1,901

(74 replies, posted in General)

Justinian I wrote:

Well, successful like a priest who sells his religion to a mass of disadvantaged people whose lives suck and are desperate for an identity.

Oh, and I believe that some top video games are sold by them.

Most of the more popular artists from the hip hop/rock genre continously donate to charities and humanitarian organizations. One rapper (Nas also considered one of the greatest hip hop lyricists of all time) was nominated for a nobel prize.

There's a "Rock the Vote" movement going on right now where rock bands are doing free shows in order to get young people to vote.

Rap Artist and CEO of Def Jam Entertainment Jay Z has just recently done a humanitarian tour to bring awareness to troubles in Africa. Kanye West, another hip hop artist made awareness of the blood diamond situation in Sierra Leone public with his grammy award winning song "Diamonds are Forever"

Then on top of that, how often are people with disadvantaged lives able to find inspiration and strength through music? Probably a million of them ( a lot more but that's a modest number)

1,902

(74 replies, posted in General)

Ok I'm bored at work with nothing to do so I did anyway:
Out of the top 12 richest celebrities

According to forbes:

50 Cent (Rapper/Actor/CEO) Grossed $150,000,000 last year

Jay-Z(Rapper/CEO) Grossed $82,000,000 last year
 
Beyonce Knowles(Singer/Actress) Grossed $82,000,000 last year

Will Smith (Rapper/Actor) Grossed $80,000,000 last year




Games that were influenced my rock/hip hop:

Grand Theft Auto: 70 million units(games)  currently holds the record for the biggest video game launch in the UK and the USA.


Guitar Hero: Sales have grossed over $1 billion in the United States



Movies that sold that included hip hop/rock tracks:

impossible to count because thousands of movies and nearly every major hit movie includes a hip hop/rock track


Anyhow, I think you get the idea =p

1,903

(74 replies, posted in General)

oh and how could I possibly forget video games. Some of the top selling video games of all time are sold by rock and roll and hip hop. I could go and pull up some statistics if you like:p

1,904

(74 replies, posted in General)

lol Well considering that hip hop and rap and those people who started/continue the trend sell clothes, jewelry, makeup, perfume, shoes, cars, alcohol, cigarettes, movies, drink beverages, food, insurance and so much more. I'd definitely say that you are highly mistaken:p

1,905

(74 replies, posted in General)

lol Civilized men don't wear polo shirts and jeans. Civilized men who like shirts and jeans wear polo shirts and jeans.

Fashion evolves and changes every decade. There's nothing wrong with wearing a hoodie, or having a chain with lots of diamonds, etc. in it. There was once upon a time where if a guy wasn't wearing a shirt and a tie when he picked up a girl to take her out, he wasn't a decent young man.

Now I will say however that there is definitely a time and a place for everything. Going to work with flashy jewelry and your pants hanging below the waste is unacceptable. Expression is fine, but self expression as an individual has to have it's boundaries. Especially when you are in an enviornment where you may be seen as a person representing a company, group, organization, etc.

It's not really a hip hop thing. It's just a thing. There are people who don't listen to hip hop that dress a certain way just because it's what's in style.

"Rockers" often wear there clothes below the waste, pierce anything that can be pierced, tattoo there bodies wherever they don't have a piercing and color their hair in all types of colors. They're almost exactly like the hip hop kids. Though as long as there's nothing offensive viewed on their clothing and such, then no harm done.

"Country" guys like to sport open shirts with tight fitting jeans with open shirts and cowboy hats. Spurs on their boots.


"Goth kids" well....you know what they look like. Dead ppl =p

It's just really a matter of knowing where the boundaries are and how respectful your language is towards those whom you may speak to. While it's fine to not really agree with a particular trend, style, etc. It doesn't mean that it isn't civilized. It just means that it doesn't fit in YOUR particular area of civilization. Or if it does, maybe you don't fit in there =p

1,906

(74 replies, posted in General)

This is hip hop and the way it should be portrayed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84uWGVAcKR4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W9kcxdPPjk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WebILJKDms8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vHGmfU-Y-I&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQQbj9vmaI8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a468KFhbhXQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrkZ7pRWFH4

1,907

(74 replies, posted in General)

Hip Hop has been tainted. Back in the day you had artists who expressed themselves and what was going on around them in a positive and uplifting way. It was poetry. Unfortunately the media bottled it up, marketed it and now ppl can just throw together a track and fill it up with nonsense. There's nothing wrong with true hip hop. Every genre of music has its ups and downs. Unfortunately with hip hop, it gets picked on moreso than others due to the fact that it was young african americans uniting in a time where white America was trying to keep us down.

1,908

(248 replies, posted in Universal News)

1. Best Leader: Scorpion

2. Best Diplomat:

3. Best Attacker:

4. Best Banker:

5. Best Resourcer: Genesis (I know he's in my family, but the guy produces the most resources in Capri atm. IC as a whole actually =p)

6. Best SS player:

7. Best first rounder:

8. Best Random: PP

9. Worst Draft: Jets

10. Most honorable player:

11. Least honorable player:

12. Most planet fat player:

13. Least planet fat player:

14. Favourite fam of the round: 1055

15. Favourite theme/name/fampic of the round: 1057

16. Favourite forum-poster: PP

17. Most agressive fam: 1091

18. Least agressive fam: 1098

19. Most honorable fam:

20. Least honorable fam:

21. Most planet fat fam:1094

22. Least planet fat fam: 1069

23. Biggest jump: 1091

24. Biggest drop: 1063

25. Biggest surprise of the round: The lack of nap breaks and extreme farming

26. Best strategy of the round: 1055's sor strat

27. Worst mistake of round: Making the galaxy too big

28. Favorite quote of the round: The Joker "This Galaxy deserves a better class of criminal and I'm gonna give it to them!"


