With all this sitting at home lately, I've found a lot of time for YouTube videos to go along with my music. From live videos, to animation to movies soundtracks, each of the tracks below has some form of visual stimulation to go with it that I thought was cool. As always, the Spotify playlist … Continue reading steez you can hear vol. 41
About one month ago I re-read Neil Gaiman's American fantasy epic, "American Gods." "AG" is one of my favorite fantasy novels to be set in America and it's also fairly unique in that aspect. Gaiman paints a vivid picture of the Midwest and his descriptions of roadside attractions and the sites and sounds you … Continue reading steez you can hear vol.39: American Gods
I was sitting in my backyard reading The Eye of the World completely lost in the words and the story. It was around midnight and it was pitch black except for my book light. The silence around me was deafening. The only sound that could heard was the slow turning of the pages brushing against my … Continue reading steez you can hear vol. 38
Author's Note: If you missed part 1, you can check it here. In my first post, I went over the major releases of the year as well as my Honorable Mentions. The list below is the cream of the cop, my top 7. As I did last year, I kept the number down to a … Continue reading My Favorite Hip Hop Albums of 2019 pt.2 (Top 7)
Author's Note: This year I really focused on listening to what I wanted to. In years past, I’d tried to listen to every Hip Hop/Rap release and it got overwhelming. I’d find myself trapped in my room listening to an album because I felt I had to as opposed to me wanting to listen to … Continue reading My Favorite Hip Hop Albums of 2019 pt.1 (Honorable Mentions)
THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST IS INSPIRED BY HBO'S WATCHMEN TELEVISION SERIES. I'M A HUGE FAN OF THE ORIGINAL COMIC FROM 1985 AND THE HBO SERIES MORE THAN MET MY EXPECTATIONS. THE MUSIC IMPLEMENTED IN THE SHOW IS OUTSTANDING AND ADDS AN EXTRA LAYER FOR THE AUDIENCE TO THINK ABOUT. CHECK OUT THE PLAYLIST BELOW AND MY … Continue reading STEEZ YOU CAN HEAR VOL.37: HBO’S WATCHMEN
"Emo music" always seems to hit me a certain way. Sure, the lyrics are sometimes silly or overly dramatic but the feelings that the songs emote are real. This playlist represents a certain amount of nostalgia as these were all released at a certain time in my life ('02-'04). As an 8th grader going into … Continue reading steez you can hear vol.36: Emo Mix
Another week, another playlist... Most of these tracks I found through some sort of visual media (eg: instagram, film, Youtube etc.) this week so there's lots of bonus material to be had below the playlist and write up. Check it out... Playlist for the week of December 3, 2019: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1RK5GoK2NbEz171mDJi2tT?si=gKnO0XpYTR-Kn8aRwXRx2Q Stealin' by Uriah Heep: A … Continue reading steez you can hear vol.35
Last week I wasn't feeling like myself. I was getting sick, feeling anxious and just a little off. Part of it was a lack of basketball. When I play, it releases a tension within me that I need to let go of. With a longer break coming up during the holidays, it's going to be important for … Continue reading steez you can hear vol.34
Over the course of these 'retroactive' posts, I've highlighted some of my favorite Hip Hop artists. While I was thinking of what or who to write about next, I realized there was a glaring omission in my growing Hip Hop anthology: Ab-Soul. As an artist under the stacked record label of Top Dog Entertainment (Kendrick Lamar, … Continue reading Retroactive: Control System
