#omin dres

[soullessbullshit]

Omin: It’s your word against mine.

Tavi: Let’s do it.

Omin: What?

Tavi: You’ve selected the word "what." Big mistake, bro; I choose "shenanigan!”

#incorrect quotes #elder scrolls #elder scrolls online #eso #omin dres #grandmaster omin dres #the vestige #vestige oc #vestige taviama aramni #source: twitter

[kazzzmataz]

im a great listener Not a great responder but a Great Listener

#thinking abt when dre told me off for nodding ominously while they were giving me the tea HAHAJAJNAHSHV #sorry sometimes i forget to say the thoughts putloud

[zilritsch]

We continue the epic with the CAT!Dre, because it’s impossible not to talk about it. and this is again a mix of headcanons and canon behavior.

And thanks for your support little meow meow!

Dream is a brat, he loves to play dirty tricks. Drop something, and then quickly run away from the scene of the crime, rearrange things, making a complete mess and rush around the house madly, because he doesn’t want to go outside, but he wants to go crazy right now.

He takes the things he likes/stolen to his little secluded corner where he enjoys them alone. (I know his evil hideout was deliberately built to be ominous,but god, it literally looks like that dark corner behind the couch with the most important items.

Dream Team set up an aquarium and Dream spent hours watching the fish and even tried to catch them.

He crumple his friends. Once he broke Sap's rib when he was in complete ecstasy from catnip and did not calculate the force with which he pressed.

He hates citrus fruits, and every time he hisses at George when he drinks tea with lemon, and pushes him out of bed when he went to Ponk's before bed for more lemons. Sapnap always looks at George with superiority at such moments.

He despises Ponk's lemon trees, but is tactfully silent because his friend built him a separate place right in the branches of the tree with a very comfortable hammock. (He doesn't feel comfortable saying that he doesn't like citrus fruits, so he always sniffs a little mint to fill his receptors and lie quietly in a hammock.)

He teases Tommy by stealing his dicks and climbing trees that the brat can't climb because of his weak arms.

Mistakes bees for flying targets and shoots them down by leaping and effectively pinning them down with both hands. (No bees were harmed)

His somewhat creepy habit of watching and controlling everyone; this is literally cat behavior, they always want to be in the know and in control of the space they are in. They want to know everything so they know they are safe.

After Pandora, he will follow Panz on his heels and get in the way, try to be somewhere nearby or fall asleep only in his presence, for fear of separation. (He never admits that panicky fear of being left alone, in a dark small cell, when you don’t know if anyone will come back to you or if everyone has abandoned you.).

Dream takes away Tommy's ability to go wherever he wants (exile arc). He literally chews off Tommy's whiskers (like a mother cat) so that he does not go far from Dream, so that he can control his actions, so that he can finally train little brat.

In Pandora Dream played with the Techno's tail when he had enough energy.

#dream #c!dream #dream is a CAT #cat dream #he just little meow meow #headcanon #dream smp #dsmp

[underworld-park-offical]

TWEEK: Ugh

TWEEK: Fuck

TWEEK: Of course he wanted to meet me HERE of all places

TWEEK: Big spooky forest were he could potentially mug and murder me

TWEEK: Great

TWEEK: Fucking

TWEEK: Fantastic

TWEEK: HEY!!

TWEEK: GET OUTTA HERE OMINOUS FIGURE!!

TWEEK: YOU CAN'T HAVE MY PUDDIN!!

???:  ╤ ╝╤: …

TWEEK: YEAH YOU!!! I'M TALKING TO YOU!!

TWEEK: GET LOST!! TWEEK: I TOLD YOU, YOU CAN'T HAVE MY PUDDIN!! TWEEK: FUCK OUTTA HERE!!!

TWEEK: Whuh-

TWEEK: Oh

TWEEK: There  you are 

PIP: Yeah, I'm here  bitch

TWEEK: Why did you wanna meet me here anyway?

TWEEK: You want to fucking kill me or something?

PIP: No?

TWEEK: Oh what a surprise

PIP: Shut the fuck up PIP: Get over here PIP: I don't want to be seen getting shouted at by a deformed looking sewer rat

TWEEK: Rude…

TWEEK: Alright fine

TWEEK: I'm coming you fucking brit..

PIP: I hope you die tripping over a stick on your way over

TWEEK: Why do you hate us so much?

PIP: Pardon?

TWEEK: Don’t act dumb!

TWEEK: All you’ve done since you’ve gotten to Hell was bitch at and berate us!

TWEEK: And STOP walking around with all your demon shit! 

TWEEK: YOU’RE GONNA GET US KILLED!

PIP: We can't die, moron

PIP: Didn't you say that to Thomas already?

