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Blues Talkin Moves to DistortedSoul.com

But the man say:
Ain’t nothin’ but the blues doin’ the talkin’, baby.
Conspiracy’s all up inside your mind.
But I find it don’t get better for my people.
It’s just a theory, but conspiracy
Keeps f^ck!n’ with me
all the time.

After many years maintaining a music website and a separate blog, I’ve decided to merge the political commentary from BluesTalkin.com into my music site at DistortedSoul.com. Continue reading

Chronicles of a Dropout

Originally published in The Michigan Citizen

In the controversy over varying interpretations of Detroit Public School graduation rates, or the district’s well-documented financial problems, adults tend to ignore the opinions of the very students who struggle through these difficulties in their effort to obtain a decent education. On the audio cd Rising Up From The Ashes: Chronicles of a Dropout, young people use hip hop and recorded interviews to speak their minds, tell their own stories, and tell the stories of friends and family members who have dropped out of school.

Detroit Summer’s Live Arts Media Project (LAMP) is a youth-led popular education arts and media program that helps young people develop creative solutions to the problems they face. LAMP’s youth participants and an all-star cast of Detroit’s best hip hop artists and producers use the disc’s 23 tracks to take us on a journey through the world of Detroit’s youth and their challenges. Continue reading

Chronicles of a Dropout

Originally published in The Michigan Citizen

In the controversy over varying interpretations of Detroit Public School graduation rates, or the district’s well-documented financial problems, adults tend to ignore the opinions of the very students who struggle through these difficulties in their effort to obtain a decent education. On the audio cd Rising Up From The Ashes: Chronicles of a Dropout, young people use hip hop and recorded interviews to speak their minds, tell their own stories, and tell the stories of friends and family members who have dropped out of school.

Detroit Summer’s Live Arts Media Project (LAMP) is a youth-led popular education arts and media program that helps young people develop creative solutions to the problems they face. LAMP’s youth participants and an all-star cast of Detroit’s best hip hop artists and producers use the disc’s 23 tracks to take us on a journey through the world of Detroit’s youth and their challenges. Continue reading

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