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IStrokeItDaily69

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Shavi Masee said:
Your reply on my profile board is making me self conscious every time I go to react/reply to someone within the first 10 min T-T


(u better not reply to this with 'ok')
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I been movin' calm, don't start no trouble with me
Tryna keep it peaceful is a struggle for me
Don't pull up at 6 AM to cuddle with me
You know how I like it when you lovin' on me
I don't wanna die for them to miss me
Yes, I see the things that they wishin' on me
Hope I got some brothers that outlive me
They gon' tell the story, shit was different with me
God's plan, God's plan
I hold back, sometimes I won't, yeah
I feel good, sometimes I don't, ayy, don't
I finessed down Weston Road, ayy, 'nessed
Might go down a G-O-D, yeah, wait
I go hard on Southside G, yeah, Way
I make sure that north side eat
And still
Bad things
It's a lot of bad things
That they wishin' and wishin' and wishin' and wishin'
They wishin' on me
Bad things
It's a lot of bad things
That they wishin' and wishin' and wishin' and wishin'
They wishin' on me
Yeah, ayy, ayy (ayy)
She say, "Do you love me?" I tell her, "Only partly
I only love my bed and my momma, I'm sorry"
Fifty Dub, I even got it tatted on me
81, they'll bring the crashers to the party
And you know me
Turn the O2 into the O3, dog
Without 40, Oli', there'd be no me
'Magine if I never met the broskis
God's plan, God's plan
I can't do this on my own, ayy, no, ayy
Someone watchin' this shit close, yep, close
I've been me since Scarlett Road, ayy, road, ayy
Might go down as G-O-D, yeah, wait
I go hard on Southside G, ayy, Way
I make sure that north side eat, yuh
And still
Bad things
It's a lot of bad things
That they wishin' and wishin' and wishin' and wishin'
They wishin' on me
Yeah, yeah
Bad things
It's a lot of bad things
That they wishin' and wishin' and wishin' and wishin'
They wishin' on me
Yeah
 
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hellowellohehe said:
phys, chem, 3u math
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zhangs (y9-11, for junior sciences and then phys and chem)
  • for y9 and y10 science content it is a complete waste of money in my opinion bc they attempt to teach you a little bits and pieces of y11 and 12 content instead (i was taught y12 organic chem and y12 motor effect for phys), which you dont have the proper foundations to learn at that stage. you're better off just listening in science class at school genuinely speaking
  • for y11 chem and phys it is quite good, especially if you pick a good teacher (you can switch classes to see who you like better and stuff). kids from top selective schools swear by it pretty much bc they have challenging content and the teaching is quite thorough
  • i dont go there anymore because of it being too time consuming to go in person. i went online for a term but i just prefer going in person.
  • people might slander me for this but i found that the questions were very very specific. don't get me wrong, they weren't bad, but i found that often the types of questions i got in school tests or on past hsc papers were different to the zhangs questions. this is bc often they have less of a focus on content that they believe to be "too easy" and use really niche parts of the content to challenge you. this is not a bad thing but its not for me personally i want to see a broader range of question types addressing even a lot of the easier topics so it is good practice for school
  • their lesson notes can sometimes be lacking in comparison to other tutoring centres imo
ive only just had a trial lesson with ace hsc for chem and i like it, personally i found that their questions are good and they are pretty comprehensive with going through content and i really like the question types. i also like how i can see which specific dot point of the syllabus they are going through

