"Because you never know where life is gonna take you and you can't change where you been, but today, I have the opportunity to choose...." - India.Arie
This past weekend I went back to my alma mater (still doesn't sound right saying it, but Thank God..) for Homecoming. First, I had an AMAZING time. I probably had TOO much fun :) But most of all, I had a chance to reconnect with my amazingly-genuine-consistent-FUN-LOVING friends. I also had a chance to kick it with some of my favorite people back at Miami too...and I must say, I was really happy to see them. I appreciated the break and it was much needed!
Sometimes, we go back to our beginnings to see how far we come, and to make sure that we do not forget from whence we come. My years as a student at Miami were some of the GREATEST, and also some of the most DIFFICULT times of my life. Going back there helped me to realize how strong I have become, and how much I cherish the experience. I have grown so much since Miami, and i have grown so much because of Miami.
As I traveled back to Baltimore, I couldn't help but remember God's promises to me, of peace and love, and of Joy, and of a DESTINY...and going back to Miami was a reinforcement of that. I am so grateful to God, for grace and mercy (even in the midst of my craziness)...and for also continuing to push me to greater lengths. I can't change where I've been, I can't change the decisions I made or didn't make, I can only choose to continue to press forward and take the world by storm with love in my heart, and God pushing me forward.
PEACE.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Law of Confession
Many of my friends and family know that I have embarked on a new challenge: grad school. I am learning that there are some very new challenges that come with being a student, and I am yet getting accustomed to them.
When I decided to go to grad school, I expected a lot of work, beyond what my undergraduate mind could grasp. However, one lesson that I've learned throughout my life, that so as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Nedless to say, when I arrived to school, and through my first few weeks of class, the work started to pile up and became more and more reading intesive. I begin to think, ' there is no way I'm going to get throug this readin,' ...and here, on this fourth week of classes, I am indeed struggling to make it through all of my readings for all of my classes...and I believe that it is all because of what I have spoken over my own life.
As a believer, I began to think about the many teachings of Faith. While doing some 'leisure reading' to clear my mind, a book "your life follows your words" by Darlene Bishop, reminded me of the importance of conceptualizing your faith, your victory, your success, your overcoming, through your mind/spirit, and through confessing it with your mouth. Science has proven that the constant repeating and hearing of words can cause the mind and body to believe and trigger appropriate responses to the words. Well our faith has justified that....we know that if we confess and speak those things that are not as though they were, then we will posess it. This is one thing that I have tested, and I know to be true. So as I close another night of graduate study, I continue to visualize and speak my way into May 2010, when I WILL graduate with distinction and on to the next phase of life. My faith is sustaining, and my confession is working me through.
To my brother or sister reading this blog, know that faith truly is the substance of things hoped for, and our working of faith through confession moves us from conceptualizing to possession. We all have suffered, we all have had to want, and many of us have been in very impossible situations. We have all been hungry, lacked, and we have all used our faith as a sort of security blanket...while we yet lament on our present circumstances. Know that you are giving more power to your detriment than rise to your faith. I know for me personally, I am going to start taking the steps of confess and speak things into existence, not as a security or insurance factor, but with real authority and belief behind it. Family members to be saved...speaking it with authority....inner peace and happiness..speaking it with authority as if it is here......acceptance....speaking it....possession....speaking it. The results are two fold....our minds and spirits respond to it and we live a natural life more positively....but more importantly, it calls our faith into action...and while I am writing this I am reaffirming myself.
I do not claim to know everything...I do not have everything together...there are some areas in my life that need a lot of work...but what I do have is faith, and though all other things fade away...faith and love abides. Stay encouraged.
*feel free to leave comments of your faith experiences*
When I decided to go to grad school, I expected a lot of work, beyond what my undergraduate mind could grasp. However, one lesson that I've learned throughout my life, that so as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Nedless to say, when I arrived to school, and through my first few weeks of class, the work started to pile up and became more and more reading intesive. I begin to think, ' there is no way I'm going to get throug this readin,' ...and here, on this fourth week of classes, I am indeed struggling to make it through all of my readings for all of my classes...and I believe that it is all because of what I have spoken over my own life.
