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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…

3 min readSep 27, 2017

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Endless Summer: The Gift and The Curse

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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…

2 min readAug 19, 2017

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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.

2 min readAug 13, 2017

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Keep Going…

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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…

3 min readJul 27, 2017

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Nobody’s Built Like You, You Design Yourself…

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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…

5 min readJul 15, 2017

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I Missed The Part When It Stopped Being About…

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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…

4 min readJul 8, 2017

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

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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…

5 min readJul 5, 2017

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July 4th: Reflections from the Lower East Side

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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…

7 min readJul 4, 2017

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Mazel, Hov.

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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…

3 min readJul 3, 2017

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

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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…

5 min readJun 28, 2017

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

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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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