Friday, April 30, 2010
Hip Hop LinesUp for Marvin X Benefit
Rapper Young Nia willperform at the Benefit for Marvin X's Black Bird Press, celebrating therelease of his latest book The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables andFables, 2010, 309 pages,
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YoungNia is daughter of Bay Area rap living legend Askari X. She is featuredon the CD ThaGrand Entrance, a compilation featuring original tracks by thebeats, rhymes & life youth.
The benefit is Saturday, May 15,2pm, at the African American Museum Library, 14th and Martin LutherKing, Jr., downtown Oakland. The book is $100.00 but the event is free(give what you can).
We will be honored with another daughter inthe black arts, Timothy Reed, novelist. She is novelist, poet,professor Ishmael Reed's daughter.
Hip Hop and Literary CriticJames G. Spady on Marvin X
Braceyourself and listen to this master narrator tell his story. Bold,callous, calculating, cultivating, coniving but always deeply poetic.Marvin X drives us through the depths of a hell so chilling as to leavethe reader in a deep freeze. When you listen to Tupac Shakur, E. 40, TooShort, Master P or any other rappers out of the Bay Area of Cali, thinkof Marvin X. He laid the foundation and gave us the language to expressBlack male urban experiences in a lyrical way.
We are talkingabout the existential experiences of Black men in the era following thedeparture of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding and before Tupac's exile.
Weenter the millennium fully cognizant of the possibilities but evermindful of the colonized terrain we exist in daily. MarvinX...illuminates the necessary tensions between residual and emergingorders. He also provides insight into fluid identities shaped in thisspace and time.
--James G. Spady,Philadelphia New Observer, December, 1999
Muhammida El Muhajir(Marvin X's daughter) confers
with Mary J. Blig, www.suninleo.com
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