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Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

Endless Summer: The Gift and The Curse

To use the word “endless” in relation to summer in the northeast is dramatic at best, romantically cliche at worst. But there comes a time…

Sep 27, 2017

Endless Summer: The Gift and The Curse

Sep 27, 2017

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

In Order to Survive, Gotta Learn to Live with Regrets…

It’s been seven months since, and you regret your vote. Your campaigning. Your quiet, but insistent need, to “shake things up.” You…

Aug 19, 2017

Aug 19, 2017

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

Keep Going…

At some point, every bone in your body will tell you stop. Give up. Throw in the towel.

Aug 13, 2017

Keep Going…

Aug 13, 2017

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

Nobody’s Built Like You, You Design Yourself…

In my many, many…many years on social media I have seen the above quotation countless times. From the inspirational teen account on Tumblr…

Jul 27, 2017

Nobody’s Built Like You, You Design Yourself…

Jul 27, 2017

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

I Missed The Part When It Stopped Being About…

This was never meant to be a literary shrine to the one I affectionately call Hov, but sometimes I get this urge to get words from my brain…

Jul 15, 2017

I Missed The Part When It Stopped Being About…

Jul 15, 2017

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

A Wise Man Told Me Don’t Argue With Fools…

I have recently decided to no longer argue (or debate) with men about things that I love. As a matter of fact, if I don’t have an intimate…

Jul 8, 2017

A Wise Man Told Me Don’t Argue With Fools…

Jul 8, 2017

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

July 4th: Reflections from the Lower East Side

I love the Lower East Side. It’s part of my DNA. I rep Brooklyn ’til I die, but my move there wasn’t on purpose; gentrification hit the…

Jul 5, 2017

July 4th: Reflections from the Lower East Side

Jul 5, 2017

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

Mazel, Hov.

I’m head-over-heels in love with Jay-Z, and as such it’s always hard to do anything close to a review of his projects. So I choose not to…

Jul 4, 2017

Mazel, Hov.

Jul 4, 2017

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

Calm Down. Get Back. Ghetto People. Got This.

I was born on the Lower East Side in nineteen-seventy-blah blah blah. Coffee and cupcake shops would not have lasted a day in that version…

Jul 3, 2017

Calm Down. Get Back. Ghetto People. Got This.

Jul 3, 2017

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

Put a Little in The Baggie, Put a Little In the Purse…

As the day of 4:44’s release rapidly approaches, Shawn Corey Carter’s die hard fans are engrossed in all things Jay-Z. “Rank your favorite…

Jun 28, 2017

Put a Little in The Baggie, Put a Little In the Purse…

Jun 28, 2017

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

Life and Times Through Shawn Carter

Thoughts, ideas, motivations, frustrations…through the lens of my favorite rapper. These my thoughts, man. Just my thoughts. Walk wit’ me.

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