Getting some time alone to clear my head
Someday taking my family to visit various countries in Africa
Going to see Laila Ali fight Live
Helping talent and creativity dominate hip-hop again... Who ever thought gimmicks, payola, and bullshit marketing would infect it so profusely!? When did "keepin it real" morph into false-flaggin!? When you expose half of these superficial EmCees... it's then, that they get real with ya, catz will catch a case to keep you from removing their masks.
I'd like to meet:
Beautiful People
The Dungeon Family
RBGz
Rising Stars
Up and Coming Artists
Talented Individuals
Folks who are Focused on Success
Friends of Friends
Anyone that has anything positive to offer
Music:
Man, my iPod has everything in it! Too much to list them all... OUTKAST and ANYTHING DUNGEON FAMILY, Rah Digga, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Robert Johnson, Minnie Ripperton, MJ (Yeah I said it!), Curtis Mayfield, D'Angelo,Miles Davis, Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington,Chrles Mingus, Ol' Skool Hip Hop, Poor Righteous Teachers, Fugees, Lost Boyz, BDP, Dead Prez, Eric B and Rakim, Kool G Rap, Main Source, Nas, and Public Enemy to name a few.
BUT I HAVE TO LOOK OUT FOR MY LOCAL ARTISTS and DJs:
Dick James (What up Homie)
All my Cuzzins in the Down South Originalz clique
E-Val Styles (We out here beatin the streetz to get your sound out homie! Hold your head!)
Flav Ja Vu (What Up HustleBoy)
Piazo
B-Lord
Prince Ice (a METRO Legend)
Big Gee (Since we was sellin toys at Kay-Bee homie!)
Sab Young (Where you at, Folk?)
Kenny the Poet (need I say more?)
CollardGreens
Durty Don (You On Deck Homie!)
Mr. Mone Verstyle(My Brotha from Anotha Motha... Georgia)
Lex Denero (Georgia)
The Prodigal (NYC/Jamaica)
Shawty Fatt (Alabama)
and Yela Wolf (Alabama)
Morgan Sherman (a triple threat: music, poetry and beauty)
ON PRODUCTION:
Southern Boi Music
Brandon "BDot" Dreher
Up-Nya Produkzions
Imperial Production
HeavyWeight Production
Organized Noize (forever Pimpin', Neva Slippin')
GrippTight Production (Henny got Beats)
Outside of the U.S.:
CHOCLAIR and Kardinal Offishal(Up there holdin the T-Dot down)
MC Solaar (The dopest French flow I've ever heard!)
Wyclef Jean (the solo tracks in his Native tongue are fiyah!)
I'm into AfroBeat too!
Big up Fela Kuti
and Femi Kuti
Baaba Maal
I've gotta big up The Marleys, and catz like Sizzla, Supercat, Peter Tosh, Dennis Brown, Warrior King... too many to name!!!!!
Movies:
Dead Presidents (My all-time favorite)
Cooley High
Purple Rain
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (We need to make a modern day version starring me)
Malcolm X
Bamboozled
Crooklyn (An Excellent Family Film)and most other projects affiliated with Spike Lee including New Jersey Drive, and the Huey P. Newton Story
The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
Pam Grier Movies (Pam still got that Fiyah!)
Blaxploitation Films
WattStax
Carlito's Way (Pacino! ...not the new one)
Cool Hand Luke (1967 Classic!)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Television:
Boxing
Sanford and Son (possibly the funniest sitcom ever)
"TV and Radio are 75 percent paid promotion and 23 percent bullshit.
The Local Artist and the Artist that has some real shit to kick have to fight for the remaining 2 percent. That ain't right!" — NativeSun
Books:
Native Son by Richard Wright
Pimp by Iceberg Slim
Soledad Brother by George L. Jackson
To Die for the People by Huey P. Newton
The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur
Soul on Ice by Eldrige Cleaver
Fallen Angels by by Walter Dean Myers
Down these Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
CURRENTLY READING:
Heal Thyself by Queen Afua
Heroes:
My Father "Big Tuck" and My Momma "Glo"
My Uncles, (Tony R.I.P.)
The Panthers: Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Elaine Brown, Assata Shakur, Bunchy Carter, and Fred Hampton
The trials and tribulations of El Hajj Malik Shabazz, and Sonny Carson
The spirit of George Jackson and Angela Y. Davis
Muhammad Ali (A Great Man, In and outside of the ring)
Laila Ali (Shawty Bee Stingin!)
Big Rube and Khujo Goodie (Eveytime I listen to your lyrics I hear somethin New, Cuz... That's Real!)
The Ghetto Dreamz of J.J. Evans (the artwork of Ernie Barnes)
