[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450"] Jay-Z: The 40+ Rapper.[/caption] There’s a 31 year-old guy who just got out of prison, and is living with his mom, lounging around the house with his friends watching comedy on the television, breaking the furniture while horse-playing. He has several children,...
[soundcloud params="auto_play=true&show_comments=true"]https://soundcloud.com/adcarson/belief-a-complicated-truth[/soundcloud] There’s a long-held belief that how to get to where we at is do the things that we did. So, soon to be repeated are the stories of the struggles that my brothers and I went through— staring out the windows of apartment buildings, building our imaginations, waitin’, patient, not...
[On January 15, 2013] Maybe a poem won’t do it, but will you? I ask, because we all seem to be looking for something that’s going to change the world. We all seem to be so great at saying what won’t work. It won’t be a presidential election, it won’t be a march down Martin Luther King,...
My resolution is a revolution. When you think about it, they all are, aren’t they? 365 days of circling back to the place you started, only a year later, wiser, better, hopefully. I resolve to not be the same when I see you here next, resolve to not resolve again what I have already too many times before. Let...
A.D. Carson celebrates the great news that he was just accepted into a PhD program with the release of The A.R.T. Mixtape. A free downloadable collection of some of his favorite tracks, rewritten with verses that reflect his peculiar take on Rap as an artform, as...