My goals 2 songs a day, welcome 2 bonusland And lyrical rehab are for sure gonna drop the middle of April, poetic complexion the album won’t be far after! Aaron Douglass, Facebook status 3/30/10

The 6-foot-6, 287-pound Douglas earned freshman All-America honors last season. He was a star tight end in high school in Maryville, Tenn., and signed in 2008 under former Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer. He redshirted his first year at Tennessee and was then moved to the offensive line last year under Lane Kiffin. Offensive lineman Aaron Douglas leaving Tennessee – ESPN

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Review of his soul follows:

You, AD or 80, are the definition of a man-child — and I mean that with all due respect. In the photo above I loved the joker girl’s hair in the towel and the spray-on tan, A80 that is from an era that is dead and gone. It is said that A80 has always been a lil less hardcore than his bammer partner, but that is what makes the duo great. The Bammer can be the insane killer while A80 can be the mellow, mush head who when pushed can kill ya. It is a great act.

Don’t believe me? please check the tunes on this site:  PUP Myspace

It makes me sick that people are trying to pigeonhole PUP, and anyone else on the anti-football/fulmer/tennessee docket into being shit upon or overlooked completely.

If the boys of PUP (his buddy appears to be a Bama fan) can mature a little and produce something both fans and others can even remotely appreciate, he can do it by making a rhyming complete sentence in correct English.

Haters? Even 80 has better grammar than you, and his rappers have lyrical license to use slang out the ass.

A larger existence of rhyming lyrical ballad type songs and verses, do seem to interrupt the flow or creative juice of AD, but are really well crafted songs. These slow moments are not as lame as a generic acoustic album, or any hard-ass looking band crying over their guitars and pretending to be tough, but rather an existence of real pain, joined this time with sadness instead of anger. Aaron’s emotions are for real.

AD manages to use the sounds I love from them and the sounds I hate from them, and make me fall back in no-homo love with them. While the actual beats per minute tempo may not be as high as their first two recordings, 80 still makes these awesome tunes punch. The dichotomy of such a straightforward band setup and complexity of layered sounds is an absolute one-off, and not in a bad way but in a recovering their niche way. Think of the timeline of this band like a stroke: they went a completely different direction, but are now in therapy, and doing well.

The problem with this : my expectations are now set high for their next song release.

here is the rest of the story:

AD or 80 started writing poetry in the 5th grade when one of his friends tragically died in a car crash. He never knew he possessed the power to rhyme words until he sat down and wrote the poem:

“IF” for his friend. From this day forward he continued to improve his writing, having no idea that down the road his new-found skill of writing poetry would turn into a love for making hip-hop music. He was not introduced to rapping until his 9th grade year in highschool by his friend and fellow Blount County rapper lil J. Since this time he has written hundreds of songs and recorded nearly 50 tracks; Eventhough 80(AD) does not get to spend as much time working on his music as he would like because of college football (Tennessee). He still finds time to write lyrics almost everyday, and every chance he gets to record he does it with his new group P.U.P. Crew!!!! This group was founded by his cousin Chad aka (C-diesel) and also consists of his longtime firends C-money aka (The brains of the Operation), and Bonus Boi aka (Hook Master T). The music runs through our veins and will until the day we die!!!!!!!!!!! Stay tuned for new tracks were gonna bring them to you as quickly as possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless (R.I.P. Christian, without you there would be no 80)