THE UNREPORTED PARTY

Jul 11, 2013

"Also I don't care about like fashion and shit"

If you somewhat keep up with my blog or even fuck with me in real life then you know I'm not a normal teenager. So of course the first interview I did with an artist for this blog definitely couldn't just be some normal shit, or any normal artist for that matter. That said, meet Donny Oh. I discovered this kid on Twitter, he came up in my "Who to Follow" suggestions mad long ago, which is basically Twitter's way of tailoring your followings based on users you follow already. Anyway, he's a really chill guy from Brooklyn who tweets about everyday shit, his opinions on music and life, and the occasional epiphany or rant. Also he's mad smart (he got accepted into Carnegie Mellon and graduated from high school at 17). So basically we got a modern day triple threat on our hands. From listening to some of the other stuff he's dropped over the past few months, I could see that he had a great deal of promise. I remember putting my best friend on to his music back at school and her being like "yeah, he's got flow". I also find it really cool that other accredited music blogs picked up on his shit, so I wanted to post something in honor of his first EP dropping, and also that way in the future I can say I was a day one fan, is that even a term? Probably not. Clearly great stuff lies ahead for this kid, in his own words, he's "not another Internet fuckboy swag rapper talking about molly margielas and money". I asked Donny a couple questions and that he answer them in 140 characters or less, so it's a twintterview, get it... lololololol, aight read on.

1. Why'd you start rapping?
I felt like I had potential to be good at it; and I love music, and why not create something that I love?
2. The meaning behind "Stuffed Shells"

I posted a picture of some stuffed shells that were good as fuck on Instagram and Nate (friend of his) said that should be the title. It sounds cool too.

3. Next year at this time you'll be…

Hopefully chillen gearing up to drop another EP and perform at Afropunk, time will tell tho

4. Rappers you'd collaborate with?

Earl Sweatshirt, Eli, YannO, Capital Steez,
MF DOOM, Tyler, the Creator, Chester Watson

5. Best/favorite social network + why

Tumblr - idk, you can basically post anything and
there are cool pictures and attractive females on there.

6. Yeezus, The Gifted, Born Sinner, or Holy Grail?

Watching Movies With the Sound Off

7. Best possible outcome of this tape.
People say whoa this kid is good as fuck wow let me show this to my friends and niggas play my music on the way to school and stuff.

8. Why are you different than other teenage rappers?

I can actually rap, and I'm creative. Also I don't care about like fashion and shit nor do I hang out in SoHo.

9. Is hip hop dead/did it ever die?

Nah hip hop isn't dead it's just not on the radio.

10. Advice to ur future self

Don't rock leather pants and pop molly and don't get anyone pregnant. And save money and stay true to yourself.

11. Last words about your first EP

This shit hot as fuck bruh

Here's a video for one of the tracks off the EP, listen, share, and download his new shit here.

Donny's Soundcloud, Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter.

The Ten Throwback Thursday Commandments

1. Thou shalt not #tbt selfies. It's one of the lowkey rules. With a few exceptions, it's kind of basic to post a selfie, if it's Thursday I want to see some serious nostalgia inducing photos, get creative.
2. Thou shalt not post pictures taken less than one month prior to #tbt date. You posted that same picture on Facebook, and a bunch of your Facebook friends follow you on Instagram so you're not looking at that many likes anyway. Also what's the point of posting a "throwback" where you look the same...?
3. Thou shalt not throw it back too far. No sonograms please, that died with the #tbt pics of sperm, and the "took this five minutes ago #tbt" pics, it's not funny anymore.
4. Thou shalt not #tbt on Tuesday, or any other day. Yes, people do this. I mean we all know the "t" stands for Thursday and Transformation Tuesday is it's own other time Instagram sets aside for us to be narcissistic, you know who you are, just stahhp.

