Hello, everyone. Due to feeling really crummy all of yesterday and last night, I didn't have the energy to write my OgTWeekly Friday post. Instead, I wrote it today. Saturday is just as good. You WILL tolerate it *waves Jedi hand.
POETIC DEATH: Not too much is new is going on in
Poe's neck of the woods, so instead maybe you should catch up on some of his latest music videos. For example, the "
Paradox" video is 900+ views away from reaching 10,000! If you haven't, or even if you have, go ahead and watch that! Share it with your friends on your social networks, too, if you're digging it.
While we're on the video tip, you might as well watch these again: "
The Reign of VII", "
Bishop's Revenge", "
Coffin", and "
Ready to Die".
VIDA KILLZ: I know it's been mentioned before, but
Vida recently
confirmed that there will be another
DeathKillz album. Commence excitement! For awhile now, I've been hoping that Poe and Vida would do another album together, and that wish was granted. You see, I was originally introduced to the music of those two (as a duo, and individually), back in 2011 when I saw the music video for "
Chapter One". After hearing a couple more songs, I became a fan of their work together, as solo artists, and in turn became a supporter of Organized Threat. That continued support has lead me to the path of becoming friends with Poe (though he might be on the fence with that due to our recent discussion of Linkin Park), and as a writer here on OgTWeekly. :) So, let me go ahead and post the links to the videos from their debut EP (since the EP seemed to have disappeared from the face of the internet), just in case you didn't know of them back then or want to refresh your memory. "
Chapter One", "
Chapter Two", "
Chapter Four", and "
Chapter Six".
GAVLYN: If you like seeing and hearing from
Gavlyn (why wouldn't you?!), she is going to do vlogs once a month (starting next week). "
I'm pretty excited to let y'all into my personal life and new music and stuffs woohoo! #vlogin #reallife #imstupid #ineedanothercoffee," she
said on Facebook. Look out for that!
YARAH BRAVO: On June 19th,
Yarah's
Love is the Movement album was #9 on the
hip hop charts at HHV.DE, and today it's #6. YOU GO, GIRL! Also, on top of having rolling papers with her album art on them, she also had stickers made! Look at how
beautiful they are! No news as to how to get your hands on those babies yet, but stay tuned to her Facebook for information.
As for some new aural pleasure, she did a remix of her album single "
Leader". Giving it some ultra funky, afro beat heat, listen to "
DEAD MILKY LEADER"! Explaining the title, Yarah said, "
The title "Dead Milky" came from a english film based in newcastle where they like their tea - dead milky - ie very milky. Explaing that it was the working class choice of tea drinking, now u know ....Dead Milky Remix." Iván Mushikko on the outro and DJ Vadim on the production. It's so good, and fun to move to.
STREAM NOW!
FEGGY MIN: A few days ago,
Feggy shared a personal story where she reflected on the past and her earlier years of art making. It's a great dust-yourself-off-and-try-again, inspirational story about the good that can come with persistence, having self-confidence, knowing your worth, and chasing your dreams despite people telling you "no". She talked about getting rejected from an art school, dealing with being told she wasn't good enough, losing motivation to stay in another art school that she did get accepted to, struggling with trying to figure out what she wanted to pursue, and, ultimately, she talked about never giving up on her passions and dreams. As a way to end this post, I wanted to share a part of what she said, but you should
read it all here when you can.
"I didn't know how or when... but I just knew it. I ignored everyone trying to tell me that I will end up nowhere like that and that I will probably have to apply to a school at the end anyway to make it and I shouldn't be dreaming too much.
But once you learn to listen to your inner voice and take risks and just move on, go after your bliss... the doors to the right path start to open one by one. The only rule is to "never never never NEVER give up" ! You never know what is waiting for you just around the corner.
It's not just our knowledge that make is good in what we do but how much passion and love we have for it. There isn't only one way to go after your dreams, there are unlimited ways. If there is an opportunity, go and grab it. Knock on the doors, try to break that door, or get in through the window but GET THERE!"
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Can we all just have one big Super Soaker, water balloon fight this summer?
It's hot as hell here.
Enjoy your weekend!
XOXO, Tiffology