TWEEK: …

TWEEK: Estella's safety psas fucked me up worse than I thought

PIP: Anywhom

PIP: I wanted to meet up with you for a one on one 

TWEEK: A what

PIP: A one on one

PIP: Where we just

PIP: Talk?

PIP: Have you never  had a one to one conversation with someone before you sentient block of fermented cheese?

TWEEK: No?

TWEEK: And also

TWEEK: Don’t call me that

PIP: You smell of shitstain and dogwater 

PIP: Have you been hanging out with Clyde?

TWEEK: What?

TWEEK: NO!

PIP: Don’t act with me

PIP: I can smell him from a mile away

PIP: Please don't say you're catching feelings for that tone deaf scene kid uncle fucker

TWEEK: I…

TWEEK: I mean…

TWEEK: Maybe a little?

PIP: Ohhhh lord, see me through this

TWEEK: His nightcore playlist is actually really good!!

PIP: He doesn't wipe his ASS. TWEEK.

TWEEK: It's not that big of a deal!

PIP: YES IT IS!

TWEEK: He’s really sweet..

TWEEK: I can excuse an unclean ass

PIP: I'm going to vomit all over your jacket, that is disgusting.

TWEEK: He really isn't as bad as people say he is!

PIP: He is an unwashed manchild

PIP: And it's rubbing off on you  too

PIP: God, I can smell the fact your music taste has worsened

PIP: ( sniff sniff  )  Nope

PIP: That's just fermented pudding on your head

TWEEK: I like puddin :D 

PIP: Come on

TWEEK: What?

TWEEK: Where are we going???

PIP: To the laundromat

PIP: The laundromat

PIP: So we can wash the fucking stench of nightcore and cringe off of you

PIP: Come now

PIP: We can’t bring you back to the others smelling like a gamer stuck to their sofa

TWEEK: I don't understand…

TWEEK: What even is a laundro… laun…. laundre….. laun….

TWEEK: AGHHH!!

TWEEK: WHATEVER YOU SAID!!!

PIP: Laundromat you poor

PIP: Stinky

PIP: Stupid

PIP: Summer child

TWEEK: ????

PIP: It's a place where you wash your nasty clothes

TWEEK: What???

TWEEK: You can just???

TWEEK: DO THAT???

PIP: Yes, yes, my dumpster dwelling nuisance, you can do that!

TWEEK: UNHOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME!

TWEEK: I CAN JUST LIKE

TWEEK: THROW MY CLOTHES IN THERE??? TWEEK: AND THEY COME OUT CLEAN???

PIP: Not exactly…

PIP: You have to put them into a machine

PIP: The machines do all the work FOR you

PIP: Because, well, 

PIP: Most are too incompetent to do something as simple as washing their clothes

TWEEK: WOAHHH

TWEEK: UNHOLY

TWEEK: TAKE ME INTO THE LAUNDRY MATE RIGHT NOW

PIP: ….

PIP: The

PIP: …

PIP: The what ?

TWEEK: The

TWEEK: The laundry mate

PIP: That

PIP: No

PIP: That's not what it's called

PIP: It's laundromat

PIP: Say it with me

PIP: Laun

TWEEK: Laun

PIP: Dro

TWEEK: Dro

PIP: Mat

TWEEK: Mat

PIP: Okay, now say it faster

PIP: Laun

TWEEK: Laun

PIP: Dro

TWEEK: Dro

PIP: Mat

TWEEK: Mat

PIP: Laundromat!

TWEEK: Lawn dre mat!

PIP: …

PIP: Why do I even bother

TWEEK: What?? What did I say??

PIP: I swear to god Tweek, when we get inside that fucking laundromat I will shove you into the fucking washing machine and watch you DROWN

TWEEK: What?

PIP: You heard me you incompetent fucking POKÉMON 

PIP: Come here. Now.

TWEEK: Eeeeeehhhhh

TWEEK: Eeeeeggehhhh

TWEEK: Eeegrrrhhghhh

TWEEK: ….

TWEEK: Do I get 

TWEEK: …

TWEEK: Do…

TWEEK: Do I…

TWEEK: Do I get a…

TWEEK: Do I get a puddin’ out of it?

PIP: …

PIP: Are you

PIP: SHITTING ME??

PIP: ….

PIP: Of course!

TWEEK: Really???

TWEEK: I get a puddin’???

PIP: No.

TWEEK: Awhhh… 

PIP: I'll shove your corpse into the dryer when i'm done with it

TWEEK: ….What did you say?

PIP: I will watch you cough up fucking bubbles

PIP: You get no pudding

PIP: I hope you die

TWEEK: ( Crying )

PIP: SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU BAKUGOU CLONE

TWEEK: ( Uglier crying ) PIP: UGHHHH

PIP: FIIIIIINE PIP: I'LL GET YOU YOUR FUCKING PUDDING AT DENNY'S PIP: WILL YOU STOP CRYING NOW?!?!?

