The CHRONICles: I'm Bi-winning

LOL.

Possibly the quote that will define 2011?

Jay Z: "These lyrics are a cry for help" (video)

Jay Z explains how his style went from being centred around technique (flow, etc.) to being more lyrically-focused after gaining "more life experiences":

"For people, don't just judge us as ignorant kids, or drug dealers...Its much more than that... Its layers of complex things thats going in our house, in our homes, in our hallways...

Just imagine your kid growing up in the middle of Marcy Projects when it was fiends in the hallway and shootouts  on Sundays at 12 noon... or seeing someone get killed for the first time at 9 years old.

Imagine that.

So, here's why these things are happening and heres what we're going through... and why... so understand, and 

help.

A lot of these lyrics are strong in nature because they're defiant... but at in the end of it, its all a cry for help..."

Building castles in the air...

"if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.


 He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; 
new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.


 In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. 


If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."


- Henry David Thoreau - ("Walden")

dream on...

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. "



-T. E. Lawrence 

Prescriptions for Life

"I wanna witness love, I never seen it close;

But I guess I gotta find it first,

That's why I'm really going off-

Fireworks"

- Drizzy

prescriptions for Life

"When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but do not quit.
Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-
It's when things go wrong that you must not quit."








(Author Unknown)

Prescriptions for Life

"Dance like there's nobody watching,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

Love like you'll never get hurt,

Live like there's heaven on Earth..." 

Prescriptions for Life

"I'm starting with the man woman in the mirror,
I'm asking her to make a change...."

- MJ
(RIP)

                                      

"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small."
- Lao Tzu 

Prescriptions for Life

"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence."


- Sun Tzu
(The Art of War)

Prescriptions for Life

"I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. "


- Andy Warhol