Name:

Taalam

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Age:

39

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March 25, 2007

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Country:

United States

Occupation:

Spoken Word Artist

Companies:

Word Supremacy

Schools:

Rutgers University (BS, MBA), Essex County College (AS)

Hobbies:

Crossword Puzzles, Reading, Contemplation, Obsessing over quarters, dimes and nickels.

Movies:

Movies: Ragtime, GodFather(1&2), Apocalypse Now, Hoodlum, Shawshank Redemption, City of G*d, Internal Affairs and (for reasons I don't understand) Dodgeball. TV: Law & Order, Sopranos, The Wire Guilty Pleasures: (Weeds, L Word, Entourage, Sex in the City, Seinfeld)

Music:

John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson (#1 and #2), Ray Charles, Oliver Nelson (Blues and The Abstract Truth is in my top 5LPs ever!!), Art Blakey, Eric Dolphy, Lee Morgan, Horace Silver, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Mingus, Nancy Wilson, Etta James, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, Ron Carter, Run DMC, Frankie Beverly, Lonnie Liston Smith, Donnie Hathaway, The Rolling Stones (most notably "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Paint it Black"), Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, The Meters, Booker T & the MGs, Michelle Ndegeocello, The Funk Brothers, Isaac Hayes, Nina Simone, Cream, Cameo, The Emotions, The Gap Band, Prince (last 3 mins of "I Wanna Be Your Lover" especially!), Kool & The Gang (Spirit of the Boogie days, not that Diana sh*t!!), Michael Jackson, The Neville Brothers, Sade, Portishead, Rakim, Tribe Called Quest, Fresh 3MCs, The Spinners, The Whispers (mainly for "Olivia (lost and turned out)" and "A song for Donny"), Stetsasonic, The Bee Gees, LLCoolJ, Cold Crush Brothers, Spoonie Gee, Melle Mel, Stetsasonic, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Fearless Four, Strafe (just for "Set It Off" though. lol!), Ohio Players (and may their LP covers follow me to the next world!), Cymande, Commodores, Temptations, Blue Magic, The Stylistics, Janis Joplin, Mandril, Freddie Hubbard, Cake, Elton John, George Michaels, Joe Henderson, Pink Floyd, Tracy Chapman, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Bob James, Dr. Dre, Outkast, Slick Rick, Stanley Turrentine (especially "Sugar"), Wes Montgomery ("California Dreamin" and "Bumpin" and "Bumpin on Sunset," etc.), Joe Sample, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Fela Kuti, Hank Mobley, Lou Donaldson, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Candy Staton, Minnie Ripperton, Aretha Franklin, Phyllis Hyman.

Books:

Before the Mayflower, Destruction of Black Civilization, Stolen Legacy, The Philosophies and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, The Alchemist, Civilization or Barbarism, The Richest Man in Babylon, The Black Jacobins, A People's History of the United States, History of the World, Neo-Colonialism (the last stage of imperialism, Not Yet Uhuru, Roots, Dark Days in Ghana, Jagua Nana, Things Fall Apart, A Man of the People, Ragtime, Soledad Brother, (+Anything by James Baldwin or Amiri Baraka), Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, The Miseducation of the Negro, The Souls of Black Folk, Up From Slavery, How I Became Hettie Jones, Black Nationalism. Autobiographies/Biographies of Malcolm X, Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, BB King, Natalie Cole, Elaine Brown