TWEEK: ( Gasp )

TWEEK: YAY!! PUDDIN!!

PIP: You can even dumpster dive for it like the rat  you are

TWEEK: YIPPIEEE!!

(Edits by @pissblanket)

#craig tucker #craigfluencer #hellpark #south park #south park edits #sp #southpark #underworld park #underworld park tweek #underworld park pip #underworld park clyde #underworld park tolkien #underworld park stan #underworld park kyle #underworld park gregory #underworld park estella #underworld park red #underworld park bebe #underworld park kenny #underworld park wendy #underworld park nichole #underworld park craig #gregory cute pie 3rd #team gregory cutie pie 3rd #gregory cutie pie vrs craig the real tucker

[violent138]

Bruce Wayne's parents' deaths from Batman 1989 to the live actions that followed. Common recurring theme: they're leaving a movie/play via alley. Common repeating motifs include: the pearls (purity, loyalty, innocence), the gun, Martha usually holds/shields Bruce, and the fact that Thomas dies first, usually after moving in front of his wife and kid.

Batman (1989) - Starts off at a weird angle looking up at the Waynes (establishing their place in the city?), and above them are gold-yellow rays (lights) but they walk into the darkness. Everyone moves in a very stage-directed, telegraphed way, and the whole scene has a choral, atmospheric feel through lighting and sound. Something follows, seen in blurry shadowed figures. Bruce notices something wrong first, and his parents stop and turn due to him doing so. At first we don't see the killer, but one of his accomplices smiles and tears off Martha's necklace. Then Thomas reacts and the necklace breaks and popcorn goes tumbling down. Garbled, ominous dialogue. For this one, both popcorn and pearls go tumbling down, and we very clearly see the killer's face (grotesquely smiling by the way), and the camera lingers on him and his near-killing of Bruce too before he's interrupted. We see the killer, and then Bruce, and the killer talks to him. This is a night that didn't go as planned, for anyone.

Batman Begins (2005) - We're at the family's level, the alley is seedy from the start (dark and derelict), yet the Waynes are unbothered, their focus entirely on their son. We hear sounds, this is an actively unfolding scene and less of a memory. There's a focus on the family's interactions, but we see the killer this time too (but briefly). This is a much slower scene that builds up to the confrontation and then speeds up with the killings. Thomas is alive long enough to comfort his kid. Bruce silently cries over them, and now it gets choral and atmospheric. This one truly feels like a robbery gone wrong, just a twitchy guy ruining a night that had no indications of this happening at all.

Batman v Superman (2016) - We start from above and descend down through the camera to the Waynes, this is another darker lit scene. Similarly, the Waynes are carefree, however this scene relies more heavily on visuals and music. Interspersed with scenes of running, the gun comes into focus, Thomas goes. There's detail in focused sounds, like clenching of leather, clattering pearls, the bullet casing bouncing. Underwater, memory-esque feel to this one as Martha's pearls go, and we catch a glimpse of the killer. So far this is the one most personal to them, and less interested in the pearls, which are snapped deliberately. We catch a glimpse of the killer. It's the slow happening over seconds, and the location/setting makes it intimate and closed off, as it's a memory with a few defined details but much is lost. You get the feel that the why doesn't matter at all with this one (an important part of the movie as a whole).

Joker (2019) - In this one, the Waynes are fleeing the theatre (quite brightly lit), at odds with their burning city, and a clown sees them and follows. The Waynes enter a dark alley (momentarily separated from the chaos), this is the first in which they're forced into danger, and the clown names them before shooting Thomas. Martha's pearls are snapped after she's shot, and this becomes the most random, yet specific killing of the Waynes, with robbery barely even a motive. Bruce stands between the carnage, blood on his face.

Gotham (2014) - The camera pans up from the killer's perspective, slowly rising up from behind him to the happy, unaware family. They tense up when the killer draws a weapon. This one has the least music, emphasizing the dialogue between Thomas and the killer. There's the inclusion of a third person (our inclusion is most obvious in this one, the rest are vignettes or memories pretty clearly aside from Joker). The music slowly does emerge and it's entirely creepy/dreadful. This killer makes a vocal demand for the necklace. The pearls break while being handed over, they're not torn away. Lots of emphasis on Bruce. Thomas dies first, then Martha, and now the killer turns his weapon on Bruce, who's still standing amongst bounding pearls. He's in danger somehow most in this one. We see the killer's eyes intently before the robber runs past Bruce into the street. Bruce reacts, shaking his parents and bloodying his hands.

