#mr. monk and the rapper

[mr-stottlemonk]

in adrian's space with his legs spread so wide. i am not well.

[stottlemonk-moments]

Stottlemonk Moments:

Monk s06ep02: "Mr. Monk and the Rapper"

[enbyboiwonder]

Stottlemeyer: Randy's upstairs talking to our medical examiner in rap.

Monk: Why?

Stottlemeyer: I learned a long time ago not to ask Randy why he does anything.

[houseofmonk]

S6 Ep. 02 - Mr. Monk and the Rapper.

[hsauce-drip]

Skate playlist

Based on someone asking me (I honestly don’t know who), I’ll be making a complete list of all the songs I skate to. This is for park, solo sesh, street or cruising It’s up for grabs and in artist alphabetical order. Multiple genres, different taste, 101 tracks(I think). Format =[artist-song name/additional songs by the same artist] DM me for format fixes

[2 Mello- Tag walls, punch fascists][Ace Spectrum- I don’t wanna play around][AKFG- After dark / Re: Re:][Basement Jaxx- where’s your head at][Bignic- Scream][Big Sean- Jump out the window][Binki- Heybb!][Black Sheep- the choice is yours][Blu Hyku- Count on me][Bone Thugs N Harmony- 1st of the month][Boom Clap Bachelors- Tiden Flyver][Breakbot- Get lost][Chance the Rapper- No problem][Chiddy Bang- Old ways][Childish Gambino- The worst guys/ My shine][Crystal Waters- Gypsy woman][Cypress Hill- Insane in the brain][DJ Shadow- Six Days remix][Duckwrth- Crush/ Michuul./ Start a riot][Enjoy Music Club- summer magic][Flight Facilities- Stand still-wave racer remix][Flow- Colors/ Days/ Sign][Foster the people- Best friend/ Houdini/ Pick u up][Friendly Fires- Hawaiian air][Gesu No Kiwami Otome- Battling][Giraffage- Tell me- Spazzkid remix][Gorillaz- Saturnz barz][Heavy Chest- Just you][Home Made Kazoku- Thank you][Hyper Potions- Surf][Jaden- Ninety][JAKAZiD- Make me burn][James Colt- Lifeline][Jerhell- Deeper within/ Far too long/ Forgotten/ Ice cream/ I’m alive/ Let go/ Right now/ Vulnerable][Joji- Can’t get over you/ Mr. Hollywood/ Nitrous/ No Fun/ Run/ Sanctuary/ Test drive/ Tick Tock/Yeah right][Juice Wrld- Hide][Justice- Dance][Kali Uchis- Never be yours/ Your teeth in my neck][Kavinsky- Nightcall][Kuzu Mellow- Sunflower Feelings][L'Arc-en-Ciel- Don’t be afraid/ Ready Steady Go][Last Dinosaurs- FMU/ Italo Disco/ Zoom][Lil Uzi Vert- 20 min][Lupe Fiasco- Paris, Tokyo][Mac Miller- Knock knock][Mak the Shonen- COVID 9 to 5][Mamiko Suzuki- Contact][Metric- Black sheep][Mk.gee- Priorities][Moe Shop- Notice][New Edition- Mr telephone man][Noisia- Groundhog][Passion pit- Take a walk][Pete Rock- They reminisce over you][The pillows- star overhead][Quelle Rox- Cosmic Gloom/ Space parade][Samsa- Tinder Samurai][Santigold- Shove it][Shino- 相も変わらず][Ski mask- So high][Souls of mischief- 93 till infinity][Sushiboys- Drug/ 8月32日][Suzanne Vega- Toms diner][Tame Impala- Borderline/ The less I know the better][Tears For Fear- Everybody wants to rule the world][Thelonious Monk- Ruby, my dear][Tyler the Creator- 911/ Group B/ See you again][UGK- Int'l Players Anthem][White Lies- Bigger than us][Xavy Rusan- Ga$ money]

[ask-vaal-hazak]

I just left a homebrew dnd campaign I've a message for new DM's

If your running a campaign for 2 ppl and there level 3 do not throw cr 6 and 9 monsters at them. For the love of the divine do not.

Extremely fustrating and deadly. And dont use the monsters from a homebrew forum bc it just sounds cool. Bc that "cool" cr 6 hag going against a lv3 party with multiple attack. Multiple spell cast and spell immunity and able to polymorph into any creature it wants at will is devastating.

