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Moods & Moments: #JanetJackson ‘No Sleeep’ [Vid]

June 22, 2020 thegamutt Leave a comment

On this day…5 years ago Janet Jackson released her chart-topper ‘No Sleeep’….

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𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆, 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧‼️ Today, marks "𝖭𝗈 𝖲𝗅𝖾𝖾𝖾𝗉" 5𝗍𝗁 𝖠𝗇𝗇𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗌𝖺𝗋𝗒 released June 22, 2015, 𝗅𝖾𝖺𝖽 𝗌𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗅𝖾 𝖿𝗋𝗈𝗆 "𝖴𝖭𝖡𝖱𝖤𝖠𝖪𝖠𝖡𝖫𝖤", 𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗧s 11𝗍𝗁 𝗌𝗍𝗎𝖽𝗂𝗈 𝖺𝗅𝖻𝗎𝗆. "𝐍𝐨 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐞𝐩" rose to number one position on 𝐀𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐑&𝐁 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝100 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 Spending twelve consecutive weeks atop the chart, it becoming 𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗧s most successful Adult R&B Song, surpassing "I Get Lonely" (1998), which spent five weeks at number one. – – – – – – – – – #JanetJackson #JanFam #Janetslook #musiclegend #mondayvibes #musicmondays #musicMonday

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Five years ago today, @janetjackson released her first single #NoSleeep off of the number one album #Unbreakable 🙌🏾🖤🎶 #Queen #JanetJackson #JCole #RnB #2015 #June22

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Here is a little piece I’m working on inspired by…

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Entertainment, Poetry

#RestInPower Acclaimed writer #ToniMorrison has passed away at 88! [Details]

August 6, 2019 thegamutt Leave a comment

Your school years were truly enriched by reading any of the words of the incomparable Toni Morrison….

Morrison has passed away at the age of 88…

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Music, Poetry

WAKE UP JAM: #PeteyPablo ‘Vibrate’ feat. #Rasheeda [vid]

March 25, 2019 thegamutt Leave a comment

WAKE IT UP!!

‘Love & Hip Hop ATLANTA’ is BACK tonight!!! For some, ‘LHHATL’ mainstay Rasheeda is a reality star, fashionista and business owner, but BACK IN THE DAY she was SHAKING IT UP on the HIP HOP CHARTS–YES Rasheeda is a RAPPER too for the YOUNGSTAS!! Now, let’s make it ‘VIBRATE’ with Petey Pablo!
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Music, Poetry

#MissyElliott becomes the 1st female hip hop act INDUCTED into the Songwriters Hall of Fame! [details]

January 12, 2019 thegamutt Leave a comment

For the past 20 years, Missy Elliott has produced, rapped, sang and WROTE countless #1 hit records to DATE! Now she has finally been REWARDED! The Portsmouth, Va. native has officially been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame making her the 1st female hip hop act ever to achieve this honor!

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Poetry

A NEW DAY….

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Poetry

#Disappear- A Poem

May 22, 2018 thegamutt Leave a comment

via Daily Prompt: Disappear

Disappear

Close call
Almost felt the
Steel.
A date on a cold slab
That’s final
So close
Too close to
Disappear

It has been a hard day’s night
Still moving
Barely grooving
When is the other shoe going to drop
Will it be my own undoing
Or the free will of a cop
That brings me to that grand day
That last day
When it all dissipates
And disappears

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Music, Poetry

Moods & Moments: #RoJames ‘Permission’ [vid]

May 16, 2018 thegamutt Leave a comment

Greenlight

Speeding through
Loving you
Smiling while we ride
Glide
Before the Ides
Of March
All through the night
Traffic is light

Cruise control
While I maneuver
The curves
So right
So special
Just a vessel
For the fruit
To grow
Can’t
Stop
Won’t
Stop
Blow

So
Now that we’re naked
What shall we do
Run back to the forest
Taste the honeydew
When we
Touch
When we
Love.
Play with the button
Shift it
Make it
Go faster
Take the HOV lane
All the way
Downtown
Like a G.

