Miss Haze - "For Colored Girls (The Missy Elliot Poem)"
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Miss Haze | For Colored Girls | The Missy Elliot Poem
Miss Haze - "For Colored Girls (The Missy Elliot Poem)"
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
KuumbaLynx Poets | LTAB2015 | Group Finals
The largest youth poetry festival in the world, Louder Than A Bomb--Power To The Poets, celebrated its 15th anniversary of giving students a global platform from which to share their stories. Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB) featured over 1,200 students from more than 130 Chicago-area schools sharing stories with 10,000-plus audience members.
The 3-peat LTAB Champions Kuumba Lynx at the Arie Crown Theater.
To Learn more about Kuumba Lynx or if you would like to donate or participate go to the www.KuumbaLynx.Org.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Broken City Poets | Short Documentary
If a city becomes a ghost town, what happens to its youth?
"Broken City Poets” is a documentary that chronicles the lives of four high school students who are challenged to use poetry and journalism to make sense of their bankrupt, gang-ridden city.
The Center for Investigative Reporting and Youth Speaks, a San Francisco-based literary nonprofit hosted a series of poetry workshops in Stockton, California, in 2013. With nearly 300,000 residents, Stockton was the first large American city to file for bankruptcy and at one time was the nation’s foreclosure capital.
The students’ deadline for finishing their poems coincides with a citywide slam poetry competition whose winners will go on to compete in a national contest. During this journey, the students learn that language is a means of personal redemption, as well as a tool for social change.
Directed by Ariane Wu
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Ariane Wu
José Vadi
Michael I Schiller
Stephen Talbot
Executive Producers
Susanne Reber
Joaquin Alvarado
Hodari Davis
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Sound Design and Mix by
David Sandwisch and
Christopher Galipo
Music by
Marcus McCauley
Colorist
Zachary Medow
Titles
Rebecca Shumway
Starring
Joshua Merchant
Tama Brisbane
Jayda Daniels
Corey Baxter
Adrian Tyson Jr.
Alyssa Tinaco
The BreakBeat Poets | New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop | New Books
Pre-order The #BreakBeatPoets TODAY at 40% off the cover price at http://t.co/awzRJpNGkF
. its the 1st anthology of & by the hip-hop generation!
edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Nate Marshall
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 9781608463954
Published: April, 2015
Type: Paperback
Publisher: Haymarket Books | New School Poetics
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop is the first poetry anthology of-its-kind. It's hip-hop poetica is written for and by the people. The BreakBeat Poets, who are multi-generational & multi-racial, are real-life documentarians of the late 20th and 21st century, employing traditional and wildstyle poetics to narrate a new country and city landscape. This is poetry for and by the people.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Kevin Coval is the author of ALA “Book of the Year” finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica and Everyday People. Founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, Coval serves as Artistic Director and teaches at the Art Institute. He is regular contributor to WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and teaches art and art history department at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The University of Michigan and received his BA at Vanderbilt University. His work has appeared in POETRY Magazine, Indiana Review, The New Republic, [PANK] Online, and in many other publications. He was the star of the award winning full-length documentary “Louder Than A Bomb” and has been featured on HBO’s “Brave New Voices.” He is an Assistant Poetry Editor for Muzzle. He is also a rapper.
Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of eight poetry books, three textbooks, a children’s book, editor of eight anthologies, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute and the Red Earth MFA Creative Writing Program at Oklahoma City University. He is also a former faculty member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2011, where he was also Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community (with Georgia A. Popoff) was published in March 2011 by Teachers & Writers Collaborative and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. His most recent books include The Walmart Republic w/ Christopher Stewart (Mongrel Empire Press, September 2014) and reluctant minivan (Living Arts Press, May 2014).
edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Nate Marshall
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 9781608463954
Published: April, 2015
Type: Paperback
Publisher: Haymarket Books | New School Poetics
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop is the first poetry anthology of-its-kind. It's hip-hop poetica is written for and by the people. The BreakBeat Poets, who are multi-generational & multi-racial, are real-life documentarians of the late 20th and 21st century, employing traditional and wildstyle poetics to narrate a new country and city landscape. This is poetry for and by the people.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Kevin Coval is the author of ALA “Book of the Year” finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica and Everyday People. Founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, Coval serves as Artistic Director and teaches at the Art Institute. He is regular contributor to WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and teaches art and art history department at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Nate Marshall is from the South Side of Chicago. He is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The University of Michigan and received his BA at Vanderbilt University. His work has appeared in POETRY Magazine, Indiana Review, The New Republic, [PANK] Online, and in many other publications. He was the star of the award winning full-length documentary “Louder Than A Bomb” and has been featured on HBO’s “Brave New Voices.” He is an Assistant Poetry Editor for Muzzle. He is also a rapper.
Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of eight poetry books, three textbooks, a children’s book, editor of eight anthologies, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute and the Red Earth MFA Creative Writing Program at Oklahoma City University. He is also a former faculty member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2011, where he was also Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community (with Georgia A. Popoff) was published in March 2011 by Teachers & Writers Collaborative and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. His most recent books include The Walmart Republic w/ Christopher Stewart (Mongrel Empire Press, September 2014) and reluctant minivan (Living Arts Press, May 2014).
Monday, December 29, 2014
CLAIRMONT THE SECOND | PROJECT II | Album Stream
By Slava Pastuk/Noisey
STREAM CLAIRMONT THE SECOND'S 'PROJECT II' AND REALIZE THAT YOU WASTED YOUR YOUTH
Clairmont The Second doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but it’s his real name—no gimmicks. Clairmont doesn’t have much time to talk to me on the phone, so I have to call him during his spare period of high school, where he is currently enrolled until he graduates at the end of this year. His current day-to-day is typical for a teenager in Toronto, filled with the same mundane activities that most other 17-year olds have no choice but enjoy, like going to class and playing basketball extracurricularly. But Clairmont The Second doesn’t want to have a typical teenager’s life anymore, which is why he’s putting all of his efforts into music.
Clairmont’s second ever project is imaginatively titled Project II and can be best described as being a post-Chance The Rapper, post-Acid Rap release. “I love it but I hate it at the same time” says Clairmont when asked about the comparisons to Chance, whose 2012 mixtape ignited the internet. “He’s one of my favourite artists and he’s a big inspiration, but I also want to be my own person.” But outside of the Chicago native, Clairmont counts some of his hometown Toronto peers as inspiration as well. “I listen to a lot of everything, but during this album I was listening to a lot of bizZarh, Dom Kennedy, and The OBGMs.” Clairmont recorded this project in the comfort of his own bedroom, which he has recently remodelled to help him achieve a better state of relaxation. “It’s a good environment and very chill space. I think better when I’m more relaxed and I’m more effective.”
Most of the raps on Project II are centred around the same tropes you’d expect an 17-year old to rap about: relationships with girls, the perceived invalidity of high school, and how terrible it is to take the bus. But the way that these seemingly insignificant topics get woven together through Clairmont’s sparse narration that builds into a sudden crescendo keeps the listener entertained throughout the tape. He also produced most of the tape on his own, adding to the already impressive laundry list of tasks associated with the project. With no classic training, Clairmont is learning lessons in unlikely places. “I have an orchestra class that I take this semester in high school, but it’s not really teaching me anything. It’s teaching me what not to do.”
When asked what he hopes people take away from this album, he pauses for long enough for me to assume the call has dropped. “I want them to take away that I’m mature for my age and ahead of my time. And that I can actually make music that's not like anything else.”
STREAM CLAIRMONT THE SECOND'S 'PROJECT II' AND REALIZE THAT YOU WASTED YOUR YOUTH
Clairmont The Second doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but it’s his real name—no gimmicks. Clairmont doesn’t have much time to talk to me on the phone, so I have to call him during his spare period of high school, where he is currently enrolled until he graduates at the end of this year. His current day-to-day is typical for a teenager in Toronto, filled with the same mundane activities that most other 17-year olds have no choice but enjoy, like going to class and playing basketball extracurricularly. But Clairmont The Second doesn’t want to have a typical teenager’s life anymore, which is why he’s putting all of his efforts into music.
