MIX-TAPE OF THE YEAR: Street Poets Ent. “I Am Street Poetry”
BEST MIX-TAPE (DUO/TEAM): Street Poets Ent. “I Am Street Poetry”
BEST SKILLS ON A MIX-TAPE: Street Poets Ent. “I Am Street Poetry”
BEST INTRO ON A MIX-TAPE: Street Poets Ent. “I Am Street Poetry”
INDY ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Street Poets Ent. “The Movement”
INDY GROUP OF THE YEAR: Street Poets Ent.
"Music is what defines me. I just create the soundtrack to life." Sir Virtue (aka V.I. or 'V to da I') is not your average rapper. He's more of an MC or a lyricist. "I write poetry. I don't write rap music. It might be categorized as rap or hip hop because that's how the music is perceived as a whole. But if you break it down and look into the lyrics, you can see all the elements of poetry in the rhymes."
True enough, Sir Virtue's wordplay and delivery combined helps remind us that hip hop is still alive. 1/2 Genius. 1/2 Crazy. On the mic that is. Sir Virtue began writing lyrics at the age of 14 and eventually developed his own unique style that consisted of crazy rhyme schemes and creative punchlines, which sometimes had you thinking "How did he come up with that!?"
"Now I can tell you the average cliche story of how I went from hustler to rapper but let's be real and talk about what's important, the music. I've been doing this music for years now. From writing lyrics, to writing poetry, to making beats and instrumentals, I live and breathe this music thing. Yeah, I had a few (ok, maybe a lot) of troubles in my past, but we learn from our mistakes and keep on livin' (hoping that we don't make those same stupid mistakes).
At this point in my life I feel like I'm too grown for games. I'm just trying to be as successful as I can, and not for the fame or to be richer than the next man, but simply cuz I just want to be able to enjoy life, and I want all my fam and all my friends to enjoy it with me. I mean, we only live once so why not make the best of it."
"I started rapping songs when No Limit Records was getting big in Savannah, GA in the 8th grade with a Puerto Rican classmate. Then we started freestyling cover songs. At 14, I began writing poetry and turning them into lyrics on paper. At first I tried to sing them, but it didn’t work for me.So I changed them into verses and rapped the lyrics.
I can’t remember what my first alias was, but it wasn’t until 2000 when I moved to TN and got serious with the music and came with the alias “Lazarus.” I used the name to define my resurrection of real Hip-Hop music from the dead, as the name and meaning from the Bible inspired me to come with the name.
Eventually, in 2006, based on my personal mistakes and bad habits, I changed my alias to "Rey Manuel" to reform myself as a music artist. However, it only lasted for a short stint, as I reverted back to “Lazarus” in 2007 realizing it’s that alias I feel Hip-Hop needs and for me to express myself disguised as the artist I was born to be. Other nicknames I go by are Laz, Laz-O, and P.K.S. (Puerto Rican King of the South)."
MIX-TAPE OF THE YEAR: Street Poets Ent. “I Am Street Poetry”
BEST MIX-TAPE (DUO/TEAM): Street Poets Ent. “I Am Street Poetry”
BEST SKILLS ON A MIX-TAPE: Street Poets Ent. “I Am Street Poetry”
BEST INTRO ON A MIX-TAPE: Street Poets Ent. “I Am Street Poetry”
INDY ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Street Poets Ent. “The Movement”
INDY GROUP OF THE YEAR: Street Poets Ent.
Chris Baladad AKA Sir Virtue and Jose Toro AKA Lazarus first met in the Austin Peay Morgan University Center early February of 2004. They started getting to know each other more often and it wasn’t too long until Chris invited Jose to join him on a performance that him, gospel singer, Alpha Omega, and former singer and dancer, Jamal Jones AKA Correohype, was scheduled to perform in April of that year. Lazarus was later incorporated into the performance rehearsal with featured appearances on Virtue’s and Correohype’s performance sets. Shortly later into the rehearsals, Yatin Patel AKA Ravi, now part of Fatalistik Entertainment, joined with the group. DJ Exile was soon joined in to the group to help with the music rotation. Soon, the gentleman contemplated on a simpler name to unify the group instead of individual aliases. The group was decided to be known as Kustom Profile. As performance day came, so did an average Austin Peay audience curious to listen to Kustom Profile.
