Gil Scott-Heron. Brian Jackson. “Winter In America”.

Syncopated Jazz swing, and the Blues. Lovelorn, world-weary, the honest, lying, cheating Blues.

Son House. Louis Armstrong. Alan Smithee seduced by Natalie Cole. Gregory Porter. “An American Poem”.

Prince. Gemini. Romanthony. Cajmere. Mike Dunn`s QX-1. Field hollers and Felix Da Housecat`s “Freakadelica”.

K. Alexi. Lady Day, and lust.

Outkast. “Take A Run At The Sun”. C2`s Retroactive static and First Nation ghosts.

Funkadelic and Curtis Mayfield.

What I hear is an incredible talent considering how best to use that talent to try to influence change for the good. He`s on the edges of it right now.

Soaked in Afro-American history, what I hear is an anger burning.