Early!!  (Freeway voice)

Illseed tryna work Hard..haha.. Much props Ill

Khia's Pc aint broke.....She is.

ha

i still dont get the connection with Mariah n Nick... damn... im hate'in

BITCHES!!

Yeah Plies is wearin that Bust it Baby shit into the ground, but the funny part is the crazy ass women out here are going to eat it up. So @ the end of the day u got to respect the hustle.

NICK LOOKS LIKE STEVE URKEL STANDING NEXT TO MARIAH!!

illseed hurry up & find khia.

KHIA-computer broke huh?, KARMA came back around on her ass.
All that negativity that she been puttin out lately has been returned to her....GOD dont like ugly.

SIGNS-MAN.
I'll be praying for those people over there..........HAVE MERCY LORD.

is that people magazine cover real?

An yeah when that Fonzworth album dropping?LMAO!!!!!

http://gothaze.com/
http://gothaze.com/

yo ill 4real khia is not relevant 2 hip hop!! We can live
without a khia story,trust it wont kill us!!

Don't worry nick & mariah should be ova by the summer time,Damn that's around the corner..sort of like mariah LOL

Damn!! Free al sharpton & sean bell shorty!! Somebody ask al
2 come 2 Philly when he get out,the pigs trippen out here 2!

Don't worry lebron gone come back & score 40pts...
how they gone fuck cris Paul outta the MVP???

AZTEC WARRIOR said:

NICK LOOKS LIKE STEVE URKEL STANDING NEXT TO MARIAH!!
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Hahahaha true story

guess who's BIZACC!!!!

FIRST OFFF.....

Star Jones is dating someone 17 years younger than her. and the problem would be? If Quincy Jones can do it why cant she?

YEA ITS D WADE HAHAHAHA

GOOD FOR BRANDY, GET BACK ON THAT GRIND CAUSER NO ONES CHECKING FOR THAT ALBUM MAMA

NightFall914 said:
Khia's Pc aint broke.....She is.
May 7, 2008 6:24 PM

FUNNY....ACTUALLY I STOLE IT, I GOT TIRED OF HER SHARADES....WOW YALL SHOULD SEE SOME OF THESE PICS ON HERE.... I THINK SHE GONNA BE IN THAT NEW BOOK ABOUT UNDERCOVERS IN THE GAME...IS THAT WEEZY....OH SHIT NA ITS HER OUT THE SHOWER....EWWWWW

Bizar Mindz Inc said:
i still dont get the connection with Mariah n Nick... damn... im hate'in
May 7, 2008 6:29 PM

LIKE DAVE CHAPPELLES SON SAID "HE'S HILLARIOUS" HAHAHAHA HOW MANY OF YALL REMEMBER THAT SCENE?
PLUS I DECLINED THAT MARRIAGE PROPOSAL....

Que4Real said:
Yeah Plies is wearin that Bust it Baby shit into the ground, but the funny part is the crazy ass women out here are going to eat it up. So @ the end of the day u got to respect the hustle.
May 7, 2008 6:34 PM

TRUE TRUE

NOW TO ALL THE FOLKS WHO ARE GONNA READ THIS OR COMMENT AFTER ME....

ADD ME ON MYSPACE...A COUPLE OF YOU HAVE.... I SEE YALL....

http://www.myspace.com/sactownofthaleagueglobal7musicgroup

tell me your from ahh......

man miss cherry sent that B*tch a virus

The Black Arts Movement

Amiri Baraka and Askia Toure

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VvKae2sVvp0

Yo Jay-Z and the Sean Carter Music group get at me Lol no seriously get at me.



Check out the Big L feat. Big Pun Remix !!!!!!!!!!"Kick flows for Ya" I produced and posted on my myspace page. Real hip hop heads this track is for you. Two NY legends no longer with us R.I.P. on one track again with a special FEATURE on the hook ...I think you guys are gonna love it. Check it out

Also peep The Jay-Z "What more Can I say Remix" I produced and The Cam'ron Feat. Lil wayne "Suck it or Not" Remix

www.myspace.com/balianmusic

Let me know what you think.

Peace,
-Balian

AZTEC WARRIOR said:

NICK LOOKS LIKE STEVE URKEL STANDING NEXT TO MARIAH!!

Fuck that!!!

big ups to Nick Cannon 4 that one I'm not mad em one bit cause i would have did the same thing  

@D-Block4Life

"how they gone fuck cris Paul outta the MVP???"

Any other year I would agree w/ you. C Paul is a monster on the court that most can't fuck w/. But Kobe has been the MVP for that last 8 years, it's just that his team sucked. Now that they're #1 in the West they had to give it to him. But I would agree that it's almost like a cop-out to give it to him this year cuz C Paul has been remarkable. But then again, that's where I live and C Paul will have many MVP filled years in the future.

Lake Show!!!

Waz Good AHH Fam!!!!

Damn Illseed 2 rumors in 1 day thats waz sup man. Brandy SMH and LOL she was a iight singer its her fault she hit a low. SMH @ Mariah well with that picture in the magazine its now 100% official that shit married that nigga. Well its a lost for her and a win for Nick Cannon cuz Mariah is fine as hell. That drink Jay got most be strong cuz that cup is small. Who thats other chick in the picture with Jay and B she kinda cute.

