LAST WEEK: We had the one-two punch of OVEOUS MAXIMUS repping NY and rocking poems about family, and the mighty mighty BESSKEPP, who brought the Dim Lights family in the place and showed us once again why he's got the deepest pockets in SoCal when it comes to heartfelt bodyrockin' verse...!
THIS WEEK:
We are thrilled to have a cat who's got global love, from New York to San Francisco, from Jamaica to our fair city...he's can spit all hard-hitting slam style AND wrap you in layers of metaphor. He's a powerhouse. He is TSHAKA! And here's a snippet from his bio:
Tshaka Menelik Imhotep Campbell is his Full Name, you could say his government name. However, he likes to be known as simply a “TarMan Celebrating his Natural Kink”. Originally from London England and of Jamaican decent, Tshaka has been writing poetry in excess of 10 years but only recently decided to step out of the world in his head and share with the masses.
“Imagery is what Poetry is about for me,” he says. “I feel the need to paint a picture for the listener, reader or audience and take them on a journey … Have them experience the place or situation that I am spitting about. I want them to go home and write afterwards, kiss their Momma, or hug their baby, kick their roommate, slap their landlord or whatever…As long as it invokes emotion action/reaction afterwards.”
See? The man can't even write a damn bio without getting deep and lyrical! This is gonna be a helluva feature...
Do.
Not.
Sleep.
See you at the Palmer,
Jedi, Joshua, and Robert Ross.
