I think I'm about to dissapear.
I.... I think its time for a magic act. What happens to the world when its missing one of its Gifts? Theoretically, I know the answer, but every theory needs to be backed up. So....I think I'm quitting. Everything.
This is ironic for reasons I won't explain,but that's the plan anyway. I quit everything. Cuz I have been playing on your team and not on mine. I have ignored the fundamental lessons I have learned and I have suffered for it, so goodbye cruel world, for now.
I guess you're wondering what the flapjacks I'm talking about huh? "Is he talking suicide?" "Is he leaving the country?" "Is he quitting college?"
To be fair, I can't really call it quitting. Its a general reassessment. Coming from a new spiritual new year, I feel the pressing need to be better than I once was and to do so I must reorder my mind,change my environment and excel in a new one.
In other words, I am leaving everything I was behind for a while, to reorganize everything into anew structure.
I know that creative writers in a blog would find some way to tie all this randomness together but those who would read this may see me in these words and undestand. For those who can't I leave a bit of wisdom from my mentor:
"I never fish, if I'm gonna have to throw it back"
----Melek
In other words,If you can't eat a 400 pound fish, don't catch it. If your boat can't support an extra 400 pounds, don't catch it. If your line can't support 400 pounds, don't cast it.
I stand before you, a man, with a leaky boat, a trashy line, a splintered rod with very pretty words. But in reality, my words will not save me. They are just pretty words.
So, Imma go buy a new boat at any cost. Become Great at all costs....TheGift
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
"There are times, when you'll need someone. I will be by your side.There is a light that shines. Special for you, Baby."
That was the song where I first liked Common. I don't know if that chorus was a sample or not,but I know that to a 13 year old boy it just sounded like the truth. And I loved singing it. Me and my guy Common have had our ups and downs since then, I absoluteley despised his flow for years after that.
Then I only started bumping his verses on other peoples songs. He went smoothe on his verse for Erykah Badu's "Love of My life". I remember thinking that maybe bieng in love made him rap better.
Whan Kanye West dropped His first album, He had a verse on track 9 "Get em High" that I still consider to be one of his best.
"How could I ever let your words affect me//they say hip-hop is dead,I'm here to ressrect ME"
I still thought he was wack though. Just hot on other peoples songs. What kind of artist can't be hot on his own? Then I had a Common revelation, "Be" Hit the stands and his hit single "Go" rocked hard. I started ta bumpin Common. Admittadly I was hesitant, and his album was slept on for a reason, cuz It wasn't THE hottest,some of the tracks wasn't that hard. But that song "Testify" was pure poetry. I had to give it up to Common. This man is the truth.
The final straw though? "Finding Forever". Hands down one of my favorite albums. Ever. "The Corner" with the last poets "Misunderstood" all speak to my very soul by a brother who comes from a generation with more integrity than my own.
Anyway, I guess the message here is, Don't sleep on Common. He's the truth. You'll regret it. He has consistantly been on "Team Hip-Hop" saving the artform we know and love from impending doom by snap dance,soulja boy tellin em, and Gucci man's ignorance.
If you ever need that peace of mind that only our generation can appreciate, Kick back, relax and play dat track:
"There are times...."
...TheGift
That was the song where I first liked Common. I don't know if that chorus was a sample or not,but I know that to a 13 year old boy it just sounded like the truth. And I loved singing it. Me and my guy Common have had our ups and downs since then, I absoluteley despised his flow for years after that.
Then I only started bumping his verses on other peoples songs. He went smoothe on his verse for Erykah Badu's "Love of My life". I remember thinking that maybe bieng in love made him rap better.
Whan Kanye West dropped His first album, He had a verse on track 9 "Get em High" that I still consider to be one of his best.
"How could I ever let your words affect me//they say hip-hop is dead,I'm here to ressrect ME"
I still thought he was wack though. Just hot on other peoples songs. What kind of artist can't be hot on his own? Then I had a Common revelation, "Be" Hit the stands and his hit single "Go" rocked hard. I started ta bumpin Common. Admittadly I was hesitant, and his album was slept on for a reason, cuz It wasn't THE hottest,some of the tracks wasn't that hard. But that song "Testify" was pure poetry. I had to give it up to Common. This man is the truth.
The final straw though? "Finding Forever". Hands down one of my favorite albums. Ever. "The Corner" with the last poets "Misunderstood" all speak to my very soul by a brother who comes from a generation with more integrity than my own.