Star Jones is NOT w D-Wade...I swear the media be on that RAW!!!

Khia is a broke ass, trashy ass, disgusting ass, dirty ass bitch; anyone entertaining anything she says is losing brain cells by the second.

Nick Cannon: Good Pull! The talent, sexiness, and guap are there, but hopefully she wont flip on you, and I hope she looks close to as good as she does now in 10 years....

*Correction* Shawn Carter Music Group

my bad I'm a little out of it right now.


Have a good one illseed and thanks for the double up on rumors today didn't see that coming.




Check out the Big L feat. Big Pun Remix !!!!!!!!!!"Kick flows for Ya" I produced and posted on my myspace page. Real hip hop heads this track is for you. Two NY legends no longer with us R.I.P. on one track again with a special FEATURE on the hook ...I think you guys are gonna love it. Check it out

Also peep The Jay-Z "What more Can I say Remix" I produced and The Cam'ron Feat. Lil wayne "Suck it or Not" Remix

www.myspace.com/balianmusic

Let me know what you think.

Peace,
-Balian

jay-z bigger than elvis & sinatra.

FLW_The_Producer said:
AZTEC WARRIOR said:

NICK LOOKS LIKE STEVE URKEL STANDING NEXT TO MARIAH!!

Fuck that!!!

big ups to Nick Cannon 4 that one I'm not mad em one bit cause i would have did the same thing  

________________________________________________________________________

NICK IS THAT U??

Associated Press
"Grand Theft Auto IV" racked up $310 million in sales in a single day.

The mob-themed video game "Grand Theft Auto IV" raced into stores in high gear last month, smashing previous game records with $500 million in worldwide sales its first week, publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. said.

That topped the previous high set last year by Microsoft Corp.'s "Halo 3," which took in $300 million in its first week. By comparison, "GTA IV" rang up $310 million in one day.

The game rivals other entertainment blockbusters, including "Spider-Man 3," which took in $381.7 million worldwide during its opening weekend at the box office.

"We believe these retail sales levels surpass any movie or music launch to date," Take-Two Chairman Strauss Zelnick said.

read this while listening to this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ya9B9twkNNM

PUT IT DOWN GURL!!!!!!!!!!!

Hillary Clinton's campaign is doomed, media commentators say
The Democratic race has clearly turned with her narrow Indiana win and a resounding North Carolina loss, some journalism heavyweights argue.
By James Rainey, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
4:15 PM PDT, May 7, 2008
» Discuss Article    (136 Comments)

Hillary Rodham Clinton may be short on delegates, money and time, but she faced an even more ominous and intractable impediment Wednesday: a growing consensus in the media that her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination is doomed.

"We now know who the Democratic nominee's going to be, and no one's going to dispute it," Tim Russert declared late Tuesday on MSNBC.



Photos: Clinton at rally in Shepherdstown Video: Campaign '08Clinton dismisses calls to drop out of race
Clinton's next move may be to prolong the path to nomination
Politics blog: Top of the Ticket
By Wednesday, ABC's George Stephanopoulos said on "Good Morning America" that "this nomination fight is over." Bloggers at washingtonpost.com and the Huffington Post reported that they had spoken to Clinton campaign insiders who acknowledged, as one said, that "there is no path to victory."

The New York Post put it more succinctly. In a front-page headline, the tabloid proclaimed its home state senator "TOAST!"

However, Clinton and her staff signaled through the day Wednesday that she could continue her campaign and argued she would make a stronger general election opponent for apparent Republican nominee John McCain. Clinton said she would hang on "until there is a nominee."

Dramatic and sometimes overblown pronouncements by the media are nothing new in the protracted Democratic presidential race. Some commentators predicted Clinton would have trouble recovering from a January loss in the Iowa caucuses. Days ago, others questioned why her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, had failed to "close the deal."

But various heavyweights in print, on television and on the Internet said the race had clearly turned late Tuesday, with Clinton following her solid Pennsylvania victory with only a narrow win in Indiana and a resounding loss in North Carolina.

Clinton had not done enough, many commentators said, to overcome Obama's lead in delegates and in the popular vote, and the six remaining contests would not give her the opportunity to do so. The pundits also cited a continuing flow of elected officials and party activists, the unelected superdelegates, toward the Illinois senator.

Stephanopolous correctly projected early Wednesday that more super delegates would proclaim their allegiance to Obama later in the day, adding that, in some unspecified time frame, "this nomination will be locked up" for Obama.

The New York Times reported that a chief strategist for former Vice President Al Gore and Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), two previous Democratic nominees, also pronounced Clinton's bid essentially over. "The campaign may go on but the contest is now over: Obama is the Democratic nominee for president," said Robert Shrum. "Now the decision for her is how she wants to end this."

Writing for Newsweek magazine online, columnist Jonathan Alter said Obama had not only proved himself the virtual nominee but removed doubts about his resilience. "The glass jaw that Hillary Clinton and John McCain thought they saw turned out to be an illusion," Alter wrote. "In the jingle of the old Timex watch ads, he took a licking and kept on ticking."