kurts mathematics centre (y7- midway through y11)
  • hard to get into unless youre already smart
  • makes you want to die
  • ruins your self esteem
  • incredible questions - he essentially gets them from thsc papers from the past 30 or so years (baulko, ruse, nsb, nsg papers mostly) and then cambridge textbook enrichment questions
  • makes you spend so much time on maths you have no time to do other shit
  • so much homework - you get a lot of practise
  • atar = 99.95 + life, so if you want a 99.95, life=0
  • no fucking windows, feels like a dungeon
  • the air con is in antarctic temperatures in peak winter
  • traumatising
  • detentions if you fail the biweekly tests (ppl that can consistently get 60%+ can expect to band 6 e1, thats reflective of how hard they are)
dr du (midway through y11 - now)
  • i only go to maths tutoring for the questions lowkey bc i grasp concepts really easily and i dont need like a whole lecture on things, i prefer to spam questions - so they do yap a lot more than i would prefer but it is good yap if you need explanation to understand concepts
  • ranked classes (in descending order: a1, a2, a3, b): the higher ranked your class, the more homework/practise you get
  • in y12 if you are not in a1 or a2 its not worth your money imo bc you get wayy less questions and its not enough
  • weekly quizzes on the previous week's content - motivates you to keep on top of your work on a more regular basis
  • overall pretty good i like it
 
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iloveeggs said:
zhangs (y9-11, for junior sciences and then phys and chem)
  • for y9 and y10 science content it is a complete waste of money in my opinion bc they attempt to teach you a little bits and pieces of y11 and 12 content instead (i was taught y12 organic chem and y12 motor effect for phys), which you dont have the proper foundations to learn at that stage. you're better off just listening in science class at school genuinely speaking
  • for y11 chem and phys it is quite good, especially if you pick a good teacher (you can switch classes to see who you like better and stuff). kids from top selective schools swear by it pretty much bc they have challenging content and the teaching is quite thorough
  • i dont go there anymore because of it being too time consuming to go in person. i went online for a term but i just prefer going in person.
  • people might slander me for this but i found that the questions were very very specific. don't get me wrong, they weren't bad, but i found that often the types of questions i got in school tests or on past hsc papers were different to the zhangs questions. this is bc often they have less of a focus on content that they believe to be "too easy" and use really niche parts of the content to challenge you. this is not a bad thing but its not for me personally i want to see a broader range of question types addressing even a lot of the easier topics so it is good practice for school
  • their lesson notes can sometimes be lacking in comparison to other tutoring centres imo
ive only just had a trial lesson with ace hsc for chem and i like it, personally i found that their questions are good and they are pretty comprehensive with going through content and i really like the question types. i also like how i can see which specific dot point of the syllabus they are going through

kurts mathematics centre (y7- midway through y11)
  • hard to get into unless youre already smart
  • makes you want to die
  • ruins your self esteem
  • incredible questions - he essentially gets them from thsc papers from the past 30 or so years (baulko, ruse, nsb, nsg papers mostly) and then cambridge textbook enrichment questions
  • makes you spend so much time on maths you have no time to do other shit
  • so much homework - you get a lot of practise
  • atar = 99.95 + life, so if you want a 99.95, life=0
  • no fucking windows, feels like a dungeon
  • the air con is in antarctic temperatures in peak winter
  • traumatising
  • detentions if you fail the biweekly tests (ppl that can consistently get 60%+ can expect to band 6 e1, thats reflective of how hard they are)
dr du (midway through y11 - now)
  • i only go to maths tutoring for the questions lowkey bc i grasp concepts really easily and i dont need like a whole lecture on things, i prefer to spam questions - so they do yap a lot more than i would prefer but it is good yap if you need explanation to understand concepts
  • ranked classes (in descending order: a1, a2, a3, b): the higher ranked your class, the more homework/practise you get
  • in y12 if you are not in a1 or a2 its not worth your money imo bc you get wayy less questions and its not enough
  • weekly quizzes on the previous week's content - motivates you to keep on top of your work on a more regular basis
  • overall pretty good i like it
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geeked
 