Clairmont’s second ever project is imaginatively titled Project II and can be best described as being a post-Chance The Rapper, post-Acid Rap release. “I love it but I hate it at the same time” says Clairmont when asked about the comparisons to Chance, whose 2012 mixtape ignited the internet. “He’s one of my favourite artists and he’s a big inspiration, but I also want to be my own person.” But outside of the Chicago native, Clairmont counts some of his hometown Toronto peers as inspiration as well. “I listen to a lot of everything, but during this album I was listening to a lot of bizZarh, Dom Kennedy, and The OBGMs.” Clairmont recorded this project in the comfort of his own bedroom, which he has recently remodelled to help him achieve a better state of relaxation. “It’s a good environment and very chill space. I think better when I’m more relaxed and I’m more effective.”
Most of the raps on Project II are centred around the same tropes you’d expect an 17-year old to rap about: relationships with girls, the perceived invalidity of high school, and how terrible it is to take the bus. But the way that these seemingly insignificant topics get woven together through Clairmont’s sparse narration that builds into a sudden crescendo keeps the listener entertained throughout the tape. He also produced most of the tape on his own, adding to the already impressive laundry list of tasks associated with the project. With no classic training, Clairmont is learning lessons in unlikely places. “I have an orchestra class that I take this semester in high school, but it’s not really teaching me anything. It’s teaching me what not to do.”
When asked what he hopes people take away from this album, he pauses for long enough for me to assume the call has dropped. “I want them to take away that I’m mature for my age and ahead of my time. And that I can actually make music that's not like anything else.”
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Ms. Lauryn Hill | Black Rage | Ferguson
Lauryn Hill steps up and makes a statement about Ferguson by revisiting a relevant song she created called “Black Rage.”
The bare bones track flips the melody of “My Favorite Things.”
“An old sketch of Black Rage, done in my living room. Strange, the course of things. Peace for MO,” she says.
Lyrics below.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Saul Williams | Talks Tupac Musical | Ebro In the Morning
Saul Williams Talks Tupac Musical w/ Ebro In the Morning
Holler If Ya Hear Me, the world inside Tupac Shakur’s music and lyrics, blazes to life in a non-biographical story about friendship, family, revenge, change and hope. Inner city lives struggle for peace against the daily challenges they face in this entertaining and original musical. Through the poetry of one of the 20th century’s most influential and culturally prominent voices, we are given a window into realities of the streets still relevant today.
Holler If Ya Hear Me, the world inside Tupac Shakur’s music and lyrics, blazes to life in a non-biographical story about friendship, family, revenge, change and hope. Inner city lives struggle for peace against the daily challenges they face in this entertaining and original musical. Through the poetry of one of the 20th century’s most influential and culturally prominent voices, we are given a window into realities of the streets still relevant today.
Shon Roka (pronounced Shaun Roca) the DJ also known as Shaun Ortega was born on the west-side of Chicago. He started gaining fame as a bboy in 1991 and later became a member of a well known crew called the BRICKHEADZ. He would perform for such artist and events such as The Roots, KRS One, Immortal Technique, Dougie Fresh, Common, Rhymefest, Cypress Hill, Pharoah Monch, Nas, Diddy, Mariah Carey, Taste of Chicago, Lollapolooza, Looptopia, B96 Summer Bash just to name a few. The BRICKHEADZ also won many breakin' competition nationally and internationally. While Shon Roka was being active as a bboy he was working on his craft of being a DJ.
DJing for w/ Nike, Jordan, Under Armour, Adidas, Vans, Uprise (Chicago) Skateshop for numerous in-stores, sporting events, galleries and corporate outings. Also Shon Roka is a resident DJ post Covid in Chicago at McGee's, Tantrum, Imbibe and Harbee's. While being a DJ, he has been teaching music production and the Art of Skateboarding through Maggie Daley's After School Matters. Also known as Gallery 37.