The pronouncements built on earlier sentiments among political commentators. On March 21, Politico.com writers Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen took a particularly strong stand, writing that Clinton had "virtually no chance of winning."

The reporters concluded that Clinton was unlikely to win by large enough margins to overtake Obama in the delegate count and that superdelegates were almost certain not to overturn the judgment of elected delegates. Those who believed in a Clinton comeback scenario, the politico.com scribes wrote, were "living on another planet."

Although Clinton may continue to campaign for some time, that does not necessarily mean she believes she still has a shot at the nomination, wrote Jonathan Stein on a blog for Mother Jones, the liberal magazine.

Stein imagined several scenarios, including one in which Clinton continues to raise money to pay off campaign debts and to rehabilitate her image among party faithful displeased by her aggressive attacks on Obama.

Speaking on Fox News, conservative commentator Bill Kristol was already putting Clinton's bid in the rear-view mirror.

"I think she would accept the vice presidency," said Kristol, although many other commentators previously have rejected the idea Clinton would take the No. 2 spot. "I think Obama almost has to ask her."

james.rainey@latimes.com

Limbaugh comes out for Obama
Posted: 06:50 PM ET

Limbaugh now wants Obama to be the Democratic nominee.
(CNN) – He has publicly urged Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton to keep the divisive Democratic nomination fight alive, but talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday it's Barack Obama who he really wants to be the party's nominee.

"I now believe he would be the weakest of the Democrat nominees," Limbaugh, among the most powerful voices in conservative radio, said on his program. "I now urge the Democrat supereldegates to make your mind up and publicly go for Obama."

"Barack Obama has shown he cannot get the votes Democrats need to win – blue-collar, working class people," Limbaugh also said. "He can get effete snobs, he can get wealthy academics, he can get the young, and he can get the black vote, but Democrats do not win with that."

For months, Limbaugh has urged his listeners in states with open primaries to cross party lines and support Clinton in an effort he has dubbed "Operation Chaos." The conservative talk show host has said the Republican Party will benefit from a protracted Democratic race that grows more bruising by the week.

It remains unclear how much influence Limbaugh has actually wielded. The Obama campaign estimates 7 percent of Clinton's vote in Indiana could be attributed to cross-over Republicans. According to Indiana exit polls, Clinton did win the Republican vote by 8 percentage points, but those voters only made up 10 percent of the electorate.

Obama supporter John Kerry credited Clinton's win entirely to Limbaugh.

"Rush Limbaugh was tampering with the primary," he said on an conference call with reporters. "If it was not for Republicans taking Democratic ballots, [Obama] would have won."

hahaha obama pimpin hilarious clinton

Obama fundraises off Clinton loan
Posted: 04:04 PM ET
(CNN) — Barack Obama’s cash-rich campaign has spent so much this primary cycle, rival Hillary Clinton has been forced to loan her own campaign millions of dollars. Now the Obama team is using Clinton’s loan — in an effort to raise even more money.

“We need to show that the voices of more than 1.5 million ordinary people donating whatever they can afford are more powerful than one person giving more than $11 million to their own campaign,” said campaign manager David Plouffe, in an e-mail sent to supporters Wednesday.

“Now is the time add your voice to our historic movement. Make a donation of $25 to match Senator Clinton's loan.”

Khiia got a virus...get it Ha Ha Ha..
Fuck the Police
Im a Nigga and Amanda Diva is a Nigga too

http://cnspeaceproductions.blogspot.com

c'mon ill.....what about the vdo of yung berg gettin beat loool
im still waitin

Brandy Hits an All Time Low......

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Did you say that when you heard Snoop was on the Soaps...

WOW what a comment.  Here in Chicago and other places we got DJ's that hate on celebrities...

Go figure

It sure is funny when All hiphop blogs go up its hard for the page to come up then after 15 comments everything loads up easy...  That would be wild if you websites had some kind of COMMENT DELAY SCRIPT CODE! ! ! or a bunch fake commentors to keep people from reaching that top spot.



ANY WHO

RAPPERS, BEAT MAKERS, LYRICIST, PRODUCERS ETC

THEY MIGHT BE STEALING YOUR IDEAS and YOU DONT KNOW IT!  
Go to

http://dreampsychic.blogspot.com

to see more.....

Damn, so it was really true about Mariah and Nick Cannon? I never would have pictured that.

Thanks for the pics of my boy Hov! : )

Bust it baby clothing? Next!

I'm glad they are protesting to shut down NYC because Justice was not served. RIP Sean Bell.

What happened in Philly? I heard a cop was killed there.

@ Illseed

The brother that Star Jones is dating is Dr. Lamont Hill from Philly...just found out today. Dude is a really dude...no homo...he'll get the job done. She needs to be laid into sumthin proper-like...uggghhh!!! (nee Wesley Pipes)

I'm still having a hard time grasping the whole Nick & Mariah thing...

Sort of like Lola Loves ass..
It leaves you with more questions than answers.


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I think Mariah Carey has lost her mind. How long was her and Nick dating before they decide to get married? This is not going to last long.

IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD?


LISTEN @ http://myspace.com/krazedouteross

Khia lying like hell!  She logged in to her page Monday!  She just trying to hide now that her shit has been exposed! My Neck My Back....


