Talk:Bomani Armah

Incorrect Info

In an allusion to the erudition which it promotes, "Read A Book" samples both Vincent d'Indy's piano cycle Pour les enfants de tous les âges for its bass hook and a spoken-word performance of an excerpt from The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman, read by Carl van Vechten, midway through the track.

This was originally written under the "Read a Book" section. I've listened to the song several times on Armah's Myspace page as well as the music video, it's set to Beethoven's 5th, doesn't have any spoken-word performance midway through, and in fact the song doesn't even have a "bass hook"... it's just a looping piano track and a drum track. What's more, d'Indy's "Pour les enfants de tous le ages" is an opera, not a song, containing 24 piano pieces. Simply listening to Beethoven's 5th and Armah's "Read a Book" is enough to confirm what song was sampled.

Maybe this info was in reference to one of Armah's other songs and someone mistakenly (or perhaps intentionally) botched which title? So far none of Armah's songs I've heard seem to match this info. So, I'm taking this out, there doesn't seem to be anything present in this song that matches this information.

Also, I believe this can be disputed as well:

Inspired by an encounter with the members of the quizbowl organization Testing Recall About Strange Happenings, whom Armah perceived as unhygienic and dimwitted

If no one finds a source for this, I'm removing it. It seems to be a fabrication. I fail to see how the groups mentioned would have been any form of inspiration for that song, which is largely about stereotypes in black society.((Gatero 01:58, 7 July 2007 (UTC)))