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iloveeggs said:
zhangs (y9-11, for junior sciences and then phys and chem)
  • for y9 and y10 science content it is a complete waste of money in my opinion bc they attempt to teach you a little bits and pieces of y11 and 12 content instead (i was taught y12 organic chem and y12 motor effect for phys), which you dont have the proper foundations to learn at that stage. you're better off just listening in science class at school genuinely speaking
  • for y11 chem and phys it is quite good, especially if you pick a good teacher (you can switch classes to see who you like better and stuff). kids from top selective schools swear by it pretty much bc they have challenging content and the teaching is quite thorough
  • i dont go there anymore because of it being too time consuming to go in person. i went online for a term but i just prefer going in person.
  • people might slander me for this but i found that the questions were very very specific. don't get me wrong, they weren't bad, but i found that often the types of questions i got in school tests or on past hsc papers were different to the zhangs questions. this is bc often they have less of a focus on content that they believe to be "too easy" and use really niche parts of the content to challenge you. this is not a bad thing but its not for me personally i want to see a broader range of question types addressing even a lot of the easier topics so it is good practice for school
  • their lesson notes can sometimes be lacking in comparison to other tutoring centres imo
ive only just had a trial lesson with ace hsc for chem and i like it, personally i found that their questions are good and they are pretty comprehensive with going through content and i really like the question types. i also like how i can see which specific dot point of the syllabus they are going through

kurts mathematics centre (y7- midway through y11)
  • hard to get into unless youre already smart
  • makes you want to die
  • ruins your self esteem
  • incredible questions - he essentially gets them from thsc papers from the past 30 or so years (baulko, ruse, nsb, nsg papers mostly) and then cambridge textbook enrichment questions
  • makes you spend so much time on maths you have no time to do other shit
  • so much homework - you get a lot of practise
  • atar = 99.95 + life, so if you want a 99.95, life=0
  • no fucking windows, feels like a dungeon
  • the air con is in antarctic temperatures in peak winter
  • traumatising
  • detentions if you fail the biweekly tests (ppl that can consistently get 60%+ can expect to band 6 e1, thats reflective of how hard they are)
dr du (midway through y11 - now)
  • i only go to maths tutoring for the questions lowkey bc i grasp concepts really easily and i dont need like a whole lecture on things, i prefer to spam questions - so they do yap a lot more than i would prefer but it is good yap if you need explanation to understand concepts
  • ranked classes (in descending order: a1, a2, a3, b): the higher ranked your class, the more homework/practise you get
  • in y12 if you are not in a1 or a2 its not worth your money imo bc you get wayy less questions and its not enough
  • weekly quizzes on the previous week's content - motivates you to keep on top of your work on a more regular basis
  • overall pretty good i like it
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omg thank u so much u angel im in debt to u 🙏😍😍 im thinking about going to zhangs for yr 11 content in chem js to stay ahead of everyone

crazy that they give u detentions bc im not paying allat jus to stay for longer even if the stuff is more challenging
 
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hellowellohehe said:
omg thank u so much u angel im in debt to u 🙏😍😍 im thinking about going to zhangs for yr 11 content in chem js to stay ahead of everyone

crazy that they give u detentions bc im not paying allat jus to stay for longer even if the stuff is more challenging
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yup zhangs is great make sure you ask in the tutoring forums for teacher reccommendations bc some of the teachers are top tier and others are not it imo

kurt is actually cheaper than dr du but for me the time committment was def not worth it, especially bc they already give us a lot of hw and if i fail on top of that im basically wasting a few days a week just on kurts shit.
 
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Kanye, despite his publicity stunts, is regarded by many as a kind, compassionate individual. He often talks to his fans, and from all accounts is genuinely interested in what they have to say, what their life is like, and what their goals are. This is somebody who for the past nine years has been public enemy number one. It would be easy for him to go into absolute seclusion, and bitterly resent everybody, but he doesn't. He has a passion behind what he does, and it reflects in his music. Rick Rubin regards Kanye as the most influential and groundbreaking artist in hip-hop at the moment. Paul McCartney regards Kanye as a genius. He has won the love and respect of anybody who genuinely takes an interest in his music (Which has won 21 grammy awards, might I add). Despite the VMA incident, Kanye and Taylor Swift are good friends, and Swift herself has a deep respect for Kanye as an artist.

