if you let the expectations build for such a long time, they might be so high that they can never be met or the fans could eventually just stop caring. Last year, I went to go see Jay Electronica live and yes, he did have enough songs to put on a full show. Of course, fans asked him about the album and he laughed it off, saying “my life is an album” and that people know him as “Erykah Badu’s baby daddy who only has two songs.” I was a little kid when Act II was announced and I had been looking forward to it ever since even though I didn’t think it would come out. Us fans were just constantly let down because he would tweet release dates and tease that the album was coming and we even saw the tracklist for it in 2012. We did eventually get to hear songs from this tracklist such as @FatBellyBella, Better In Tune With The Infinite, Run & Hide, Road To Perdition, Letter To Falon, and Shiny Suit Theory—which actually appears on A Written Testimony. I can see why it’s included: it features JAY-Z, and it’s mixed like the rest of the songs on this album. I have loved that song ever since it dropped in 2012 and I know all the words to it. So now that Jay Electronica finally dropped his debut album after 10 years of waiting, the question most people ask is if the album is as good as you hoped it would be. My answer to this question is fuck yeah. I love this album and it’s really everything I wanted from a Jay Electronica album. Before I get to talking about how much I love this album, I wanted to talk about some of the biggest issues I have. This album starts with some words from Louis Farrakan. He says that “black people of America are the real children of Israel.” This didn’t surprise me because I know that Jay Electronica is an active member of the Nation of Islam but as a Jewish person, I didn’t like the intro at all because 1. it’s just not true and 2. Farrakhan is a major anti-semite. I did feel some of the same sentiments that Peter Rosenberg had about the lines on this album about the “synagogue of satan” and when he said “satan struck Palestine with yet another mortar.” Those lines don’t sit well with me as a Jewish person. I don’t think Jay Electronica is anti-semite and when I saw him last year, he said something like he loves everyone no matter what religion they are which I appreciated a lot. Also, I’ll forever love Jay Elec not just because he’s a dope rapper, but because he said “They call me Jay Electronica—fuck that / Call me Jay Elec-Hanukkah, Jay Elec-Yarmulke.” I have seen people say that having JAY-Z featured on damn near every song is cheating and I sort of agree. I was hoping for a “debut album” of just Jay Electronica but JAY-Z is my favorite rapper. I love Hov but I really wanted just a Jay Electronica album. I love what I got but I think it’s fair of me to want just a Jay Elec album. Also, Raekwon’s first album was basically a Ghostface collab and Dr. Dre’s The Chronic heavily featured Snoop. It was odd to me that Hov had the first verse on the album but Lady Of Rage had the first verse on Doggystyle instead of Snoop. Even though he didn’t start the album, Jay Electronica came out the gate swinging. One of my favorite lines from him on this song is “And I bet you a Rothschild I get a bang for my dollar.” Chance The Rapper tweeted that this album is the reason Rap Genius was made and I totally agree because even though I’ve listened to this album so many times, I’m constantly catching new bars. This album doesn’t seem that personal but it can get introspective at times, especially towards the end. For the most part, this albums is just the two Jays rapping their asses off. The Blinding was a perfect mix of both. The first part of the song had me nodding my head so hard and I loved how they went back and forth. I really was not expecting Travis Scott on the album but his short hook sounded great and was a great way to transition into the next beat. I did like how Jay Elec started his second verse with “Extra, extra, it's Mr. Headlines / Who signed every contract and missed the deadlines” which references his song Extra Extra and missing the deadlines of his contracts to drop his albums. Even though this album took 10 years to drop he tweeted that the albums was recorded in 40 days so he had the line “40 days, 40 nights, tryna live up to the hype.” I also like how this line led into “Hov hit me up like, ‘What, you scared of heights?’” because the expectations for this album grew so high just to be recorded in 40 days and he had to take that jump to release it. It is about time we heard Hov over an Alchemist beat and The Neverending Story is just so fucking good. I liked Jay Elec’s line where he said “But if you want beef, I'll filet mignon ya.” The beat on Universal Soldier is so fucking good and it’s one of those loops that kind of left me in a trance. This song has one of my favorite JAY-Z verses on the album and I loved that lyric where he said “We done ducked them fed' charges, now we eatin' confit.” Flux Capacitor was an instant standout because that Rihanna sample is fucking bananas. It seems like a very hard beat to rap over but both JAY-Z and Jay Elec bodied it. This is probably my favorite beat on the album and the beat switch at the end was amazing where the Rihanna sample went crazy. I almost wish that switch led into another verse from them rapping over that beat. The production for this album was very interesting to me because Jay Electronica produced most of it. I was expecting a lot of Just Blaze production because he was so involved with all the hype surrounding Act II but he’s nowhere to be found in the credits of this album. I do love Jay Electronica’s production and I think it fits him very well. Shiny Suit Theory was also produced by Jay Elec and I feel like it fits in the album very well because the way these songs are mixed which leads me to my other issue with this album. These songs are poorly mixed but it seems very intentional. The songs on SoundCloud that Jay Elec has dropped through the majority of his career aren’t very well mixed either so this is what I’ve come to expect from him. JAY-Z sounds good over these beats too because it’s not like 4:44 had the best mixing either. One of the only songs without JAY-Z on it is Fruits Of The Spirit which is produced by No ID. I do like the way Jay Elec raps on here but I have heard that loop flipped so many times (ex: Talib Kweli - Never Been In Love). The last song, A.P.I.D.T.A. makes the perfect closer to the album in my opinion because it is the most personal. When I heard the hook, “I got numbers in my phone that'll never ring again,” I really did feel it in my soul because it’s a really weird and sad feeling looking through your contacts in your phone and seeing the number and past messages that you’ve sent to someone that died. I feel like this song encapsulates that feeling perfectly. Apparently this song was written the night Kobe Bryant passed away (RIP) and it almost reminds me of Better In Tune With The Infinite because Jay Elec said at the show I went to that he wrote it after his mother or grandmother (I can’t totally remember) passed and that’s one of his most personal songs. The number one questions I see after the release of this album is if Jay Electronica kept up with Hov and if Hov bodied Jay Elec on his own albums. I think both of those questions are up for debate and I could argue either side and the fact that you can do that shows how good this album is. This is top tier lyricism and I’m very happy that Jay Electronica finally dropped his album. I hope this opens him up to putting out more music because I still would like to hear more from him and I would be interested in hearing some of those songs from the original Act II tracklist because I think Jay Electronica could eventually be put in the GOAT conversation but he needs to have a catalog first.

