Thread by @MrChuckD

The key in fandom is knowing yourself 1st. The key is being a artist is KNOW you 1st.Then maybe the 2 meet & dance. However Art is short for ‘ARTificial’ it’s a facsimile of life. It’s NOT living. It reflects that. The leaders of Politics & Religion stole a page outta that book.

In the USA the place is so Big & so all over the place that is low on preparing its humans on the world. Especially culture . Always low bar sht thrown at its mASSes. Quantity prevails from those metrics. Organic movement gets reduced & redefined like Love & HipHop for example

My door closed on R&B in the 90s when Urban situations coined themselves ‘Homes of Hip Hop & R&B ‘ and were neither. I still was fan of artists NOT their troth. My Roosevelt Homeboys Bob & Mike Davis hold the form high on Soul-Patrol.com @kozmicfunk SO where are yall?

So @FINALLEVEL points on being 61 is a Cultural benchmark examination. When you are taught thoroughly on Art & yourself you get equipped on the wars of word taking place. I’m on twitter because you cant write a book for folk who won’t read. It’s their choice as it is to spew HYPE

When @FINALLEVEL created curated & carried on tour @artofrapfest ask yourself as a fanatic that said they loved RAP where were you in that? Waiting for BLOG to cover a bad incident? Same w R&B waiting for bad news or death. Its USA expected when it comes down to Black artists..

THIS is not a rant it’s my ongoing digital book alongside the cultural misunderstanding & use here in the USA.Most USAers like Pavlov dogs have been trained to raise up to the worst bulletin. It’s like waiting for a franchise gym to come to your town so you can finally work out

90% of the hiphop and rap art and craft are UnderEmployed. It is a worldwide art form but USA underorganized & neglected like a hood. When someone knows more about yourself & contribution then they assume the mantle. When you walk away from it it still grows like wild vegetation

Racially speaking if you wanna count the tragedy of it PE is symbolic because that area has more than twice the Blackfolk under racist one drop rule. Yet USAers ain’t taught diaspora & have limited barber salon arguments on what our culture really is while missing a ton of facts

If only we KNEW our culture like we learn Sports Statistics. ESPN TNT ABC non stop feeds data. Art is subjective when you know what it is.The fact of not feeling a art form anymore is the limitation of the beholder. Financially Hiphop trails HAIR sold in Asian beauty supply shops

That last note is a real statistic. Also comedy has dominated why ? Their overhead is a mic stool & hotel travel. The logic is laced with laughter. No band. The stereotype of BlackMusic runneth over. UrbanAIR dont even dwell on the music rather Drama & AM Laughs like rest of USA

So the 40-60 year olds sayin RAP has changed are right-everything changes yet their seeds plead for the $200 ticket for Drizzy&Migos & they gotta answer that. Preachers still pimping the Holy dream to folk in a wrong way & hair getting sold while musicians & arts suffer absence

These are narratives to simply explain that the USA is a HYPE machine for everything. I wrote a song about it 31 yrs ago based off Chomsky. Hold on to yourself is the key in the upcoming decade of 20/20. So many will be blinded in that 10 year zone of so called visual clarity

My calling is a Culturalist & EarthiZen hence I thread everything through that narrative. Its what I do. Steer Art & try to interpret it. Past Present Future. However Its key to KNOW WHO you ARe, then it’s as Important to KNOW what YOU do. Or CAN do on this planet while you here

This what @FINALLEVEL meant about the journey of an artist getting to 61. Especially HipHop! The BEST fans are curators themselves. All around this world. THEY follow the past as much as now & future.They dont wait for the BAD news or whats trendy like your teen.Coltrane anyone?

I played with @KISSOnline last summer and their fanatics were still cutting their logo in their skin in Spain no less 100,000 ppl . Extreme yes but I don’t need to hear Home of Hiphop &R&B from any situation who can’t identify @ATCQ or @nilerodgers or @staceydash or @jodywatley

Last I checked @ADtheBand has NEVER changed their commitment & narrative into the diaspora but folks grow & THEIR priorities grow as they as fans evolve.Overstood. But NEVER tell a true CraftArtist how they should Work. Support or watch someone else do it like WE peepin the @nba

So I’m closing happy 61 @FINALLEVEL .. any brother getting past the 50yard line in this USA crockpot is a miracle. I tell folk The Earth will save you when LEARN that it’s THERE!Get your damn passport even if you can’t GO noplace youll at least SEE that rusted chain on your brain