As a believer, I began to think about the many teachings of Faith. While doing some 'leisure reading' to clear my mind, a book "your life follows your words" by Darlene Bishop, reminded me of the importance of conceptualizing your faith, your victory, your success, your overcoming, through your mind/spirit, and through confessing it with your mouth. Science has proven that the constant repeating and hearing of words can cause the mind and body to believe and trigger appropriate responses to the words. Well our faith has justified that....we know that if we confess and speak those things that are not as though they were, then we will posess it. This is one thing that I have tested, and I know to be true. So as I close another night of graduate study, I continue to visualize and speak my way into May 2010, when I WILL graduate with distinction and on to the next phase of life. My faith is sustaining, and my confession is working me through.
To my brother or sister reading this blog, know that faith truly is the substance of things hoped for, and our working of faith through confession moves us from conceptualizing to possession. We all have suffered, we all have had to want, and many of us have been in very impossible situations. We have all been hungry, lacked, and we have all used our faith as a sort of security blanket...while we yet lament on our present circumstances. Know that you are giving more power to your detriment than rise to your faith. I know for me personally, I am going to start taking the steps of confess and speak things into existence, not as a security or insurance factor, but with real authority and belief behind it. Family members to be saved...speaking it with authority....inner peace and happiness..speaking it with authority as if it is here......acceptance....speaking it....possession....speaking it. The results are two fold....our minds and spirits respond to it and we live a natural life more positively....but more importantly, it calls our faith into action...and while I am writing this I am reaffirming myself.
I do not claim to know everything...I do not have everything together...there are some areas in my life that need a lot of work...but what I do have is faith, and though all other things fade away...faith and love abides. Stay encouraged.
*feel free to leave comments of your faith experiences*
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
IT's BEEN A MINUTE!!!
What's good people,
It's been a minute since I've blogged...I have been transitioning to another state, moving and starting school and all that good stuff. While moving I was reminded of of the biblical book of Haggai. In Haggai, the prophet depicts a move, that is difficult, but once it is completed, there is peace...a greater-latter. I have been experiencing that peace..everything that I was disappointed with, everything that happened before, there is now peace.
Sometimes we as human beings just need new scenery to refocus and clear our minds. So to keep it short and sweet, cherish now, and anticipate the future, don't fight the move, but expect the greater end, because there awaits peace of mind, and a clear conscience. until then...
It's been a minute since I've blogged...I have been transitioning to another state, moving and starting school and all that good stuff. While moving I was reminded of of the biblical book of Haggai. In Haggai, the prophet depicts a move, that is difficult, but once it is completed, there is peace...a greater-latter. I have been experiencing that peace..everything that I was disappointed with, everything that happened before, there is now peace.
Sometimes we as human beings just need new scenery to refocus and clear our minds. So to keep it short and sweet, cherish now, and anticipate the future, don't fight the move, but expect the greater end, because there awaits peace of mind, and a clear conscience. until then...
Thursday, August 14, 2008
"him upstairs"...lol...RIP Bernie Mac...I true Comedic Legend
Man.....it's still crazy that Bernie Mac is not here with us. But his spirit will continue to live on through his works and we will remember him as the icon that set himself apart from every other person in the industry. Aside from making us all laugh until death, Mac is esteemed as a family man and of good character. May God grant him peace. He will be funeralized tomorrow in his native Chicago...for all of us who can't make it, have some milk and cookies and watch Kings of Comedy or a Bernie Mac Show Marathon.....take it back to house party if you want to...but be sure to live life, and laugh, ans Bernie Mac would want us too. God Bless him.
Enjoy this vid...a classic...
get lifted
Enjoy this vid...a classic...
get lifted
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Videvation - Kanye "Champion"
This is the latest from my dude Kanye...dude has been bringing something fresh and new to not only hip-hop but the music industry as a whole since 'College Dropout'...and the vid is mad funny...enjoy.
