Usher Makes A Comeback With "Climax"

     For anyone that doubted Usher Raymond and his hiatus from the music world, the answer is clear. Usher is back, and is still reigning as the R&B King. With his new song and video "Climax" Usher is making major statements with his new piece. 

     The song speaks on the point in a relationship where two people believe that they cannot move on. They are stuck at the "climax". They have moved on from the honeymoon phase and have been through the highs and the lows of every relationship, but now don't know where to good. The video leaves itself to a lot of open interpretation, so take a look and see if you can see the message of the piece. 

The Home Stretch... It's Not A Game.

Hey Now.  

     It's crunch time for the American College student. The "home stretch" of the academic school year. The last few weeks to make the grades count and get the last ounce of partying out of one's system before the journey home and the summer begins. For my fellow Owls, Temple University is closing in on it's final hours. Spring Fling 2012 has come and gone, and the final week of classes is around the corner. Students are booking breakout rooms in the Tech Center, and final projects and papers are causing headaches campus wide. And as I look around and move along from class to class, I realize something... What the HELL are we rushing for? If you ask me (and you don't have to because I will tell you anyway), we should be enjoying these final moments.

     Take the frist year college freshman. We (yes, I will include myself with my graduating class on this one) are feeling pretty accomplished and most of us will be returning in the fall. We did what they told us we couldn't: survive the first year of the college experience. Our grades are fairly good if not excellent, and we are ready to run home and rub it in the faces of the people that told us that we would fail. But we cannot forget the fact that even if we are ready to run back home to the lives that we have set in stone back home, we have new lives that we have to prepare to maintain when we return back to school in the fall. The real question is... will we be able to keep it up? Will the lives we have at home and the world we want at college become one. Or we will we torn and pull to two very different directions for the next three years of our lives. We won't know until the fall.

    So enjoy it all now, before you look up and the party is over and real life begins.

                Until We Meet Again,
                           Letters To Cuba

Blue Light Music Spotlight

This Month's Blue Light Music Artist Spotlight...

Childish Gambino

     You may know him as Donald Glover, the witty comedian who bring life to shows such as Community, but the music world is quickly getting to know another side of this NBC funny man. And that side is Childish Gambino. 

     Born Donald McKinley Glover on September, 25, 1983,  he began his venture into the "business" as a writer for the The Daily Show  and 30 Rock, before venturing on screen to the NBC-Universal Show Community. But as he stacked up in his acting career, Gambino was hard at work in 2008 producing mix tapes such as Sic Boy and kept the music coming with Poindexter, I Am Just A Rapper and I Am Just A Rapper 2. While underground music lovers were hot on his trail, Gambino become mainstream with his remix of the popular Kanye West song "All Of The Lights" which he entitles Break (ATOL). After that, the same Childish Gambino was heard all around the US, and he was given praise for her third work Culdesac  and the EP Be Alone. Recently, Gambino has gotten hype for his newest album Camp which is slowly but surely becoming one of my favorite album, just as Childish Gambino is becoming one of my favorite rappers. Check out his website (childishgambino.blogspot.com) and get a taste of Gambino for yourself.