Hip-Hop culture, music, films, art, and education. Spoken word / Poetry, theater. Traveling, meeting new people. Making great art & SNEAKERS !!!
Music
Big Pun, Aaliyah, Lauryn Hill, Slick Rick, 50 cent, Mobb Deep, Nina Sky, Mary J. Blige, Goapele, Dwele, Lizz Wright, Destiny's Child, Madonna, Maxwell, Common, John Legend, Kanye West, The Rhyme Factory, Joss Stone, Missy Elliot, Slum Village, Ziggy Marley ...all the marleys.
Movies
Saving Victor Vargas and On the Outs cuz my peoples are in that. I love my films ....and the films i will make. i enjoyed movies like City of god, Blow, Face Off, Requiem for a Dream, Malcom X and i really liked Sex in the City from HBO and support Def Poetry Jam !!
Television
Everybody Hates Chris, The Boondocks, and Sex In The City of course......
WHAT HAVE I BEEN UP TOO???? PattyDukes Stars in PICTURE ME ROLLING, the Book Trailer by Sofia Quintero.... check out the video;
Picture Me Rollin
I'm also the host of my own internet tv show - The PattyDukes Show. Check me out on youtube !!! www.youtube.com/pattydukesnyc
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Books
Down these mean streets - the first book that changed my life.... The coldest winter ever, B-More Careful, Sistahood - cuz i wrote poetry and lyricsa for it, Aloud, any Willie Perdomo book, and tons of plays - hey im a theater/film girl...i need a good story above all.
Heroes
My Dad, My Mom, Lemon, Pajtea' ....anyone who gave a hand when i was down, and supports me when im doing well. People who take risks and follow their passions.... are so close to becoming their dream.... i love surrounding myself with those heroes.
Hip-Hop is my life.... it's been there for me when others weren't.... i've been loyal and faithful to my passion...
and i'm riding with Hip-Hop all the way!
& Guess what.....Hip-Hop is being really good to me.....
I'm the 2007 CUERVOTON Winner!
My partner in crime Rephstar and myself went to Chicago to represent for NYC and we took home the gold.....
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Cuervo, the world’s largest Tequila company, has partnered with urban superstar Pitbull, Hip Hop mogul Chingo Bling and rising talent Malverde to announce the 2nd annual talent search for “La Nueva Generaci?n”, the next generation of Latino artists in urban music. Known as Cuervot?n, the contest will serve as a platform for exposure to unsigned artists, ensuring the longevity of Latinos in the music industry in partnership with, BMI, Gibson, Def Jam’s Roc La Familia and Atlantic Records.
The grand prize - we won two dope electric guitars, our track will be on the Estudio201 mixtape and we'll join the Cuervoton 2008 tour on the road to major cities in the US with Pitbull, Malverde, Chingo Bling, Nina Sky, Notch and Joell Ortiz.
We grindin cuz...
we grindin......
Get to know more about me through my BLOG -Confessions of a Female Emcee at
www.girlsrhyme.blogspot.com
Let me know what you think, it's about time - Ladies on the Mic ...ya heard!
Join the best yahoogroup on the web right now, the one i created called GIRLSRHYME.
Only for those who are serious (no spamming allowed). For networking, promoting events, questions, resources, grants, parties etc. The group is for both males and females, but of course i look out and send more info to my ladies! Feel free to send any valuable information to the group as well. When we all help each other & share information, we destroy the myth that Hip-Hop is stingy & that ladies are shady.
We are all here for the love !!!! .... (& it might sound corny, but its true!) So join today keep the movement alive!
If your looking for a good book to read check out, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees by Lit Noire Publishing. Your homegurl right here - PattyDukes got selected to be in this wonderful anthology. Only 50 women were chosen all across the US. The work of the other women is phenomenal... support Women in Hip-Hop. It was recently nominated for an NAACP Image Award!!!
