I KEEP HOLDING ON !

I KEEP HOLDING ON IS MY FAVORITE SONG BY SIMPLY RED AND THE MASTER- P- RAP EDITION OF HIS 1995 PRIORITY DISTRIBUTED-NO- LIMIT  RECORDS  ALBUM THE ICE CREAM MAN !  BETRAYAL: IS TO REVEAL UNINTENTIONALLY. FORGIVENESS IS TO: CEASE TO FEEL RESENTMENT AGAINST THE OFFENDER. TRUST IS : ASSURED RELIANCE ON THE CHARACTER, ABILITY, STRENGTH OR TRUTH OF SOMEONE OR SOMETHING. ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT REACHING OUT TO RELATIONSHIPS IN YOUR PAST FOR HEALING IS THAT THE RISK IS THAT NEW REVELATIONS COME TO LIGHT AND THOSE CLOSEST TO YOU HAVE HIDDEN GUILT THAT COMES TO LIGHT.  WHEN IT IS ALL SAID AND DONE PAIN SURFACES AND THE HEART BREAKS AGAIN, BUT ALSO THATS THE PROCESS OF FORGIVENESS AND HEALING AS JESUS SAYS TO FORGIVE IS TO BE FORGIVEN ! TRUST WHEN ALL SAID AND DONE ONLY CAN  BE RESTORED WITH AN OPEN HEART, TIME AND OUR LORDS GRACE! EVERY NIGHT I PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS FOR THOSE I HURT INTENTIONALLY AND UNINTENTIONALLY AND THOSE WHO INTENTIONALLY AND UNINTENTIONALLY HURTED ME THAT THEY BE BLESSED AND FRUITFUL IN THERE LORDS CALLING AND LIFE  IN MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST !

GET IN WERE YOU FIT IN ?

I REMEMBER IN THE EARLY 80'S WHEN I USE TO RIDE THE # 43 BANCROFT BUS TO SAN LEANDRO HIGH, THERE WAS THIS GUY WHO SOLD HOMEMADE RAP TAPES ON THE BACK OF THE BUS, HE SAID HE WORK AT RADIO SHACK IN THE EASTMONT MALL AND HE GETS FREE  TAPES TO RECORD HIS MUSIC !  I WENT HOME AND PLAYED THE TAPE HE RAPPED ABOUT EAST OAKLAND, GIRLS AND  HUSTLING  I KNEW HE WAS GOING TO BE BIG. HE WAS RAPPING ABOUT EAST OAKLAND AND THE STREET CULTURE HIS NAME TODD SHAW B.K.A TOO SHORT !  BAY AREA PIONEERS TO ME IN RAP MUSIC ARE- TOO-SHORT, MAC DRE, RAPPIN 4 TAY, DIGITAL UNDERGROUND, TUPAC, MASTER P, E-40 AND THE CLICK, PARIS , ASKARI X,  HAMMER AND SPICE-1, BUT THE THREE SONGS THAT I LIKED THE BEST FROM TOO SHORT WERE THE GHETTO, SHORT BUT FUNKY AND GET IN WERE YOU FIT IN, BECAUSE IN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS I HAVE MADE PEACE WITH PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN FOR 20 TO 30 YEARS AND IT WAS A BLESSING, BUT THEY LET ME KNOW ON NOT WHAT THEY SAY BUT HOW THEY ACT  TOWARD ME AND THAT IS GET IN WERE YOU FIT IN AND THE SAME GOES TO US ALL !

MUCH HONOR TO BOOTS RILEY !

I GIVE THE UP MOST RESPECT TO BROTHER BOOTS FOR HIS COMMITMENT TO UP LIFTING OF ALL PEOPLE THROUGH HIS MUSIC WITH THE COUP, TO HIS ACTIVISM. BOOTS HAS BEEN A SOLDIER FOR THE STRUGGLE FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS IF NOT MORE. I DO NOT KNOW BOOTS PERSONALLY BUT I HAVE SUPPORTED HIS MUSIC FROM DAY ONE. THE REASON I HAVE BROUGHT BOOTS RILEY UP, IS BECAUSE HE OPENED HIS FRIENDS LIST UP TO EVERY ONE AND ALLOWS FOR PEOPLE TO POST UP WHATS ON THERE MINDS WITH OUT ASKING PERMISSION LIKE A LOT OF CELEBRITIES DO ! I RESPECT THAT AND IN DOING SO IF BY THE GRACE OF GOD IF I EVER BECOME A CELEBRITY I WILL ALWAYS KEEP MY FRIENDS LIST OPEN SO PEOPLE EXERCISE THERE FIRST AMENDMENT, I  UNDERSTAND PEOPLE IN BUSINESS AND POLITICS HAVE TO CONTROL WHO IS ON THERE WALL, BUT I ALSO THINK BY DOING THAT YOU NEUTRALIZE PEOPLES OPINIONS AND OTHER PEOPLE CAN NOT LEARN FROM ONE ANOTHER, JUST MY OPINION AND I UNDERSTAND EVERY ONE HAS ONE !