My Top Music Moment

The West Coast-East Coast feud was my moment in music history. The West Coast had Tupac, Sugg Knight, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. East Coast had Biggie Smalls, Puff Diddy, and Junior Mafia. There was a rivalry between the two record companies Death Row Records and Bad Boy Records. The feud started when Tupac was shoot outside a New York recording studio. At the same moment Biggie Smalls and his group recording songs. Pac blamed the shooting on Biggies group starting the feud. They would both have rap songs dissing each other for 2 more years. Tupac was shoot and died in Las Vegas in 1996 and Biggie a year later, thus ending the feud between each other.

Drugs is heavily impacted around majority of freshmen taking it or asked about drugs. From Marijuana to cocaine, there have been many drug related incidents that have affected my time at SJSU. drugs can take a tole in someones life to an addiction to leading causes in death. There are many time when you want to say no but peer pressured into taking a drug.

There is unlimited access to finding drugs on campus. Over the counter drugs can be overdose on Tylenol and cough medicine. That is one of the easy ways students can get a high off a non prescript drug. Finding a drug dealer can give you access to many drugs from: cannabis, cocaine, estacy, and pcp. Another way is to buy from a smoke store that sells salvia, a drug in which people hallucinate from the smoke. Since Salvia is not illegal to sell yet, smoke shops are allowed to provide it in their stores but they can only sell up to a certain times high in the store.

The drugs mostly used on campus is marijuana. A dime bag for at least 2-4 people can get them high instantly. The drug is very cheap and you can get various things to smoke it out of. Marijuana high can leave people baked for a good three to five hours but it can also give them munches in where they crave to eat a lot. Another drug on campus is estacy. Instead of smoking it like marijuana, estacy is a pill also known ass Thizz. When people take it they feel energetic and feel fresh before a party. Takers also have to drink at least a gallon of water after consuming the drug.

In what I have experienced is to walk away from taking drugs here on campus. I do not want to take the risk of smoking marijuana and getting caught with the RAs. There have been many ignorant happenings in which people have gotten injured from drugs. Every time some asks I just say NO!

Music memories4

Top 5 songs that pump me up before a football game.

1. Lets Go- Trick Daddy

The blasting beats and the go hard lyrics is a must song before a game over and over again.

2. Stronger- Kanye West

The song encourages me to do better and be stronger.

3. Diamonds from Sierra Lione-Kanye West

"Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe". The song gets me to think what my assignments are on the field.

4.Reflection Eternal-Nujabes

This song calms me down when Im nervous in the locker room.

5.We Fly High-Jim Jones

Every time our defense stops the other team this song plays in my mind because were BALLLLLINNN!!!!

Interview a senior

I interviewed my friend Patrick Walker who is in the masters program and will be graduating in the spring as a teaching major. Since he plays for the SJSU football team, he gave me advice on trying out for the team and how the coach chooses the players. He told me to have fun during the year and not to screw up in my education. Also Patrick talk to me about living off campus in a good neighborhood.

Muse 2

For my second non muse event I attended the homecoming football game against Idaho. Standing in the Spartan Squad section I blended in with all the 3,000 yellow shirts in the stands rooting for the Spartans. The game was close in the beginning when we could have scored a TD but stopped. In the 4th quarter the team made bad plays and could not tackle the ball carrier. With seconds left Our Qb got intercepted with no WR standing there. Majority of the people left after the play disappointed.

Scholarly Journal

In “ The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan” by Ed Kevin Dettmar a 2009 journal published by Blackwell publishing, he talks about how Bob Dylan is still a musical influence today. The article also talks about the treatment of women in Dylan’s songs to in real life scenarios. You can still hear Dylan’s work from his 30th album to ipods, radios and cds.

In 2007, Dylan released his thirtieth record album “ Together through life” which was a hit on the record charts. The album sold millions to country music fans. He also was a subject of a Hollywood movie in 2007, “ I’m not there”. We still listen to his songs from new technology of mp3 players and satellite radio, a big difference from how people listen to music in the 1960’s of the albums to home radios.

Barbara O’ Dair provides an explanation of the sexism in the song “ Just like a women”. She states that some of the songs lines had no taste and the speaker’s vulnerability and shame. They also defined Dylan’s male heroic persona in which he tropes of the feminine as an accessory. They also talk about how Dylan influenced many artist in using marijuana. From the Beatles in 1964 they got influenced in a recording studio.

Muse 1

My muse event I went to the amazing Love Fest. The parade was packed with lots of people wearing costumes. There was two kinds of music playing: techno and reggie. The Best thing of love fest was the girls from what they wore to how they acted. Next year is a must go again for me with an appropriate costume.