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Marcus Kwame's Interests
General
Art, Books, Writing, Basketball, Hip Hop, Reggae and music in general, Physical Fitness, practical jokes, Activism, comics, my lady, Reciting Lines from "Usual Suspects," and rapping really fast.
Music
Peter Tosh, Billy Woodz, Privilege, BDP, Public Enemy, Capleton, Nina Simone, Juggaknots, The Reavers, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Bigg Jus, Black Sheep, the GZA, the RZA, Gregory Issacs, Jill Scott, Mystic, K-os, Wu-Tang, Bob Marley, Common, Res, Regina Spektor, Esthero, Cannibal Ox, Mr. Lif, Aesop Rock, El-P, I-Wayne, the Roots, BCC, Smif n Wessun, Heltah Skeltah, MF Doom, MF Grimm, 2Pac, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Barrington Levy, Erykah Badu, Gorillaz, Jean Grae, Massive Attack, Mary J. Blige, One Be Lo, Talib Kweli, Mos Def & a bunch of other people.
Movies
Do the Right Thing, Style Wars, Wildstyle, Bomb the System, David Lynch Movies, Malcolm X, Kung Fu flicks, the Star Wars movies, 1984, Basquiat, and a buncha others
Television
Chapelle Show, The Boondocks, Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Medium, the Office, Adult Swim
Books
Ninteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell; The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison; Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison; Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, Nikki Giovanni; Assata, Assata Shakur, The Bible, The Browder Files; Anthony T. Browder
Heroes
Everyone who sacrificed for the struggle, my mom, my wife, Jesus (please protect us from your followers!), His Imperial Majesty Halie Selassie I, and my many creative and spiritual influences
Suny College At Fredonia
Fredonia,New York
Graduated: 1998
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Art/Illustration
Clubs: Black Student Union
About me: "The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots." -Walt Whitman
I am these things in no particular order: an artist, a poet, a yardie, a thinker, an emcee, a teacher, and a person trying to do his piece to make the world a better place.
black is every shade on the spectrum
combined into one
builders burnt to perfection
from the loving gaze of the sun
this cat named amerika
tried to tell me that black was
just rap, baggy clothes, street talk,
40s, blunts, sex and techs
i just stared at him blankly
adjusted my sagging jeans
said, “aight then, playa”
and walked off into the sun
humming giant steps
~
"Jah makes no perfect weapons... you will no longer be able to control us through suppression." -Bigg Jus
"If there is hope, it lies in the Proles." -1984, George Orwell
"The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see 99% of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore." -Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
"Impeach the president, pullin' out my ray gun, zap the next one, i could be a shogun." -Chuck D
"Iron like a Lion in Zion." -Robert Nesta
"Mother Mary don't pack two ceramic laser-sighted nines, Jesus don't possess nuclear tactical satellites, Jehovah don't move with a RPG sittin' on his shoulder, and Allah don't launch missles hovering in killer helicopter rotors..." -Bigg Jus
I illustrated and designed this CD cover for recording artist, Accurate 1. Musicians, contact me for your own cover illustraion!
RESIST DOUBLETHINK.
Doublethink: The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.
Who I'd like to meet: cool people... artists, bombers, writers, revolutionaries, thinkers, honest people, funny people... etc.
Just wait till the video clip comes out of Barack and Michelle Obama praying to Satan over a sacrificed puppy for a plague to hit White America comes out.
You libs will never know what hit you!
Wait, I'd better be careful or these freaks will take that shit and run with it. It'll be on Fox news by tonight: "A credible source from within the African-American blogging community tells of what may be a possibly shocking, earth-shattering exposure of ..."
RISD's alright... I'm here for the precollege program. Today I have illustration until 4 but right now I'm on our lunch break. Nothing very exciting yet. They're making us buy so much shit though, it's annoying. So how's Kismet- I'm interested to see what you do with the silk screening things. And say Hi to Jen for me if you haven't already!
Hi Marcus Hoping Jen's opening went really well- I so wish I could have been there! I'm at RISD now though so I'm missing everybody. I know you two are due soon so best of luck! So exciting. Take care, Val
I've been okay, Marcus. How about you? And no, I haven't been working hard... just harder! I'm into renovations now, so I'm painting like crazy. What have you been up to lately?
Yes it has been a while. Things are good with me. I know you're super excited!!! I can't believe that it's almost that time for your little angel to arrive. Time is really flying by.
hi Marcus! thank you:) yeah, it makes me happy someone wanted to take her home...she hasn't been around long enough to be able to let her go without a little sadness...i guess it's all part of the process, huh?
how are you? did they start the book yet? i need to check in over at eclectic sometime today! take care:) big hugs, lark xxoo
"And musical form... the beautiful form... No umbrellas, it's a beautiful storm... Armaggedon's here, but we keep singing... Mama shed tears, but we keep bringing... Smiles to the surface... Rhymes with a purpose..." DAMN!!! What's good, Marcus? As you noticed, I'm feeling your 'Daybreak' video to the max. Hope you're good and holla back anytime. Take good care! P.eace.
hello marcus! i love that video, YES WE CAN...and we will:)
how are you? your card for your show looks great! (Kismit) how's life? it's been a big year for you:) good luck with everything...just stopping by to say hello and to send some love:) big big hugs, lark xxoo
