Six Rules To Success | Motivation

Absolutely no way around hard, hard work

Now I know Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t connected to hip-hop but this is such an awesome motivation video not to post. Six great rules to consider in order to be successful. The speech was taken from the 2010 Emory Commencement Ceremony.

Favorite quote from this clip:

You sleep 6 hours, you have 18 hours left. Now I know some of you out there say ‘but wait a minute I sleep 8 or 9 hours’ – well then just sleep faster I would recommend.

Motivation | How Bad Do You Want It?

How Bad Do You Want It from Greyskale Multimedia LLC on Vimeo.

This video has been making its rounds around the web lately and rightfully so. Such a great message, if you really want to be successful, go out and and show it’ don’t just talk about it. The amount of effort you put in everyday is up to you, but if you really want to be successful, you’ve got to put in the work.

When you get to the point where all you want to be is successful as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

The amount of work you put in is up to you, you have to determine how bad you want it; but there is no way around it, hard work, dedication is key to success.

The original background audio is from this video:

Couple great takeaways at the very end:

you’ve got to have heart [to be successful]

The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become.

Buckwild Tells The Story Behind His Classics

9th Wonder Tells the Story Behind His Classics

9th Wonder has the uncanny ability to produce tracks with the sound of Golden Era boom bap hip hop yet that still hold their own in todays music. Complex magazine sits down with 9th as he discusses the story behind some of his classic tracks. in there you’ll find some ill insights such as when he talks about meeting Jay-Z:

Jay-Z was at the time the biggest rapper out. What do I make of all this? I didn’t really make anything of it. It was surreal. I just went and played him 29 beats.

“Jay kept a poker face on the first two, but on the next 27, he was just like, ‘Man, kid, where do you come from?’ Then he said, ‘We got to go.’ He asked me where I was from and everything, and I remember Beyonce saying, ‘I really like your music.’ They both left, then 30 seconds later, he came back, and said, ‘Yo, man, can I have that beat CD?’ Then he asked me to come back on Monday.

Chek out the full article at Complex magazine And if you haven’t checked the feature on DJ Premier telling the stories behind his classics, make sure you do so!

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“Good Things” featuring Dr. Dre

Dr. Dre was tapped by Chrysler to help promote their new 300s. You know the sound system has to be knocking with BeatsAudio in there!

“Good things come to those who work”