Tag: BNP101X
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What is burning in paradise?
It’s my last hope. It’s being in the greatest country in the world, and watching it all burn down to the foundation of what America always had the potential to be. As the waves of the internet erode what is left of humanity and winds of politics push the sails of cultural separation. The elements that have been in our cloth since the beginning of this country. Where our ideas are greater than our actions. The lead up is always better than the follow through. We want to believe that we are the best, but what are we the best at? War? Making profits? Creating ghettos? We have a constitution that reads like a poem and feels like a dream that we can’t quite make a reality. That was intended to draw us together for our strength but even the author didn’t believe the opening words he wrote. America has been nothing but years of rebellion. One man trying to hold another man to his standards of him, standards that he doesn’t impose on himself but believes that it must be this way for the “greater good”. It is sad to say that America, though the idea is beautiful,is full of shit. Full of greed that has hollowed out the few values and morals we have because someone always wants to be in charge. And the person that always wants to be in charge, never should be the one to lead. You lead by example, not out of wanting to lead. The same way a writer doesn’t want to write he just does it. These things pour out of people. But this business doesn’t want who’s best for the job, they want who tries the hardest. The one they can control. Burning in paradise is watching all the destruction and demolition of society enjoying the way down. Trying to find beauty in what feels like the last days of society before total anarchy breaks out, (we might already be there) and take a picture of what’s really happening on the surface instead of what’s being portrayed on the television screen.
In simpler words, burning in paradise is my dirty toilet stall where I can throw up from morning sickness or a night of drinking. Covered in the graffiti with discolored tiles, a single bulb flicking in the center, as shit and piss everywhere but the bowl. On the side of a gas station in the middle of nowhere, between a rock and a hard place. And though the floors are dirty and smell like shit in here, I lie on the floor nauseous, trying to figure it out.
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Some Substance: Capitalistic Nihilism
I found myself doom scrolling and I came across this youtuber, Dasia Sade, that has a very interesting take on capitalism and nihilism. She uses the words “nihilistic capitalism”, which I haven’t heard used together before. I’ve heard of them being used separately but I never thought of using those words in the same phrase. I always viewed the two ideas separately. I thought of capitalism as a system and nihilism as a philosophy but the way she explains nihilistic capitalism hit home for me. It explained perfectly this feeling I’ve been having as I attempt to fill a void with online content after a long day of work where I worked hard and still feel fucked at the end of the week. It explains the same system that my employer tries to impose on us, telling us to work harder, faster, and longer but won’t consider offering avenues for raises in pay. At the end of the day, I blamed myself for feeling miserable, questioning if I worked hard enough while scrolling online and watching friends living their best lives.
This video not only piqued my curiosity in nihilism again but also gave a better understanding of what nihilism is. Before I watched this video, I believed that Nihilism was just a negative point of view or better said a perceptive in which the hopeless found hope. Now I see Nihilism as more of a reaction to the environment in which one is in, looking for meaning in the meaningless. I know these two ideas sound oddly similar but the perceptive switch comes from the meaning of nihilism to the cause of nihilistic thought.
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Fanum x. GQ
Fanum stopped by GQ again. Kieran Press-Reynolds wrote an in-depth article about a day in the life of Fanum and how the Fanum name has become what it is today. The article touches on the forming of AMP and how they met, what pushed fanum to begin streaming in the first place, his favorite movie (which I still have on my watchlist, maybe I’ll watch it today)
Article below:
https://www.gq.com/story/fanum-gq-hype
This isn’t Fanum’s first stop at GQ. About a year ago he did his top 10 essentials where he infamously brought a refrigerator full of his favorites on set.
6 months ago he did another piece where he spoke about and made well-known New York sandwiches. He flexes some skill as he used to work in a deli back in the day.
Today he goes undercover on the ethernet and answers fan questions
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America’s Problem with DEI
First day and Trump has signed an executive order to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). As someone that kind of watches politics from the outside and doesn’t really participate too much, I can see why Trump, Republicans, and more importantly White Americans would want to dissolve DEI.
For 100s of years some white Americans have been able to live an exclusive lifestyle, meaning that in some instances they’ve been favored or allowed a life that the majority of minorities have only been able to watch from the outside.
If we are honest, the American public has always been divided. Though law markers have passed bills and laws, America’s culture hasn’t been accepting of these changes. These changes have been abrupt, and real change takes time.
DEI was originally enforced to allow minorities an opportunity at getting a foot in the door, at a time where the majority of place wouldn’t permit people of color a fair shot or equal opportunity as their white counterparts. Again, Abruptly forcing change instead of resolving racial issues that had created these issues in the first place.
Today, White Americans are feeling as if they’re losing power because they can no longer decide who can and who can not step into their “safe spaces”. Places that were exclusively white for years, now have many different faces that don’t remain inside the box White American had them in. And though these minorities aren’t breaking the law, they are unapologetically being themselves. Minorities are no longer living in fear as past generations did and are proud of who and what they are.
For years White Americans have been told that other races and ethnic groups were beneath them, for whatever reason they believe. Now they’re seeing that what they once believed, what their father and grandfather once told them may be a lie. And rather than change, they’d rather close the door.
Because these DEI laws aren’t only allowing racial minorities into traditionally white space, but also members of the LGBTQ+ community. A community that a lot of Americans have taken issue with and though their issues are not resolved, the LGBTQ+ community are welcomed in these spaces but culturally nothing has changed.