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Dammit when are yall going to accept the truth about this man, Jay-z named his company after the rockfellers who are one of the satanic illuminatii families and are purely evil, he has hidden satanic messages in his songs “murda murda Jesus 666? which is in one of his songs played backwards, his newest rocawear shirts have the skull and bones logo on them the same logo that is used by the secret skull and bones group which is a secret society formed out of the ivy league college yale that george bush was a member of, his triangle hand symbol is a subliminal gesture for the illuminati all seeing eye which is ont the top of the pyramid on the dollar bill, this man is also a fremason he is working with illuminati to help condition the minds of the people, this is how they operate they do acts of charity in order to make themselves look like good people its always been one of thier decietful tactics, but yet and still yal continue to praise this man and defend him because he is a talented rapper, its just sad that people just fufuse to open thier eyes and accept the TRUTH this man is vile and yall shoul not be supporting him why do you think hes so rich and succesfull because these evil men are all rich and run our world and Jay-z has done nothing more tha LITERALLY sold his soul to the devil for fame and fortune, so yall just keep on turning the blind eye to the truth and keep on loving your beloved “hova” as in God that he like to call himself, jay-z is an illuminati puppet and depends on support of his fans.the prrof is out thier don't beleive me search the net yourself.

There are two rappers out name Dollar who look just alike. But they spell their names different. One is called DOLLA (signed to Akon) and the other is DOLLAH JONES (I hear Universal is talking with him). Check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv9WVZY4ZiY

Dam that Nick Cannon shit is real.
Jay Z is the fuckin mack yo. He really big pimpin, holla at SPATE J. We need to work some business out. I know you read allhiphop son give me a call.

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Nick Cannon went from Wildn Out to a Wild White Woman.
Makes Me Proud! LOL

http://www.myspace.com/youngbrink1

mack301 said:
Dammit when are yall going to accept the truth about this man, Jay-z named his company after the rockfellers who are one of the satanic illuminatii families and are purely evil, he has hidden satanic messages in his songs “murda murda Jesus 666? which is in one of his songs played backwards, his newest rocawear shirts have the skull and bones logo on them the same logo that is used by the secret skull and bones group which is a secret society formed out of the ivy league college yale that george bush was a member of, his triangle hand symbol is a subliminal gesture for the illuminati all seeing eye which is ont the top of the pyramid on the dollar bill, this man is also a fremason he is working with illuminati to help condition the minds of the people, this is how they operate they do acts of charity in order to make themselves look like good people its always been one of thier decietful tactics, but yet and still yal continue to praise this man and defend him because he is a talented rapper, its just sad that people just fufuse to open thier eyes and accept the TRUTH this man is vile and yall shoul not be supporting him why do you think hes so rich and succesfull because these evil men are all rich and run our world and Jay-z has done nothing more tha LITERALLY sold his soul to the devil for fame and fortune, so yall just keep on turning the blind eye to the truth and keep on loving your beloved “hova” as in God that he like to call himself, jay-z is an illuminati puppet and depends on support of his fans.the prrof is out thier don't beleive me search the net yourself.
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so the "illuminati", "skull and bones society", the rockerfellers, "freemasons", AND the devil, all let them in to their lil secret club to do what exactly...?!!!

look, i dont even like jay-z...

...but get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.


the internet is not for everybody.



oh yeah... LAKERS!!!

im glad that hatin ass bitch khia is layin low! yea that song she stole from that miami dude came back to her! karma, moving right along! tired of beyonce n jayz! they need to go seat the suck down n have kids already! mariah n nick dont make a good couple! damn that dude gets around!

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MR BACK AT IT

SHOUT OUT TO THE CREW PRETTYBOY....69 DELTA

DAMN LAKERS

so the "illuminati", "skull and bones society", the rockerfellers, "freemasons", AND the devil, all let them in to their lil secret club to do what exactly...?!!!
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to use his rap skills to propogate they materialistic dumb down agenda to condition the masses in exchange for his own status, i think supergenius sayin.

"eddie murphy layin out there with himself as a big fat woman, that's not an expression of the afro-american culture" - amiri  baraka.

jube, i just listened to the clip.

needless to say, you know i'm with anybody that's doin something positive and real.

but what did you want me to see in that vid that related to the step by step plan?

=================================

braze, think of two extreme views:

jay-z is harmless                                         jay-z is the devil


now push those extremes a lil further away from each other.

then consider history and everything that white people gave or approved for people of color since the beginning of time.

your conclusion about jay-z may leave you somewhere to the left of the middle of that gray area between those extremes.

you know I ain't religious.

but religion and religious icons are but another language.

a language that when translated clearly points to common ideas like danger, poison, happiness, freedom.

the fanaticism you might hear from the zealots is just them speaking in the language they know.

you can decode what they say and translate it so that you can understand it.

i meant to say to the right of the middle of the grey area

baraka been layin out ways & means for self-determination & struggle through art for the longest.  the need for revolutionary art for cultural revolution.  he would run a monthly perfomance/open mic/organizing meeting in his basement/theater.  man he had everyone from pharoah sanders to sonia sanchez to danny glover thru there.

he steady explaining the need for independently run & produced theater, film, writing &c.  watch this interview on the black arts movement he did with askia toure-

