From Huffington Post: For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters — A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms. That alphabet has just grown longer, researchers announce, with the …
My Son's First Day of School is Making Me Feel Some Type of Way
From not being able to roll his body over to releasing him on his own equipped with only a backpack full of clothes and food, tomorrow will be my little man’s first day of school. Preschool montessori style, but school nonetheless. His younger years are …
5 simple lessons I learned from the 2014 VMA's
I don’t really get into the VMA’s like I used to, but I’m not really in MTV’s demographic any longer. I’m 33, married and have never heard of half of their Artists to Watch. Sam Smith is the man tho. I do know that MTV …
Must Watch – Ryan Leslie Drops Money Making Gems While Visiting Hot 97
Ryan Leslie has been so obscure in the last few years, that when he recently sat down with Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning show, they asked him about his lost laptop a few years back. Turns out Ryan’s been too busy making a crap …
Listen Now: The Chainsmokers Immortalize Kanye West with Young White Girls' Voices in Their New Single – KANYE ft. Siren
Image Credit: Time.com The Chainsmokers (who I didn’t even know existed two minutes ago) gets young artists and aforementioned white girls, Siren to belt out: I wanna be like Kanye I’ll be the king of me always Do what I want, I’ll have it my …
15 Minute Writing Freestyle: Part 1 – Austin, Jobs, Marriage, and the Future
10:36 pm This is the exercise I tell my friends to do when they’re having a difficult time communicating what they’re going through. Write. For 15 minutes, carve out 15 minutes and write whatever the hell comes to mind. I’m a big fan of taking …
You Are Going To Die – Facing Your Mortality
You are going to die. It is the one and ultimate shared truth between all living things that ever existed. Death. Sound morbid? Of course it does. Make you feel some type of way? It should. Your life is the one thing you’re guaranteed to …
Music Traffic Therapy – 12 Song Playlist to Keep Myself Sane During Traffic Every Single Day
If you can find me…kill me…please I go phases of music the same way I go through food cravings. I might stick with Meek Mill for a solid 2 months while picking up a bag of spicy chicharrones every time I stopped at the gas …
Why are we really mad?
These days, it seems like everyone wants to be angry about something, but it’s never the right things. Beyonce sparked outrage from the families and friends of victims of the Challenger space shuttle disaster because she used a soundbite from that fateful day in a …
Rap Genius: Verse to Verse: Jay Z
Originally published at rapgenius.com Verse to Verse is a walk through all the Biblical verse and imagery referenced over the course of one artist’s career. We could start discussing Hov’s bible references with his first album (Reasonable Doubt) and work our way to the present, but …