Big ups to Kanye
Big ups to Kanye
Monday, August 4, 2008
Should there be a movement?......for the black male?
The U.S. women's suffrage movement since the early 20th century, expecially within the last 30 years, has help to uplift the social position of women in America and abroad. With the exception of Anna J. Cooper and Soljourner Truth, black feminist thought has been particularly limited or excluded from the mainstream womanist ideals. Due to the vast amount of women dedicated to liberating the thoughts and conceptions of women, the formation of a accredited field in academia, and opening of the mainstream to female leaders, women have made considerable gains in society. However, not to be misunderstood, women are still the most subjugated in society, and African American women still find themselves the lowest person on the todem pole in many (is not most) sectors in society. Women are continuing to be exploited, objectified and flat out used, but alas, I submit that there is a new group that that is desparately in need of a political and academic movement, and that group is African American males.
We live in a male dominated society, our economic structure, juriprudence, and American iconography is based on a male perspective. I do not deny that. However, I have recently contemplated the state of black males in society today. There is a lot of literature that is written on the output of black males, if you will, rather than an investigation of what has occured inwardly since the beginning of our existence in America. I believe that an academic and political movement, similar to the feminist movement, could unequivocally broaden our understanding of black manhood. A multidisciplinary committment that studies the historical-social forces that impact African American male identity.
There have been scholars who have studies black males, but it appears many are through generic, distant, and uncanny lense. The end result is an amount of literature that depicts the black male experience sans his consent, or a isolation of a single identity or character. There are exceptions, especially novels and fictional works, by the way which are great for social and cultural commentary/context. (Fences, A Gathering of Old Men)
Many would argue that the African American Civil Rights Movement (historical, modern and post-modern), is a chronicaling of the African American man, especially since black women were usually subjugated to roles that were generally silent. BLack women supported the image of their men, and let the men be the leaders and champions of the racial cause. I do not negate that, however, I believe that much of the the victories for the black race through the leadership of black males has been achieved on the terms of a white patriarchal paradigm. The black female, though she exists in a patriarchal society, has an understanding of the system, and subsequently herself and her struggle because the feminist movement rejects it in total. Black men have yet to reject the patriarchy because it is what allows them to achieve, and it is what has allowed them to achieve since they were declared freemen. No one would reject it even if that success only comes to few, and many do not understand it. We merely play the game.
I believe that academia should provide an understanding of maleness so that black males can see that the potential pathways to their uplifting lies between understanding masculine dogma and feminist theory. Please understand that I do not suggest that black males assume a feminist approach to life; I would not betray my brothers to any additional emasculation in society. However, I do feel that it is important to understand it and its ideals, because quite simply, knowledge is power.
African American males are the most discussed, most criticized, and most problematic species in America. We are not understood, and in many cases we do not understand, but we are committed to working, and if given the opportunity to do so, we will achive. I would just like more achievement for more black males. The key to our success as a race lies not in just the Black Feminist Movement, but in a conjoining of both a development of black female and male identity, just as it has been done for black females in academia. Perhaps then, we can learn to love ourselves, love our women more than what we show in videos, that there are black men who have loved their women, understand our fears, understand our flaws, and work towards improving them. A more than anything, reject those BS qualifications, limitations, ideals, and paradigms set for us by other people but us. Perhaps then we won't have to be placed on the scaffold of criticism and denigrated to the extent where we perpetuate our own demise and isolation. Then and only then, will be reach the potential we KNOW we can do, but on our terms and in our understanding.
peace.
We live in a male dominated society, our economic structure, juriprudence, and American iconography is based on a male perspective. I do not deny that. However, I have recently contemplated the state of black males in society today. There is a lot of literature that is written on the output of black males, if you will, rather than an investigation of what has occured inwardly since the beginning of our existence in America. I believe that an academic and political movement, similar to the feminist movement, could unequivocally broaden our understanding of black manhood. A multidisciplinary committment that studies the historical-social forces that impact African American male identity.