Just to rant here. I lost 3 characters in 1 hour. My lv 3 barbarian (minotaur zelot). My battlemaster (centaur) and my wizard (yuan ti)

To be a dm ya have to balance and make sure every fight isnt designs to just upright kill ppl at the start bc. 5d12 worth of dmg with multiple attack on a hag or any creature. Is friggin broken.

There no way in hell a monster for a party of 2, level 3 adventures should hit for 5d12 (3 times) and be able to cast 2 spells (at will without using a spell slot) EVERY ROUND. And on top of that have a movement speed of 90 and an ac of 23. (I asked the dm to let me see what he was using and thers more. Swim of 30, fly of 300 ect this is pretty much a god with its stats but the cr says 6. It dosent even feel like a 6. More like a lv 20 broken sack of crap)

This is the reason there are tutorial guides in the book(s) and youtube to show you why you should look at cr then your players levels b4 u design an encounter.

I cant describe how fustrating it was to see my barbarian. Who I spent 5hours making just get tapped lightly and die. Bc 48 hp at lv 3 and taking well over 10 pts of dmg bc apparently she crit me on all attacks and only did like 1 attack to our female player (for 2 dmg with a level 6 scorching ray [its bs] ) was "Fair bc your a barbarian and should be able to tank this EASILY" (quote the dm.)

If there is a way to piss off players it's this and having a game were you get railroaded so hard it's a traveling trip with skill checks with a minimum of 18-20 to notice something like a bear on the road when the weather is CLEAR and everyone is PAYING THE HELL ATTENTION ON A BANDIT HIGHWAY. Not to mention the SCREAMS OF A CYCLOPS AS IT LITERALLY SMASHES INTO THE CARAVAN ACROSS A PLANE WITH A FEW TREES ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.

Oh and let me not forget the NPCS WHO WANT TO SLEEP WITH EVERYONE BC THEY THINK THERE HOT AND DESERVE A NICE HOT MEAT ROD FOR THEIR SERVICES OF INTRODUCING THEMSELVES.

*Facepalm* my god....oh and if your thinking

"GEE-WILLY Mr. Person surely it couldnt be that bad?" This guys campaign was pretty much parappa the rapper, jojo bizarre adventures, bloodborne, Resident evil and memes.

I had a character who came in and apparently they caused the world to have wormholes? (Somehow) and referenced it everytime we played even when that character died. In session one. Bc apparently a company named (I kid you not) Shoe Rack was the equivalent of resident evil's umbrella cooperation. Complete with a drow leader and a litch bookkeeper who turned everyone into zombies to work for free while they apparently made diamonds to sell for millions of gold and keep the workers working g for 1 copper every month. Only giving gold to ppl that would sleep with them.

Not to mention apparently everyone in this world had magic resist or spell immunity to everyone except to females. And when I made a female char apparently that rule became I valid and it was just a straightforward

Me: does a 17 hit?

Dm: well it would but .... *they grin*

Me: but?

Dm: they use a special ring to catch the spell and cast meteor swarm on you point blank.

Me: well they get hit too I just stabbed them with a dagger.

Dm: no you see it's a SMALL METEOR THAT ONLY HITS THE PERSON THAT HIT THEM

Me: so they and my teammate. Who has literally been stabbing them are fine?"

Dm: yes

Me (takes like 589 pts of dmg and is ded)

Dm: the litch turns to you and asks if you want a cup of coffee.

Female player: umm sure?

Dm: whoo-yeah. Combat over you get 500 go and a date with the litch.

Me: I'm sorry what?

Female player: umm...ok. awsome.

Me: ......ok cool so I'll just bring in-

Dm: no that's cool the litch revives yorubas a female zombie slave.

Me: why?

Dm: and you need to have sex to keep yourself alive.

Me: yeah no. I'll just bring in my centaur battle master

1 hour later

Dm: you take umm..let's see *rolls dice.*

Me: (waiting)

Dm: *rolls a shit ton more dice*

Me: (waiting)

Dm: oh oh no *grins*

Me: (takes 40 dmg) I'm still up

Dm: how?

Me: I have 48 hp....I'm still up

Dm: ok it's your attack I guess.

Me: rolls a nat 1 "ok I guess I have disadvantage on my next att-"

Dm: rolls a d100 and a d10 (the percentile)

Me: what are you doing?

Dm: rolling for severity of your fail. Btw how much dmg does your lance do?

