church music has to be EXPERIENCED LIVE to be fully appreciated/known.

i can listen to jazz on cd - that's one thing.

to see it live is quite another.

to actually PLAY IT takes it to another level.

back to my original point: really, to try to critique church music without a live experience with it is like trynna appreciate hip hop without having seen a live show.

you missing the PURE ESSENCE of it. as in, the THING that makes it what it really is, and the SOURCE that makes people produce the art the way they do.

i mean, you ain't gotta be from MISSISSIPPI to appreciate blue...in fact, you can appreciate blues just listening to it on WAX.

but

until you have heard it LIVE....you can't know that the MUSIC is just a by-product of the circumstance. and that what makes BLUES isn't the music, but what people were FEELING that made them produce music that way.

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THE RED LIST*:
Big Mell
sometimes THEY know whats best for some of US. cause some of US aint
doing right compared to our counter parts (THEY = WHITE FOLKS)

janus
Is there any wonder why I hang out with mostly white or hispanic folks?
they arent as judgemental and dont have as many sexual hangups as black folk.

suave_bro
u know these muthafuckas are quick to run up on a black woman to ask her
to do some shit like this, because they know a black woman would be quick
to say yes to some shit like this...

Juxtarose (you know what i like about white guys?" they don't think having
a house, job and a car and no criminal record means they really have some
thing going on...)

* read up on IDA B. WELLS
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OKP SLANGTIONARY

PPP = POINTLESS POAST, POTNAH
NGGCOT = NOTHING GOOD CAN COME OF THIS
MANDATE = STOP HATING AND SHOW SOMEBODY THAT LOOKS BETTER


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** = all statements made about the physical traits of females are based
on Torez as a Single man not the CURRENT married Torez

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