The 1st semester has been completed and tensions are rising.

The beginning of the year was just adapting back to high school. I think I started off okay but later on I struggled later with certain topics, especially with math and spanish. I don’t pay attention sometimes and I end up getting the wrong info or lost. Or I just make one mistake.  It makes me kinda mad that I have control of myself and I let myself slip often…

I’m glad that I’m doing well in Kopel, Ms. Runge’s and Doc’s classes. I hope to keep that up as long as possible.

During winter-spring there’s this one period of time… honestly I don’t know how to explain, I’m gonna call it the “hell period” because all you do is study and there is no motivation for anything. It’s during the time of exams and it’s not very far from now sooooo

What will I be doing? I’m putting aside social media like I did last year and I’m just going to use it to message people. I should also stop zoning out in class if I don’t understand something; that is such a bad habit I have and I really want to resolve it. I guess I have to talk to my teachers more often and get better habits at studying. I already had these in mind. You can say things but doing them is so much harder.

So those are my 2nd semester plans. Feel free to share yours & good luck!

The most common type of music genre teens listen to nowadays is rap. Yet I realized that this generation’s music has its differences with all the other decades. The past week I decided to listen to past generation’s type of music, from the 90’s I mean. I have listened to lots in the past, but I decided to listen to it as a whole, without 1 song from the 21st century.

I’ve been listening to playlists made by people on Spotify and here are my top 10 picks for new people:

• It was a Good Day – Ice Cube
• 93′ Til Infinity – Souls of Mischief
• California Love – 2pac
• All About U – 2 pac
• Hip Hop Hooray – Naughty by Nature
• Shook Ones Pt. II – Mobb Deep
• Gettin Jiggy with It – Will Smith
• I’ll be Missing You – Puff Daddy
• Hypnotize – Notorious B.I.G
• Juicy – Notorious B.I.G

My favorite 90’s rap album is Illmatic by Nas. My favorite tracks are Memory Lane, The World is Yours, and Represent.

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Following with the whole 90’s subject, I watched this movie with my brother 2 weeks ago. Friday is a movie about two  friends, Craig and Smokey, just making their way through life. They’re both 22, live in the same neighborhood, and unemployed. The day is boring, but the hours keep rolling as they make many discoveries/challenges. My favorite scene was when Smokey came on the face of a guy who got punched and said “You just got knocked the #@%* out!” This is on Netflix, so you can see it too!

Does anyone have any 90’s rap recommendations?