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Sai da O.D.

artist, man of wisdom, love of truth

About Me

i'm all about creativity, in any form, lived in africa for a third of my life , been a hiphop artist , but my love is sequential story telling.born friday the 13th in the middle of a storm in Portland(rose city), OR. When I was about 6, my peoples moved me and my older brother to Monrovia, LIberia, West Africa. The liberians are some of the nicest, most sincere prople I ever meet. I made and lost a lot of friends there. We got evacuated out in 1990 when the civil war there errupted. Lived in maryland ( silver springs, gaithersburg) for about 4 years,my little brother was born, when my family moved back to Africa, this time Accra, Ghana. The bad times where upon us, but we pulled togehter and made it work. Ghana wasn't half bad, alotta good memories from there. Made alotta good friends there, started rapping full time NFL(native funk lords), Ohene, and my nigga Jabo AKA Mr. Flow. Had a couple of group radio hits, rocked a couple of shows. my older brother Almasi got malaria in 97 and passed away two days after his birthday. As you can tell this wieghs on me a lot and I miss him everyday. At least I had good friends to hold me down. In late 98 I came back to the states to try and get into school, that didn't work out to great, but things happen for a reason. Was living in VA, where I meet my wife, untill it drug me down to the point of depression. Making my escape I moved up to Canton, OH, my fathers home town to spend more time with my little brother. Done alotta things that people only dream about in thier lifetime, good and bad, but life is beautiful, so I love everything I've been thru. Wish I could tell you everything about me but myspace doesnt have enough space. holla at me homies I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

art,hip hop, comics, movies, politics, righteousness, my wife, and other peoples problems( I should be getting paid for the work I'm doing, but JAH bless, it's the right thing to do)

I'd like to meet:

people of wisdom, comicbook artist & writers, poets, undergroind hiphop artist and producers, amatuer filmmakers, intelligent people with phylosphical conversations

Music:

hip hop, 90's grunge, ambient trance, raggae, dancehall, 70's funk and jazz.top bands and artist,...hmmm. boot camp clik( da whole label)nas, Bob & Damien Marley, bone, tricky, the Wu, outkast, DSGB, dead prez, NFL, Ohene, natas, Curtis Mayfield, Rick James, aesop rock, the roots, cypress hill, dr dre, the old snoop, slick rick, parliment, red hot chili pepper, SOTD, Nirvana, Herbie Hancock, Al Green, beenie man, glamour kid, prince, sade, jay z, big pun, biggie, aaliyah, of course the late great Tu pac, three6, the old cube, alice in chains, and dare i say it micheal jackson before he turned white

Movies:

anything gritty, anything smart.top ten. 1. the crow 2.boondocksaints 3. the 5 deadly venoms 4. pulp fiction 5. undercover brother 6. american pimp 7. good fellas 8. the star wars collection (yes, even phatom menace has its good parts{darth maul})9.friday 10. menace to society

Television:

boondocks, samari champloo, cowboy bebop, law & order, HBO, married with children, in living color, transformers, thunder cats, Weeds ( I love it ), the new def comedy jam, and DEXTER ( if you ain't seen it you better wrekonize )and the new joint, Sleeper Cell is off the meat rack, for real, showtime is doing the damn thing. Ninja Warrior is my new fix. Flavor of love girls charm school.

Books:

anything by Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, James Clavell and Frank Miller. Shogun, Watchmen, From hell, Global Frequency, Dark Knight returns, McNally's caper, and Whoreson.

Heroes:

Nat Turner, Bob Marly, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, His Imerial Majesty Haile Selassie I Conquering Lion of Judah, Marcus Garvy, the Great Bob Marley, LL Cool J, Stan Lee, Jack "king" Kirby, and my family

My Blog

the N-word

the N-word, oh the word of words that can excite so much emotion in so many. The reason why I'm posting this is so that I can express my feelings on the use of this word. well wait, really this is abo...
Posted by Sai da O.D. on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:15:00 PST

for the republic

I was having an interesting convo with a friend at work about politics. Now the interesting thing is that every time I say something bad about the republicans, he strikes back with how the democrates ...
Posted by Sai da O.D. on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:13:00 PST

I'm a hustler

I'm a hustler, not what you hear on rap tracks or anywhere else, I am a real hustler. See alotta people got it wrong mostly because of people who dont hustle like the term and call themself one. Back ...
Posted by Sai da O.D. on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:04:00 PST

why do I pay taxes

why do I pay taxes for a system that is against me, it seems, the more I make the closer my step to poverty, obviously this anomaly of the funds I no longer see places me into a belief that this count...
Posted by Sai da O.D. on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:51:00 PST

for real! you sure

people, people, people.......................why is it that people put themselves thru the same bullshit over and over again.  I mean come on, you already know what I'm about to tell you, so why ...
Posted by Sai da O.D. on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:50:00 PST

TRUTH: How it's working out

So, it would seem that my approach to the situation is not working out that well. The reason why is I don't like to hurt other peoples feelings, which is basically what's happening. Has this changed m...
Posted by Sai da O.D. on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:07:00 PST

TRUTH: if u wit me holla at me

Truth hurts dont it.  That doesn't matter though, well to me it doesn't.  I would rather know the truth and be pissed the fuck off then not know, you know.  Where I work I run in to alo...
Posted by Sai da O.D. on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:21:00 PST

Righteousness

I wrote in a rhyme once that people dont want God they want to play God. It seems that no matter how much I wanna to hope for the best in people I find they want the worst. The problem is they want to...
Posted by Sai da O.D. on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:21:00 PST

wake up

Back in the good ol'days, it must have been the same as now in our political climate. Isn't it funny how the witch hunts of the 50's have come back to haunt us in this new millenium. I find it quite f...
Posted by Sai da O.D. on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:18:00 PST

Dreams

man, life can sure start to look good, until your dreams fizzle away, and you feel stuck in limbo. looking at the bright side of it all, limbo is just a place you dream up, so maybe I should wake up s...
Posted by Sai da O.D. on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:52:00 PST