#So #I instead of working on my exams #decided to do this instead: #a study in batman's parents' deaths #I've actually wanted to do this for so long lmao #might make a longer post about this #let me know if I missed one #Gotham #batman v superman #batman #bruce wayne #thomas wayne #martha wayne #joker #batman begins #filming decisions

[dictee]

I don't mean like retconning events to have been totally made up from thin air but I do think any kind of eternal sunshine scenario (whether its to Daniel, Louis or both) would immediately make Louis's whole story seem extremely questionable as well and make you wonder if events happened as told or in some exaggerated/altered fashion. Like how can you have this overpowered ominous figure erase or plant fake memories in Daniel and NOT also think he's done that to Louis? Yet Louis still gets to be a credible victim cause he's not lying.

hmmmm yeah i can see what u mean i still have the feeling that the shakiness of louis's memories is generally bc of the nature of memory itself especially memory fractured by trauma and louis's own extraordinary power for self deception. and the fact that it is his self deception that keeps him with armand and not armands direct control. dre @puentera has a really great post about why it doesnt make sense for armand to be coercing louis directly both in terms of the narrative and his character. i think that will definitely be a tension that they will play with. But louis is the one locking himself in with the monsters and as always his greatest sin and the core of his character is his inability to act and his choosing not to choose and i think that is what is going to be going on . and i think whatever he is repressing or having armand repress w s1 has to do w claudia and culpability and his great shame surrounding that inability to decisively choose but i dont think it will be like. lestat was actually not that bad a guy! like that just doesnt make sense

#again. the joker for libras #iwtv

[newleasemusic]

Recently signed to Eminem and Dr. Dre’s Shady Records/Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records, @ezekielmiller ominous, dark visuals for latest track, ‘Podium,’ claims the #musicvideooftheweek title 🔥

#music #indie music #hip-hop #unsigned music #usa #indie artist #Instagram

[affairesasuivre]

Wamp 2 Dem/ Giggs

With top-shelf beats and assists from A-list contributors, the South London rapper’s new mixtape aims to show American listeners that there’s more to British rap than grime and cameos on Drake singles.

Giggs’ new mixtape arrives at a time when his profile has never been so high yet his reputation, at least in the U.S., has never dipped so low. A couple of guest spots on Drake’s 2017 playlist album More Life may have elevated the South London rapper to new levels of global renown, but the reaction of American audiences to his work—and in particular the Batman-referencing verse on Drake’s “KMT”—has proved tepid verging on hostile. “His flow is wack. It doesn’t go with the beats he’s on. His mixing engineer did an awful job with his vocals and he’s got some weak bars,” a 17-year-old rap fan told Noisey UK when the music website set out to investigate the biggest Anglo-American culture shock since U.S. audiences started taking Gavin Rossdale seriously.

American criticism of Giggs tends to focus on two particular aspects of his performance. Many U.S. rap fans scoffed at the idea of a British rapper talking about drugs, guns, and gangs, as Giggs does on “KMT,” responding on Twitter with the timeworn clichés of tea and the Victorian empire. Others dislike Giggs’ brutally spartan rap style, comparing him unfavorably to Skepta, an MC who operates in an entirely different style of music. They may both hang out with Drake in London but Skepta is a grime don, while Giggs is the king of road rap, a name recently coined for the heavier, trap-infused style of modern British hip-hop. Giggs has said that Wamp 2 Dem—pronounced “W’appen to dem?,” a nod to the Jamaican patois that is omnipresent in South London—is meant in part as a rejoinder to the first charge. “What I did care about was people wasn’t really respecting England, like the hoods and shit,” he told Beats 1 host Ebro Darden. “I didn’t really like the disrespect of what man’s been through.”

Wamp 2 Dem displays Giggs’ talent for painting brutally dark London scenes with a sparse lyrical touch peppered with enough British slang to keep Genius in advertising dollars for the foreseeable future. On paper, Giggs’ lyrics often don’t amount to much. But he writes perfectly for his own voice, a pitiless, bassy mutter that oozes like tar slopping out of a barrel, infusing lines like “Man ain’t really too confirming/None of these vermin” (from “Gully Niggaz”) with an ominous force. True, some of the lyrics on Wamp 2 Dem may be decidedly charm-free—“Moist Pussy” is about as artless as the name suggests—but you are left in no doubt that Giggs’ native Peckham is far from the Mary Poppins utopia that some stateside listeners clearly imagine it to be.

The beats, meanwhile, show Giggs’ knack for mining the best in transatlantic rap production, a skill that dates back to his breakthrough track “Talkin’ da Hardest,” where he owned the instrumental of Stat Quo’s “Here We Go.” Production on Wamp 2 Dem comes from Florida duo Cool & Dre, Atlanta’s London On Da Track and Zaytoven, and Londoners Donae’o and Footsie, among others, and the overarching feel is of American trap bluster soaked in icy South London rain. American audiences may not find anything especially new here—particularly compared to the spikier, more frenetic sound of grime—but the beats on Wamp 2 Dem are finely tuned for Giggs’ crawling South London menace.

