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this jont had me on the floor...

now, on a side note- i was talking to my homebroad the other day and she said "you need to do something about the pop-ups on your website." now i'm already engaged in a vicious battle against spam-bots in the guestbook; last thing i need is freakin' pop-up drama on the front page...

me: "what the... where you see pop-ups?"

her: "everytime i click on something, i get a pop-up."

me: "uh, you mean within the text?"

her: "Exaaactly- i'm sick of deleting 'em, so you might wanna handle that"

me: "wow..."

at this point, i realize that she's been deleting all the cleverly linked pages that we've been incorporating into this website for the past 4 years or so...

SO- rather than come off like an internet snob and clown her for not realizing that THOSE AREN'T "POP-UPS", THEY'RE "INFO WE WANT YOU TO LOOK AT", i figure i'd just make a public service announcement for all o' y'all that don't spend 10hrs per day on the net like me...

read the links dammit.
we some 'finding clever shit' muthafuckas
-do not let our talents go to waste...

easy,
dp

ps. yup, texas ranger- i'm talkin' 'bout U!

naturalaw-dp - 1:18 PM
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I could have the off-site links replace poemcees.com in the same window rather than launching a different one. Of course then folks would be totally off our site when they read a cool link and possibly won't come back to see what else we wrote. Can't count on 'Back' button usage.

Choices...

posted by Stylus : 12:47 PM

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5.24.2005

TALIB SHABAZZ the King of Jennifer Court

When I was 16 years old I was a lopsided Afro in a land of crisp high top fades. Dusty karate shoes in a land of Super Tims laced up to the knees.
A "HEAD" up to my NECK in hip hop culture at a time when go-go music had everyone in DC on lock, I was THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD BAMMA (I'm gonna find & post a picture of myself in full 80's Boogaloo-Shrimp regalia before "behind the music" puts it out there).

One of my best - my only friends was this cool-ass cat named Talib Shabazz who used to come down every summer from New York & stay with his Mom who lived next door.
He was tall & lanky, had a complexion ravaged by adolescence, but wore cool-ass caps & Cazals, owned a couple of adidas suits and called me "homeboy" all the time.
He was the coolest motherfucker on planet earth as far as I was concerned.
His younger sister Shakira was VICIOUS-LEE-FYNE on some "just another girl on the IRT" type time, but she understandably treated me just like the last-dragon-looking bamma that I was. Luckily, I never allowed my hormones to make me look too much of a fool in front of her.

Every summer morning with the dew still fresh on our mailboxes I'd drag out the boombox & he'd come out with the oh-so coveted KISS-FM "pause tape" mixes by the Latin Rascals, DJ Mister Cee & Marley Marl or else live shows of Cold Crush & Biz Markie. And there we'd be for hours. Popping & breaking & rhyming in our parents driveways until they pulled up at the end of the day & we had to move the cardboard. I had never been to New York at that time but you couldn't tell me I wasn't living hip-hop - I realized that I didn’t HAVE to wear fat laces to be hip-hop.

That's also when I started calling KRS-ONE, "Kris" - like I knew him...

Fast forward almost 2 decades later, and brothers are doing well for themselves. I'm... well this aint about me, y'all should know me, but my boy Talib is now known as the Godfather and is THE man behind one of Atlanta's largest urban music outlets. He gets shouts from the Roots and other artists on their albums. He spins all over the country.
He makes me proud to say I know him.

We speak only once or twice a year & If I'm ever coming ATL way I'll hit him up. We haven't hooked up yet, but it's good to know that he's still there, still hip hop & no doubt still slapping someone on the back smiling wide & calling them "homeboy".

Word up that's one of my influences right there...

Tell your sister I "got a little older/a tid bit wiser/gained 20 pounds/& six inches higher…"

nah on 2nd thought, just tell her to come to a show & eat her heart out...

Pic!

blackpicasso - 10:23 AM
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5.12.2005

If Jadakiss can ask so can I

(In my best Anthony Hamilton)

WHA EYE EEEEEEEE...

... Did Esthero give me a lapdance at Miami Winter Music Conference?
Standing outside on the lawn at the beautiful Eden Roc Hotel
Sharkey and I are dead center of the crowd politicking during Estheros performance
Well unbeknownst to us both the crowd has parted for Miss Esther-O herself who is suddenly standing in my face mike in hand singing her heart out running her hands across my face & chest! Still singing, she turns around & THROWS me tha backside in front of hundreds of cheering fans & flashing cameras (oh and one Tam-Rock-a-Fella)
So I did what any other guy would do...
Hung on for dear life

....Does Eva the winner from last seasons' Americas Next Top Models get so much attention when she really needs to go eat a stack of pancakes & holla back when the carbs kick in (BTW does YaYa remind you of any our friends in Japan??) later for all of 'em cuz' I was feeling Big Toccara anyway (is anyone seeing a recurring theme with me? no? Word to Storm GET YO WEIGHT UP!!)

...Do chicks keep hollering at me thinking I’m the “other” POEM-CEE?

...Did Pat O Brien have to go out like this? (Watch your back when playing this & get ready to roll)

...Can’t I manage my time better? Could it be that my very own “time poem” has turned around to bite me in the ass?

...Do I watch the Daily News with Jon Stewart instead of real news?

...Is Doug E. Fresh still the worlds greatest entertainer? We just opened for him at the PG County Harlem Renaissance Festival in Landover last Saturday and the man is unstoppable. I fell in love with hip-hop all over again.

...Do I love working with 7th & 8th grade minds so much? shouts to Hyattsville Middle School & St Annes Day school in Annapolis.

You know how alot of poets like to talk about how they’re the "chosen ones"?
Why is 13 of Nazareth the poet most likely to REALLY levitate on some David Blaine shit

... does my 3 year old son whenever seeing the John Legend video or hearing “Ordinary People” on the radio point and yell out “DEE PEE’s SINGING!!! ”

...had Vonzell better win.....

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blackpicasso - 2:10 PM
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uh, my name is durl... and i am writing an action movie script featuring myself and esthero... it's called "TRIPLE SPLORK" and it features lot's of sangin', rappin' and camel toe... and of course guns... that is all for now... stop writing about my co-star...

posted by naturalaw-dp : 3:57 PM

The scoreboard jont.....

THE SCOREBOARD JONT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*dead*

my new s**t = "you have to be into Betsy though"

posted by Stylus : 8:11 PM

Stay tuned for the next season of ANTQ [America's Next Top Queen] in July! YAY!

posted by Queen T : 2:54 AM