Me: it does 1d12 dmg and why are you using severity. That's not in 5e and you said we-

Dm: as you fail you accidentally stab yourself in the throat as your spear hits a rock and you take *rolls dice* 35 pts of dmg

Me: ok I'm out that's bs. Number one and two I have a lance and thers no way I can do 35 dmg. I get about 24 dmg on a crit and 28 if I use my racial feature to kick a person at max with a crit.

Dm: oh your just being salty, you dont play fair!

Me: excuse me?

Dm: ALL YOU DO IS PLAY SPELL CASTWRS AND THATS CHEATING!

Me: bc everyone has spell immunity for some reason or only takes 1/4 the dmg. I'm pretty much useless and am being fored to play melee unlike our LOREMASTER BARD who got an item to DOUBLE HER DMG AND SPELL SLOTS AND CRIT ON A 15 PERMANENTLY (this is the female btw)

Dm: well maybe you should have slept with the litch

Me: she literally found that item in a store for like 3 silver and when I looked (with a 17 arcana check) I found a rusty dagger and a flask of poisoned potion.

Dm: well maybe roll higher?

Female player: umm I rolled like a 10 and found this that's kind of cool but I dont think it's fair. But o wanna keep my items

Dm: ugh fine. You keep yours. Ummm (to me) I guess you get a potion of greater healing for....umm 500 go.

Me:.......nah I'm good, FUCK IT. I'll just make another spell caster Oops. Cant do that. How about a nope. Cant make a barbar I'm going to make a artificer

Dm: cant do that

Me: why?

Dm: they're broken its not good.

Me: *with the book* not broken..ulyou know what why dont you make me a character and I'll use that.

Dm: hands me a sheet

Me: reads "Zonia the sexy zombie elf sex slave that gets stronger every time she has sex?" *Looks at everyone* ok I'm out enjoy the campaign.

Dm: we cant have a dnd adventure with only 1 person.

Me: yes you can you've been doing it since session 1. I'm out goodbye. I'm still running my campaign on sunday. I wont hole anything against you. But I will not sit here and be shit on bc I refuse to kiss yur ass and make a slut of a character. Pull your head from your ass. I'm taking my stuff and I'm out.

Dm: but I need the dm screen and the mat and the markers.

Me: then buy your own or use theater of mind. I'm out.

Like how bad is it to want to be a dm to shit on ppl. THIS, THIS IS NOT OK. and no one wants a zombie sex slave that can only have sex and has a str of 0 a con of 30 a dex of 1 a cha of 40 and so on. Its friggin stupid!

Anyway that's my rant. Im....I think I'm just done with dms and crap I just want to play a dnd game I can be happy with. And not always be the Forever dm. Who has players challenge everything. Like why as a monk they cant use sleight of hand to CATCH A FRIGGIN FIREBALL AND/OR AN ARROW AIMED AT ANOTHER PERSON.

Anyway leave a comment or add on I'm just burnt out and glad I could get this rant off my chest

[ayzrules]

tagged by @bebemoon to list 10 songs i’ve been vibing with lately!! <3

"Woman” by Kesha (i’m a motherfucking woman is just TOO ICONIC of a line, holy fuck)

“Psycho” Red Velvet (’i’m original visual’ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes u are, irene. yes u are)

“Four Seasons” by Taeyeon of SNSD (it sounds like a nostalgic 2000s song and i’m living for it)

“Mr. Mr.” by SNSD (same ^^)

“Eternal Love (贰叁)” by Kris Wu (it’s so goddamn wholesome and sweet....and i’m such a sucker for traditional sounds + modern rap vibes)

“Feel Special” by Twice (i love how it can be about both platonic and romantic love, and it’s so wholesome and gives me nostalgic 2010 pop music vibes)

“Ascetic Monk (苦行僧)” by GAI (we stan underground chinese rappers!!! i love how he does rhymes with both mandarin & regional dialect, and the combo of rap with the traditional folk song vibe is SO GOOD)

“Red High Heels (红色高跟鞋)” by Tanya Chua (such a nostalgic cpop song ahhhhh)

“Kingdom Come” by Red Velvet (one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE SONGS. any language, any year, any genre)

“Made in China” by Higher Brothers (they’re just so HILARIOUS, and the part where he goes like ‘i was li bai in a past life, my lyrics are so fire’ is I C O N I C. i can’t even think of an english-language poet with the same influence that li bai has had. maybe the spanish siglo del oro poets??? IDK. or shakespeare? but we don’t recite shakespeare the way that chinese ppl recite li bai!!!)

tagging: @morningstar1399 @now-on-elissastillstands @atimefordragons @artless-whimsy @kzombi3 @digidream @lehua19 @carelessmidnight + anyoen else who wants to do it!

