Craig D. Lindsey. Fat Greezy. Uncle Crizzle. CDL. Whatever name you decide to call him you'll still be talking about the coolest, jive ass negro walking God's green earth. For years, Craig has been pimping his pen writing columns, reviews, and articles for a ton of media publications. These days he's holding down two consistent gigs with the Durham, NC based News and Observer as its film critic and with Philadelphia Weekly writing the bi-weekly music column Power Of Soul. You'll also catch him penning articles for other rags and mags such as Vibe, Giant, Houston Press and others. Like all great writers, he's fiercely loved and passionately hated (see Jessica Alba fans.) You never know what your gonna get with Crizzle and it's almost always a surprise when you find out if he loves or hates something. No matter where his opinion falls, it's always entertaining. You don't just get self-masturbatory, analytical pontification with this dude. He actually gives you a slice of himself in everything he writes, which really makes reading his articles a full-fledged adventure. Whether it's his man-crush on UK soulster Omar or his disturbing, ritualistic cyberstalking of Helen Mirren, this cat will have your full attention for (insert however long it takes you to read 150-200 words) minutes. In other words, Craig D. Lindsey is a damn fool! And I mean the good kind.
Fat Greezy came home to H-Town this week for the Houston International Jazz Festival where he'll be checking out the two shining stars of this year's event - Eric Roberson (depicted in the cartoon above with Craig - peep the Omar tat on his hand- LMAO) and Anthony David. As always, whenever he comes to town he stops by my radio show The Groove and straight up takes the motherfucker over. Having dug through the proverbial crates, Craig spun a collection of dusty soul classics from the likes of Willie Hutch and some ottoman humping jive from Christina Aguilera (that boy knows I don't play no damn Aguilera!) I almost climbed the radio tower and pulled the plug when he played Warren Zevon's suicide inducing 80's track "Leave My Monkey Alone". Holy Geebus! All-in-all, it was a dope set as usual. For the few of you that actually tuned in (thanks by the way), you know we had a blast. It got pretty lively as Craig, putting on his film critic hat, discussed his intense disdain for the Transformers movie. I opined that for all it's plot issues and racist overtones (see Anthony Anderson, Bernie Mac and the "black" Transformer 'Jazz' who of course gets turned into scrap metal), the action is fucking awesome.
Anyhither...I took a couple of pics in the studio of Greezy and you'll also see my co-host Gem Hat chillin' in the cut. Be sure to check out Craig D. Lindsey's Power Of Soul column and catch him talking to and about your favorite beat crafters, lyricists, and sangers like Madlib, Omar, Raphael Saadiq, Lupe Fiasco, Musiq, and more.
Craig D. works the phones while Gem Hat barely contains his enthusiasm.
Uncle Crizzle himself!
Dat boy Gem Hat.
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