Music blog: Rap Eminem - MMLP2 album

Marshall Bruce Mathers III or Eminem is a rapper, songwriter, and an actor. He has won a Grammy Award for  rap. He is ranked 82nd our of 100 on the Rolling Stone magazine. Eminem sold about 80 million albums and over 120 million singles worldwide. In the United States however he sold 49 million albums and 42 million tracks. He founded The Marshall Mathers Foundation, a charity for disabled youths. Overall he is a  successful entertainer and is very popular. 

  Lyrics: As you may or may not already know, rap music is very long. The song 'Rap god' he spoke 100 words in about 15 seconds! The lyrics have absolutely no meaning in this song. They're just on going words talking about at least 45 different things in each verse. In about all the songs in the album, he says at least one curse word. Rap music isn't a good influence in young minds such as mine lyric wise.

Good things about Eminem: Things I like about Eminem and rap music in general are that the beat is interesting and I find it cool/funny how people can talk really fast If you take out the lyrics in rap music then you're left with cool rhythms, beats, and tunes. Take the song 'Monster'. If you take out the lyrics, you can get cool sound effects and noises. Have you ever tried to a song that is 1539 words? I think not, but Eminem has! His song 'Rap God' has exactly 1539 words and is sung in about 6 minutes. Only one thing left to say... WOW.

Bad things about Eminem: Some things just don't appeal to me, and rap music is one of them. Although Eminem can sing/rap really fast its not as interesting as other music genres like pop or R&B. The one thing that makes me hate rap music is the lyrics. The lyrics have nothing to do with the song! Usually the lyrics will have to do with drugs or going for girls and very rarely will you find a song that is rap and has actual lyrics that mean something. You will only find these kinds of songs if the rapper is partnered with a pop artist (like Monster). Another thing that makes me dislike rap is the length of songs. I hate songs that are over 3 minutes. They get dull and make me want to change the song. When tried to listen to the album I had to stop about 3 times and changed to a pop song then continued listing to the rest.

Overall rap music still isn't my favorite type of music. The lyrics have no meaning, go on forever, and make references to drugs and such. The fact that Eminem can rap/sing 100 words in 15 seconds amazes me but I still have no interest in rap music. 
I would rate the album a 5/10.
 You can find the lyrics to 'Rap God' here http://rapgenius.com/Eminem-rap-god-lyrics

Movie Blog: Hunger Games Catching Fire

  Catching Fire is the second book/movie in the series The Hunger Games. The series contains 3 books and soon to be 3 movies. They are as follows (in order) The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mocking Jay. The name "Hunger Games" come from the main idea of the book. The Hunger Games are an annual ritual that force young children from the age 12 and up, to place themselves into a gigantic raffle to join the Hunger Games. The day the contestants are chosen are know more commonly as the "reaping day".  There are 12 districts and from each district 2 competitors are chosen (1 boy and 1 girl). They all are placed into a dome and fight each other to death, and the last person standing wins. The Captiol are the hosts of these annual games. They provide a place to stay, a training area, and food for the competitors. If you are chosen to go to the Hunger Games, then there is no going back, unless someone else is willing to go for you... which no one would do.

Main ideas: Catching Fire is the second movie in the series. It focuses on the victors of the previous Hunger Games leading up to this 3rd quarter quell. To celebrate this 75th annual hunger games the Capitol decide to do something different and special. They select victors of the previous Hunger Games as the contestants or tributes. In the previous movie, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark win the 74th Hunger Games for district 12. Katniss has became a symbol to all people because of her courage when she took the place for her sister on Reaping day. There are 3 victors in district 12, 2 boys and 1 girl. Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, and Haymitch Abernathy. The two victors chosen to go to the Hunger Games, like last time are Katniss and Peeta.

Summary: Katniss and Peeta are chosen to go to the Hunger Games once more.  They try to get as many allies they can at the training area, and they do but what they don't know is that they have more allies then they think. All of the contestants absolutely despise that the Capitol choose victors to compete again. Most people see Katniss as a symbol of peace because of her love and caring towards Peeta and other contestants that are younger than her. President Snow (the President of the Captiol) thinks that she will start a revolution to stop these games. Since everyone despises the games, the contestants ally with Katniss to keep her safe. Their main goal was to keep her safe from the traps in the dome, and they succeed.  Katniss escapes the dome by firing an arrow that has been wrapped in wire, and with perfect timing lightning strikes a tree in the dome every 12 hours she synchronizes the lightning and shoots the arrow in the sky, breaking the dome.

Characters: The main character is Katniss and she is accompanied by Peeta. The movie is from a 3rd person perspective, following Katniss and Peeta. There are many other characters that have importance to the movie such as Haymitch, Gale, Primrose, Finnick, Johanna, Mags, and President Snow. They all helped out Katniss some how wither they assisted her in the Games or outside of the Games.

Best Part: I think the best part was when Katniss shot the "lightning arrow" towards the forcefield. When I saw this scene I knew it was going to happen, but didn't know what the outcome would be. You don't see that kind of outcome very often. Katniss gets carried off in a ship/helecopter/aeroplane (not really sure what it was) leaving all her allies and friends in the dome to get sent to the Capitol.

Worst Part: The saddest part (there was no worst part) was when Mags went willing into the poison fog, so that Finnick, Katniss, and Peeta can live on. This made me sad because she was very old and Finnick (her district partner) had to take care of her. She also volunteered for another contestant that was chosen, because the person that was chosen went crazy after she won the Hunger Games. The one thing I didn't like was the violence. The Capitol choose children to die in a dome for the amusement of adults! Peacekeepers harm people for doing something wrong. Like in the movie Gale saves an elderly citizen of district 12 and gets whipped for about an hour in front of most people in the district, but gets saved by Haymitch, Peeta, and Katniss. Some people seem to think this is "ok" like President Snow.

Opinion: I really enjoyed this movie although it was violent and sad. One thing I don't understand is that people seem to enjoy this movie, when it should be taken seriously.

Rating: I would rate this a 8.5/10. The story line is good but I didn't enjoy the violence, but this is a personal opinion and wouldn't apply to all people, which is why I rated it a 8.5/10

Watch It here: http://megashare.info/watch-the-hunger-games-catching-fire-online-TnpRMk13PT0