Brother Gil spits fire and stokes the flames remind­ing me of who and what I really am. Thank you brother Gil. You can lis­ten to the track below.

On Com­ing From A Bro­ken Home (Part 1)

I want to make this a spe­cial trib­ute to a fam­ily that con­tra­dicts the con­cepts.
Heard the rules but wouldn’t accept.
And women-folk raised me and i was full grown before i knew.
I came from a bro­ken home.
Sent to live with my grandma down south.
When my uncles was leav­ing.
And my grand­fa­ther had just left for heaven.
They said and as every-ologist would cer­tainly note.
I had no strong male fig­ure right?
But Lily Scott was absolutely not your mail order room ser­vice type cast black grand­mother.
I was moved in with her; tem­porar­ily, just until things were patched.
Til this was patched and til that was patched.
Until i became at 3, 4, 5,6 ‚7, 8, 9 and 10.
The patch that held lily Scott who held me and like them 4.
Become one more and I loved her from the absolute mar­row of my bones.
And we was holdin on.
I come from a bro­ken home.
She had more then the 5 senses.
She knew more then books could teach.
And raised every­one she touched just a lit­tle bit higher.
And all around her there was a nat­ural sense.
As though she sensed what the stars say what the birds say.
What the wind and the clouds say.
A sen­sual soul and self that African sense.
And she raised me like she raised 4 of her own.
And i was hurt and scared and shocked when lily Scott left sud­denly one night.
And they sent a lim­ou­sine from heaven to take her to god, if there is one.
So i knew she had gone; and.
I came from a bro­ken home.

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2-Cents — I Wish I Could Read Every Book In The World.

Dope! For some cats it’s Air Force One’s. Me, I got a book problem.

Howard Zinn. Presente!

Jamie Lidell’s new video for Rope of Sand. Beau­ti­ful song, beau­ti­ful video.

“My igno­rance is essen­tial. I do not write what I know but what I need to.”

– Don Murray

Hat tip to Mer­lin, again.

“Writ­ing to ‘get it right the first time’ is like dri­ving a car with the emer­gency brake on. In order to write more good stuff faster, and suf­fer less, you need to focus on remov­ing the stalling, obsess­ing, and nit­pick­ing from your com­pos­ing process, and to think about a dif­fer­ent kind of process.”

— Joan Bolker

Hat tip to Mer­lin.

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where mad­ness lies?
Per­haps to be too prac­ti­cal may be mad­ness.
To sur­ren­der dreams, this may be mad­ness.
To seek trea­sures where there is only trash…
Too much san­ity may be mad­ness, and mad­dest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
—Miguel De Cervantes

Hilar­i­ous.

Word is she’s a “Domini­can M.I.A.” Diplo’s pro­duc­ing and I’m all ears. Hat tip to Marisol.

I never thought I’d be say­ing this but it looks like Dame Dash aint played his last hand. I’ll have a large order of crow, extra crispy. This track makes me thank­ful for hip hop.

Ski feat. Mos Def-Taxi from Cre­ative Con­trol on Vimeo.