Tonight I thought about the possiblity
of having someone of my own
a man
a man who loves me and wants to keep me for his own
a man that cares about me..
adores me…
wants me
Needs me
But I’m afraid
i haven’t felt like loving in a long time
havent ever seen a love like that
Don’t know what it feels like
my perception of that emotion is so flawed
My Nature
God fearing
kind hearted
loving
perseverant
driven
family oriented
success driven
happy dealer
kitchen diva
tradition maker
trendsetter
private vixen
luv maker
sex taker
erotic goddess
My Nurture
burned and trampled
amused then abused
manipulated and tried
molested and tested
prodded and poked
rattled and choked
used
the world around me has made me cold and alone
i’m perfectly flawed
Anxious for the future but
too depressed about the past to move forward
My heart
Tells me many things
but do i listen?
or do I proceed with caution?
I want to smile more than I sit emotionless and alone
You always make me smile..
u think u can do that forever?
I wonder if my tears will stop if i let you in
Or will they just feel better
because you are here to wipe them away?
You asked me if I’m ready..
I know that I am
There is no way that I’m not
You want a full time lover
companion
friend
partner
I need it
Unless you feel that you need it
I can not look you in the eye and say it
When you can close your eyes and tell me you need it.. do you see me?
If you see me…
Look me in the eyes and ask your question again
And i’ll say yes
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UrbanStar Neo-Soul and Spoken Word Entertainment - Open Mic ft Chelsey Richardson. Welcome to the NEW Urban Art Scene in Seattle!
UrbanStar events are your premier destination for Neo-Soul, Open Mic, and Celebrity Artist performances. In this installment we celebrate everyone as artist!
The featured poet of the evening is Chelsey Richardson with hosted, Draze, and DJ Itz Mousewane on the tables.
Chelsey Richardson, a Seattle native believes that poetry lives everywhere. Her writing is influenced by but not limited to race, politics, and motherhood. In October 2007 she had the honor of winning The Gwendolyn Brooks poetry Slam at Chicago State University. In 2007 and 2011 she earned a spot on the First Women’s National Poetry Slam team stage to compete against some of Seattle’s greatest female poets. She was nominated by the CD Forum as a Seattle Poet Populist candidate in 2008 this said this about her, “Her writing requires you to think critically and examine the world in which we live. She is a writer that truly represents independent poetic expression. There is a cleverness and creativity in her prose that draws the reader or listener in. She is an amazing teaching artist and mentor in Seattle who is poised for a dynamic career.” – CD Forum for Arts and Ideas. She has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington and currently works as an educator at Nova Alternative High School where she facilitates a poetry committee, Naked Truth a performance group that combats stereotypes through Spoken word and mentors for the youth writing/spoken word organization Youth Speaks.
Submit your request to perform early to cdance425@gmail.com.
Also, as many of you may know, we released our first of a series of mix-tapes to come, #flight206mixtape hosted by DJ Peg FREE PROMO DOWNLOAD all 206 Hip-Hop!!! We are giving you the hottest and dopest tracks from Seattle’s BEST Emcees This is an all-star compilation of artists puttin’ on for the town popping up in media and performing on stages all over the country. Some all over the WORLD! Seattle has always been known for great musicians and WE ARE GIVING YOU THESE FREE all in the name of hip-hop. Don’t know much about local hip-hop music? Here is a GREAT place to start!
Download: http://urbanstar206.tumblr.com/post/40904775165/urbanstar-presents-flight206mixtape-hosted-by-dj
Louis Vuitton pays tribute to The Greatest - Muhammad Ali with the digital experience The Greatest Words. Spoken Word Artist Yasiin Bey and calligrapher Niels Shoe Meulman revisit the words of Muhammad Ali.