I also worked as talent and locations coordinator for 4, 30 second spots for Nickelodeon's The N Channel. Which recently was nominated for an award. If your watching degrassi you might see it .... look for me rhyming in the limo... check out the site
www.the-n.com/checkit/article.php?id=5656
Leave me a comment, send a message.. show some love.
one luv-
pattydukes
BIO: PattyDukes is a phenomenal Latina Hip-Hop Artist. An Emcee, Actress, Writer and Filmmaker. Dominican and Puerto Rican by way of the Boogie Down Bronx. PattyDukes is the 2007 Cuervotón Winner, Cuervotón is the national talent search that swept the nation looking for raw unsigned Latino talent. Cuervotón hit all the major cities from New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Houston, & Phoenix looking for next big star and found PattyDukes. PattyDukes will be featured on Estudio 201's Cuervotón Volume 4 Mixtape CD. In addition, PattyDukes was able to share the stage with some of the hottest stars in urban music, like Pitbull, Malverde, Chingo Bling, Nina Sky, Joel Ortiz, Notch, & Tru Life. PattyDukes will tour with Cuervotón in 2008.
PattyDukes is inspired artists like Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Roxanne Shante, Aaliyah, TLC, Lauryn Hill, Foxy Brown, Lil Kim, Beyonce, Slick Rick, Nas, Jay-Z, Bobbito, Tony Touch, The Beatnuts,Fat Joe & Big Pun to name a few. Her love of Hip-Hop manifested itself through different mediums, whether it’s through fashion, sneakers, music, film or theater. PattyDukes has traveled the country speaking and performing at schools, community centers and juvenile detention centers. PattyDukes always found a way to get involved and be a part of the movement. Internships with The Source Magazine and the NYC Hip-Hop Theater Festival put her on the path. Seeing firsthand the power that Hip-Hop has to create social change, and inspire others. PattyDukes wants to inspire others using her music and art. Building cross cultural bridges instead of creating borders amongst people. At nineteen PattyDukes’ father passed away, leaving her to take care of herself and her family. She remains determined and focused on bringing stories of poor urban communities to the main stages of the world.
PattyDukes’ background is in Theater, where she learned to hone her craft of performing and writing. She was a member of a youth theater troupe called Urban Youth Theater at the Abrons Art Center. PattyDukes has performed in numerous plays and staged readings. In the Fall of 2007, PattyDukes will be playing the role of Nancy in Till Da Break of Dawn written and directed by Obie award winning actor/playwright Danny Hoch. The play is being produced by world-renowned theater company, The Culture Project. PattyDukes’ has performed in venues in the US and abroad like The Public Theater, The Apollo Theater Sound Stage Festival with Big Voices & Mark Russell Projects, The NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival, Yale University, Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, George Washington State University & The Royal Shakespeare Company New Works Festival in Stratford England.
As a freelance writer her words have graced the pages of Urban Latino, The Ave, Kicksclusive and Fuego Magazine. PattyDukes has interviewed artist like the Tony Award winning Def Poetry Jam poet Lemon, Twista, Alchemist, Nina Sky, J-Zone and Psycho Les of the Beatnuts. PattyDukes is also one of the dynamic personalities and hosts for EN LA ESCENA a bilingual entertainment show on Latino & Caribbean lifestyle, culture, and entertainment. For EN LA ESCENA PattyDukes has interviewed Don Omar, Hector El Bambino, Notch, Calle 13, Cuban Link, Candela, Anais, Toby Love, Dominican Times magazine, BMI, Rick Gonzalez and John Singleton. Patty also wrote and directed the short hip-hop film "On Everything I Love" which was produced by Chica Luna Productions, March 2006. She has worked for a couple of reggaeton music videos for artist like Lennox and Zion, Hector El Father, Yomo, Geto, LDA and Jim Jones. Patty is the director and host of her very own show called, THE PATTYDUKES SHOW a Hip-Hop Culture & Lifestyle internet Show. PattyDukes continues to be a artist that supports positive social change for the Hip-Hop generation.
Who I'd like to meet: Lauryn Hill just one more time, Halle Berry, J. Lo, Jodie Foster, Jake Gyllenhaal, Beyonce', Oprah, Denzel Washington, Martin Scorsese, Jay Z, Uma Thurman, Charlize Theron, Queen Latifah, Method Man, Common, Kanye West, Steven Spielberg, Bill & Melinda Gates, & The whole cast of Sex in The City.....
As an artist starting from within I use my pen as a instrument to create poetic sounds. So come and allow your mind to make love to music by reading my blog.
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Hey.. How r you.. Just wanted to come by and show some love... btw, when was the last time u came by my page.. when u get a chance, be sure to stop by.. i appreciate it.. take care...