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May 12, 2025 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
You need to understand something. And this is where context is everything. That’s my grandfather. Lt Col Bertram W Wilson. He was a Tuskegee Airman with the 302nd and 100th Fighter Squadron. He took that photo coming back from the Berlin bombing mission that was the finale of the movie RED TAILS (he flew on that mission). Those Swastikas on his plane are for KILLING NAZIS. Blowing them out of the sky. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross TWICE over the course of a twenty year military career. He was no supporter of Nazis and fought injustice his whole life. Fuck NAZIs and FUCK @kanyewest

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Jun 21, 2024
Ok. Miles Davis had this idea for this new approach to jazz in 1959, ya dig. He didn't want his players, like John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly, to just riff over Western "Do Re Mi" chords. He wanted something different. "I wanted the music this new group would play to be freer, more modal, more African or Eastern and less Western. I wanted them to go beyond themselves..." he told Quincy Troupe for his Autobiography...
...It was deeper than that. The Africa Ballet of Guniea also hit NYC around the same time. Miles saw them at the behest of his future finance, dancer Frances Taylor, and was blown away. "It just fucked me up what they was doing, the steps ad all them flying leaps and shit," he told Troupe.
" And when I first heard them play the finger piano that night and sing this song with this other guy dancing, man that was some powerful stuff. It was beautiful. And their rhythm...I was counting off while I was watching them...So they would do rhythms like 5/4 and 6/8 and 4/4 and the rhythm would be changing and popping. That's the thing, that secret inner thing they had. It's African. I didn't want to copy that, but I got a concept from it."
So for the record he was working on, rather than fleshed out compositions, he did sketches. He kept the shit loose, the replicate the link between the dancers and the drummers. He called the album "Kind of Blue", and it's signature song was the first song..."So What"
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Jun 8, 2024
It's Prince's birthday. Should I tell you a Prince story?
I've got some writing to finish. So that comes first. I'm going to leave you with a few things to marinate on until I come back to it.
Filming Epsiode 203 I think. "Gem and Loan." Table read coming up for 204. Which means we were probably in the middle of plotting 206 or 207 and I was about to co-write 208. "Sunny". We were on the verge of casting Omar Dorsey as Cookie Brown....he was so great as Cookie...
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Jun 7, 2024
It's been 20 years...y'all want to hear a story about the 2004 VIBE Awards?
I wrote the awards that year. We were doing pre-production all week. My cousin Thembi flew out from NYC, so I took her out to dinner at Gulfstream at the Century City mall...great seafood place, right across from Houston's....RIP to both....
Coming out of the restaurant, we lingered for a minute at the top of the stairs. Valet was right downstairs...walking upstairs, with his him homeboy, was Suge Knight...
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Nov 13, 2022
Wakanda Forever isn't as good as Black Panther....it's better. It's The Godfather Part II of Marvel Movies. You won't fully appreciate the full accomplishment and possibilities until you have the ability, on streaming, to watch them back to back like you would a series.
The maturity and poise Ryan showed to beat back all you RecastT'challa muthafuckas is astounding. He melded poetic grief with real grief...and in an astounding way made Wakanda emotionally real for the audience in ways thought impossible in me-now fanboy social media era.
SPOILERS ahead....so please if you haven't seen Wakanda Forever, leave now....
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Oct 7, 2022
The Color Purple just hit Netflix. One of the things I love about Netflix is it makes you excited to see old movies because the presentation is so good. The HD is clear, the framing is beautiful, the acting vibrant. I still argue it's Spielberg's best besides Raiders.
The framing is exquisite. The camera moves. The dollies and focus pulls. Like Goodfellas, it's essentially directing school.
I hated Danny Glover for years after this film. It took Lethal Weapon for me to forgive him.
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Feb 21, 2022
Rewatching Luke Cage while I can on Netflix. They're going to do what they do. It's theirs. I just hope they don't sit on it for years to allow for an easier reboot, or re-air it with a different mix, or the N-Word muted. I'd love to do commentary tracks, or the original credits
The original credits, before we did our more conventional bumpers, was LUKE CAGE in a yellow American International Pictures/"Tarantino" font. The jogging sequence from 106 was the original opening, with Luke jogging to Bill Withers "Harlem".
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