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Migos: Culture
The CD release of the album "Culture" is finally here! Features the smash single, "Bad and Boujee (ft. Lil Uzi Vert)" as well as tracks that feature Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, Travis Scott and DJ Khaled. The release comes just in time to coincide with them going on tour with Future, Tory Lane and Kodak Black!
Migos is a hiphop trio from Atlanta. The group consists of members Quavo, Takeoff and Offset. The Migos achieved breakout success with their ubiquitous hit single "Versace" in 2013 and have gone on to sell over 1.5 million tracks.
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Monday, February 20, 2017
STEVEN MALCOLM :Bringing Christ to the culture of Hip Hop
Much like any of the aforementioned or mainstream trendsetters such as Common, J. Cole and Sir The Baptist, the album overflows with an authentic approach to songwriting that is just as socially relevant as it is spiritually conscious and unflinchingly personal. And considering Malcolm’s rocky road prior to finding fame, paired with a newfound confidence from faith, this self-titled major label debut sounds like the ultimate soundtrack to a life that was always destined to deliver the real deal. “In high school I was a basketball player and my goal in life at the time was to be in the NBA,” Steven says of the winding road that eventually pointed towards rap and hip-hop. “But going into my freshman year of college, stuff just really hit the fan and life really smacked me across the face. My family was going through hard times and then I started having an identity crisis where I was looking at life and wondering ‘what am I here for?’ My grades were horrible that year, so I couldn’t play ball, my best friend and I fell out and my mom ended up moving, so I was really lost.” Steven continues, “One day a friend of mine, who I played basketball with in high school, invited me to this church, but other than believing in God in a very general sense growing up, I’d never stepped foot in a church before. Now I’m thinking I’m going to have to pick up my pants, it’s going to be boring and nobody’s going to speak my language, but then he told me it was a hip-hop church, and since I had nothing to do that night, I thought ‘okay, sure, why not?’ And it was like a breath of fresh air that just smacked me in the face.” Rather than cracking open the old school hymnal and sitting solemnly in a pew, Steven was magnetically attracted to a vibe that more closely resembled a club, but with a completely different mindset. “I’m looking around and I see guys that look just like me, they talk just like me and they were so happy and joyful,” he recalls. “These guys were up there rapping and dancing for Jesus, and I’m like ‘I never knew this even existed!’ I was the type where I never knew you could use anything to glorify God and they’re up there using lyrics and it just blew me away!” In fact, Steven became so attracted to not only the scene, but also its redemptive ethos that he kept going back, eventually leaving behind his life of womanizing and endless parties to tapping into a previously dormant but no doubt God-given talent. It turns out that Steven’s second passion beyond basketball was always music, but it rarely went beyond cutting random tracks just for kicks in his college studio between a steady stream of girls, friends, video games, going out and spinning some Kanye. “People kind of knew that I rapped a little bit, but I really wanted my focus to be on my faith and I really wanted to have a solid foundation, so I took a year of learning the Scriptures and really getting grounded,” he explains. “Once that all got settled, somebody asked me what I thought about serving the church as part of the worship team, and dude, the feeling of being on stage and having people engage with God became everything to me. It finally felt like my purpose in life.”
Though he continues that role at The Edge Urban Fellowship to this very day, it was only a matter of time before he branched out beyond those four walls with such a relatable story of starting anew. Of course, Monsters Ink may have first touched on that entire tale, but Steven Malcolm is the latest compelling chapter in the empowering saga, which its namesake crafted using a careful commitment to his beliefs, coupled with creative appeal for literally anyone with an affinity for rap, hip-hop, reggae and pop. “This is me telling my story because the best way to reach somebody is to relate to them,” he suggests. “We’ve all lived life, we’ve all had good times, we’ve all had bad times, we’ve all had struggles and triumphs, trials and tribulations. The things I’m saying and the stuff I’ve gone through can relate to anybody. And musically, you just gotta make that stuff thump bro. Everything about it musically just has to understand what’s poppin’ and what’s happening in the culture of hip-hop right now. I love trap music, I love East Coast hip-hop boom bap music, I love Southern Atlanta music and I love radio music. I also listen to reggae ‘cause I’m Jamaican. I love it because the foundation of reggae music is all about unity, peace and love. It’s just knowing what’s relevant and really going in and just killing it.” The evidence comes throughout virtually every shift in style throughout Steven Malcolm, starting with the lead single “Hot Boy,” an immediate anthem destined to light up the charts as quite possibly this year’s answer to Fetty Wap’s instant cultural cornerstone “Trap Queen” (or if Steven has his way, anything Travis Scott ever touched). “It’s funny ‘cause I had a girl ask me what’s a ‘Hot Boy?’ when we were in the studio,” he remembers. “And basically what I want people to take home is whatever you’re passionate about, whatever it is that you do, there has to be a burning hot passion inside of your heart to really excel and be the best that God has created you to be. I feel like if God has given you a gift and you’re just using it in a mediocre way or giving mediocre potential to it, it’s a waste of that talent. There has to be a fire in your heart to really excel and be the best you can be at it.”