There have been scholars who have studies black males, but it appears many are through generic, distant, and uncanny lense. The end result is an amount of literature that depicts the black male experience sans his consent, or a isolation of a single identity or character. There are exceptions, especially novels and fictional works, by the way which are great for social and cultural commentary/context. (Fences, A Gathering of Old Men)
Many would argue that the African American Civil Rights Movement (historical, modern and post-modern), is a chronicaling of the African American man, especially since black women were usually subjugated to roles that were generally silent. BLack women supported the image of their men, and let the men be the leaders and champions of the racial cause. I do not negate that, however, I believe that much of the the victories for the black race through the leadership of black males has been achieved on the terms of a white patriarchal paradigm. The black female, though she exists in a patriarchal society, has an understanding of the system, and subsequently herself and her struggle because the feminist movement rejects it in total. Black men have yet to reject the patriarchy because it is what allows them to achieve, and it is what has allowed them to achieve since they were declared freemen. No one would reject it even if that success only comes to few, and many do not understand it. We merely play the game.
I believe that academia should provide an understanding of maleness so that black males can see that the potential pathways to their uplifting lies between understanding masculine dogma and feminist theory. Please understand that I do not suggest that black males assume a feminist approach to life; I would not betray my brothers to any additional emasculation in society. However, I do feel that it is important to understand it and its ideals, because quite simply, knowledge is power.
African American males are the most discussed, most criticized, and most problematic species in America. We are not understood, and in many cases we do not understand, but we are committed to working, and if given the opportunity to do so, we will achive. I would just like more achievement for more black males. The key to our success as a race lies not in just the Black Feminist Movement, but in a conjoining of both a development of black female and male identity, just as it has been done for black females in academia. Perhaps then, we can learn to love ourselves, love our women more than what we show in videos, that there are black men who have loved their women, understand our fears, understand our flaws, and work towards improving them. A more than anything, reject those BS qualifications, limitations, ideals, and paradigms set for us by other people but us. Perhaps then we won't have to be placed on the scaffold of criticism and denigrated to the extent where we perpetuate our own demise and isolation. Then and only then, will be reach the potential we KNOW we can do, but on our terms and in our understanding.
peace.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
VIDEVATION!!!
I think laughing is one of the best things in life...if you can't laugh, u can't live....enjoy
PEACE!
PEACE!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
It's 2008 folks!!! Elevate by the way your think!
Okay...so recently I have been really perplexed by the amount of black folks (both men and women) who have such restricted color qualifications in the people they date. I'm tired of hearing people talk about how they can't date someone because they are too dark or not light enough for them. That stuff is played..for real. How could it be that we are coming this far in America tht we as black people are still enslaved by our own minds?? If it isn't instant gratification, it's our own self-hatred against the color of our own skin.
Now, recently, Young Berg made a comment about him not dating women darker that he, and that he doesn't do "dark butts" and that he is "kinda racist"....unfortunately he is just a representation of something that is deeply igrained into the psyche of many African Americans, and especially into the prototype for black females in the industry....come on black people....we gotta do better.
Let's be real....but there are a lot of light skinned women who get crowned with the 'pretty' title, when in fact all they have IS the light skin...and this is not to down anyone, but I really want to see when we stop judging a person's attractiveness by the hughe of their skin...that stuff is for the birds and we have come much to far to still be enslaved by that oppressive mentality...we have spend four hundred years living up to the qualifications of beauty and class of our oppressors, and now we perpetuae them ourselves...when are we goign to define our own standards and set our own ideals of beauty? It's gotta start about the way we think of ourselves...especially when we have dark skinned mothers but won't date dark skinned women...what is it, in essence, that we are saying about our very own mothers? let attractive be defined by much more than color...elevate your mind...
Here's his whack apology here..
“I want to apologize to every woman across the world,” Yung Berg told AllHipHop.com. remorsefully. “I would never want to offend any women of any race because I love women so much. You can tell by the music that I make that women mean the world to me. My mother is a lovely dark skin lady…I’m totally sorry and hope I didn’t offend any of my fans that have love for YB.”