 ALL ONLINE Pre-Sale Tickets have sold out, GENERAL ADMISSION ARE STILL AVAIL AT THE DOOR Please arrive at the venue at 8PM to secure General Admission Accommodations. TABLES NOT ASSIGNED AND THOSE THAT ARE NOT OCCUPIED BY 9:30 WILL BE USED FOR OVERFLOW Once we reach capacity we CAN NOT ALLOW you into the building due to legal limitations. Tickets or Not Groups: Please Contact cdance425@gmail.com for further RSVP and questions. Thank you all for your support, on behalf of Supa E Productions, UrbanStar, and ToyBox Consulting. *No Refunds
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Urban Star Spoken Word and Supa E Productions Presents:
TONY AWARD winning Poet “Black Ice,” September 29th, 2012 at the Scarlett Tree located at 801 NE 65th St Suite C Seattle, WA 98115
Introducing Lamar Manson, known throughout the spoken word community as Black Ice. Black Ice is a prolific artist, whose stage performances bridge the gap between hip-hop and poetry. Hip-hop poet Black Ice began spreading his words of revolution back in 1993
Once Russell Simmons caught his act, the poet’s quest for nationwide recognition kicked into overdrive. Black Ice went on to appear on five consecutive seasons of the Simmons-produced Def Poetry Jam on HBO, which led to a starring role in the Tony Award-winning “Def Poetry Jam on Broadway.”
Black Ice is also the exclusive voice over artist for the audio versions of the Russell Simmons books “Do You: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success” and the 2011 release “Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All”.
It was 2004 when he made his breakthrough into hip-hop, appearing on Method Man’s Tical 0: The Prequel and Pete Rock’s Soul Survivor II.
In 2006, he would team with producer Eric “Booty” Greene and release his debut album, The Death of Willie Lynch, on the Koch label. That same summer, he opened for R&B superstar Mary J. Blige on her world tour.
Urban Star Entertainment events are your only QUALITY destination for your Neo-Soul, Open Mic! NEW in 2012, celebrity artist have been added to the performance roster!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UrbanStar/
Twitter: @URBANSTAR206
Blog: www.urbanstar206.tumblr.com
UrbanStar has joined Supa E Productions (Photography , Artist/Music Promotion , and Apparel company) on this event and it is SURE to sell out!
Tickets on Sale Friday August 31st 2012
$15.00 Presale
$20.00 at the door
http://www.brownpapertickets.com
SEATTLE HAS TALENT and we are ready to show the world!
PLEASE Feel free to submit your request to perform cdance425@gmail.com.
Trinide will be hosting this very special performance and the featured DJ, ITZ Mouse Wayne will be spinning your favorite hip hop and old school JAMS!
FEATURED LOCAL ARTIST: AARON READER
Aaron Reader is one of Seattle’s hidden gems. He has the ability to capture an audience’s attention with ONE WORD. The powerful, emotional, real, and conscious poet will be gracing the stage as well during this event.
FYI: Media presented in this release are available for use in promotions, unless otherwise stated by UrbanStar Entertainment or Supa E Productions.
Please contact ToyBox Consulting for more information.
PR/MEDIA Inquiries:
Katoya Palmer: @katoya318
Toybox Consulting
Nina Simone Sings “Four Women” Live at the Harlem Cultural Festival 1969
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 
TASHA JONES PERFORMING THE LOVE JONES EXPERIENCE II – Bellevue, WA
URBAN STAR ENTERTAINMENT in partnership with SUPA E PRODUCTIONS are proud to announce the return of Grammy Award nominated writer, artist, model, and poetic genius Tasha Jones back to the Northwest, hosted by The Parlor Collection in Bellevue Washington.
More about the Artist: http://www.iamtashajones.com/
On May 27th, 2012, she will present “The Love Jones Experience 2” at The Parlor in Bellevue, WA. In January, she performed “The Love Jones Experience” for a SOLD OUT crowd at the Scarlet Tree in Seattle, WA. The doors we closed at 10 PM with standing room only.
Visit The Parlor Live Online: http://www.parlorlive.com/
In “The Love Experience 2,” Tasha will host a brand new selection of material for her audience in one of the most impressive venues on the Eastside. Also performing that evening, Tiffany Wilson and her wonderful band performing a few original songs as well as some of our Neo-Soul and R & B favorites!
