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Day 21 of 28 Days: Various Artists, EARGASMS: CRUCIAL POETICS, VOL. 1 (1997)
Eargasms: Crucial Poetics, Volume 1 released March of 1997, and included music in the vein of spoken word and conscious rap. The artists featured are a diverse list of poets, singers, actors, activists, playwrights, authors and I believe, one professor. It includes Saul Williams, Mos Def, Jessica Care Moore, Mike Ladd, Sarah Jones, Rha Goddess, Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets, Latasha Natasha Diggs and Kymbali Craig, to name a few.
Recommended spins: “My Pen,” “Twice The First Time,” “Metaphorplay,” “My Caged Bird Don’t Sing,” “Gunsmoke,” Last Days” and “Bladerunners.”
Sarah Jones – “Metaphorplay” [mp3]
21 February, 2013
Tags: 28 days
Performance Artist Queen GodIs Hits Up Brooklyn Museum’s "First Saturdays" This Weekend
Spoken word, hip-hop artist Queen GodIs (along with special guests) will perform this Saturday, March 3rd at 9pm for Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturdays. This month’s theme: “Fierce Phenomenal Women.”
29 February, 2012
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