Christian Anti-Gay Protest At Purchase?

I know this doesn't have to do with music, photography, fashion etc. But it does have to do with myself and my fellow classmates..

On Monday, April 27th, 2009 I got a call from my girlfriend saying that there were Anti-Gay Christians protesting on the Great Lawn. My first response was "At Purchase??" I couldn't believe what I heard. We suggested that we go out there and make-out in front of them, just to piss them off. Luckily for them she had class but I didn't. I had to go and see what was going on for myself. Mind you, Monday was the day that it was damn near 90 degrees outside, the weather was beautiful. I wasn't going to let something like this ruin my day, it just sounded so entertaining that I wanted to experience it first hand. Plus, I never witnessed anything like this, for someone to be totally against what I am.

When I walked up to the protest, I walked into lesbians cursing, cross-dressers in frantic, and straight people reciting bible verses. The time I arrived, there were only two protesting. There was a middle-aged white man and a much more middle-aged white woman. The voice of the protest was definitely the man though. The woman was so soft spoken and kept talking about the bible and what "God" said. The man however spoke as if he knew Jesus and God personally. He told everyone how God intended the world to be, what he wanted, what he wants, and how everything should be. He stated that "Everyone who is not Christian is going to hell." "Roman Catholics are not Christian, Episcopalian's aren't Christian, and you are only Christian if you are "born again." "Homosexuals can be saved and or healed because it is a disease and if you believe in the power of God, you will be." Lesbians started to quote the bible and say "God also said "Love thy neighbor!!!"



Arguements continued to go back and forth and seemed never ending. To distract people from the Anti-Gay protest, a group of students made signs that read "Down With Homework" and "Tests Suck!" They figured if they lead people toward their protest, that the Anti-Gay protesters wouldn't have anyone to preach to..Well their efforts diminished after a while. People just couldn't help but to gravitate toward the crowd and give their two cents. Personally, I feel if you give your two cents, you'll be broke. Especially knowing that you cannot change a HARDCORE Christian's mind. It's like fighting an uphill battle..I'll pass on that. I am what I am, I am who I am, I am me and that's it.


P.S - The white, middle-aged, man is an "Ex-homosexual" ahem.. and there was a student who actually goes to Purchase, (I don't know his name) but yeah he was a "Reformed Homosexual"..yeah I thought the same thing too..SMH.

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Culture Shock

This year's Culture Shock at Purchase wasn't exactly a "culture shock" so to speak. Last year there were different genres of music selected in order to provide that cultural experience for everyone. From merengue, salsa, and reggae to alternative, punk rock, and hip hop, everyone got a chance to enjoy and appreciate the different types of bands and artists. This year it seemed like mostly rock all day with a few performances from Purchase's very own. At the end of each day (Friday and Saturday) the hip-hop act would perform.


On friday Drake performed his first solo concert, which was complete mayhem. It was advertised online, on flyers, radio, and from word of mouth. People who I haven't spoken to in months, hit me up trying to get me to sign them in. This girl on facebook even changed her network to Purchase so she can add random people and ask if they could sign her and her friends in. WTF!!! People went so hard for this concert. But it's understandable why..Drake is definitely "the young spitter that everybody in rap fear.." Coming from playing the role of Jimmy from "Degrassi" to being signed to Young Money Ent. says a lot. His rep has increased from being hailed as "Lil Wayne's protege." The performance was definitely well worth it, although he didn't do many songs from his latest mixtape "So Far Gone," I still enjoyed myself. And believe it or not he actually sounds the way he does on tape as he does in person.



Next hip-hop performance was on Saturday at 10pm "The Cool Kids." For those who don't listen to The Cool Kids, then I guess they would say "they sucked" so to speak. I mean shit, they were throwing cup-cakes up on stage. One cupcake definitely hit Mickey Rock's silk letterman jacket and stuck to it. I didn't see The Cool Kids performance because I was currently at the Ricky Blaze performance at the S.O.C.A fashion show. But during the after party in the Student Center, I saw Mikey Rocks cooling out with Kaz of R.L.E so I went up to him and we chatted for a bit, he's DEF a "Cool Kid." He wanted to go to another after party with us but his team told him he had to make moves. I thought that it was cool that he wanted to chill with us though.


Since I wasn't at The Cool Kids concert, I got some footage of the Ricky Blaze performance. I'm not going to lie, I should've went to see The Cool Kids. A lot of people left the fashion show to go see The Cool Kids because the fashion started late and the concert was at 10pm. If the fashion show started on time, then people would've been able to see both Ricky Blaze and The Cool Kids. Ricky Blaze got paid $3,000 to do 3 songs and I only knew 1 of them. Nonetheless, I still got some footage and photos with him. I won't put footage of the performance because the acoustics suck. I will put a photo up though just to show how short he really is..smh.

Forever In A Day26

Diddy's "Making the Band" history hasn't been very creditable. His platinum selling female group 'Danity Kane' has also suffered from the Making the Band curse and has disbanded. No one thought it would ever happen because they had exceeded their first album. Shortly after Danity Kane's first album, Diddy began to form an all male group. The process of Danity Kane's sophmore album and the formation of Diddy's third band, was aired on MTV as Making the Band 3. The male group consisted of five members-Willie Taylor, Robert Curry, Brian Andrews, Michael McCluney, and Qwanell "Que" Mosley.

