Review & Rating of T.I.'s No Mercy Album

Review:

Features Chris Brown, Rocko, Pharrell, Christina Aguilera, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, & more.

Rating:

4 liked songs out of 14

• Welcome To the World
• All She Wrote
• I Can't Help It
• Get Back Up

Final score is 6 out of 10 = D

Review & Rating of Drake's Take Care Album

Review:

For Drake's sophomore album... pretty good! To me this is not Drake's best album, but it is the one that is most emotional & has songs very connected to each other. I found the last tracks on this album to be kinda boring, but the beginning tracks are pretty good. 40 has that bass hitting in Underground Kings & Drake is on that next level in Over My Dead Body & some others too. Some interesting people are featured on this album including The Weeknd, Rihanna, Stevie Wonder, Andre 3000, Rick Ross, & Lil Wayne.

Rating:

6 liked songs out of 16

• Headlines
• Marvin's Room
• Make Me Proud
• Over My Dead Body
• Underground Kings
• HYFR

Final score is 8 out of 10 = B

Review & Rating of Lil Wayne's Carter IV Album

Review:

Lil Wayne brings out another album with great sales and hype. Unfortunately, it does not live up to it with only a few of the songs showing how Lil Wayne skills has progressed which isn't far based on this album. This album does features some known good artists such as John Legend, Drake, Tech N9ne, & Cory Gunz. Lil Wayne, however does go hard & make a couple of good tracks on this album.

Rating:

4 liked songs out of 13

• 6 Foot 7 Foot
• How To Love
• Mega Man
• She Will

Final score is 6 out of 10 = D

Piano Keyboard with Radio

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I love this little cool piano widget and I especially love the radio feature it has that allows you to listen to the cool new music out.

Are Games Art?

I give my opinion on what I think about when people ask: Are games art?

Well, to me games are really not art. True, games are composed of art (graphics), writing, music, tools, software, movies, interactivity, code, AI and etc. However, as all these things put together are usually considered games. To understand where I’m coming from, take these questions into consideration: is movies in the theater consider art?, Is writing considered art?, Is software considered art?, Is code considered art?. Well if you can answer yes to most of these (answer >2) then games probably could be considered art. Otherwise, games are what they are called “Games!”

What I’m trying to say is that games may have artistic elements, but a lot of the elements in them that players don’t pay attention to are not. Some of the elements are just technical and mathematical. Besides games have been around for a long time, so if they were considered art, they would have been listed in the art history books by now. So, I will consider games art when they are officially put in an art history book. But you know what? they might already be in an art history book. However, for now the last art history books I have read did not mention nor have any subjects about games or game art.

Scientist vs. Engineers

This article explains the difference between scientist and engineers.

Scientist:

Start with a puzzle that is unclear, that probably already have clear pieces put together, yet plenty of unclear pieces missing, which is what causes the entire puzzle which is the picture to be unclear. They then put in different pieces using trial and error to figure out which piece makes a particular area of the puzzle or picture more clearly. Then they run experiments on this new clear piece inserted to figure out how the piece made the particular area more clearly! The results from these experiments are what ultimately the scientist look at the unclear pieces in the beginning or the card to why the scientist had to research and experiment with the clear piece. So equation: puzzle = uncleanness = missing = piece + clearness + experiment = complete clearness for one missing piece which helps brings complete clearness the whole puzzle (picture)!

Engineer:

Starts with clear pieces that were experimented on by scientist and design an entire new puzzle with them that is more clear the previous clear puzzle that became less useful!

Rap Flow Tips

This is some tips for improving your rap flow.

• Just keep flowing now matter what when your freestyling because it will enable you to rhyme off words you would have never thought of if you just gave up after you seem to not be to think up anything else.
• Another good tip is to pretend like that you are not rhyming in sentences, that way you can rhyme off any word(s) in your flow not matter how long it takes you to find something to rhyme next with the previous flow.
• Rapping smoothly and calmly but still loud and strong makes you sound like a better freestyler too. When you are freestyling you should rely on the energy of your audience if you have one or your own tight sick flows or punch line in order to keep yourself and your competition or audience hyped up. More than likely though your massive unlimited energy from you flow and punch lines will make your competition seem to be less intimidating and they probably will feel more intimidation from you.
• You can always use DJ phrases like “pause,” “take that back,” rewind,” “take two or three,” and etc. in order to buy some more time, so you can think up some more killer phrases, punch lines, or rhymes to complement your rhymes and continue flowing smoothly.
• Just keeping practicing over different beats (even ones that are not in the rap/Hip-Hop genre) in order to become a better freestyler. Eventually you will get comfortable with it and it will seem like killer punch lines and rhymes just come to you without you having to put much thought process input into it.
• Before you know it you will be able to compete with some known rappers and still keep your cool without looking like an amateur in the game.