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I would have loved to have met Mr. Rogers, Beah Richards, Eubie Blake, and the late Jeff Buckley...I'd love to meet Jill Scott, Bilal, Will Smith, Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, LaShun Pace, Bill Cosby, Jessica Care Moore (the poet who helped to resurrect the spoken word movement), Tyra Banks, Ofari Hutchinson, Kevin from the 1st Real World, Sway from Mtv, Jeffrey Wright,India.Arie, and many others...
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ESTHERO,the Pussycat Dolls,Jill Scott,Mary J. Blige, Natasha Beddingfield, Donnie, Sonique, The 3 Degrees, the JazzyFatnastees,Bilal,Angie Stone, Floetry,Common,Talib Kweli,Will Smith,the Black Eye Peas, Fantasia,Miles Davis,Geno Young,Pikhasso allen Poe Jones,Michelle N'DageoCello (I know I spelled dat wrong),Kindred,India.Arie,Jeff Buckley (RIP, soul mover),Vivian Green,Jaguar Wright,Syleena Johnson,Candi West,Gaye Arbuckle,Blair,Myron Williams,Kirk Franklin,Kim Burrell,Gary Mayes and NuEra,Shawn McLemore,Rhonda McLemore,Nikki Ross,Micah Stampley,Yolanda Adams,Donnie McClurkin,the McClurkin Project,the Singletons,Joann Rosario,Fred Hammond/RFC,Ricky Dillard and New G,MARY MARY,Patrick Lundy and MOM,New Direction,Chicago Mass,Lizz Fields,Faith Evans,Kelly Price,NINA SIMONE,Aretha Franklin,CHAKA KHAN,Etta James,ELLA FITZGERALD,Sarah Vaughn,Miles Davis,CANNONBALL ADDERLY,Nat Adderly,CHARLES MINGUS,THELONIUS MONK,Joe Sample,Donnie Hathaway,Layla Hathaway,Rachelle Ferrell,Randy Crawford,ROBERTA FLACK,Terri Lynn Carrington,Patrice Rushen,Sylvester (yeah, I said Sylvester),Tarralyn Ramsey,the Sons of Light (formerly known as "the Boys"...serious soul),Third World,Bob Marley and the Wailers,the Souls Seekers,the 7 Sons of Soul,William Becton,Richard Smallwood (and all his singers),TriCity Singers (for life),Peter Tosh,Maxi Priest,Kenny Rogers,Shania Twain,Faith Hill,the Dixie Chicks,Mel Tillis,Maroon 5,Linkin Park, Gandi. (a TRIP HOP artist from Paris...check him out and love him like I do),basically every artist from every genre whose last name is Clark from Stanley to the Clark Sisters (and the Clark Brothers...Denise's sons),J. Moss,Kierra Sheard,Destiny's Child,NSync(what's so bad about that?),JS,EarthWindandFire,LTD,the OJays,BB King, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Robert Johnson, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph and the Family Band,the Emotions, Nickelback,Lauryn Hill,Ne-Yo,Usher,No Doubt,Brandi (Full Moon is one of my alltime favorite albums FO SHO!!),Raphael Saadiq,Tony!Tone!Toni!,Mint Condition,d'Angelo,Anthony Hamilton,Eric Roberson,Lucy Pearl,Cooly's Hotbox,Teedra Moses,Rahsaan Patterson,Maxwell,Beyonce,Kelly Rowland,Trinitee 5:7, Lenny Kravitz, Wicked Wisdom (check em out...Jada Pinkett-Smith's band), and Ween (check out the video)...the list goes on and on so I might as well stop now.
Background By MyPimpSpace.com I like all kinds of different movies: Angels In America/ Lackawanna Blues/ Mysterious Skin/ The Color Purple/ Wicker Park/ Urbania/RENT (man, it was gut-wrenching)/the Producers/ Dirty Laundry... movies that are historical or challenge peoples thinking...especially movies that I see and think, "yeah, I could do that character to push the envelope or bring attention to my talents..."
Girlfriends/ Will and Grace/ NYPD Blue/ CSI:Miami/ Judging Amy/ Livin Single/ Dharma and Greg/ Punk'd/Scrubs/Cosby/the Cosby Show/Law and Order
6 Days In January by Frederick Cooper/ Love Hangover by Shewanda Riley/ The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G Woodson/ A Man's Love by Brian Francis (one of the best poetry books I've ever read...and I'm not saying that cuz he is my spiritual brother)/ Essays from Church by Daniel D. Hardman/ No Woman No Cry by Rita Marley
My family...Ma, Dad, my two sisters, my nephew, my aunts, uncles, and cousins...each of them give me a different inspiration and motivation. Every example I need for everything, good or bad, I can find in my family./Daniel D. Hardman...this brother encouraged me to feel what I feel about anything and be OK standing on it whether everyone disagrees or not and even if they no longer want to have me in their life or "lose respect" for me. And that a brother can change his mind as he matures and evolves as a person.../Beah Richards...I wish I'd had an opportunity to meet her, but she is the female version of Daniel D. Hardman to me./Heavy D...he was the 1st classy, well-dressed, represent'n big brother that women proclaimed that had sex appeal. All of us ain't slouchy, stinky, and non-caring about our presentation./David Peaston and Phil Perry...Brothers with high voices that didn't sound like Phillip Bailey and all the other more traditional falsetto voices that got props for doing their thing...I draw on their success (tho I don't feel they have gotten their full props) when I feel discouraged about whether a big guy with a woman sounding singing voice will be able to carve his niche in the music industry... /The Neo-Soldiers out of Austin...I was blessed to meet these people when artistically I was at my lowest as far as faith in myself...I've grown as a poet experiencing them...and I won't believe I will ever be able to really articulate with words how much i appreciate and respect each of them (esp. B-Fran, Trey, KA (my spiritual brothers), Love Robinson (the Loveliest of them all...so sayeth the mirror named me), Notorious 13, Maljazur (I know I just spelled her name wrong...PLEASE DON'T TELL HER), Sassy...I love these people not only for their talent, but for their essence...Jive Poetic...my favorite poet...IN THE WORLLLLLLLLLDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and the Christophers come shortly after meaning Lee and Michael)Michael Guinn...he changed my perception of the slam poet...I thought I had to kind of go for a more traditional "slam" style of a black male poet in order to really do it right...this negro comes up sounding like a Baptist Preacher on the verge of "takin up da collection" and rips it!!! So I'm cool with doin it with my own flow and not trying to incorporate the traditional stylings of "slam spoken word"...(if I could just keep that doggone 3 min thing in mind)