Fav Tracks: The Blinding, The Neverending Story, Shiny Suit Theory, Universal Soldier, Flux Capacitor, A.P.I.D.T.A.

#Jay Electronica #JAY-Z #Hov #Roc Nation #A Written Testimony #Travis Scott #The-Dream #Act II #Swizz Beatz #Araabmuzik

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Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Kanye West

Books & Music Did you know he got his start in the music biz as a producer — not a rapper? Jennifer Nied 2018-10-11

Getty Images | Noel Vasquez If there’s one thing you can say about rapper and fashion mogul (and Mr. Kim Kardashian) Kanye West, it’s that he’s not afraid to take risks. Here’s everything you may not know about Kanye, from the fact that he was once an awkward teen in Chicago to the fact that he was engaged once before ultimately meeting and marrying Kim.

Kanye Had An Awkward Phase As A Teen

Even the multitalented, trendsetting West had an awkward phase when he was younger. Rolling Stone reported that in high school, other kids teased him about his braces. It seems like it was worth it, though, because his smile looks great today.

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He Attended Two Colleges

He started at American Academy of Art in Chicago and transferred to Chicago State University. West dropped out before graduating and opted to pursue a career in the music industry instead. He named his 2004 debut album “The College Dropout,” though West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015.

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He Got His Start As A Producer

West got his start in music with Roc-A-Fella Records as a producer for several of the tracks on Jay Z’s album “The Blueprint.” He wanted more than producing credits, however and convinced the Roc-A-Fella team to give him a shot on the other side as a rapper.

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He Likes Nicknames

In September, West announced on Twitter that he now prefers to be called “Ye.” “Ye” is also the name of his latest album. Some of his previous album names have also matched his other nicknames, Pablo and Yeezy — notably, 2013’s “Yeezus” and 2016’s “The Life of Pablo.”

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He Was Engaged Once Before Marrying Kim Kardashian

In 2006, West proposed to his then-girlfriend, designer Alexis Phifer, over a romantic dinner while on vacation in Capri, Italy. The two ultimately parted ways in 2008, just months after his mother’s death in November 2007. At the time of the breakup, a friend of his told People, “Kanye has been going through a rough time.”

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Kanye Was In A Car Accident That Nearly Killed Him

In 2002, while driving home from the studio at 4 a.m., West fell asleep at the wheel, crashed into an oncoming car and broke his jaw. (The crash broke both of the other driver’s legs and his pelvis.) He had to have it wired shut to let it heal. He ended up recording his first single, “Through the Wire,” with his jaw still wired shut.

