“I need you to be happy for me. I need you to be there for me, just like you asked of me. So; so I can have tea and eat cucumber sandwiches with the crust cut off."
i loved the movie Brown Sugar (2002) for a number of reasons. Dre and Syd, played by Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan, talk about falling in love with hip-hop at a very early age and how that love helped carry them through life. Though very real, we eventually find out that that love was a metaphor for their relationship, and though Dre had a whole wife and Syd a whole non rapping basketball playing Boris Kodjoe, they eventually figured it out and got together as more than friends. (cut to credits)
i LIKE hip-hop, growing up in “the A” i can spit verses from Outkast, Goodie Mob, T.I., Jeezy, Gucci, Shawty Lo, Kilo Ali (judge ya mama, not me), Ludacris (we called him Chris Luva Luva), and a host of others. but that’s not what had me covering the little security tabs and recording over my moms old cassette tapes, listening to V-103 and just hoping the deejay didn’t talk over too much of the song. au contraire mon frère…
i LOVE r&b. grown folk music, emotions over a smooth track, real singers, musicianship, runs, key changes. especially 90’s r&b… give me Boyz II Men, Jodeci, Dru Hill, Shai, Silk, Gerald Levert, Johnny Gill, Keith Sweat, SWV, Xscape, Zhanè, Brandy, Monica, Tony Terry. i could go on for days, if not weeks. that music affects you. it overwhelms you. it runs a Boston on you, getting you off the table before you even sat down good, standing, wondering, in your feelings
back to basics… there has been a worldwide pandemic (COVID) for some two years now. i have suffered through at least two bouts with it myself. but i survived. lifestyle changes and bouts with depression notwithstanding, i survived. this new post minor children chapter of life has been delayed, but not denied. that’s the church in me coming out
change it is a coming, and i’m here for it
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