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VvKae2sVvp0

baraka on the origin of rap-

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OI9jZQwbQdY

Djali Dialogue with Amiri Baraka
First in a Series of Conversations with Established and Emerging African-American Writers
by Kalamu ya Salaam
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Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones) is widely celebrated as the father of the Black Arts Movement and is one of the most prolific and influential African-American writers of the 20th century. Baraka is a widely published poet, playwright, essayist, fictionalist and journalist. His book of music criticism, Blues People, is widely regarded as a classic in the field. In 1965 he, along with others such as Larry Neal and Askia Touré, founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School, an institution which quickly became a model for the development of Black Cultural Centers in the sixties.
In addition to his creative work as a writer, Baraka is also a social activist. Baraka was a founder of the Congress of Afrikan People and the National Black Political Assembly as well as a major member of the Afrikan Liberation Support Committee. In the late sixties, Ebony Magazine listed Baraka as one of the 100 most influential Black leaders. Baraka started his professional life as a writer in Greenwich Village, moved on to become a Black Nationalist, and in 1974 converted to Marxism.

Baraka lives, writes and continues to be active in politics in his hometown of Newark, NJ.

This discussion with Amiri Baraka covers his development as a writer and his views on the craft and impact of writing. Baraka discusses in detail his formative years and gives an in-depth insight into his own approaches to style and technique in writing.


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Advice to Young Writers: Amiri Baraka

On February 17, 1998 Amiri Baraka offered words of advice to aspiring writers of NOMMO Literary Society, a New Orleans based writing workshop founded by Kalamu ya Salaam. Baraka not only gave advice, he also expounded on his viewpoint concerning the importance and process of writing. In the process he often revealed both his idiosyncrasies as well as his insights. Filled with humor and highlighted by gestures and copious use of body english, the conversation was informal in tone and lasted over two hours. Baraka’s sharing was neither a lecture nor prepared speech, but rather was made up of spontaneous comments from the heart. The following is an edited transcript of that sharing.

Amiri Baraka was one of the first people to introduce to me [Kalamu ya Salaam] the possibility that you could write "Black" and at the same time write anything you wanted - Blackness was not a formula. There was no specific mode you had to fit in. Back in the day, it would be interesting when The Journal of Black Poetry or some of the other journals would come out, Baraka would have a poem like "SOS"--calling all Black people, calling all Black people, SOS, Come in, wherever you are, calling you, come in, come in--stuff like that which everybody could relate to. And then, he would have some weird-a-- [sh--]. You would go, damn, what was that. Since that time he has gone through various ideological developments, some people would call it changes, but I think he would choose to call them developments, in an effort to become clearer politically, but he has always maintained an oppositional stance to the status quo while balancing popular and experimental forms. Some of Baraka’s literature is what I would call "popular literature" written for the masses that not even Joe Blow the wino would misunderstand what is being said, and another part of his literature was written for, as he would say, the advanced, for people who want to sit down and study and peep some things philosophically and politically. He has agreed to take some time and talk a bit about his advice to young writers and to talk a bit about his approach to writing.

ya Salaam: Amiri, was it a conscious decision to write both what academe would call "agit-prop" pieces which have a mass orientation, and also these, for lack of better term, these way out experimental pieces?

Baraka: No, I think the culture is that broad. I don’t feel any less Black trying to find out something I don’t know than trying to say something I do know. At one point, you are always trying to find out more which always leaves what you’re saying seemingly more discursive because you are not quite clear on what you’re saying. But you know a lot of things clarify themselves as you get older. When I wrote that play Dutchman, I didn’t know what I had written. I stayed up all night and wrote it, went to sleep at the desk and then woke up, and looked at it and said "what the [f---] is this?" And then put it down and went to bed. (Laughter.) Some things you know absolutely what you’re saying, you’re absolutely clear. Bang, it’s an idea you want to express. Sometimes though you can’t limit your mind by what you know. You have to always figure that you can hold on and you just open your mind to where it wants to go to, which you don’t know at the time, but if it’s legitimate, you’ll find out what you’re saying.

See, there are levels. Can you understand the levels of what knowledge is? The first level of knowledge is perception. Perception is nothing but a sponge. Everything you are around, you pick it up. You might not even know it, but your mind is just picking up stuff like a blotter. The second level is rationalization, you actually name it. Oh, that was this. But the highest form of knowledge is use. For example, I can say I know about the piano. I know all kind of stuff about the piano, about music, but then they say: can you play? I say, oh, no I can’t play. You can conceive all kinds of things and give them names, but of that myriad of perceptions and rationales, how much of it can you use? A lot of stuff you do that is reaching out is really you trying to clarify stuff for yourself.

