I am a rapper and a spoken word poet.  I also write plays and short stories.  I’m a storyteller.  It’s all the same.  Different mediums but we’re all taking it back to the storytelling days.  The spoken word proceeded the written word.  Every culture had its storytellers.  We transmit and create reality through our stories. 

I will be speaking at Latino College Day events in Durango, CO and Farmington, NM this week, in addition to performing at the 3rd annual Real History of the Americas celebration at Fort Lewis College (an alternative event to Columbus day). 

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Sometimes I sit on a cloud and think… Me inside of you… you inside me…

A simple but retrospective track, tracing roots, paying homage, showing respect to some of the people, and thus all of the people, who made me who I am.

The art of storytelling boils down to the ability to capture a feeling, to pull in a listener and make them feel you.  To transport them into your world, weaving them seamlessly back into their own world, then back again, in and out, continuously, beyond the story itself.

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