In My Write Mind

I consider myself a person able to write on any subject. Just give me a phrase and I’ll spin it into something eloquent. Something noteworthy. Something cogent.

All of that went out of the window tonight. Yup, folks … consider me write-less. Seriously, there are no words, no rhyme nor reason, for Three 6 Mafia winning an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences award for Best Original Song with “It’s Hard Out Here … *sigh* I can’t even type the whole thing out.

I will now go hustle and slit my “D-Jay”- adorned throat. And, you know … watch the blood flow.

That is all.

[originally posted May 2005]

Sigh.

Excuse me as I get misty for a moment. It happens every time I hear the song. You know the one … by the Native Tongues, i.e., De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and the Jungle Brothers. The one where Monie Love and Queen Latifah make cameos that set the party off. The one that sounds like one of the greatest studio sessions ever.

Yup. That’s the song. The “Buddy” remix. In my opinion, one of the greatest hip-hop songs ever made. And also one of the most important, if only because it solidified the Native Tongues as a unit well before Tribe’s Scenario remix propelled them into the stratosphere.

“Buddy” was, and still is, da shit.

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It’s nights like this, when I’m feeling myself, wanting you like never before.

This is the night I look at myself in the mirror and know that it’s my night. Our night. Then I look at you — how you look — stare at the curves that can’t be ignored, that seem to be begging me to explore them one-by-one tonight.

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