I always got the feeling that, well, I guess maybe some of it comes from Dumas. You know Henry Dumas’ work? Dumas was a great writer of the Black Arts Movement, murdered by the police. Ark of Bones, those stories, great stories. I think Toni Morrison cops from him a lot. She really is influenced a lot by Henry Dumas, more than a lot of people know. The whole fascination with the bizarre, with the hidden. Mosely’s first book is like that, Gone Fishin’. Yall read that book? You should read that. That’s a much heavier book than those detective stories. But that kind book where you walk in the Black community and suddenly it’s like you’re opening the door to a whole other world. You step into there and all kinds of wild things happen. Like that Dumas story Fon where these White people stop this brother at night on a road like they going to lynch him or something like that. He leads them to this abandoned city where there’s Black people’s ghosts still living their lives. That never occurred to me that you follow blood down the road and that might lead you to a ghost town and then suddenly an arrow comes out of the night. And when they start messing with him, he says, my brothers are watching you. You better watch out and they don’t believe him, and suddenly this arrow comes--twing through the air and gets them through the neck. Well, that opened up a lot in me because I started thinking about well, yeah, I know some Black people look like they be doing stuff like that.

Also, Larry Neal had a story about religion, a weird church. These Black people had a church and they had Jesus up in there beating him. It was like a White Jesus and they had in this storefront church. That’s what they would do every Sunday, they would go to church and whip this White boy up in the church, and then they would, I guess, lock him up till the next Sunday. I don’t know what that was. It was the sense of the strange, the bizarre. So, I’ve been writing these stories about these Black inventors. They are just brothers you see in the community, they’re not in the University of Nowhere.

They are just in the community and might call you up and say, why don’t you come over and check my stuff out, I got something new. And you go over there and they might have a machine that might do any number of things.

I think that idea of the depth and sometimes bizarre quality, sometimes profound quality of Black life, sometimes we miss that when we have to deal with the beast everyday. I’m talking biblically, Revelations. When you have to deal with the beast everyday you forget that there’s John sitting there, John the Revelator. You know everybody didn’t see no stuff flying through the air. You know four horsemen of the apocalypse, everybody didn’t see that. Now John was sitting there looking at all of that, but everybody looking up at the sky didn’t see that. That sense of wonder, of revelations, has always intrigued me about Black people. I guess in our everyday struggles with 666 we sometimes forget that there are some very wonderful, miraculous things that Black people do. I saw this Negro play some spoons with an amplifier on it. Who would think about that? Who would look at a spoon and say, I know what, I’m going to amplify this sucker. That doesn’t seem like an everyday concern.

I think it’s that sense of the bizarre, the sense of the wonderful, and also the sense of the comic. In my studies of world Black culture, there still the smile at the bottom of the world. You know the masks of drama, one smiles, one frowns? That geography, that’s aesthetics, that smile at the bottom of the world. That sense of the wonderful, the bizarre, and the comic, I was always intrigued by that.

ya Salaam: It’s one thing to have that sense, and it’s another thing to have the technical facility to put that sensibility on the page.

Baraka: Practice. Practice. Practice. I think that’s the only thing you can do. Like my grandmother said, practice makes perfect. To do anything you have to practice. You have to do it. If you don’t do it, you won’t do it. You can’t be a writer in your head, just like you can’t play the piano in your head. I’m the meanest piano player I know--in my head. I can play some piano in my head, it’s just when I get to the piano it gets difficult. You have to work at it.

And then I think, young writers, you have to get to the point where you start grading your work. At first when you start doing it, everything is great. Everything you write is valuable and you must (mimics holding stuff to his chest), this is my work, this a poem I wrote in nineteen-whatever. That’s normal but you have to work through that and get over that. I’m not saying get to the point where you think your work is expendable, but get to the point where you can grade it.

You know the worse thing you can do is write a "you-poem." Nobody can imitate you like you. I can write a hundred poems that I write, but those are "you poems." Those are poems using the things that you know are you. Once you become practiced in writing then you have certain skills that you can put a poem together, but the point is that it won’t have any substance to it. There won’t be any moving, there won’t be any life in it, any heart in it, cause you can imitate yourself.

The whole point of developing the skill is so that the words fly on the rhythm. You feel the rhythm before you know what you’re talking about. If you trust the rhythm and you’ve worked so that you don’t have a lot of dumb stuff in your mind all the time. (Laugher.) No, it’s true, because you might want to write about McDonald’s boxes, I don’t know. That’s why Mao says--and this is very important--when we look at your work we can tell what you love and what you hate, what you celebrate and what you put down, and we can also tell what work you’re doing and what study you’re doing. We can tell what you’re concerned with, we can tell by your writing, what you know and what you don’t know.

Now, the lyric poet is, of course, the great hidden personality of our time. They can write about "I"--I feel, I want, I do, I am--and really be hiding the world because all they’re talking about is this great vacuum in my heart that must be filled by, I don’t know, ice cream cones, a walk down the street, another person. You know what I mean, it could be anything? That’s the lyric "I"--I want, I need. But actually to begin to talk about who is I and where is I in the world among all the other I’s, and how that relates to a real objectively existing world that exists independent of us. The world exists independently of us--if you can get that in your mind. The world does not depend on you to exist, it exists independent of you. That’s hard sometimes, because we’re so subjective, especially we great artists, we think the whole world is in our heads. It’s not. The world exists independent of your will. Things will happen you don’t want to happen. How did we get here?

That point of writing past the preservation of everything, being able to grade your work--you know what I mean, being able to tell the fake from the true--and of getting past imitating yourself, those are important things.