The performance lasted well under an hour, outside in cold weather. As time progressed, the members of Kustom Profile soon withered. DJ Exile moved, Ravi moved at the end of 2004 to pursue into his family business (although still attached to the indie label Fatalistik Entertainment), and Correohype moved back to his hometown, Houston, TX, based on insufficient funds for college. Virtue, Lazarus, and Alpha Omega were the only ones left in Kustom Profile. However, Alpha Omega decided to concentrate more on his gospel music rather sticking to R&B.
So as Virtue and Lazarus were the only concentrating MCs left, they scrapped the name of Kustom Profile, and soon went with their own duo group alias of Street Poets. The two chose the name Street Poets because the music that they delivered was both poetic and urban related. They crafted intricate songs which consisted of unique rhyme schemes and wordplay to club bangers that contained rhymes of boastfulness and street life.
By mid 2005, they recorded an unreleased mixtape in Sir Virtue’s home using a microphone, computer, and Cakewalk software. The mix tape was tentatively titled “Street Poets: The Mixtape Vol. I”. Although never released, the mixtape was a good learning experience for the two artists. They kept writing music, creating beats, and kept on perfecting the craft of recording. However, they wanted better recording quality. In late 2007, they hooked up with Toby Entertainment’s recording engineer, I.R. Skillz, and began production of an EP. However, the music was getting too good, the recording became a fascination, and they had too much lyrics and supplied beats to just record an EP. So, as recording progressed, so did the material of a potential first album for the two MCs.
On July 24th of 2008, the first copy was sold.
However, the Street Poets have much more in store for Clarksville, TN, the South, and all other regions. The first album was just the beginning of what Street Poets has to offer.
Now, in the early month of June 2009, Street Poets Entertainment prepares to deliver a potential Mixtape of the year for the SEA's entitled "I Am Street Poetry."
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Promotional Video for "I Am Street Poetry" the mixtape....Instrumental from Lil' Wayne's Carter III, "Don't Shoot Me Down" produced by Kanye West
Promotional Video for the upcoming mixtape, "I Am Street Poetry" coming REAL SOON!!
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Hey What's up! Just wanted to let you know We are now accepting submissions for the Urban Music Challenge 1 Season 2. Submissions will start today and end December 12th, 2009. The night Of the Urban Music Challenge 1 Season 2 will be February 6th, 2010. You will need to fill out a submission form and turn it in with a CD of 3 original songs RADIO EDITED. The submission cost is 20 dollars and if you are chosen to be one of the 8 final artist the rest of the submission fee will be 80 dollars. All of this will also be explained on the submission form. If you would like a submission form please send me a message with your email address in which you would like for me to send you the submission form to. Then once you are ready to submit everything you can get with me to turn it in or you can get with Capo or Latino Saint to also turn it in. Sorry we CAN NOT expect bands do to us not having the time to set equipment up and take it down. Thank you
Hey Fam! Really don't mean to bother you at all. Just want to say that my new video is out and I would appreciate if you WATCH it, RATE it n left a COMMENT.
Make sure you check out his music at www.myspace.com/axtionmusic Make sure you also check out his video’s and you can also download his free mixtape that info is on his page…
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what up! showtime is just around the corner on the 28th Friday night @ the island its the 931 and 615 hip hop n R&B Showcase an indoor and outdoor event......6 acts, BBQ and 3 DJ's DJPrime Def, DJ Casanova, DJ E Z Money and the cover only $15 for 18-20 and $10 for 21 and up? doors open at 6pm and we go live at 7pm. Clarksville take note.......this will be the show they gonna talk about! get at me for details
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It’s that time of the year again to nominate people for the 2010 Southern Entertainment Awards. So go to www.southernentawwards.com and nominate Nashville’s very own Semi Heir to Tha Throne for an award!! Deadline for nominations is August 15th so hurry and go nominate!!!
The Urban Music Challenge finals are going down Oct. 24th at the rutledge. After the Finals we will be starting a new season for the UMC. If you would like to submit for the new season coming up you can go to www.myspace.com/urbanmusicchallenge and leave us a message with your email and UMC Submission in the subject and we will send you all the details about the UMC.
Hey, this UA showing love. Please check out our new songs and let us know what you think about them when you get a chance. Everyone keeps asking, "Who is UA?"
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