Rappers with a Degree: Kidz In The Hall

More college educated MC's from Chicago on the mic, hitting the ground running using potent lyrics that are more common to home ground for most college students. In just the past few years we have witness some of the illest rappers of time come from the Chi-City ranging from Common, Kanye, Lupe and now Kidz In The Hall, evidently the Chi is definitely where its at when your looking for lyrics with intellectual knowledge behind them.

Not only do these artists have a great lyrical ability they both hold Ivy League education which means that yes they graduated and these young men see the rap game as a place where young educate black men can prevail and still have an education to back it. Many would say that they took the formula that got Kanye started in his career by using nice lyrics, dope beats, and great charisma and delivery.

This is also not your average rap group being that they serve as a duo that both have lyrical skills in making anybody with any sense want to listen and explore their lyrical content. Although they are both still young in the game their sound does not show it as for it seems as if they have been in the game for years ahead of time. So it looks like the future for these Rawkus Records label signees is heading for the long haul and will bring much success their way with their new leading single "Wheelz Fall Off". Check out the Video and see how these brothers are taking it from the Ivy League back home to the Chi.

Potential Merger Between Google & Yahoo!

Just recently it was found in advertising news that there might be a potential merger between the powerhouse search engine companies, Yahoo and Google. Although both of them have not yet fully committed to this possible merger, there has been test lasting up to two weeks in which Yahoo will deliver Google ads right next to Yahoo’s search results. Some people looking in on the situation truly believe that if this merger becomes official it will definitely give Google an effective monopoly over search engine websites and that it would not be healthy for marketers or the overall internet economy. Not only will this merger effect economy or the search engine industry but it will also effect communications via advertising, marketing, and new media.

Moreover, Google is not the only company trying to merge with Yahoo but, Microsoft has even offered Yahoo $31 a share to acquire their company. For the folks at Yahoo there is a very big decision to be made and one that can change the face of online searches forever. After asking a Microsoft general counsel about the issue he summed it up by saying, “This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo. We will assess closely all of our options.” Therefore, this is definitely a big deal and one that will leave one company extremely happy.

Although we all know Yahoo and Google as being the premier search engines that we have learned to love to use it the ever were to merge and create a long-term deal, many people will believe it would be short-sighted on Yahoo’s part for doing so. Also if Yahoo decided to do this and give up search ads, it would hurt Yahoo’s ability to sell integrated marketing buys over the existence of its company. For this reason, this decision that will be made by Yahoo will greatly impact the Internet world.
After much thought and reflection I truly believe that Yahoo should stand-alone and continue to be its own company. For I believe that if Yahoo merges with either Microsoft or Google they will be very dissatisfied with their decision and probably regret ever making the decision in the first place. Although its very visible that Yahoo would like to expand and build to its company I would definitely advise them to be more innovative and build on to their company with originally creative ideas to bring more traffic to their site again. This it would allow them to keep their site to themselves, not promote another company, and have more creative freedom in their expansion for the future.



Therefore, there are many great things that can come of this merger for communications and many terrible things that can happen, depending on what the decision makers decide to do in a matter of time. So hopefully we will be able to know soon exactly what it is Google and Yahoo decides to do and it will directly impact the communication world because it will change the way we use search engines definitely. Additionally, if it were up to me I would tell the people at Yahoo to suck it up and continue to slowly build their company until it is as great as Google is in the search industry besides just helping Google create a monopoly.