Also, going back to Mao Tse-Tung. You ever read the Yenan Forum written in 1941? Mao was trying to build the communist party and one of the things he was talking about was intellectuals. What is the role of the intellectual? What is the role of artist in making social transformation? Now, if anybody needs to know that it’s us. That is what Yenan is about. The first question he asks: for whom does one write? Who are you writing for? Why are you interested in writing? Is it to titillate your own compulsive personality? What is it for? That’s a good point. Think about it sometimes. Once you begin to isolate "for whom" then you also know "what it is." How do I explain what has gone down in this world for us?

So, when people be going up to me and saying Baraka you always political, I say why do you want me to be different from. You want me to be different from Baldwin, you want me to be different from Lorraine Hansberry, you want me to be different from Langston Hughes, or DuBois? Who should I get away from? Our tradition is intensely political. And for this recent group--and I’m not trying to categorize you in age terms--but for this recent little group of buppies that they’re publishing who think that somehow writing is not a political act, that always has been around but it’s something that Black people and indeed the people of the world have flogged.

Anyway, that’s a very important question--for whom?--because for whom answers why. You want to know for whom, look at your work. Who does it celebrate, who does it put down, who does it think is beautiful, who does it think is ugly, what work are you doing, what study? We can see it in there. We don’t have to ask you nothing, you give me your poetry or literature, I read it and I know a lot about you just from reading that. You could be writing about something you think is totally disguised, don’t have nothing to do with your life, you could be writing about Johnny Jojo way over there in Nobo land, you know, but it bees about you. That’s what it bees about. Why? Because that’s all you know about. It bees about us.

That’s another thing, a lot of people get frightened at; once they know that people know that when you write something, it’s about you, Jim, it ain’t about that one, it’s about you, then people get constipated. They don’t want to expose themselves. People be saying, I don’t know how he could write that book, Baraka you... hey, what I care. You be dead in a minute, people will read it--I always thought that if you felt strongly about a thing then you would face it.

For me, I had come out of a lil petite-bourgeois family, my mother was a social worker, my father was a postman, they always told me: y'all, are the smartest colored kids on the planet. They gave me piano lessons, trumpet lessons, drum lessons, piano lessons, painting lessons. I used to sing Ave Maria with my sister. I used to recite the Gettysburg Address every Lincoln’s birthday in a Boy Scout suit for about six years--this was my mama. The point is that for them two Negroes right there, they knew what they were going to do, they were going to give us all the information in the world, and they was going to equip us to go out and fight the White people. That’s where my people were coming from. Why? Because they wanted that. You were fighting for them. I never knew that, I never understood what they had planned for me until one night when the White people came--I had this play, Dutchman, and all of these papers, they were calling me names and all kinds of things, stupid, crazy, evil, but I could see that they were going to make me famous.

The minute that that came to my mind that they were going to make me famous, I said, now, I’m going to pay your ass back. (Laughter.) Naw, it was very clear. It was like, bump. I could see how my mama had put the shell in there. Click. Right. Oh, you gon make him famous, I got some shit for you. That’s what it was, it was like you had been doctored on by masters. You understand? Every night at dinner, they’d be running it. You’re sitting there eating biscuits and what not, and they would be running it. They would be telling you the history of the south, the history of Black people, the history of Black music and you would be sitting there. They were actually teaching you. But I didn’t know that then. My grandmother would tell me all the time about this Black boy they accused of raping this woman and they cut off his genitals and stuffed them in his mouth and then made all the Black women come there and watch. My grandmother told me that story when I was a little boy. Why would your grandmother tell you that story? Because she wanted you to remember that shit forever. You understand? Sweet little old lady from Alabama would sit you down, give you something to eat, and tell you this horrible story, and then you trying to figure out: why would she tell me that story? Why would she tell you that story? Oh, you still know the story, you still got it in your mind, sixty years later, you still remember that story?--"yeah, I remember it"--in detail?--"absolutely"--well that’s why she told it to you.

I don’t know if y'all still have that in your homes, I can’t speak on that, but I know that is what we as writers have to do, continue that tradition. The only way I can see that tradition being extended is through the role and function of the writer in the community.

Djali Dialogue with Amiri Baraka - Part II


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Kalamu ya Salaam is a New Orleans-based writer and former editor (1970-1983) of The THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine. Salaam moderates CyberDrum, a listserv of over 500 Black writers and diverse supporters of literature. Salaam can be reached at kalamu@aol.com

*"Djali" is the Wolof (from Senegal) term for what many people know as "griot," the traditional African historian/musician/poet.

oh i see what you mean.

on the "conflict of interest" tip.

lemme peep these vids. i'll get back tomorrow.

blackpeople1 check out this jazz opera amiri puttin on in oakland this weekend-http://www.eastsideartsalliance.com/

i'm flyin up tomorrow.

Amanda Diva's on some real shit! I gotta respect that message. I didnt know she got down on real shit cuz all I remember from her is MTV. Much Props
Peace to my people!
Pouring libations for Sean Bell

EARLY!! Whats up???