You got the greenlight
Breeze on through the toll
Just me and you
No special arrangements
Don’t make it complicated.
Just ride
Roll
Dip low
Then come back down slow.
It’s all entertainment
That’s all I’m saying.

-Zam Zhinga

Just a little something I cam up with while SLEEPY and READy for bed….

Let’s MELT into the NIGHT with RO JAMES’ ‘Permission’….

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Poetry

#Bubble: A Poem

May 6, 2018 thegamutt Leave a comment

via Daily Prompt: Bubble

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Bubble

Coming from down under
You thought it was rain
But it was just the
Thunder
Rising ever so slowly
My rise to the top is evident
Even though you treat me poorly
Fahrenheit rises
The ones keeping you under
Are your ‘friends’ that really are
Despising
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Entertainment, Poetry

Rumor Has It.. #BlacChyna PREGNANT by 18 y.o. BEAU!? [details]

May 1, 2018 thegamutt Leave a comment

It appears that Blac Chyna maybe with CHILD again! Rumor Has It, that Chyna is pregnant with her 18 year old boyfriend’s baby! Continue reading Rumor Has It.. #BlacChyna PREGNANT by 18 y.o. BEAU!? [details] →

Poetry

#Tantrum- A Poem

April 30, 2018 thegamutt Leave a comment

via Daily Prompt: Tantrum

Tantrum

TANTRUM

Inner turmoil BUBBLING, festering
My hate for you is blinded by my
Guilt for what I did
I have to learn
I have to move past
The thing I did
To forgive myself
To live again
To move
On.

Anger is what I feel for so long, festering
You hold onto the pain
You say you forgave
But if you did
You would not
Still make me
Pay.

For the WRONG that I did
I am sorry
But the consequences since
Have all been so DIRE.
I am in the PRISON
That I made for myself
Seething.
Evolving into HATE
Until the seams rip
Like Incredible
And it boils into one
Big
Tantrum.

I push, you pull
You control
I Abide
But no more
The tables will turn
I can no longer
Go on this way
This ends
It stops today
It has to

The Fridays
The tumultuous
The Fridays
The walks
The talks
All of the guilt
It goes away
All before that
One last
Tantrum
The day the walls
All fall
My wrongs were wrong

But I can not pay for
The mistake for the rest of
My life
Otherwise
I may as well
Be in the prison
You made for me.
The fever
The fire
The brimstone
All come before the fall.
Kicking and screaming
Going down in one last fit
One last
Tantrum.

The curse is BROKEN.

-Zam Zhinga

Poetry

Daily Prompt: #Vague- A Poem

April 23, 2018 thegamutt Leave a comment

via Daily Prompt: Vague

Vague

In the distance I hear a sound
I’m hypervigilant now
But per the usual.

I jump to my feet,
Startled.
A loafer
Squatting in the cozy cave
That is not my own.

The sound, is it coming closer?
Awakened from my slumber
Still dazed.
Did it gather me
Memory of what happened next so very
Vague.

It’s a daily struggle
I think too much
Therefore
I sleep less
Lie awake more
Then crash

It’s so sad
And reckless
So bad
Yet
Thrilling.

Is the farce believed
Or does they players know the story
You try to hide?
Who are you and are you okay?
Your answers don’t make sense
Your clarity so
Vague.
Are you a main character or are you
Mainly backstage?

Do tell
And in time…
The pain will lessen

The school of thought you tried to teach,
Will be your own nightly lesson.
A refuge from the absurd
A nest for the bird
A lecture for the nerd
But still foggy
Still so
Vague.

Spinning out of control
Losing the grips on the handlebars
And tumbling down
On the mean concrete
Rock bottom
Is near.
The card are falling
And the day to face all your fears
I’m afraid, is near.

The fallout will be severe.

-Zam Zhinga

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