Sheldon Taylor's Souls of Black Notes

  Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God finds Busta Rhymes in top form, delivering rap's best album of 2020. Over a decade in the making, the Long Island/Brooklyn emcee's patience is rewarded with a modern classic----thirty years after his entry in the rap game as a member of 90s group Leaders of the New School and nearly 25 years after his durable solo career jump-off.  No stranger to the hip hop stratosphere, Busta Rhymes racked up consecutive gold and platinum albums for a decade--- The Coming, When Disaster Strikes, Extinction Level Event (Final World Front), Anarchy, It Ain't Safe No More and Big Bang. Besides massive record sales, these albums had a couple things in common---cryptic titles and a chock full of hits. Busta and ELE2's producers deliver a powerful rap album that echo masterworks from music's past ---Thriller, Songs in the Key of Life, The Chronic , Mama Said Knock You Out and It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back . Lest you think I...

The kingdom of God is here on Earth today!!! The righteous government that we all prayed for so long. "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth...." Open your heart so your body can feel it. Open up your eyes so your mind can see it. The paradise lost to the paradise regained. We have so much work to do. lets unite and help ourselves grow into the God-like condition we need so much. What good is wisdom without understanding?  Wake Up Everybody!!!!             Liner notes taken from the Wake Up Everybody album ---Kenneth Gamble, 1975   The generation gap is another evil plan. The result of which divided the family structure therefore creating a halt to the flow of wisdom from the wise to the young and stifling the energy of youth which is the equalizer to wisdom and age. Being of truth and understanding of all things, we must recapture the family structure---Mother, Father, Sister and Brother and give ...

The public response to Richard Sherman's outbursts at the end of Sunday's NFC Championship game reveal the conflicted perceptions and complicated history of African American athletes in the national media and within sports. Attacks directed at Sherman on social media have run the gamut from racist to reprehensive as words like “thug” have been used to describe the philanthropic South Central LA native who graduated from Stanford with a master's degree. Accusations of poor sportsmanship and “lack of grace” during victory are worlds away from our country’s infatuation with the gladiator culture that defined professional sports when coach Vince Lombardi’s mantra of “winning is everything” was synonymous with greatness instead of a major character flaw. The second episode of director Ken Burns’ excellent documentary, Baseball , entitled Something like a War, examines player Ty Cobb’s personal account of his mental and physical appro...