Hi everyone, I wanted to drop in and tell you what’s going on. So, I am busy working on the “new edition” of the Mixtape. And yes for those wondering, I have put into my daily “to do” list:
Search through genius lyrics and see if “New Edition” has any lyrics I can use for either selecton on observables or synthetic control, but preferably both.
If you want to help me in that quest, it would be much appreciated as the first go around on the first edition of the Mixtape, my Eminem lyrics for both of those chapters fell through. Get this — apparently capitalism is such that there is an inefficient market in which people or firms can “own” songs (not the people who created them, not even the studios that purportedly own them), but in percentages. Almost like a time share. So I actually got permissions — and literally paid them! — from two entities on Eminem songs, and was in “conversation” (what a joke that conversation was) with someone who best I could tell had a fake dummy website. …
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