Opening track “Gully Niggaz” is perhaps the best example of this simpatico voice and production fusion. The beat samples Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” an idea that sounds on paper like the kind of contrasting musical blend we should run to the hills to avoid. (In fact, it’s the second time Giggs has taken on the Tchaikovsky ballet, after the 2015 Dizzee Rascal collaboration “Nutcrackerz.”) But the classical bed sits well with Giggs’ bruising monotone; helped by a fantastically heavy, pitch-shifting drum pattern, it adds just enough musical polarity to really lift the song. “Ultimate Gangsta,” which follows, pulls off a similar feat, marrying an eerie string sample to a nervy beat made out of gunshots and hi-hats, over which Giggs and 2 Chainz exchange tales of gangster life.

This high standard barely dips over Wamp 2 Dem’s 13 tracks, which are helped by sympathetic production and guest turns that do more than just take up space in the credits. “Times Tickin’” joins the dots between Giggs’ London hustle, Jamaican dancehall, and American hip-hop, thanks to a commanding guest turn from Popcaan; “Gangstas & Dancers” sees Giggs join forces with Lil Duke and Young Thug on a chilling, detuned beat; and London MCs Footsie and D Double E lend “Outsiders” a wonderfully paranoid energy. But don’t be misled by the A-list guests: Wamp 2 Dem is very much Giggs’ album, where his voice dominates and his aesthetics rule; it is Giggs in excelsis, whether he is being hard, crude, introspective, or playful. By the time “Ruler” closes the album in an epic, almost operatic fashion, the rapper has already made his point: London life isn’t all bangers and mash, British MCs don’t just make grime, and Drake fans who dismissed his performance on “KMT” have a hell of a lot of catching up to do.

#Wamp 2 Dem #giggs #zaytoven #2017 #affairesasuivre #affas #affaires a suivre #pitchfork #Youtube

[listingdemo]

Jadakiss why year released

There’s a lot of comparisons when you want to compare to things, but that was one of the ones we were looking at with Freddy vs. Once you heard those footsteps, you knew he was in the area. The Jason character didn’t really say much, but you knew he was there. Freddy was a killer, and he might be a little more witty, cuz he talk more. Jason, where Jason, you knew he was killer. You knew his work and you knew what he do. In January 2017 (before the name change) Fabolous and Jadakiss were interviewed on HipHopDX and Fabolous shared the following: “We got the theme with Freddy vs. Jason, the mixtape name was later changed for legal reasons. Originally slated to be called Freddy vs. As you might guess from the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street references, a horror movie theme inspired the album. The track is from the album Friday on Elm Street, a mixtape collaboration between rappers Fabolous and Jadakiss. And we already know the show has been renewed for season 6, so plenty more to come. The episode sets up another season of high stakes drama on Power. It's a beautiful thing that I earned that.When Dre sticks the Cartel's cards inside Ghost…Ĭlosing out the episode, the song plays while Ghost gets an ominous warning as he’s grieving his daughter. I'm in a senior now, so I'll get that respect from 11th graders and 10th graders. It's like a seniority thing, like being a junior or a sophomore or a freshman. It's still pressure, but it’s a comfortable pressure. I been through the most pressure, working with DMX, working with Biggie, with Jay Z, with Nas. Our comfort level is at an all time high. Is there a comfort level you have working with guys like that? You’ve got features on Ignatius from rappers like Pusha T and Rick Ross, guys who have has similar experiences to yours, been through these different stages, and are at high levels in their career now like you. It’s the same process, with a little digital seasoning to it. My son was heavily involved with this project, but he was able to forsee it because he knew Pick as well, as he grew up. You gotta damn near combine it now, whereas in the Kiss Of Death days, I could get a beat from Alchemist and they were going to love it because that's what it is. You need some young people there you need some old people that know about musicians and instruments. But now the game is so fickle, so instant, so microwave. I could get the beat from a producer and I could create. In those days, I didn't need many people there.

When you’re creating now, how much has changed for you since 2004’s Kiss Of Death, which Jackson co-executive produced? You’ve been a major label solo artist for longer than the entirety of most other rappers’ careers. I kept a tight knit staff with me doing it, a group of individuals that he loved. That helped me through the process, as opposed to trying to explain it to somebody why I'm doing this this way or why I'm making this type of feeling song. I tried to keep people around that knew Pick, that really, really knew him. He felt it too, ‘cause he is the same, like family. So that gave me some help in making the project because I wasn’t on my own. He knew Pick like us, so it made it much easier to articulate things. He also did the 2 Chainz record He's been with The Lox and myself for 15, 20 years now, so he’s my brother. Poobs, my engineer and producer was right there. When you were making this album with these very personal songs, who was around you? This is my real chance to ventilate and exhale, cry and laugh and reminisce and all the things you do. Do you see Ignatius as part of your grieving process?