Anyway, I guess the message here is, Don't sleep on Common. He's the truth. You'll regret it. He has consistantly been on "Team Hip-Hop" saving the artform we know and love from impending doom by snap dance,soulja boy tellin em, and Gucci man's ignorance.
If you ever need that peace of mind that only our generation can appreciate, Kick back, relax and play dat track:
"There are times...."
...TheGift
Thursday, September 17, 2009
I adore her mind
I want to tell her that her mind is her greatest asset and that she should guard it with her life. For her and her daughter’s sake, she should learn how to control her mental processes. I want to tell her that, to worry about things that are outside of her control is futile and will give her ulcers, because that leaves so many things to worry about. I want to tell her that, her life is far too precious to be shortened by something as trivial as money worries. I want to tell her that, no man should ever be able to cause her grief or pain because so few men are worth her time, that it is highly likely that the man who is causing the grief and pain is not one of them.
I want to tell her so much, but she’s gone. I cannot see her. When I speak she hears me as if I am muffled. She sees me through a mist. She knows that I am the truth, but she believes that the things standing between her and I are also truth, when they are not. What the world has told her is truth is not. Drake thinks that truth is money, cars, clothes and hoes, he is mistaken. Doctors think truth is their western medicine, created by Hippocrates, King of hypocrites. They are mistaken……Let that though trail…..
I am a teacher by nature. I took a test once that said so. The test was a part of my college courses and it measured my learning style. What it said about my type was that we absorb information faster and better than others in our peer group and that we re-enforce this information in our minds by teaching it to others or tutoring others. Go figure.
I had a friend once with whom I shared my insight, but her learning style severely clashed with my teaching style and my learning style didn’t suit her because she no longer had anything for me to learn. Furthermore se balked when she discovered that I thought of her as a student. I wasn’t sure what she wanted from me, but I wish her the best and hope that she finds what she seeks. She just can’t find it from me.
I dug up my favorite blogger’s (Allaisia Hanan- www.whoissheandwhyshouldwecare.wordpress.com) phone number a few days ago because I was looking for inspiration. Who knows if she even remembers giving me her number cause I only used it like twice and our respective lives have been in a whirl wind since then so I almost expected her not to remember me, but she did. Cause she’s a boss like that.
So when I told her that I wanted her to inspire me, she said she was fresh out of inspiration. She told me that I had caught her on the absolute worst day for inspiration possible and she was sorry she couldn’t help. So what was I to do? I asked how I could help. As we pressed on into our conversation it molded itself into a mutually inspirational experience. An it was wonderful. Why am I telling you this? Cuz this is what I do. I strive, achieve and succeed so that others can do the same. I try and lead by example (which doesn’t always work) and I keep it pushing. I was taught that I am a Son of the Most High, the light at the end of the tunnel and in part, my destiny is to be Mankind’s last great hope for redemption. With all that weight on my shoulders, it’s good to find someone who says I’m doing a good Job.
\/Watchables: Watch “The Secret”. It’ll blow ya mind
\/Readables: Read Dune by Frank Herbert I read it when I was 13. I started it again. Its still effing awesome.
\/Munchables:Go to Kroger and try some vegan cookies from their Health food section.
\/Audibles: Forever Young by Jay-Z off The Blueprint 3
Good luck kids. God speed.
…TheGift
I want to tell her that her mind is her greatest asset and that she should guard it with her life. For her and her daughter’s sake, she should learn how to control her mental processes. I want to tell her that, to worry about things that are outside of her control is futile and will give her ulcers, because that leaves so many things to worry about. I want to tell her that, her life is far too precious to be shortened by something as trivial as money worries. I want to tell her that, no man should ever be able to cause her grief or pain because so few men are worth her time, that it is highly likely that the man who is causing the grief and pain is not one of them.
I want to tell her so much, but she’s gone. I cannot see her. When I speak she hears me as if I am muffled. She sees me through a mist. She knows that I am the truth, but she believes that the things standing between her and I are also truth, when they are not. What the world has told her is truth is not. Drake thinks that truth is money, cars, clothes and hoes, he is mistaken. Doctors think truth is their western medicine, created by Hippocrates, King of hypocrites. They are mistaken……Let that though trail…..
