Xxxtentacion

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Xxxtentacion, born in Plantation, Florida in 1998 on 23 January, was a famous rapper.
He died on 18 June 2018.
His real name was Jahsen Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy.
Xxx was raised by his grandmother at the age of six; he had almost killed a man because he abused his mom.
His carreer began on Twitter and Sound Cloud (he had about 300k followers).
He lived his life breaking the law, and this behavior gave him an unmistakable air of authenticity.
In 2014 he published his first video but received only negative comments, he didn't give up and began to publish many songs, until in 2015 he published Look At Me and he got a great success.
His music style is a mixture of hip pop and emo.
But on 18 june 2018, at the exit of a bike shop, he got hit by gunshots of weapon fire, he moved to the hospital and a few hours later they announced his death.
We have decided to tell his story because in recent times all media have talked a lot about his death and we have been really impressed about his life's story beacuse it is very difficult an troubled, his story fully represents what rap is and many stories of famous rappers resemble his story, which we would also like to try.

Glossary
RAPPER: a person who performs a rap music.
UNMISTAKBLE: not able to be mistaken for anything else, very distinctive.
PUBLISH: prepare and issue (a book, journal or a piece of music) for public sale.
HOSPITAL: an istitution providing medical and surgical treatment and nursing care for sick or injured people.
SOUND CLOUD: it is a website that allows musician to collaborate, promote and distribute their music.
GUN SHOT: a shot fired from a gun, pistol or a rifle.
HIP POP: a style of popular music of American black and hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing.

6ix9ine

The 4 strangers

Daniel Hernandez was born on May 8, 1996 in Brooklyn. He is an american rapper and he is professionally known as 6ix9ine or Tekashi69. He is known for his power screaming technique in some of his songs.
6ix9ine became famous thanks to his debut single "GUMMO" in 2017. His first album was Day69 and he entered in the Top Ten for his first time with his song "FEFE" featured with Nicki Minaj. 6ix9ine was born to a Mexican mother and a Puerto Rican father and raised by both until the age of 13 and then he grew up alongside his brother.
When 6ix9ine was young he had various jobs and sold marijuana to help his family financially. He had trouble with the law, for example he was accused of a sexual contact with a 13-years-old girl. In our opinion 6ix9ine is a strange person but at the same time he has made a career and has become very famous.
His first apparition in Italy was at Number1's club and we went to see him and we liked it so much. We appreciate that he does a lot of donations to help poor people. We have chosen him because of those things and his popularity. His appearence is unconventional, he has tattoos of the number 69 in different parts of his body and has a tattoo of an evil clown and a spiderweb on his face. He bought a mouth guard composed by diamonds. He spends a lot of money for jewerly and diamonds watches and he likes showing he has a lot of money. His behaviour is very strange because sometimes he makes music videos without his clothes on and sometimes his dances are ridiculous but the most strange thing of him is that he has a multicolour haircut.
Our favourite song is "FEFE" because of the music sound and because this is a collaboration with Nicki Minaj. We waited him at Number1 Club and it was awesome. We were in the queue for 2 hours because a huge crowd was there. After that concert the club was shut down to the public because that night some security laws were violated. In our opinion 6ix9ine will become more famous than now and one of the best singers in the 21th century.

Glossary
Behaviour: it is the attitude of a person.
Controversial: when you use unusual behaviour.
Featured: it is when you do a song with another person.
Alongside: when you are next to someone.
Marijuana: it is a plant used to get high.
Law: everyone must respect it to live in a good society.
Accused: when you do something wrong.
Famous: when you are recognized in the world for something.
Appreciate: it is when someone does something good and you like it.
Donation: when you give money to poor people.
Apparition: when someone comes in one place for the first time.
Club: it is a place where you can go to a party.

MY IMMORTAL

Never Give Up

The Evanescence are a rock band from the United States, formed in Little Rock in 1995. The band takes its name from the word "evanescence", the state or act of vanishing.
Their music is characterized by a fusion of alternative metal elements, gothic metal (especially at the beginning).
The band was founded by vocalist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody in 1995. According to various sources not always congruent, the two met in a young camp in Arkansas, where Moody listened to Lee playing the piano and singing I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Will not Do That) by Meat Loaf; later he would say: "I thought I was in paradise. Almost I was dry. In that tiny young camp there was one of the most powerful and beautiful voices I'd ever heard.

LYRICS

I'm so tired of being here 

Suppressed by all my childish fears 

And if you have to leave 

I wish that you would just leave 

'Cause your presence still lingers here

And it won't leave me alone 

These wounds won't seem to heal 

This pain is just too real 

There's just too much that 

time cannot erase 

When you cried I'd wipe away 

all of your tears 

When you'd scream I'd fight away 

all of your fears 

I held your hand through 

all of these years 

But you still have 

All of me 

You used to captivate me 

By your resonating light 

Now I'm bound by the life 

you left behind 

Your face it haunts 

My once pleasant dreams 

Your voice it chased away 

All the sanity in me 

These wounds won't seem to heal 

This pain is just too real 

There's just too much that 

time cannot erase 

When you cried I'd wipe away 

all of your tears 

When you'd scream I'd fight away 

all of your fears 

I held your hand through 

all of these years 

But you still have 

All of me 

I've tried so hard to tell myself 

that you're gone 

But though you're still with me 

I've been alone all along 

When you cried I'd wipe away 

all of your tears 

When you'd scream I'd fight away 

all of your fears 

I held your hand through 

all of these years 

But you still have 

All of me, me, me

All together, we’ve chosen this song, in memory of our dear friend Angelo who, after a fatal accident, lost his life.

