48 laws of power hip hop

We all know that most successful rappers are also acumen businessmen.  So the 48 Laws of Power is the book by excellence for those business-minded, money-hungry rappers.

The 48 Laws of Power (2000) is the first book by American author Robert Greene.  The book, an international bestseller, is a practical guide for anyone who wants power, observes power, or wants to arm himself against power.  It has sold over 1.2 million copies in the United States alone and is popular with famous rappers, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes and actors including 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, DJ Premier, Dov Charney, Brian Grazer, Andrew Bynum, Chris Bosh, and Will Smith.

The 48 Laws of Power has sold over 1.2 million copies in the United States and has been translated into 24 languages.  Fast Company called the book a "mega cult classic," and The Los Angeles Times noted that The 48 Laws of Power turned Greene into a "cult hero with the hip-hop set, Hollywood elite and prison inmates alike." The book has been featured in publications like CNN, Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, Entrepreneur magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek, USA Today, The Guardian, Business Insider, Fast Company, ESPN, and Men’s Health.

The 48 Laws of Power is taught in business management classes and is one of the most requested books in American prison libraries.  The book is influential with a wide array of entrepreneurs, musicians, athletes, and movie stars. Dov Charney, founder and CEO of American Apparel, has handed out hundreds of copies of the book to friends and employees and frequently quotes the laws during board meetings (he would also later appoint Greene to American Apparel's board of directors).
50 Cent stated that he related to the book "immediately," and approached Greene with the prospect of a potential collaboration, which would later become The 50th Law, another New York Times bestseller. Busta Rhymes used The 48 Laws of Power to deal with problematic movie producers. DJ Premier has a tattoo inspired from Law #5, "Reputation is the cornerstone of power", on his arm and DJ Calvin Harris has an "Enter with boldness" arm tattoo based on Law #28.  The 48 Laws of Power has also been mentioned in songs by Jay Z, Kanye West, and Drake.  Former Cuban President Fidel Castro is also reported to have read the book


Hip-Hop Bible: '48 Laws of Power'

 

THE 48 LAWS OF POWER
· Law 1 Never Outshine the Master
· Law 2 Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies
· Law 3 Conceal your Intentions
· Law 4 Always Say Less than Necessary
· Law 5 So Much Depends on Reputation – Guard it with your Life
· Law 6 Court Attention at all Cost
· Law 7 Get others to do the Work for you, but Always Take the Credit
· Law 8 Make other People come to you – use Bait if Necessary
· Law 9 Win through your Actions, Never through Argument
· Law 10 Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky
· Law 11 Learn to Keep People Dependent on You
· Law 12 Use Selective Honesty and Generosity to Disarm your Victim
· Law 13 When Asking for Help, Appeal to People’s Self-Interest, Never to their Mercy or Gratitude
· Law 14 Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy
· Law 15 Crush your Enemy Totally
· Law 16 Use Absence to Increase Respect and Honor
· Law 17 Keep Others in Suspended Terror: Cultivate an Air of Unpredictability
· Law 18 Do Not Build Fortresses to Protect Yourself – Isolation is Dangerous
· Law 19 Know Who You’re Dealing with – Do Not Offend the Wrong Person
· Law 20 Do Not Commit to Anyone
· Law 21 Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker – Seem Dumber than your Mark
· Law 22 Use the Surrender Tactic: Transform Weakness into Power
· Law 23 Concentrate Your Forces
· Law 24 Play the Perfect Courtier
· Law 25 Re-Create Yourself
· Law 26 Keep Your Hands Clean
· Law 27 Play on People’s Need to Believe to Create a Cultlike Following
· Law 28 Enter Action with Boldness
· Law 29 Plan All the Way to the End
· Law 30 Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless
· Law 31 Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal
· Law 32 Play to People’s Fantasies
· Law 33 Discover Each Man’s Thumbscrew
· Law 34 Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated like one
· Law 35 Master the Art of Timing
· Law 36 Disdain Things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best Revenge
· Law 37 Create Compelling Spectacles
· Law 38 Think as you like but Behave like others
· Law 39 Stir up Waters to Catch Fish
· Law 40 Despise the Free Lunch
· Law 41 Avoid Stepping into a Great Man’s Shoes
· Law 42 Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter
· Law 43 Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others
· Law 44 Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect
· Law 45 Preach the Need for Change, but Never Reform too much at Once
· Law 46 Never appear too Perfect
· Law 47 Do not go Past the Mark you Aimed for; In Victory, Learn when to Stop
· Law 48 Assume Formlessness

