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reggie b

Rest in Peace

About Me

I'm good peoples. I like collard greens. Aspiring writer, music maker, and master of self preservation.

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My Interests

Afropunk, vinyl, hip hop not made for hipsters. Straight internationalizing. da jawns.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Mike Ladd, Madlib, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Bad Brains, Jimmy Hopps, Sun Ra, Sonic Youth, Pharoah Sanders, Gil-Scott Heron, Last Poets, Immortal Technique, Nas, Biggie, Lord Finesse, Lonnie Liston Smith, Charles Stepney, Parliament-Funkadelic, Neil Young, Pavement, Fela Kuti, Anti-Pop Consortium, Edan, Minnie Riperton, Erykah Badu, Jay Dilla (R.I.P.), Mccoy Tyner, Alice and John Coltrane, James Taylor, Jillie from Philly Scott, Uzi Ego, G-Riot, Ras Kass, Grace Jones, R.L. Burnside, ESG (the mamis not the homie),I now find myself listening to the Clash on a daily basis, a whole, whole, lot of otha ish....

Movies:

The Warriors

Television:

Good Times, What's Happening, Chappelle Show, Diffrent Strokes, Miami Vice, Any Very Special Episode of any show. The half hour commercial for the Flowbee (did they ever invent the one they were gonna make to cut black hair?) Ron Popeil's Knife off. 704 Hauser St., a show starring John Amos as the black Archie Bunker, cut after five or so episodes by Mr. Charlie. I am hooked on the satelite video channels that show old eighties videos. Bring back Nightflight muthaf%^&a's. Oh yeah, can't forget Transformers, Thundercats, and Voltron, cartoon Zen. Mr. Show.

Books:

Rip It Up: The Black Experience In Rock and Roll by Kandia Crazy Horse, A Whore Just Like The Rest by Richard Meltzer, Anything written by Suheir Hammad, The Intuitionist and John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead, Blues People by Leroi Jones, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Pathways To Bliss by Joseph Campbell, The Lonesome Death of Encyclopedia Brown, Ramona goes to Camden, Nj, The Bell Curve (only when there's no toilet paper left in the crib). Some of Us Did Not Die by June Jordan, Manchild In The Promised Land by Claude Brown, The Stranger by Albert Camus,.....

Heroes:

Mother, Malcolm X, Suheir Hammad, Mike Ladd ,Joseph Campbell, Spike Lee, Esspirit, Amiri Baraka, Curtis Mayfield, George Clinton, Sun Ra, Sonia Sanchez, June Jordan (r.i.p), Octavia Butler (rest in peace), Jessica Care Moore, Richard Pryor.

My Blog

Jersey Fresh

My favorite new group intro.. Hi I'm from New Jersey. I fuckin curse a lot. I say yo, and I say it often. I sure as hell don't pump my own gas. I know what real pizza tastes like & I know tha...
Posted by reggie b on Mon, 05 May 2008 03:11:00 PST

Voodoo Soul seance on my turntable

I went on my first true digging excursion in years and came across a gem called Doo Wah Nanny. I was blown away the second I dropped the needle on the record. The same way I was when I truly sat and t...
Posted by reggie b on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:56:00 PST

soliloquy of chaos /R.I.P. Proof

I won't sit here and front like I was a big fan of dude, but I understand that he was a crucial cat in regards to the Detroit hip hop scene, and he was the best emcee in the Eminem-less version of D12...
Posted by reggie b on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:33:00 PST

Sad and Inspiring article about J. Dilla (R.I.P.)

Jay Dee's last days The untold story of the noted Detroit hip-hop producer's drive to make music in the face of life-threatening illness BY KELLEY L. CARTERFREE PRESS MUSIC WRITER February 23, 2006 ...
Posted by reggie b on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:57:00 PST