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Member Since: 12/1/2007
Band Members: yo, all serious writers have at one time or another in some form or fashion participated in a critical community of writers. hughes, hurston, brooks, baraka, reed, sanchez, madhubuti, walker, clifton, komunyakaa, you name the writer they identified and intellectually wrestled with some group of writers. ENTER thethis is the online writers' workshop for the oldupaai writers' collective started by ron davis and myself. we are based in louisville, ky, but open to all serious writers online or offline... our collective meets physically and in cyberspace... our motto is the african proverb, 'A zebra takes its stripes wherever it goes.' click our logo or if you are having trouble with the link check us out at http://kentuckykente.proboards85.com
Influences: Reading, writing, thinking, poetry, religious experiences, visual arts(contemporary, traditional african, african-american, native american, latin american), dialogues about ideas and current events; Common, Jimi Hendrix, Amiri Baraka, Robert Johnson, Sonia Sonchez, Larry Neal, A Tribe Called Quest, Led Zeppelin, Son House, krs-one, Duke Ellington, Haki Madhabuti, Gwendolyn Brooks, Fleetwood Mac, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mahalia Jackson, Francis Cress Welsing, Donnie Hathaway, Romare Bearden, Ezra Pound, Ntozake Shange, Henry David Thoreau, Cheik Anta Diop, Paul Robeson, Ivan Van Sertima, Paul Beatty, Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Garvey, Harriet Tubman, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, T.S. Eliot, The Buzzcocks, Public Enemy, old Ice Cube, Yusef Komunkyakaa, Mos Def, James Brown, Michael Eric Dyson, Taj Mahal, Socrates (and Plato), The Last Poets, Eric Burdon, WAR, Derek Walcott, Jacob Lawrence, Fredrick Douglas, The Roots, Bertolt Brecht, Billie Holiday, Little Brother, Saul Williams, Toussaint L’ Ouverture, The Dead Kennedys, Chicago, William Carlos Williams, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Bayard Rustin, Zora Neale Hurston, Stevie Wonder, Doobie Brothers, Patrice Malidoma Some, Jill Scott, Johnny Cash, Ralph Ellison, Walt Whitman, Fred Hampton, Hank Williams, Sr., The Pogues, Louis Armstrong, Erykah Badu, Van Gogh, R.A. Scwaller De Lubicz, The Grassroots, Cannonball Adderley, Cornel West, Yeshua ben Yosef, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malik El Hajj El Shabazz, Black Flag, Shirley Chisolm, Neil Young, Langston Hughes, John Brown, Picasso, Nat Turner, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, John T. Biggers, Thelonius Monk, Nikki Giovanni, Lauren Hill, Peter Gabriel, W.E.B Dubois, Nina Simone, Lenny Kravitz, Bob Marley, Charlie "Yardird" Parker, Peter Tosh, Max Roach, Bud Powell, Charlie Mingus, Jimmy Cliff, Outkast, Goodie Mob, Toots and the Maytals, Count Basie. All these beautiful human beings (my soul says niggas) live up in me. Ashe.
This is how I stay up on things:
Sounds Like: Amiri Baraka invoking thelonius monk; the scattin’ of some cat skinned for the ninth time; the words to coltrane’s solos on my favorite things; the dialogue between two turntables as moderated by the hands of dj premiere; the sigh of granmama’s soul as it looks back and wonders how she got over; a message of welcome home to all the diasporian tribes beat out on the doundounba; I want to be heard.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None