For more information contact via email.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
A Brief History of Rhyme | Baba Brinkman at TEDxNavesink
In this talk, rap artist Baba Brinkman demonstrates that rap music isn’t just music, it’s also an innovative poetry form rich in linguistic playfulness. In the same way Shakespeare was a lyrical entertainer of the past, Brinkman believes that “rappers are the main lyrical entertainers of the present.” Rap is simply a modern, innovative, and playful form of poetry—a contemporary style of a timeless art form.
With examples spanning Eminem and Jay-Z to Chaucer and Lord Byron, you will learn how the techniques used rappers for crafting memorable rhymes have ancient antecedents.
Here is an end-of-the-day summary of TEDxNavesink Play, skillfully put into rhyme by rap artist Baba Brinkman in one of his signature “rap-ups”. For those of of you unable to attend the event, just check out the other videos from TEDxNavesink Play to see the talks he’s referencing.
About Baba Brinkman
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rap artist, award-winning playwright, and former tree-planter who has personally planted more than one million trees. He has a Masters in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature from the University of Victoria.
To date Baba has written or co-written four hip-hop plays, which have toured the world and enjoyed successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and off-Broadway in New York. He has also released ten original rap albums on his independent label Lit Fuse Records.
Baba is also a pioneer in the genre of “lit-hop” or literary hip-hop, known for his adaptations of The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and Gilgamesh. He is a recent recipient of the National Center for Science Education’s “Friend of Darwin Award” for his efforts to improve the public understanding of evolutionary biology.
The Rap Guide to Evolution (“Astonishing and brilliant” NY Times), won a Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination, and was featured on US national TV on The Rachel Maddow Show and at the Seattle Science Festival opening for Stephen Hawking.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Ygritte | A Slam of Ice and Fire || Spoken Word
Ygritte - A Slam of Ice and Fire || Spoken Word
BY: Alice Moran/The Second City Inc
SA-ROC | DC X ATLIENS | Produced by Organized Noize
"My introduction is too much pressure for your brain.
The opening lines be like dark clouds and flooding rain.
But sharp mouths get to the heart of the matter, the beat is gon keep you moving the lyrics will help sustain.
my body of work is black girl thickening, ripe like a peach just right for the picking.
And ready to serve it to the world on a silver platter.
But real talk, my ill talk, will get your ego shattered.
Im paddling behinds like the kinds that pappy gave.
Hiphop classic...kinda like a nappy fade.
But these days class is suffering thru a ratchet phase.
giving out degrees to bottom feeders and scholastic failures, money never made us, but now it tell us go.
Green lighting suckas like the legend and 3 stacks show.
Relax, open up your mind.
My rap flow spark electric charges to inspire when your nerve synapse slow.
Im making ghosts, not the kind to make a mommy grieve.
Just preying on my competition, thinning out a dying breed.
No I in we, but the US got their eye on me.
Cuz I be hollering peace but I mean the kind for firing.
I am the daughter of royalty on some queen shit, roots are lain in foreign soil, on some Ben Vereen shit.
ninjas chicken george sipping lean while children bleed.
On lonely streets where no one cares about their color scheme.
When others dream freedom's screams keep me up at night.
Conceal my private pain, while y'all reveal your public hype.
Making moves controlled by string holders like a puppet might.
I cover life through my microphone, a quill and scroll, and hieroglyph the world with pictures from my feeling soul!" - Sa-Roc
Harold Green x Patterson & Co.
Harold Green pairs up with Patterson & Co. out in Boston.
