FALL SEVEN TIMES, GET UP EIGHT

Somewhere between January and now I lost my motivation for many things but I've been working on rebuilding it. I just wanted to share three of my current motivation songs. I came across this upcoming 18-year old rapper from Philly by the name of Tayyib Ali in Nylon Magazine's July 2011 Music Issue. They described him as "cloaking the deadly mic skills of a serious Nas devotee in the breezy, laid back cool of Kid Cudi." I had to check him out after reading that, so I downloaded his latest mixtape, Keystone State of Mind. The first song, Get Up became my motivation song mainly because of the hook:
I don't wanna cry no more
I don't wanna try no more
They tell me give up, give, give up
But I can't it's time to get up, get up, get up
Cause I can
Just reminded me to get up and get motivated because I can, nobody can hold me back but myself. Check out the rest of his mixtape for yourself below. Some of my favorites are I Won't Stop, High Definition, California Love, The Outcome, Keystone State of Mind, etc., I like the whole album basically.

Tayyib Ali - Keystone State of Mind by Thissongissick.com


My other song is Bravo by Ledisi. I heard this song in a commercial for the television series Unsung on TV One. I wasn't the least bit concern with the show but I love the song. It's the perfect song if you had a rough semester and you finished strong or graduated college (s/o to the Class of 2011).

Yeah, we celebrating life.
It don’t matter who you are (or where you from)
If you been working hard,
give yourself a round of applause.
Bravo. Bravo. Bravo. Come on clap for yourself.
Bravo. Bravo. Bravo. Yeah. Yeah.

Bravo by ledisi

She has another song called Shut Up off of her latest album, Pieces of Me. It's a song that for haters or any other negativity in your life. I don't believe I do but its still a good song to jam to.

I want to tell them shut up
I moving up
No time for the haters
You got to be greater
They need to shut up
I'm flying up
This is my calling
I don't see myself falling
So shut up

LAST THOUGHT: "He who hesitates is lost." -Joseph Addison / "Carpe diem" - Horace