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Africa Hot

I am here for Dating, Friends and Networking

About Me

I am that which I am, and that's all I know to be. Complex, but not concave. Wise, but naive. Indignant, but humble. I'm different things at different times to different people, but I am always one bad mutha shut yo mouth. Either love me, or leave me the fuck alone :-)I'm an artist. Bout the only label you can place on me. I'm a vocalist, turntablist, lyricist, scribe, educator, part-time comedian...a renaissance man from Harvey town.They call me Africa Hot. My show is the Back of the Bus @ www.swanksociety.com, every Thursday from 6pm-8pm. My music is evolving and involving. Check out both if you get a chance, I think you'll enjoy.Layout made by over.him

My Interests

Black people, porn, literature, music, travel, the arts, education, liquor, kind bud, fashion, Black people, tennis, Beautiful black men

I'd like to meet:

James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Bayard Rustin, Aaron McGruder, Assata Shakur, Octavia Butler...if you can get on their level then maybe we can chill.

Music:

Music saved my life in the midnight of my solitude. Music held me in the coldness of my loneliness. Music loved me when the beauty of my soul was masked to even me. Music is my mistress and muse, warm from the contact of our touch. I'ma DJ, so my taste go all over, but I'm very critical to forewarn. Some highlights: Ida B., Osunlade, Nina Simone, Abeena, Radiohead, Chaka Khan, Steely Dan, Common, Khari Lemuel, Tanya Reed, 4Hero, Pharcyde, Special Ed, Fertile Ground, Deep Cotton

Movies:

Love Jones, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, Pootie Tang, Lackawanna Blues, I Heart Huckabees, City of God, Baaaddassssss, Farenheit 9/11, Malcolm X, The Spook that Sack by The Door, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Wattstax, Brother to Brother

Television:

Golden Girls, Family Guy, The History Channel, King of the Hill, The Justice League, Project Runway, The Sopranos, Oz (how I miss it), Entourage, West Wing, Living Single, Iron Chef America, The Simpsons, Emeril Live

Books:

Just Above My Head, Manchild in the Promiseland, Assata, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Black Skin, White Mask- Invisible Man, Temple of My Familiar, No Name in the Street, Mama Black Widow, Dopefiend, The Street, Everything You'd Better Know About the Music Industry, A Raisin in the Sun, Giovanni's Room, Things Fall Apart, Lilith's Brood, Parrable of the Sower and the Talents, Wildseed

Heroes:

Mom and pops, James Baldwin, Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X, Nina Simone, Nat Turner, W.E.B. DuBois, Donny Hathaway, all Black people struggling and surviving

My Blog

Hole in my heart

Friendship is an elusive dream sometimes.  I've never been one to keep a large cohort of close associates, but have also always been somewhat of a social butterfly.  I remember in high schoo...
Posted by Africa Hot on Thu, 01 May 2008 08:55:00 PST

Just call me Magnum

So I'm an asshole.  I know it.  At my core, I'ma really good person that was raised to respect people, love your people and give back when you can.  But amidst all that, I'm s...
Posted by Africa Hot on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:08:00 PST

metamorphasis

the lake of the mind is irrigated by the body depleted reserves of choices chances distilled futures set adrift across the seas of opportunity   the glow of tomorrow is ecliped by the swell of de...
Posted by Africa Hot on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:03:00 PST

I stay woke

Just wanted to take a second a send a soul clap to Ms. Erykah Badu for the new album.  While Mama’s Gun will always remain my favorite Badu album for sentimental reasons, this latest joint ...
Posted by Africa Hot on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:16:00 PST

The sentence

The last two days have been an arduous torture.  Parts of myself were repelled againsted each other ina way I had least anticipated.  The decision of conviction.  The relevance of refer...
Posted by Africa Hot on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:07:00 PST

A confession

I don't know if I'ma vote in the primaries tomorrow.  I know for a lot of people, that seems absurd particularly coming from me.  I consider myself to be pretty politically aware, and I advo...
Posted by Africa Hot on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:08:00 PST

Real Talk

So, I'm up watching this VH1 special about Black on TV in the 80's, and they are interviewing the cast of A Different World. Debbie Allen (a fellow Howard University alum)was talking about how when t...
Posted by Africa Hot on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:51:00 PST

The Mask

Its fucked up when you realize that YOU are the cat in the room who isn't any fun to be around. Ya know-when your money is funny, fridge got water, wilted lettuce and eggs, cat's need new litter to s...
Posted by Africa Hot on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:25:00 PST

For your pleasure...please believe it

And THIS ladies and gents is why I will forever love Aaron McGruder...perhaps the funniest shit I have ever seen.  I see why this shit was banned, can't have niggas aware.  Can we say Chappe...
Posted by Africa Hot on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:00:00 PST

The torture

I want to hurt Souljah Boy. No really, I do.  I want to see him in the street, reach in my bookbag, pull out a container of baby powder, add a substantial portion to my right open palm and bring ...
Posted by Africa Hot on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:40:00 PST