First name?
Where'd you get your username? Old art name and freestyle name when I lived in Baltimore.
Age? 3X
Where do you live? Suburbia MD
Where are you from? Wichita KS, Baltimore MD
How'd you end up where you are? By car and Uhaul
First Hip Hop Album? Either Sugar Hill Gang: Rappers Delight. (wasn't mine but we listened to it on the record player constantly)
Top 5 movies? A Clockwork Orange, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Clockers, The Incredibles, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Top 5 Video games? MGS3, SMB3, FFVI, Uncharted 2, Castlevania 3
What did you read last? American Gods. In the middle of Pimp: The Story of My Life.
What did you watch last? Fringe (The End of All Things)
Favorite non hip hop album? Radiohead: In Rainbows
Favorite Drink? Current: Paul Mason and Pepsi. Last week: Jamaican Rum and Coke.
Play any sports? Eh, closest thing is the warm up of Insanity Workout before I become lazy.
How was your high school life? Innercity school... pretty boring.
Bad habits? Cigarettes, procrastination, short attention span with women.
Employment? FDA
Hobbies? Painting, writing, gaming, photography, sleeping...
If you could slap one artist in the face with a sock filled with quarters? Hip-Pop Rappers in general. Mostly Drake (monotone crooning on every station). Second up for a face of Washingtons would be Lil' Wayne (constant analogies about fellatio and "fuck these N@gg@s" in every.single.song gets tired).
Why'd you end up on gaf? Five or so years ago, found a thread on cosplay while looking for something to paint. Started posting on Gamers.com (I think) which transitioned to 1up forum and then transitioned to shit. Decided to stay here.
Other threads you frequent? Anime/Manga threads, Fringe/Lost/Walking Dead threads, gamers side randomness.
Threads you avoid like the plague? Black Culture thread. "GAF: Women fries infant in vat" kind of threads, generally threads with bannable traps.
Most significant hip hop album to you B.I.G.: Life After Death - Prior to the album, artists were in a stage of early gangsta-dom and group albums. BIG's sophomore album focused on his rise after "Ready to Die" and his success. Years after the album, there's been very little innovation to discuss anything else, with a few exceptions from the underground and backpackers.
Best thing about hip hop? Self expression, emphasis on wordplay and delivery, how it's an American original much like baseball and Fortune Cookies.
Worst thing? It's commercialization, how it's less about the street poetry art-form and more about flash and dumbed down easy to memorize catch phrases (black and yellow... swag... rack city...), vomit. Strictly "follow the leader" mentality. Meh.
Shittiest thing you've ever done? Age 4, stuck something in my brother's ear (he was 6) and never told a soul. In his 30's he finally had it taken out...
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