6/7/2011, imma drop that body work / fuck my brains out double single (TERIUS NASH aka THE-DREAM, LOVE IV: anticipation and adoration)

slob really is the magic keyword for this album. the reference must surely have struck big sean like a lightning bolt as he was disconsolately staring at terius in the booth

srsly though i can't get over what a terrible basis for a song "iv play" is. YOU ARE LITERALLY JUST PROMISING ME BAD SEX TERIUS.

― lex pretend, Friday, 14 June 2013 17:55 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

read the lyrics on paper and he is hardly breaking r&b decorum though - the teriusness makes it so

tbh idk, something still nags at me when i see this album being railed against so but either way he is truly no longer worth the mental effort

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/06/19/193538349/the-dream-on-why-we-all-need-r-b

microwave analogy <3

i heard the NPR thing on the radio the other day and was slightly taken aback by the pronunciation of his name like "teary-us" -- never really heard it aloud before but i always heard it in my head as more rhyming with "mariah"

tuh-rye-us?

that's wild, man

i'm not saying it made sense. but when you only know a name in print sometimes you come up with unconscious assumptions.

wait is that tear as in crying a tear or as in tearing a piece of clothing? cause I've always assumed his name was pronounced the latter tear-ee-us

the former?!

cool segment

yeah, like crying

teary-us is way weirder than tuh-rye-us to me? at least the latter fits like how some say darius. i guess as a made up name dude can p much say it how he likes tho

imo it's just uh, terry... with an us

huh, idk if i was aware that juvenile is also a terius

rtc otm

― love will terius apart (k3vin k.), Friday, October 9, 2009 7:46 PM (3 years ago)

also me otm

i dunno if the NPR guy had it right, i'm just saying he went "teery-us" multiple times

tear (as in ripping clothing)-ee-us is how i always heard it

radio dude was kinda british tbf?

Who the hell pronounces Darius like Mariah? It rhymes with tear (as in ripping clothing)-ee-us.

either we're weeping or rending garments, either way it's all very appropriate

http://www.merriam-webster.com/audio.php?file=bixdar02&word=Darius

i've been mispronouncing "hootie" for years too

"your body must be anticipated because it already done leaked out"

-_-

whoa this is really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wa2VTsm0dg4

This is brilliant both as a statement and a song, totally surprised that he even had this in him.

I was with this until it got to the message at the end and then my eyes rolled out of my head.

was not...expecting that

message at the end is dumb but without wanting to disrespect the guy i would have expected him to mess this up even worse

Surprised that the guy who assembled "How To Be A Lady Vol 1" has strange ideas about class and identity

this is pretty great and very welcome

the message at the end made me smh but i cannot stop listening to this. might play it for my kids tomorrow. also the footage of harvey milk made me tear up a little. terius is so aggressively hetero i wouldn't necessarily have predicted he'd identify with the gay rights movement.

ENOUGH PAIN CAN MAKE A WHOLE RACE BITTER

i keep texting my sister lyrics

"my father spoke of you through that liquor" is an unexpectedly beautiful lyric

this is moving but man i feel like i need to pick it apart

have to admit i'd heard the 'hilfiger is a racist' thing and never looked into it myself

http://www.snopes.com/racial/business/hilfiger.asp

yeah the idea that all the struggles being depicted in the video are one struggle is very moving and also false, but i think i might in part be excited that dream can even make a good song anymore

also excited to teach it tbh

i predict my kids will also sth at "classism is the new racism" and i can't wait. is that evil?

also i forgot about dream's "i love my mom" virgin side of the virgin whore complex mode

goole, pick it apart!

my students have discussed the hilfiger thing in class before, and they mostly know it's a false rumor, but i think the hilfiger advertising apparatus is still pretty alienating to them. (i used a hilfiger ad in a lesson on persuasion and the discussion of hilfiger's construction of his market afterward was thoughtful)

the rhyme in this song is really good

my lesson is ostensibly going to be about rhyme and allusion

if you guys won't show up and post all day about dream like we used to in 2007 then i will just continue to post about my lesson plans. i'm sleep-deprived enough to do it.

ps ENOUGH PAIN CAN MAKE A WHOLE RACE BITTER

am i making this thread unreadable? i keep eating cookie dough and hitting refresh on this video on youtube.

i have to go to dinner, damn!

most oooh moment is putting "since then ain't been a lot going on" over the obamas.

ENOUGH PAIN CAN MAKE A WHOLE RACE BITTER

for real, though, this line makes me think about how while i was teaching a unit on the narrative of the life of fred douglass, one of my students pulled me aside and whispered (because i had a white paraeducator in the room) i can't read stuff like this; it makes me hate white people. and i was just like, i know. and could not think of a damn thing else to say. teaching american lit to black kids feels like aggression sometimes. for all i know, they'll be like do we have to talk about race again??? tomorrow.