Not to mention, the dude has not had it easy. He slaved for years as a producer before finally making his big break on the production for Jay-Z's Blueprint, with beats for Ain't No Love (Heart of the City) and I.Z.Z.O (Takeover). Despite his success as a producer, everybody told him he couldn't rap, and would never make it.

He eventually dropped College Dropout in 2004, reinventing the game with an album full of incredible soul-beats at a time where everybody was still trying to copy the G-Funk West Coast vibe Dr. Dre's 2001 had left. The album had smash hits like Through the Wire, where he rapped about his near-death experience in a car crash while STILL WEARING his reconstructive mouthgear; or his club-hit about Jesus in Jesus Walks, at a time where you weren't going to get anything religious on the radio unless you're on country/gospel station in the South.

Late Registration debuted 2005, with a completely fresh Soul sound, and featuring the talents of Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Nas, Jay-Z, and of course Jamie Foxx in his smash hit "Gold Digger". I don't care who you are, this song had everybody dancing and was played and still is played in every club from New York to Tokyo to Berlin. His other single "Diamonds From Sierra Lione" touched on the issues of Blood Diamonds and the exploitation of Africans by Africans

"Over here, its the drug trade - we die from drugs/ Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs".
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This album also has one of his most heart-felt songs Kanye has produced to date: "Hey Mama", his tribute to his mother Donda West, who raised him as single black mother in Chicago, with all the trials and tribulations that brought. The song is a beautiful display of a man who has a deepfound respect for the one who gave him everything.

"I was three years old when you and I moved to the Chi/ Late december, harsh winter gave me a cold/ You fixed me up something that was good for my soul/ Famous homemade chicken soup, can I have another bowl?/ You worked late nights just to keep on the lights/ Momma got the training wheels so I could keep on my bike/ ... and it don't gotta be mother's day/ or your birthday for me to just call and say: 'Mama!' I wanna scream so loud for you/ cause i'm so proud of you."
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2007 Kanye released Graduation. This was a completely new sound to his previous Soulful works. This had a heavy techno/EDM inspiration, from artists such as Daft Punk, in addition to the influence of House Music with its Chi-town origins. His hit song "Stronger", sampling the also famous Daft Punk song "Harder, Better, Faster" was played once again world-wide in every club from L.A. to London to Sydney. It was groundbreaking, as Kanye melded genres that nobody had been able to meld. He gave popularity to the Robotic Voice trope that many artists copy to this day, and re-purposed auto-tune. It was no longer for untalented hacks who couldn't sing: It was for artists who wanted to give a specific feel to their music.

Then by 2008, things really started going south for Kanye. His mother passed away due to complications with a cosmetic surgical operation, his relationship with his girlfriend was deteriorating, and he had a hatred of himself. It was in this despair and desperation that he produced his darkest work, "808s and Heartbreaks", which is essentially his thesis on pop music, providing us with an incredible set of pop beats, all of which were phenomenal, and embracing the cold, detached Robot Voice that he had popularized as a way of reflecting the depression and lack of joy and humanity he possessed. The album provided him an avenue to channel the dark times he was going through. The track "Coldest Winter" is directly about the passing of his mother, Donda

"It's 4am and I can't sleep/ Her love is all that I can see/ Memories made in the coldest winter/ goodbye my friend, will I ever love again/ If spring can take the snow away, can it wash away all our mistakes?/ Memories made in the coldest winter/ Goodbye my friend, I won't ever love again"
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Then, in 2010 Kanye releases his Magnum Opus, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Critically acclaimed and regarded by many as the greatest rap album of all time, this album blew everybody out of the water, with not a single bad track. It received the near impossible 10/10 rating by Pitchfork, putting it in the same league as "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Abbey Road" by the Beatles, "London Calling" by The Clash, and "Animals" by Pink Floyd. It was deeply self-reflexive, and in most senses a powerful declaration that he was not defeated, that he is in fact at the top of his game and that nothing can stop Yeezy season approaching. His song "Power" is nothing short of an inspiring, uplifting, empowering composition which firmly asserts that Kanye is back, and he does not give a flying fuck.

