Category: Entertainment
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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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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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LeBron, Bronny, The Lakers, and The Concerns
Don’t get me wrong folks, I love the story too. It was 2022 when LeBron publicly stated that he wished to play in the NBA long enough to play with his son,…
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Kendrick Vs. Drake: My Issues With The Beef
I’m probably turning off a lot of Rap and Hip-Hop fans when I ask this, but I have to ask; where are we going with these Rap beefs? I, like every other…