Shot & Edited by KamalKiddo
Shon Roka (pronounced Shaun Roca) the DJ also known as Shaun Ortega was born on the west-side of Chicago. He started gaining fame as a bboy in 1991 and later became a member of a well known crew called the BRICKHEADZ. He would perform for such artist and events such as The Roots, KRS One, Immortal Technique, Dougie Fresh, Common, Rhymefest, Cypress Hill, Pharoah Monch, Nas, Diddy, Mariah Carey, Taste of Chicago, Lollapolooza, Looptopia, B96 Summer Bash just to name a few. The BRICKHEADZ also won many breakin' competition nationally and internationally. While Shon Roka was being active as a bboy he was working on his craft of being a DJ.
DJing for w/ Nike, Jordan, Under Armour, Adidas, Vans, Uprise (Chicago) Skateshop for numerous in-stores, sporting events, galleries and corporate outings. Also Shon Roka is a resident DJ post Covid in Chicago at McGee's, Tantrum, Imbibe and Harbee's. While being a DJ, he has been teaching music production and the Art of Skateboarding through Maggie Daley's After School Matters. Also known as Gallery 37.
For more information contact via email.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
The Art of Storytelling | ProDanceTV
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ProDance Agency Showreel | 'The Art of Storytelling'
featuring ProDance artists: Junior, Cico, Brahim, Mouse, Babyson & Roxy
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Produced by: One Red Pixel
Directed by: Russell Dodgson
Director of Photography: Paul O'Callaghan
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Music: 'Time Stops' by Explosions in the Sky
Makeup by: Fiona Florczak
Narrated by: Roxanne Milliner
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
JONWAYNE | THIRD ABANDONED PLANET
Fresh off a Europe tour, Jonwayne is hanging out in London working on new music. "Third Abandoned Planet" is a new track featuring the archived voice of Billy Burroughs.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
My Life Is Freestyle | Freestyle Session World Tour 2014
video edit: Daniel Zhu
spoken word: Marlon Lizama of Havikoro Crew
music: K. Sabroso
intro for the $250,000 Pro Breaking Tour 2014
Presented by Freestyle Session and Silverback Bboy Events
http://udeftour.org
http://freestylesession.com
footage from
- funk'd up tv
- strife.tv
- yak
- freestyle session
- mason rose
- the bboy spot
- luis silva
- breakvision
Friday, March 28, 2014
OLDRBRO | No Love Without You Mix
This mix is pretty nice, makes me want to shake what little my momma gave me. Especially Feelin the first track alot alot. It's Friday Let Loose!!!
TRACK LISTING:
Michelle Owen Kruse Nuernberg feat. Isis Salam - We Find Deep Big Room Mix
Wouter de Moor Nymphi
Andy Ash - Release and Check Pt1
One To Watch - Sonny Fodera Remix
Love Inc.
Miguel Migs - Down To It
Cloud - Turning
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Late Poet & Emcee John “Vietnam” Nguyen | Honored With Street Name
Young Emcee/Poet John "Vietnam" Nguyen who drowned two years ago will become the first Vietnamese American to have a street named in his honor in Chicago.
John “Vietnam” Nguyen was a gifted hip-hop artist and poet known for his performances at “Louder Than A Bomb,” an annual youth poetry slam in Chicago.
He also was known for his activism in the Uptown neighborhood, and next week, the 5000 block of North Winthrop Street will be named Honorary John “Vietnam” Nguyen Way.
Nguyen is the first Vietnamese American to get such an honor. He’s also the youngest person to get an honorary street name, and the first hip-hop artist.
He drowned in 2012 while trying to help save a friend who panicked while swimming in a lake in Madison, Wis., where he was attending college.
This is some of John 'Vietnam' Nguyen's Work.
A Day in the Life -- by John Vietnam
In the 19-year-old’s own words, he was about “peace, love, unity, and having fun.”
Nguyen is the first Vietnamese American to get such an honor. He’s also the youngest person to get an honorary street name, and the first hip-hop artist.
He drowned in 2012 while trying to help save a friend who panicked while swimming in a lake in Madison, Wis., where he was attending college.
This is some of John 'Vietnam' Nguyen's Work.
A Day in the Life -- by John Vietnam
In the 19-year-old’s own words, he was about “peace, love, unity, and having fun.”
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