"Screams from the haters got a nice ring to it/ I guess every superhero need his theme music".
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His other single "All of the Lights" has a whopping fifteen extra artists, including Rihanna, Elton John, Fergie, Kid Cudi and many others. I could write a whole essay on Runaway, or Blame Game

Then, in 2013 Kanye released "Yeezus", a.k.a. ABSOLUTE GENIUS. It is his anti-hiphop album of harsh, grinding samples, and disjointed jarring beats that comes together and by no sense of reason create some beautifully profound music. He denounces the institutional racism of the DEA and the CCA in his controversial track "New Slaves". He mocks the hubris and egocentrism that everybody sees him as having in his track I am a God, which takes the absolute piss out of the modern man who considers himself a god, with the absurd line

"I am a God/ So hurry up with my damn croissants!"
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Kanye has stopped caring what people think about him a long time ago.

But that's not what makes the album ABSOLUTE GENIUS. It's the fact that the entire album is in fact an allegory depicting the Tragic fall of the "Yeezus" persona, going from absolute stardom and egotism with the strong, hard hitting, angry, egotistical tracks On Sight, Black Skinhead, I am a God, and New Slaves. Then, it shows the invevitable Tragic fall, like something straight from Aristotle himself: Hold My Liquor and I'm in it deal with Alcohol and Sex addiction in a way that shouts the typical social glorification of the Rockstar lifestyle, whilst robbing it of all its glory.

Blood on the Leaves is the climax of the album. He returns to the Robot Voice to show the detachment and emotionless state that his sinful ways have led him to, removing his humanity and making him a heartless, soulless machine. This song is the Anagnorisis of the album (Similar to when Oedipus realizes that he's married his mother in the Greek Tragedy). Yeezus has fallen low since he declared himself a god.

"Now you sittin' courtside, wifey on the other side/ Gotta keep 'em separated, I call that apartheid/ Then she said she impregnated, that's the night your heart died/ Then you gotta go and tell your girl and report that/ Main reason cause your pastor said you can't abort that/ Now your driver say that new Benz you can't afford that/ All that cocaine on the table you can't snort that/ That goin' to that owin' money that the court got/ All in on that alimony, uh, yeah-yeah, she got you homie/ 'til death but do your part, unholy matrimony."
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Guilt Trip is a continuation of Yeezus' road to redemption, his catharsis (Continuation of his Robot Voice). It's Yeezus' attempts to overcome his failed relationship and coming to terms with his own fallibility.
"Focus on the future and let the crew knock her" "If you loved me so much then why'd you let me go?" (x3)
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Then, we get into the final stage with the last two songs: Send it Up and Bound 2.

Send it Up is Yeezus coming to terms with what has happened and joyfully choosing to put it all behind him.
"Reliving the past? Your loss"
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is the beginning of the song, and it ends with Beanie Mann singing
"Memories dont live like people do; They always 'member you/ whether things are good or bad/ it's just the memories that you had".
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At the end of Kanye's verse, he shows that the Yeezus persona has revived anew
"Yeezus just rose again."
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Now, I hope that if you actually took the time to read at least half of this, you will see that the hatred for Kanye is little more than an attempt to marginalize one of the greatest artists of our time. His outbursts, though not classy, are not unfounded. Heck, John Lennon literally said the Beatles were bigger than Jesus; if that's not hubris I don't know what is. Both Lennon and West are icons and artists who have changed this world forever. Just because you haven't taken the time to see further than your limited frame-of-reference by no means makes Kanye a bad artist or a bad human being. He is God sent, and full to the brim of musical talent. His new album will undoubtedly bring another wave of incredible artistry.
 
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