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Top 5- Bad Boys (& Lady) of Hip Hop

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Who’s your TOP 5- BAD BOYS of HIP HOP? Notebook Art by E. Palmer In a recent barbershop conversations, comments suggestions that today’s hip hop artist are somehow lesser than their predecessors from our teenage prime (circa late 80’s-early 90’s). Needless to say I neither agree or disagree with opinion.   I believe each generation believes the music of their prime to be superior and other generations simply inferior. Ask someone from the 60’s about Motown or James Brown what they think about N.W.A. or 2 Live Crew and their response would probably be, “garbage or filth.” I believe the same opinions bode with generation and generation now. If listening to Young Thug or Migos we’d react with, “huh?” We simply can’t relate.   Luckily my mother influenced me with music of her generation and forward. The sounds of Aretha, Marvin, Luther, and Michael played throughout our home.   As the influence of hip hop chimed in with Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster...

He Script

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He starting with his Sharpie SGel gray pen to script today with lovely structure to show Salvatore Scribona, a professor for Wesleyan University for his Writing Certificate: The Craft of Style, he’s scratching his head. Really trying to keep writing and pulled his tortoise eyeglasses on top of his head and looking how will he finish this evening? Sitting on his olive couch rubbing his pointer finger to his side face near brown eyes holding pen watching CBS news. “What’s happening, “Cards lost to Phillies,” ughed! First time need second game only two wins goes to the next go to the Braves. He got away from TV. Tried to go back to write on three subject notebook holding kept scribbling and soon held his holding his hand on his forehead placed his elbows on the arm of the olive couch. Still thinking…?   Started watching the news, a CBS Evening News almost close to 5:50pm saw a show of a Caucasian woman police was past and didn’t know how it happened? But, he saw a Caucasian man walked...

Masquerade Bachelor Party

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Masquerade Bachelor Party By: Eric D. Palmer             Masquerade Bachelor Party Always loved masquerade balls with my friend taking me to my bachelor’s party. My life won’t tell their names at a masquerade ball and bachelor party before he’ll hold for us soon married. My friend said my friend privately owns the mansion in the Central West End. My family went when I was a kid, and we always had a party for our family and friends. Known all about the mansion on Westminster Place yes saw a part of a mansion. Handsome men together, especially a child being an adult, “Yes for my bachelor party I want my life to be a masquerade bachelor party. When my friend and I strolled through a parking lot of the mansion, now older than a child, I smiled at the entry door on the side of the building. We proceeded entirely, I felt amazing seeing through my vision and saw a friend, a part of the mansion, smiling. Walking throughout our estate room from one...