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How long do you think Drake and Serena will last?

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Well of course Drake is once again the center of media attention, this time with his off and on again relationship with Tennis champion Serena Williams.  Rewind............ The couple first surfaced in the media in 2012 after Serena and rapper Common broke up. Drake and Common began having problems which lead to the songs "Stay Schemin" and "Sweet" where both MCs addressed the beef in quotes like "it bothers me when the gods get to acting like the broads" by Drake and Common saying "you Canada Dry." Allegedly the feud was directly because of Serena, but eventually the beef died off after both rappers ended their relationship with Serena. Now fast forward......... Drake & Anna Wintour Here we are now; 4 years later after their break up and the couple have been spotted together on several occasions. Drake jinxed her tennis matched, they we're spotted smooching at dinner and today Serena responded to an Instagram post dra...

When Did You Fall In Love With Hip-Hop?

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Hip-Hop You The Love of My Life Well I absolutely love this topic, because I love hip-hop. I'm 20 years old, so yes I'm a 90s baby, unfortunately I wasn't alive for the beginning of hip-hop. Therefore my hip-hop influences are not: Eric B & Rakim, Run DMC, KRS-1, Suga Hill Gang, Funky 4 plus One More, Rappers Delight etc... You get the drift. However we 90s babies are the luckiest, because we've gotten a chance to be a part of the elevation of the lifestyle. Raps that were once only rhymes, elevated to many poetic devices. Artist such as: Tupac, Biggie, Common, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, and OutKast etc...are examples of the advance. With all of that being said, I've been a hip-hop listener since 1998, I was 5 years old, but of course that's not when I fell in love with hip-hop, because I was way too young to appreciate any music. Back then all I enjoyed about music was the catchy tones, but not the lyricism. As the years past I began to develop an infatuati...