Other standouts include “Cereal,” easily the most comical, catchy and completely autobiographical ode to Captain Crunch and company since alternative rockers the Newsboys served “Breakfast,” along with the uplifting “Never Let You Go,” a collaboration with former Group 1 Crew member turned soulful solo star Blanca. Though most of the tracks are recorded solo under the direction of all-star production duo Cobra (Joseph Prielozny and Dirty Rice), Steven is also quick to give a shout out to Hollyn and Andy Mineo, who are both guests on one of his favorites. “Another track that’s super dope is ‘Party In The Hills’ and it’s gonna be big because it’s a super energetic West Coast track,” he asserts of the latter triple team. “We should be thankful for even waking up everyday, but also always set out to accomplish our goals and really go hard to the point where we start seeing the fruit.” Considering this is all coming from a guy who lost the plot on his own life not that long ago, the songs throughout Steven Malcolm go well beyond merely accomplishing that mission, but also have the ability to motivate absolutely anyone to make whatever changes are needed in their own lives. “Here is my vision of what I want to do with music and with Steven Malcolm,” the rapper sums up with eyes firmly locked on the arenas he’s about to slay on the 2016/17 edition of the Winter Jam Tour. “As blunt as this may sound, I want to be the best Christian rapper. The first Christian rapper I ever heard was Lecrae and I want to be that for my next generation. I want to be somebody like ‘dude, I gave my life to Christ because I heard a Steven Malcolm track and he’s the first Christian rapper I ever heard.’ I know I have it in me and I know that God has put it in me to really excel. My work ethic is crazy, I’m just so determined and I’ve got a great team behind me with Word. I had the wheels to go and now I finally have the platform to help take it further.” When it comes to Steven Malcolm’s artistic ascent and subsequent potential for impact, skies are the limit, and no matter the final destination, you can bet it’s gonna be hot.
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Thursday, January 26, 2017
Eatman 98 Complete Series
His retake of Eat-Man shifts the saga of Bolt Crank closer
to that of the original story penned by Akihito Yoshitomi. In it, the world is
one of contrasting extremes, of high technology but low lifestyles, all mixed
with fairy tale-like super science. Bolt returns as the best explorer in the
world, a mercenary who, while only accepting jobs he finds moral, always gets
the job done... even if he sometimes takes them to ironic extremes in order to
do the right thing! Possessed of his own strange power, Bolt can eat anything
and then later recreate it, which he uses to help him solve the problems his
explorer lifestyle often puts him up against. See the fable that was originally
envisioned in these twelve episodes! Japanese language, English subtitles.
Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes Presents: The latest single by Nahlo "Shady World"
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight The Soundtrack
Wanna hear the soundtrack to Armageddon? This 1995 film
starred William Sadler as the Demon Knight, who, along with his new recruit,
Jada Pinkett Smith, is charged with fending off The Collector (Billy Zane) and
his army of demons from acquiring an ancient relic that is the only thing
preventing the complete destruction of the human race. While the flick did make
the box office and was panned critically, the soundtrack was easily one of the
best of its era and of its kind, an all-star line-up of thrash and heavy metal
acts mostly doing otherwise unavailable material (only the track by Pantera
appears to have been released prior to the movie). The Pantera, Megadeth,
Melvins, and Biohazard entries are particulary good, and the one hip hop tune
on the collection, Gravediggaz’ “1-800-Murder,” is an archetypal “horrorcore”
rap song. But perhaps the best tune is “Hey Man Nice Shot” by Filter, an outfit
that hadn’t released anything prior to this soundtrack. Since this movie came
out in 1995, it only came out on LP in Europe; our Real Gone reissue brings it
back on opaque green vinyl limited to 750 copies!
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Cosmo Warrior Zero Complete Series
The story of two true men plays out on the grim stage of
space. Warrius Zero is a disgraced space captain from the Earth Federation. He
lost all hope along with his family and the war against the Machine Men. His
opponent is Captain Harlock, a space pirate who has refused to surrender to the
Machine Men alongside the rest of humanity. The weapons they fight with are
respect, honor, and bravery. Their battle will change the destiny of mankind
forever. This complete collection contains all 15 episodes in Japanese with
English subtitles, and the English dub!
