Jimmy Buffett

Last night I went to go and see Jimmy Buffett at the circuit of the Americas. Although this isn't quite my style of music, I enjoyed his concert because it was nice to just lay back and listen to Margaritaville. 

The Fugees & Lauryn Hill

Earlier in the week, we listened to The Score by The Fugees and we listened to a small part of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill. I really like both of the albums and I thought that there were tons of quality verses in what we heard. I thought that Lauryn Hill was the best member of The Fugees because she was excellent at articulating her raps and she would find the creative ways to rhyme words. Wyclef and Praz were much more difficult characters to understand but I thought that each of them still possessed their own unique sound, and as a group they meshed together well. 

Reincarnated

When I first heard that Snoop Dogg was going to try and create a reggae album, I really wasn't that surprised. I mean snoop smokes 75 blunts a day and so he fits right into Rastafarian culture and Jamaican music. I downloaded the album when it came out but I never gave it much of a listen because that really wasn't my type and style of music, but after watching this documentary I will give the album another listen. I didn't really think that it was necessary for them to make a 96 minute documentary on this though, because all it does is show how much weed snoop dogg on the daily (which is ridiculous; how does he function?). But it did show a little bit about his journey and how he got Into the idea of creating reggae and then eventually creating a funk album. 

Green Day

Today we watched this documentary about Green Day. I'd never been much of a fan of Green Day and so most of this was new to me. I'd heard 21 guns and American Idiot but I had no idea that they were the artists behind those songs. Also those guys seemed crazy. They performed with a ton of passion and courage and I thought that that was special. Also, I thought it was interesting how they were able to create characters and write songs about them and it reminded me a little bit about how Kendrick Lamar did that in his album. 

Faces

Earlier this week I downloaded this new mixtape by Mac Miller called "faces." It was different from the previous Mac Miller that I had been exposed to. It was very slow and had more of any school sound that focused more on lyricism and rap flow than instrumentals. It had a few similarities to his past album but I think it was a little more sophisticated and I think he should've made it an album. He featured Earl Sweatshirt of Odd Future in a few as well and thought that that was a good choice because Earl has a similar flow to Mac's new style and they sounded good together. 

Short In-Class Performance

Today in class we had the luxury of seeing a nice little in class performance from a choir student (drawing a blank on the name) and her older brother. I thought that it was a really performance and it was nice of them to do that in from the 6 people that were in class. He was a very talented guitar player and although I could tell she was a little shy, she had a beautiful and I enjoyed the way that they harmonies together at certain points in the song. 

Detox?

So I think it was yesterday when Apple announced that they are interested in purchasing Beats By Dre. Now apparently beats is worth $3.2 billion and that would a ton of cash in Dr. Dre's pocket (as if he needed it anyways). 

But I have a theory that now that Dr. Dre is even richer, we may finally see detox drop and find out if it's nearly anything that it's been hyped up to be.