Joey BadA$$ Aims For 'Something Greater' On Debut Mixtape

'I'm just stressing myself out trying to do something amazing,' Joey BadA$$ tells Mixtape Daily of his upcoming debut mixtape 1999.
By Rob Markman

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Fire Starter: Joey BadA$$
As a youngster, Brooklyn MC Joey BadA$$ was baffled by Nas' 1994 classic Illmatic. The iconic album cover featured a childhood photo of the then 20-year-old God's Son. "I seen him as a kid and I thought he was a kid rapping, I was just confused," Joey told Mixtape Daily. After all, how can a kid that young deliver such impactful and insightful records like "Life's a Bitch" and "The World Is Yours"?

Somewhere along the way, Joey's initial confusion must have led to some sort of inspiration, because at 17 years old, he has already delivered a single that seems to surpass the subject matter of other spitters in his age bracket. The militant-minded "Survival Tactics," borrows its instrumental from the 1998 Styles of Beyond song of the same name. Joey impressively starts out spitting, "N---as don't want war, I'ma Martian with an army of Spartans/ Sparring with a knife in a missile fight."

The track's gritty video shows Joey and his partner-in-rhyme Capital STEEZ marching from their grimey Brooklyn hood to Wall Street while wearing animal masks and army jackets. On March 21, MTV News featured Joey on the Get in the Game segment of "RapFix Live." After previewing a portion of the "Survival Tactics" video, members of Odd Future agreed that Joey "can rap," even if a disruptive Tyler, the Creator downplayed the quality of the visuals. Expecting some pushback from the renegade group, Joey came out of the gate hurling insults at OF producer Left Brain, and Left Brain fired back. The incident was billed as beef on media websites and message boards, but Joey writes it off merely as playful banter. "I felt like that was set up," Joey told MTV News. "I felt like y'all tried to set us up for beef."

Still, it has been all love for Joey, who is currently in his junior year at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn. Joey BadA$$ says that he's been rapping since the womb and credits his parents' affinity for hip-hop with shaping his musical tastes. "I was 2 years old and I knew the whole Biggie 'Hypnotize' song," he boasted.

Influenced by the likes of the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac, Joey began to take rapping seriously as he got older. Now he is the stand-out among his Progressive Era crew, a collective of 18 rappers, producers, graphic designers and studio engineers. The young man's buzz even caught the attention of Mac Miller, who featured Joey on "America," a track off of his recently released Macadelic mixtape.

All this and Joey hasn't even dropped his first mixtape, though he estimates that 1999 will come shortly. The recent attention has him ready to step up. "Now I feel like I gotta give them something greater," he said. "I'm just stressing myself out trying to do something amazing."

What are you expecting to hear on Joey Bada$$'s debut mixtape? Leave your comment below.

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The role of physics in the sinking of the Titanic

ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2012) ? A century on from the sinking of the Titanic, science writer Richard Corfield takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the "unsinkable" ship, taking into account the maths and physics that played a significant part. His article appears in April's issue of Physics World and online in physicsworld.com, a website of the Institute of Physics.

At 11.40 p.m. on Sunday 14 April 1912 the Titanic, bound from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg just off the coast of Newfoundland and became fully submerged within three hours, before dropping four kilometres to the bottom of the Atlantic.

There have been many stories recounting why the ship struck the iceberg and why two-thirds of the passengers and crew lost their lives: the lack of lifeboats; the absence of binoculars in the crow's nest; the shortcomings of the radio operator. However, in this article, Corfield takes a more in-depth look at the structural deficiencies of the ship and how these contributed to its demise.

Corfield highlights the work of two metallurgists, Tim Foecke and Jennifer Hooper McCarty, who combined their own analysis with historical records from the shipyard in Belfast where the Titanic was built and found that the rivets that held the ship?s hull together were not uniform in composition or quality and not been inserted in a uniform fashion.

This meant that, in practice, the region of the Titanic's hull that hit the iceberg was substantially weaker than the main body of the ship Foecke and McCarty speculate that the poorer-quality materials were used as a cost-cutting exercise.

