This is my first post for the blog to support  my book "One Hundred Forty Four Poems and Essays for God, Love, Truth, Justice, Peace and Hip Hop". Coming out on ebook, Amazon and through my website www.deepculture.net.

144 is a collection of poems and essays dating back to 1982 (I am a Big Blue Frog) all the way to 2014 touching on the uprisings against white supremacy taking place worldwide. There are photos and art chronicling my journey all along the way. This book has been a major effort, I don't know if I have ever done anything as difficult.  It began as my contribution back to Hip Hop, a culture that has given me so much over the course of my life. Over the years of writing, faking like I was working on it, and looking at that pile of paper, it became something else.

What I am presenting now is a compilation of my writing, collected art and photos. It's not perfect, all of the poems are not polished. Some of the pieces were written in 1982, when I was just learning to write. The most recent pieces were written in late 2014.