When a hip-hop artist says he is a poet, he is keeping it real. The performers in Hip Hop 2 Da Head have a down-home yet formal attention to artistic values. The Bride's core audience witnesses some of the most avant-garde stagecraft in Philly. Creative values like working with mixed media are practically de rigueur. Distancing hip-hop from both the grittiness of club and street life and the mad commodification of the record industry may well be the best way that the work can translate to the theater's audience base.
Earth is the dance, water the rap, air the DJing and fire the graffiti.
His predominately black homeboys in London's Covent Garden neighborhood discovered rapping and breakdance on an early 1980s BBC television program called The Arena. He is best known for his political commentary and narrative innovations in rapping. But it's not all fun and games. Wars' is our mythology, a call to work as a team creatively. The series includes a graffiti exhibit by DAN ONE and Monica James entitled Off the Wall, which will be displayed until Oct. 1.