Well guys, this is the first blog I've made in a while, but I am excited because I just bought a new blackberry pearl 8110 off of ebay. The thing is though, I went into AT&T and made it prepaid. I don't feel like paying 30 extra bucks a month for some data plan BS. On top of that, it's much better than my old tracfone. The worker who set it up didn't think it would be able to send MMS or picture messages because it doesn't have a data plan. I was gonna put that to the test for sure.

1st Impressions: well it looks great, I'll definitely have some class when I make calls from now on. The menu is nice, not to cluttered, and the camera works fine. It won't let me record video until I get a micro sd card, but that can wait. Oh, here's a picture:

My next quest into the phone was to find out if it could 1. go online 2. send MMS (picture messages).

After about 10 minutes I had sent 3 MMS and just watched a youtube video. Problem is, the video costed about 7 bucks of my prepaid minutes. I also tried the voice dialing system, which is AWESOME, because I've never had a phone that could do that before.

This is probably not the best blog I've ever written, but oh well, I have a blackberry and I'm pretty pumped. No more "wow that phone looks pretty sh*tty dude" or anything like that *hopefully*. I'm cool now, and that's all that matters. I really need to start making more blogs, I just don't have the time.

Track Listing

1. "Intro"

2. "Still On The Grind" feat. Raheem DeVaughn

3. "Everybody Wanna Ball"

4. "Feelin' You"

5. "The Pimp & The Bun" feat. Ron Isley

6. "She Luv It"

7. "7th Street Interlude"

8. "Swishas & Erb" feat. Sleepy Brown

9. "Purse Come First" feat. Big Gipp

10. "Harry **** feat. Webbie and Lil' Boosie

11. "Used To Be" feat. E-40, B. Legit and 8Ball & MJG

12. "Steal Your Mind" feat. Too $hort and Snoop Dogg

13. "Texas Ave Interlude"

14. "Hard As Hell" feat. Akon

15. "Da Game Been Good To Me"

16. "Outro"

I'll start right off by saying this is, so far, the best release of 2009 hip hop music in my opinion. With awesome production and solid flow/lyrics by Pimp and Bun, this album has everything there is to like about UGK. The bad part is, with Pimp C gone, I doubt we'll see another album of this caliber be released for a long time.

Most of the songs have solid, well thought out production that I can bump in my car or just relax to. "Swishas & Erb" is my personal favorite track on the album, and has an awesome hook from a Society of Soul sample, and is the perfect song to chill to. Tracks like "Steal Your Mind" are awesome to play loud and just have a good time listening to. The singles released thus far, "Hard As Hell", and "Da Game Been Good To Me" are average yet still solid, and the former is the only song I skip on the album.

To wrap things up; if you're looking for some real, no BS hip hop, this is definitely something you should at least check out. It's too bad it's been put under the spotlight behind weak emcees like Asher Roth and Flo Rida, though they still put in work, just not like UGK. This is a real banger, so check it out already!

my next blog entry brings me to shooters-and the fact that ones over 3 years old are pretty much dead.

Shooters may be the most popular genre of gaming out right now, and they certainly dominate online play. But the problem is, why are the ones that aren't brand new never played? How come I can't go back and play Goldeneye or MOH Frontline? They suck compared to shooters nowadays. You can't really argue with that.

I often play old games such as Pac Man and many old "classic" RPG's. Those games are still playable, because even after all these years, there hasn't been much improvement in those genres. Sure, the graphics are better, but with turn-based RPG's and strategy games, the gameplay is the same as it always was. But with shooters that's not the case. Gameplay, as well as almost every other aspect of shooters has drastically improved in the past 5 years. This fact has made shooters older than virtually unplayable.

While MOH Frontline was and still is one of my favorite games, it is terrible compared to modern shooters like Gears of War and Call of Duty 4. Why? Because they've improved so much.

And the reason why I think shooters have improved and changed so much over older games in the same genre versus RPG's and arcade games is because they're so popular. RPG's always have a following, but they have never been quite as popular as shooters. And because of that, the way we play them hasn't changed much-there hasn't been as much work involved in developing them. Unlike shooters, since they're so popular, a lot of money and effort is spent in improving and designing them.

Simply put: shooters are improving, and will continue to do so as long as they stay popular. And because of that, older shooters that were once great and fun to play are left in the dust as new technology arises. I guess it's a double-edged sword.