Senjay Luckey- Just Be Thankful- Senagy music

Lovin this track! Makes me feel good! Great Remake! -Paradyme

God's Plan ft Leviticus, Earthtone and Jasmine

Show of the Week- Street Radio Show

Hosted by UnSpoken every Monday and Wednesday from 7-10pm cst on WWW.WVRVIBE.COM. Also check out WWW.UnSpokenCombined.Com for more details!

Attention all Independent Artists!

Rap or Spit is looking for tracks to add to it's rotation. All Spoken work and indie artist tracks are welcome. Please make sure tracks are clean, labeled and in MP3 format.  Also if you are interested in featuring please send an EPK . 


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Stop The Abuse Please!

STAP.Org’s vision is one of a community that is well informed and educated of their rights and resources if in an abusive situation. S.T.A.P. Org also visions a community standing tall and proud against abuse of all levels.
We are looking at all aspects of abuse. This includes domestic violence (mother and child, wife and husband, sibling and sibling etc), elderly abuse, child abuse. Abuse comes in many forms and is not just verbal or emotional. We will touch on economic abuse, isolation abuse and sexual abuse. We will also touch on the topic of the abuse which men undergo but is swept under the rug. 

stoptheabuseplease.org

Violins and Bullies by B. Sharise Moore

Peacock Feathers & Ruby Slippered Souls the upcoming release from B. Sharise Moore

Violins and Bullies


(For Tyler Clementi and Every Bullycide Victim Across the Country)




the boy was born a violin.
cheeks like rosewood hills
overlooking staggered breaths
of symphony
pudgy legs were
wish bones wrapped
in 6/8 time
21 inches of whole note.
arms like expertly strung bows
and a tiny chest cavity alive
with the thumping of
finely tuned heartstrings.
an orchestra of synapse and spine.


but somewhere between boyhood
adolescence and sheet music
began the bullying.
made him
rubber tongued
and tired.
swollen with a shrunken esteem
free only when he climbed
inside himself.


the bullied
are the homeless, the hitchhikers
the easy to ignore
they are hemophiliacs left to bleed
through their book bags
while waiting on the support
we never give them
so they continue the long walk
backward through life.


but beyond the shit and urine stench
of humiliation streamed live
on computer screens
I'm sure our silence had to hurt more.
burned like the sizzling brand on a slave's hand,
twisted like a finger nearly dislodged
in a rust-hinged door.


for their suffering
we give them our nothings...
our outdated adages of
sticks and stones breaking
bones but names never
hurting. treating 2010
as if it were 1970.
we give him Brady Bunch advice:
“He has to learn to ignore them. He'll live...”


But what then when he doesn't
what then when he chooses ash
over orchestra. suicide over symphony.
when he chooses an old leather belt
a pistol or a suspension bridge
to confide in. perhaps there is a warmth
in the butt of the gun, the belt, the bridge.
maybe they provide the promise
that the homophobic jeers will end infinitely.


since we offer no such solutions
we are handcuffed and
hands off helpless
reactionary and unreasonable
when martyrdom has no viable cause
we weep over what ifs and inaction


But who will stand?


Who will stand and say:
you will not distort his image within glass
offer him to carnival freak shows
and funhouses. you will not make him
frivolous entertainment.


Who will stand and say:
you will not mince his thoughts
into fright making him perpetual gloom.
you will not butcher his freedom
with cleaver. force him to wear his lungs
like long john's. chase him into tunnels
where his innards are slaughtered in shadow.
you will not kill him because he is skinny or
awkward or overweight or gay
nor will you drive him to kill himself


I don't give a damn about the
religion that made you raise a monster
and neither does your God
because whomever that God may be
I'm sure He or She believes in a tolerance and
a mercy and a love that you have yet to understand.


the boy was born a violin
cheeks like rosewood hills
overlooking the staggered breaths
of symphony
but somewhere between boyhood
adolescence and sheet music
began the bullying.
he knew he'd only be free
when he climbed
back inside himself. hoped
to live his next life as a whole note
in an orchestra of synapse and spine
and yes, he will live...


Tyler Clementi, age 18, you will live.
Eric Mohat, age 17, you will live
Justin Aaberg, age 15, you will live
Billy Lucas, age 15, you will live
Asher Brown, age 13, you will live
Seth Walsh, age 13, you will live
Carl Joseph Walker Hoover, age 11, you will live
Jaheem Hererra, age 11, you will live


You will live because
I will stand and make it so...


© 2010, B. Sharise Moore

Bobby Tillman, 18yrs old. Have we had enough yet?

