Friday was a trip to CDepot with Lynn, Aneesah (the wonderful), and her young weekend charge Karimah.
We kicked it Lynn’s for a bit while I acted silly tryin’ to get Karimah to talk. She loosened up a bit by the time we left. The plan was to hit Cdepot up and then roll to the underground release party to show love. My main goal was to show Tru Life support because the last time I saw the brother, he asked me where my book was before he even said hello. Mind you, I hadn’t seen him in month’s. That’s real…and…that’s love. Had to reciprocate. After my stall tactic of behaving like an idiot played out, (had to make sure my tummy was okay) we headed out to CDepot.
I hadn’t really planned on coppin any CD’s, more or less taggin’ along with Lynn and Aneesah because they’re both mad fun to be around. Dude, I walked out with a few CD’s..Davina, Staind, Gza, Rachelle Ferrell, just to name a few. Karimah was unfamiliar with AZ, which bothered me deeply, but whatever. I understand there’s an age difference being that she was 15, but damn, baby…you never heard Nas’ first LP?! The younger generation and musical choices are not the best mix, but she was mad cool beyond that. Smart girl. We wound up going to IHOP after that, because Lynn was so hungry. We had a good time, although we weren’t there that long. We all started feelin the effects except Aneesah. By this time, Karimah was able to put whole sentences together now that she had food in her life.
After IHOP, we rolled to Aneesah’s crib and chilled. Saw she and Karimah pray, which was a humbling experience for some reason. One thing I always admired about Aneesah (the wonderful…:o)) is that I could always ask questions about Islam and get straight forward answers. A lot of folks throw extras into conversations regarding religion, especially if they come from different backgrounds. Dialogue is so cool when people who honestly want to know and people who don’t mind sharing get together. I put Aneesah on to Lewis Taylor, while she and Lynn listened to Avril. Time had slipped by, and we just couldn’t seem to get motivated to roll out to the underground release party…