My old Kanye West Mixtape!!! Press Play!!
Family, friends, records, shoes, photography, gardening, cooking, art, phenomenons, females (in no particular order)
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books,paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies ofwater, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work andtheft will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don't bother concealing your thievery -celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take thingsfrom - It's where you take them to."
- Jim JarmuschUs left-wingers always imagine ourselves to be populist, but are often such cultural elitists. We have the nerve to wonder
why it's so hard for us to connect with the masses, we are rejecting their culture as beneath us."-Jsmooth995It looks like mofo's done took hip hop, cradled her, let her stay up past bedtime, overloaded on sugar, looked in familyphoto books at momma (soul) and grandma (jazz), and great grandma (blues)--straight laughing at them hoes with norespect---"look how bad they look--that shit will never be me-BLAMO!!!---now it's too late to turn back. hip hop had somepride, education, and direction. got good grades in high school.....now look at her....---bitch got a mickey slipped, and she got gang raped. mofo's busted a nut in her eye, and throat. fistedher in the ass--7 way sexed her (nose, ears, mouth, ass and pussy---and if this sounds ugly and nasty and brutal? fuckyou----you let it happen.....all of us watched this girl get shitted on, pissed on, and raped in an all male prison---
and now we walking up to her to offer what? a band aid? ~QuestloveWhile we are on this earth, we must each consider what contributions we have made to our families, communities, society,
and mankind. What personal legacy will you leave on this planet upon your death?If we don't make good music, what will our kids have to sample? - David BannerIt's only an obstacle. You can get around any obstacle." - Joe BushI was a willow last night in my dream,I bent down over a clear running stream, I sang you the song that I heard up above, andyou keep me alive with your sweet, flowing love - HeartI'm the one whose gotta die when it's time for me to die so just let me live my life the way I want to. - Jimi HendrixMusic should never be written for people to understand but to feel.- Manuel De Falla, SpainThere comes a time in every
mans life when he's gotta handle shit up on his own. Can't depend on friends to help you in asqueeze, please they got problems of they own - slim kid tre
"Humble Mumble" Andre says "Speeches only reach(es) those who already know about it.."One good thing about music...When it hits, you feel no pain." - Robert Nesta MarleyThe difference between solitude and loneliness is the difference between someone who likes who they are alone with vs.someone who doesn't like who they are alone with..."A man who exposes himself when he's intoxicated, really doesn't know the art of getting drunk." - Freddie FoxxxPresident is a Bush, Vice Prez is a Dick, so a whole lotta fucking is what we gonna get. - Talib Kweli"if god didn't exist, it would be necessary to invent him." - voltaire"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody". -Bill Cosby"You know, full commitment generally comes as a result of awareness, & awareness is the product of study &observation/analysis. The things that a person has gone to the effort of reading and analyzing say a great deal about hischaracter." - George Jackson"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
- H. L. Mencken"Substance reigns over style."
Is Everything
Across The Universe, Moog, The Goonies, Style Wars, Skratch, KIDS, Friday, Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood,Samurai Fiction, SPUN, Any Bruce Lee flick, Any Spike Lee Joint, Woody Allen Flics, Federico Felini, foreign subtitled flics, classics
Breaking Bad, Squidbillies, The First 48, Making The Band
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life, Yes Yes Ya'll, EgoTrip's Book of Rap Lists, Where' You Get Those? by Bobbito Garcia, Anything by Charles Bukowski, Poetry by Langston Hughes
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