To my MCs/Singers/Poets/Artists...

[BLCTXT]

Ima keep this jawn short cuz I just want to hear your responses.
Right now I'm listening to the new Stat Quo Checks and Balances mixtape and the track I have on repeat is his version of Kanye's Say You Will with fellow ATLien Bobby Creekwater.
Straight up, Bobby Creekwater's verse had me on pause when I heard it.
It was inspiring, and this is my main goal in making music.
I also had to think: I haven't heard ANYTHING like this in a while.
Something that made me WANT to pick up the pen and scribe the illest thing I ever wrote.
So I ask you Fly.Paper neighbors, when is the last time you heard some song, saw some movie, read a quote digested some work of art that made you wanna get off your ass and bear your soul?
Let me know, I'm posting this everywhere I be at.

-blctxt

[Offie Coffee]

right now i am really into roy ayers - 60's and 70's dr. of funk.
check the DL.

i was listening to roy ayers - He's A Superstar, today and caught the samepl from 3 Slim Dynamite by the Digable Planets. Me and Geno were talkin about crate digging earlier today. I have been finding some jewels in Roy's discs.

I have also been in a big Led Zeppelin phase for a while.

Post Script.

As soon as i finished posting this little ditty came on

We Live In Brooklyn, Baby - Roy Ayers

Brooklyn - Mos def At 2:30 when the song switches and you hear "We live in brooklyn baby"

things like this let me know i'm looking and listening in the right places

[Kaia Niambi]

i'm working on this painting right now that makes me crazy every time i work on it.
pics will be up soon when it's done.

also
a song called Meccamputechture by The Mars Volta
that whole album "Amputechture" is really great.

yup.

[Offie Coffee]

yeha i have been listening to a lot of the mars volta. incredible.
take the veil cerpin taxt is like my theme song as much as i play it.

[Blackened Blue Note]

I love you guys so much!! I have been listening to Mars Volta for years!!! and I just went through Deloused in the Commatorium a couple of days ago.

Kaia:
Please dismantle all these phantom limbs.
it's the evidence of humans as ornaments.

*tilts head slightly at Offie and Kaia and bats eyes*

Me personally, I've been listening to some Tom Waits, a little Bjork, I listened to Bitches Brew the other day but the music that makes me want to write! it's gotta be Blackened Blues! My own music puts me in a state of mind where I gotta one up myself, do better, and write something sicker. I want my first album to be Illmatic meets southernplaylistic meets can I borrow a dollar. but refined to my own digestible standard in flow and execution. So here I am, up late writing rhymes.

[Tilena]

Esthero...."Black Mermaid. I been off the track awhile..forgot about the honey sounds of HER. So the other day I went to her page to browse..and it slid across my throat and right down to my fingertips...

It made me wanna write..sing...and paint.

check it out...http://www.myspace.com/pinkpirate1

Peace..

[BLCTXT]

New Esthero is always a good thing.
But say negro, where have YOU been?

[Blackened Blue Note]

Making music!

[banji alfred]

i get inspired by jigga frequently...his gutter to El dorado lyrics inspire me to write often.I'm an M.C plus the A&R Executive of Maverick Records,Lagos. We r d Friends of TSOP('Share ur experiences with the music that touched an entire generation).