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Analyzing my evolution on this site over the yearsOct 18 '07 Write an essay on this topic.
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A lot can change in four years. I was looking back over some of earlier stuff on the site and I am astounded by how different things were back then. When I first discovered this site I was 15 years old and was in love with hip-hop. I was miserable at an all boy high school, so to pass the time I wrote about my passion. I had so much to say about Tupac and Nas that there were some days where I put out multiple reviews. As I go back and read many of my early reviews now, it is apparent that I didn’t put the time and effort to make them grammatically correct or organized, but I realize that it’s because I didn’t care about that. I loved rap music so much that I just wanted to let the world know that I was so passionate about it. As I transferred to a co-ed high school my senior year, my goal was to make a name for myself. I wanted to stand out and be popular. This train of thought carried over to this site as I started doing things that no one else had done before. A one star review on both All Eyez on Me and The Chronic was completely unheard of. While it’s true that neither of the reviews really justified such a low rating, it did make me a household name on the hip-hop writing crew. It was around this time when I discovered a huge love for the mafia culture and thus started writing mob movie reviews under a more cocky gangster attitude. This style is most apparent in my reviews during the summer of 2004. It was during the summer of 2004 when I wrote about the single most terrifying experience of my life. I remember being so sick from the effects of alcohol and caffeine, that I was confined to my bed for three days. While I was lying in bed I could think of no better idea than to let the entire site know about the deadly encounter I faced. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, the article is entitled “A Scary Holiday Weekend for Yours Truly.” It wasn’t much longer when I began a project entitled This Thing of Ours, which is a television series that focuses around a troubled mobster who shares a lot of my traits. Working on this script consumed most of my time and it led to me taking a short hiatus from the site. I returned to the site when a young hip hop reviewer by the name of Casey hosted a forum where the writers on the site would battle rap one another. I found this to be very enjoyable and I got to know a lot of writers on a more personal basis as a result. After the rap battles, I started writing reviews again. Many people on the site saw a new Nasty01 as I started reviewing non hip-hop artists, mainly the Doors. It was a refreshing change of pace for me and I encouraged many of the other hip-hop fans on the site to broaden their horizons. During the winter of 2005, I entered a severe depression which is apparent in a lot of my posts on the site. I dropped out of college and quit my job. It was a mixture of living in isolation, smoking too much pot, and being on the wrong anti-depressant. Most of my work during this time was selfish and pretentious. One of the articles I posted stated that I could’ve easily wrote songs that Radiohead, Nas, and Nirvana had put out. A lot of people on the site recognized my pain and they all wished me the best of luck. Over 2006, I took a very long hiatus from writing as I thought I would be joining the navy. Alcohol abuse and severe depression eventually got me a medical discharge and I returned to school. Since then I have written a whopping three reviews, all of which I consider to be my best work. When people who don’t know Nasty01 wonder why such a once hungry hip-hop writer just stopped writing, perhaps this piece will enlighten them. I still like hip-hop a lot, but I no longer consider reviewing it fun. I only write reviews now so that they will help potential customers made a decision on whether or not to buy something. I know this may sound like selling out, but I call it using the site properly. The last two reviews on the site that I have written were not spur of the moment, easy things to write. Both of them took a lot of research. I didn’t pull the legal facts on my Fracture review out of my butt and lie about it. I took the time to do outside research so that I could add something unique and helpful to a potential customer. I don’t write reviews for fun anymore. I try to challenge my self and test my abilities as a writer. I won’t kid myself and consider myself a superb writer. There is still much room for improvement. I’ve completed my required amount of English credits but I’m still not satisfied with where I’m at. I guess I wrote this piece to show people why I stopped writing so much and the mentality I had when I wrote of lot of my work. Four years is a long time to be on a site and a lot of things can change. I still love writing, but I hold myself to much higher standards now than I used to.  |
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