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Marry a Musician?!?
10/18/10 01:03, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: blues, musicians, rap, richie havens, rock A musician? The guy's a rock musician?!? Well, never let your daughter marry a rock musician. Their brains are wired differently. That's all I can say. more »
A Rose That Grew From Concrete
07/26/10 01:05, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: freedom, hip hop, last poets, lauryn hill, rap, tupac shakur, watts prophets It has been 16 years since Tupac Shakur' s death, and ten years since The Rose That Grew from Concrete, and I don't know what's going on with stuff, or if other people know what's going on. I've been too busy travelling the world in the past twenty years to know what's going on in the media. But I feel something universal, something that touches me, and I think his words are still, and maybe not heard. And perhaps there is something healing within them. Amidst the concrete, a rose grows. more »
The Words Need Breath, Not Beat
04/19/10 01:42, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: amiri baraka, def mos, def poetry, digable planets, hip hop, rap, roots, stolen moments, the last poets, the watts prophets Hip hop is politics. It is amazing what changes have come in the US in only 50 years... and how few things have really changed. The issues of one are related to those of another, and we can't forget we are all still in this together. It would be a sham… more »
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