5 Centimeters Per Second
At what speed must I live in order to see you again? The
modern-day anime classic and brainchild of rising star Makoto Shinkai, 5
Centimeters Per Second, presented to you as never before. Witness the story of
Takaki, a young man on a journey from Tokyo to reunite with his childhood best
friend, Akari. Feel his emotions superimposed on the gorgeous. Heavily
researched and impressively animated backdrops of Japan as he travels by train
to see her. Join Takaki on a voyage into three interconnected tales of love and
lost innocence that span the minutes and months of their lives. 5 Centimeters
Per Second, the speed at which cherry blossoms fall from the trees, reminiscent
of the pace of life as our lives intermingle. English dubbed, Japanese with
English sub.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes Presents: The latest single by Aiko Finesse "PVO"
Star Fleet Complete TV Series
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Wyclef Jean : J'OUVERT
This past October World Star Hip Hop debuted the video for “Hendrix” the first part of a 12-minute short film starring actors Michael K. Williams (The Wire, The Night Of), Tasha Smith (Empire) as well as newcomer, T.J. Riley, J’ouvert is a precursor to Wyclef’s forthcoming full length album aptly titled Carnival III: Road To Clefication dropping next summer on the 20th anniversary of Wyclef’s critically acclaimed debut The Carnival. Wyclef is known for his wealth of musical influences from jazz to classic rock to reggae. With his critically acclaimed, Grammy® nominated debut The Carnival, he launched himself as a producer and solo artist whose work drew from elements of pop, country, folk, disco, Latin, and electronic music. As a solo artist, Wyclef Jean has released six albums that have sold nearly nine million copies worldwide, including 1997’s The Carnival and 2000’s The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book.
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How to be INVINCIBLE and BECOME ‘BIGGER’ THAN ANY PROBLEM!!!
Do You Feel Frustrated with the trials and
tribulations of life? If you do, then there is only one way to overcome it!
Develop an invincible nature about yourself.
I want you to think about the world... It will NEVER be
perfect …it wasn’t meant to be.
If you at first fail at something , will you stay positive
and try your best at it the next time or will you be discouraged and give up
and find an excuse not to do it again?
In life, everyone has choices. You may have a negative outlook on certain
situations and often self-defeat yourself when things don’t go your way. But
you have an alternative to that way of thinking. And that is to remain positive
and to view problems as a challenge so you can live a more fulfilling
life. And also understand, YOU’RE BIGGER
THAN ANY OF YOUR PROBLEMS!
So why is it so important to change your way of thinking
now?
Well, thinking positive and having an invincible spirit
allows you to have positive moods and good morale whether it’s academically,
athletically, occupational and other successful endeavors as well as it
contributes to good health. Being invincible also may allow you to even to live
a longer life free from stress and drama.
The rates of depression and mental illness are at an all time high and a
lot of it is due to the everyday trials and tribulations of life. Plus the
everyday rat race that many of us face daily to work, pay bills, take care our
children and other responsibilities pushes us further into mental gloom. It affects middle-aged adults the same way it
affects younger people that’s in high school or college also.
Here’s how to become INVINCIBLE in this world full of
problems:
Expect the best out of everything: Stop believing everything
bad that happens to you will last a long time. Also quit believing everything that
happens to you is your own fault. Some things in life are out of your control.
Those with an invincible nature are faced with the same problems of this world
as everyone else. The only difference is the way they deal with their misfortunes---with
a positive outlook. They believe defeat is just a temporary setback.
Problems are only challenges: Being invincible means to reinterpret
a negative experience in a way that can help you learn and grow. Such people
are unbothered by a bad situation, they perceive it is a challenge and try
harder.
Better reactions to bad situations : During situations such
as sudden tragedies and unlikely turn of events
invincible people will still
stand and keep their heads up. They also see opportunities instead of
obstacles.
Influence positivity in the people around you: Invincible people are proactive and less dependent on others
for their happiness. They find no need to control or manipulate people. They
usually draw people towards them. Their positive view of the world can influence
those that are around them. Those with an invincible state of being seems socially
desirable and generally accepted in all communities. Those who show weakness,
vulnerability, panic and hysteria are treated unfavorably.
In life, these people are often leaders in high positions and
sought for advice.
When things get tough, invincibility get tougher: Being
invincible allows a person to deal with stressful situations better. Many of us
react to stressful events by denying that they exist or by avoiding dealing
with problems. Most of us are more likely to quit trying when difficulties
arise.
Being invincible means being healthier and living longer:
Medical research has justified that simple pleasures and a positive outlook can
cause a measurable increase in the body's ability to fight disease. Being invincible means maintaining good health. People with an invincible nature age well,
much better than most people from the usual physical ills of middle age. And
they get to outlive most people with to negative thoughts and lifestyles.
So why not work on being invincible right now? And think
positively towards a more fulfilled life.
Look forward to
success in all your endeavors. Be resilient. Like everybody else you are bound
to face hard times but don’t let it get the best of you and don’t remain there.
Better your mind and situation and improve your chances of getting your life back on the right track. Inspire others to do better and to be as
strong as you. It’s part of having good karma.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Eskmo: Billions (Original Series Soundtrack)
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