Word: sundiata
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SENTENCED. SUNDIATA BASIR, 34, former D.C. deputy-mayoral aide who admitted to having had unprotected sex with at least seven women and girls since 1996, when he learned he was HIV-positive; to 21 years in prison; by a judge who dismissed his claim that he was in denial about his illness and called him a "violent, self-absorbed outlaw"; in Washington. Four of his partners, including a 15-year-old, later tested positive...
...music in most spoken word poetry recordings is little more than background texture, the sole thing separating the album from the books-on-tape racks. Few poets know how to truly interact with the music the way Sekou Sundiata does. Sundiata calls his work "Rythym and News," an apt term for the thick, soul-stirring verse he lays down over hip-hop, tribal and bebop grooves. His words are as deeply rooted in African-American culture as the beats that back them; the verse explores Sundiata's own experiences as a native son of Harlem, as well as the stories...