Bobby Maurice Tillman Killed 11-07-09

Bobby Maurice Tillman, 18 yrs old, is only the latest in the unneccesary epidemic of death and violence amoung our youth. Bobby was randomly targeted while walking passed a house party in Atlanta, GA. The four boys ( I refuse to call them men) that jumped him did so as a act of retaliation for a confrontation with a female toward one of the group who said he couldnt hit her back because she was a female..

I wonder how many people were witnesses but stood by and did nothing. What made the other three follow the directions of the leader? They had no conscience that this was wrong? We are a nation of bystanders. There is no way that this should of been allowed to happen. No one wants to get involved and it is killing innocent people every day. It's funny how we have so many men walking around claiming that they are 'hard', that they are gansters and thugs. However, they wouldn't do anything to help someone in these circumstances. As a matter of fact, they are the 'followers' that do whatever they have to do to keep their reputation in the eyes of other men, and participating in these senseless losses of life that are plaguing our community.

I will be telling the stories of these children and anymore that arise on Freedom's INK! At what point do we as parent's teach our children to protect others. To not stand by and let someone physically hurt another person. Is it too late to start raising hero's and not bystanders?

BEYOND THE STAGE PROMO- ERYK MOORE

Check out the promo the cd you have been waitin for Eryk Moore "Beyond The Stage."

Rap or Spit is back! This Sunday feat. DaCloak!

That's right! Rap or Spit with Leketia "PBS" Brown is back. Sunday November 14th, at 10 pm est/9 cst. Her feature guest is DaCloak. Get familiar with "Mr. Get Familiar."


Click here to listen live 

Greg "DaCloak" James

 Greg "Da Cloak" James decided to go into music professionally in 2004. Battle rapping was his introduction into Chicago’s hip hop community. None of the battles were filmed so you can't find them on you tube. Nonetheless, the lessons and wisdom he's gained from those battles is what Greg says matter most to him. Greg honed his lyricism by song writing and free styling over countless industry and exclusive instrumentals. In 2005 Greg decided to put together a mix tape series titled “Life Music" under the pseudonym DaCloak. Cloak decided to build a buzz by joining several websites such as reverbnation.com myspace.com, facebook.com, and thatshiphop.com. Cloak dropped his first single in 2007 titled “Chicago's Done It Again” from his mix tape series titled Life Music Vol.1 Hip Hop Lives. “Chicago's Done It Again” received over 1000 plays on myspace.com. While working on the production of the mix tape Cloak attended the Music Industry Workshop (M.I.W.) Westside Music Book Camp in 2008. Cloak set his focus on music production to help with the recording process of his mix tape. He graduated June 2008 receiving an award for being the hardest working student out of his production class and was also given the opportunity to perform. He released Life Music Vol.1 Hip Hop Lives on sept.11, 2008 for freedownload. Though the buzz wasn't huge Life Music Vol.1 Hip Hop Lives still received over 5000 downloads and above. Cloak’s working on his 2nd project Life Music Vol.2: The Sleeping Giant Is Awake which is coming soon. Cloak released a remix of Busta Rhymes Respect My Conglomerate that’s been on 3 popular radio shows. Cloak is now the owner of his own indie label Deepsea Entertainment Inc. established January 2010. Cloak has released the first single “Living Movie”. He performs and does shows at many venues in the Chi. Tonight he will show up and show out with us here on Rap or Spit!


http://www.reverbnation.com/dacloakmusic
http://www.thatshiphop.com/dacloakmusic
http://www.myspace.com/dacloakmusic
http://www.facebook.com/DaCloak
http://www.facebook.com/dacloakmusic
http://twitter.com/DaCloakAKATha1
http://www.datpiff.com/DaCLOAK
http://www.youtube.com/DaCLOAKTV
http://www.showcaseyourmusic.com/dacloakmusic
http://www.stereofame.com/dacloak

D Day by B. Sharise Moore

Upcoming Cd from B. Sharise Moore. 

DAVID MENSAH "STRADDLE ME" HD

Spoken Word and Comedy: The Best Medicine! Meet Poetri!

POETRI

There aren’t many poets who can distinguish themselves as a “poet rock star.” But the one who does, stands firmly behind his beliefs and convictions, making him one of the most sought after talents in the business.

