We Read Magic

No, this is not Fatlip of the Pharcyde!

It's his long lost Papi, Amiri Baraka

Ha! Enjoy...

Ka' Ba

A closed window looks down

on a dirty courtyard, and black people

call across or scream or walk across

defying physics in the stream of their will

Our world is full of sound

Our world is more lovely than anyone's

tho we suffer, and kill each other

and sometimes fail to walk the air

We are beautiful people
with african imaginations

full of masks and dances and swelling chants

with african eyes, and noses, and arms,
though we sprawl in grey chains in a place

full of winters, when what we want is sun.

We have been captured,
brothers. And we labor
to make our getaway, into

the ancient image, into a new

correspondence with ourselves
and our black family.

We read magic
now we need the spells, to rise up
return, destroy, and create. What will be

the sacred words?

By: Amiri Baraka

Cheadle to Play Miles in Biopic

One of the illest actors playing the illest trumpter of all-time. This is a no brainer.

Brown Sounds

BROWN SOUNDS

brown sound

chocolate memories like the first time you saw grapes and tasted them and learned the color blue brown sound

cream milk echoes like the first time you saw bees and tasted gold and learned the honey tongue brown sound africa pulses like the first time you exploded between legs and heard drums

and learned the message of rhythm

lovebrown sound america pulses plus pushing down trees like the first time you saw that wild crazy horse riding through painted deserts and you learned the grand canyon

red motherbrown sound black outline like the first time like the first time the first time is the last time like that

by: Henry Dumas

The Currency of Hope

Jomo Kenyatta

I have an acquaintance who is from Kenya. We speak almost daily on the current political unrest in Kenya. We talk about the beauty of Kenya's Great Rift Valley. We talk about the young Massai men who receive graduate school educations in the city only to return home to the countryside to raise cows in the very same manner their forefathers did. We talk about the Kissi, the Kikuyu, and the Kiambu district. We talk about Jomo Kenyatta, the Mau Mau, Mwai Kibaki. Please, during this time of unrest, say a prayer for Kenya.

Rock Cocain Flow

Study: 77% of Rap Songs Contained References to Drugs and Alcohol

http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSN0144737220080204?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

Being & Nothingness

Being and Nothingness

(To Quote a Philosopher)

i haven't done anything
meaningful in so long
it's almost meaningful
to do nothing
i suppose i could fall in love
or at least in line
since i'm so discontented
but that takes effort
and i don't want to exert anything
neither my energy nor my emotions
i've always prided myself
on being a child of the sixties
and we are all finished
so that makes being
nothing

by: Nikki Giovanni

Exfoliating With They Pom Poms

Spring Fashion 2008

Andre Ben Releases New Fashion Line

It’s tempting to call Benjamin a dandy, but the word doesn’t quite go far enough—he’s more experimental than that. He’s worn pretty much everything during his OutKast career, from garish plaid to polka-dotted bow ties to pimp furs to turbans to leopard hats to military gear to golfwear... http://nymag.com/fashion/08/spring/44214/

Yelling "Go 3000!"