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Iʻm taking an ART Class and I thought this would aid in your Interior and Exterior Design.

Of course you want to choose colours that coordinate with the Seasons, but for specific colours and groups of colours, this video helps to acheive the exact shade and combinations that you desire.

You can learn ANYTHING ON the Internet. My brilliant son, Hakim.

I thought my Art Professor was a bot for a long time.

I thought about dropping the class, because that is really spooky.

I met her though.

The entire class is online but the textbook. OMG. You would think it was like a million year old artifact that you have to wear gloves and make libations before you even crack it open!!! LOL!!!

It has a lot of valuable information in it though. I canʻt front.

My favorite areas of interest are LIGHT AND COLOUR or PHOTO AND CHROMA.

I love science and photo and chroma are like the scientific terms for light and colour.

My professor is a middle-aged female like me and I told her about my interest in science. We have a lot in common.

She told me that she likes SCIENCE and ART. And I was like “THATʻS ALL THERE IS!”

But at the Masjid I was reading a copy of the Quran from 1930 and the translator Yusuf Ali pointed out that there is also PHILOSOPHY.

The foundation for EVERYTHING ELSE – SPECIFICALLY ART & SCIENCE.

I felt extremely bad after reading that. Like HOW COULD YOU FORGET ABOUT ALLAH, HAQIMAH?!?!?!?!

And I had to do two rakaʻas just on general principle.

HIP-HOP NEXT FIFTY:
“I AM HIP-HOP” – The Game Show

OMG! I made a GRIP pf comments as I watched this and Boop! GONE!!!

First, comment, Please play some music continuously in the background. SOMETHING! Yaʻll putting me to sleep and I love Raheim!

The Peas first album feature some Seventies Game Show Skits that were hilarious but the music was amazing!

Also, whole lotta politics involved in this show

I knew by the contestants. Who are they?

Canʻt be just some random people like regular game shows.

And introducing them later on into the show doesnʻt change the fact…

1. The Krsna / Shan beef would not have produced a “The Bridge” record had Shan not dropped his record. Regardless of Krsnaʻs animosity with Magic. Shan talking ʻbout Hip-Hopʻs birthplace outside of the BX started the bang on vinyl wherein Krsna SMASHED Shanʻs rap career.
2. Roxanne Shanteʻ established herself as the Q-U-DoubleE-N ABOUT A DECADE BEFORE LA

I was devastated to hear about Kangol! UTFO revolutionized Hip-Hop with Roxanne-Roxanne.
That was the first record to produce “answer” records. Soooooooooo many Roxanne spinoff records. After “Roxanneʻs a Man” I stopped keeping track. Lordt.
But thatʻs how Shanteʻ got her start. She and Kangol commercialized off the success of that “beef” for the rest of their careers.

MANY SCHOOL DESKS BANGED THIS BEAT OUT! 😎 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿🎼🎵🎶🎶

WEST IN PEACE KANGOL KID. MAY ALLAH BE PLEASED WITH HOU.

HOW TO COOK

Remember I told you how my school was giving away all of its books. (I guess theyʻve never seen that Denzel movie called a book ) But anyway, I got a bunch of cookbooks and one of my favorite discoveries while I was in NOLA was an Islamic staple similar to hummus, but I do not mess with chickpeas/garbanzos so BABA GANOUSH was like Heaven!

I love eggplant and so do most people in that part of our Beloved Planet.

There are many ways to prepare it and I have had some bad baba…. It was at a restaurant near the Beverly Center and I was so surprised because I thought it was impossible to make a bad batch of Baba.
I suppose with what I know now, I could have doctored it up with a little pure pepper and lemon juice, perhaps some garlic salt. (That is like my thing right now. Iʻm wondering why no one has bothered to make and bottle GARLIC PEPPER??? They make Lemon Pepper. Why not Black pepper and garlic salt or just BLACK PEPPER AND GARLIC – garlic pepper! Pepper Garlic? Yummy!!! 😋 Iʻm making my own!)

Anyway, before you can make the Baba you have to make something called TAHINI. Which is a sesame seed paste. Let me get the recipe BRB

I was NOT expecting this

I used to be friends on fb with a Sister in Turkey. So Cool. She sent me all of these Turkish/Islamic souvenirs right before I went 51-50 and lost contact.

So cool also because she had a homemaking blog! ikr? Anyway, I hope thatʻs the sisterʻs daughter she spoonfeeds because nowadays…

Anyway, if you donʻt have the technology to make your own tahini, I believe you can order it online. I saw Trader Joes and Whole Foods brands at the shopping site, so you might find it there as well!

Funny, maybe Baba Ganoush is not a Turkish dish. But let me see BRB No, idk I googled it and Turkey came up as one of the Levantine countries where it is eaten. But this Sister did not mention it.

She focused on more Turkey specific dishes.

OMG!!! Did you see the village where her father is from!!!! The houses!!!! INCREDIBLE!!!!

HERE IS A VIDEO FOR THE GANOUSH

I like the music!! 🙂

You donʻt have to grill the eggplants. You can bake them. I saw this Sister bake them then let them cool off. (Ganoush can be served cold.) Then she squeezed the guts out and proceeded. LOL

Anyway, Iʻm really into the mortar and pestle now. And I canʻt wait to get one. LOL

I havenʻt made the Baba yet either. As much as I love it.

Eggplant period.

My mouth was watering watching Refika. LOL

Iʻm bout to go find something in my budget for Supper.

Last night I had brie and baby romas and some local ice cream. I did the mathematics and it came up to almost thirty dollars! $16 for the cheese $6 for the romas and $7 for the cream. $29 for ONE HOMEMADE UNCOOKED MEAL! Charcuterie as they call it. Thatʻs another reason why I donʻt speak French. Too bougie.

Iʻm probably going to have something equally expensive tonight.

I am so spurled. The F.O.I. and N.O.L.A. got me messed up. smh

IN CONCLUSION…

HIP-HOP NEXT FIFTY YEARS

I know they look very white. But I think about the homie Max (kpfk) and he looks like this guy, but heʻs Black or biracial or something in anycase, this is the best tut on hip-hop dances that I used to do, some I never knew the name

Like one of the dances I learned from Fatima, they call it the Bart Simpson, in the nineties it was that one and another one that you throw your shoulders back arms straight down in front of you. I donʻt think they did it. Let me watch again. brb

Yeah, they missed that one.

There was this group of guys named “shampoo press and curl” their hair was “lit” GUYS and they used to do those two dances. Late eighties/The nineties.

THEY ALSO DIDNʻT DO THE PEN STATE !!!! OMG

I can kinda see that though

But ATCQ World Tour was THE Pen State song. And I know the University is PENN. The dance is PEN.

They also should have did the wop a little more, that dance defined the eighties.

These are like the HIP-HOP TRANSITIONAL DANCES that took us FROM BREAKIN ON THE FLOOR EVERYWHERE to International concerts backup dancer shows/tours/music videos and celebrity status…

AS A PURIST HOWEVER, I MUST REITERATE –

YOU CANNOT CALL ANYTHING HIP-HOP DANCE WITHOUT INCLUDING BREAKINʻ!!!!!