Like Aguilera doing a man’s world at the Grammies and
me saying, “Damn I can’t think of one young black
dude her age who coulda woulda rocked that shit half as
hard as Christina did.”
Maybe that’s a got-damn shame.
Lil’ auto tuned bee-swatches.
Or maybe not — maybe James Brown doesn’t get to define
the 21st century’s swagger for negroes, maybe it’s Kanye or
Kid Cudi, Toro Y Moi, Gordon Voidwell, Guillermo Brown,
like for real Yo.
Because while the women are getting low, the brothers are
still going to jail, but in songs they are getting more and
more spooky, more and more ephemeral, more and more
sounding like ghosts in machines. T-Pain is technology meets
misery with a mighty whine of Joy.
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“Come on baby talk to me/ I know how I can make you
skareem/Say my name/Say it Loud I want to hear you bring
your Jesus down.”
This is what rhythm and blues hard bop and free jazz used to
be all about.
Bringing your Jesus down.
Now you go, put the viral and the money shot on the table
before anybody gits to go home happy.
You get to get low get low get low
Like Erykah invoked Isis at Daley Plaza and the grassy knoll.
“Some lie about that spoonful, some people cry about that
spoonful, some die over a little piece of that spoonful. Every
body wants a little piece of that spoon that spoon that spoonful,”
like Baduizm on the grassy knoll.
Many physicists don’t believe in Isis, Set or Osiris, or even
g.o.d. but most scientists do believe in Dark Energy, the most
powerful and most procreative force in the universe.
So powerful that it can counteract all the gravity in the
universe and accelerate the creation of galaxies and the
expansion of the universe at unmeasurable rates.
And yet there is scant observable evidence that dark energy
is really even out there, other than that if it wasn’t out there,
most of the universe wouldn’t really exist.
Dark Energy is thought to constitute 75% of the mass and
energy in the universe though it possesses neither mass
nor energy and is invisible, undetectable and unobservable.
It doesn’t interact with any of the masses or energies in
the universe that we can see, detect or observe. For these
reasons, I have come to surmise that Dark Energy is
Black Thought, Black Consciousness, or really just another
Black and invisible manifestation of God’s mind — the
one Einstein spent his career seeking evidence for. As George
Clinton likes to say, “With the rhythm it takes to dance
through what we have to live through/ you can dance
underwater and not get wet.’’
BLACK RENAISSANCE NOIRE
Nobody hurt, nobody gets moved to do it again, Jack.
Trauma is a muscle and if you want to be an Aristocrat you
gotta work it out routinely.
Aim high, Git low git low git low.
Work out the kinks. Konk ‘em, tease ‘em. But never leave ‘em
you got to got got got got got to try a little…….
Trauma is your girl and I’m here to talk about your girl.
She knows what this is.
She knows the new rules.
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