This is my first blog using my iPhone. I knew there had to be an app for it. There's an app for everything...recipes, restaurants, even restrooms. Alliteration aside I'm grateful for this app because it allows me to post on the go. That's dope.
Speaking of dope, I took a walk from my apt in Crown heights to the 3 train on eastern pkwy and, the spring weather is reminding me of why I love this borough. I mean i was blasting Mos Def through my headphones who is as Brooklyn as a Spike Lee Joint so that had to add to the sentiment (think of playing Beres Hammond while walking the swetering roads of Kingston, Jamaica).
Black on Both sides has a track entitled "Brooklyn" a triple beat track that makes lyrical love to the hippest borough of NYC.
"I love my city/sweet and gritty/inland to outskirts/nicknamed bucktown cuz we proned to outbursts/
Philosophy redefined/touch mine I touch back/Walk the streets like it's sweet and get beat like drum tracks..."
Though the face of Brooklyn is changing, seemingly more culturally inclusive, some of us see at as the opposite, progressively exclusive. But, sociological implications aside my four block walk past local new shops, eateries, and even the remodeled corner stores had me wanting to do what Mos Def captured on his track "scream GoBrooklyn! They representin it!" I love springs and summers in bk.
GO BROOKLYN! GO BROOKLYN!
PS: let me know how yall like the photog...I took the pic with my iPhone...I'm trying to get into digital photography as well...
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Location:St Johns Pl,Brooklyn,United States
Great post Sir! Well verbalized and captured! I felt you ...:)
ReplyDeleteVery nice pic. It reminds me of that book I never read "A tree grows in Brooklyn" because the shadow cast by the tree is such a great presence. Very nice use of art, poetry and technology in this post. Short & sweet!
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