....wow how did I predict that his mother was dark skinned.......
Now, recently, Young Berg made a comment about him not dating women darker that he, and that he doesn't do "dark butts" and that he is "kinda racist"....unfortunately he is just a representation of something that is deeply igrained into the psyche of many African Americans, and especially into the prototype for black females in the industry....come on black people....we gotta do better.
Let's be real....but there are a lot of light skinned women who get crowned with the 'pretty' title, when in fact all they have IS the light skin...and this is not to down anyone, but I really want to see when we stop judging a person's attractiveness by the hughe of their skin...that stuff is for the birds and we have come much to far to still be enslaved by that oppressive mentality...we have spend four hundred years living up to the qualifications of beauty and class of our oppressors, and now we perpetuae them ourselves...when are we goign to define our own standards and set our own ideals of beauty? It's gotta start about the way we think of ourselves...especially when we have dark skinned mothers but won't date dark skinned women...what is it, in essence, that we are saying about our very own mothers? let attractive be defined by much more than color...elevate your mind...
Here's his whack apology here..
“I want to apologize to every woman across the world,” Yung Berg told AllHipHop.com. remorsefully. “I would never want to offend any women of any race because I love women so much. You can tell by the music that I make that women mean the world to me. My mother is a lovely dark skin lady…I’m totally sorry and hope I didn’t offend any of my fans that have love for YB.”
....wow how did I predict that his mother was dark skinned.......
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Making it count...
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
- Langston Hughes
"A Dream Deffered"
Since I was a child I always had this yearning, desire, and innate expecation for something bigger, something better, visons of me doing things that many others don't get the opporutnity to do. As I grew older, I took a lot of those dreams and aspirations and burried them...even though the presence of those burried dreams provided constant reminders of what I had hoped for.
When you go to college, I believe that there are three things that happens to you. Some of follow our dreams, some of us learn to dream 'rationally', and some of us forget the dreams as irrational childhood fantasies. As a recent graduate, I realized that those dreams didn't rest in peace, but rather returned with vigor, and the desire for something golden, something that makes life count, has returned with a vengeance.
I made a plan of what I wanted to accomplish in life, but most of these were things that I knew I COULD accomplish, things that required sacrifice, but wasn't as much as a gamble as some of the other things I've always wanted to do with my life. So I'm starting to revamp "The Plan." I have the rest of my life to be a professor, and though building a school is one of my biggest dreams, I know that I will achieve that in due time....what I cannot forgive myself for is the fact that I didn't even TRY to go for the things I so desparately wanted...the Goldeness thatwas promised to me long ago.....and to sacrifice my dreams for eternal pain and disappointment with self is something that I can't live for...and neither should anyone. There are many of you with fesh business plans, crazy ideas, hopes, talents, album concepts, and goals...go for it.
So, today, I ask, what is it that you've been putting off? What is it that you've given up? What is that thought that follows you through every phase of life, that dream that keeps knocking, that feeling in your gut that comes with every thought of it? I urge you, not ot give up on it....at least until you try....because I am confident that fulfillment will come with even the journey of trying.....I'm going to take my own advice and do the same.....living life like it's golden and making it count.
PEACE
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
- Langston Hughes
"A Dream Deffered"
Since I was a child I always had this yearning, desire, and innate expecation for something bigger, something better, visons of me doing things that many others don't get the opporutnity to do. As I grew older, I took a lot of those dreams and aspirations and burried them...even though the presence of those burried dreams provided constant reminders of what I had hoped for.
When you go to college, I believe that there are three things that happens to you. Some of follow our dreams, some of us learn to dream 'rationally', and some of us forget the dreams as irrational childhood fantasies. As a recent graduate, I realized that those dreams didn't rest in peace, but rather returned with vigor, and the desire for something golden, something that makes life count, has returned with a vengeance.
