NT Musicians
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well to go on that tangent for th fck of it, i played basketball got mvp in the community league, thus school leagues dont go far less they want you to be in nba and see you as a college prospect ect. money...so it didnt work out for me, did karate / taekwondo got a black belt , stopped, started roller skating, if you dont know on the east coast, roller skating is very big in the black community, anyway, didnt see myself doing that because of reality reasons, like didnt see how i could make a living off it, played ping pong, the boys club had tournerment we won, i played my high school, won! beat teachers and all, stopped...
one thing that stuck, because i believe its your soul, and only certain one's can tap into it, my 'poppop' boise lowery, who has taught the likes of duke ellington and clifford brown, and again if you didnt know, jazz started in 3 places so to say, as venue's ny, no and de wilmington to be specific - boise was one of those legends, he also taught lucky at a point and time... but me
no matter how much he taught me music, the only things i would do, was tap dance, which i never 'proffessionally learned' i just did what i saw sammy mike and james do, - skat, or beebop - which is jazz form of beatboxing or whatever, and played the same 2 notes on this casio keyboard, so he still tried to teach me writing music, and i understand somewhat, but i really caught the teaching of frederick douglas and sojournor truth he did because he saw that i wasnt tryna pick up those drum sticks or olay on that beautiful piano he had in the basement... nor the sax in the corner ect.
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