Bobby Z.

From Music to Big Screen By: Tameka J Most people in Hollywood are triple threats, acting, singing/rapping, and dancing. There is a number of music artist that have crossed over into acting. There are very few that can do both successfully. Some artist has been a hit in movies and others who have failed miserably at acting. Here is a list of 10 artists turned actors who showed us their new skills and we were fascinated with them. 10. Bow Wow Bow Wow is a rapper turned actor, with his…

Sandcastles, the album's eighth song, the audience is able to comprehend a forgiving theme in the midst of the story. Jay-Z committed adultery and Beyoncé choose to walk out on him, together breaking their marital promises. Proof when Jay-Z's elevator scandal was released to the public, some video footage involving Beyonce's sister, Solange, entering a physical altercation with Jay-Z presumably about him with another woman. And then Beyonce releases the unknown, private details by her third…

From being a successful hip hop musical artist to engaging in the most controversial arguments and activities of all time Kanye West has been listed one of the most controversial person. Most of society can’t see past his outrage, outburst in the media. Some may say once he married the controversial well known Kim Kardashian was when things took a shift for the worse. He is constantly being judged and scrutinized by most. There have been times when he had to consult professional help because it…

Imagine going from selling drugs to selling millions of records and becoming a huge name in the music industry. Snoop Dogg is a huge name in the music industry today. You can ask anyone on the street who Snoop Dogg is and they will know who he is. Now you must be wondering how you can go from nothing to something from selling drugs to selling records. Snoop Dogg went through some tough times when he was younger. Snoop and his family lived on the eastern part of long beach. The eastern part of…

I found it rather interesting how technologies have become “oxygen” in our lives and how it affected us in our day-to-day lives. Rachel Dretzin brought up a very interesting question in the beginning of the video and it hit me as well, it does seems like everyone is together in the same room but because of technologies, everyone lost the connection with the rest of the people but instead being dragged into the Internet world. I still remember talking to my parents about growing up with…

To whoever decides to read this, These poems I’ve written weren’t written with any particular aim other than to write. To many, this may seem absurd or even erroneous, but that’s the truth behind each poem I’m submitting, they’re spontaneous without any exact aim other than to dispose of an emotion or answer a question resulting from my musings. These are by no means a written “Starry Night” or a mosaic from ancient Greece but each is more of a basic sketch for the reader to find their own…

Every generation seems to clash with the other, since the beginning of time. Dr. Fareed Zakaria makes this clear in his article called “The Try-Hard Generation.” Zakaria examines the conflict between the Baby Boomer(1946-1964) generation and Millennials(1980-2000). The overarching argument that he makes, is defending Millennials--yet not fighting his audience(previous generations). The opposition to Millennials is that they are lazy, career-oriented, and are lacking intellectually. However,…

Recently, there have been debates on millennials, also known as Generation Y (people born roughly between the 1980’s and 2000), and whether older generation love or hate the generation that is ‘so full of themselves’. How Those Spoiled Millennials Will Make the Work Place Better for Everyone, written by Emily Matchar (2012), argues that millennials aren’t all bad and will better the workplace. At the beginning of her article, Matchar describes millennials negatively, “teacup kids, for their…

Growing up in a household that shared a love for music, created a massive impact into Bruno Mars’ life as an artist. Ever since he was young, he’s been exposed to 80’s R&B music which he ended up loving til this day. Bruno Mars’ recent work, 24K Magic, illustrates how he was able to execute an 80’s R&B style album with the use of different components. These components consist of combining various instruments, choice of lyrics, and emotions. He also kept a similar theme to his previous albums,…

A “gadfly” is a metaphor that both Socrates and Martin Luther King Jr. used to describe themselves. They chose this term because the idea can be broken down as such: The enemies of social change are comfort and complacency because when a person is comfortable, he or she has no motivation to change the way things are at that point in time. For there to be a social change, one must be uncomfortable and replace complacency with action. There are some major gadflies of the 21th century, such as,…