they tend to call medesi dollasyou can tie my hands behind my back &lick your initials in my neck. foreplay does nothing for me, but commitment makes me wet. i already know you’re having an affair with words but boo… i’m married to it. my vocabulary leaves most men wary. i need to know… can you get into it? i do it all but i am most known for being the owner &creative director of WKND warriors. you should follow my twitter… or you can ask me questions in my tumblr inbox. but before you do, please make sure your answer is not already here. still curious? you should read this.— check these kids out while you’re at it: stevie crooks, ta’east &cairo mayeson. the best days &nights are spent playing in music studios &video sets. if you have any business inquiries &/or interview requests, i prefer you to contact me by email.Tumblr (3.0; @ebonicsoliloquies)http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz26t4qN1n1qasv4no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17252371399http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17252371399Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:19:52 -0800<p><span>“young people, Lord. do they still call it infatuation? that magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty. before i was reduced to singsong, i saw all kinds of mating. most are two-night stands trying to last a season. some, the riptide ones, claim exclusive right to the real name, even though everybody drowns in its wake. people with no imagination feed it with sex—the clown of love. they don’t know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. it takes a certain intelligence to love like that—softly, without props. But the world is such a showpiece, maybe that’s why folks try to outdo it, put everything they feel onstage just to prove they can think up things too: handsome scary things like fights to the death, adultery, setting sheets afire. they fail, of course. the world outdoes them every time. while they are busy showing off, digging other people’s graves, hanging themselves on a cross, running wild in the streets, cherries are quietly turning from greed to red, oysters are suffering pearls, and children are catching rain in their mouths expecting the drops to be cold but they’re not; they are warm and smell like pineapple before they get heavier and heavier, so heavy and fast they can’t be caught one at a time. poor swimmers head for shore while strong ones wait for lightning’s silver veins. bottle-green clouds sweep in, pushing the rain inland where palm trees pretend to be shocked by the wind. women scatter shielding their hair and men bend low holding the women’s shoulders against their chests. i run too, finally. i say finally because i do like a good storm. i would be one of those people in the weather channel leaning into the wind while lawmen shout in megaphones: ‘get moving!” </span></p> <p><span>— toni morrison</span></p>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17243209463http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17243209463Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:23:00 -0800words<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6axdi9JY1qf3xzvo1_r1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6axdi9JY1qf3xzvo2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17243028072http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17243028072Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:20:01 -0800<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/17198244025/tumblr_lz0clsdyKL1qasv4n&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>words cannot express how proud i am of <a href="http://www.twitter.com/taeast">ta’east</a>. take the time to download my artist’s latest project, ‘<a href="http://taeastmusic.com/">The Popular Stranger</a>’.</p> <p><strong>production</strong>: cairo mayeson, ken price, roosevelt, tois de noise</p> <p>executive produced by <em>ta’east</em> and yours truly (<em>desi finley</em>)</p> <p><strong>features</strong>: BJ the chicago kid, stevie crooks, skeme, kent m$ney, casey veggies, domi young, donye’a g and ahmad</p> <p>album artwork: <em>phil mao</em></p> <p>website design: <strong>raydidit</strong></p> <p><strong>i appreciate each &one of you. you have definitely created the beginning of something magical.</strong></p>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17198244025http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17198244025Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:29:00 -0800ta'east<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/35622893?byline=0&portrait=0&color=ff0179" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>amazing video directed by <a href="http://www.michaelmoralesphotography.com">michael morales</a><em>!</em> i even got to get my producer on for this production :]</p>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17197701414http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17197701414Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:16:00 -0800ta'eastthe popular strangersthe popular strangermichael moralesHarmony<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz0bvaCkAv1qasv4no1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17197585863http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/17197585863Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:13:57 -0800ta'eastthe popular strangersthe popular strangerraydidit.com<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/10705886" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16454952310http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16454952310Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:29:36 -0800“girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. they learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. then it exploded in your face on a november day in the rain.”<br/><br/> - <em>janet fitch, paint it black</em>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16454945318http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16454945318Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:29:21 -0800words<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luzs8kdKxb1qasv4no1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16454915882http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16454915882Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:28:16 -0800<p><span>there is a loneliness in this world so great <br/>that you can see it in the slow movement of <br/>the hands of a clock. <br/><br/>people so tired <br/>mutilated <br/>either by love or no love. <br/><br/>people just are not good to each other <br/>one on one. <br/><br/>the rich are not good to the rich <br/>the poor are not good to the poor. <br/><br/>we are afraid. <br/><br/>our educational system tells us <br/>that we can all be <br/>big-ass winners. <br/><br/>it hasn’t told us <br/>about the gutters <br/>or the suicides. <br/><br/>or the terror of one person <br/>aching in one place <br/>alone <br/><br/>untouched <br/>unspoken to <br/><br/>watering a plant.</span></p> <p>- charles bukowski</p>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16051436707http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16051436707Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:51:31 -0800words<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsev76q4p31qasv4no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16051130275http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16051130275Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:43:17 -0800<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2643010/FreeJasonPensill.pdf">- click -</a>: <p>i sleep with my phone on loud &refuse to even go to the bathroom without it being near me. i haven’t slept in weeks; by 5 pm i’m exhausted &am ready to shut the world out. as always, i’m expected to carry on with business, take care of others and smile through the day. </p> <p>please take the time to read and quite possibly donate. as the hours go by, things develop &i become more hopeful. i’ve never been through anything like this and it’s ripping me to shreds.</p> <p>amazingly enough, we find ways to complain about the things that don’t really matter. this right now… this. this has consumed me. soon we shall have him back.</p>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16051078927http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16051078927Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:41:00 -0800wordsjason pensill<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzagqDLJ31qasv4no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16049870885http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16049870885Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:12:26 -0800“the curve is more powerful than the sword.”<br/><br/> - <em>mae west</em>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16049855684http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16049855684Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:12:07 -0800words<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzafahmdU1qasv4no1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16049832882http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/16049832882Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:11:34 -0800pussy prevails<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxk8uwGLRy1qasv4no1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/15597802118http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/15597802118Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:13:44 -0800Phil Maostevie crooksvlnsnvrdieVLNS NVR DIEfamilythe popular strangers<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/34280921?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ff0179" width="400" height="170" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/15597745077http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/15597745077Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:12:51 -0800Phil MaoKris Kasanovaskotch davisfamilyharmony<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxk8rxOqMV1qasv4no1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>track art by <em>phil mao</em>.</p>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/15597691716http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/15597691716Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:11:57 -0800Phil Maostevie crooksvlnsnvrdieVLNS NVR DIEthe popular strangers<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/15596499007/tumblr_lxk7uetkV11qasv4n&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>any guesses as to what video we filmed this past weekend?</p>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/15596499007http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/15596499007Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:51:50 -0800stevie crooksharmony<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxb5vsO2Z21qfo7gwo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/15596302355http://ebonicsoliloquies.com/post/15596302355Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:48:34 -0800stevie crooks