In this blog post I am going to review Family Don’t Matter. This is a song off of a 14 track hip-hop album by Young Thug that was released in 2017. This is a song that i feel didn’t get enough love, probably due to thug taking a different approach. instead of just rapping, thug takes a crazy different path and fuses country and rap into one. Im going to break the song down and then explain why i feel that not only is this an amazing song, but also an important one.

Family Don’t Matter (feat. Millie Go Lightly) On this track instead of usual thug beat, it is carried by a guitar. And not an electric guitar ethier. this beat is a fusion of hip-hop and country. The starts with a sung intro by both artist followed by a YEEHAW from thug. while the hook is sung thugs humming of, UH OH OHH UH UH, goes perfectly along with the beat, so perfect it almost sounds as if it is part of the beat. the song then goes into a rap verse all while a guitar still the main instrument. The next verse starts with “country billy made a couple milly, tryna park the Rolls Royce inside the Piccadilly” Thugs genius comes out here, mixing country and hip-hop through both sound and lyrics. Thug purposefully puts Rolls Royce, a vehicle that is often used in rap lyrics, next too Piccadilly, a southern country style restaurant. During this verse thug also twist his voice, making it sound deeply southern and country like. mixing both his lyrical genius and amazing talent to twist and reform his voice. The song ends with a sung verse from millie, followed with calm adlibs from thug, repeating her words.

This song is both amazing and important because its the first of its kind. Yes there have country songs with hip-hop artist in them, like cruise by Florida Georgia Line featuring Nelly, but never before has an artist fused both the sounds and lyrics to make what you could call an entirely new sub genre. These other songs are just country with a rap verse in it or vice versa; this song however is country-trap and has been a catalyst for other artist to produce something similar. For example a recent song that has blown up and has reached number 1 on billboard called old town road is another country-trap song. Lil Nas X, the artist behind the song took the route as Thug and even shouted him out and gave him credit for pioneering country-trap.

i was thinking for my next blog post i would try some new food. So yesterday I went to yummy pho; a Vietnamese noodle shop on Normandy Boulevard. I have been to Yummy Pho one other time when it first opened. I was alot younger and very picky back then and because of this I didn’t get anything to eat. Instead I just tried the Boba tea; which I thought was good. Its been a long time since then, and I’m no longer as picky and enjoy trying new and different foods, so I decided why not go back, and use the experience to write about in my next blog post.

I met my girlfriend around 4 for her lunch break. The Place had a nice vibe; I enjoyed the music they were Playing, and the staff was nice. It was quiet inside other than music and there was only one other group of people. We sat down and they started by bringing us a plate of vegetables, like lettuce, spinach, mint and sprouts to add to our soups. Then they took our order. I got the Bun Bo Hue, a spicy beef soup; and My girlfriend got the Pho Tom, a shrimp soup. We then ordered some of there bang bang shrimp appetizer.

It didn’t take long for the food to come out, maybe like 5 minutes. The bowls were huge for only being $9.99. My soup was an orangish color and contained green onions, yellow onions, parsley, jalapenos, limes, blood cubes, beef, and vermicelli noodles. My girls soup was more of a clear liquid and had green onions, yellow onions, shrimp and vermicelli noodles. The bang bang shrimp was a deep-fried shrimp roll, it kinda looked like a shrimp inside of eggroll wrap. It came with 5 shrimp and a sweet chili sauce.

My Bun Bo Hue soup tasted very good. All of the ingredients worked really well together. The beef was my favorite part; it went good with the spicy soup base. If there was one thing I would’ve changed about it, it would be that I would make it spicier. That’s my fault though because I didn’t realize until I looked at the menu again, but they allow you to chose how spicy you want it. I also tasted my girls soup which I didn’t like as much; her soup base tasted like straight vegetable water, She thought it was good though. The bang bang shrimp were awesome. They had a crunchy outside with a softer inside. I liked them both with and without the sweet chili sauce they were served with.

Overall it was a great experience, I couldn’t say anything bad about it. I would give it a 10 out of 10, from the food, to the service, to the atmosphere. I would definitely recommend Yummy Pho to anyone. I’m happy and thankful for this assignment because it gave me a new experience that I enjoyed and a new place I will be eating.

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I was born and raised in Jacksonville Florida. I was raised up in a low income area on a street named poppy drive, adjacent to Eureka Gardens. growing up I was around a lot of crime, violence, and “criminals”. But these people who where labeled criminals where usually good people just doing what they could to get by and they always accepted and respected me and I had respect and accepted them in return. really cops brought more fear then anyone else. i’ve seen swat raid peoples houses and ive known good people who’ve been locked up for wrong reasons and people who have been charged with something they haven’t done and remain locked up even with no evidence. i dont support the government and i feel it oppresses people.

where I grew up definitely influenced who i am and what types of things I got into, my music for example. I really only listen to hip-hop with an exception to a little reggae. I’ve always loved real and rawness of hip-hop along with vibe of it itself. hip-hop had something for everything, there where artist who spoke on political problems such as along with artist who could tell you a story of their struggles and artist who could just help you unwind and make you feel good. It was a way of expression and i loved it from the first time i heard it. the little reggae i do listen to is mainly Bob Marley. Bob is one of my favorite artist and i love him for the same reason i love hip-hop, the real and rawness of his music in songs like ambush in the night, the way he can just make you feel good in songs like jamming, and his message of peace in songs like one love/ people get ready.
if i had to pick the most important part of who i am i would have to pick my music. its just such a big part of who i am and shaped my beliefs

how people dressed was always big where i come from. we all liked to dress nice. my mama would take me clothes shopping at the begging of every school year and would get me as many outfits as she could afford to get me and a pair of shoes, usually Jordan’s, Nike’s, or Adidas. and it was always important to keep them nice and clean. everybody always had their nice shoes that they would go out in and and a pair of cheap or old side shoes that they wouldn’t mind getting messed up to go and play basketball or football in.

As for my family background i don’t know much about it. I’ve never been very close to my family outside of the immediate family. i do know my mamas side were french immigrants who moved to Quebec, Montreal, and Detroit. My dads side has ties to Germany but i dont know much else. i know that my moms side was hardcore catholic but we never were. I’ve never really was religious and im still not, i do believe theirs a god though.

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