Since Danity Kane disbanded, Making the Band 4 has aired on MTV, showing the process of Day26 creating their sophmore album. Those who have watched, know what I'm talking about when I say "Que" has been wilin. This season's MTB4 has really gotten up close and personal with the guys. Although not everything is recorded, you really begin to see the band members for who they really are. Personally all of Que's outburts, portrayed a negative perspective on the band. Que's behavior was an example of someone letting the money get to their head. I haven't seen such dramatic, egotistical, childish behavior in a new celebrity before. I mean like, just a couple of months ago you were trying to make it like everyone else. People just take shit for granted sometimes and don't realize that as soon as you made that band, your ass could be disbanded...remember you were apart of Diddy's making the band, there's a huge possibility that your career could end just like the last.

Everyone thought that after Que's antics that Diddy would kick him out the group. Well obviously he didn't because Que is on their sophmore album "Forever In A Day" which dropped today, April 14th, 2009. Their debut single "Imma Put It On Her" feat. Yung Joc and Diddy was released about two weeks ago. I'm in the process of reviewing the album now because I just bought off iTunes..so far, so good. I do realize that Que is on a lot more songs than he was on the last album. Diddy said so himself, Que made the band by the skin of his teeth and he mostly made it because he could dance. I will admit though, he doesn't sound too bad, especially being the weakest vocally. Kudos Que. Que also had a lot more say so on this album and you can definitely tell. The rest of the guys believed in making another R&B album because they are indeed an R&B group but Que believed in doing what the mainstream does in order to change the sound and sell records. He wanted to move from R&B to Pop, which is too much of a big transition especially for your sophmore album. But on certain tracks like "Shawty Wats Up" feat. T-Pain, you can here the boys using the Auto-Tune with T-Pain on the vocoder. We'll see how the record sales look during this week. But I won't front on it, go out and buy it, download it, whatever. The album features T-Pain, P.Diddy, Yung Joc, Lloyd, Lil Wayne, and Jermaine Dupri.

Dead and Gone..

By now, I'm pretty sure everyone has heard about T.I's arrest on federal gun charges back in October, 2007. T.I aka T.I.P's real name is Clifford Joseph Harris. When he was arrested, he was in the parking lot of the rehearsal B.E.T awards. He had been arrested after his bodyguard/informant delivered three machine guns and two silencers, according to a Justice Department statement.

Officials say that T.I provided his bodyguard with 12g's to buy the weapons, which he isn't allowed to hold down because he is a convicted felon. Documents said that he was convicted on felony drug charges back in '98 and he has stated himself that he has been arrested 32 times since the age of 15. Come on now, with that type of history you already know you're not supposed to even have a .45 in your possession.

T.I was nominated for nine awards, including album of the year and lyricist of the year. He was also scheduled to perform with Common, Nelly, and Kanye West. The show went on without the "King of the South." His car and College Park home were searched following his arrest.

Authorities ended up finding three more firearms in the car which he drove to go pick up the machine guns and silencers, including one loaded gun tucked between the driver's seat and the center console. At home, authorities found six other guns--five loaded, in his bedroom closet.

It really hit him hard when T.I's bodyguard was arrested while purchasing the machine guns and silencers from an undercover Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent. The bodyguard agreed to cooperate with the ATF! [snitches get stitches!]The guns were not registered on the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, as required by law. The bodyguard -- who has worked for T.I since July, told authorities he had bought about nine guns for him in the past..smh he's wilin.

T.I made a plea deal to do 1,000hrs of community service and pay a $100,000 fine. Under the plea deal, he will be subjected to an audit of his finances, drug counseling, DNA testing and random searches of his property, and he will not be able to own firearms. He will also be under home confinement under the same pre-trial conditions, which included a curfew, permission-only travel with a court-appointed supervisor, and complete another 500hrs of community service, he would only be sentenced to a year and a day in prison.

Some of his services were televised on MTV with a show called "T.I's Road to Redemption." Over the last 7 weeks it aired 7 different shows of troubled youths that T.I had helped. He did everything from taking them to jail, to taking them to the funeral home, to taking them on a shopping spree. He also made any of their dreams come true. If they wanted to be an actor, photographer, boxer, or rapper, he made that possible for them to do.

According to court reports, T.I. has completed 1,030 hours of community service, not including his MTV show. He's also completed 305 days of his required one-year home confinement. His plea sentence is notable, according to legal experts because of the length of time. If T.I were to be sentence just for a year, he would be required to complete the entire sentence. Now the fact that he has been sentenced to a year and 1 day allows him to be released earlier for good behavior, if he doesn't fuck up. [smart right?]

Basically T.I went off the wall after seeing his best friend, Philant Johnson get murdered. I'm guessing it was the aftermath of it all and how it all went down. Johnson was killed in the cross-fire of a drive-by of suspects unknown. So after that T.I decided to be more than prepared and that combined with emotional distress can result in "O.D-ing" so to speak. Do I think he O.D'd by having illegal possession of all those firearms, and types of firearms? Yes I do. I've also had my best friend pass away, he was street racing and got into a car accident. But that never made me want to stop driving, or not want to buy the make of the car he was driving. But I do understand where he is coming from. I honestly think after he serves his sentence, he will be bigger success than ever before. He's going to write an entire album while he's in prison and everyone will be awaiting his return. It's like T.I's ressurection. I honestly can't wait, best believe I'll be blogging about him in a year...and a day.