Oh my God, have you heard? Like, have you heard?” And I was like: “Are you talking about track 12? Yes, I’ve heard. What’s sad about that is that my father was in New York at the time, and I remember he called me and he was like: “Oh my God.

Which is a great album if you haven’t heard it. I think of September 11th half of the terrorist attack and half, and more importantly to me, as the day Jay-Z released The Blueprint. I don’t think about September 11th just for the terrorist attack. You know why we pretend to be mad? Because we don’t want to appear like monsters in front of our friends, but these things don’t affect us. (If you’re reading this, and you don’t think that this album was anything resembling a silver lining and not worth writing about, just count your blessings that I’m writing about this, and not about something really controversial like John Mulaney’s relationship with Olivia Munn, or last week’s episode of Ted Lasso.) “Can I tell you the harsh reality of life? It’s that events happen - really, really sad things happen, tragedies happen every day and we all pretend to be mad. One of the very, very, very few silver linings to be found in the dark cloud that was Septemwas the release of Beyonce’s husband’s Jay-Z’s album, The Blueprint. (I’ve honestly lost count of how many folding knives and pepper sprays I’ve purchased, but to quote Clarence Worley: It’s better to have something and not need it than to need something and not have it.) Because I can always count on being reminded as to why I carry weapons with me wherever I’m out in public, especially whenever I pay a visit to Staten Island. When I took my mother out to lunch for her birthday this past weekend, I discovered that one of her neighbors in Staten Island has a “Trump, I Love You” sign displayed right next to a “9/11: Never Forget” sign on the front window of their house. Or how that very same week, I had to hear one of my white co-workers at McDonald’s talk about how he wanted to join the military so that he could get a gun and a uniform, and go after the same countries who attacked us in order to get some payback. About how I sat at a bus stop in Staten Island (or as I respectfully call it, Urinetown) on my way home from campus after watching news footage of the attacks, and listened to a couple of white men at that same bus stop talking to each other about how America needs to go after all of the Middle Eastern countries and kill them all for doing this, and how I silently hoped with every fiber of my being that it was other white people responsible for these attacks, and not Black and brown people who would have to deal with even more bigotry and hatred and harassment than we already do on a regular basis. I could easily throw my hat into that particular ring, and talk about my own personal experiences on that Tuesday morning.

same week last year and down 14% year to date.For the past few days, we have all been bombarded with words and images and hour-long news retrospectives related to the terrorist attacks that happened on September 11, 2001, due to the fact that this year marks the twentieth anniversary of what happened on that day. Virgin metallists Saosin's In Search of Solid Ground should do 20-25k, while Tooth & Nail's Thousand Foot Krutch is just behind with 15-20k. Next up on the debut list is IceH2O's Wu Tang Clan member Raekwon with the sequel to his celebrated Only Built for Cuban Linx, distributed by Dominic Pandiscia's EMI Label Services Group, which should be good for 55-60k.Ĭolumbia's Boston rockers Boys Like Girls are eyeing a debut in the 45-50k range, while Arista Nashville's retiring country duo Brooks & Dunn go out with a greatest hits set in the 35-40k area. The Beatles' stereo and mono box sets, as well as all the individual, re-mastered titles, hit the streets today from EMI Music, and initial reports have the box sets selling out at Amazon and other on-line retailers. That's the word from those retailers still out there fighting the good fight by refusing to turn their fine establishments into medical marijuana dispensaries. Rap icon Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3, the first release from his Roc Nation imprint through Atlantic Records, will debut at #1 on next week's HITS album chart with a total between 300-350k. Early Release Date Will Catapult Jay-Z to #1, Beatles Box Sets Selling Out

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