#Jadakiss why year released

[soullessbullshit]

Omin: You have a lot of nerve coming here.

Speaks-in-Embers: You have a lot of nerve being alive.

#incorrect quotes #elder scrolls #elder scrolls online #eso #omin dres #grandmaster omin dres #the vestige #vestige oc #vestige speaks-in-embers #source: ???

[whileiamdying]

Coolio, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59

From a bookish, asthmatic child to mainstream hitmaker, the West Coast M.C. charted a distinctive path to hip-hop stardom.

By Eduardo Medina and McKenna Oxenden Published Sept. 28, 2022 Updated Sept. 29, 2022

Coolio, the rapper whose playful and sometimes gritty takes on West Coast rap and anthemic hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” made him a hip-hop star in the 1990s, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 59.

His longtime manager, Jarez Posey, said he was told that Coolio died at a friend’s house. No cause was given.

Coolio, whose legal name was Artis Leon Ivey Jr., achieved mainstream superstardom and critical success with “Gangsta’s Paradise” in 1995. A grim, minor-key track that featured the singer L.V. and drew on Stevie Wonder’s 1976 song “Pastime Paradise,” it spent three weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100 and was named the chart’s No. 1 song of the year.

It also won the Grammy for best rap solo performance in 1996 and was later certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, outshining the movie it was featured in, the high school drama “Dangerous Minds.”

“Coolio still builds his raps on recognizable 1970s oldies, and he delivers intricate, syncopated rhymes as if they were conversation,” Jon Pareles wrote in an album review in The New York Times, noting that “Gangsta’s Paradise” uses “the somber minor chords” of Mr. Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise.” Coolio told Rolling Stone that he had cleared the usage through a family connection — his wife knew one of Mr. Wonder’s brothers — with the stipulation that the song couldn’t contain any profanity. Mr. Wonder received a writing credit.

Another 1995 movie, the comedy “Clueless,” gave Coolio another crossover moment. His song “Rollin’ With My Homies” was on the soundtrack, and its hook, beloved by the character Tai — the desperate-to-be-hip new girl played by Brittany Murphy — is a running joke in the film.

Coolio’s other hits included “Fantastic Voyage” — the opening song on his debut album, “It Takes a Thief,” released in 1994 — and “1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin’ New)” from the “Gangsta’s Paradise” album, released the next year. Both albums were nominated for Grammys. “C U When U Get There,” which is based on Pachelbel’s Canon, a Baroque-era standard, was a standout track on Coolio’s third album, “My Soul,” from 1997.

But nothing could match the success of “Gangsta’s Paradise” — a song that, with its piercing production and ominous background vocals, became instantly distinguishable for millions of 1990s rap fans, especially with a memorable opening verse based on Psalm 23:

“As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there’s nothin’ left.”

While Coolio lamented that his hit had overshadowed his other work, he told PopkillerTV in 2018 that the song had taken him on “a great ride.” Its popularity has endured for decades; the music video has garnered a rare billion-plus views on YouTube.

Artis Leon Ivey Jr. was born on Aug. 1, 1963. He grew up in Compton, Calif., in Los Angeles County, a place known for producing some of hip-hop’s most successful artists, including Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar.

He told The Independent in 1997 that as a child he would play board games with his single mother, to whom he later dedicated his success. After a turbulent youth — a bookish, asthmatic child, he became a teenage gang member, juvenile offender and drug addict — Coolio worked as a volunteer firefighter.

In his 20s, he moved to San Jose to live with his father and fight fires with the California Department of Forestry. He became more spiritual there and later credited Christianity for helping him overcome his addiction to crack.

As he embarked on a music career, Coolio joined a growing wave of West Coast hip-hop that was increasingly becoming mainstream; it had surged in national popularity as MTV, radio stations and major labels came to embrace this once-regional underground sound. After performing with the group WC and the Maad Circle alongside WC, Sir Jinx and DJ Crazy Toones, he went solo.

Coolio signed to Tommy Boy Records, the independent rap label known for releases by De La Soul, Naughty by Nature and Queen Latifah, which had partnered with Warner Bros. Records a decade earlier to expand its commercial reach.

Building off the gangster rap and G-funk sounds and images of N.W.A, Ice-T, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, Coolio gained a following by combining his credibility with a willingness to appeal to a broad audience by means of softened language, dance tracks, recognizable samples and other nods to past hits.