Whenever someone is looking for a poet, POETRI is the main one on the list.  He was one of the first poets to win a TONY AWARD with his own material on Broadway for Def Poetry Jam.  Just recently, POETRI was personally invited by President Obama to attend the first ever Spoken Word Event at the WHITE HOUSE.  When people think of poetry, they think of POETRI first. POETRI was the poetic voice for the popular KCAL Nine Lakers commercials and, in fact, has written and appeared in over 150 commercials for clients like Subway, Gatorade, Nike, NFL Films, BET and Arby’s. Let the record be known that regarding POETRI as just a poet would be underestimating his abilities.  POETRI has also been blazing the TV and movie screens with appearances in such popular movies as “BLADES OF GLORY” and “YES MAN”.  Some of his television appearances include “THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW”, TYLER PERRY’S “HOUSE OF PAYNE”,  “BONES”, “RAISING THE BAR”, “LINCOLN HEIGHTS”, as well as being a major thread to the storyline of the ground-breaking reality documentary “Black.White” with Ice Cube.  He also has conquered the Internet with the record breaking Snickers digi-sodes “INSTANT DEF” along with the Black Eyed Peas and won the grand prize of ten thousand dollars in the last online Spoken Word competition for FAMECAST.

But his work doesn’t stop there. POETRI is one of the founders of the largest weekly poetry venues in the nation, with an attendance of over 350 people every Tuesday. He has also made it acceptable and cool to combine a poet and a comedian at his Christian hotspot every Sunday night at Spoken Funk.  Poetri is on a mission and GOD won’t let him stop until he gets there. 

Poetri has worked with such legends as Curtis Mayfield, Bootsy Collins and Nona Hendrix, as well as some of today’s stars like Tyler Perry , LL Cool J,  Rosario Dawson, Jessie Dylan and Malcolm-Jamal Warner. POETRI is one of the first poets in this new generation to smash the theory that “poets don’t make any money”.

Spoken word is in full stride and Poetri is leading the way.  

Click here for the "Whip My Hair" Grown Man Version!

http://WWW.POETRI.COM
http://WWW.POETRIWORKSHOP.COM
http://WWW.SPOKENFUNK.COM
http://WWW.SONICBIDS.COM/POETRITHEPOET
http://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/POHOP
http://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/POETRI

Corey Black- When You See Me

BLAQUE GIRLS ROCK!!! by Stylicia

Stylicia Bowden

Check out Stylicia's video for her poem "Blaque Girls Rock!!"

www.releasethepen.com

www.facebook.com/stylicia.bowden

Get to know Lady Khadija

A WARM BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT

Heavily talented, Lady Khadija is a multifaceted artist that has captivated audiences with her sultry song and fierce spoken word. With wisdom beyond her years, she uses her many talents to benefit and uplift all of humanity. She is more than just poetry, difficult to define and not to be confined, with extraordinary empathy which enables her to connect with individuals from all walks of life. She is many things, but a servant first, with a mission to inspire, encourage, educate and empower all people. Her many talents include singing, performance poetry, crochet and textiles, play-writing, song writing, digital design, radio broadcasting, jewelry making and fashion design. She has shared the stage with artists such as Sonia Sanchez, The Last Poets, Jessica Care- Moore, Talib Kweli, Tony Award winning, HBO Def Poet Georgia Me, and Harry Belafonte. Effortlessly fusing art with advocacy and activism, she is founding member of the artist collective of 144k and founder of Project DGTS, formerly WordSound Alliance. 

Lady Khadija began writing poetry and singing in grade school, performing at local talent shows and community venues in the Cincinnati area. In 1998 started integrating performance poetry and song, but she remains committed to providing platforms for artist expression. In 2004, she developed and hosted Lyrical Insurrection, currently Cincinnati's longest running artist showcase. She also co- hosted several shows on WAIF-FM Cincinnati, and is currently developing Authenticity!TruYu, Authenticity!Radio and other DGTS projects. She released a book of poetry in 2002 entitled Peace It Together. She has performed in various theater productions, co-producing and performing in two plays, 144k's The Revelation made its debut in 2000 at the Aronoff Centre and with Summons of Supreme in 2003, La Pacha Negra debut at the Contemporary Arts Centre of Cincinnati. Her most recent CD project is the 2008 release, 19... FireWater, an intoxicating fusion of poetry and song. 

Booking and Contact for Lady Khadija 786-704-8874 khadija@empresschronicle.tk 

www.empresschronicle.tk 

www.reverbnation.com/ladykhadija19 

www.youtube.com/thekhadija19 

**I definitly want to encourage everyone to get her cd Firewater. She vocals are amazingly beautiful. Her words uplifting and powerful. Definitly someone on the move! -Paradyme**