Better Days

I have decided to just leave the video up.

For the record, our senior class was around 800 students and the graduation rate was at a new time high. And each student was allowed to bring up to 4 people to the ceremony (not that everybody did....but maybe they did =D ). And lastly, we graduated at the Greek Theater in LA. Just so you know, I aspire to do something like that again at some point in the future.

Having the same view that performers have made me very happy (nervous).

I can't help but feel a little proud of myself.

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Earlier today, I was showing my suitemate some songs by Notorious BIG. I let him listen to "Me and My Bitch," a song that demonstrates incredible storytelling, but is (obviously) very misogynistic. My friend heavily disliked the song for that. I let him listen to another song called "Dreams," which one would believe to feature the rapper's promising future as a person and such.

Nope.

The song is about R&B singers that he hopes to have sex with. I personally love the song, with epic lines like "Hold your horses/Imma show you who the boss of intercourse is," but this was no way to introduce my friend to the rapper lol.

I thought I'd show him one of the more inspirational songs like "Sky's the Limit," where Biggie mentions that we should "stay far from timid/only make moves when your hearts in it/ and live the phrase Sky's the Limit." It's pretty inspirational on its own, but all he raps about in the song is his rise in the drug business. I find that funny.

I thought I'd listen to Tupac afterwards. Yes, I know that I ranted about this guy a while back (check: http://gylmar.blogspot.com/2009/10/fuck-it.html), but I was referring to his glorification of "Thug Life," not his sentimental side. I knew that people suffered elsewhere, but it hadn't occurred to me that people were suffering in this nation until I listened to him. I wasn't even trying to show my friend awesome music anymore, I just wanted to compare BIG's stuff to his legendary rival because I felt a little uncomfortable listening to it at that moment in time.

And of course, this was my first pic (actually, not obviously since I didn't pick "California Love")



The only reason I don't recall all the lines to this song is because I stopped listening to Tupac for a while, but I recited the lines that I knew.

I was almost brought to TEARS!!! almost lol

"Tell you pregnant and I'm amazed. So many blessings while we're stressing, looking for them better days."

"Every once in a while I reminisce, and wonder how we ever came to this, I miss the better days"

These lines are so sympathetic, and cannot be used out of context, unlike BIG's lines. I guess I preferred 2pac to Biggie this whole time lol.

Oh and my friend really liked "Better Days."