Google reminded me of the images that I encountered across the globe. Above are some of them. I hope they inspire you as they have inspired me. The images are not in the following order, but they span my travels to: 1) Daegu, South Korea 2) PyeongTaek, South Korea 3) Manama, Bahrain 4) Cusco, Peru…

LOKED OUT HOOD A Short Screenplay Adapted from the song by DJ Quik FADE IN: EXT. ARANBE AND SPRUCE – DAY A residential corner in Compton. Sun high. A teenage boy, QUIK (16), leans against a chain-link fence, a 40-ounce bottle loose in one hand. He’s dressed simple — white tee, black khakis, fresh white…

OPENING SCENE Aerial footage of Los Angeles. Dawn. The city is still quiet. The camera moves slowly over familiar landmarks — the 110 freeway, Crenshaw Boulevard, the neighborhoods of South Los Angeles. Street level shots follow — corner stores opening, morning light on sidewalks, ordinary people beginning ordinary days. The city looks like itself. Beautiful…

Witness to some shit that you shouldn’t seeWhisper to yourself what you wouldn’t beVictim to the block where your mama moved, now your mind-state is I’mma do what I got to doIt’s really quite logical, if you was me you wouldn’t shoot at them if they just shot at you?No trust funds but my daughter…

What’s your life like nigga mine’s greatI done made it out despite my city’s crime rateEvery single rule nigga that’s what I breakHit me like a omen seize the moment Hussle why waitOne thing I never do is exercise hateBut I’m the illest nigga doin’ this in my stateProbably my country, probably this worldAnywhere I…

Look at where I started and look at where I’m standin’Y’all can say it’s luck but I know that it’s plannin’Shout out to the pain that gave me understandin’Shout out to my gang, it turned me to a savageSo niggas could say what they want to but I go through what you haven’tBut it’s not…

I don’t want your love, it’s not why I make musicI owe myself, I told myself back then that I would do thisAnd I always look so out of reach, it just seems so confusin’That I felt my place in life, a young black man, it’s seems so uselessBut I don’t want no help, just…

On this day, May 15, 2026, I am at a crossroads. As of late my marathon is focused on drawing the world’s attention to a connection between Basquiat and Nipsey through the artwork entitled ALL COLORED CAST PART III. I want the world to see that there are elements in Basquiat’s artwork that precisely parallel…

When I look at Nipsey Hussle’s life I see a man who was equally ambitious. He did not have the luxury of being raised with the advantages I had. His mother and father separated. He did not earn his high school diploma. He did not earn a college degree. Yet Nipsey was a reader. His…

Nipsey Hussle, born Ermias Joseph Asghedom, was among the most visually compelling lyricists of his generation. Where many rappers traffic in abstraction or hyperbole, Nipsey built his art on concrete, specific imagery drawn from the streets of Crenshaw and the interior landscape of a man determined to transcend them. His lyrics function less like boasts…

I wrote: “During that tragic month, I also experienced wildly peculiar events. First, I took a picture of a goat near my home. Second, I took a picture of myself wearing one sock on my right foot while I laid in a tent reading a book. Third, on the day that Nipsey was murdered, I…

I’d like to welcome everybody … Welcome all the new Marathon members… to the experience of a lifetime… I need your hands up though… Let’s praise HIM. “So God created man in his own image.” (Genesis 1 : 27) This is the essential Christian message which gets so mixed up in the minds of people….