Williamsburg, Brooklyn — Ladies and Gentlemen. Street Poet Alert! Street Poet Alert! HRSH REYALITEE will be performing live on August 26th! It’s time for another electrifying performance from the one and only, HRSH REYALITEE.
Listen, this is one that you want to be AT! See you guys there. Check the flyer! Get your advanced tickets! It’s always worth it. Support Your Local Artists!!!
#STREETPOETTHROWBACK
-The Street Blogger
Brooklyn, New York — So, August is a very special month because we have a few Street Poets getting wiser. I already know to expect most of Brooklyn, but ever bourough is invited. Come out and join us while we celebrate Neo Soul’s birthday! It’s going to be a great night and a new location. We have a fly ass DJ, some WILD Live performances, and…drinks. Food and drinks will be served. If you’d like to attend this FREE B.Y.O.B. just rsvp to Info@StreetPoetsNYC.com! Word. Check the flyer.
Looking for more Neo Soul?!
Go to THEREALNEOSOUL.wordpress.com or STREETPOETSNYC.com/NeoSoul
- The Street Blogger
New York, New York – How do we do it! Poetry is so amazing, I’m getting ahead of myself already!
Greetings family, I have someone new to tell you all about, and your absolutely going to LOVE his flow. Keep reading and watch the footage at the end of the post. Street Poets Family, I introduce to you…TOO BLACK.
“TOO BLACK is a rising spoken word artist who is known for his raw and heavy content about race, class, and society. However, TOO BLACK is also recognized for his sarcastic and often nonchalant demeanor. His self-described “Militant Sarcasm” allows the crowd to be entertained while still digesting heavy amounts of information and intricate perspectives. You may think you understand his name but as he says, “If you think there is such a thing as being “Too Black” then you probably do not get it.” TOO BLACK has opened for nationally renowned poets including former Indiana poet laureate Tasha Jones and Def Jam HBO poet Tommy Bottoms. He is a graduate of Ball State University in Telecommunications.”
Follow @TOO_BLACK_ to check Too Black on Twitter!
For booking contact tooblack88808@gmail.com
- The Street Blogger
Click HERE for more footage of TOO BLACK!
This year’s Melbourne International Jazz Festival took the Big Jam concept (opening the festival with a large, outdoor, audience participation music event) in a new direction with ‘With One Voice’. ‘With One Voice’ invited singers from a range of music traditions, all of whom use improvisation in their work, to teach a sample of their tradition to the audience. The Festival invited me to lead and facilitate the event, and devise a musical finale that would draw the different artists’ music together.
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July 16,2012
New York, New York -- Poet/Performance Artist HRSH REYALITEE will be performing live on thursday July 26th, 2012 at the Raw Artist Mixology Concert at the M1-5 Lounge in New York City! Tickets are $10.
Hrsh Reyalitee is known for her striking performance, and elaborate stage presence. She illustrates Artistry through lifestyle, service, and performance to keep the light on reality.
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Brooklyn, New York –Remember the last STREET POETS NYC New Years Eve house party? Yeah. A few people fell in love that day. It’s happening again. It’s $5 to get in and $2 drinks all night. Come out with us, we laugh, we share, we love, we kick it. It’s because we Love You. Word. Shout Outs to the Leo’s Check the details! See you there!
Greetings Family! So, I have someone that I think you’d absolutely LOVE! He’s a Poet from St. Louis. Yes, Missouri! Poets are able to connect all over the world, really. As you know, we do nothing but bring you the best and finest in Poetry, Hip Hop, and every other category that represents our people an greatness as synonyms. So it is only right that we bring you this Poet….from St. Louis named…. Louis Conphliction:
As a man of Alpha Phi Alpha, Louis is a man of his words and his dedication to his community runs deep. You can find Louis mentoring inner city youth through Urban Artist Alliance of Children Development. With Louis’s help UAACD Development teaches children how to resort to words, creativity and arts, instead of violence. When he’s not doing that, he’s winning Poetry/Spoken Word Slams all over the United States from St. Louis, to NYC to Philly and among thos, Black On Black Rhyme- Atlanta’s Slam.
I had the pleasure of meeting the Untamed Souls in Summer ’11, performing in the line up with HRSH REYALITEE as they raised funds towards the rebuilding of a Church in the Bronx. Major shout outs to the UPTOWN FAMILY. Well, here we are a year later; a year stronger, for a year longer. Need more UNTAMED? Click here to check out the UNTAMED Souls site! Untamed Souls are – well, I thinks it’s time to go to the footage…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Spike Lee worked with Michael Jackson and considered him a friend, but the director says even he learned a lot combing through footage of the icon for a planned documentary about the singer’s “Bad” album.
Lee calls it a “treasure chest of findings.”
“We have footage in this documentary that no one’s ever seen, stuff that Michael shot himself, behind-the-scenes stuff,” he said in an interview Monday. “We had complete access to the vaults of Michael Jackson. … He wrote 60 demos for the ‘Bad’ record. Only 11 made it. So we got to hear a lot of that stuff, too, so it was just a great experience.”
He added: “You don’t have to be a Michael Jackson-head to enjoy this.”
Lee’s documentary will be part of a flood of material to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the “Bad” album, Jackson’s follow-up to “Thriller” that included hits like the title track, “Smooth Criminal,” ”The Way You Make Me Feel” and more. The album is being rereleased Sept.18 with additional tracks, a DVD and other bonus material; Lee’s film is due to come out later this year, but no date has been set.
Besides Jackson’s artistry, Lee said the documentary will show a more personal side of the late legend.
“He had a great sense of humor, and he was funny — so you’ll see a lot of that stuff,” he said.
Lee interviewed people ranging from Kanye West to Mariah Carey to Sheryl Crow, who was Jackson’s background singer on the “Bad” tour.
“We really divided it into two things: Artists today who were influenced by Michael, and then people who worked side by side — musicians, songwriters, technicians, engineers, people at the label, who were all committed to Michael, to the follow-up to the biggest record of all time, which still is ‘Thriller.’”
Besides the documentary, Lee also plans to hold his now annual birthday tribute to Jackson in Brooklyn, N.Y, on Aug. 25; Jackson would have turned 54 this year.
“This year we’re going to focus on the ‘Bad’ album, we’re going to focus on the 25th anniversary, but at the same time we’re going to play his full catalog, including the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons,” he said. “It’s going to be even bigger and better this year.”
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Nekesa Mumbi Moody is the AP’s music editor. Follow her at http://www.twitter.com/nekesamumbi
Source: AssociatedPress.com
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On July 6, 1957: Wimbledon, England, Althea Gibson fulfilled her destiny at Wimbledon and became the first member of her race to rule the world of tennis. Reaching a high note at the start, the New York Negro routed Darlene Hard, the Montebello (Calif.) waitress, 6-3, 6-2, for the all-England crown.
