Creating New Waves

It has been an up & down process of lesson and celebration this first part of the summer. There are great restaurants such as Essex Taqueritas that served up great fresh ingredients and the service was cool. They are located in Manhattan on the Lower East Side. Another great eatery that I was fortunate to go was L.E.S. Kitchen in Lower East Side. They have a great mint lemonade and portabella mushroom burger with red cabbage and meunster cheese. I have been to a great few events that were in some great places in Brooklyn as well. First was Brooklyn Historic Society held by Brooklyn Bodega. It was to be a conversation with Rakim but "the God MC" had an emergency. The festival continued with a Combat Jack Show and Podcast panel discussion. I went to the discussion with Ryan Leslie. Singer, producer & entrepreneur. He was interviewed by Julian Mitchell, columnist at Forbes magazine. It took place in the WeWork building in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Ryan Leslie is a very intelligent brother with wonderful insight and meticulous business mind. Julian's questions were on point and spirited. The value placed on relationships in the talk was very inspiring and rewarding. The weekend started on Friday with a amazing showcase from Dreamville Records and an art exhibit from DJ Sycamore with paintings of B.I.G and Jay Z. The artists were crisp and refreshing. They are of J. Cole's camp. They proved there is a lot of great quality music out here to get a hold of. MCees like Omen, Cozz aka Codi Mack and Bas make the hip hop landscape bountiful with a hopeful light on the horizon. The last day was the concert. The L.O.X from Bad boy and Ruff Ryder label. The enigmatic DMX and finally got to see the God MC, Rakim. I will tell about that in the next entry but the main point of all of this is to show the many wonderful activities of culture, learning and blissful entertainment that is available in NYC. And of course, there is so much more to go. As always, live fully. Love freely and be in step with excitement.

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