Dee-1: The Future of Hip-Hop

Whoever said hip-hop is dead... I'm sorry to say my friend but hip-hop is now back!

I absolutely love music. This might sound cliché but music truly is my therapy. I like all types of music, but looking at my mp3 player, you will find more rap than anything. The thing with me is I only like the beat when it comes to rap music. I usually don't listen to the words because I'm not a fan of all the explicit language and disrespectful lyrics, and now days that's all you hear in rap music.

BUT THERE'S  HOPE!!! An underground rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana is making our future look good when it comes to hip-hop. He goes by the name of Dee-1.


One day I was watching MTV Jam's and I saw this unfamiliar guy with dreads appear on my screen. I kept  watching because I thought he was cute. I found it funny because in his song called Writer's Block he says, "About 50 girls are only listening because I'm cute." After listening to his lyrics, I was hooked. THIS GUY IS THE TRUTH! He speaks with wisdom and intelligence in an urban way. He's not like these current rappers rapping about violence, woman and money. He even mentioned in a song that he doesn't use profanity. He's very positive by encouraging people to follow their dreams. But don't let him fool you. He stood his ground schooling these current rappers on what they are doing wrong in the rap game. Click out the video...

Check out his CDs... I Am Who I Am & David & Goliath.

My Life Changing Experience Adapting to a New Family and Autistic Brother!

We have to add three more people to the family?!?!
OMG!!!

Some kids have a problem when their mom gets remarried. Not only do you have to share your mom with your new father but you now have to share it with two step-siblings, too. This actually happened to me. After my mom and biological father divorced when I was 10-years-old, I became so used to just my mom and I. I had never imaged anyone else joining our bond, but of course five years later, three new people joined our bond. At first I had a problem with it, especially me being the only child. The thought of me sharing my mom made me cringe. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, and I actually wouldn’t change any of it.

Through this whole transitioning, the most amazing part was entering a new world by understanding my stepbrother, Joshua. Joshua is autistic. My stepdad said Joshua was diagnosed with Asperger's. When I first met him he was 10-years-old, and would not talk. Either he would write stuff down or his 7-year-old sister, Gabrielle, would talk for him. At the time I knew nothing about autism, so I was slightly confused by his behavior. After doing a little research, I finally understood Joshua and became extremely attached to him. Back then, he become obsessed with certain things. I thought maybe if I talked to him about his obsessions, he would talk. FAIL!!! He would just shake his head or write stuff down. My goal was to get Joshua to talk.

One day I was in my room and Joshua was in the shower next to my room. I wasn’t paying much attention to him, but eventually I tuned in and heard a voice. I was in shock that I didn’t know what to do. Joshua was singing! I ran to my parents telling them to come and listen. We were speechless! When he got out the shower, we told him we heard him singing. He looked kind of embarrassed, but we could tell he was happy we heard him. 

To this day at the age of 17, Joshua will not stop talking. He talks so much now, that sometimes we have to tell him to chill. Now that Joshua is talking, you really can’t tell that he’s autistic. He is super duper smart. Sometimes I believe he’s a genius. What kid do you know that can look at a state one time and draw all the counties in that state by memory? Joshua has done that before. People that meet him can’t tell that he's autistic. Only thing that seems autistic about him is sometimes he’ll talk to himself while looking into the air. You would just think he's a weird kid if you saw him talking to himself. But who is normal these days? I’m sure we all talk to ourselves behind closed doors if not in public.

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Watch What You Post on Social Networking Sites!

                      Question?

 How do you feel about social networking like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace

and etc.?

Personally, I like social networking because it keeps me in tuned with friends and also allow me to find people I haven’t seen or talked to in years. But, boy oh boy can social networking get you in some trouble!

Some people just put TOO much of their personal business on these sites. Because of this post on Twitter, “I still gotta warrant in pearland..those pigs will NEVER catch me!!!…NEVER!!!,” a college student from Pearland, Texas named Mahogany Mason-Kelly was arrest Friday. Cops regularly search the word “Pearland” to see what all is going on in their town. Mason-Kelly Twitter post appeared, and the officer took a picture of it to give to the warrant officer.  This past Thursday, the officer discovered that she was wanted for several warrants for traffic offense. Friday she was arrested, and things got even more interesting. Offers noticed they had warrants for Mason-Kelly sisters, Turquoise Kelly. Police pulled Turquoise Kelly booking photo out and noticed it was Mahogany Mason-Kelly. She had been posing as her own sister. Mason-Kelly fines are $1,877 and warrant bonds $4,000. Click here to read article.

    

Maybe you will reevaluate what you post
on these sites. I’m telling you,

it will definitely help you

out in the long run!

Man, I shouldn't have broke into that fish tank!

*For class we had to write our obituary. So here it is.*

     Leandra Y. Echols, 22, died 4p.m. Friday at the Georgia Aquarium from a shark attack after breaking into a tank. Echols, a pisces, felt a connection with the fish, so she took a swim. A shark had her for dinner.

     Echols attended Middle Tennessee State University. She leaves behind her parents, Theo and Gloria White and two siblings, Joshua and Gabrielle White. Services will be held 2p.m. Wednesday at YepTheryreDead Funeral Home in Atlanta, Ga.