[mr-stottlemonk]

Just watched Monk and the rapper and was screaming when he smiled and had grill his little smile and how stottlemeyer was pissed lmao 😂

Now I wonder how he got them off? Did Leland force him or did he just take them off..idk I was thinking he went to the dentist but he would never go again

😂😂 how did they even fit them in so quick is the other question. did monk do it all by himself?? xD it gets funnier and funnier the more you think about it.

either Leland helped him take them off or Natalie did😭😭😭.

[stottlemonk-moments]

Stottlemonk Moments:

Monk s06ep02: "Mr. Monk and the Rapper"

[eriksamaya]

Tread Perilously -- Monk: Mr. Monk and the Rapper

Tread Perilously — Monk: Mr. Monk and the Rapper

Tread Perilously beings a month of USA Network’s Blue Sky era dramedies with Monk and its sixth season episode “Mr. Monk and the Rapper.” When Bay Area hip hop artist Extra Large is murdered via a car bomb, rival rapper Murderuss becomes the prime suspect. But anticipating this, he turns to Adrian Monk to prove his innocence. Intimidated by a large Black man, Monk takes the case and spends most…

[teck-the-rapper]

September 17th, 1996 - Rapper 3-2 (or Mr. 3-2) of rap groups Blac Monks and Screwed Up Click, releases his debut solo album, "The Wicked Buddah Baby". It features guest appearances from @8ballandmjg, Sonia Moore, Southside Playaz, @tooshort and UGK (@pimpcbook @bunb). The album peaked at #28 on the US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and #13 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. • • • • • • #truerapmedia #thewickedbuddahbaby #90s #happyanniversary #mr32 #music #hiphop #realhiphop #hiphopmusic #hiphopalbums #hiphopnation #hiphopnews #hiphopheads #hiphopartist #hiphoplife #hiphopfacts #hiphopculture #hiphopjunkie #rap #realrap #rapculture https://www.instagram.com/p/B2hUBchnQl9/?igshid=v45y2x70hrfb

[flushthethrone]

Episode 134 - Southern Vangard Radio BANG! @southernvangard #radio Ep 134! Hey folks, sometimes it can be tough managing the best damn hip-hop podcast on earth alongside super important things like family, jobs and the like. So this week we had to switch it up a little bit by dropping our mix AND the interview session on Thursday! We have a great interview session this week with Boston producer Jon Glass - not to mention good friend of Southern Vangard Radio, J57, hung out with us during the chat. Glass also hit us with THREE exclusives you can find in our Ep134 mix. On top of THAT, we had an exclusive chat during the mix show with the man that brought us the now infamous Cardi B meme a few weeks ago - the one and only DJ Element! So don’t fret a bit, you don’t have to keep listening to those TRASHCASTS this week-  we still serving up that goodness, and it’s always that #smithsonian #grade #twiceaweek  //southernvangard.com // @southernvangard on #itunes #podcast #stitcherradio #soundcloud #mixcloud // #hiphop #rap #undergroundhiphop #DJ #mix #interview #podcasts #ATL #WORLDWIDE Recorded live September 17, 2017 @ Dirty Blanket Studios, Marietta, GA /southernvangard.com / @southernvangard on #itunes #podcast #stitcherradio #soundcloud #mixcloud / twitter/IG: @jondoeatl @southernvangard @cappuccinomeeks /// Inst. beds prod. Apathy / “You Make The Sunshine" - Jon Glass ft. J Rod, Reks, and Mr Fritz / “Get It" - Jon Glass ft. Ea$y Money, Kali Raps, Chilla Jones, Rapper Big Pooh / "Like This" - Jon Glass & Cas (cuts by Dj Statik Selektah, bassline by Teeba) / "Lailas Wisdom" - Rapsody (prod. Nottz) / “CLDGME II" - Nolan The Ninja / “Globetrotters" - Apathy & O.C. feat. Jus Cuz / “Listening to Axelrod" - J57  ft. Exile, Blame One, CashUs King, Tenacity & Sly5thAve (prod. J57) / “Shitty Kung Fu Flicks " - Jay NiCE (prod. $hy Guy) "Gnashing of the Teeth" - Tha God Fahim  (prod. Camoflauge Monk) / “2.5 Friend Chickens w/ Rice" - CRIMEAPPLE. feat. Daniel Son (prod. HNIC) (at Marietta, Georgia)

[abbyklinkenberg]

01 July 2017

I just finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude for the second time. It's a hot day in Chicago and the edge of the circle of time is so sharp. 