50 Cent joined force with the author of the 48 Laws of Power to create his own version, the 50th Law.

Ten Concepts of Fearlessness

1. See Things For What They Are (Intense Realism)
2. Make Everything Your Own (Self-Reliance)
3. Turn Shit Into Sugar (Opportunism)
4. Keep Moving (Calculated Momentum)
5. Know When To Be Bad (Aggression)
6. Lead From The Front (Authority)
7. Know Your Environment From The Inside Out (Connection)
8. Respect The Process (Mastery)
9. Push Beyond Your Limits (Self-Belief)
10. Confront Your Mortality (The Sublime)

The street wise Pimpin' Ken version of the 48 Law of Power.

A book that I read and re-read, I really enjoy this book.

In life you are either the pimp or the ho.  No in between.

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http://blackartemis.blogspot.ca/2006/07/48-laws-of-oppression.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-greene-and-50-cents-50th-law-2012-5?op=1
http://www.slideshare.net/RobertGreene/the-50th-law-10-lessons-in-fearlessness
http://therawness.com/48-laws-of-pimping/

 

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Pink Floyd - The Wall (full album)

Pink Floyd - The Wall album is the greatest mystery of Heavy Metal music.  Heavy Metal music since so many Metalheads loves Pink Floyd and this boring album.  I can't believe it!  Maybe it's the dope factor, like seeing walking hammers after smokin' hash?!?  I don't know? 

I've tried to understand but I can't. I will probably never know why so many Metalheads loves Pink Floyd.  Their extremely dull and soporific music is an hundred miles away from being Metal and Metalheads still love this shit.  I will surely get a lot of haters by saying those sacrilegeous words against Pink Floyd since everybody love Pink Floyd.  Maybe I'm the exception who confirms the rule.

Pink Floyd The Wall full album 

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1979)

1.In The Flesh?
2. The Thin Ice
3. Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1
4. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
5. Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
6. Mother
7. Goodbye Blue Sky
8. Empty Spaces
9. Young Lust
10. One Of My Turns
11. Don't Leave Me Now
12. Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3
13. Goodbye Cruel World
14. Hey You
15.Is There Anybody Out There?
16.Nobody Home
17. Vera
18.Bring The Boys Back Home
19.Comfortably Numb
20. The Show Must Go On
21.In The Flesh
22. Run Like Hell
23.Waiting For The Worms
24.Stop
25.The Trial
26.Outside The Wall

Twisted Sister - Burn In Hell (Official banned Music Video)

Excellent song, questionable video. Just to proove you that Twisted Sister is much more than metal pop songs and cheesy make-up.

Now let's talk about the video... This is the Official banned Music Video from "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure". For those who are fortunate enough to not knowing, Pee-Wee Herman is a stupid faggot, closet paedophile man-child. And the movie is about him running across the US to find his super, modified cheesy bicycle who was stolen at the beginning of this silly film.

No wonder the video was banned, since "Burn In Hell" is such a dark, heavy song for a child comedy. In addition, at the time, Twisted Sister and Heavy Metal music were seen as the Mother of All Evil.

