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Ariel Zorrilla
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Hip-Hop Turning 50 Was More of A Eulogy Than An Anniversary

Collective reminiscence of objectively better music. — What we have now is the antithesis of yesterday’s sacred genre. What we have now (as echoed a million times over) is a pedestaled popularity contest of artists who are incentivized to promote degeneracy, hedonism, and the commodification of the hood. Pussy, money, weed. The mainstream rap music of today…

Hip Hop

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Hip-Hop Turning 50 Was More of A Eulogy Than An Anniversary
Hip-Hop Turning 50 Was More of A Eulogy Than An Anniversary
Hip Hop

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How My 93-Year-Old Apartment is Better Than A New Affordable Housing Unit

NYC Housing Connect is housefishing. A candid reminder to not rely on scratch-off open lotteries to live how you deserve to. — NYC Housing Connect has changed thousands of lives — no question. In fact, since 2014, the city’s affordable housing lotteries have received tens of millions of applications from New Yorkers in search of housing, but just above 29,000 people actually moved into new or rehabbed affordable homes via the lottery…

NYC

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How My 93-Year-Old Apartment is Better Than A New Affordable Housing Unit
How My 93-Year-Old Apartment is Better Than A New Affordable Housing Unit
NYC

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Aug 23, 2021

How Existentialism Helped Me Heal After David’s Suicide 11 Years Ago

Skateboarding, hubris, girls and delinquency ruled the care to excel academically. Years of reflecting on his sudden death have broadened how I interpret reality. Our lives have no meaning — it is our job to find its meaning. — Monday, Feb. 1st, 2010 It wasn’t a phone call. Seven or eight in the afternoon, I found out my dear friend David Robinson II took his own life scrolling down my Facebook feed on my Compaq desktop computer. …

Mwc Death

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How Existentialism Helped Me Heal After David’s Suicide 11 Years Ago
How Existentialism Helped Me Heal After David’s Suicide 11 Years Ago
Mwc Death

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Jun 30, 2021

That is a cop-out severance package and it is tied to signing NDA (as author notes...silencing
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Aki Stepinska

Thank you for the incredible, data filed breakdown here Aki!

Thank you for the incredible, data filed breakdown here Aki! I appreciate your effort to quantify the poor severance package offered to the hard working employees last year who made Rent The Runway's success possible.

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Jun 18, 2021

To Be A Great Man, You Need To Be The Man You Wish Your Father Was

Regardless of his presence or absence, the world as you perceive it depends on competence and your ability to answer the title. I call it “The 10 Requisites”. — I Love My Pops I never called him dad, I wasn’t that type of kid. My father was my pops (for those unfamiliar with the Brooklyn, N.Y. term). Bernardo was a deafening, assertive and notorious hard-ass from the deep countryside poverty of El Seibo, Dominican Republic who overcame unimaginable adversities. From attending middle school…

Life

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To Be A Great Man, You Need To Be The Man You Wish Your Father Was
To Be A Great Man, You Need To Be The Man You Wish Your Father Was
Life

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Feb 13, 2021

29 Hard Truths I Learned To Accept In Life Turning 29

Trigger warning. — Today, February 13th is my 29th birthday. I’m currently hiking across windy San Francisco, CA being a tourist speeding in a 2021 Mazda MX-5 Miata Convertible Roadster. Thank you all in advance for reading and for the grateful influx of well wishes arriving. Birthdays always have a profound way to…

Birthday

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29 Hard Truths I Learned To Accept In Life Turning 29
29 Hard Truths I Learned To Accept In Life Turning 29
Birthday

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·Jul 30, 2020

Scent is Fifth Dimensional

5 Things I Learned Becoming A Perfumer — Fragrance Is Misunderstood 1. There Is No Such Thing As Cologne or Perfume…Kinda Only fragrance. Perfume and Cologne are mere terms referring to the percentage concentration of scented oils in the total fragrance, which is itself the basic, gender-neutral term. Eau Fraiche — 1–3% Eau de cologne — 3–8% Eau de Toilette — 5–10% Eau de Parfum — 10–20% Parfum — 15–30%

Life

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Scent is Fifth Dimensional
Scent is Fifth Dimensional
Life

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Jun 5, 2020

Point All Dominicans Who Deny Their Blackness Here

Dare to encourage unity — Denial of your African ancestry is racist, unconscionable, and unethical. The cancerous, dogmatic self-desecration ends in our generation. As a native Spanish speaking Dominican-American man born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, I’ve spent a lifetime disappointed in the racism fostered in the Dominican community. I was too Black for the…

Dominican

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Point All Dominicans Who Deny Their Blackness Here
Point All Dominicans Who Deny Their Blackness Here
Dominican

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Apr 14, 2020

Never Forget How Rent The Runway Fired 100% Of Their Retail Employees In 5 Minutes With NDA’s (UPDATE)

How another “tech company” with a billion dollar valuation will nosedive after years of exploiting one store location in NYC, their 250,000-square-foot sweatshop, and mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic. — UPDATED 05/09, 8:46 a.m EST: Since my initial call-out, The Huffington Post and Business Insider reached out to aid their publications. The collaborative effort to stand up for for thousands of people once employed under Rent The Runway’s decade of poor leadership was reverberated with substantial praise and gratitude. Although…

Business

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Never Forget How Rent The Runway Fired Their Staff In 5 Minutes With NDA’s
Never Forget How Rent The Runway Fired Their Staff In 5 Minutes With NDA’s
Business

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Mar 13, 2020

What An Assumption On A Stolen Package Taught Me About Humanity

Three laws to never break again The text message never arrived. Let’s keep it 100. Anticipating an SMS notification away from your apartment to then read “Delivered at 10:05 AM!” in your GMail inbox hours later is enough to trigger impromptu rage in most of us. Make no mistake —…

Life

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What An Assumption On A Stolen Package Taught Me About Humanity
What An Assumption On A Stolen Package Taught Me About Humanity
Life

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Ariel Zorrilla

Ariel Zorrilla

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Dominican-American artist, athlete, and artisanal perfumer from Brooklyn, NY. Ariel’s writing explores life. https://byariel.com

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