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Happy 30th Birth-Year, Illmatic: Pt. 4, The World Is Yours – Halftime
Track 4, and the third true song on Illmatic would be a classic to follow two classics. In my book, The World is Yours completes one of the best three song sequences…
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Dear America
When Mister Brown and I come to A Patchwork to post, the caption in the field where we enter our text asks, “What’s on your mind?” Today I’ve decided to post just…
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Happy 30th Birth-Year, Illmatic: Pt. 3, Life’s A Bitch
Some might find it odd that I’d post this after being in the new year. I completely get that, but technically we are still within the birth-year of the album. Illmatic doesn’t…
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SAD
So, something else had a significant effect on me in the first week of November; the week of the 5th, 2024, a week that will assuredly go down in history. I’ll fall…
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Vote: The Influence of the Example
It’s that time again people. It’s around this time every four years when political junkies like me geek out over political media coverage and reporting about the upcoming presidential election and the…
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Being American: The Reckoning with My Identity
I am an American. There, I said it. Fifty-three years on this earth, and it’s only now that I’m beginning to understand and accept that fact. Not because I was trying to…
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Happy 30th Birth-Year, Illmatic: Pt. 2, N.Y. State of Mind
The song that started off the landmark album, would end up being a landmark track for Nas, the genre, and the culture. N.Y. State of Mind was like hearing what made Nas,…
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The Magical Pockets of Coins: Part Penny
When I was a child, I used to think that my father had a magical pocket that was always filled with an endless supply of quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies. He was…
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A Difference Between the Xs
Recently I’ve had a certain incident from my childhood come to mind from time to time. At first, I couldn’t figure out why I kept recalling this incident and remembering how it…
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Caitlin Clark and the Snub That Wasn’t, Revisited: The Gold Medal Game
Yes, I felt compelled to revisit this topic. To be honest, I’m just now posting this because I was questioning myself on whether I should; but I’ve decided on the affirmative, so…