I decided that I should try to see all 50 major museums here in Chicago before I leave, so yesterday I went out on the Brown line & transferred to the Red line in order to get to the Chicago station. There, I had a Potbelly sandwich and talked to Aidan for a little while before heading to the first museum: the Loyola University Art Museum, which turned out to be a very Catholic museum full of religious artifacts from the middle ages/Renaissance era, mostly. There were relics, the bones of saints, in some of the pieces--there were silver chalices from Germany in the 1700s and Roman keys from the first century BC and paintings by students of Caravaggio and stone apostles defaced during the Reformation. One of the hallways was full of self-portraits done by member of a poor community somewhere in Chicago, just pencil sketches that mostly looked as if they were done by children but were probably done by adults who never had the time or resources to fool around with artistic experiments. I tried to read all of the little museum information signs but at some point I got overwhelmed by the religious imagery and simply took it in aesthetically. There were two stained-glass windows done mostly in gray with bright yellow shading as the only color that I probably liked the best. A display of keys from the copper ones of the Roman empire through to the iron ones of the Middle Ages and steel ones of the Renaissance was also really striking. I like that they all did the same things but in slightly different ways, that they were all so neat and precise in their designs--one even had a club shape as the barrel of the key, or whatever it's called. It was really empty, I only saw maybe one or two other people apart from the staff (college-aged girls in blue shirts and black pants) who gossiped with one another while I walked through the museum. 

The Museum of Contemporary Art was only a block away, and was the real object of my day, so I went over there and paid the $8 entrance using my JNU student ID that expired last month. Lots of young people sat on the steps leading up to the entrance and the windows above were adorned with a giant tentacle motif in homage to the Murakami exhibition on the third floor. The first floor had two exhibitions, ETERNAL YOUTH and SMOKE, RISES or something; the first was nostalgic somehow, with magazine prints of Marky Mark and Kate Moss in Calvin Klein ads, an Instagram model blown up to be life-sized, and some other not-so-surprising or provocative looks at youth; it's not surprising anymore, to see kids wrecked by drugs or hiding behind masks or struggling with the trials of adolescence; we're so oversaturated with such content these days, it felt like a somewhat lazy exhibition--I did find some of the text pieces interesting, talking about the commodification of youth and how it's used as an empty promise and vague reason to buy something. 

The other, across the hall, was a series of basic sculptures involving 'other people' outside of the exhibition somehow, outside of the museum. Marble sculptures with shallow pools containing contact lenses of people who didn't know one another, SIM cards in cement blocks, manipulated window panes folded in strange shapes with cigarette buts or guitar strings attached to them. The most provocative one, to me, was a 'wall' with a square canvases on either side painted in the pattern of a shirt and a dress worn by a man and a woman who would occasionally come to the museum; the might meet, they might not; the canvases were put on parallel tracks that ran the length of the wall. And then a metal rod with a single earring through it--the other is presently worn by a woman somewhere in the world, which is the complementary part of the sculpture. The artist invites you to imagine the human elements that are contained in-part, yet that ultimately transcend, the museum space and sculpture itself. I found myself wanting more of that one, I felt that it was real art that provoked something in the viewer, a creative act that was the same and different every time. 

There was another gallery on that floor, tucked in the corner--a series of made-up constellations was on one wall, understandably meditating on the arbitrary yet meaningful nature of any constellation in the night sky that we have come to identify. The exhibit was named after some part of Moby Dick, 'the shallow level' or something like that. From Ahab's quotation about needing to strike through the mask, about how there is something beyond us that we can't quite access. Though the written explanation of the intention excited me tremendously, I found the art to be somewhat lacking, probably just because it's not to my taste. A painting that was overlaid with pink paint such that you can still kind-of see the stuff beneath (really obvious relevance, not profoundly interesting), a set of concrete blocks that looks solid from 3/4 sides but opens on the other, a map written over with a poem by the artist about metaphor and perception and imagining an analogous human example of reducing the world to a map, which I liked best, and some other things that didn't strike me particularly. 