White American could feel that they are losing their ground in these places. Even though they outnumber these communities, White Americans don’t want to share these places. Just the very sight of a minority is affront to them.
America’s been fighting against these changes for generations, both sides passing down the torch to keep the battle going. Both feeling justified in their actions. Both white Americans and minorities are in our own bubbles that are clashing together like a venn diagram, each thinking that the other group is out to get them.
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BNP101X: EP3 DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
Tracklist for todays episode:
Goldwatch – Lupe Fiasco
Palante – Cookin Soul, Kid Frankie
Make it Hot – Cookin Soul, Kid Frankie
Dangerous Daringer -Sauca Walka, Conway the Machine
CALM DOWN – Nadine El Roubi, Shepard
Hard Times – Ludacris
Wishin’ II – PRhyme ft. Black Thought
Diamond Cutter – Roc Marciano ft. Black Thought
Feel It – TOKiMONSTA
Wanderer – Little Dragon
Family Tree – Kenny Beats
Super Gremlin – Kodak Black
Pearly Gates – Mobb Deep ft. 50 Cent
Terrorist (Alex Goose Remix) – Freddie Gibbs
THE WILD SIDE – Ab-Soul
STUCK (A Colors Show) – WESTSIDE BOOGIE
The Friends N Strangers – Wale
Die Hard – Kendrick Lamar
Connect – Drake
Keep it Thoro – Prodigy
Soul Express – Stalley
The Rotten Apple – Prodigy
Rahbannaga – Big Ghost Ltd, Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine
Whale – Da$h, Ab- Soul, Retch
Sam (Is Dead) – Odd Future
Jump off the Roof – Vince Staples
14 KI’s – Conway the Machine
Tapatio – Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs
Anything to Survive – Freddie Gibbs
Heaven Can Wait – Freddie Gibbs
Out on Bond – Vince Staples
DIABOLIQUE – Da$h, ANKHLEJOHN
Solo Dolo Part II – Kid Cudi ft. Kendrick Lamar
Rusty – Tyler the Creator ft. Domo Genesis and Earl Sweatshirt
FAREWELL – Da$h, ANKHLEJOHN
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What the fuck Elon?!
What the fuck is Elon doing? A Nazis-ish salute. We might be fucked. This is the president’s man, this the guy that we all looked at, at some point, as the genius of our time. And now he’s doing nazi salutes and cosplaying as a gamer.
It’s the old saying you hear when you and your friends start making money and you see how some people act now that they got a little something something to spare, money can’t unlame you. Money can’t make you cool. You can see when a rich kid has all the gear, the new Supreme, the LV this or that but they can’t seem to put a fit together to save their life. Elon is that, has all the money and resources a man could ever need but for some reason he wants to look cool to gamers and now political types.
Now you can’t deny that dude is smart, maybe this is some kind of play to get government funding for spaceships or underground tunnels or whatever he’s trying to do this week. But whatever his reason is, I’m good. I don’t need no expectation. I’ve had enough interactions with people to understand when you see someone show their true colors you believe them. It’s not like anything Elon does is going to affect me.
Other than these spam trump ads that keep popping up under every tweet. I don’t like teslas, I think that the technology just isn’t there entirely. It’s a working concept but I’ve never had anything with a battery that didn’t need to be replaced after a while. Batteries aren’t no forever my guy. And batteries are expensive. And I’m definitely not trying to go to Mars anytime soon. I’ll let them explore and figure that shit out and maybe my offspring can go in 100 years when it’s all figured out. After they’ve raped aliens and taken their resource as their plan for manifest destiny 2.0. You know with robot slave that eventually turn this into a scene from I,Robot
Yeah, Elon I don’t know what you on, but thank you for being your-goofy-ass-self. I see you dawg.
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Failure for you, not for me
One of the worst feelings you’ll ever have is failing after being misguided. Taking someone else’s advice, that for one reason or another you trust, and then being left to hold the bag when it all falls. That will make you feel as if you’ve been lied to.
And what can only make it worse is if you didn’t believe in the idea in the first place. If you wanted to go left and they told you, “no you should go right”.
If you are going to do anything you do it because you believe in the idea or the decision being made. If you do anything it’s because you think it’s the right thing to do. That’s the only way you build your gut and your senses. That feeling you get when something’s off during an interaction or exchange. You learn to read people and their body language. You start to sense the bullshit before it’s in your hand. It’s no different from learning anything in life. You have to fall or fail, it’s never a matter of what but rather when. And when you do, you have to reflect. The harder/higher you fall, the more you should reflect on what happened and how could’ve you avoided this mistake?
Most of society is critical of a man’s failure, they love to rub their nose in it. But few people sit down and teach you how to avoid a mistake or better yet how to learn from those mistakes.
When it’s all said and done there are going to be decisions where you don’t get a do-over, you can’t have a second try to do it right. Whatever you do in that moment will be set in stone, whether you understand the gravity of your decision or not.
The idea is to make your mistakes early in life, don’t repeat those mistakes, and learn from those mistakes.
Build that gut, trust yourself. Failure on your own merit. Because at the end of the day when you do fail you have no one to blame but yourself.
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Late Night Drive
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Burning in paradise 