DJ PEG and host Draze will keep the audience entertained during the all of the breaks. This event is highly anticipated, is sure to AMAZE, and WILL hit capacity before 10pm, just as the last! Those who attended the last event will agree that guest were spread all over the venue, and there were even seats on the Stage! Chelsey Richardson is also a part of the lineup and is definitely no stranger to the UrbanStar performing stage and audiences.
In addition to a larger location, there is one more addition to the evening! After the show, the event will transition into a Gemini celebration. All guests are encouraged to arrive early WITH tickets in hand.
For an even more exclusive VIP experience, the sponsors are hosting a private dinner, meet and greet, and elegant boat cruise with Tasha Jones. Please make arrangements ASAP if you would like to be considered for attendance.
Promotional Team:
· Afrodisiac Poetry
· Phat Musik
· The Town Entertainment
Ticket Prices: GA Presale $10.00 and VIP/Table Reservation $15.00 per person
Available April 1st, 2012 at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/239062
For more information, please contact Chuck Dance at 206-380-1213 or cdance425@gmail.com
More about the last event on January 28th, 2012:
Official Event Review: http://katoya318.tumblr.com/post/16720245943/tasha-jones-love-jones-experience-seattle
PR/MEDIA CONTACT:
Katoya R. Palmer
ToyBox Consulting
Katoya@toyboxconsulting.net
“Why do you talk so white” - AMAZING PIECE!
Event Review
“The Love Jones Experience,” hosted by Grammy nominated poet, @iamTashaJones in Seattle, Washington. Show presented by Urban Star Spoken Word and Neo-Soul entertainment.
I was amazed by her grace a talent. Seattle was blessed to have an established Spoken Word professional set a great example. Her poems touched serious topics as well as provoked our senses and feelings. Her stage presence is unmatched as well as her ability to passively assert command of her audiences attention. Her presence emits confidence, beauty, talent, wit and realness!
Of her works:
Nomenclature (personal fav)
You’re letting the Flies out (classic I can do bad all by myself poem)
Good Touch/Bad Touch (deep…. But appreciated and personally relative)
Grammy nominated poem, My Eyes are Green was also performed.
The show was held on 1/28/2012 at the Scarlet Tree. Also performing that evening, Tiffany Wilson and her wonderful band provided us with original songs and some of our Neo-Soul favs.
Artists Keisha Baird and Aaron Reader blessed the stage with memorable pieces. In addition to a few first timers. DJ mouse Wayne and Host Trinide kept us entertained during the transitions.
The event hit capacity before 10pm guest were spead all over the venue, there were even seats on the Stage! Standing room only is a poets ultimate Goal. I’m happy to have been able to attend! Open Mic/Spoken Word events are among my favorite things! Although, Seattle still needs to practice a lil “Open Mic Etiquette.” However, that will work itself out over time as these events grow!
Please support the artists and checkout their music and Itunes offerings “Tiffany Wilson” and “Tasha Jones” are available to purchase NOW.
***Article and Photo Compliments of Katoya Palmer. Event Management, Public Relations, Sales, and Marketing consultant and owner at ToyBox Consulting.
Blog: www.ToyBoxConsulting.net
email: Katoya@ToyBoxConsulting.net
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE :
Grammy Nominated Poet Performing in Seattle
The Love Jones Experience is coming to Seattle January 28th, 2012! Grammy Nominated Poet, Tasha Jones will be hosting a very special Urban Star and Neo-Soul Entertainment Spoken word event. The Scarlet Tree, home to Urban Star events for the last year, is located at 801 NE 65th Street, Seattle Washington. Doors at 8:30 and show promptly to begin at 9:30.
Tasha Jones is the youngest Indiana Poet Laureate nominee, is an activist, poet, author, educator, lecturer, musician, and motivational speaker. A virtuosic performer with an acute ability to interlace complex threads with conventional wisdom. Her works are unique in which, Jones brilliantly marries the art of storytelling to the audaciousness of Hip Hop which breeds Literature in full throttle. A prolific writer, Tasha Jones soothes the soul and heals the body with words that cleverly infuses everyday life experiences with scripture to create works that empower. The diversity in her writings garner HOPE.
