Africa the African diaspora, politics, God , my guitar, nature, movements, revolutions, education, orishas, traditional religions, indigneous people, buddha, history, urban youth ,love, bell hooks
Nina Simone, Sade, Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Lauryn Hill( the illest MC ever period), Erykah Badu, Bob Marley,Miles Davis, Stan Getz,Fugees, Boukman,Mos Def , Common ,Norah Jones, Dave Mathews, Shuggie Otis, Ray Charles, Carlos Santana, Aretha Franklin, Big Mama thornton, Janis Joplin, Gil Scot Heron, James Brown, Immortal Technique,JAy-Z, Tracy Chapman,
Locally- Wilamaze, Kalu James,Brooks, Moproducto beats, Mikes Sax, Denise's Guitar, Bobbys keyboard, Matts passion
I have a passion for music. I do music not to make money or to get signed but just because it makes me feel good and thats all I know right now. I just like doing what I do. I love my guitar I love a snare and a bass, I love the wawa pedal on an electric guitar, I love when my cousin goes bananas like Ray on the keyboard I love putting music deep in my ears and drowning my thoughts. I love high notes and deep lyrics. Somber moods and blues riffs. I love pianos shit I love pianos , I love E minors followed by Aminors, I love old skool beat with new skool lyrics, I love an emcee who's lyrics can test Plato, I love the mic , dim lights and the stage, I love djembes,congos, tom toms . I love hearing my father play guitar and sing the blues.I love the upright bass. I love a dope bass line followed by rimshots. I love songs motivated by love, hurt, awakenings, struggles, freedom, Africa. I love coffee shops revolutionary words awaking reactionary crowds. I love the choir. I love my grandmothers "oh laaaawd". I love hip movements to club beats or to the drums of a voodoo priest. I love Mama Thortons voice, Nina's consciousness, Sades elegance , Lauryn Lyrical Genius, Fela's freedom ,Miles horn, Erykah's truth, Arethas Soul , Marleys Message , I love my shit too ! ; )
Check out the baddest band in the land
www.myspace.com/blackaugustmusic
Shango- Is an African god in Yoruba Belief. The most powerful and most feared god. The god of thunder. This song was inspired by the power of Shango as well as the strength of Black men.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive
Walk like a warrior
just wanted to let you know we gots a new track we recorded with danielle ponder (wait... that's you!) called "Free" on our page. please check it and let us know what you think.
hey i came to your page to let my friend hear ya voice, idk if its been long but the music on there is really good....i like i like i like...maybe u been had on ya page but i didn notice it...but ts really SWEET...YES HELLO...lol...well luv ya and talk to u soon!
Matt6:19Do not [p]gather and heap up and store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal.20But [q]gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal; 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 24No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be [s]against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon ([t]deceitful riches, money, possessions, or [u]whatever is trusted in).25Therefore I tell you, stop being [v]perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing? 27And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the [w]span of his life?(B) 30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?31Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?32For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all. 33But seek ([z]aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness ([aa]His way of doing and being right), and then all these things [ab]taken together will be given you besides. 34So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble. Stay blessed my friend 1!
"Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD. He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
"But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Great seeing you last night...I told you I was gonna hunt you down:)Have a blessed New Year. May you prosper and be in good health, even as your soul prospers...
Hey thank you my friend.....for such a fabulous New Years surrounded by good friends. I had a much needed good time with ya'll. We are, indeed, a mess. And I love it.
Come celebrate the last Full Moon of 2008 with: Live Music, Art, Story-telling, Dance, Potluck and much more.
What to bring: *Something to contribute to our altar (a small object/item that represents positive emotional/spiritual significance to you ), *a tasty and healthy dish to share, *hand drums and other small music instruments, *artwork, *poems, *songs, *stories, *your sisters, mothers, daughters, friends and lovers, *an open mind.
Participation is encouraged! Free to Women of All Ages
Walk like a warrior
