#everything is everything

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Brand Nubian released their third Everything Is Everything November 1, 1994

[misterpuzzles]

"Big-Me Needs the Small-Me"

Big-me needs the small-me to till-up that soil,

And big-me needs the small-me to lift with that spade—

Mmhm.

Big-me needs the small-me to mend and to toil,

And big-me needs the small-me to earn all that shade.

Big-me’s got the sun on his mind,

Small-me’s got a job to find.

Big-me sees the arc o' the sky—

Small-me squints and wonders why.

Big-me needs the small-me to sow the right seeds,

And big-me needs the small-me to water ‘em all—

Yes sir.

Big-me needs the small-me—to slaughter them weeds,

And big-me needs the small-me to answer the call.

‘Round and ‘round the porch we spin, and we spin,

(We spin, and we spin,)

Grinnin' through our double skin.

One foot steps and one foot stays,

One hand lifts and one hand prays.

Big-me needs the small-me to check on the gates,

And big-me needs the small-me to turn the key—

Uh-huh.

Big-me needs the small-me to prune-back fate,

And big-me needs the small-me to climb that tree.

‘Cause big big big big Big-Me’s all that there is—

So small-me’s gotta show what doin' is.

There ain’t no shame in a work that’s true—

Big-me dreamed it, small-me grew.

Big-me needs the small-me to reap all them eats,

And big-me needs the small-me to store ‘em good—

Aw yeah.

Big-me needs the small-me to close-up the gates,

And small-me needs the big-me to knock on wood.

Sun goes 'round, so do we.

That's the promise, you and me.

[agelessphotography]

Diana Ross wears a Bob Mackie crystal-covered bodysuit on the cover of her album Everything Is Everything, 1970

[worldbuildingwanderlust]

Every drop

Of rain

Is a

Universe

Blooming

[disarmluna]

[tha-wrecka-stow]

[allyallyorange]

Me rn

[soulmusicsongs]

Everything Is Everything - Diana Ross (Everything Is Everything, 1970)

[normalbrothers]

like mari once said, there's already something suggestive about the tunnel imagery itself (and the threat of someone breaking through the walls, some men perhaps in the shadows), and that the tunnels follow him home to torment him in what is the familial/domestic sphere/his childhood home completes it, and then the show continues that imagery and transforms, twists and shapes it to the point where there's no clear line between the war trauma and the domestic trauma at all anymore. he's forced back into the tunnels, pointedly after his baby is abducted, as he's losing his mind the tunnel-like corridor labyrinth of the ayslum is installed with mirrors, forcing him to look at himself and it's not quite clear where he's going anymore, we learn that his mother died by drowning herself, the tunnels fill with water, his daughter speaks of a gray man and tommy gets assaulted by the first man he killed, he descends from the january - his father's boat, the family boat, the boat they never got off of - down into the waterfilled tunnels once more.

like all chronic trauma it's unresolved, simultaneous and continuous, not bound by order or a clear delineation of past and present.

the tunnels were claustrophobic, but how's the family, tom?

[petitjeanofficial]

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self.

- Derek Walcott

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Brand Nubian released their third Everything Is Everything November 1, 1994

[wuntrum]

i am nooooot locked the fuck in. im locked the fuck out. call the locksmith

[orcawhvle]

you could say he’s kind of a family guy