Im always wrking hard!

illseed

if you liked that piece on father fledger, this is an excellent 1-2 punch by another white dude tellin it like it is on the subject.

bill moyer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvnMK1d9xE0

jube, take some pics or vid and let us know what the jazz thing is like.

nas don't know what the fuck he his talking about, thats are stupid they think we are that they just push bullshit and call it art, he sound like a drunk just running off at the mouth smh

a big let down

What up to all my mornin folks.
I'ma be out in a second, gonna take my a$$ over to Busch Gardens for the day, but first...

Shout out also to LXA, Cresent City Connecktor, Beautiful_Aquarius, Classy, c_a_k, ATL$t@r, Junegemini, Hustlinupnorth, MaryJanesHusband, True Scientist, c_a_k, Don Won, jjgreenis, BigSlim, Sexy_Red, Teri, BFG, YFF, Durk, mu$h, Jdub, fizzroy, TupacFan, HoodProphet, jrzeema, Boss Up, mcclinba, B*braze, Gawga, aj22, jubilee.shine, Sears Tower, Streetweyez, BP1, chocolate1, Sofi m_13,dat76543gal, DALLAS_DIVA, In the Naw, Ms. Bee, Hemi, Str84Ballin, & Angel Eyez, & QGizzle14.

Hope yall have a great day. Only one more day till Friday.

@c_a_k:
Glad to see er'body's sunshine back!

@DALLAS_DIVA:
Congrats on finishing the school year. Hope all the exams went well.

@In tha Naw:
I told you Dwight & co would bounce back. Granted, that's partly b/c of Chauncey gettin hurt, but hammy strains are "fickle" things, so we won't know whether he'll be back for game 4 or not for another day or two. You shoulda seen the place rockin last night, though, damn it was loud.

Kellz is a pedo....not that we didn't know

Kelly has settled three lawsuits accusing him of having sex with underage girls, filed in 1997, 2001 and 2002. In the third suit, the woman claimed that she began having sex with Kelly when she was 16, and that he forced her to have an abortion.

In 2003, Kelly was arrested in Florida on child pornography charges after investigators said they found photos of him having sex with a girl. Charges were dropped after a judge ruled detectives illegally seized the photographs from a digital camera in his home.

Documents show Kelly secretly married the singer Aaliyah in 1994, when she was 15. The marriage later was annulled by her parents

Fonz B look ghetto theses days lol

Firstly I aint mad atcha star jones............d wade is da truth  

secondly stop the plies hate LOL>...................................

Shaq pulled over DMX

Yo!!!

Okay, Okay stop hating on Kobe because he won the MVP award this year, it has been a long time coming for him and to be truthfully honest he deserved it, so for all of you Kobe haters suck it up and hop that you're player gets it next year; that is if Kobe don't get it again next year!!!!hahahahahaha

hahahaha Khia PC broke... pure entertainment
illseed been waitin for that sneak attack

@g_unot
yeah i was watchin that game... almost shed a tear when i saw Chauncey collapse after doin the splits.. ahhhh!!!!! Stuckey more than held his own but come on dog, thats Mr. Big shot!!!!\
you're whole squad was juiced up, can't front ya'll were on fuckin fire last night...

SMH AT EVERY DAMN 3 GOIN *SWISSSSHHHH*

I Have A Lot Of Respect For Amandas Views And Opinions But At The End Of The Day That's All It Is, An Opinion. I Don't Know Why She's Acting All Shocked About NaS' Song. He's Basically Trying To Undermine The Word Nigga And Take The Negative Power Out Of It, Something The Hood Has Been Doing For Years. I'm From Soundview Projects In The Bronx And Everyone Gets Called Nigga From White People, Arabic People, Spanish, Black, etc... It's No Longer Demeaning In The Hood. But For People Who Didn't Grow Up In That Type Of Environment And Are Not In The Hood It's Offensive. And I Laugh At People Like That Cause They're Actually More Of A Hater Then The People They're Trying To Judge. As Far As The Older Folks From The Time Of Slavery That Take Offense To It It's Understandable But It's A New Generation Here Now And We're Never Going To Move Forward If We Keep Dwelling On The Past. We Have To Take What Ever Positive Things We Can Use From Then And Leave The Negative Where It's At, In The Past. I Feel NaS Has The Courage To Do What Other People Are Scared To Do, Speak What He Feels No Matter Who's Feelings Get Hurt. Everyone Is A Hypocrite Now. In The 90's To Like 2004 When DMX, B.I.G., PAC, PUN And The Rest Of The Fallen MC's Were Screaming "Where My Niggaz" And "This Is For My Niggaz" And "I Love My Niggaz" No One Had A Problem With That.. They In-braced It And Sang Along To The Songs. Now Everyone Wants To Act Conscience. Please! LOL. If She Want To Get At A Artist For Sounding Ignorant, NaS Is The Last One She Should Be Looking At. She Needs To Aim Her Gunz At The South With All That Ignorant Shit They're Putting Out From Soldier Boy To Jeezy To Weezy... Don't Pick And Choose... Go After All Of Them Or At Least The Most Ignorant Like Soldier Boy. He Got Our Youth Screaming "Yahhh Trick, Yahhhh And She Has A Problem With NaS Saying Nigga... WOW!

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Boo on secret weddings let them live their both corny anyways(nick & mariah)...Um...Geek Squad aint cheap Khia u better think twice..Oh i forgot she is still "making money" from My neck, my back....lol

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