_Factory_
It's so sad to see/how society has become so factory/ they coming after me/ like i'm the culpret of an ultimate crime/punishing them because i decided to take the road less traveled-they dedcided to blow with the wind/and loose their individuality to/fabo shades(wearing them in buildins)-snowboots and mini-skirts in Mississippi/permed hair down the back and/brothas rocking dreds without reason got me wishin i was locked/up/cats is facotry/had to be made in China/straight off da assembly line/carefully wrapped, shapped up and shipped out to our/ local malls and retail stores/to our/communtiy gatherings only attending for the cake/every ghetto/every city/ factory..../somebody please/bust through/the packaging... -TheEndPoet-
I'd like to meet:
Wish I'd met: Brother Malcom X, Assata Shakur, Huey P. Newton, Marcus Moziah Garvey, J Dilla, Betty Shabazz, Coretta Scott King, Zayd Malik Shakur, Bob Marley, Tookie Williams, Fred Hampton,Tupac, Biggie Would love to meet: Stevie Wonder, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, John Legend, Lupe Fiasco, Kindred, Michael Jackson, Slum Village, Little Brother, Slick Rick, Jill Scott, Nikki Giovanni, Nas, Jay-Z, Erykah Badu....GLAD I MET: Jumaane Taylor, Herbert and Helena Brown, eZra Brown, PyInfamous (Jason), Marques and Tori Phillips, DJ's Scrap, Sketch, Phingaprint, Venom, Jonasty, Durdy, and MistaMista.
Music:
Al Green, Ahmad Jamal, Al Jarreau, Alicia Keys, Amerie, Andre 3000, Angie Stone, Anthony Hamilton, Asamov, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, The Beetles, Big Boi, Big Daddy Kane, Bilal, Billie Holiday, Black Star, Bob Marley, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Cinematic Orchestra, Common, Consequence, Corey Wilkes, Corinne Bailey Rae, Craig Mack, Curtis Mayfield, D'Angelo, Damien "Jr. Gong" Marley, De La Soul, Dead Prez, Donny Hathaway, Doug E. Fresh, Dwele, Ella Fitzgerald, Eric B. & Rakim, Erykah Badu, Fall Out Boy, Fela and Femi Kuti, Floetry, Freddie Hubbard, The Fugees, Gang Star, Ghostface Killah, Gnarls Barkley, Goapele, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grover Washington Jr., Herbie Hancock, Hi Tek, India Arie, J Dilla, Jada Kiss, James Brown, Jay Z, Jill Scott, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, John Legend, John Mayer, K OS, Kindred The Family Soul, KRS ONE, The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron, Lauryn Hill, Little Brother, Lupe Fiasco, Madlib, Madvillain & MF Doom, Maxwell, MC Lyte, Miles Davis, Mos Def, Musiq, N*E*R*D, Nas, Natalie Cole, The Neptunes, Nicolay, Nina Simone, The Notorious B.I.G., Onyx, Oscar Peterson, Outkast, Pete Rock, The Phacyde, Pharrell, The Philadelphia Experiment, Poncho Sanchez, Q Tip, Rahsaan Patterson, RH Factor, Robert Glasper, The Roots, Roy Hargrove, Run D.M.C., Sade, Santana, Saul Wiliams, Sergio Mendes, Slick Rick, Slum Village, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Stones Throw, Strange Fruit Project, Taalam Acey, Talib Kweli, Thelonious Monk, A Tribe Called Quest, will. I. Am, Wu Tang Clan, Wynton Marsalis, PyInfamous, Skipp Coon, 5th Child, 7evenThirty,
Movies:
Boys in the Hood, Love Jones, The Best Man, Devil in a Blue Dress, Superfly, Love and Basketball, Poetic Justice, Uptown SaturdayNights, Half Baked, Room 1408, Cornbread Earl and Me, The Sound of Music, Westside Story, Grease
Television:
Def Poetry Jam, Spongebob Squarepants, The Practice, CSI, Boondocks, Chapelle Show, Reno 911, Class of 3000, The Office, Hi, My Name is Chuck, Girlfriends, Everybody Hates Chris, The Game
Books:
I have read so many wonderful books, but just to name a very few.....The Autobiography of Malcom X (as told to Alex Haley), No Woman No Cry...Rita Marley, Assata.. Assata Shakur, The Beautiful Thoughts.. The Ugly Poet, Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement..Nikki Giovanni, Nigger..Dick Gregory, Sacred Woman..Queen Afu, Catch A Fire (The Life of Bob Marley)..Timothy White, The Negro.. W.E.B DuBois, I May Not Get There With You (The True Martin Luther King Jr).. Michael Eric Dyson, The Isis Papers..Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, The Souls of Black Folk.. W.E.B DuBois, Things Fall Apart.. Chinua Achebe, Poetry From a Brown Paper Bag...The End Poet (Coming Soon!)
Heroes:
Jumaane Taylor, Malcom X, Stevie Wonder, Afene Shakur, Aaron McGruder, Dorthy Dandridge, Fred Hampton, eZra Brown, Herbert Brown, Regal, 7even:thirty, YaYa the Poet, Saul Williams, Gil Scott Heron,Dick Gregory,Assata Shakur,Common,Jill Scott, India Arie,Phyllis Wheatly
