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Show I 5 ? 1 H 11 1 s J f v k a I & f l t i I 4 J a s BY KESHARA BJORKMAN Staff Writer I blueberry, and I took the liberty of adding some white chocolate to make it even tastier. t If I have the option to take , kS5"S9t X X 1 1 g i E I With the right ingredients, tasty mug cakes can be made in minutes with only a micro-wavMug cakes also offer a perfect afternoon or midnight snack for someone who n craves something sweet without wanting to make a desert. e. full-blow- continued from page 7 6. Yeezus (2013) kicked off with On Sight, where West hinted at the Internet-fuele- d Yeezy season that followed the release of his latest album. For once, he placed the latest movefinishing touches on ment, industrial rap, rather than starting from scratch by incorporating sounds from Yeezus hip-ho- world pop genres and ps electronica-inspire- d rock. lines Switching the punch from prior albums for primitive screams and chants, he approached Yeezus with a minimalist, economic viewpoint in both lyrics and the production. Standout Track: Blood on the Leaves line-pack- 3. The College Dropout (2004) car Mouth wired shut from a near-fataccident, West spit the slow, playful verses of surprise hit Through the Wire and foreshadowed an important aspect of his career: Hes egotistical but will never forget how fortunate he is. Wests debut perfectly paired cynicism with hope. Take All Falls Down, an acoustic ode to Americas confused youth. Each section includes characters with faults that impede without destroying them. Standout Track: Never Let Me Down al -- ----- Steps Mix all of the ingredients, except for the blueberries and white chocolate chips, together in a mug big enough to hold everything. Carefully stir in the blueberries and white chocolate. 1) 2) Throw it in the microwave for about 50 to 65 seconds, or until the middle of it is still a little bubbly. It will continue to cook from the heat once you take it out. The one factor that can be different for everyone is the microwave. Id tell you to get to know your microwave, but nobodys got time for that. Whats the easiest solution? Watch it and keep the cook times to a minimum. If youve got to close the door and cook it a little longer, so be it. wv, uif iitiisei iifor !DJ1NTj shnsii I Heartbreak marks the halfway point of Wests quest to alter popular musics direction. Standout Track: Amazing & 4 tablespoons of flour 5 tablespoons of sugar 12 teaspoon of baking powder 1 egg 3 tablespoons of milk 3 tablespoons of oil, as many blueberries and white chocolate chips as your heart desires. -- Pinterest in search of somesweet. the In thing past. Ive tried to make mug cakes but to no avail, as they never tasted as delicious as I wanted them to. Thanks to some time with my microwave I have now found that they arent that difficult. Its easy. Just follow a couple of rules: First, dont panic when the cake rises above the edge of the mug. Just let it happen. Second, have fun. Dont be afraid to experiment and add or substitute ingredients. You can easily spend an hour playing around with the recipes. I like to eat fairly healthy, but I am also a human being and love sweets. Mug cakes are for those of us who crave something sweet for a midnight snack but dont want to be caught by our roommates at 1 a.m. making a full pan of brownies for ourselves. Weve all been there. I decided to stray from the traditional chocolate and be adventurous with some different flavors. The best one I tried was the fast as the soul sample, listeners couldnt predict the albums great turns. Standout Track: Murder to Excellence WEST Ingredients: the easy route and have it be just as effective as a more difficult one, Ill make it happen. Mug cakes are a phenomenon I fell in love with about a month ago while perusing ff wlboioli Stint' 'in self-obsesse- d, ed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2. (2010) Interrupting Taylor Swifts award acceptance speech and the backlash that occurred after created such a stir West album couldnt simply drop a to mesh he had critics. subdue Instead, to his personal stories with ambiguous lines any listener could relate to, and thats the basis of My Beautiful Dark Twisted s' hit-pack- ed 5. Late Registration (2005) After getting past the crossover catchiness of hits Gold Digger, Heard Em Say and Touch the Sky, the albums real takeaway came from its dreamy, orchestra-dotte- d latter half. With We Major, West battled with one of raps most introspective MCs, NaS. Originally seen as a producer who happened to spit rhymes on the side, West lamented himself as a jack of all trades with blow-by-blo- w his soul-infus- ed second album, producing potent, g beats and scribing instrumentals. verses to play over the Standout Track: Hey Mama Fantasy. The album appeals to listeners on a personal level, but West also reveals emotive stories from his life. These contrasting elements pushed songs like POWER and Runaway from bold head bangers to vivid portraits of human nature. Standout Track: Watch the Throne (2011) handled a bulk of the production on s early-00- s projects, but here, the two balanced meek tales from the ghetto with dispatches from the rich and famous. Together, West and Jay-- Z played off each others talents while both reaching unfamil4. Jay-Z- iar ground stylistically. Throughout Wests career, hes covered wide range of topics, but typically the albums themselves include just one or two exhaust-haze- d major themes. From the sports car to Otis, No Church for the Wild, where the duos short verses move as a hrS ff Gorgeous thought-provokin- West ' 1. Graduation (2007) p titan Wests finest album outsold nuclear the in Curtis 50 Cents genres arms race, paved the way for the acceptance of alternative MCs like Lupe Fiasco and Kid Cudi, and lamented him as the new millenniums most vivid musical mind. , jffitfnj vMi:m it' I Ala; ; i HtJik : i i&M ff hip-ho- had a dream I could buy my way to heaven; when I awoke I spent that on a necklace, West proclaimed in the opening lines of Cant Tell Me Nothing. That line in particular sums up the lasting impact of the college trilogy and Graduation in general. Society erodes, and people make choices, but were never too far from our final destination. Standout Track: Flashing Lights - ! I Mi1 ijl It ;tt x t? PU ; G ' I I U' ve $ SI "Mi $ t M' ,4 tMn , & |