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President Trump Ain’t No Chump (Confessions of a Colored Conservative… Continued)
President Donald Trump is a con man, a liar, a pimp and a hustler… and these are just a few of his good points. It seems nearly everyone...
Johnny Kemp… Missing a Beat
“Hey you know Johnny Kemp died.” “What? How did he die?” “They don’t know. They found him in the river.” “Was it Friday night?” “Yep,...
Me and Billy Paul… Missing a Beat
Billy, as he was know by, my man who was his musical director and traveled cross the water with more than once, died of cancer. Billy...
Prince… Missing a Beat
I ain’t been right since Prince died… my wife told me before I heard it on the T.V. “Jigs called. He said Prince died.” I didn’t...
The Return of Pimpolo
My man called and asked me, “Do those people down there know what you do? They might know what you do because what you do got you to be...
Duke Bootee’s Hip Hop History Lesson 1 – Original School “Dema dance to the riddim of the suffera.”
Genres of music are not delivered whole cloth made and tailored to the times. As with any art form they are hybrids of the past,...
Duke Bootee’s Hip Hop History – Lesson 2: Old School-80’s
Once the baton was passed and the old school had it firmly in their grasp, they took off like a shot. They took the breakdown and broke...
Confessions of a Colored Conservative – Part 2: "Thank you for letting me be myself.”
Okay, let’s look at President Obama. He may not have been a conservative but from where I stand he has been a good president. Given the...
Duke Bootee’s Hip Hop History – Lesson 3: New School 90s
Nu-School rappers, much like the soldiers who came home from W.W.II., rode the gravy train the originals and the “old schoolers” laid the...
Missing a Beat… “God bless the child that has their own.” (On the Death of Bobbi Kristina Brown)
The grief on the face of Bobby Brown was palpable, his daughter had just passed after long period of incapacitation. At that moment I...