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when I fell in love with hip hop
Tonight I went to see the Movie “Brown Sugar” Taye Diggs, Sanna Lathann and Mos Def were in it…. Taye Diggs is one hell of a man and Mos Def’s character was hilarious. The movie was interesting. As of late I have become infatuated and therefore slightly delirious with this cat whom I call “Doc” because his initials are M.D. for Martin Davis. The story line of the movie had two points… Life goes the way it’s supposed to go your destiny is pretty much planned no matter how hard you try to think logically and use your mind your soul knows the path it’s supposed to take and the journey is not yours you are just blessed to experience it and see it through your eyes…. The main chick – played by Sanna Lathan was a writer who became the editor of XXL and the first question in all of her interviews was… “so, when did you fall in love with hip-hop???” I love that question!!! I fell in love with hip hop at some indefinite point in time. I breathe hip hop. Hip Hop fuels me. I’m talking about the realness. The feeling I get when I write a flyy ass verse or the way my head begins to bob and the way my hips begin to roll at the first sound of phat beat its my vernacular its my walk my style my eyes my ears its everything I fell in love with hip-hop the moment I realized I could be me and it was ok because being real is better than anything I could do or say. I fell in love with hip hop the moment I realized hip hop had consumed me and I liked being enveloped in something so real that it was inscribed in me before I even knew what it was… I was really feeling the way Saanna played a writer. It made me want to write it made me realize that my talent is a gift that not all people have and that I can do this forever my writing is power it can breathe life and it can breed hate and I can say anything I want and nobody can say it’s not real because writing is physical. Ink on paper can’t be erased words are almost as powerful as thoughts they are loud and tangible… brail is writing you can physically feel but my words are thoughts come to life like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon you can see it for what it really is.. You can see it in any light you want to see it in as the end of a story or the beginning of a new fairy tale or anything in between. Writing is beautiful. It makes me beautiful
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