PORTFOLIO & REPERTOIR

Dear Friends, I would be nothing to you if I did not take what I have learned from my time here on earth and share it.  Especially with those I love: My Friends. The last 5 years have left me particularly silent about the subject of my Dad's passing...At least publicly.  I can assure you there was no silence in my heart or in my writings, as I have filled more pages than anyone will ever know.   My Fathers Eyes - A Special Dedication Recently I have been thinking of my closest friends (many of whom are in their late twenties and early thirties). As time dawns on us all, I realize that the most loving gift I can give to them is to talk of the very thing that has robbed me of so much of joy: Losing my Father.  But even m ore important: The dire necessity for someone to spend time with their own father. If I could not muster this courage, I would be no friend of yours.  I would be nothing to you.  This is a realm I know all too we...

Once upon a time in Hip Hop music our greatest icons, those we aspired to be like were not only gifted writers, truth spitters, and lyricists, but those who had the lyrical prowess to spontaneously improvise rhymes, verses, and sometimes entire songs. I have spent my training in this art form in the wake of those historic greats.  We need to take our culture back.  Too often you see a post on the internet or a clip about someone dropping a freestyle and the education needs to be put out there - DO NOT CALL IT A FREESTYLE IF YOU ARE KICKING A WRITTEN VERSE!!! PERIOD! That would be the equivalent of a Jazz Musician saying he was improvising a solo when he had it completely charted out, or an artist drawing something "freehand" when he had light pencil lines underneath of the sketch.   And this isn't about new school, old school, or any other BS movement. It's simply about proper terminology.  Call your performance - live 16, or flowing, or rapping live, or whate...

In this room there are thousands of educators from all over the United States who signed up for a 3 day conference. I was the guest performer.  This song I wrote (co-written by Kris Beach and Leo Montoya ( http://www.reverbnation.com/12kp)   I wrote these lyrics for so many of the stories I hear on the road where kids are abou t to lose hope, about to give up, and it was my way of telling them - although life may seem pointless at times... We must push through...  CLICK HERE TO WATCH! you can sign up for the conference! @ www.rachelschallenge.org

They flew me and my partner  Rugger Productions  to Louisville to perform for the city's celebration  Muhammad Ali Center  and what your about to see is a snippet from that performance. During the performance, I stopped a moment in the middle o f my show and asked the crowd if there is anything that has been weighing heavy on someones mind or something they would like to hear about - giving them an opportunity to dictate my freestyle (also insuring to them that I was truly improvising on the spot). One lady was with her beautiful family and asked me to rap about: KNOWLEDGE. Here is what ensued.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdXjRS9WCEM&feature=player_embedded Poet Ali freestyles about "KNOWLEDGE"

Muhammad Ali Center  in Louisville is an amazing place that not only celebrates the life of the greatest champion in sports history, but the a man whose efforts to bring change and unity to the world are seismic. This center serves as the cu ltural center for Louisville, Kentucky and they held a contest called  Generation Ali  for someone to create a piece which promoted Ali’s six core principles: Respect, Confidence, Conviction, Dedication, Spirituality, and Giving. People from all over the world turned in their pieces. I,  Poet Ali  submitted mine with  Rugger Productions  - and we won with a song I wrote that has more to do with unity and bringing people together than any other song I've written. The amazing photos in this song are taken by one of the most talented photographers I've met who I met when I was studying in Italy.  His name is @Reed Young (reedyoungphotogrpahy.com). Check him out!