mos

new Gil & old Gil

here is a new offering from one of the Masters of the craft, Gil Scott-Heron. every modern American urban poet is inheriting from him whether they realize it or not. he has a new album coming next month. thank God. [puts me in the mood to release an album]

here’s the site. http://gilscottheron.net/

heres one of the new joints.

one of my favorite of his classics.

like this.

like a daydream or a fever

Amen

rise&set

beloved,
if God had me choose between

seeing the sun rise
and the sun set
everyday

or

seeing the beauty
of your rising and your setting
only once;

it would be perpetually noon on your face.

“you met me at a very strange time in my life”

my art is going through something. i have no prediction. i’ll let you know when i know.

new work, the mos joint and what not

greetings brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and others. ive been neck deep in a new project. this new thing has opened up really before i finished my last thing (tis the norm in my life). so The Meccan Openings album is still coming. fret not. when i make some more headway on this new project i’ll share it with yall. your going to love it.

i know some folks are upset with me for my last post. the mos def joint. yeah the link has expired. ill put it up again so you guys can download it for your listening pleasure.

everything is good. just creating creating and creating.

love light and peace,
amir

ps. i dont know anyone living (emphasize ANYONE) that is better at writing poetry than this young woman http://www.warsanshire.blogspot.com/ . any of you who know me know i dont make statements like this casually. so im not saying that shes better than everyone else. all im saying is i dont know anyone better than her. [and i know some damn good writers]. shes 21yrs old (i think). shes a phenomenal writer. shes releasing her first book soon. not sure how soon. i dont know the name of it or whose publishing it so dont ask me. ask her.

ok.

love light and peace
and im out.

me x mos def x (mikaal sulaiman + 1/nina simone) = When I Die [rebuild]

or download here

v1
when I die
oh dearly beloved
ive nearly departed

from the empty heart
of an artist
my art is narcotic
without heroin or methadone
without break beat or metronome
cathartic

my thought is
most poets are liars
and most liars are artist
but as an “honest” artist
ill tell you
when your teachers preacher
fail you
the artist can show you where God is

I put that on
sayyidina
habibina Muhammad
salaallahu alahi wa ala ahlihi wa salaam

civilize the lawless
you dont gotta be concious
just cognoscente
dont take a genius to make GOOD music
its just the consequence of common sense
we were kidnapped
but not totally conquered
by colonist
so we live and grow right here
we’ve mastered slavery
despite fear
sometimes we make GOON music
just getting out our nightmares
ive got an idea
God damn the Goddamn devil
and oh yeah Peace

v3
im between
abi and umi
shia and sunni
heaven and earth
rakim and rumi
if you knew me
you know its not a new me
their magic doesn’t fool me
lose me
or move me
Tesla with heckler
swordman sufi
take ten thousand men
with two sheets of loose leaf
please excuse
my brother introduce me
hes most def and im absolutely

Im first to dive in
last one to surface
with something from moses
my staff is my verses
magicians bamboozle
mystify
woo you

conversely
my verse eat the face off the serpent
at best you laying with the nurses
or worst
or have you sleepin with the sea urchin
hex curses
merlin’s nervous
death becomes him
end scene
curtains

ponder the space between your eye and the star
youre seeing the light of what’s already gone
likewise by the time you hear this song
10,000 light years we’ve already moved on
even if your watching live perform
youre only there seeing the life in my form
eeni meeni miney mo what planet im on
I go where I want I the slave of The GOD

BROTHERS [great trailer]

i like a good trailer almost as much as a good film.