You can find out more about her at http://iamtashajones.com
The event is presented by Elite Documents as well as well as several other contributing sponsors and Entertainment Professionals:
Aphrodisiac Poetry – Spoken Word Event Planning
The Town Entertainment – Live Music Event Producers and Planning
Third Loop Design – Graphic Arts and Media
ToyBox Consulting- Public Relations management and Marketing
Also performing, Tiffany Wilson with her live band and local Poet, and amazing speaker, Aaron Reader. Trinide is Master of Ceremony for the evening and Itz Mouse Wayne is the featured Disc Jockey for the night. Beverage specials include $3.00 Well Drinks and Domestic Beer until 11:00PM.
$10.00 online presale tickets and $15.00 Table Reservations will be available for purchase at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/217670
In person table Reservations taken by Debby Dance 206-412-2176 or debbydance01@gmail.com
Promotions and Show Info Contact Chuck Dance 206-380-1213 cdance425@gmail.com
All Public Relations, Media, Sponsor related, and Press inquiries can be sent to ToyBox Consulting.
Contact:
Katoya Palmer
1700 21st Ave Suite 204
Seattle, Washington 98114
(206)841-9361
Mystery of Iniquity - Lauryn Hill Unplugged
Another reason she cant be TOUCHED
Lyrics:
It’s the mystery of Iniquity…
Said it’s the misery of Iniquity…
Said it’s the history of Iniquity…
When it all…
All falls down…
Telling you all…
It all falls down
Children…
Eat your bread
Little children…
Eat your bread
Cuz it all…
All falls down…
Telling you all…
It all falls down
[First and only verse]
Yo!
Ya’ll can’t handle the truth in a courtroom of lies
Perjures the jurors
Witness despised
Crooked lawyers
False Indictments publicized
Its entertainment…the arraignments
The subpoenas
High profile gladiators in bloodthirsty arenas
Enter the Dragon
Black-robe crooked-balance
Souls bought and sold and paroled for thirty talents
Court reporter catch the circus on the paper
File it in the system not acknowledged by the Maker
Swearing by the bible blatantly blasphemous
Publicly perpetrating that “In God We Trust”
Cross-examined by a master manipulator
The faster intimidator
Receiving the judge’s favor
Deceiving sabers doing injury to they neighbors
For status, gratis, apparatus and legal waivers
See the bailiff
Representing security
Holding the word of God soliciting perjury
The prosecution
Political prostitution
The more money you pay.. the further away solution
Legal actors
Babylon’s benefactors
Masquerading as the agency for the clients
Hypocritical giants
Morally non-compliant
Orally armed to do bodily harm
Polluted, recruited and suited judicial charm
And the defense isn’t making any sense
Faking the confidence of escaping the consequence
That a defendant is depending on the system
Totally void of judgment purposely made to twist em’
Emotional victim blackmailed by the henchmen
Framed by intentions
Inventions whereby they lynch men
Enter the false witness slandering the accused
Planting the seed openly showing he’s being used
To discredit, edit, headed for the alleged
Smearing the individual fearing the unsuspected
Expert witness (the paid authority)
Made a priority to deceive the majority
Of disinterested peers
Dodging duty for years
Hating the process
waiting to be returning to their careers
Do we expect the system made for the elect
To possibly judge correct?
Properly serve and protect?
Materially corrupt
Spiritually amuck
Oblivious to the cause
Prosperously bankrupt
Blind leading the blind
Guilty never defined
Filthy as swine
A generation pure in it’s own mind
Legal extortion
Blown out of proportion
In vain deceit
The truth is obsolete
Only two positions:
Victimizer or Victim
Both end up in destruction trusting this crooked system
Mafia with diplomas keeping us in a coma trying to own a piece
of the “American Corona”
The Revolving Door
Insanity every floor
Skyscraping, paper chasing
What are we working for?
Empty traditions
Reaching social positions
Teaching ambition to support the family superstition?
