#FreeMeek is out now on @PrimeVideo! This story so much bigger than me but for everyone who is voiceless and trapped in the system. Shine a light on the messed up things and we can change them together.
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— MeekMill (@MeekMill) August 9, 2019
#FreeMeek
is a Roc Nation original production.
rottentomatoes: 100%
metacritic: N/A
imdb: 5.0
#HΘMΣCΘMING is written directed and executive produced by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.
rottentomatoes: 97%
metacritic: 92
imdb: 7.6
emmys: 6 nominations
The new year is upon us my dear friends and with it comes the 2013 awards season, and a whole new year in cinema. And somehow all the stupid crap I pulled last year is dead and gone now and I have a whole year to pull an entirely new set of crap. Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Oz the Great and Powerful, Man of Steel, The Wolverine, Sin City 2, jOBS, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug are among those to look forward to in 2013.
Les Misérables and Argo are Golden Globe favorites alongside Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty. Baz Luhrmann‘s The Great Gatsby might give hip hip mogul Jay-Z his first Oscar, as he was recently hired to score the film. Luhrmann is known for Moulin Rouge and Romeo & Juliet, two films in which he also used contemporary music in a period film.
Based on the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby takes us back to the roaring twenties, focusing on titular character Jay Gatsby (Leonardo Dicaprio): a legendary charming, confident, ambitious and lavish hero of the post World War I era. Nobody is perfect as it turns out, as main character Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) starts to unravel Gatsby’s true nature. Carraway’s obsession with Gatsby is representative of humanity’s attraction to fame, glamour, and the spectacle of the Artisan: Let’s take a look
The 2011 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show aired on CBS last night and WOW what quality television programming. Like seriously. The $12 million ‘marketing marvel’ is aired in more than 180 countries and features the worlds top models (36) wearing intimate apparel. The show featured hard-hitting musical performances from Jay-Z and Kanye West, Maroon 5, and Nicki Minaj. “It’s one giant PR stunt” that was held in New York, and helps Victoria’s Secret “put our [their] brand in front of millions of people around the world during the crucial holiday period.” And it works, as Victoria’s Secret raked in $5.5 billion in net sales last year. Australian model and new mother Miranda Kerr sported the most expensive digs in the form of a $2.5 million Fantasy Treasure Bra—designed by London Jewelers and embellished with nearly 3,400 stones including 142 carats of diamond. As is the new trend in these Victoria’s Secret Fashion Shows, a recent mother was given the honor of wearing the coveted Fantasy Bra, last year being Adriana Lima. Indeed most of the lingerie giant‘s top models are now mothers including Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum, Kate Moss, Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio. With all that ridiculously good television going on it was hard to catch the fact that there were also musical performances. Were there? I had no idea. Since analyzing the temperament of models wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense let’s take a look at burgeoning dynamic duo Jay-Z and Kanye West.
Shawn Corey Carter was born into poverty on the streets of Brooklyn December 4, 1969. Today his net worth is estimated at over 450$ million. An extremely talented rapper and musician, HOVA has 11 number one records, being beat out only by The Beatles. Music however, is definitely not Carter’s only talent. Indeed Carter is a very successful and renowned entrepreneur: he was President/CEO of Def Jam Records for several years, he has founded multiple corporations including Roc-A-Fella Records and Rocawear, finally he is co-owner of a variety of organizations including the 40/40 Club and the New Jersey Nets. Whether it be music, fashion, food, or just cold hard business; Jigga clearly knows how to get sh*t done. A self-admitted former crack dealer, Shawn Carter clearly will use any means or ‘tools’ necessary to be successful. A brilliant Crafter Artisan from the streets, Carter knows that the most important things in life are ‘a gift and a curse’.
Kanye Omari West was born June 08, 1977 in Atlanta Georgia. The Chi-town native is characterized by his flamboyantly loud personality, outrageous fashion sense, and skills as a music producer. Indeed it was Kanye’s beat-making prowess that got his foot in the industry door. However once his foot was in the door, his mouth did the rest. The rapper’s flashy personality may come across as a bit egotistical, but also made him a powerful media darling, and helped propel his career to what it is today. Kanye’s uncensored attitude has indeed gotten him in trouble: when he claimed that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” or his infamous mic-snatching incident with Taylor Swift. In fact if at any point during the day you want to hear exactly what Kanye West is thinking about, you can check out his highly utilized twitter account, or even his website. Although the guy may come off as a bit brazen or overconfident: at the end of the day Kanye West, a blazing Performer Artisan, simply wants to entertain his audience.
Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.
I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.
Taylor Swift took home three trophies at the 39th Annual American Music Awards including the top honor Artist of the Year. I know, right? What a bunch of idiots. It was the second time in three years she had been given the AMA’s top honor, and the fourth year in a row she’s won Favorite Country Album. Taylor emphasized the fact that she did not expect to win the Artist of the Year Award and I think it’s safe to say that nobody did. There was obviously some sort of huge mix-up and they just rolled with it. Nicki Minaj was also a big winner, while Katy Perry was honored with a special award for being the first woman in history to have five #1 singles from the same album (Teenage Dream). David Hasselhoff brang his idiocy to the table with an appearance in the finale performance by LMFAO. On winning Taylor commented “this is just crazy” and “I really can’t believe that it happened”. Neither can we Taylor. Neither can we. The “award darling” went three for three at the AMA’s and is starting to be the target of criticism for continually acting overwhelmingly surprised during her acceptance speeches. We get it Taylor. You’re a good songwriter. Get over it. Joking aside Taylor Swift is a very talented and humble artist so let’s go ahead and take a look at T Swizzle a.k.a. Tay Tay fo Shay Shay.
Taylor Alison Swift was born on a christmas-tree farm in an obscure town in Pennsylvania, and since early childhood has showed an exceptional talent for poetry, music, and writing. Her artistic talents blossomed quite early, as she won a national poetry contest in the fourth grade, and wrote a 350-page novel at the age of 12. After learning to play the guitar, Taylor had found her passion and started devoting most of her time to singing and songwriting. Taylor admittedly got picked on in school, and used songwriting to express her emotions as an outlet for the pain of not fitting in. After her family moved to Nashville, Tennessee, Taylor was able to display her talents and quickly became recognized. Her breakout single “Tim Mcgraw” was the first of many hits, while “Love Story” subsequently shoved her into the national spotlight. Highly emotional, musically harmonic, adorably sensitive and gracefully timid Taylor Swift is undoubtedly a Composer Artisan. Composers (like Taylor) “prefer to have their fingers on their compositional tools and through them feel the pulse of life”. Indeed Taylor speaks almost exclusively through her music, as when Composers “find a medium of expression, some art form, then they will express their character quite eloquently via that medium”.
“Although Composers often put long, lonely hours into their compositions, we must not assume that they are working on their art in the sense of careful planning and dutiful execution. On close observation, ISFPs prove to be just as impulsive as other Artisans. Indeed, they covet their impulses and see them as the center of their lives. They do not wait to act or to consider their moves, for to wait is to see their impulse wither and die; rather, they live intensely in the here and now, and as gracefully as possible, with little or no planning or preparation. Submergence in their artistry is not preparation for something later, and neither is it artful play, such as Crafters engage in with their tools. Composers are seized by the act of artistic composition, as if caught up in a whirlwind. The act is their master, not the reverse, and, in a sense, the doing is elicited by the action itself. ISFPs paint or sculpt, they dance or skate, they write melodies or recipes—or whatever—simply because they must. They climb the mountain because it is there.” Please Understand Me II, p. 73
Taylor‘s newest album Speak Now was released October 25th and is available on iTunes.
People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.
