Urban Verbs EPK Booking: Soothxsayer@yahoo.com

It ALL started with an answer. An answer we still haven’t been able to define, but are determined to defend. We asked each other..."How does a Black kid from New Jersey, a Brown kid from the Barrio and a White kid from the Foothills who've known each other all of 5 years, come together to create an artistic reality that they all feel like they've known their entire lives?" Almost as though they grew up on the same block. The answer is not Hip Hop. Hip Hop is just the common denominator. The song we remember from THAT summer, THAT prom, THAT loss. But "THAT" story...the fact that we all have a different "THAT" story and maybe a different set of songs for our soundtracks...but we ALL have a soundtrack. We all have a picture, portrait or painting. We all have a dance, good or bad at it. We all have a poem, a song, words we said...and words we didn't. Hip Hop only illuminates these relationships and connections for people from different sides of the wax. But once we connect...we are connected. So this show is about asking questions of others and of ourselves. Critical reflection and ambitious projections. Like real Hip Hop, the value is in the process not just the product. The lessons that come with facing, challenging, inventing, accepting and re-inventing oneself. Like real Hip-Hop, Urban Verbs is always in growth, maturing the lexicon and definition of what Hip-Hop is, rather then what it isn't. The show houses a piece of each city that houses the show. The show is a ...

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 9m 53s Date Found: Wed, Mar 30 2011 8:51 PM Category: Entertainment Date Produced: Wed, Mar 30 2011 7:30 PM View Count: 0