Build & Destroy
Theme Music: "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane
The past weekend, I traveled to Medina (Brooklyn) and Power Allah (Philadelphia). Had a great time, and here are some of my reflections on the weekend:
- On Saturday, 52nd street in West Philly felt like a Arabian or North African Bazaar. Brothers with long beards and skirts selling oils and White T Shirts, and sisters with all black abayas on going to buy Islamic books. There should really be some study on the effect of Islam in Philadelphia and surrounding areas
- You know Mike Jones is huge when my Old Earth (Mother) has already developed a distaste for him. You ain't heard nothing till you heard a 55 year-old woman try to mimic the chorus to "Back Then"
- Why does every radio station sound the same no matter where you go? Corporate control has made everything so homogeneous
- It's very easy to get lost in Brooklyn
- The Head of Medina (Fort Greene) is barely recognizable due to gentrification. It went from the Hood of Hoods to Yuppie and Boho heaven. While I'm all for communities becoming more livable, we have to make sure that people aren't priced out of their neighborhoods in the process. For all those who may not know, Fort Greene is called the head of Medina because that's the first place where the Knowledge came to Brooklyn. It was brought by ABG#7, who is known as the father of Medina.
- Dashikis are expensive as all get out. You gotta have money to look cultural these days
- The International African Arts Festival was beautiful. It was a zone where looking and acting civilized was the rule and not the exception. With that said, the whole scene felt just a mite fake. It was like some people were playing the Afro - Cultural role.
- Why do people wear shirts of people whose ideas they're not totally in line with? If I see one more shirt of Che worn by someone who isn't a internationalist, I'ma start hollering at people
- Original people eat a lot of Fried Fish
- Rastas have so much Culture that you can actually put together a 'How to be a Rasta' Starter Kit. At the Arts Festival you could buy everything you need to be a Rasta
- Even though they left the NOI years ago, Orthodox Muslims prepare Fried Fish like it's 1972
- If Hip Hop is any indication of Black life, we are far too fractured. These days we're playing the the extremes of either holier than thou or mega-ignorant
The past weekend, I traveled to Medina (Brooklyn) and Power Allah (Philadelphia). Had a great time, and here are some of my reflections on the weekend:
- On Saturday, 52nd street in West Philly felt like a Arabian or North African Bazaar. Brothers with long beards and skirts selling oils and White T Shirts, and sisters with all black abayas on going to buy Islamic books. There should really be some study on the effect of Islam in Philadelphia and surrounding areas
- You know Mike Jones is huge when my Old Earth (Mother) has already developed a distaste for him. You ain't heard nothing till you heard a 55 year-old woman try to mimic the chorus to "Back Then"
- Why does every radio station sound the same no matter where you go? Corporate control has made everything so homogeneous
- It's very easy to get lost in Brooklyn
- The Head of Medina (Fort Greene) is barely recognizable due to gentrification. It went from the Hood of Hoods to Yuppie and Boho heaven. While I'm all for communities becoming more livable, we have to make sure that people aren't priced out of their neighborhoods in the process. For all those who may not know, Fort Greene is called the head of Medina because that's the first place where the Knowledge came to Brooklyn. It was brought by ABG#7, who is known as the father of Medina.
- Dashikis are expensive as all get out. You gotta have money to look cultural these days
- The International African Arts Festival was beautiful. It was a zone where looking and acting civilized was the rule and not the exception. With that said, the whole scene felt just a mite fake. It was like some people were playing the Afro - Cultural role.
- Why do people wear shirts of people whose ideas they're not totally in line with? If I see one more shirt of Che worn by someone who isn't a internationalist, I'ma start hollering at people
- Original people eat a lot of Fried Fish
- Rastas have so much Culture that you can actually put together a 'How to be a Rasta' Starter Kit. At the Arts Festival you could buy everything you need to be a Rasta
- Even though they left the NOI years ago, Orthodox Muslims prepare Fried Fish like it's 1972
- If Hip Hop is any indication of Black life, we are far too fractured. These days we're playing the the extremes of either holier than thou or mega-ignorant
posted by I Majestic at 8:43 AM
1 Comments:
it depends on where you go... and you have to look for the tag sometimes...lol
but it really depends on where you go. thankfully, my father in law gave me some real dope ones
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