More Than Rap: Gay Rights

By Danielle Cramberg Rapper Macklemore wrote a song titled “Same Love” that advocates for his audience that is either gay or supportive of gay rights. “If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me.. Have you read the Youtube comments lately?” He addresses the negative attitude toward homosexuals in society, especially in the hip-hop…

More Than Rap: Education

By Danielle Cramberg Young people desperately seeking someone who understands them often turn to music to feel accepted. School causes genuine distress for many students enrolled, a concept Propaganda addresses in his song Bored of Education. “All I’ve learned from your system is that it’s just the system that you set up.” The focus of…

More Than Rap: Police Brutality

By Danielle Cramberg The Game wrote a song titled ‘Don’t Shoot’ that covered a topic that really hit home for many listeners: police brutality. Police brutality is a common theme throughout rap, but this new song specifically addresses current examples of police brutality that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri. “We gotta stick together, we all we…

More Than Rap: An Introduction

By Danielle Cramberg When people think of rap and hip-hop, a few things come to mind: women, cars, money. Most assume that rappers make music for the money and the fame. Not everyone realizes the influence that rap can have, nor the powerful messages it may send. The popularity of rap gives it the power…

Ice Bucket Challenge: A Good Cause or Just a Good Hashtag

By Danielle Cramberg Visit any type of social media account and there is a very large chance a video of someone pouring a bucket of ice cold water over themselves and nominating their closest friends to do the same pops up. But, what many people don’t realize (or thoroughly understand) is that it’s in the…

Trapped in the Friend Zone: The Point of No Return

By Danielle Cramberg  Every teenager, at one point or another, has experienced a crush on someone else. Generally, crushes just end up as potential heartbreaks waiting to happen, thus causing most crushes to remain secret crushes. If you find out your crush doesn’t reciprocate your feelings, it’ll crush you. And you’ll spend the next few…

Spring Break!

By Danielle Cramberg After Christmas break, most students start the new nine weeks by counting down until spring break. Students are already trying to push through and get to summer. Spring break is different for everyone. Many people use it as an excuse to pack up and go spend the week at whatever beach is…

February 14th: Single Awareness Day

By Danielle Cramberg Walking down the hallways on an average day, most single people see couples that they grow to resent; couples that giggle and grin like idiots in one another’s presence. Often, these “Single Pringles” get stuck behind a couple that is determined to both walk slowly and hold hands, making it impossible to…

Video Game Evolution

By Danielle Cramberg Xbox one. PlayStation 4. Wii. These are modern game systems that everyone knows and loves. Granted, most people love one more than the others, but they are all common. The newest generation has grown up with PlayStation and Xbox’s high quality gaming. But, it didn’t start out with such high quality gaming….

New Year’s Eve

By Danielle Cramberg New Year’s Eve is, in theory, a time of personal improvement and celebrating surviving another year. Unfortunately, this is no longer the prime basis for New Year’s Eve. Many people use New Year’s Eve as another excuse to indulge in their need to party, striving for alcohol poisoning as if that were…