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He Had A Close Relationship With His Mother

His parents divorced when he was 3 years old, and his mother, Donda, raised West in Chicago. When he was a rising star, she left her teaching position at the University of Chicago to work as his manager. West frequently brought her as his guest to award shows and events.

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His Mother Died Suddenly After Surgery

In 2007, Donda died after returning home following cosmetic surgery. People covered the aftermath and the coroner’s report, writing that the Los Angeles coroner concluded she “died of heart disease while suffering ‘multiple post-operative factors’ after plastic surgery.'” The sudden and tragic loss was understandably difficult for West. He named his new creative content and design company Donda as a tribute to his mother.

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His Tastes In Music Are Surprising

During a Rolling Stone interview from 2006, West had a conversation with Willi.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas in which he said, “I love your album. The only albums that I listened to were yours, System of a Down and Fiona Apple.”

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He Loves Stuffed Animals

When a Rolling Stone reporter noted the teddy bears on a windowsill in his house, West replied, “People give me bears all the time. I love stuffed animals.” His mascot Dropout Bear appeared on some early album covers, and apparently, the bear was a spontaneous choice for the cover. “The bear just happened to be at the school where Def Jam had booked the photo shoot for the album,” music exec Plain Pat told Complex.

West Compared His Lyrics To Advice From Mahatma Gandhi

West is never short on confidence. During an interview with Rolling Stone, he shared how he felt about a line in “Everything I Am” that goes, “Everything I’m not made me everything I am.” “In my humble opinion, that’s a prophetic statement,” he said. “Gandhi would have said something like that.”

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He Has Directed Films

West was a director and a writer on the short fantasy film “Cruel Summer,” which tells the story of a car thief who falls in love with a blind princess. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. MTV compared it to his 2010 short “Runway,” saying it “plays like an extended music video.”

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He Relies On Others When Making Creative Choices

West bounces lyrics and new ideas off anyone who happens to be in the studio, and reportedly solicits advice from anyone and everyone. In fact, he has reached out to journalists, girlfriends and delivery drivers in addition to established industry professionals. In a Rolling Stone story, a former girlfriend noted she had to be careful about saying she didn’t like something, because he’d cut it.

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He Has Won 21 Grammys

West’s tally of mini gramophones ties him with Jay-Z. However, he has also had an incredible 68 Grammy nominations. West received his first Grammy in 2004 for Best Rap Album for “The College Dropout.”

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He Has A Controversial View Of AIDS

West shocked the crowd at an AIDS awareness concert tour with his claim that AIDS was a “man-made disease” that had been “placed in Africa just like crack was placed in the black community to break up the Black Panthers.” During a Rolling Stone interview, he affirmed the widely discredited belief. “My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people,” he said.

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He’s Been Named One Of The Most Influential People In The World

West has made it onto Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world list twice, in 2005 and in 2015. He also earned GQ magazine’s International Man of the Year title in 2007, and GQ also recognized him as one of the 20 Best-Dressed Men in 2015.

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He Has Blowout Birthday Parties

Thanks to his wife, Kim Kardashian West celebrated his recent 41st birthday in superstar style. The bash came complete with magic tricks and Kanye cookies. The guest list included Kardashian’s sisters and West’s musician friends. For his 30th birthday, West celebrated with friends Jay Z, Rihanna and John Legend at a Louis Vuitton store and had a teddy bear cake.

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He Collaborates Often

West has collaborated with an incredible array of award-winning recording artists. He doesn’t just stick to R&B stars either. He has worked with Elton John, Lil Wayne, Pusha T, Alicia Keys, T-Pain, Fergie, Bon Iver, Chris Martin and Nicki Minaj among others.

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He’s Writing A Book

West is a prolific writer when it comes to lyrics and Twitter, but a book is uncharted territory for the star. “I’m writing a philosophy book right now called ‘Break the Simulation,'” he told The Hollywood Reporter in April. “And I’ve got this philosophy … about photographs, and I’m on the fence about photographs — about human beings being obsessed with photographs — because it takes you out of the now and transports you into the past or transports you into the future.”

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He Sees A Philanthropic Future For His Yeezy Brand

“Yeezy will eventually become like a relief company,” West said of his clothing brand in an interview with Charlamagne Tha God. “If there’s a disaster we’re gonna dress. We’re gonna bring clothes and water. The same design perspective that can sell a $300 sweatshirt — we’re just going to give it. And eventually, that’s who we’ll be. You’ll look up, 5, 10 years from now, and Yeezy will be the biggest service provider of apparel.”

