RAPPING
I’ve been in love with Hip Hop since I was old enough to ride around in the car with my dad while I lived in the golden age of Hip Hop vicariously through him. I first started rhyming when I would freestyle for my mom on the way back home form school and made my first songs after I saw the homie Sterling Duns perform live at my school auditorium. Hip Hop has been a part of my life since as long as I can remember so it no surprise I dove in even deeper once I realized I was a Creative.
Fulton Street Folklore
This annotated Hip-Hip album was created for my Senior Thesis Project in high school. Inspired by the recording of African American folklore by the great Zora Neale Hurston, I recorded songs and accompanying skits to record my view on a particular street in Brooklyn. The story includes different views of people living in Brooklyn, all with different ages, heritages, socio-economic status, race, gender, etc. Fulton Street Folklore is a recording of what I know Brooklyn to be, what I (regrettably) missed it being, and what I see it becoming.
In order to bring this written and recorded project to life, I produced an one night only immersive experience for community members at my school. The audience sat in chairs in the blackbox theater, and listened to the skits and songs chronologically while an automatic slideshow of relevant images was projected in front of them.
The best way to experience this project is to listen to the audio file, while reading along in the pages. Additionally, if it intrigues you, there are a ton of footnotes that include more insight into my personal experience as an artists and a resident of Brooklyn myself.
Videos
Pennyroyal Freestyle
written and performed by me
Shot/Edited/Directed by the massively talented Cyrus Mailer and Noah Connolly
Tom Lord
Tom and I created this performance about the importance of physical plant workers on college campuses and their roles in executing sustainability initiatives throughout the school. Tom is a talented service plumber and, I had the privilege of shadowing him for more 10 hours while he replaced toilets, unclogged pipes, checked that various water safety systems were working up to standard, and much more. This project of creating a performance after a shadowing period was facilitated and led by Forklift Danceworks and its Founder and Artistic Director, Allison Orr.
watch the video of the performance here on Youtube
Videos
Hot Streets
beat made, lyrics written and performed, filmed, and edited by me
Maine Stage
Beat produced, lyrics written and performed, video directed and edited by your boy. If someone could help me with mixing vocals that would be huge…
Beach Back Freestyle
Made a beat, wrote the song, shot the video, and edited all in one day
Whatchu Think of the team??
Music video my friends and I made for our senior talent show
“Waves”
Produced by the great Bury Quinn. Unfortunately prolly never going to leave dark depths of my hard-drive.
New Single Teaser
Petey Pablo coming out soon