http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxGuBeyQM2M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxGuBeyQM2M

Chris was better as Pookie

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/black.history/interactive/interactive.profile/24.rock/newjack.jpg

"Never Ignorant, Gets Goals Accomplished." NIGGA
-Tupac

Last night I saw a play that I first attended 9 years ago. If it ever shows in your area, I recommend it.

http://media.star-telegram.com/smedia/2008/01/24/12/921-305638-251872.embedded.prod_affiliate.58.jpg
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill


Lady Day is part performance piece, part historical and social overview. Set at midnight at a Philadelphia nightclub in 1959, the musical presents jazz/blues great Billie Holiday in a performance at the end of her career (and life). This one-woman show (except for some interaction with her trio of instrumentalists) showcases many of Holiday's famous songs such as "Foolin' Myself", "Crazy He Calls Me", and "God Bless The Child." Even more importantly, the show chronicles the sometimes celebrated, more often rocky path of the singer's journey in life. Billie Holiday's rise from poverty and prostitution to stardom, rebellion against prejudice and segregation, and deterioration (including imprisonment) due to drugs and alcohol are all dramatized through dialogue provided by the legend to her 1959 audience. With coarse language, tales of a destructive love affair, some well-placed humor, and the sharing of unrealized dreams, the show provides a dramatic and deep perspective of this remarkable woman.

I've heard her voice, one that has captivated me from the first time I ever heard it, described as sulfur and molasses.

Baby, that's real life.

Oft times a word just can't capture it all.

As Billie said said last night, the difference between black folks and the ofay is that the black is all on the outside for the former...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IYTx60s07A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgwgD0AUm-8