A-1 Pictures Inc. (株式会社エー・ワン・ピクチャーズ, Kabushiki-gaisha Ē Wan Pikuchāzu?) is a Japanese animation studio, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan)'s anime production firm Aniplex.
The studio was established by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan)'s animation production division, Aniplex, on May 9, 2005, to animate its anime series and productions. In 2006, it co-produced the original production Zenmai Zamurai, and in October of the same year, established a studio in Asagaya. In the following year, 2007, the studio produced its first series, Ōkiku Furikabutte.
Originally established to oversee the production of only a few of Aniplex's family-oriented series, the studio has since grown and expanded as a full fledged studio involved in the production of a wide range of media and anime productions and other activities, which it has overseen.
The studio has also expanded its international presence, participating in the noted international convention, Anime Expo 2007 (AX 2007), held in Long Beach, California, and having its own panel there.
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Valery Abisalovich Gergiev PAR (Russian: Валерий Абисалович Гергиев, Ossetic: Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери/Gergity Abisaly Fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.
Gergiev, born in Moscow, is the son of Tamara Tatarkanovna and Abisal Zaurbekovich. He and his siblings were raised in Vladikavkaz in their native North Ossetia in the Caucasus. He began piano at secondary school, before going on to study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Leningrad from 1972 to 1977. His principal conducting teacher was Prof. Ilya Musin (Илья Мусин), one of the greatest conductor-makers in Russian musical history. His sister, Larissa Gergieva, is a pianist and director of the Mariinsky's singers' academy.
In 1978, he became assistant conductor at the Kirov Opera, now the Mariinsky Opera, under Yuri Temirkanov, where he made his debut conducting Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace. He was chief conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra from 1981 until 1985 – the year he made his debut in the United Kingdom, along with pianist Evgeny Kissin, and violinists Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin, at The Lichfield Festival.
Don’t be scared
No matter where you are
I will be there for you
Don’t be scared
No matter where you are
I will be there for you
Ayy-yo
I used to know this British chick
For a while we would mess around she was super down
Then somehow we had a falling out
And now we’re just friends
But from time to time when she hit up my line
We be kicking it still
She knew I had the buzz like a bumble bee
So she would make fun
And say some deep shit in front of me
And just to make for certain
My head didn’t get too big and burst
She would ask some real serious questions
That would humble me
Like, why y’all Americans so hung up on race?
Well, same reason …. Hung up on taste
I mean, that’s just the way we been trained
That’s how society taught us
We been brought up thinking
That our most important side
Is really our outer one
And that’s the reason all these people outlook on life
Is really a sour one
Everybody’s insecure as fuck
And then we wonder where the people in power derive power from
Chorus:
Don’t be scared
No matter where you are
I will be there for you
Don’t be scared
No matter where you are
I will be there for you
I mean it’s like
Friday and Saturday I’m clubbed out
My intelligent thoughts is getting rubbed out
The television make the blacks look thugged out
The whites look bugged out
The kids look drugged out
Everything that’s not the first world looks dirty
Fuck flirty
These little ass girls look thirty
While these young men is going off to fight
‘Cause their options low
The hoods looking like the lights of the stop and go
I mean, the streets running red over green
Some yellow bellied fellows in the middle
Getting wealthy while his trophy wife cooks and cleans
But she’s unhealthy
Gets the stains out the carpet
But never gets her self esteem
Meanwhile their daughter’s situation getting ugly
‘Cause the parents don’t give time
They only giving money
So she’s going getting stoned
Day and night
The kids cut
Seeing several sex buddies
She got the big tummy
And the man who gave it to her never comes around sadly
So that baby grew up wondering
How come daddy don’t love me?
But without that kid the world would be nothing
The last thing I said to my homegirl in London was
America gone always sing that class song
America gone always sing that gender song
And we gone always sing that race song
Maybe we hate ourselves and we need someone else to hate on
She told me stay strong
Remember
Chorusx2:
Don’t be scared
No matter where you are
I will be there for you
Don’t be scared
No matter where you are
I will be there for you
People talk about revolution
They talk about…. And millionare martians
But they forget that the revolution begins
Within the mind
The way they set things up it’s like
They got you trapped in this game that you probably never win
And that’s why people wanna revolt
But you can’t lose a game if you choose not to play
So stop playing
Free your mind
That’s the illest revolution
And when the day comes
I’ll be there for you