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Amir Sulaiman x Mikaal Sulaiman = Sulaiman.s Temple This is our song from our forthcoming album, The Meccan Openings. This is one of the songs that my brother and I wrote after our pilgrimage to Mecca. Album is almost done. We'll be ready to share her later this year.

hiphopDX did a feature on me and posted a new song on their site.  the story is  here .  the song is here

when you go to listen to the song comment on it.  say you LOVE it, even if you dont [just joking (kinda)].  if youre not a member of the site register. it takes 2 seconds. thank you i surely do appreciate it.

love

bismillah. i want yall to know two very talented, insightful film makers, Mustafa Davis and Illyas Curtis. really good brothers. they travel all over the world shooting some of the most intriguing documentaries. i am particularly interested (not just because i'm in it) in their newest release Deen Tight. heres some press and a trailer to give the gist. you can also check out www.deentight.com

Abu Dhabi, UAE

RE: Documentary Film "Deen Tight," in Post Production Phase
Director Mustafa Davis and Producer, Ilyas Curtis of Tabah Films are currently in post production with an exploratory documentary film titled "Deen Tight" filmed on location in the USA, U.K., and the Middle East. "The objective for shooting this film is to document the global impact/effect that Western pop culture (namely hip hop) has on Islam (both in Western and Arab Muslim cultures). "

inshaAllah, i'm going to Dublin, Ireland for a speaking engagement that end on Nov. 6 and then i have a UK tour that begins on the 12th. so i have 6 days in Dublin and/or the UK and i dont know anyone in Dublin. if youre from Dublin, live in Dublin, or know good folk in Dublin let me know. i'd like to schedule a few other shows in my downtime but i know noone. i know a few folk in the UK but if you know someone that would like to bring me to an event let me know also.

with love

usually these youtube remix/mash-ups are one of the great drawbacks of the democratization of technology. since anyone can make videos it leaves much room creativity as well as wackness. this "video mashup" of kanye's love lockdown and radiohead's reckoner is very fresh. if you've heard both songs and seen both videos it is really a brilliant remix audibly and visually. i enjoyed it. thought id share. here you go.

between occasions
the quiet before the storm
is a promise soon broken
but I entertain the lie with hope
and listen for the moment
the notion
the motion
the emotion
mostly unnoticed, unrecorded, unremembered
in the crisp of a Rochester September
or in the rounded warmth of women
who love like they breathe
hard and heavy
shallow uneasy
breathe deeply
the miracle is in the moment
the moment before sin
the moment after salvation
the moment of enjoyment
the moment of atonement
I stand adjacent to morning
waiting watching wondering
about the moment after conception
about the moment before birth
the moment after death
living dying dead
center in the moment
the moment that denies the past
flirts with the future
tomorrow calls but never comes
tomorrow threatens but never comes

its always today

the Herenow the Hereafter
oh soul seek ye the bounty of your Lord
how many are afraid of the moment
ashamed of the moment
caged in the moment
waiting for the right moment to live
frozen in the moment
awaiting the chosen
the chosen who lives within their breast
atop their head
between the legs of their mothers
oh poor soul
while they are calling upon their ancestors
their ancestors are calling upon them
to be in the moment

{qp} is very ill. he is the production half of Sulaiman.s Temple. he produced the "How Beautiful" off of my "Like a Thief in the Night" album and produced the entirety of "The Meccan Openings". it was not just because i wanted to work with him but the things i was writing no other producers that i know could create the landscape that could house what i was writing. his work is dramatic, sentimental, incendiary, sharp, ascending, and wholly unique...and he's my brother.

he finally got his myspace page on and cracking. he's loading up music but the myspace player is still tripping. check him on the regular because he's always creating new work.

with love & gratitude

amir

i'm sure you remember the promise i made this past week. if you happened to miss it i said i was going to post new songs from my new album by this past thurs.

"if you find yourself on myspace and it's 11:59 on thursday evening and there is not new music posted on this page in the last 60 seconds of the day i give you full permission to call me all kind of bad names. promise."

for the record, i did post the songs before midnight but this new myspace player is not functioning. so i've been trying all weekend to get it to work. Tom hasn't even gotten it to work right yet. all the songs are posted on my side but when i view my profile they are not there.

im still hopeful because this morning i saw 3 of the 4 songs up on my profile. then i saw them repeating 3 songs. then it went back to 3. so depending when you check it out you may be able to hear something.

know, it is not lost on me the fact that my people are so gracious to me that not one person called me a bad name. you are such well mannered folk. and i know all of you are not so well mannered all the time; so it makes me especially appreciative.

with love.