5. Thou shalt not OD on #tbt pics. That means no sitting in front of family albums just for the sake of posting every cute picture you see of your(thy)self in the span of like twenty fucking minutes, doesn't matter care how cute you were.
6. Thou shalt not over do it with the throwback summer pics. Seriously, just because you looked good does not mean we, your followers, are trying to see your half naked body every other week.
7. Thou shalt not post #tbt pictures between the hours of 12am and 3am on Thursday. It sort of screams, "I've been waiting for this all week... got my filters/captions ready and everything" Please don't be that guy.

8. Thou shalt not post "#tbt" pictures between the hours of 12am and 3am on Friday. Even though people are still up and in the "it's still Thursday night" mindset.... you, my friend, are a cheater. P.S. Thursday comes every week. So if you missed your chance just wait it out a little, or at least have the decency to hashtag it "#flashbackfriday" instead!
9. Thou shalt not #tbt pictures of old flings and boyfriends/girlfriends with lame captions. If you miss them that much text them, call them, refriend them on Facebook, etc.
10. Thou shalt not over-filter #tbt photos. If you used to have a really bad haircut, we wanna see, if you used to look like godzilla, we won't judge, that much.

Took me a while to think of some of that stuff, but on that note, here are some of my Throwback Thursday highlights. (P.S. if you click the picture you can see it at a greater resolution)
Thanks for readinggggg.

Jul 10, 2013

look i know girls love jay z

Honestly when artists due shit like this it just so blatantly proves that for them it's not just about the money and the awards, but like genuinely connecting with their fans. Also creds to my friend Shamit for posting this on Facebook and letting me put it up here, he shared with me that this took place at Pace gallery in Chelsea earlier today. #NEWRULES #NEWRULES If you haven't yet you should definitely download Holy Grail... or buy it, whichever.

the pale african #instagramspotlight

so this chick is some model i follow on instagram named adesuwa aighewi. she dons the handle "pale_african" (which is cool cause she's a mixture of nigerian, chinese and thai descendants), and she brightens up my feed with pictures of her and her twenty something year old cool ass friends doing what kidults do for fun. she also sometimes posts pictures of her on site at photo shoots and stuff. when i googled her name, i also learned that she's the chick from Childish Gambino's "Heartbeat" video, here's the link if you haven't seen it. (P.S. she's also his ex girlfriend) also learn more about this model and check out some of her legit work here since i only posted stuff off of her instagram above, she's mad cute tho fuck with herrrr,

Sebastião Salgado's "Genesis"

“In Genesis, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.”- Sebastião Salgado

The photos you're about to see can no doubt speak for themselves, but for the sake of my not feeling like I just copied and pasted a bunch of pictures on to this blog post, I'll just say a little something. At times, in life, I think it's easy to lose track of the clear ways in which nature so beautifully displays God's handiwork simply because we've become so accustomed to a modern way of living where that stuff just doesn't make it to our conscious "things to give a f*ck" about list. We'd rather look at text messages or an email before watching a sunrise or sunset, or spend time posting pictures of our "outfit of the day" on Instagram than give the beautiful flowers on the corner of our block a chance to make an Instagram debut. Seriously though, when's the last time you sat in a park for a while and just observed, or listened to what was around you? Personally, I think the closest I get to nature is probably the mosquitoes that attack me when I open my window, or when I get caught in the rain and am left damning the weather gods simply because I didn't check the weather.

Sebastião Salgado decided to spend eight years of his life traveling to 32 countries to document amazing places that, in his words, look just as they did since the time of Genesis. His objective? To photograph locations that remain as untouched by the modern man as possible, and the animals and primitive peoples that inhabit these rarely visited places. I was sitting in Barnes and Noble flipping through the pages literally blown away that such beauty exists. Honestly, I began to feel really small and insignificant-- in the end you're just one person, in a neighborhood, in a city, in a state, in a country, in a continent, and there are people out there who don't even know what wifi is! Anyway, I hope in looking at these photos they might inspire you as much as they inspired me, feel free to read more about the project here. I also encourage you to take a trip to Barnes and Noble and look at these on a larger scale, there are hundreds of pages that will just amaze you as well as pages of Salgado's own words on what traveling to such places was like, and some of the things he learned and experienced.