When the Son of Perdition is Commander in Chief
The standard is Thief
Brethren can we candidly speak?
Woe to the men
Trusted in the chariots dem’
Leaning on horses
They run their intellectual sources
Counterfeit wisdom creating the illusion of freedom
Confusion consumes them
Every word they speak it turns them out really white
Internally they absent of light
trapped in the night and bonded to the Cain of the night
Under the curse
Evil men waxing more worse
Faxing the first
Angelic being cast to the earth
It’s time for rebirth
Burnin up the branch and the root
The empty pursuits of every tree bearing the wrong fruit
Turn AND BE HEALED
Let him who stole, no longer steal
Oh Israel
Surrender for Jehovah is real
How long will you sleep
Troubled by the thoughts that YOU keep
The idols YOU heap
Causing the destruction you reap
Judgment has come
Find it and return to the One
Abandon the flesh
Self-interest: Broadway to death
Pride and the Greed
Hide and subdividing the seed
The knowledge of Good and Evil is what caused us to lie
Caused us to die
Let your emotions be crucified
Renounce all your thoughts
Repent and let your mind be re-taught
You’ll find what you sought…was based on the deception you bought
A perception of naught
Where the majority remains caught
Loving a lie
Not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a lie
Not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a lie
Not realizing in Adam, all die
Loving a lie
Not realizing in Adam, all die
[sing songy Chorus Outro]
It’s the mystery of Iniquity
Say it’s the history of Iniquity
Say it’s the misery of Iniquity
When it all…
All falls down
I’m telling you all…
It all falls down
(via afrosoulsista)
THANK YOU
A rapper vs. a spoken word artist in a battle of words…Ima put my money on the SPOKEN WORD ARTIST. Thas IF the rapper’s pride don’t get HURT causin him to committ murder in order to TEMPORARILY satisfy his insecurities & PORTRAY this image to obtain the social respect that he LONGS for.
TOY BOX BRAND SPANKING NEW EVENT OF THE WEEK:
Seattle as requested in HIGH DEMAND the need for a night that caters to our ENTERTAINMENT needs!
Any Metropolitan in the COUNTRY dang near has a night dedicated to local talent. This night is dedicated to all of you who believe the the theme “Words as Art” and MUSIC as LIFE!
Last week JEAN GRAE and Mr. Len of Company Flow blessed our first “Skybox UnderGround” event with many other artist such as Laura “Piece” Kelly, Dice, and Julie C! Knowing that, who KNOWS who will be our next feature.
As a result all of your SUPPORT, we will host a WEEKLY event for all artist to display their talent!
In support of pieces arranged as:
Spoken Word
Hip Hip
Unplugged
Acoustic
Stand Up Comedy
Visual Artists
Motivational Speakers
Gospel/Christian Artist
And So on..
It is not a secret that SEATTLE is known for cultivating talent…
WE WANT LYRICIST and ARTIST who are ready to emerge and be SEEN.
However, we also want to attract those of you who just LOVE to express yourself on stage and leave.
Including FANS of these genres
Skybox Underground is a nationally as well internationally recognized event! The media has been BUZZING since our first event!
Good Life Seattle Cordially invites you to come experience mature entertainment at its best.
Good food and Drink specials are mos def expected!!!
We will host a soft opening on September 16th 2011!!!
CONTINUING EVERY WEEK TO FOLLOW.
MORE INFO TO COME - SEE YOU THERE
RSVP to Take the stage email events@goodlifeseattle.com or call 206-841-9361 to reach us
Catch up on our events: www.goodlifeseattle.com
TITC interview : In my event planning efforts my goal is to continue the movement and redefine the term “nightlife” in our city, I have incorporated into my events creative and fresh ideas that add value and, with my many partnerships we will revolutionize the entertainment scene. My immediate goal is simply to influence other entertainment guilds, in hopes they also hold their events to the highest standard. Hence, improving the nightlife scene locally, but most importantly, being a great example to our city’s diverse and sometimes eclectic entertainment Nationally.
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