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hmmmm... i like those sad beautiful tunes... so pregant with sorrow in the womb of the future's inherent hope... errrr vica versa... and with that said, let the games begin:shuggie otis, bjork, weldon irvine (rip), albert ailey (rip), marvin gaye, tupac, nas, gift of gab (blackalicious), j-live, felix da housecat, jay-z, big pun, big l, li'l wayne, mr. lif, brother ali, little brother, saul williams, curtis mayfield the god, earth wind & fire the elements, the emotions, minnie ripperton, aretha franklin, alice coltrane, roberta flack and donnie hathaway, pink mu'phunkin floyd, the doors, elton john, jimi hendrix, jim morrison and jimmie walker: dynomite! ha, syd barrett, coldplay, gorillaz, the yeah yeah yeahs, bloc party, carl hancock rux, tricky, chick corea, john coltrane, ornette coleman, dextor gordon, thelonious monk, miles davis, sun ra, del the funky homosapien, people under the stairs, black star, mos and kweli, common, wu tang, that nu 3-6 mafia-yea!, mf doom, rza productions, ghostface, biggie biggie smalls... the illest, kool g rap, cassidy (yung boy got heat), sade, outkast, prince, dj spooky, quasimoto, madlib, pete rock, fela kuti, etta james ('doin' the do when she do like she dooo'), billie holiday, and the queen of yesteryear's trinity... the nebulous nina simone, yesterday's completes itself with today's~ the requisite ery.kah ba.du, jill "baby so ill can you have my babies" scott, and of course, my sista from another mista... Ms. Lauryn "the modern day translation of nina=l-boogie" hill... and that's real. john forte' (excuse my absence, please excuse me...), those gangsta mu'phunkas that molded my teenage consciousness... (one time for the new orleans boot camp click, underground N.O. Limit and cash money, suave house records- crime boss, MJG and that n***a Eightball...), ani di franco, tom waits (sike!: :negritude modernists... nah, ani's cool, not tom), nirvana, red hot chilli peppers and all the unsigned talent of today that kicks commercial's cotton candi ass...the bricklayers: one thyme for ancestry public enemy, x clan (rest in peace professor x), tribe called (hmmm... sound familiar) quest, black sheep, de la soul (past and present), slick rick, rakim (hip hop's own charlie parker), speaking of which-- krs one, d nice, queen latifah (well well it's the LA.. the TI... the FAH you'll see why/ the Q U Double E N is the reason i must be my... self!) Cypress Hill, dj premier, guru and gangstar (freddie foxx, group home, jeru the damaja), snoop doggy dogg in '93, parliament when i discovered 'em in 91, naughty (OPP!), yea you got it... nuff name droppin' you get the .msprm name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/I-MqWMInJrY" ....
Pi/ Requiem for a Dream/ Vanilla Sky/ Dreams by Akira Kurosara/ Memento/ Akira (anime)/ Ghost In A Shell (also anime)/ Fight Club; American Psycho; Devil's Advocate (the 3 flix that opened the rabbit hole fa me: made me see the lie that was my college's S.B.I. (School of Business and Industry) and Western capitalism in general)/ Manchurian Candidate (nu and old)/ Dancer in the Dark/ Trilogies: Matrix, Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, Star Wars (all 6)/ Ninja Turtles 1/ Batman (the first one with Keaton and Nicholson)/ Grimlins (my first flick)/ Birth of A Nation/ Scarface/ Waking Life/ Motorcycle Diaries/ Bamboozled and Malcolm X and anything Spike Lee minus Girl 6/ V for Vendetta/ Basquiat/ Tron/ Constant Gardenerat the crux of patriarchal madness lies in wing...
nonebut when i do sneak into public places or friend's house and catch a peak... it's adult swim (Boondocks, ATHF-it's a bad accident you can't turn away from, Family Guy-lovin' it!, Minor-I-Team~sicwitit)Cosby Show in the 80's, Urkel was funny for a few minutes, and don't know shit else about TV now... it's been a few years
The Autobiography of Malcolm X... Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man... Yukio Mishima's Patriotism, Confessions of a Mask... Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov feat. The Grand Inquisitor... C.S. Lewis' The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe series... Octavia Butler's Speech Sounds, anything by her... Samuel Delaney Jewels of Aptor, Dhalgren, The Einstein Intersection... Jimmy Baldwin's The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Go Tell it on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, Jimmy's Blues, If Beale Street Could Talk (good tho my least fav), anything the man wrote basically... Saul Williams' The Seventh Octave, she, said the shotgun to the head, dead emcee scrolls (again, good tho my least fav)... Carl Hancock Rux (the other black writer of our time;), Asphalt... Alice Walker's The Color Purple... Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Sula, ...any sentence she ever transcribed basically... Ishmael by Daniel Quinn... The Prophet by Khalil Gibran... Herman Hesse's Journey to the East, Siddhartha, ones to peep:: The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf...Carlos Castaneda, anything by him... Spirit of Intimacy by Sobunfu Some'... Of Water and the Spirit by her hubby Malidoma Some'... Song of The Stars, Indaba My Children by Credo Mutwa... The Medu Ntr by Ra Un Nefer Amen... The Isis Papers by Frances Cress Welsing (whom i had the priveledge of interviewing for 90.5, FAMU's radio station)... Some of the beatnik poetry and novels: Kerouac, Corso, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Bukowski... leroi jones aka amiri baraka... Consp:::ahem...eculation theory and conjecture...The Sirius Mystery by Robert Temple...Behold a pale Horse by William Cooper...Pawns in The Game by William Guy Carr...
Malcolm X (of course, as his face serves as a veil for my fathers) Jimmy Hendrix, Tupac, James Baldwin, Patrice Lamumba, Mishima, Che Guevera, Jim Morrison, Saul Williams, my dad, my younger brothers and ma, Yeshua, Credo and Shaka, Ralph Ellison, Nikki Giovanni... s/he who lived and died for principle/ consciousness elevation and expansionGet this widget!