I made a plan of what I wanted to accomplish in life, but most of these were things that I knew I COULD accomplish, things that required sacrifice, but wasn't as much as a gamble as some of the other things I've always wanted to do with my life. So I'm starting to revamp "The Plan." I have the rest of my life to be a professor, and though building a school is one of my biggest dreams, I know that I will achieve that in due time....what I cannot forgive myself for is the fact that I didn't even TRY to go for the things I so desparately wanted...the Goldeness thatwas promised to me long ago.....and to sacrifice my dreams for eternal pain and disappointment with self is something that I can't live for...and neither should anyone. There are many of you with fesh business plans, crazy ideas, hopes, talents, album concepts, and goals...go for it.
So, today, I ask, what is it that you've been putting off? What is it that you've given up? What is that thought that follows you through every phase of life, that dream that keeps knocking, that feeling in your gut that comes with every thought of it? I urge you, not ot give up on it....at least until you try....because I am confident that fulfillment will come with even the journey of trying.....I'm going to take my own advice and do the same.....living life like it's golden and making it count.
PEACE
Saturday, July 5, 2008
it's been a long time...i shouldn't a left u...
haha....yeah i'm finally back in good spirits. For those of you who don't know, I broke my foot on Wednesday after moving the lawn. I ran on a piece of unleveled ground and broke my foot. I was kind of down at the thought of being restricted to a house for the rest of this glorious summer....but i realized, my summer can stil be good (though I do get a little disappointed when my fam is getting ready to go out and I'm stuck in the house)....I read a quote that said "stress and pain are inevitable, misery is optional" and it really stuck to me. I realize that things could be a lot worse than what they are...and when life hits, because it will, we can choose to either weather the storm and try to make life as abundant as we can, or we can suffer in defeat, both physically and spiritually.
That's my little blurb for the day...i got some stuff on my mind and will be expressing it to....until then, be real....
That's my little blurb for the day...i got some stuff on my mind and will be expressing it to....until then, be real....
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
.....standards
I've been wondering....as I grow older and I grow more with wisdom, I began to notice things about people that I never noticed before. The very ones who spoke of integrity are the same ones who accept disrespect and destruction from those they love or serve as examples to. I have always known that money rules everything around me long before I heard Wu-Tang, and I have seen how money controls people's emotions, their relationships, and how they view themselves....even if they sell their own spirit. Now, it's good to have money, it's good to financially independent, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying the finer things in life.....black people have been poor long enough and I don't see anything wrong with people getting money. However, I do have a problem with the way money controls people.
People will love you if you have money, and will go out of their way to please someone if it delivers monetary gain in return....and people will treat you like you are absolutely nothing as soon as the money stops flowing. If you have money, people will be silent about your self destructive behavior. The very things people said they would never stand for will be tolerated so long as money is involved. Why are we that corruptable?
Maybe this is not about money, but about standards. I just don't understand how we will be silent when we know someone is killing themselves....all because we benefit? This is just something that I've been trying to wrap my mind around....feedback?
.......be real........u know the rest. PEACE
People will love you if you have money, and will go out of their way to please someone if it delivers monetary gain in return....and people will treat you like you are absolutely nothing as soon as the money stops flowing. If you have money, people will be silent about your self destructive behavior. The very things people said they would never stand for will be tolerated so long as money is involved. Why are we that corruptable?
Maybe this is not about money, but about standards. I just don't understand how we will be silent when we know someone is killing themselves....all because we benefit? This is just something that I've been trying to wrap my mind around....feedback?
.......be real........u know the rest. PEACE
Sunday, June 22, 2008
VIDEVATION - .....so you just gone personally attack on me???!!
Here's a vid of a yound lady who is teaching (in love as Christ commanded)about how to refute someone's standing without humiliating them or making a personal attack....a lot of us could learn from it. What do you think?
Stuff getting real...
With graduation 5 weeks behind me, grad school a couple of months away, and adulthood staring me in the face every morning I wake up, I try to make some sense of life. Asking myself, 'what will the rest of my life be like', 'can there be immunity from rainy days and lonliness', 'does a degree and the benefits of money necessarily garauntee the 'good life'?' These are all questions I've been asking myself the past couple of days. The books I've been reading about adults trapped in the mundane routines of life has not eased these thoughts at all....(thanks a lot Toni Morrison...lol).