29. Most debated topic: Score calculation/effectiveness

30. Rate this round 1-10: 4


I'll finish up when I finalize my decision on the ppl I have in mind

1,909

(27 replies, posted in Community)

lol I wouldn't say I was gay.... just extra friendly towards men big_smile

1,910

(248 replies, posted in Universal News)

1062 didn't actually give him anything to fight your family. We gave him a little bit of fleet to do retakes and such on a family we were warring and he just did his own thing. He didn't even jump that high, I think it was just your fam sucking gilmour =p

1,911

(94 replies, posted in Politics)

winme noob! pm me on irc! or ingame me in 1062!

1,912

(14 replies, posted in General)

Yep, size doesn't matter. Aside from the self checks and annual mammograms like Cloud mentioned, it's always good to find out whether there is a history of cancer in general in the family tree because it certainly does spread to each generation sad

1,913

(25 replies, posted in General)

Yeah I'm leaning towards the nuke personally. I've read the bible and don't take all of it for fact but there's definitely some truth there. At the rate of things, we'll probably have a WWIII or war of similar proportion. Hopefully I'm dead before then =p

1,914

(57 replies, posted in Universal News)

Hornblower wrote:

LEW LEW asks for all savings to attack 62, but deletes .....interesting as somehow 62 knew before hand that he is deleting....

Talk about a joke family.

Nobody in 62 knew that. Lew always does stuff like that. You hornblower should really stop posting in these forums until you grow up in 3 years. You're a joke of a person.

1,915

(2 replies, posted in Universal News)

yep, closed

1,916

(94 replies, posted in Politics)

yeah she was fed answers =p

It sounded exactly like in high school where you give a book report and just give a general answer to make it sound good without actually talking about anything. Like you studied at the last minute or something. It was pure bs:p

1,917

(287 replies, posted in Politics)

Religion is based on fact too smile

1,918

(94 replies, posted in Politics)

That debate was a waste of time =p

Biden did a good job. Palin....not so much.

She did a good job of saying anything absolutely stupid like she's been doing the past few weeks. She didn't do any real debating though. She just repeated herself over and over using up most of the time allowed to her so that she could sidestep the questions. She didn't really talk about anything either, she just quoted McCain's speeches a lot and sounded like she was either reading a teleprompter or rehearsing answers. She made a lot of accusations but didn't really support anything she said. But at least she saved face and hung in there for the most part. She didn't really buckle under pressure and she kept up enough of an image to sway those who aren't really listening to the politics but to the bs side of the politics. She probably messed up with the gay thing though. That could've been handled a lot better.


Biden did an excellent job at handling the issues but he didn't really do anything to make Palin look uncapable of being president to the average retarded American. I'm certain those who supported her are still in support of her. He also didn't really point out much we don't already know about the campaign's views from both parties. Though he did a better job in delivering than obama did.


The winner?


The Moderator. She did a great job in not being biased and keeping the timing in check. She also made ppl stfu and answer the question from time to time. I'm voting for HER! big_smile

1,919

(94 replies, posted in Politics)

yep smile

1,920

(35 replies, posted in Universal News)

Bahamut wrote:

Score systems is an ok ranking system, but it has a few bugs which make it stupid.

Each single player gets score points in a family and basicly keps them till end of round. If that player deletes or gets deleted for whatever reason his score points vanish with him.
This really sucks, since family get punished twice. First they lose a player and then they also lose a lot of ranking.

Also I would like that the difference between start of round and end of round being even bigger then it is now, so a family that has been leading a long time early round could acctually get passed by later.

The same happens with nw and planets so I don't know if score should be any different.

1,921

(57 replies, posted in Universal News)

Hmmmm I don't know. I kinda have mixed feeling about the situation. It's like one of those things where you do have a free pass at something...but you probably shouldn't do it =p

1,922

(94 replies, posted in Politics)

It'd be well worth the watch if president bush or hillary clinton were moderating it big_smile


Minus well add to the idiot party!

1,923

(94 replies, posted in Politics)

Is Palin allowed to speak her own opinon? =o

1,924

(30 replies, posted in General)

Hummers get like 3 miles to the gallon =p

1,925

(287 replies, posted in Politics)

Didn't say it were bein' invalid Elliot, just sayin' that it weren't entirely true.  So science can't disprove religion.  Tis impossible t' do so. 

Acolyte, thar isn't tangible proof.  However many scallywags have encountered ghosts an' such an' science has yet t' disprove that ghosts exist or any other form o' life after death, Ya horn swogglin' scurvy cur, by Blackbeard's sword! 


"Then if aliens exist which opens up a whole new window, who knows what their religi'us (if any) beliefs be."

"How would this have any bearin' on science?"



To th' public knowledge, scientists have yet t' determine anythin' tangible about alien phenomenons.  If they do exist then that opens up a whole new notion on th' creation/evolution theory. 


"Who cares?  Such thinkin' is completely unproductive an' one may as well resolve themselves t' nihilism if ye continued down that line o' questionin'"

It's not unproductive considerin' these thin's happen, I'll warrant ye.  People see thin's, assume that they be real an' it turns out that thar be endless possibilities because thar's another person in a hospital room observin' them.  That basically means that unless ye can prove 'tis not happenin' t' ye, then it very well could be happenin' t' ye an' that could mean that thar is a God observin' ye or a doctor or an alien or a manbearpig big_smile