About a year ago, I did a screen test for the 2Pac movie. The direction was pretty straightforward: do the provided scene and do your favorite 2Pac verse. So if you ever wanted to know which of Pac’s verses spoke most directly to me: Now I’m lost and I’m weary So many tears I’m […]
So as you can imagine, I have Grown Man Responsiblities now, 24/7/365. That means my time to play video games ain’t what it used to be. So yes, I picked up GTA V on (the morning after) opening day, but in the past week plus I’ve played it maybe an hour…TOTAL. Yep, I’m an […]
I just finished re-reading Manning Marable’s analysis of Malcolm X. Marable ends with his belief that Malcolm would have denounced the 9/11 attacks as being fundamentally against everything Islam stands for, despite the claims of those who carried out the terrorism. Marable’s thesis at the end is Malcolm should be held up as a […]
On the list of great 2Pac singles, this one (kind of understandably) is way down the list. I only think I hear this once every couple years. So I was still hyped when it came on the radio and I still knew all the words. And is that a young John Singleton in the […]
Can’t close my eyes cause all I see is terror I hate the man in the mirror Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer Times of Armageddeon, murder in mass amounts In this society where only gettin the cash counts I started out as a beginner Entered the criminal lifestyle became a sinner […]
Once a week for these, I’ll try to give a detailed breakdown of a song I post. This one was easy since it’s a personal favorite… Got My Mind Made Up is hiding on ‘All Eyez on Me’, and it still plays as a great ‘one-upsmanship’ song between great rappers. This song should have been […]
How about something fun for my last post of 2011? So 99 times out of 100 when I’m sent sides (an audition script), I can look at the product as a whole, look at where the character fits into the story, and build something from the ground up. But there was one screen test […]
When something dramatic happens, I try (if I can) to wait a day before really reacting to it. The gut reaction is usually the right one, but emotions can severely cloud judgment as well. So to go from the initial reports (‘The President is making an announcement, and it can’t wait until tomorrow’) which create […]
Today the hip hop nation takes pause for 2Pac’s birthday. He would have been 39. It’s a strange reality to me to know there’s a generation who know of 2Pac through videos and old footage, but who didn’t live through his peak years. Like some but not all, I had a love/hate relationship with […]
I woke up this morning, jumped in the car and turned on the radio. The radio version of ‘Ambitions as a Ridah’ was on, leading me to almost kill my engine on the way to work. And you’re right, there is no radio version of that song. But that didn’t stop me from yelling […]
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