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As we look forward to dish out lessons in the art of sampling....we will be having a special showcase by our brothers @trabolee and @mchizigazaamagazu @officialkuntabeats as part of something special we are working on together.....come through early and lets Jam!!!!#boombapclicke

@polarispauline Yo you took me back. Simpler times. Niko salama.

Sir feat Masego "ooh nah nah" has just come on nikakukumbuka immediately @trabolee .. i hope uko poa 😄🤗

@trabolee you put me onto this those many years ago, asanti 😄

"On an excursion in a little Ford car from Nairobi to the Athi Plains wildlife preserve, #Jung got the first answer. It was like a revelation of the creative significance of human #consciousness. In his memoirs he relates: 'To the very brink of the horizon we saw gigantic herds of animals: gazelle, antelope, gnu, zebra, warthog, and so on. Grazing, heads nodding, the herds moved forward like slow rivers. There wes scarcely any sound save the melancholy cry of a bird of prey. This was the stillness of the eternal beginning, the world as it had always been, in the state of non-being; for until then no one had been present to know that it was this world. I walked away from my companions until I had put them out of sight, and savored the feeling of being entirely alone. There I was now, the first human being to recognize that this was the world, but who did not know that in this moment he had first really created it. There the cosmic meaning of consciousness became overwhelmingly clear to me. 'What nature leaves imperfect, the art perfects,' say the #alchemists. Man, I, in an invisible act of creation put the stamp of perfection on the world by giving it objective existence. This act we usually ascribe to the Creator alone, without considering that in so doing we view life as a machine calculated down to the last detail, which, along with the human #psyche, runs on senselessly, obeying foreknown and predetermined rules. In such a cheerless clockwork fantasy there is no drama of man, world, and God; there is no 'new day' leading to 'new shores,' but only the dreariness of calculated processes. My old #Pueblo friend came to my mind. He thought that the raison d'être of his pueblo had been to help their father, the sun, to cross the sky each day. I had envied him for the fullness of meaning in that belief, and had been looking about without hope for a myth of our own. Now I knew what it was, and knew even more: that man is indispensable for the completion of creation; that, in fact, he himself is the second creator of the world, who alone has given to the world its objective existence without which, unheard, unseen, silently eating, giving birth, dying, heads nodding through hundreds of millions of years, it would have gone on in the profoundest night of non-being down to its unknown end. Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensable place in the great process of being.' [Memories, Dreams, Reflections, pp. 255-256] As it turned out, Jung's adventerous trip through Africa was to confirm the #myth of human consciousness as the source of all meaning." ~Aniela Jaffé (Ed.),C.G. Jung: Word and Image, pp. 160-163

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Trabolee (@trabolee) and Akili Blaq (@AkiliBlaq) reflect on ‘S A D F A’ turning three in August this year. Same birthday na Sanaa kwa Sana. Sadfa si sadfa? Join this deep dive here: youtu.be/kWd6A2ZGonE.

I guess I was searching for a new sound, these are mostly producers and beat makers.

The Hiphop hour on bazeonlineradio.co.ke #ikonini @trabolee 😳🔥

Crazy, this has become an aspect of my life too.

@trabolee on bazeonlineradio.co.ke #ikonini

Remembering the great Thelonious Monk who was born on this day in 1917. Known as one of the first creators of modern jazz, Monk’s music was known for its humorous, almost playful, quality. His playing was percussive and sparse, often being described as “angular,” and he used complex and dissonant harmonies and unusual intervals and rhythms. He was also one of the most prolific composers in the history of jazz. Many of his compositions, which were generally written in the 12-bar blues or the 32-bar ballad form, became jazz standards. Among his best-known works are “Well, You Needn’t,” “I Mean You,” “Straight, No Chaser,” “Criss-Cross,” “Mysterioso,” “Epistrophy,” “Blue Monk,” and “ ’Round Midnight.” Here, he is performing “Evidence” with Charlie Rouse on saxophone, John Ore on bass and Frankie Dunlop on drums live in Belgium, 1963.

"I think Akira Kurosawa is the greatest example of all that an author of the cinema should be. I feel a fraternal affinity with his way of telling a story." --- Federico Fellini

Best writing I’ve read in a minute

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This painting, titled "Portrait of a Young Lady, a Free Person of Colour," was created by the Swiss portraitist Jean Baptiste Bonjour in 1852. It captures the grace and pared-down elegance of a young black girl in a emerald green gown. Bonjour was known to have only worked in Europe, so this young woman could have been a member of the burgeoning class of black Europeans in the nineteenth century or a immigrant from a colonized or formerly colonized country. It's currently held in the collection of businessman and philanthropist Sir Christopher Ondaatje.