Amazon Bestselling Author and Writer Brother Dash
Poems from this album
Scream by Brother Dash Beautiful one Your pain reverberates Suspended emotion Is it love? Is it hate? Admit you’re to blame? Is there really a choice? Your bail is denied No freedom of voice In a cell, In a hole Even thoughts are confined Tell her how can you think? When the world sees your Read More …
Soul 2 Soul by Brother Dash From the street corners to the cul-de-sacs Ivory towers and Brooklyn basements Hearts thump and fists pump To the rhythm and the rhyme of the soul We speak in the tone of the tongue The drone of the drum It’s so so fresh And it’s so so real, never Read More …
I plan to always have some sort of an ode to Women on my albums. On Poetically Speaking that ode was to Muslim Women. On Spoken Soul this ode is to our mothers regardless of faith. I thought about my own mother, Cheryl Brookins, when writing this piece. Read More …
I wrote Masjid Marauders in response to the issues around culture, religion and nationality that are often at odds in mosques in the West. Many of us, myself included, are culturally American (or Western). We are Muslim yes but we are not culturally Arab or Pakistani and those who are not culturally Western should not dictate the Islamic narrative in Western countries. We can work together of course but we are not 2nd class citizens in our own countries that others immigrated to. Thus Masjid Marauders. Read More …