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Midnight's Children
De La Soul & AZ remain two of my favorite artists. Growing up in the states as a young black man, my affinity with HipHop was inevitable and my divorce from it is forthcoming...I think. (but hope not). There is something defined esoterically as "REAL" Hiphop that is so friggin elusive, but profound once hearkened to...from a Dj. Premier beat...to Pete Rock horns...to Pharoahe Monch Verbal Dexterity...to Dilla Drums...etc etc etc!
Fela Kuti, Salif Kieta, Boukman Eksperyans, Olatunji, Baaba Maal, Tony Allen, Ismael Lo, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder, Amel Larrieux, Cassandra Wilson, Knaan, BJORK!, Amos Lee, Ali Farka Toure, Alice & John Coltrane, Meshell Ndegeocello, Lizz Wright, Oliver Tuki, Tony Allen, Boukman, J Live, Sade, Dj Premier, Dilla Dog sounds, Hugh Mesekala, Last Emp, Radio head, The Doors, Mile Davis, Yeahs Yeahs Yeahs, Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, Pink Floyd, Ani Difranco, Pj Harvey, J Davey, Orchestra Baobab,Julie dexter, Janis Joplin, White Stripes, Esthero, Vinia Mojica, Erykah Badu, Amel Larrieux, Zap Mama, Ndambi, L-Boggie, Nikka Costa, Massive Attack, Jeru Da Damaja, Roots crew, Zero 7, Portis Head, Madlib, Fertile ground, Res, Rakim, Kool G. Rap, Nasir Jones..etc etc
Xala, Faat Kine, Mandabi, Moolaadé, La Noire de Borom Sarret, Tableau ferraille, Flame,Les Prix Du Pardon, Femmes aux yeux ouverts, Abouna, Yelen, Allah Toundu (God's Will, Guimba(The Tyrant, Ça twiste à Poponguine, Life and Debt, 500 Years Later, Amandla, Lumumba, Krik? Krak! tales of a nightmare, Dakan, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amen!, Born into Brothels, Agronomist, Motorcycle Diaries, Tsotsi, Quilombo, Black Orpheus, The Language you Cry In, Maria Full of Grace, Spirited Away, Triplets De Bellevile, Whale Rider, Spike Lee Old Joints, City of god, Spring Summer Fall and Spring, Garden State, Dirty Pretty Things Rabbit Proof Fence, Sankofa, Revolution will not be Televised, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mabien, American Splendor, Station Agent, Frida...etc etc
abstaining mostly...but I will watch some futbol..its an African thing.
Ngugi wa Thiongo, Ayi Kwei Armah,Bessie Head ,Chinua Achebe, Nuruddin Farah, Ousmane Sembene, Wole Soyinka, Tsisti Dangarembga, Nadine Gordimer, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ben Okri, Zakes Mda, Yvonne Vera, Maryse Conde, Buchi Emecheta, Amos Tutola, Khalil Gilbran, Richard Wright, Bell Hooks, June Jordan, Kamau Brathwaite, Mariama Ba, Naguib Mahfouz, Salil El Tayyib, J.M. Coetzee, Chenjerai Hove, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Frantz Fanon, Walter Rodney, Okot P'Bitek, Ferdinand Oyono, Camara Laye, Derek Walcott, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Dambuzo Marechera, Alex La Guma, Nawal el Saadawi, Athol Fugard, Zakes Mda, Mongo Beti, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, George Lamming, Junot Diaz, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Kenzaburo Oe, Jean Toomer, Abena P.A. Busia, Michell Cliff, Earl Lovelace, Lorna Goodson, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai & Kiran Desai...list grows at a rate that is exponential.
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