I'm cool, lay back, a husband and father from John's Island, SC living in Laurel, MD, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, INC. went to LC and NCA&TSU
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THE @GamecockWBB GRADUATES! Congrats to @HollywoodRaven@SakimaWalker for finishing the academic race…degree them! I love this part more than anyone will ever know. 🐔❤️🐔❤️🐔❤️🐔❤️🐔❤️
📕⚡️: I wanted to read to you one of my favorite parts of my new book Uncommon Favor. You can read or listen to it for yourself when it comes out May 20! Get ready!
URGENT MESSAGE! HBCUs are under attack and my beloved FAMU is in the bullseye. The dark clouds are LITERALLY gathering on the horizon Rattlers! It’s time to stand up for what we believe in!! 💪🏾🐍🧡💚
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This should be major #NEWS “Fathers Incorporated to Host Historic FIRE 100 Graduation at Morehouse School of Medicine” #Viral#FYP 100 Black Fathers 🖤🖤🖤
There will never be another. A truly singular example of modern artistic excellence and profound humanity. When I'd call him, he would dive right into telling stories and I was all ears. I wish those conversations had been recorded because they were drenched in unlimited insight, wisdom and soul. Whether it was his equal parts awe-inspiring and ridiculously humorous recounting of how he helped shaped cultural history, or our shared love of family, world travels, exploring faith and rising from dark times. Almost everything was discussed and I was always grateful for our relationship.
To fully unlock and reflect upon it all right now is just too much to process.
His anecdotes about work ethic and his constructive feedback of my work were significant factors in sharpening my craft—for instance as a collaborator and unofficial producer on the We Are and World Music Radio albums that changed my artistic trajectory.
But some of the most powerful advice he shared with me was rooted in how to develop your humanity.
The power of prayers and mantras, which he said every morning . His insight about how "Your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being, so work on the human part" or how he and Ray Charles developed inner strength during the civil rights era by instilling within that "Not one ounce of my self worth depends on anyone else's acceptance of me" , a few examples of MANY.
When I won the Academy Award in my speech I evoked his words about the power of 12 Notes, how we all get the same ones and it's up to us what we do with them.
When he wasn't able to travel anymore I would always make a point to visit him in LA to show love, talk life and play for him. The last time we saw each other in person I played for him but this time asked if I could record him listening to me for posterity sake . In the clip I'm playing his "Ai No Corrida" then going into a Chopin waltz, then some blues and then Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight" . Always the best for Q.
You will be forever missed but my goodness did you make your mark sir !! It's on us now to carry it forward 🤲🏾✨
In Memoriam (1/2): 2013 Inductee Quincy Jones excelled at every role he took on. Producer, arranger, trumpeter, executive, and more, Jones won 28 Grammy Awards and guided historic sessions with such giants as Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, and Michael Jackson...
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This is the anthem America needs to hear right now.
Quincy Jones, the music legend who collaborated with everyone from Michael Jackson to Frank Sinatra, has died at 91. In 1986, Jones spoke with 60 Minutes about his brain aneurysms. He said he told God: Not now, I have too many dreams and ideas. https://t.co/QHrF253lLz
Rest in peace to Quincy Jones, seen here with Luther and Rick James, three architects of R&B.
Luther appeared on two songs off Quincy’s 1978 studio album “Sounds…and Stuff Like That” which were “I’m Gonna Miss You in the Morning” and Takin It to the Streets.”