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West Doesn’t Watch Much Television

West told an interviewer, “I don’t usually watch normal TV.” However, he said he likes documentaries and had enjoyed watching the 2018 Winter Olympics. He also mentioned wanting to see Wes Andersen’s “Isle of Dogs.”

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He Marched For Clean Water

West consistently speaks his mind, no matter how controversial the cause, but this platform was surprisingly tame. In 2007, the superstar surprised about 50 Lexington, Maryland, residents when he joined them in observing World Water Day. West’s father organized the group, and they walked 3-6 miles for the U.N. initiative to raise awareness about clean drinking water.

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He Became Addicted To Opioids After Cosmetic Surgery

“I was drugged out,” West said during an interview with TMZ Live. Mid-interview, he stands, turns around and says to the entire TMZ office, “Hey, everyone listen to this, please.” West then explained how he became addicted to opioids — and media stories about the appearance of celebrities — after cosmetic surgery. “I didn’t want y’all to call me fat, so I got liposuction. Right? And they gave me opioids.”

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He Invested In His Father’s Business

His father Ray West is a former Black Panther and was one of the first black photojournalists at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also worked as a Christian counselor. In 2006, West helped his father open the Good Water Store and Café in Maryland. The Kanye West Foundation loaned him the money for the cafe.

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He Bought Out The Covers Of 9 Publications

The cover buyout in September was a publicity push for the new Yeezy Adidas shoes. The New York Post was one of the publications that sold its cover for the advertisement, which featured the words “We Love” in 11 languages, as you can see in this Instagram shot from juniorrose_0731:

He’s Worth How Much!?

Kim Kardashian’s appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in July caused a stir when Kimmel asked her about reports that Kylie Kardashian had become a billionaire. Kimmel asked Kim, “You’re not almost a billionaire, are you?” she replied, “I would say my husband is, so that makes me one, right?” A writer at Celebrity Net Worth parsed out the rumors that flew after the appearance, and ultimately, the publication valued West’s net worth at closer to $250 million.

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His Relationship With Kim Kardashian Began With Friendship

West made his true feelings for her pretty clear in the lyrics of “Cold” before the famous couple began dating. “And I’ll admit, I had fell in love with Kim, Around the same time she had fell in love with him.” Complex noted that the lyrics revealed an overlap with Kardashian’s relationship with NBA player Kris Humphries, whom she was married to briefly in 2011. Not long after the song’s release in 2012, their relationship turned romantic.

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His Tattoos Are Meaningful

West has many tattoos, but two of them are extra special. He has the birth dates of his mother, Donda, and his daughter North tattooed on his wrists.

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He’s A Vocal Supporter Of President Trump

West donned a red Make America Great Again hat and took to the microphone to support the president following his “Saturday Night Live” appearance Sept. 29. But this was only the rapper’s most recent show of support for Donald Trump. After a meeting with West in 2017, the president told reporters the two have been “friends for a long time.”

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‘Ye’ Was His First Album That Did Not Go Platinum

West released “Ye” in June 2018. He completed the album on his ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. All of his seven other studio-produced albums have been certified platinum or higher in the U.S.

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Kanye West left college to pursue his passion in 1996. He attended American Academy of Art briefly and Chicago State University where he majored in English. His mother Donda West worked as a professor at the time. Can you imagine that conversation the nerve he had to work up to tell his mother he was dropping out of college? Many of us have contemplated the same thought, be it quitting college to follow your dreams or quitting your job to do it. That experience did its part in helping to define Kanye West and his music at that time. But what also shaped his early music was #Collegelife, #GreekLife, and #BlackCollegiateLife which in return helped to shape a generation and a culture. Kanye West first album “The College Dropout” was one of the first albums to talk about black collegiate life and greek life on a national level. Walk down memory lane with us as CampusLATELY names Kanye West “The Black Collegiate Wordsmith.”

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10 Reasons We Fell For Kanye West!

1.)He took the job he didn’t want to get closer to the job he did want. He saw producing for other artists merely as his entry point into the music business. Roc-A-Fella chief Damon Dash signed him in 2002 with the idea that he’d produce a compilation album for the label’s roster of talent, which at the time included acts like Cam’ron, Beanie Sigel and the Young Gunz, among others.

2.)Everyone who contributed to his first album was an underdog “at that time.” Kanye West pulled “his people” and a lot of his friends he grew up with in Chicago to help him create “The College Dropout” (GLC, Coodie, Chike, Really Doe, Olskool Ice-Gre, JB Marshall).

3.)He is a Poet!