Does Size Matter?

                  Now this is something most people are familiar with. Hard drive space…what, didn’t see that coming huh? More so does the size of your music collection take away from how much you support musical artists? I’ll admit I have a lot of music. What I call my “crate,” to those hip hop heads, full of promotional music. Yet I do support these artists as well. My question really is does the space on your hard drive used to download those cd’s mixtapes and singles take away from how much work you support these artists? All those zip files add up. All that hard work that it took to put that album out. With one click, it’s now yours. Why is the music industry so vested in this topic? Some may say, “If I download this cd, it won’t matter a million others will buy it. Everything will be okay.” See that flaw in that logic, a) if a thousand people think that way, that’s a lot of money gone for everyone. Some artists will change their music entirely because of this. B) If you’re hard work keeps getting taken why would you keep putting music out.

               The music industry continues to fight back but the Zshares and Utorrents keep winning. My question to you is how do you justify downloading music?

In Retrospect

As any other day on my daily commute to work, I realized that I left my radio faceplate at home. Which is one thing I depend on as I drive; daily traffic reports, music to get me energized and the witty banter of the on air personalities. I haven’t done a quite drive like that in a long time. In reality it was actually something much needed, my mind just wondered thinking of any and everything thing that it could. My health was and is always on my mind as of late. Started reciting old rhymes that were recorded a while ago during the golden age of my hip hop life. Those thoughts lead me to one of the things I’ve never really thought about today. That one day I will no longer be known as “Crispy.” That eventually that will no longer be my nickname. No one will refer to me as that, it will just be Chris. This thought actually got to me. I didn’t know where to go from there. What will my legacy be? All the contributions and hard work…who will remember them or me? I can honestly say that this one of the thoughts that singlehandedly changed my whole mind state for the day.



Thoughts like this actually force you to put your entire life in to a different perspective. A perspective that you probably tried to push out of your head till you were older. Just think, eventually what you do now, will ultimately have others look at your life and conclude what kind of person you are.