A Spin review of the “Gangsta’s Paradise” album in 1996 called it “great pop music” and “the most stylistically broad mainstream rap album you’ll probably hear all year.”

“Coolio presents himself as an entertainer,” the magazine added, “one who projects an unhinged personality while creating solidly commercial sounds.”

“Gangsta’s Paradise” had board cultural impact, even spawning a Weird Al Yankovic parody, “Amish Paradise,” which replaced the streets with farm country, offering lyrics about churning butter and selling quilts.

The scale of the original song’s success awed its creator. Coolio told Rolling Stone that he was on tour in Europe when he realized that “I was No. 1 all over the entire planet — not just in the States. I was No. 1 everywhere that you can imagine.”

On Wednesday, the rapper Ice Cube recalled Coolio’s hard-earned rise, writing on Twitter that he had witnessed “first hand this man’s grind to the top of the industry.”

Coolio, known for his spindly and sprouting cornrows, went on to sell 4.8 million albums in the United States, according to Luminate, the tracking service formerly known as Nielsen Music.

The year after his big hit topped the charts, he wrote and performed the theme song for “Kenan & Kel,” a Nickelodeon staple in the late 1990s starring the future “Saturday Night Live” comedian Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. Coolio later became a recurring presence on reality TV, appearing in shows like “Coolio’s Rules,” a 2008 series that focused on his personal life and his quest to find love in Los Angeles.

He had four children with Josefa Salinas, whom he married in 1996 and later divorced. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available.

In 2009, Coolio pleaded guilty to drug possession and went to a rehabilitation program. In 2016, he pleaded guilty to a felony firearms charge after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on bag at an airport.

Coolio, who struggled with asthma all his life, served as the spokesman for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, according to his official online biography. At a 2016 performance in Brooklyn, he had an asthma attack and was saved by a fan who had an inhaler, Page Six reported.

Coolio had in recent years become aware of his place in hip-hop history. He said in 2018 that after long lamenting his struggles in the music industry, he came to understand that “people would kill to take my place.”

“I’m sure after I’m long gone from this planet, and from this dimension,” he said, “people will come back and study my body of work.”

Eduardo Medina is a reporter covering breaking news. @byEduardoMedina

McKenna Oxenden is a breaking news reporter and a member of the 2022-2023 New York Times fellowship class. @mack_oxenden

#coolio #the new york times #artis leon ivey jr #gangsta’s paradise #dangerous minds #michelle pfeiffer #grammy

[cinnamonzor]

Speaks-in-Embers: Scientists claim that I am near you.

Tavi, waving: I’m “scientists!”

Omin: Should I be worried about that...?

Tavi, as Ember reaches for her sword: Scientists claim "yes."

#incorrect quotes #elder scrolls #elder scrolls online #eso #the vestige #vestige oc #vestige speaks-in-embers #vestige taviama aramni #omin dres #grandmaster omin dres #source: tumblr #in conclusion #fuck house dres

[redzephyr]

wow i can’t believe there is no possibility of benjamin being injured in any way by being a conduit of arrell <3 nothing could possibly go wrong here <3

#spring in hieron lb #DRE PLEASE NOT MY BOY :( #love this music hate HATEEE how ominous it is

[tmmyhug]

just discovered yet another sad-ist detail - dream’s character motif of a shadow falling across his face. she’s been doing this since the first war animatic?

it’s messy and less obvious, as are most things about the first animatic, but still clear - dream drops his head ominously and gets more shadowed

in The Fall, she establishes the angled half shadow

Dawn of 16th brings the return of the head-drop-shadow-grows movement in a callback to the first animatic, and it gets darker

and in Hog Hunt the shadow is completely black and covers the most of his face yet. she also straightened it, removing the curve almost completely.

mwah. such a subtle detail yet a perfect representation of dream’s character development. it’s not the only thing she does either (there’s a great post going around emphasizing the differences between the iterations of her dream designs). in the first animatic, he willingly reveals his face twice - first when talking to george and sapnap, and at the end to deliver his “white flags!” monologue, presumably in front of the lmanbergians. in The Fall he also pushes the mask aside, but only when he’s high on a wall out of sight. in Dawn of 16th (and dream vs techno) it gets broken against his will. in Hog Hunt there’s nothing at all.

that combined with the sudden simplification of his lineart (very few strokes, little to no detailing, cloak now worn over his armor instead of under, creepy single eye in reversed value) speaks so well to the character and the way he pulled away, hiding himself and his true feelings, to quietly manipulate things from the shadows. sad-ist, please, how are you so good at this?

edit: she even does the shadow in Dre Smp pffff

#sad-ist #dream smp #dream #dreamwastaken #vee makes posts #i could talk about sadist forever man #hog hunt #vee rambles