As well as the actual make-up of the ship, it also appears that the climate thousands of miles away from where the ship actually sunk may have had a hand in events. At times when the weather is warmer than usual in the Caribbean, the Gulf Stream intersects with the glacier-carrying Labrador Current in the North Atlantic in such a way that icebergs are aligned to form a barrier of ice.

In 1912 the Caribbean experienced an unusually hot summer and so the Gulf Stream was particularly intense; the Titanic hit the iceberg right at the intersection of the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current.

"No one thing sent the Titanic to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rather, the ship was ensnared by a perfect storm of circumstances that conspired her to doom," writes Corfield.

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How Astrology Influences Your Love Life | California Psychics Blog

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Have you ever noticed that the Sun and Venus are almost always in the same sign ? or at the very least in adjoining signs? That?s because Venus is the closest planet to the Sun, and together they make a big impact on your natal chart. In fact, beyond the sign in which they each reside in your chart, their placement in relation to each other at the time of your birth contributes to the ease (or difficulty) with which you will pursue your own highest good in life, not to mention how that pursuit affects others. In other words, since Venus influences your relationship to love and the Sun presides over your relationship with yourself (ego), it?s via this aspect that these two areas of your life are intertwined.

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Gay Catholic activist dismayed at church campaign | MGN: Miami ...

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By Timothy McDonald

Updated March 30, 2012 20:22:06

A gay Catholic activist and author says the church should get its own house in order instead of throwing resources at an anti-gay marriage campaign.

Victoria?s Catholic bishops are trying to mobilise their parishioners against the two bills before Federal Parliament that would change the definition of marriage.

The church will circulate 80,000 letters urging Catholics to make their views known on the gay marriage debate.

The Bishop of Sale, Christopher Prowse, says marriage is a sacred institution that government should not tinker with.

?This has served us well for a basis of security and happiness in society,? he said.

?We do feel that the bills before Federal Parliament as the year goes on seek to redefine marriage as we know it and this is a very serious matter for us.?

But his argument has left some gay Catholics unimpressed, including Michael Bernard Kelly.

Mr Kelly is the author of a book about the gay experience within the Christian faith and was the spokesman for the gay Catholic activist group Rainbow Sash.

He says Victoria?s bishops are out of step with most of the Australian population and many Catholics.

?The Catholic hierarchy also has a lot of housekeeping of its own to do in terms of dealing with issues of sexuality and power before it starts trying to tell gay people or society as a whole what it should be doing,? he said.

The bishops say their position implies no lack of respect for people who identify as gay or lesbian, but Mr Kelly says that is disingenuous.

?I think to say on one hand that they respect and love gay and lesbian people, and on the other hand that our relationships potentially damage the institution of marriage and damage society, is really quite offensive,? he said.

And he has described as ?limited? the letter?s assertion that gay marriage is not possible because it separates marriage from its grounding in biology.

?I think it is a very limited view. I mean marriage clearly means a lot of things in contemporary society,? he said.

?The church itself accepts that couples who are infertile or who are very elderly can still be married and have loving sex.

?If that is the case, why can?t two women who love one another marry have loving sex?

?This idea that somehow because this bit fits there in a man and a woman, that somehow that is what should determine how society constructs its legal recognition of marriage, I think is almost infantile.

?We have to look beyond that to the quality of relationships.?

Own terms

Mr Kelly says he accepts that all religions have the right to offer sacraments and rituals on their own terms.

?I think there is no question that government should not in any sense be requiring any religious body to conduct any form of religious ritual that they don?t believe they should conduct, including same-sex marriage,? he said.

?However, there is also plenty of religious groups that do want to conduct same sex marriages.

?Some parts of reform Judaism and certainly many liberal Christian groups want to conduct same sex marriages as a matter of their religious perspective.

?They should have that right too and certainly society and the government should not be requiring churches to offer same-sex marriages.

?But we can certainly have civil marriage and we can certainly allow religious bodies that do want to conduct same-sex marriages to go ahead and conduct them. What?s the problem??

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