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You also have to love a Harry Potter reference in a hip-hop song. Chasing his dream and doing it his way, not worrying about what others think. One of my favorite parts about the song though is how Chiddy looks at his life and talks about how he wants to live it in an uncompromising manner. With that pitch-shifted hook, and some great lines it is no wonder how Chiddy Bang blew up as quick as they did. It’s hands down my favorite track on the mixtape, and even now I just can’t stop listening to it. The track I’m sharing today is an old Chiddy Bang track off their mixtape Swelly Express. Having a newborn again in the house is a bit of an adjustment as I am now recalling what functioning on small amounts of sleep really is. We named her Madeline Grace, and she is perfect, beautiful, and wonderful. Life has just been super crazy, with the addition of the newest member of my family making her appearance back on April 4th. It has been a super long time since I’d posted anything, and I’ve finally gotten around to it. Something I think we all need in our lives. It’s the perfect blend of seriousness with a smidge of humor. Way better then the album version, this is just Ryan and his guitar playing the crap out of the track, complete with beat boxing. Almost every stage off my adult life Adams has been there for me.įor all the tracks that he has written though, this cover might be one of my favorites. Might be all the good memories associated with it.īefore my wife and I were married, for my 21st birthday she took me all the way to San Francisco to see Adams play at the Fillmore. For whatever reason, it really resonates with me. Every few weeks I find myself listening to one of his albums. Whether it’s his Whiskeytown albums or his plethora of solo material, I just can’t get enough. Through the years, I constantly find myself coming back to Ryan Adams. Hands down my favorite singer-songwriter covering one of my favorite songs. It was way back when I was a freshmen in college, and I could hardly believe it. I can still remember the first time I heard this Ryan Adams track.

This has led to me being reminded of some gems that have been hidden on my iPod for years, so here they are… My musical OCD will not allow me to put the music on my iPod without having artwork, so I’ve been hard at working going through all 24,756 songs. I recently have been going back through my library as I moved all my music and subsequently lost a good majority of my album artwork. Music though has been the foundation that has held it all together, and simply hearing a song while scrolling through my library can take me back to whatever exactly moment and emotion that I have related to it. They all remind me of specific times in my life. Whether it be a CD found while scouring my local Hastings on my weekly visit, or an album I downloaded on the recommendation by a friend. By that point my collection exploded and I was hopelessly hooked to collecting music.Įach album in my iTunes library tells a story. I went from tapes, to CDs, to burning my own mixtapes via my dad’s CD burner, and finally digital media. As I grew older my musical tastes changed, as did the common media for music. It all began when my parents bought me a CD player when I was in fifth grade, along with my first CD (Billy Joel’s Storm Front). For as far back as I can remember I’ve loved music, and specifically collecting music.

I’m not really sure at what point my iTunes library became the memoirs of my life.