Every week, we will post episodes of the brand new series where artists, fans, and YOU get shit-faced with Poison Pen. Here is the first of this series:
Episode 1 - Featuring Freeway, Jack Frost, PH and Bishop Brigante
Episode 2 - Featuring AZ & Lil' Cease
Episode 3 - Featuring Mr. Lif & Milani Rose
..I Rep STRONGHOLD (L.I.F.E. Long, Stelfindex, Poison Pen, Breez Evahflowin, C Rayz Walz, Mic Terror, DJ Static, Immortal Technique, Swave Sevah)
I Rep EMVEEZ (Poison Pen, Supastar Billy Gram, Bamm Bamm, F. Jordan & Ant lyve)
I Rep Foul Play (Questchon, Diabolic, Immortal Technique, Poison Pen)
I Rep UWF (Pumpkinhead, Poison Pen)
I Rep The Bears (Chum The Skrilla Guerilla, Poison Pen)
I Rep End Of The Weak
I Rep F*ck Ya Lyfe
I Rep The Plague
What im tryna say is, anything in the nyc underworld i got a hand in....
It dont pop out here without me being a part of it.. Im the mayor. Ask around
Rhyming is an art form. Just like painting, dancing and hustling. If you don't know the techniques of the genre you can easily be swept off your feet. Enter Hip Hop staple, Poison Pen, a battle MC turned street prophet. The Brooklynite started in 1996 at the first online radio station 88HipHop.com, before tearing through the streets as the undefeated champ of the NYC MC battle circuit. After participating in the Blaze Battle, Pen decided to retire in 1999 and later host the most popular lyricist competition to date, Da Cypha Emcee Battles featured throughout NYC including special showcases at Kevin Powell & Russell Simmons' Hip Hop
Speaks.
It was hunger, not chance, that brought Poison Pen to the forefront.
Founder of indie rap clique Stronghold, members including Breez Evaflowin'
C Rayz Walz, Immortal Technique and DJ Static before the group released
the acclaimed mixtape Stronghold Volume 1. The result was a classic
collaboration. "As far as the recording, I don't do Pro Tools rap. I
don't do that record & send it out to a nigga I don't know have him email
me a verse back... Naw, I don't make music like that."
Good music has always been his focus. His first appearance on wax "On the
Mic" floated off the shelves in '98 just two years before receiving his
own distribution through Landspeed Records for his debut single "Top of
the Food Chain". But the microphone monster didn't stop there. He lifted
Rainmakerz Records with his second solo joint "Fall Back" before slaying
the video game industry lyrically. Lending his voice to high selling vids
The Warriors and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories Pen's rhyme
schemer duality would keep fans thirsting for his own album. "I been on
everybody's else's shit – but never my own", says Pen, with more fervor
and honesty than agitation. "I did MF Doom's "Bloody Chain", the
Beatminerz album, Apathy's "Eastern Philosphy" album and both of Immortal
Technique's Revolutionary Volume 1 and 2." He smiles that wicked wattage
unusual for a grimy street survivor. "We helped the whole NYC come up....
Now NYC needs to let me do the same".
He makes it look easy. Making records, appearing in Dave Chapelle's Block
Party, VH1 Hip Hop Honors and MTV's The Shop, & DFX, spitting countless bars on albums not your own. Pen has a way of keeping his name on the tongues of Hip Hop heads without breaking a sweat. Poison Pen continues to tour Hungary, Amsterdam and Norway with the gutter mentality and linguistics that fans have grown to love, and released his unofficial first solo album, titled "Pick Your Poison: The Mark Of The East" on Fontana/Universal records.
His upcoming project "The Money Shot" album will be available on August 4th, 2009 . Pen describes the album it as an aural, rap, climax “Where everything builds up to that particular moment nothing else (before that) matters.” “The Money Shot” is an extension of Pen’s persona and a view into another side of his personality. He explains that with this album, “I don’t want people to think that I’m the nicest rapper on the planet. I proved I was nice when I was 18. I’m just trying to bug out and entertain.” This album has a lighter tone and the colorful rhymes combined with odes to alcohol and drunken shenanigans will bring a smile to anyone’s face. This rhyming life is definitely an art form.
POISON PEN PREVIEWS "THE MONEY SHOT" with engineer ARIEL
HEY YOUR INVITED TO PART 2 OF OUR NEW OPEN MIC CONTEST!
TUESDAY 17TH
LAST TUESDAY WAS CRAAAAZY!!!
THIS TUESDAYS GONNA BE EVEN BIGGER!!!
WINNER GETS A STUDIO SESSION WITH SUPER PRODUCER GI JOE... WHO WORKS WITH CHRISETTE MICHELE, RUFF RYDERS, MR CHEEKS AND MANY OTHER ESTABLISHED ARTISTS,
WE ARE CALLING ALL SINGERS, RAPPERS, ALL MUSIC GENRES TO PERFORM THIS TUESDAY!
@ KARMA LOUNGE FIRST AVE BETWEEN 3RD AND 4TH STREET MANHATTAN NY
Hey Pen! How was Bowery Poetry Club? I was at the job. Couldn't make it in but I'm looking fwd to your next show plus I get to be on the same bill with the Bed Sty Best Buy Dec 9th! It's gonna be a kickass show at Southpaw! See you sometime before then.
Rebel Armz all day FUCK W/POISON PEN ILL BREAK YA FACE KID Im a solider supporter all day dont sleep REBEL ARMZ are taking over peeps OPEN YOUR EYES BEFORE U DIE
Rhyming is an art form. Just like painting, dancing and hustling. If you don't know the techniques of the genre you can easily be swept off your feet. Enter Hip Hop staple, Poison Pen, a battle MC turned street prophet. The Brooklynite started in 1996 at the first online radio station 88HipHop.com, before tearing through the streets as the undefeated champ of the NYC MC battle circuit. After participating in the Blaze Battle, Pen decided to retire in 1999 and later host the most popular lyricist competition to date, Da Cypha Emcee Battles featured throughout NYC including special showcases at Kevin Powell & Russell Simmons' Hip Hop
Speaks.
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