I am a teacher by nature. I took a test once that said so. The test was a part of my college courses and it measured my learning style. What it said about my type was that we absorb information faster and better than others in our peer group and that we re-enforce this information in our minds by teaching it to others or tutoring others. Go figure.
I had a friend once with whom I shared my insight, but her learning style severely clashed with my teaching style and my learning style didn’t suit her because she no longer had anything for me to learn. Furthermore se balked when she discovered that I thought of her as a student. I wasn’t sure what she wanted from me, but I wish her the best and hope that she finds what she seeks. She just can’t find it from me.
I dug up my favorite blogger’s (Allaisia Hanan- www.whoissheandwhyshouldwecare.wordpress.com) phone number a few days ago because I was looking for inspiration. Who knows if she even remembers giving me her number cause I only used it like twice and our respective lives have been in a whirl wind since then so I almost expected her not to remember me, but she did. Cause she’s a boss like that.
So when I told her that I wanted her to inspire me, she said she was fresh out of inspiration. She told me that I had caught her on the absolute worst day for inspiration possible and she was sorry she couldn’t help. So what was I to do? I asked how I could help. As we pressed on into our conversation it molded itself into a mutually inspirational experience. An it was wonderful. Why am I telling you this? Cuz this is what I do. I strive, achieve and succeed so that others can do the same. I try and lead by example (which doesn’t always work) and I keep it pushing. I was taught that I am a Son of the Most High, the light at the end of the tunnel and in part, my destiny is to be Mankind’s last great hope for redemption. With all that weight on my shoulders, it’s good to find someone who says I’m doing a good Job.
\/Watchables: Watch “The Secret”. It’ll blow ya mind
\/Readables: Read Dune by Frank Herbert I read it when I was 13. I started it again. Its still effing awesome.
\/Munchables:Go to Kroger and try some vegan cookies from their Health food section.
\/Audibles: Forever Young by Jay-Z off The Blueprint 3
Good luck kids. God speed.
…TheGift
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Passionate Panorantic
So I'm thinking, Maybe I'll expand the scope of my blogging concept. Certainly I can rant. But something has to really push me over the edge in order for me to get in a really good one.
Maybe I'll just be known for my passion and intensity? I got plenty of those!
\||/Watcheables: Inglorious Basterds:
You might already know this, but Quentin Tarintino is a genius and a legend. Fa real.
Inglorious Batserds is a Seperate story about Nazi Germany and the fall of Hitler. Told with a beautiful spin, casting stereotypical carachters against brilliant underlying pains,plots and inner conflicts.
Its wonderful. And leutinant Aldo Rain is My very favorite Bradd Pitt Charachter EVER! Followed at a close second by Achilles of course. Lol
\||/Readables: read in your proffesion today! Become educated about your vocation! My current readings are all books about writing.
The Art of Writing by Andre Maurois is definately a good one! Being a french writer of the early to mid Nineteen Hundreds, he doesn't mention any Female writers at all!(Except George Sand. But she had issues)
Good read
\||/Audibles: BLUPRINT 3 IN STORES SEPT. 11th!!!!
Real Jay-Z fans are BUYING the album. Regardless of who leaked what! Lol.
Current track: Touch the sky:Kanye West
\||/Doables: Inspire someone today!
...TheGift
Maybe I'll just be known for my passion and intensity? I got plenty of those!
\||/Watcheables: Inglorious Basterds:
You might already know this, but Quentin Tarintino is a genius and a legend. Fa real.
Inglorious Batserds is a Seperate story about Nazi Germany and the fall of Hitler. Told with a beautiful spin, casting stereotypical carachters against brilliant underlying pains,plots and inner conflicts.
Its wonderful. And leutinant Aldo Rain is My very favorite Bradd Pitt Charachter EVER! Followed at a close second by Achilles of course. Lol
\||/Readables: read in your proffesion today! Become educated about your vocation! My current readings are all books about writing.
The Art of Writing by Andre Maurois is definately a good one! Being a french writer of the early to mid Nineteen Hundreds, he doesn't mention any Female writers at all!(Except George Sand. But she had issues)
Good read
\||/Audibles: BLUPRINT 3 IN STORES SEPT. 11th!!!!
Real Jay-Z fans are BUYING the album. Regardless of who leaked what! Lol.
Current track: Touch the sky:Kanye West
\||/Doables: Inspire someone today!
...TheGift
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