Travis Barker and DJ AM in critical condition after plane crash...4 confirmed dead

Travis Barker, former drummer for Blink-182 and fellow music star DJ AM were critically injured after their plane crashed shortly after take-off. Four others have been confirmed deceased, including both pilots. For more information follow the links. All victims and the two survivors are in my prayers.

http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/61713696

"THE POPULAR KIDS" RELEASE NEW NAS VIDEO!! "YALL MY NIGGAZ"

NOTED RAPPER NAS COLLAB's WITH "THE POPULAR KIDS" FOR HIS NEW VIDEO, "YALL MY NIGGAZ." DIRECTED BY RISING STAR, TAJ (myspace.com/exclusiveking // Rihanna, LL Cool J, Nike) AND PRODUCED BY TPK's, JORDAN PIERRE-THE VIDEO TAKES AN IN DEPTH AND FRST PERSON LOOK INTO THE GRITTINESS AND BEAUTY OF INNER CITY LIFE. THE POPULAR KIDS, FOUNDED BY THE DIRECTOR, IS A BOUTIQUE PRODUCTION COMPANY BASED IN LOS ANGELES, CA. (youtube.com/thepopularkidz)

No Matter The Weather (A Poem)

Ok, so saturday afternoon Im chillen. Just here. Thinking about a whole bunch of deep shit with my favorite song in the whole world blaring through my headphones. And being that Im a writer who has completely fallin off course and dogged the fusion of the only mental escape Ive ever known, I felt more than persuaded to say something. But what would I say? And to whom? Im sitting here all alone with a feeling to express...to share. Im thinking. Im listening. And I know that I cant be the only muthaf*!$ goin through the motions, right now. Trying to smile in all this adversity and make it look easy. But we all know there"s so much in this world trying damn hard to keep us from purpose. Our destiny. And although I'm not too fluent in the Bible, I know it speaks of Jesus telling His followers to remember that when the world hates us, never forget that it hated Him first. Bingo! And so that's what I want to talk about. But Im still here alone. So I guess then, Im back on course....

No Matter The Weather




There couldn’t be a better time for rain
Because I know a cloud
Can’t last one whole day, gray.

Let it fall
I have tears of my own
And thunderstorms make aching hearts
Sound like nothing’s wrong.

No fear, not me
No death if I achieve
Hey hurricane I’m glad you came
But wind cannot break me.

It’s true I’ll fall
May scrape my knee
I’ve done from time to time.
May lose my way
When tornadoes change my path
But I’ll be fine.

Flood my home and blind my sight
Freeze my steps
But never my might.

YOU are earth 
And that’s your job
But I am he 
Who walks with God.

And He can walk on land and sea
So why would I
Be scared of things
Designed to make me strong?

Please do your worst
I will do mine
You’ll still be air
That gives me time.

And I will breathe
While you subside because...

No storm can last forever.

FROM AIR FORCE 1's 2 AIR FORCE ONE

TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW OBAMA FORCE 1's! TRUELY, NO OTHER MAN IN POLITICAL HISTORY HAS TRANSCENDED RACE AND CULTURE QUITE LIKE PRESIDENT OBAMA (THAT'S RIGHT IM CALLING IT EARLY LOL). THANKS TO THE FOLKS AT HYPEBEAST FOR THIS ONE.

There's Something About Black Love

ABOUT A YEAR AGO I WROTE A POEM FOR MY NEW BOOK, "A ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS" ENTITLED, "T.I.S.A.T.B.L." WHICH STANDS FOR, There Is Something About This Black Love. THNX 2 CONCRETE LOOP I RAN ACROSS SOME AMAZING PHOTOS OF WILL SMITH AND JADA PINKETT-SMITH AT A RECENT EVENT IN LOS ANGELES, CA. IN A CULTURE THAT SEEMS AS IF IT CONTIUES TO SLIP FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY FROM THE PROSPECT OF LOVE...ITS REFRESHING TO SEE THIS COUPLE EMBODY WHAT I BELIEVE IN MY HEART WE ALL STILL HOPE FOR. 

BELOW ARE A FEW PICS OF THE COUPLE AND THE POEM THAT I WROTE TO CELEBRATE THE FACT THAT THERE IS INDEED...SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL ABOUT BLACK LOVE. 

T.I.S.A.T.B.L.

There is something about this black love…

About this black woman
About my black face
About her black skin…sunlight yellow to the midnight hour
About this black child
About our black love.

There is something about this black love…

About its cool flow
About the test of time
About her fine frame…runway thin to soul-food thick
About my life for her
About our black love.

There, indeed, is something about this black love…

About the pictures we paint
About the style we live
About that smile of hers…who needs the sun?
About her life for me

About the God who loves.