Kid Lucky & Tah Thrum Duh Bush explain the why and how.
Making the space ours.
Speaking word.
Touch the music.
Touch the music.
Touch the music.
Sound off!!!
Facing each other.
Speaking and listening.
Speaking and listening.
(text from the event announcement)
"Calling all vocalists (spoken word artists, beatboxers, MCs, singers). We're going back to the old school, when human beatboxers, MCs, and other vocal groups performed and battled on subway trains and on street corners. Today, unamplified human beatboxers and MCs will be performing on the back of the E Train. There will be no drums or kazoos or small amps.
We will be traveling to every stop on the way up and will travel back down to West 4th where we all go out and eat a falafel and then go home. Why are we doing this? Well because it will be fun, because this is the essence of NYC hip hop, and it's time hip hop re-explore its roots. Black history month we celebrate hip hop culture by going back to the essence of hip hop. The days without the microphone, without the turntable, but when human beatboxing was hot, and the kid who banged on the desk or the wall was making it crazy, the MC that ripped it from the top of his head. I feel it's time to remind NYC why hip hop was created in the first place: the consciousness, the refusal to be stereotyped as foolish, real creative music, the time when we took all types of sounds and fused them."
At one point, a police officer popped his head into the car and spoke to me. "What's going on?" "Just some music making." "You can't make all this noise. Can you tell them to bring it down?" "I'm sorry, officer. I'm just media, I'm really not the right person to talk to."
He looked a bit perplexed, then allowed the car doors to close. We continued on our way, ocassionally stepping off into a station for people to face off and let their wit run through the crowd.
Kid Lucky's site. Video of Event.
http://www.beatboxerent.net
Video of event. http://www.artofurban.net
http://www.beatboxing.com/BBC_SITE/home/
"Calling all vocalists (spoken word artists, beatboxers, MCs, singers). We're going back to the old school, when human beatboxers, MCs, and other vocal groups performed and battled on subway trains and on street corners. Today, unamplified human beatboxers and MCs will be performing on the back of the E Train. There will be no drums or kazoos or small amps.
We will be traveling to every stop on the way up and will travel back down to West 4th where we all go out and eat a falafel and then go home. Why are we doing this? Well because it will be fun, because this is the essence of NYC hip hop, and it's time hip hop re-explore its roots. Black history month we celebrate hip hop culture by going back to the essence of hip hop. The days without the microphone, without the turntable, but when human beatboxing was hot, and the kid who banged on the desk or the wall was making it crazy, the MC that ripped it from the top of his head. I feel it's time to remind NYC why hip hop was created in the first place: the consciousness, the refusal to be stereotyped as foolish, real creative music, the time when we took all types of sounds and fused them."
At one point, a police officer popped his head into the car and spoke to me. "What's going on?" "Just some music making." "You can't make all this noise. Can you tell them to bring it down?" "I'm sorry, officer. I'm just media, I'm really not the right person to talk to."
He looked a bit perplexed, then allowed the car doors to close. We continued on our way, ocassionally stepping off into a station for people to face off and let their wit run through the crowd.
Kid Lucky's site. Video of Event.
http://www.beatboxerent.net Video of event.
http://www.artofurban.net http://www.beatboxing.com/BBC_SITE/home/
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