TWISTER SISTER - BURN IN HELL (lyrics)

Welcome to the abandoned land

Come on in child, take my hand
Here there's no work or play
Only one bill to pay
There's just five words to say
As you go down, down, down

you gonna burn in hell
Oh, burn in hell

You can't believe all the things i've done wrong in my life
Without even trying i've lived on the edge of a knife
Well, i've played with fire, but i don't want to get myself burned
To thine own self be true, so i think that it's time for a turn

Before I burn in hell
Oh, burn in hell

Take a good look in your heart, tell me what do you see?
It's black and it's dark, now is that how you want it to be?
It's up to you, what you do will decide your own fate
Make your choice now for tomorrow may be far too late

And then you'll burn in hell
Hear no evil, don't you
See no evil, don't you
(Oh, burn in hell)
Lay no evil down on me
You're gonna burn in hell
Speak no evil, don't you
Think no evil, don't you
(Oh, burn in hell)
Play with evil, 'cause i'm free

Hear no evil, don't you
See no evil, don't you
Lay no evil down on me
You're gonna burn in hell
Speak no evil, don't you
Think no evil, don't you
Play with evil, 'cause i'm free
You're gonna burn in hell
Hear no evil, don't you
See no evil, don't you
Lay no evil down on me
You're gonna burn in hell
Speak no evil, don't you
Think no evil, don't you
Play with evil, 'cause i'm free
You're gonna burn in hell

Hear no evil, don't you see no evil
(Oh, burn in hell)
don't you lay no evil down on me
You're gonna burn in hell
Speak no evil, don't you think no evil,
(Oh, burn in hell)
Don't you play with evil, 'cause i'm free
You're gonna burn in hell
Hear no evil, don't you see no evil
(oh, burn in hell)
Don't you lay no evil down on me
You're gonna burn in hell

Metal Church - Watch the children pray

Metal Church - Watch the Children Pray (Official Video)

Metal Church - Watch the children pray (lyrics)

Songwriters: CARNELL, DAVID WAYNE / WELLS, CRAIG STEPHEN / VANDERHOOF, KURDT YORK

In a darkened graveyard glows a light.
I see it shine there every night.
I know somewhere there's a hidden door.
There's an answer here we must explore.

No, I'll not submit to reason.
I'll sit and watch the seasons change.

We watch the children pray.
Save us God today,
Come whatever may.

We hold our fate and make the choice,
But we'll not listen to that still small voice.
Are we just crazy, out of our minds?
Wish this were someplace, another time.

We watch the children pray.
Save us God today,
Come whatever may.

And I know we're going
So far away from this wretched life we lead.
With open arms meet catastrophe,
In the valley of the damned we'll be.

And I know we're going
So far away from this wretched life we lead.
With open arms meet catastrophe,
In the valley of the damned we'll be.

We watch the children pray.
Save us God today,
Come whatever may.

And now to life we say goodbye.
I know the when but not the why.
Our nation's blood spills on the ground.
Our lives go out without a sound.

 

 

 

Jethro Tull Heavy Metal

Listen to the Heaviest Album Of All Time

Jethro Tull - Crest Of A Knave

The Academy recognized hard rock music artists for the first time in 1989 under the category Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental, combining two of the most popular music genres of the 1980s.  Jethro Tull was given that award for the album Crest of a Knave, beating Metallica, who were expected to win with the album ...And Justice for All and critics' choice Nothing's Shocking (Jane's Addiction).



The flute is a heavy, metal instrument.

Jethro Tull 's flute is more heavy metal than Metallica.

It's like saying that Rosie O'Donnell is hotter than Pamela Anderson!!

Jethro Tull vs. Metallica at Grammys Jethro Tull wins grammy for best metal album in 1897. They top off their win with a performance at the grammys. How a retard standing on one leg with a flute can beat Metallica in an Heavy Metal contest?

 In 1992, when Metallica finally won the Grammy in the category, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich joked, "First thing we're going to do is thank Jethro Tull for not putting out an album this year."

 Jethro Tull-Dharma For One (Isle Of Wight Live 1970)  

Paul Cripple thinks this shit is Heavy Metal suitable for Punk rock consumption?!? Who the fuck is Paul Cripple? I don't know!



 

 

 

 

What was considered Heavy Metal in the 70s isn't necessary considered Metal today...