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7 Things About Me
November 18th, 2007
I don’t do memes at this blog because they’re outside the scope of it’s purpose; but since Zoe and Tayo both asked me to, here’s goes:
1. I used to be a Deacon. Not only but I was the Secretary of the Deacon board. I even had keys to the church. Well actually I still have keys to the Church, they never got them back from me 
2. More than being a Deacon I was also a member of the Church Board at 24. Got to vote on the budget and everything
3. Through five years of organized football, at my small stature the only position I started at was linebacker; though I played running back through 80% of my career
4. I never lived in a majority Black environment until I went to college and stayed on campus. I grew up in middle class neighborhoods, then ended up living in the hood. That’s backwards isn’t it?
Now I live in a majority Mexican immigrant neighborhood; when conversely I don’t remember not one Latino in any neighborhood I ever lived in before; and still I can go about my business all day an not see one Latino outside of being at home.
5. I released a Hip Hop LP a few years ago.
6. I’m one of the rarer Black people who have grandparents with masters degrees, but neither I nor any of my 4 siblings have an advance degree.
7. I was born in West Germany; but I was still born a U.S. citizen. My dad was in the Air Force, stationed at Ramstein AFB. It’s the base you might hear about where most injured soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are sent to.
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sounds like you have a rich church history, what denomination?
I grew up in the Baptist Church, but I was an officer in the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
i used to go to baptist church when i was young, then AME in high school and during and since college, non denominational.
Is the LP still available? Very groovy.
Yeah, it was actually a compilation where I was a featured artist. It was going to be a full length album, and I finished recording all but I got sick then I never released it.
I’m going back into the studi soon and plan to do some better work. I’ll have my own studio this time so I won’t have to rush my recordings: cdbaby.com/cd/hollowpoint2