Upstairs was an installation that I really hated with some computer-generated supermarket images of fruit and weird grocery store dollies and something about trying to make you feel like you're inside of a freezer with bags of fake ice and all that. Then things that look like paint cans but are actually meticulously crafted wooden sculptures of paint cans. The only part I liked, which was small, was built into the wall; a supposed massage parlor--you can see the entry with the sign, a stairway up to a door, and a back entrance, all in miniature, through holes in the wall. Playing the voyeur with nothing to see, sparking a curiosity that exists but can't exist there. 

On the third floor was the Murakami exhibition, which I didn't expect to love so much. The wall was covered in silver and electric pink, tentacles patterns and a stylized 'MURAKAMI.' Some of his beautiful early works with a traditional Japanese artistic technique that depicted turtles that seemed to have been made of condensed and reptilian mystery. A massive blue wall of many panels and absurdly deep blue pigments, an ornate stage setting with 2/1 at the top to celebrate the artist's birthday by making fun of that one guy who only made art that was the date written out on a canvas. More of those mocking types except the date and the canvas were painted the same color so it can hardly be distinguished. And then some rooms on Mr. DOB, his mouse-thing, that I liked sometimes but mostly didn't. Some explanation of his workshop technique making his larger pieces was also featured, but I wasn't too interested in seeing how the magic is made, but rather in the magic itself. His 'superflat' pieces were really compelling--flowers with faces covering an entire wall, for instance--and his aesthetic came back to me from his various famous collaborations with people in the 2000s, especially. None of that stuff was really my thing, but the rigorous detail impressed me. It started to get really exciting for me upon seeing Kanye's Graduation album cover in real life, in addition to a sculpture of the Kanye Bear and another painting from that time-period. A grandmother was trying to explain to her grandkids who Kanye West was--'a very famous rapper' and I found it funny. 

The room that made me feel the most, though, was a huge rectangular gallery with two massive sculptures of demons or something, red and blue, at the entrance and exit of the room, with some Murakami stained-glass windows behind them in a sort of religious allusion. The long walls were covered by two pieces--one was a white and blue dragon that didn't captivate me terribly much, but the other was a huge, intricate, and profoundly striking work of 100 monks of various sizes, stylized and detailed in the most precise and stunning manner. It was both grotesque and ascetic, simultaneously religious and irreverent. The size of everything was really moving to me. 

The final room displayed Murakami's most recent piece, done especially for the exhibition, entitled 'the octopus eats its own tentacle' or something like that. It's a reference to a Japanese saying that deals with cutting off an arm in order to grow a new one, with the recycling of the past and the coming of a circular future. That one was also beautiful, though I had been too impressed by the previous room to feel anything but a visual hangover as I pondered the equally beautiful scene. 

I left looking for a place to read and enjoy something to drink while listening to Vince Staples' new album, which I was inspired to hear because the museum is having him speak there later this month. I really liked what I heard and keep meaning to peruse it further. I ended up at a little French bistro where I had some happy-hour red wine that I had missed. Red wine was plentiful in Argentina, but I was very deprived of it in India, so it felt like a revelation. I read my book, talked to my sister and parents, and then ordered some muscles around sunset. They were gorgeous; I had smelled them from another table earlier in the evening and resolved to try them despite my ongoing attempts at vegetarianism (currently, I've decided to eat meat only one day per week). And it really was a beautiful day, I couldn't have asked for anything better. Solitude isn't necessarily that bad. 

[sherlock-holmes-bongwater]

List of characters and stands with music references for names in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

A lot of characters in JJBA are named after references to band, songs and albums, but I realized some people might not get some of the references because they're all from older music and band, as well as more obscure artists.

So, I compiled a list of the ones I know of.

Notes: This list is only up to Vento Aureo, because I haven't read the manga and don't want to spoil myself

I included the localized versions that are references as well

I probably missed a few, so feel free to let me know

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Dio Brando - Named after Ronnie James Dio of Black Sabbath. He later formed a band named DIO after his departure from Black Sabbath

Human/Non Stand Characters -

Robert E O. Speedwagon - Named after the band REO Speedwagon

Dire and Straizo - Both named after the band Dire Straits

Tonpetti - Named after Tom Petty, front man for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Bruford - Named after Bill Bruford, drummer for Yes and King Crimson

Will & Caesar Zeppeli - Last name derived from the band name Led Zeppelin

Messina - Named after Jim Messina of Buffalo Springfield

Loggins - Named after Kenny Loggins

Smokey Brown - Named after two musicians; Smokey Robinson and James Brown

Santana - Named after Carlos Santana and his band

Kars - Named after the band Cars

Esidisi - Named after the band AC/DC

Wamuu - Localized pronunciation of the band name Wham!