[fluffallamaful]

Quackity being a vicious ler and just coming in to poke one of the boys mid stream and then leave like literally it’s a tradition now that at least once every time the boys are live he goes and pokes them and they squeak and chat is very confused but then a week or so passes of this and all the boys talk and they agree and next time Alex goes live they all just randomly go in at the same time and poke him and then just leave as if nothing happened

friggen quackity and his giggles hehe

the idea of gogs karl dre and sap all just ominously appearing in the background of quacks stream. Then all those giggles pouring out of quackity once he realised that they’re there, and he’s asking what they’re doing, but he gets no response, so he goes back to whatever he was doing and then BAM. He’s struck by all of them at once, and then they all leave, leaving quackity to explain his yelps and squeals to the rather excited chat

#these are so good! 😩 #i’m gonna end up cue jumping and dojnf a feral boys fox at some point hehe #FERAL BOYS 😍 #llamas concepts #llama asks #lee!quackity

[thoughtsfromthe305]

It’s coming

She needed a break from the glare and the constant notifications. Living in the world through screens, artificial light, and influencers that mold the influenced. She imagined the trees long and high into the never-ending sky. The creatures chatting up a storm, the warmth and soft humidity caressing her skin. She breathed in the moss growing on the north side of the tree, the sweet wood breathing out slow, slow enough for her to feel the gentle rumble of the roots below her feet. Her toes digging into the soft grass, her lungs contracting and expanding.

She gazes up at the canopy above, scanning the surface and processing the intricate shapes made by the branches that weaved left and right into a vast maze that reached as far and wide past her reality, the sun gently glowing through. She cautiously picks up her foot and sets it down, then another step forward, the moss muting her steps with a soft ‘thud’. Her skin absorbing a mixture of light, moisture, and oxygen. She wanted to absorb everything, feeling her body get lighter and lighter with every step that she took.

She comes to a stop, a very large vine in front of her. She lets her gaze follow the vine up to the canopy above, seeming like it came from the stars. She lets her fingertips graze the surface gently, enclosing it with her hand. She tugs on it, no give. She pulls, nothing. Then she trusts it with all of her body weight, sturdy. Suddenly, another vine falls from the canopy. Without thinking, she climbs up the rope and begins swinging until she reaches the next vine. Almost instinctively, she moves from vine to vine, and the further she goes the more keep falling from the green leafy sky. Feeling the elation of flying through the forest, the green grassy plain rushing beneath her.

Suddenly, she stops. The feeling replaced by something more like dread...something’s coming. She continues to swing, but a growing silence has engulfed the space. The creatures, no longer chatting happily. A growing rumble approaches from the distance, below she sees bunny rabbits moving quickly, followed by deer, with an occasional jaguar moving swiftly, paying no mind to the smaller game, but very intent on getting away from the rumbling. Ahead of her she sees the vines dropping, urgently and swiftly. She continues moving forward, increasing her pace, feeling the anxiety of the forest through the vines. A red light growing brighter along with the ominous rumble. She hears the panic coming from the canopy above, birds, monkeys, and other creatures raising their voices, understanding the impending doom.

She moves faster and faster, seeing the glow of the light, feeling the vibrations of the rumble in her hands. Her heart beating faster in her chest and in her throat, sweat accumulating in her brow. Looking forward she sees what appears to be an opening, the sun! She continues her pace, but her arms are finally feeling the work and effort of her escape. The rumble stops...silence. Nothing is heard other than her motion and the pull of the vines, the light in front and the growing light behind clashing. Fearing what’s behind her she intently moves forward, but something inside her told her look back. Eyes wide, a silent scream forming in her mouth. She reaches forward and finds nothing, falling...

“Dre?”, she gasps and looks around her. The grey cubicle surrounding her, the screens blinking in front of her. She looks around and sees her coworker standing at the opening with a look of concern. “I’m alright” she assures them. “Ok, just making sure, you looked pretty out of it”, they laugh, exchange a few words, and her coworker walks away. She waits to make sure that they’re really gone, and slowly she lifts her hands. Breathing deeply, she pulls a handwipe from a container on her desk and begins to wipe the grass strains and burns from the palm of her hands. She tosses the wipe into the wastebasket that has already been filled with wipes

containing similar grass residue. She takes one last deep breath and goes back to her screen, opening up an email titled “Next Time”. She opens the email, and, in the body, there is just one line, I will get you. She pauses for a moment, reaches into the small bookcase next to her and takes out a little black book. She flips through the pages and comes to the next available page. She begins to write, he’s getting closer...

#short story #story #fantasy #scifi #thriller #blackwriter #blackauthor #storytelling #shortstory #blackwoman