Post #3: Music

    All week I've been contemplating what to write about for this week's blog. I wasn't too sure what exactly to write about for this week, until I drove home Wednesday from college listening to one of my favorite artists ever, Isaiah Rashad. Music, in general, has always been a part of my life. I've never had any real interest in creating or producing any type of music or art myself, mainly because I don't think it would be very good, but I've always loved listening to music for as long as I can remember. When I was little, I was always majorly influenced by my parent's taste in music, mainly because it was all I knew. As I got older, however, I branched away from my parent's music and jumped into a giant world of music that I've never experienced or really even knew about before. The event that launched my journey into this vast world of music must've been about 8-9 years ago; I was at my grandma's house and my two older cousins were there, and like my most annoying little cousins and siblings, I wanted to follow and hang out with them. We oftentimes just played videogames or played sports outside, but on this day we were bored of that so we decided to watch YouTube off their Xbox 360. The first thing they put on was this song called "Domo23 - Tyler the Creator", and initially I didn't really know what I was watching. There was so much sound and action happening in the video that absolutely intrigued me. Up to that moment, I had never really listened to rap music because, as mentioned above, my parents never listened to it. It was something that I had never really seen or heard before, but I loved it and so much so that I went home and listened to Tyler the Creator essentially the rest of the day. 

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    The picture above is from the "Domo23" video, and honestly the whole video is just chaotic. But since this odd moment in my life, I've almost exclusively listened to rap and hip-hop music. Not only that, however, but I feel that music plays a large role in my life in general. Through most things in life, I am listening to music. Whether I am driving, working on homework or studying, playing video games, hanging out with my friends, at the gym, while I'm walking my dog, and the list just goes on. I think about that one day often, how that small, normal moment of just watching a music video with my cousins somehow launched me into a greater exploration of a large and unknown territory to me. I wonder if other people had a music moment like this, or if other people associate certain songs and music to particular times or moments in their lives. I do the latter often, like when I hear "Gangnam Style" I start to think about life and events that happened in middle school, around the time in which the song was popular. Either way, I guess I'm just grateful that music has always been a part of my life. I'm so excited to go to my first concert soon, something that I have been too anxious to do for a long time now. It's been long overdue, but sooner than later I'll be in Chicago to watch one of my favorite artists today, Isaiah Rashad, perform and I cannot wait. 

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