Donovan - Named after the musician Donovan Philips Leitch

Wired Beck - Named after Jeff Beck and his album Wired

Mohammad Avdol/Abdul - Named after musician Paula Abdul

Vanilla Ice/Cool Ice - Named after the rapper Vanilla Ice/Named after the song by Vanilla Ice

Hol Horse - Named after pop duo Hall & Oates

Roses - Named after the band Guns n Roses

Daniel and Telence D'Arby - Named after musician Terence Trent D'Arby

Pet Shop - Named after pop duo Pet Shop Boys

N'Doul - Named after musician Youssou N'Dour

Mariah - Named after Mariah Carrey

Alessi - Named after pop duo Allesi Brothers

Oingo and Boingo/Zenyatta and Mondatta - Named after the band Oingo Boingo/Named after the album Zenyatta Mondatta by the band The Police

Kenny G/Billie Jean - Named after saxophonist Kenny G/ Named after the song Billie Jean by Michael Jackson

Gray Fly - Named after Glenn Frey of the band the Eagles

Forever - Named after the Wu-Tang Clan album Wu-Tang Forever

Devo/Soul Sacrifice - Named after the band Devo/Named after the song Soul Sacrifice by the band Santana

Rubber Soul - Named after the album of the same name by the Beatles

J. Geil/Centerfold - Named after the musician J. Geiles/named after the J. Geiles song

ZZ - Named after the band ZZ Top

Steely Dan/Dan of Steel - Named after the band Steely Dan

Arabia/Alabia Fats - Named after the pianist Fats Domino

Cameo - Named after the band Cameo

Chaka and Khan - Named after musician Chaka Khan

Coco Jumbo - Named after the song Coco Jamboo by the band Mr. President

Stand Names -

Cream - Named after the band Cream

Crazy Diamond - Named after a multi-part musical composition by the band Pink Floyd

The Hand - Named after the band The Band

Echoes - Named after a song by Pink Floyd

Heaven's Door - Named after a song by Bob Dylan

Aqua Necklace - Named after the album Aqua by the band Asia

Bad Company - Named after the band Bad Company

Red Hot Chili Pepper - Named after the band Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Lock - Named after the song The Rock by the band The Who

Surface - Named after the band by the same name

Love Deluxe - Named after an album by the band Sade

Pearl Jam - Named after the band by the same name

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Kendrick Lamar Blog Post

Kendrick Lamar Blog Post

I decided to do a blog post on the rapper Kendrick Lamar.  Lamar is one of today’s most talented artist in Hip Hop. Not only does he have a talent for “riding the beat” (staying on beat) perfectly, but he also has some substance in his lyrics. To me, this makes him one of the best to ever grab the mic. But you don’t have to take my word for it, because Lamar has even won a Pulitzer Prize award for his last album to date called, “DAMN”. The Pulitzer recognized the relevance of Lamar’s lyrics, as he gives commentary on what it’s like to live in today’s world as an African American male in society. Lamar is the first rapper to make this accomplishment. Before his win, the only genres of music to ever be recognized by the Pulitzer were Classical and Jazz, so in a way he garnered Hip Hop more attention, and at the same time made history for the genre and himself. Lizzy Goodman said, “Lamar is so warm and serene in person that It would be tempting to read him as a monk reincarnated as a young rap star” (Goodman, 2014). Kendrick is very humble, because he knows things can definitely be worse off in his life (Hiatt, 2017).  I appreciate Mr. Lamar’s contribution to Hip Hop and it would be an honor to one day work aside him to bring some consciousness to the world through music.

Some people say that albums aren’t selling the way they used to, but Kendrick’s album, “DAMN” sold 3.5 million to date. This shows that people are still interested in buying music if the content is worthy enough. All of Kendrick’s albums always have an underlining theme, and this album was no different. His subject matters ranged from the emotions of “Love” to “Fear” and everything in between. He brilliantly took the listener on a journey as he expressed what it is like to experience each emotion in his world that he lives in, as an African American male. He paints the pictures so vividly that anyone can relate to his frustrations.

