Ad-Libs: Hip Hop’s Cherry on Top
Ad-libs, also known as words delivered spontaneously in speech, are the cherry on top. Born out of feeling intense rhythm, they beat and fill the flow of the music we’re bumping today.
Ad-libs, also known as words delivered spontaneously in speech, are the cherry on top. Born out of feeling intense rhythm, they beat and fill the flow of the music we’re bumping today.
When you’re a kid, you don’t know that you’re different—people have to tell you. And I was told over, and over, and over.
That pesky habit of greed that parents strive to eliminate from their children’s behavior has started to manifest in adult behavior as well; it is known as “gatekeeping.”
Desperate to become one of the pack, I sought out the school’s “it-girl” and made it my mission to befriend her. Or become her.
I would often feel guilty for desiring alone time and not wanting to spend all my time with friends or family; however, I really was just unaware that my social battery was worn out.
It’s important to regard that “girlishness” does not equate to thinness, whiteness, petiteness, or the infantilization of grown women.
Hating is one of the easiest ways to make yourself belong somewhere; by alienating others, you are making yourself desirable.
Threesomes: a staple of sexual experimentation, the word assumed to precede a story about college coming of age or questioning of “how do you know unless you’ve tried it?” from a partner.
I think we shed our past selves like snakeskins, and mine is somewhere on the side of the road between Connecticut and Boston decomposing, melting, and slowly becoming one with the earth.