I wanna get free & see all our folk, together, at the finish line.
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
That's the mass line in 4/4 time. That's the thing I keep trying to say in white papers.
You can't think your way into it. You have to feel the room, hold the pocket, know your role, play it excellently.
He didn't move to LA. He built Paisley Park in the Minnesota snow and made the industry come to him.
You don't have to leave to build something the world reckons with. Build the temple where your people already are.
My last night being forty, so I've been asking Prince what he'd say.
The whole architecture of the funk is interdependence. Bass and drums lock so tight that two instruments make one sound. Everybody plays for the pocket, not themselves.
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New essay, on my last night being forty.
Because nobody funks alone. 🟣
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