In this dimly lit nightspot, an intimate setting jam-packed with a crowd anxious to hear their favorite underground emcee rip the mic, two individuals await.
Sometimes listening to music takes you back to a moment in your life that you can taste, touch and even smell. What three songs would definitely be in the soundtrack to your life?
Eric B. Is President takes me back to Bergtraum High School talent shows. I was a funny freshman chubette. Never had gear [...]
Over the past two years, a group of women from St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota gathered together weekly at Intermedia Arts to develop the idea and concept for B-Girl Be. By the winter of 2004, they had finally raised enough money to produce a first-of-its-kind women in hip-hop summit.
From April 22 to June 11, [...]
Whatever happened to the compilation? It seems as if no one does a compilation unless it’s a greatest songs album or one of those “Only Sold on TV” multi-CD sets. Now we are just butchered with thousands of mix tapes with no-talent-16-track using DJs, wack writtens portrayed as freestyles, and hosted by folks who have [...]
Many performers can capture the attention of an audience – only a few can actually mesmerize a crowd. Meet Liza Lakes. A Flint, Michigan native, whose love affair with words not only charms her audience, but also brings many (including this hard-shelled journalist) to tears.
I caught up with Liza to find out about her unique [...]
Author: Adam Mansbach
Publisher: Crown/Three Rivers Press
Employing the conceptual and satirical prose created by Paul Beatty in White Boy Shuffle, Adam Mansbach has penned a dynamite novel that explores race from the perspective of a hip-hop generation white male.
Macon is a white kid from Boston who has immersed himself knee-deep in “golden age” [...]
I eagerly opened up my VERBALISMS email so that I could read the issue. I look forward to this. I was elated when I received the email that VERBALISMS would be available as a tangible mag! So you might imagine my dismay when I began digesting the article authored by Deborah Magdalena [...]
Hello. My name is Pla!n Jane and I just viewed your website. I am a female emcee in San Diego, CA. I don’t see too much out there on true hip-hop females. So I entered “female emcee” into Google and up came VERBALISMS…. nice. I read the reviews and saw the [...]
Inspired by dreams, spontaneity, impulse, energy and interaction, Santi has the essentials to write a song. “I don’t normally open my journal to create a song; writing doesn’t have to be premeditated.” Come to think about it, neither is life in the eyes of Santi White.
At sixteen, Santi interned for Philadelphia International record label. After [...]
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
AMP (Minneapolis)
Synergy Crew (Chicago)
Siloette (Phoenix)
Monthly Archives: June 2005