Rehab

By: Daniel Patrick Moriarity '14


Bob Marley once said “One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain.” In a sense, music is like auditory nicotine; almost everybody is strongly attached to one brand or another of music. People have an intense connection with the music they listen to; by the teenage years it usually has become an integral part of their identity. I can’t count how many times I’ve gone through a friend’s Facebook or MySpace accounts and seen “Music is my life” under their “About Me” section. While I won’t go so far as to say it’s my life, I do have a deep connection with the music I listen to.

That being said, I do not like to wait for my music: be it because it’s my little brother’s turn with the radio, YouTube won’t stinkin’ load, or my preordered CD doesn’t show up on time. This was exactly the case roughly a month and a half ago, when I preordered the new Lecrae CD, Rehab. I was so pumped for getting this CD, along with the hoodie, wristband, and stickers that were coming with it that I was talking about it weeks in advance. Only, on its release date, when I ran to the post office after Intro to Psych, it wasn’t there. I shrugged it off and went home to download the digital a capella and instrumental tracks that were included in my purchase because I got the deluxe version and listened to a couple of them. I made sure to not listen to the digital album tracks, I wanted to save those for when I put the actual CD in for the first time. Unfortunately, the next day the CD wasn’t there either, or the day after that, or the day after that… I slowly began growing paranoid that my package was sent to the wrong P.O. Box and somebody made off with my new CD. I had dreams of finding somebody walking about in a Rehab hoodie and attacking them like a savage animal. These feelings slowly grew over the course of nearly two weeks until my package finally came in: It was worth the wait.

Rehab is by far my favorite rap CD of all time, and probably in my top 5 of any genre. In fact it’s so good, that the week after Thanksgiving I’m going to dedicate an hour and a half of my radio show, The Elevator, to playing the whole CD. I’m also going to look into the possibility of having a contest during the show to give away a Rehab CD to one of our listeners. If you’re interested in learning about this awesome new CD look up “Killa” on YouTube and be sure to listen in Monday the 30th at 7:00 p.m. to Carrie and I on The Elevator. I promise you won’t be disappointed.