Dro Alvarado

[Joey @gothamhiphop]

Metro Boomin says that sampling has gotten lazier in today’s day and age:

“I don’t think they’re doing it right…The core of hip hop music has always been sample-based…

[Today], it just be lazy...Now, something come on and you be like, ‘oh yeah, that’s In Da Club.’ You just know off top. It’s not no ‘oh, I took this and flipped it, reversed it, chopped it’…There’s not that much creativity in it.”

Via Chelsea Cotton & ECB Studio

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Kobe Bryant said he wore No. 24 because it was a daily reminder to himself to live each day like it was his last

“Philosophically, it carried a significance. It was about approaching every day as if it was my last.”

“Shaq’s gone. I have to drive this team every day. There are no days off.”

“You come to practice… We’re going.”

“Every time I look at that number… Today is the most important day.’ Today is the day.’”

“‘It’s one day.’ 24 hours. ‘That’s it.’”

“That helped me stay locked in.”

[8/24MαɱႦα.Aɾƈԋιʋҽʂ🐐 @MambaArchives]

This is hands down the greatest offensive talent I’ve ever watched🐐

[𝙀𝙧𝙖 @TheWestbrookEra]

This is the greatest edit of all time bruh

[autist @litteralyme0]

How my dad looks at me when I don't want to help him move 1000kg of dirt at 6am on a Sunday

[mari 🦢 @mxrileidyy]

i spend too much money on alcohol 🫩

[Tevin Macharia Mukabana @TevinMacharia]

106 hours trapped beneath the rubble... and he walked out alive.

After Venezuela's devastating earthquakes, 21-year-old Aaron Levi Cantillo Vargas spent more than four days buried under a collapsed building before rescuers finally reached him.

When asked about his survival, he didn't call it luck.

He said:
"I'm alive today because of my God. He is the One who got me out of there and sent His angels. Those angels were the people who never gave up searching for me."

God is still a refuge in the middle of impossible situations. Sometimes His miracles come in supernatural ways. Sometimes they come through ordinary people who refuse to quit.

"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble." // Psalm 46:1

[kendrick Lyrics @WordFromKdot]

I’m too much of a Kendrick fan not to give the story behind this 🤓

Someone from another studio session came in, had been drinking, and started getting loud. Mid verse, Kendrick stopped and told his engineer, Ali:

“aye aye, kick her out the studio, Ali.”

MixedbyAli said "Kendrick left the moment in the recording as a studio Easter egg."

[freddyzur @freddyzur]

Se llama Jorge. Perdió a sus tres hijos, su exesposa y sus nietos en el terremoto.

Antes de orar por él, nos pidió algo que nos dejó en silencio: no quería provisiones ni ayuda material, solo un abrazo fuerte, un gesto de consuelo.

También nos dijo que valoráramos a nuestra familia mientras están en vida, que son lo más importante. Nos pidió repetirles cada día, en todo momento, cuánto los amamos.

Historias como la suya se repiten por miles en La Guaira.

Hoy, con el corazón apretado, elevo una oración al Dios del cielo para que fortalezca a este hombre y a todos los que atraviesan pérdidas tan profundas.

Confiamos en Él

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

Foolio’s killer, Isaiah Chance, had one final message for Jacksonville after being sentenced to life without parole:

“It ain’t worth it… the dissing, the beefing, the shooting. For what?”

“When you're sitting in your cell alone, cold, lonely, & everybody leaves you; the only person there is your mother and maybe a friend”

[JP @whyamijp]

the sooner you recognize that ICE is just a glorified human trafficking operation the better

[gwen @soulleatterr]

🇲🇽🇲🇽!!

[gwen @soulleatterr]

Late sesh

[HotNewHipHop @HotNewHipHop]

YG reveals that Kendrick Lamar encouraged him to always put effort into his music, telling him he should never drop projects just to get out of his deal:

"I was talking to Dot, I'm playing him the album and sh*t... I'm telling him about what I was doing, like putting out albums just to get out the deal 'cause my deal was f*cked up... He was like, 'Bro, you ain't never supposed to do that. You gotta give it your all every time.'"

(Via YG / DJ Hed)

[gwen @soulleatterr]

Love these pics

[sea @neverlie]

This nigga is hypnotizing hoes from the grave. The greatest to ever do it.

[gwen @soulleatterr]

& it was leg day