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Jason Bourne: The Lord of the Caribbean

There are few things better in life than a three-day weekend and we are coming off one of the best of the year. Labor Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer and a well-known bad holiday weekend at the box office. This is due to several factors, including college football, school starting and people trying to get one last BBQ in. Despite this three-day weekend being bad for movies, the early to mid 2000s treated us to some amazing big screen trilogies. Lets take a look back at three great movie trilogies that came out in the early to mid 2000s.    Up first, the Bourne trilogy, The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). For the sake of this list, we are not including the Bourne Legacy (2012) or Jason Bourne (2016). This is due to the large time gap between the release of the Bourne Ultimatum and Bourne Legacy. Also, Matt Damon, Jason Bourne, was replaced by Jeremy Renner, Aron Cross, which just feels like an insult to the franchise a...

So Far Gone into Pop Samples

“Dizzy about to drop the game is in disarray” a quote from Drakes fifth studio album, Scorpion, that we are seeing play out right before our eyes. We are about six hours away from Certified Lover Boy, arguably Drake’s most anticipated album ever, hitting our favorite streaming services. If you’ve been on twitter in the past few days, I am sure you have seen the pictures of the black billboards with a white serif font and a simple sentence. Those billboards, a nine-month delay and “hacking” Sports Center has led to extreme anticipation for what some are already calling the album of the year.   How did Drake and the October’s Very Own (OVO) marketing team get to the point where they can trend on Twitter over a billboard? For that answer we need to go back to 2009, when Drake released his third mixtape, So Far Gone. This mixtape or EP was the launching point that turned Drake into the international star he is today.    Before taking a retrospective look at So Far Gone, here ...