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About Me

Most importantly...Peace to all creative souls and heads maintaining their originalality. Y'all deserve so much more from this mainstreamed industry, thats marauding our music. I'm just a creative individual dedicated to counterbalancing our culture's artform...growing healthily through my progressions . Staying focused on the inner mind & inner creativity, involving producing... all while trying to maintain success. Hope u listening...Until---I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/31/2005
Band Members: Creativity, inner thoughts....& I!
Influences: My Grandpops on Bass(Paul Chambers) with Miles & Coltrane...just lil family history here ;-) .. width="425" height="350" ..Grandfathers Paul Chambers & Cal Massey, Coltrane, Miles, Archie Shepp, T.Monk, Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, Jaco Pastorius , June Tyson, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, The Jazz Messengers, Eddie Harris, Wayne Shorter, Max Roach, J-Dilla, Pete Rock, Madlib, J Rawls, Premier, Stretch&Bobbito Show, Common, Company Flow, Sub-Conscious, Cella Dwellas, The Roots, Tribe, De La, Boot Camp, Ras Kass, Gangstarr, Kweli, Slum Vill, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Vinia Mojica, E.Badu, Yukimi Nanago, Meshell Ndegeocello, Saul Williams, D'angelo, Dwele, Peven Everett, 4hero, Marc Mac, New Sector Movements, Agent K, Bugz in the Attic, DKD, Radiohead, Yes, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Oumou Sangare, Doze Green, Computer Languages, Quantum-physics, Chiekh Anta Diop, Stephen Hawking, Frued, Ivan Van Sertima, J.A.Rogers, Dr.Ben, Cornell West, LARRY MAJORS(RIP), Larry David, Ingrid Rogers, Jedi philosophy, Madden EAsports ;-), i could continue...
Sounds Like: an explanation of my vision...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

2 of mine on BREAKTIME RADIO.

Whats good ya'll!? When time allows checkout/download the latest show(1-07)...featuring 2 of my cuts along with new tracks also from Talib kweli, Sa Ra, Jneiro Jarel...& many others.Hope u ...
Posted by Hanif Askia on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:42:00 PST

Sun Ra's View of African-Americans....

Ra's view of his relationship to black people and black cultures "changed drastically" over time. Initially, Ra identified closely with broader struggles for black power, black political influence, an...
Posted by Hanif Askia on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:24:00 PST

MY ANIMATION SHORT

Whats good ya'll? Just wanted 2 share an animation i did for a Graphic design project...check it out when time allows.Sorry about the bad loop at the end...couldn't program the web-hosting site to sto...
Posted by Hanif Askia on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:40:00 PST

Mother's Day reflected....

Happy belated Mothers Day to all those...so y'know, i started thinkin about how mothers & the earth have many things in common. They both are very intricate bodies that produce & hold tremendo...
Posted by Hanif Askia on Mon, 15 May 2006 07:31:00 PST

Beautiful Things...

While at work today i had a little debate with a friend of mine there on Myspace who happens 2 be a journalist...After reading her despressing bulletin, i felt like reading it, ruined my day... i expr...
Posted by Hanif Askia on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:01:00 PST

JAY-DEE'S LAST DAYS(TOUCHING READ)

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060223/ENT 04/602230496/1039/ENTCut & paste that into your url address box.It's a little hard to read, but if you have some time, it'll give you so...
Posted by Hanif Askia on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:51:00 PST

just saw CHAPELLES BLOCK PARTY MOVIE!

Just got back from seeing an advanced showing of the movie, this afternoon. Although fortunately for me, i was one of the very lucky few hundreds of heads that were able to witness the historic/monume...
Posted by Hanif Askia on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:24:00 PST