Yeah, the other people who create including individuals who might not think to mention it in their everyday conversation. They lurk through the city in prominent, low-key ways, some even going unnoticed, or worse, unheard. Maybe you’ve seen them on the train, or rode an elevator with them. LIVE FROM UNDERGROUND will showcase the prominent voices of the underground music scene in NYC. The goal is t
o expand this community and inspire our generation and all involved. ARTISTS OF ALL GENRES ARE MORE THAN WELCOMED. Yeah, this isn’t only for “spoken word.” We love us some poetry, but we’re not bias!
- Creative writing (poetry, fiction, memoir, haiku’s)
- Music (from MC’s to solo-musicians)
- Journal entries (everyone’s got a message)
- Your favorite Pac song recited acapalla
We’re here to spread love. Things are hard right now, and we all know that living in the city doesn’t exactly lighten that burden. By building community, creating outlets that promote free expression, we will grow to know and love who we are without the strict influence of Big Brother. For decades, The Bronx has been the laughing stock of NYC. The South Bronx continues to be the poorest congressional district in the country. 44% of children here live in poverty; need I say more? Instead of receiving support, we still have low-class journalists writing “What’s in The Bronx Anyway?” polluting minds with misinformant garbage. We’ve came a long way, but our work is never finished. When New Yorkers think of The Bronx, first thing that comes to mind is Yankee Stadium. Have any of them gone further and researched other activities happening here? Of course not, they’d much rather head over to Williamsburg or newly-gentrified Bushwick (gentrification isn’t always negative) and be part of a scene believed to represent New York. Keyword: SCENE. WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS ONLY RECOGNIZED BY PEOPLE OF A CERTAIN INCOME. Hip-Hop culture: MC’s, DJ’s, breakers, graffiti writers, have and will always add to what New York is. Period. If you can’t understand this, look into it. Read a book about how ingrained the culture has become. The majority, which you’ve been programmed to call the minority even though there is more oppressed than oppressors, live and breathe Hip-Hop. It’s something to get to know. So for all the CEO’s, “journalists,” social media “experts” and jerk-off’s that judge us when we skate through midtown, or walk into a restaurant, here’s a big tip of the hat to ya. There are people in this city who claim the underground is scum. We are believed to be colored people singing and dancing just for the hell of it. Little is known of what we so naturally exude. Natural talent mixed with hard work is something to be admired by our rich Midtown folk. Those 9-5 dry, dehumanized humans, can’t relate to the talents we share with our communities, or the love we both give and receive. None of the things I’ve just mentioned take away from the art we create. Nor does it make our art any less valid than the bu****it you might see in the LES or even Chelsea. No. We speak for the underground across the world when we say: WE WON’T STOP. LIVE FROM UNDERGROUND.
