| Influences | Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets, Nikki Giovani, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, Edger Allen Poe, Amire Baracka, and all the poets of the past. Also poets that influence me today are Taalam Acey, Saul Williams, Micheal Guinn, Jenean Livingston, Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson, Mohagony Browne, and AJ Houston, the whole Ft. Worth Slam team. My musical insperation includes: Rakim, De La Soul, Run DMC, KRS One and the whole Boogie Down Productions, Talib Kweli, Hi Tek, Mos Def, Common, The Roots, Musiq, Anthony Hamilton, Pru, Heather Headly, Kem, Floetry, John Legend, the whole neo-soul and true hip hop movement. Other influences are the prophets without whom we would not know the living word as we read it, the Quran, and the Tora. Isa (Jesus), Mohammad, Abraham, his two son Ishmel and Isical (misspelled, no one is perfect). Personal influence are most importantently my daughter (Alianna) without whom I would not be the man I am today, her mother because she is rasing her to be a woman, my ex-brother-in-law for being an angel to me when shit was bad, got to give it up to the woman who gave birth to me (moms), my sister for always telling me to keep my head up, my ex girlfriend if it wasn't for her I would have been walking around in a state of confussion and always denying what love is all about, another great influence was me going throught my cancer. I know God has a plan for me and I will figure it out when it is time for me to know. Al hamdil l lahh.....
"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive." by Audre Lorde |
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