February

These songs that I’m going to list are of my all time favorite songs. Now some of these songs are new and some are older. My taste changes year-to-year. They’re in no particular order. But I honestly love them all the same. Here’s some of the soundtracks to my life currently.

Drake- Mob Ties (2018) https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mob-ties/1418213110

The reason I love this song a lot is, because it remind me of the summer of 2018, when I used to hang with my friends and my girlfriend. I use to play the song at work and while I worked out. It’s just such a good hype song, it makes me feel very jacked so obviously a great workout track. I like the adlibs in the background by Migos, makes the track true fire. It honestly was apart of one of the greatest moments of my life. The entire album is apart of some of the greatest few months of my life. I’ll always love this track.

Post Malone- Blame It On Me (2018) https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blame-it-on-me/1373516902?i=1373517317

I love this song, because it’s just really good and catchy, I enjoyed his entire Beerbongs and Bentley’s album as a collective whole. I like the lyrics to this song and specifically a line where he said

Everyday’s the same, yeah, I just watch ’em go
As I scrape away through the impossible
Yeah, I played the game but it was all for show
Tryna find my way, I nearly lost it though
Now I see dead people, most have no faith
Where did the time go? A watch with no face
They hit the ceiling but my roof likes space
I took my chances so won’t you

Blame it on me” to me that sounds like everyone in his life is almost blaming every small inconvenience or problem on him simply because they want to or because they can. When you’re successful, people will leach you because ultimately they want to taste success through you. In this song Post questioned why all these things were happening to him in his life. As the song goes on he comes to terms that it’s not his fault.
It’s all my fault that I’m addicted to the clothes
It’s all my fault, I paid the cost, yeah
It’s all my fault that I ain’t givin’ up my soul
It’s all my fault
Watchin’ me bleed
You cut me down on my knees
No matter what you believe
I think we both can agree
That you can’t blame it on me
It’s not my fault, it’s not my fault, it’s not my fault
Blame it on me
It’s not my fault, it’s not my fault, it’s not my fault
I couldn’t breathe
Almost lost myself, couldn’t stop myself I did it all
You can’t blame it on me, ayy
It’s not my fault, it’s not my fault, it’s not my fault

J-Cole- Neighbors (2016) https://youtu.be/CkpbkDB7EUk

I like this song, because it talks about police brutality a little bit which is prevalent to a African American man such as I. It talks about the struggle with fame and wealth. In one of the opening lines, J. Cole says ” I don’t want no picture with the president, I just want to talk to the man…” and this is clearly about when he met President Obama in 2015, and he’s implying that he doesn’t want the pictures or fame, because he simply doesn’t want it. He doesn’t want the photo-op with the president, he wants to actually talk to him about issues that’s happening in America in the hopes that he could actually change it.

Lauryn Hill- Ex-Factor (1998) https://youtu.be/cE-bnWqLqxE

I love this song, because it reminds me of when I was a kid listening to this song, I enjoy this song, because it’s so calming I truly can remember this playing while my mom picked me up from school when I was in like kindergarten. At that point the song had only been out 5-6 years. That song/album turns 21 years old later this year. The song came out 2 years before I was born. I don’t consider myself old. But I consider the song old. Nevertheless I love this song and it brings nothing, but joy and nostalgia back. Another soundtrack of my life.

Last, but certainly not least.

New Balance- Jhene Aiko (2017)

Words don’t do the song justice. So here’s a video.

https://share.icloud.com/photos/02tI2j6x0QLRSV4yAF9tXtG-A

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