• Love Will Tear You Apart

    When the routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. And the resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow. And we're changing our ways, taking different roads…

    Love Will Tear You Apart

    Link: 33third.blogspot.com

  • Infographic: Explaining the Beauty and Intricacy of Hip-Hop Through a Nas Song

    If you had to pick a single track to explain to an alien or time traveler what hip-hop is and why it’s so awesome, you might want to pick the hip-hop classic “Nas Is Like.” Check out Ethan Hein's thorough analysis of this hip-hop classic here

    • 1. An analysis of Nas is Like by Ethan Hein

      “Nas Is Like” has a complex family tree, a set of allusions to allusions to allusions. This is as it should be. Fundamentally, all music is built of reshuffled bits of other music. Hip-hop makes this fact an explicit part of the music’s message.

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  • The Evolution and Decay of Shepard Fairey's May Day Mural

    New York graffiti writers don’t seem to like Obey Giant. The evolution and decay of Shepard Fairey’s May Day mural may be more interesting than the actual piece itself.

    The Evolution and Decay of Shepard Fairey's May Day Mural

    Link: obscenenyc.com

  • What if the Tea Party Was Black?

    What if President Obama would have lost the election / Quit his job so he could go talk to the left and / Bash the government for being off of direction