Lamar’s music is very important in today’s world.  It serves a purpose in schooling the world on what it’s actually like being a black man living in the world. Anyone can relate to Lamar’s pain as he goes deep into explanation. That’s the best thing about words, you can listen to them, and immediately understand what a person is trying to express.  Not only by the meaning of the words, but by their inflections, you can feel what the person is saying. That’s why when texting, it’s hard to decipher, exactly what the person means to say, because you can’t hear the tone in their voice. You can hear Lamar’s pain in his voice in all of his music, which is one reason why he’s considered to be the greatest rapper of his generation. He takes his pain, and with his words he paints a picture for all listeners to understand. I like that he uses his talent for good. He doesn’t talk about sex and drugs. Rappers today, it seems like that’s all that is on their mind, but Lamar appears to be conscious about what he says to the world. Although, he does use foul language, he seems like a great role model in my opinion, because he speaks the truth. The truth doesn’t lie, and that’s why his truth resonates with so many people.

Kendrick Lamar’s music has a lot of strengths. One of Lamar’s best strengths is how well he stays on the beat.  When you hear him rap you can’t help but to nod your head to the lyrics, because he is right on beat. This allows the words to reach its listener on a whole different level than how other rappers get through. Another strength is his lyrical content, because he is deeper than the average rapper.  Rappers these days talk about three things…. girls, money and drugs. Lamar talks about social issues, and in my opinion, this is just the type of music we need to enlighten our youth on what’s really going on and what is really important.

All of the songs on the DAMNalbum are good.  My personal favorite song on the album is track number two called, “DNA” where he discusses life perfectly. He talks about all that he has inherited throughout time, before and after his birth. I thought the way he put the song together was very artistic in a creative way, as well as brilliant in a genius way. Like I said earlier, he stays on the beat perfectly, and on this song the beat is all over the place in my opinion yet he finds a way to stay on beat.  This takes a lot of talent, as a rapper myself I know this to be a fact. With his words he acrobatically switches flows on the beat. Lyrically, he touches on a lot of deep topics in this one song.  His lyrics say, how he has hustle in his DNA, to how he has evil in his DNA, to how sex, money, and murder is in all of our DNA’s. This song makes you think about the world around you, it is not filled with frivolous conversation about big booty girls and the fast lifestyle of living. This separates Lamar from the rest of pack.

Julia Craven of HUFFPOST said, “his ability to capture the essence of black life, at its most minute, is also what makes “DAMN.” a great piece of journalism (Craven, 2018). I concur, DAMN was a literary masterpiece. Unfortunately, there are only a few rappers doing what I call, “positive rap”, which is to me, some rap with substance. Sure, Lamar uses curse words in his raps, but the meaning is deeper.  If more rappers took the same approach as Lamar, I truly believe the world would be a better place.  We would have a greater human race of thinkers, which is what we need in this world.  We need people, who can analyze the world around them and draw their own conclusions without being told that sex, money, and drugs are the cool thing. Anyone with a clear vision can see that this simply is not the case. I plan to take Kendrick Lamar’s lead, and bring some truth into the world of Hip Hop, and hopefully there will be more to follow.

REFERENCE

C.M. (2018). Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Moment. Economist; Accessed on April 22, 2018. Retrieved from https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2018/04/damn

Coscarelli, J. (2018.) Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer in ‘Big Moment for Hip Hop’. New York Times; Accessed on April 22, 2018. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/arts/music/kendrick-lamar-pulitzer-prize-damn.html

Craven, J. (2018). Kendrick Lamar Won Pulitzer Because ‘DAMN.’ is Journalism. HUFFPOST; Accessed on April 22, 2018. Retrieved from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kendrick-lamar-pulitzer-damn-journalism_us_5ad66e49e4b03c426da92b81

Goodman, L. (2014). Kendrick Lamar Hip Hop’s Newest Old School Star. New York Times; Accessed on April 22, 2018. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/magazine/kendrick-lamar-hip-hops-newest-old-school-star.html

Hiatt, B. (2017) Kendrick Lamar : The Rolling Stone Interview. Rolling Stone; Accessed April 22, 2018. Retrieved from https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/kendrick-lamar-on-humble-bono-taylor-swift-mandela-w496385