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I read once that Hemingway, as a creative exercise, would limit himself to writing stories containing only six words. I want you to try as well. Reply with your six-word stories. Channel your frustration at __insert world/society/community/indivi dual__ into something creative. Don't put too much thought into them, just write and see what comes out. Think of it as a haiku of sorts. More open-ended. It doesn't have to make sense to anyone but you. [...]

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We're Back! And with the New Year, we've got new topics to mouth off on. Hey guys, after an extended sabbatical, we at Smart + Angry have decided that it's time we returned to our old stomping grounds and present to our readers (in case that you haven't forgotten us and left the site for dead) an entire slew of new music and movie reviews, political diatribes and social commentary. ** Confetti! ** With that being said, let's dive back in with a new series I've christened: The Fem Five List. [...]

The Top on this list was rotated a lot before I reached a definite conclusion. There are even some which I had to leave out cause I doubt that anyone wanted to read about 20 albums. So yeah here are my favorite albums this year. 2011 Top Ten Albums of the Year: [...]

#24-1 24. Lupe Fiasco- Double Burger with Cheese Lupe once again chooses to rock over a Justice instrumental and the results are once again excellent. The subject matter of choice is 90's-era gangsta films( Boys In The Hood, Juice, Menace II Society, South Central ), and with that, he presents a lyrical exercise in film history like few others can. [...]

#75-50 75.Statik Selectah ft Joel Ortiz & Brother Ali- Damn Right Brother Ali might have the most underrated guest verses of all time. I never hear anyone talking about his cameos, yet when he blesses it's lovely. Might be the underground Andre 3k. That's how memorable his verses are. Joel delivers a dope verse as well. The beat is cold to, Ali needs more of this on his [...]

#49-25   49.Theophilus London ft Dev Hynes- Century Girl Theophilus has the type of lyrical content that Big Sean specializes in, which is about 80% nonsense. But when it clicks like this, it works. Don't know why he didn't put this on his album? It could have easily have been another single for sure.   [...]

After being sick and tired of reading all these year-end music list that neglected of the music which I listen to, I took it upon myself to start my very own. So I narrowed down a list down to 102 songs, and wrote it up over two days, posted it. End of story. Lot's of folks seemed to enjoy this so I thought instead of waiting till the end of the year, I am going to keep a playlist of the songs and just keep adding to it, so I at least half of the battle is done when it [...]

Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All(alias Odd Future, Wolf Gang, Golf Wang, OFWGKTA) Rookies of the Year Who? Tyler The Creator, Frank Ocean, Earl Sweatshrit, Syd The Kid, Jet Age Of [...]

In the world of hip-hop music, there is rarely a year where I find something that doesn't plain... #fail, and what was a great year in a music doesn't completely overshadow that the wackness is still out there trying to ruin our lives. So to kick off our end of the year best of list, I think it's order that we recall some the... 10 Wackest things that infested Hip-Hop this year 10.Meek Mill [...]

News of a possible demise of one of music's most commercially successful groups over the last decade: The Black Eyed Peas, has come to surface as of late . For some, this may come as a sigh of a relief, for others(mostly under the age of 16) it will come as one of the worse thing to come to since. .. On the other hand I will admit that these guys did make [...]

( Is that red velvet??? ) I got to be completly honest, I been bumping Ross albums every year as they are released for the man. I have never felt his mixtapes, nor did enjoy listening to that Self Made compilation(R.I.P the artistic talents of Wale, & Pill) one bit. Usually though In terms of major solo releases his brand of music I can usually roll with for a few months. With the birth of this single though I feel the streak is in jeopedy as the act though is [...]

I was invited to review the group Zipsquad's Lifestyle EP . Since I never review anything really from unsigned artists, I thought I would give a go and review this. I'll begin with this, if you have a project with 10 tracks or less, don't have skits. I saw an interlude on the tracklisting and was like what??? I also almost gave up on the album from the get go, cause there was some talking going on the first track for like 40 seconds over the [...]

When I was a Freshman in high school there was this one Senior guy who would always be messing me. On one of his last days of school he snuck up on me before I was able to use my 4.5 evasive combine speed and instead of throwing me to the ground, putting me in a headlock, or taunting me, he explained to me why he had tormented me the whole year: He said: "Don't run man, I ain't going to do nothing to you. You know why I always was [...]

It's coming around that time for me to start putting together my 2011 year end list of music. Yet before I even get around to doing that, I would like to first get a few more projects from last year. Which somehow I completely neglected for reasons being : a) I just wasn't up on them b) slipped my mind while I was organizing the lists last year. c) I was overwhelmed at the task of writing about 102 songs 20 albums, [...]

Although 2pac would have been 40 years old as of this year 2011, he passed away at the age of 25 on September 13 1996. Today (September 5th) I turned 26 and now I looked back at myself as a kid when I used to admire 2pac and had the thoughts if I were to live beyond 25. With 2pac always talking about death how could I not think about dying at an early age? Any 80's baby that loves hip-hop had some connection to folk legend 2pac. I remember as a kid I grew up idolizing that [...]

There's only so much an individual can take before they throw their hands up and give up due to exasperation. This is the way I feel about politics. (Though these contemplations definitely apply to other issues!) I've always been curious about the state of domestic and foreign affairs and have tried to maintain a level of awareness that, as an American citizen and registered voter, I need to make conscientious decisions about at the ballot. Well fuck me three [...]

So Bay Area rapper V-Nasty, who is homegirls with one of rap musics latest benifactors of hype Kreayshawn thinks she can drop N-bomb now at her disposal. You can't . This ain't a matter of you might be down with some black people out there who have no self-respect for themselves and let you utter that around them. This is real talk . I was in Prague a few weeks ago and this white girl at the bar I was at greeted me with a [...]

What happened to the Wale in the picture below? The guy that was dynamic, and stood out from the pack, and was in league with those also pictured above? Who in 2009 all of sudden transformed. The guy had one of the most talked about Mixtapes since... I can't even remember a mixtape as well received by everyone as A Mixtape About Nothin g, had management from Roc Nation , a few notable co-signs, hosted MTV Music Awards with his UCB band, was [...]

Steve Harvey is still around? Me & the Boys was a pretty good show I'll give you that Don't know how you got on the Kings of Comedy (guess Chris Rock, Eddie Murphey, Dave Chappelle, and probably 200 other comedians were not available). Everything from this point is vague. That is until last week when somehow something he said got national attention. I am [...]