An Insight to my Trill Life: a Live.Love.A$AP Review

LaGreezy be that lanky motherfucker, Vashon's what I'm repping.

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I really should be studying for the midterm I have in my business capstone class tomorrow morning. Especially when you consider the utter lack of productivity I experienced over the weekend. But when you're (still) an undergrad, it's damn near impossible to resist the allure of Halloween weekend. A celebration consisting of half-naked (or three-quarters-naked) womens running around the streets, behaving as scandalously as they are dressed. Shit is cracking.
However, now that today is actually Halloween, a new kind of distraction has presented itself; this time in the form of a free zip file.Yes, A$AP Rocky, the three million dollar man, aka "That Pretty Motherfucker", dropped his debut mixtape/album/whatever-the-fuck-they-call-musical-releases -these-days: Live.Love.A$AP.

Hit the jump for the download link and the rest of the post.

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Black and Brown

If any of you are regulars here at still.grimey you'll know that we're major Danny Brown fans. After a strong 2010 with his first album The Hybrid Brown and his record earned accolades and was considered a rising star in the Detroit and underground rap game.The Danny Brown hype train continued to rise in 2011 with offers from G-Unit(that he ultimately turned down) and various features and leaks for his second album, XXX, left fans salivating.

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A New Reality

America's Ashes

The new normal is bleak and tepid.  Unemployment hovers at nine percent,and would be YUPpies flounder in the search for the rewarding job that was promised them upon completion of college since before they could wipe their own asses.  The lack of leadership, both on a national and global scale is disturbing, and the current political system's inability to work with the long term in mind may mean that dolorous and stagnant will be the status quo for the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, flowers blossom in the abandoned meadows of Detroit, and it seems that Motown may be set for a 21st century rebound both musically and economically. Young American women have taken the reins in the job market as well as academia.  Millions of people in the Arab world are hoping to give representative democracy a shot.  Musicians have got their souls and soul back.  These are all good things.
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