Looking Forward

Yesterday was the last day of my beginner course at Scratch Academy. Next up is an intermediate level course that involves mixing different genres of music & teaches the ins and outs of putting together your set and actually executing it.

The instructor of the course is also the director of the Academy. He told us his goal is to take us out of our comfort level and force us to adapt, because DJing isn’t always going to be easy. He’s going to force us all to learn to mix songs in genres we don’t like. For me, I’m going to have to learn to DJ Death Metal. One girl is going to have to learn to mix salsa music. Because if you can learn to mix music that you don’t even listen to, then mixing genres you enjoy and listen to regularly shouldn’t be an issue. We’re also going to be put through scenarios, such as having a gig in a department store, a wedding or a child’s birthday. You have to be able to follow the rules set for each scenario, such as playing clean music or only Top 40. At the end of the class, we all have to create a 5 song set list of our choosing and mix it live in front of everyone at the Academy. I can’t wait. 

I’ve always wanted to do this, and thought it might not ever happen. But to see everything coming together so rapidly just makes me thankful. A lot has gone on in recent months that put me in quite the rut. But I’m thankful that I finally get to do something that makes me happy. And also thankful for my friends. My friends and this new experience are what has kept me going. And so I am thankful and looking forward to making the future a positive one, however possible.

-Rob

2013 (#)
24/Feb
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Male privilege is “I have a boyfriend” being the only thing that can actually stop someone from hitting on you because they respect another male-bodied person more than they respect your rejection/lack of interest.
The Sociological Cinema (via trimichaelceratops)

Accurate

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2013 (#)
22/Feb
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Just randomly decided to share this rather large R&B playlist I’ve collected over time. Enjoy.

(Source: Spotify)

2012 (#)
23/Aug
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zeroriginals: LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

zeroriginals:

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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2012 (#)
22/Aug
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When you’re the drunkest one on Ram Van

fuckyeahfordham:

you’re like:

and the driver is like:

As a former driver, this was me every single time

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  • 2Pac: And since we all came from a woman, got our name from a woman and our game from a woman, I wonder why we take from our women. Why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it's time to kill for our women, time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies that make the babies. And since a man can't make one, he has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one.
  • Jay-Z: Silly rappers, because we got a couple Porsches, MTV stopped by to film our fortresses. We forget the unfortunate. Sure I ponied up a mill, but I didn't give my time. So in reality I didn't give a dime, or a damn. I just put my monies in the hands of the same people that left my people stranded. Nothin' but a bandit, left them folks abandoned. Damn, that money that we gave was just a band-aid, can't say we better off than we was before.
  • Kanye West: Is it genocide? 'Cause I can still hear his momma cry, know the family traumatized. Shots left holes in his face, 'bout piranha-size. The old pastor closed the cold casket, and said the church ain’t got enough room for all the tombs. It’s a war going on outside we ain’t safe from, I feel the pain in my city wherever I go. 314 soldiers died in Iraq, 509 died in Chicago.
  • Mos Def: When the average minimum wage is $5.15, you best believe you gotta find a new grind to get cream. The white unemployment rate, is nearly more than triple for black so frontliners got they gun in your back. Bubblin crack, jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty and end up in the global jail economy. Stiffer stipulations attached to each sentence. Budget cutbacks but increased police presence. And even if you get out of prison still livin join the other five million under state supervision. This is business, no faces just lines and statistics from your phone, your zip code, to S-S-I digits. The system break man child and women into figures. Two columns for who is, and who ain't niggaz. Numbers is hardly real and they never have feelings but you push too hard, even numbers got limits. Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: the million other straws underneath it - it's all mathematics
  • Lupe Fiasco: I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit. Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets. How much money does it take to really make a full clip. 9/11 building 7 did they really pull it. And a bunch of other cover ups. Your childs future was the first to go with budget cuts. If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut. The school was garbage in the first place, thats on the up and up. Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the uppercrust. You get it then they move you so you never keeping up enough. If you turn on TV all you see’s a bunch of “what the fucks”. Dude is dating so and so blabbering bout such and such. And that aint Jersey Shore, homie thats the news. And these the same people that supposed to be telling us the truth. Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist. Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit. Thats why I aint vote for him, next one either. I’ma part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful. And I believe in the people.
  • Eminem: I deserve respect; but I work a sweat for this worthless check, Bout to burst this tech, at somebody to reverse this debt. Minimum wage got my adrenaline caged full of venom and rage, And my daughter's down to her last diaper. I pray that god answers, maybe I'll ask nicer.These overnight stars becoming autograph signers.We all long to blow up and leave the past behind us. Cause we see them dollar signs and let the cash blind us Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless. My life is full of empty promises and broken dreams. I'm hoping things will look up, But there ain't no job openings.I feel discouraged hungry and malnourished. Living in this house with no furnace, unfurnished...And I'm sick of working dead end jobs with lame pay.And I'm tired of being hired and fired the same day. But fuck it, if you know the rules to the game play. Cause when we die we know were all going the same way. Walk around depressed and smoke a pound of ses a day and yesterday went by so quick it seems like it was just today. My daughter wants to throw the ball but I'm too stressed to play. Live half my life and throw the rest away
  • then the're lil wayne and his crew who make it look bad:
  • lil wayne: i like my house big and my grass soft pussy pussy pussy
  • nicki minaj: you a stupid hoe, you a stupid hoe
  • tyga: got yo grandma on my dick, 10 10 10 20's
2012 (#)
23/Jul
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Freedom (Taken with picplz in New York, NY.)

Freedom (Taken with picplz in New York, NY.)

2012 (#)
07/Feb
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Played 174,124 times

frankocean:

darker times

they’re telling boulder heavy lies

looks like all we’ve got is each other 

the truth is obsolete

remember when all i had was my mother 

she didn’t compromise

she could recognize 

voodoo 

our daughters and our sons 

are just candles in the sun

voodoo

don’t let him see divide 

don’t you let her see divide

voodoo

she’s got the whole wide world in her juicy fruit 

he’s got the whole wide world in his pants

he wrapped the whole wide world in a wedding band 

then put the whole wide world on her hands

she’s got the whole wide world in her hands 

he’s got the whole wide world in his hands.

2012 (#)
30/Jan
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FACT

nignoramus:

yelawolf got bars b

Word
2012 (#)
29/Jan
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Message in the snow (Taken with picplz in New York, NY.) High-res

Message in the snow (Taken with picplz in New York, NY.)

2012 (#)
23/Jan
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