weekly murmur 2025.4.19

 1. 今天早上獨行俠結束了今年的賽季旅程。今年走了 D77 來了 AD，我其實對這筆交易感受還好，但也沒什麼好要幫 Nico Harrison 背書就是了。倒是送走 Grimes 換來 Martin 我比較疑惑，Martin 來了也沒什麼在上。

我小時候最一開始是俠客迷所以追蹤 Lakers，後來 T-Mac 交易去火箭我就開始改支持火箭，我沒有不再喜歡 T-Mac，但是他中後期真的很少打比賽，我就覺得看球賽很無聊。當時很常跟石捷聊球賽，石捷是我認識的所有非體育班或甲乙組球隊的同學當中打籃球最厲害的一個，石捷是一個資深的 Dirk 球迷，於是我決定跟他一起支持達拉斯，除了 2011 年的冠軍之外，也一起走過不少低潮，17-18 賽季勝率甚至不到 3 成也還是持續的支持，所以今年老實說對我來說並不是最壞的時刻。

選擇一支球隊並且長期支持，對我來說的意義就是，比較方便跟朋友打嘴炮。我的意思是，我享受比賽的內容本身嗎？當然是。不過，拜託！現在這種比賽內容，有需要打 48 分鐘嗎？不過還是很喜歡朋友一起看比賽跟垃圾話。

2. If I had ten million bucks for transportation, I wouldn’t buy a car. I’d rent one and hire a driver.

3. 志騰傳了 LL Cool J 在 Coachella 表演的影片給我看，他說這真的太帥了。但是志騰其實有點搞錯了，我並沒有特別喜歡 LL Cool J，非常喜歡 LL Cool J 的是我女兒，她聽得比我多很多。但這個表演還是很酷，分享給大家。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2faDlICvzq0

4. 有次跟 Hilda 在聊天，我跟她說我非常喜歡 Halle Bailey 版本的小美人魚，她說我真是逆風。實際上網查了一下，小美人魚全球票房大約是 5.7 億美金，我不確定究竟是誰貢獻了這樣子的成績。朋友們，無論如何，如果你也喜歡 Halle Bailey 版本的小美人魚電影，我想讓你知道，你並不孤單。

5. 當初女兒第一個講出中文的完整詞語是「爸爸」，很不意外，很多人都說爸爸比媽媽好發音。兒子第一個講出的詞語會是爸爸還是媽媽呢？結果他講出了「姊姊」。意外嗎？這麼難講的字講這麼清楚真意外，但同時身為我兒子的爸爸也是我姊姊一輩子的弟弟的我，卻又一點也不意外。對我來說，弟弟就是一輩子最受寵愛於一身的身份，對我兒子而言也將是。

6. Always negotiate.

7. 我覺得吳卓源不需要道歉。

8. 我最近才知道莫札特的名字叫做 Wolfgang，有些人可能不知道，不過 Odd Future 的全名其實叫做是 Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All。我想說，太酷了吧！難道 Tyler 是以這個為靈感命名的嗎？查了一下，並沒有。

9. Anna 已經快要三個月沒吃東西了。

10. 綠已經可以扶著東西，微微站起來了。

To those who misunderstand hip hop and Whyte’s music 2025.04.06

The spirit of hip hop is love, peace, unity, and having fun.

The four main elements of hip hop are DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and graffiti.

None of these are anything like discrimination, sexism, violence, or hatred. Surely, you can apply that same energy to different forms of art too. Anyway, you can’t rewrite history or ignore the original soul and spirit of hip hop. Don’t get me wrong. I do understand OG rappers from the hood like Biggie and Tupac, they cursed a lot in the lyrics. Even nowadays, Kendrick Lamar sometimes calls ladies "bitches" in his songs, right? First of all, those are the greatest rappers of all time. It doesn’t mean they represent the whole hip hop culture itself. Second of all, there are still countless rappers who choose to use respectful words to make their hip hop music. And come on! We know that English has many idiomatic expressions, but that doesn’t mean those expressions are intended to attack women.

I think it’s OK if you have to use specific words to make your song cooler or make it rhyme. However, if some people say shaming, fighting, and swearing are some paths or roots of hip hop, they seriously misunderstand and get it wrong.

I often play Whyte’s music to let my kids listen to, because some of her music is full of love and trying to find inner peace. In my opinion, Whyte’s music somehow is much more hip hop than those raps from rappers who diss each other a lot. It’s fine if you have different opinions of Whyte’s music. However, if you didn’t know the spirit before, now you know after reading this. Next time, if your friends or somebody on the internet misunderstand, you could let them know the truth. That’s what’s up.