mi familia makes it happen
Over the past few months I’ve been attending the monthly event that Ajana helps organize and promote “Where Hip Hop Meets Poetry” hosted at the Water Street Cafe in DUMBO. Its become my guaranteed good time at the start of the month, sort of a three hour hip hop poetry extravaganza that brings out a wide array of talent; the highlights of which have been a hand full of fantastic soul singers, a hip hop band (with a violin!), a few emcees that actually make you want to hit up the myspace address they yell after every performance (”Yo Check Me OUT at…”), and a above all a bunch of beautiful and talented poets.
The highlight of last night’s show was catching my baby cousin Greg Martin perform (he’s usually so busy on his music hustle that I have to schedule time to chat with him on gmail). Let me be frank, my cousin is surprisingly talented in a ‘damnit thank you for stealing all the talent and charm in the family’ kind of way. Whats more is he isn’t just talented because I love him like…well…like family, he’s got that certain mass appeal that will take him places. My favorite part of seeing him perform is watching the audience reaction, people actually getting as excited as I am about what he’s doing on stage. Enough repping the fam, here’s a gmartin track:
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