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About Me

My name is Jamiyl Samuels. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, though I spent a lot of my young life in St. Catherine Jamaica, West Indies. I have a passion for Hip Hop, Reggae music and creative writing. In 1990, as a sixth grade student at Phillipa Schuyler Intermediate School, my journalism teacher loaned me the screenplays to Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" and "Mo Better Blues". I had already seen the films, but reading the screenplay brought the movies back to life in my head. From that moment on, I knew writing screenplays was what I wanted to do. My first foray into sciptwriting was an action film called "Renegade". The script was pretty advanced for a 12 year old, however I stopped writing after 42 pages to pursue a career in music in 1991. It wasn't until I took a Screenplay writing class in my first semester of Graduate school in 2004, that I became inspired to write scripts again. I am a die hard Hip Hop fan and pride myself on my knowledge of the culture. My favorite groups/artists are A Tribe Called Quest (y'all need to get back together - stop playing!), The Roots, Run-DMC, EPMD, Big Daddy Kane, Common, LL Cool J - that will give you an idea where my head is at (Golden Age of Hip Hop all day '88-'94!). I am honored to be contributing to WQHT Hot97's website. Check out the latest issue of The Ave for some of my contributions. I am currently a writer for Rap Fanatic Magazine (pick up latest issue on newstands now), and a contributing writer for Allhiphop.com. Feel free to check out my blogs for some of my thoughts and rants on pop culture. Keep Your Eyes Open is a motto I have been using since my rhyming days (I still got it - don't sleep!), and I will leave that with you. Determined individuals always make it. Profile Edited by MPS MySpace Editor 2.0

My Interests

Writing screenplays, Hip Hop journalism, listening to & recording music.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

All good Hip Hop of substance (ATCQ The Low End Theory; all The Roots albums; Illmatic; Wu-Tang - Enter the Wu and Forever; all Big Daddy Kane '88-'93; Slick Rick's first two albums; MC Lyte - Lyte as A Rock and Eyes On This; Reasonable Doubt; all Common albums; Kanye West; all Run-DMC till '93; EPMD; Notorious B.I.G; Miseducation of Lauryn Hill; Whodini; Ludacris; some rock and roll;

Movies:

Boomerang, Coming To America, Monster's Ball, Harlem Nights, American Pie trilogy, The Faculty, The Best Man, Eddie Murphy Raw, Delirious, Ghostbusters, The Godfather trilogy, Foxy Brown, Coffy, Krush Groove, Final Destination, Liar Liar, all Spike Lee movies, Face Off, The Color Purple, Die Hard, Dreamgirls (Jennifer Hudson killed it)

Television:

Television ESPN (and all its affiliates - I am a sports junkie), All My Children, BET MTV Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids (don't get me started on the old school cartoons), Boondocks

Books:

All Shakespeare tragedies, any hip hop bios (B.I.G Unbelievable, DMX, LL Cool J, Russell Simmons, 50 Cent) because the back story is always fascinating. I read a lot of magazines. I would like to read the Godfather book. The movies are great

Heroes:

God for blessing me with my creativity, My Mom for being my mother and father, my wife for the continuous support

My Blog

Keep It Funky: What's going on at Def Jam??

I know it's been a minute since I did one of these, but I just saw a commercial showing Redman's new album is coming out this Tuesday (March 27th). There is no video for a single, no nothing. No ...
Posted by It's Jamiyl...snitches on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:56:00 PST

Has it really been ten years?

www.hot97.com/biggie Nuff said....
Posted by It's Jamiyl...snitches on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:55:00 PST

Keep it funky: Throwing rocks at the Prez

Is it me or is everyone coming out of the woodwork to diss Jay-Z? Hearing Lil' Wayne put out Ether 2, I thought 'did I miss something'? Wasn't this the same guy who almost signed to Roc-a-f...
Posted by It's Jamiyl...snitches on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:54:00 PST

keep it funky: south vs. east

Ok. I've listened to Hip Hop for years. I must say all of these Southern artists catching feelings over Jay-Z and Nas is pretty disturbing. Nas, for his part, gave props to the South for keeping Hip H...
Posted by It's Jamiyl...snitches on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:27:00 PST

thought process vol. 3

Method Man is back. That was my thought upon listening to his latest opus "4:21...the day after". I had to break out my "Tical" tape and reminisce. Johnny Blaze brought back the meaningful wordpl...
Posted by It's Jamiyl...snitches on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:00:00 PST

keep it funky: The Gangsta

What's da deal, Myspace peeps? I was at the AllHipHop.com (shout out to Paine, Grouchy Greg, Jigsaw, Jamilah, etc..)/G-Unit BBQ in NYC today. Who says dudes that are hard on records ain't cool people....
Posted by It's Jamiyl...snitches on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:51:00 PST

my thought process vol.2

my thought process vol.2 What's da deal, Myspace peeps. If you haven't seen the review for Lloyd Banks/DJ Whoo Kidd "Mo Money In The Bank Part 4" on AllHipHop.com, check it out. In this second vo...
Posted by It's Jamiyl...snitches on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:19:00 PST

keep it funky: 7 questions for the "Hip Hop Cop" (?!)

What's da deal, MySpace? Am I the only person that feels cops specifically assigned to watch Hip Hop artists is ridiculous? As you may know the self proclaimed "Hip Hop Cop" just released a ...
Posted by It's Jamiyl...snitches on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:52:00 PST

keep it funky: the VJ

What's da deal, Myspace? I'm kinda getting into the swing of blogging. I'm glad I can share my thoughts with you even if you don't respond, lol. I'm gonna keep it funky about the Video Jockey. Shout o...
Posted by It's Jamiyl...snitches on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:12:00 PST

keep it funky: ghostwriting

What's da deal, Myspace? I'm gonna keep it funky on ghostwriting. I am not saying that these artists have ghostwriters, but haven't artists like Lil' Wayne and Fat Joe gotten real good lyrically real ...
Posted by It's Jamiyl...snitches on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:37:00 PST