Quote of the Day

"As the economy gets worse and worse, we're gonna have better and better subway acts."

--Lindsay Strachan

I Was Mentioned in Best Music Writing 2011!

My article on Wyclef running for president was listed in the "Notable Writing" section of The Best Music Writing 2011. Imagine that! I'm flipping through the book at B & N and bam, there's my name! Anyway, the list was also included in the Village Voice. I feel so honored.

Freedom: Short Stories

Writer Mohammed Naseehu Ali put me on to this great collection. Some real good writers in it.

My National Book Award Winner Prediction

Haven't read it yet, but I know it's about Hurricane Katrina and a poor family and a litter of prized pitbulls. You heard it here first.

Hip-Hop SAT Assimilation

assimilation (n.) - the process of receiving new facts or of responding to new situations in conformity with what is already available to consciousness 

"It's almost methodical, education is false assimilation..."
--Ras Kass, "Ordo Ab Chao" 1996

 

More Hip-Hop SAT

Rich People/Poor People

Poor People Question: What are you wearing?
Rich People Question: Who are you wearing?

I'm Introducing Mohammed Naseehu Ali

Hey Everybody,

This Friday, October 14th I'm introducing Ghanean writer Mohammed Naseehu Ali (The New Yorker, the New York Times, Essence) at KGB Bar in the village (85 E. 4th St). What am I gonna say?

Hip-Hop Thought of the Day #4

"It's absolutely silly and unproductive to have a funeral for the word 'nigga' when the actions continue"
-Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets on Nas's "Project Roach"



 

Hip-Hop Thought of the Day #3

"Yo check her, she the nectar the bee gets close to"
Mos Def from Black Star's "Brown Skin Lady"

 

Hip-Hop Thoughts of the Day 

Soul/Hip-Hop Thought of the Day #2

"No you won't naming no buildings after me to go down dilapidated."
Erykah Badu, "A.D. 2000"

Memory of Love...Aminatta Forna

Representing my Sierra Leonean people. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Check it out.

 

Sooo True...

In the words of Lindsay's cousin, Dr. Strachan..."Chuck E. Cheese's is a casino". Think about it. The tokens are chips, the games are slots...lol.

Hip-Hop Thought of the Day (#1)

They tryin to blame this rap shit for all of our ills
Like I can stick you up with a mic
Like I can rape you with a verse or use a verb as a knife
Like before Kool Herc, everything was alright
Like y'all wasn't callin black women hoes befo' "Rappers Delight"
Sheeeit~! That's just idiot talk, this whole shit is a farce
I refuse to be hip-hop's pallbearer
Had to tell my son cut that bullshit off
Them ain't videos nigga, that's psychological warfare
-Phonte, Little Brother

Gun Hill Road

You should see Gun Hill Road. I saw it. It was good.