I decided today that I am going to try harder to step back from the picture and take it all in. I've been so used to being in the picture, or taking the picture, that I haven't always had the opportunity to just enjoy it for what it's worth. So I'm stepping back from the picture.....and I'm on this new kick to not take life so seriously...to live for today with the future in mind. Trying to figure out how I can make this life thing work out...and make sure that it counts...and most of all, that I get a chance to enjoy the pic. So I'm going to try to make the rest of these summer days count...EVERY DAY.....employed or not. Until then, be real to you, and to others, u will be real. PEACE.
I decided today that I am going to try harder to step back from the picture and take it all in. I've been so used to being in the picture, or taking the picture, that I haven't always had the opportunity to just enjoy it for what it's worth. So I'm stepping back from the picture.....and I'm on this new kick to not take life so seriously...to live for today with the future in mind. Trying to figure out how I can make this life thing work out...and make sure that it counts...and most of all, that I get a chance to enjoy the pic. So I'm going to try to make the rest of these summer days count...EVERY DAY.....employed or not. Until then, be real to you, and to others, u will be real. PEACE.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Videvation.....Nas - "Be A Nigger Too"
I heard this song a few weeks back, but I'm now just seeing the video. I've been a fan since my cousin Mall used to bump it when I was in the single digits...got my first CD when I was in 7th Grade (I Am). Nas is one of the most ahead of the time MCs in the game.......so it's no shock to many hip-hop fans that he's continuing to challenge the status quo with this latest release.
This song has already proved to be controversial.....but maybe it's because it's so far ahead of us. I'm still trying to take in the messages is sending off this tune...but I mos def know that it's not a one sided argument he's presenting.....What I got from it is that the world still sees us as niggers, but we've been producing greatness and transcending our circumstances since the beginning of time..my interpretation is what's holding us back is the word 'nigger' and the importance we give to it, and thus, the power it has over us. We are trendsetters, so if we are niggers then the whole world must (or wants to) be too because they gravitate to what we do (whether negatively or positively)....but then again, I can be off...but the brilliance lies in the fact that the vid/song makes you think and analyze your own interpretations.....and both of these produces elevated thought....so I posted the vid (or you to do that for yourself....Big Ups to Nas.
This song has already proved to be controversial.....but maybe it's because it's so far ahead of us. I'm still trying to take in the messages is sending off this tune...but I mos def know that it's not a one sided argument he's presenting.....What I got from it is that the world still sees us as niggers, but we've been producing greatness and transcending our circumstances since the beginning of time..my interpretation is what's holding us back is the word 'nigger' and the importance we give to it, and thus, the power it has over us. We are trendsetters, so if we are niggers then the whole world must (or wants to) be too because they gravitate to what we do (whether negatively or positively)....but then again, I can be off...but the brilliance lies in the fact that the vid/song makes you think and analyze your own interpretations.....and both of these produces elevated thought....so I posted the vid (or you to do that for yourself....Big Ups to Nas.
Wake up Mr. White!
So I finally made it over to blogspot.....I have been blogging on Myspace recently, and before that, Xanga...but I'm feeling this new site, that way I can blog without necessarily dealing with the foolery that's called Myspace..or only having limited views of my blog due to myspace membership....so I'm here...though I wish I would have made it here first before everybody else...(selfish, huh?)..lol.
Most of my blogs are about elevation....and here it will be the same. Since there is enough detriment already in the world, we don't need another site that will add to or current frustrations....So I hope that you come by my page, to become enlightened and to be become elevated. ...until then, Be real to you, and to others, you will be real.
Peace.
Most of my blogs are about elevation....and here it will be the same. Since there is enough detriment already in the world, we don't need another site that will add to or current frustrations....So I hope that you come by my page, to become enlightened and to be become elevated. ...until then, Be real to you, and to others, you will be real.
Peace.
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