Angelo was more of a classmate or a friend. Angelo was a part of us and from one day to another everyone lost him.
As the song says, it is a pain that none of us can forget because it is such a strong pain that even time can’t erase, it’s “a spirit staying with you after its death and haunting you until you actually wish that the spirit were gone because it won't leave you alone”.

GLOSSARY
Suppress: to put an end to the activities of a person to keep in or repress (a feeling, smile, groan, etc.)
Wound: an injury or hurt (also to emotions)
Heal: to repair or take care of
Tear: drop of water coming from your eyes when you’re sad, wounded, ecc…
Fear: you have fear when you’re in an impending danger
Guitarist: a performer on the guitar
Classmate: a member of the same class at a school or college
Fusion: the act or process of fusing or the state of being fused

Linkin Park

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We’ve always loved rock music, we can listen to it for hours and hours. But Linkin Park's music left a mark on our hearts. We discovered the band hearing the song “What I’ve Done” from the Minutes to Midnight album and we liked it so much that we started to follow the band and the other songs later published.

This Band can satisfy all kinds of ears, because it's rock influenced by hip hop, alternative rock and electronics. The band was founded in 1996 in Los Angeles by three high school friends, Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon and Brad Delson. They called their band Xero and firstly recorded in Shinoda's bedroom. After recruiting Chester Bennington, they renamed the band Hybrid Theory. 

Their first concert was in Los Angeles, after which they got a contract with the Warner Bros Records, but they had to change their name one last time in Linkin Park, and changed their lineup. Their first success was the album Hybrid Theory, that sold over 30 million copies influenced by other groups like Defnotes, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche mode, and other ones. 

In 2003 the band began a small tour, the “Lp Underground Tour” reserved only for the fan club members; it started in Milano (23 February) and finished in Los Angeles (25 March). Their lineup in 2017 was: Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon and Joe Hanh. Linkin Park's logo was initially a square with the letters L and P inside it (the letter P was reversed) but in 2007 the logo was modified to a circle with two triangles in it, indicating in a particular way the initials of the band. The last logo published was an exagon with the triangles inside, indicating the band formed by 6 members. After the death of Bennington, Shinoda posted the same logo, but with the exagon missing a side.

We wanted to leave here a tribute to Chester Bennington, who died in 2017: “You satisfied our ears with your music, now let us remember you continuosly hearing your songs".

GLOSSARY
Lineup: members composing a music band
Mark: sign, little scratch on something
Underground: below the ground level
Recruit: to look for and hire new members for a band
Influence: to cause an effect on something or someone
Found: to form a music band
Record: to put sound on a disc or a tape
Exagon: a figure having six angles and six sides

BURRITO ON THE ROAD

The burrito is a kind of food that belongs to the tex-mex cuisine. It's a popular street food, especially in the USA. Over the years this food has met the taste and the lifestyle of each person, for example the vegans and the vegetarians.
Initially the street food was created for the lower society class’ demand.
Nowadays it has updated and focused on different cultures, following the tradition and the quality of products. Street food also permits the people to taste food during a simple stroll around the city.

The burrito consists of a large wheat flour tortilla, generally filled up with bovine meat, chicken or pig then closed to obtain a thin roll.
Every city has a different interpretation of the classic recipe. The filling includes also other ingredients like rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole and cheese. In the USA there are principally four popular versions: the classic tex-mex, the San Francisco's, the San Diego's, and the Los Angeles' one.
We want to propose you the authentic Mexican recipe.

Preparation:
In this recipe, we will use beef loin, which you will slice into thin slices.

Cook separately meat slices in a bit of olive oil and a pressed garlic clove. Add salt and black pepper to the meat slices and cook until medium-done; store for later.

In the same frying pan add the diced tomato to the hot oil. Once the tomato has started to melt down, drop in the previously diced onion and garlic. Cook for a few minutes and add the rice (which has already been cooked), the beans and the meat.

Now sprinkle your mix with cumin and coriander, and stir well. Taste seasoning, add salt and pepper if you wish.

Chop the lettuce into thin slices. Then place a wheat flour tortilla on a plate and spread two tablespoons of the meat, rice and beans mixture we previously did, then place some lettuce over and then sprinkle some cheese on top. Fold the tortilla into the typical cylinder shape, then cut the burrito in two. Serve with guacamole and some hot sauce.

We hope you will enjoy our article… let us know through your comments.

Glossary
Beef loin: it's a part in of the back of the bovine
Filling: all the ingredients that fill sweet and salty preparations
Guacamole: it is a Mexican sauce made with avocado, lime and salt
Lower society class: poor people
Roll: thin material rolled on itself to obtain a cylinder shape
Seasoning: the ingredients like salt, pepper and spices used for add flavour to the food
Slices: part of something, generally food, cut in thin stripes
Sprinkle: to put a bit of an ingredient on a dish, for example, to sprinkle spices on the burrito
Stir: mix one or more substances, for example, to stir the sugar in the coffee
Stroll: to walk in the outdoors
Taste: to eat a little quantity of a dish to check the flavour
Tex-mex: it is a fusion of Texan cuisine and Mexican cuisine
Melt down: transition from the solid state to the liquid state, for example, the ice melts down at 0°C and becomes water
Wheat flour: a type of flour made with a cereal; you can use it to make bread, pizza and pasta