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Slangston Hughes

''ghetto griot''

About Me

Born in and influenced by the HipHop era, yet at the same time always acknowledging the foundations laid down by fore runners and trail blazers such as Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets, Sonya Sanchez, Nikki Geovani, Jaki Terry, Saul Williams, Jessica Care Moore, Talaam Acey, E The Poet Emcee, ATM, etc... Slangston Hughes attempts to bridge the gap between the legacy paved through the Harlem renaissance and black arts movement with the innovative but yet rebellious spirit of HipHop culture, evoking the eternally emerging essence of the town crier or "street poet."

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/25/2007
Sounds Like: "Street Poetry"
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Deferred Dreams (Soliloquy of a Quiet Nightmare)

  "What happens to a dream deferred" or even worse a quiet nightmare disturbed.   Awoken from within it self, silence broken spoken like a gun shot quoted through the mouth of a snipers barr...
Posted by Slangston Hughes on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:39:00 PST

Dedication&

  It was love at first write, connected with her thoughts like eye contact, her pupils were pages steered on to the lines and into her mind, and oh was it so beautiful, infatuated with her storie...
Posted by Slangston Hughes on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:19:00 PST

Cast Iron Roses

      2-pac once said that we should thank God and celebrate the tenacity of the roses that manage to grow from concrete, will I'm here to tell you that my roses were just a bit more th...
Posted by Slangston Hughes on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:21:00 PST

If seeing is believing, than show me the truth!

I want you, the listener, the observer, the reader. To take a second and open your mind, then after that open up a preverbal window, have you done so, good! Now take everything that you believe to be ...
Posted by Slangston Hughes on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:15:00 PST

Pick Up the Pieces

  Scatter my thoughts over these pages like shattered promises throughout the ages, speak wit a tongue so broken that they call these poems tasteless, continually caught in the mix, of so much bu...
Posted by Slangston Hughes on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:13:00 PST

Poetry of an emcee

Hold tight wit a death grip on the mic like my life depended on it This is my form of the blues slang is what I choose And paint pictures wit ebonics through the tune You can hear the fierce unspeak...
Posted by Slangston Hughes on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:59:00 PST

The Weight Within Words

ever since God spit that first phrase, "let there be light" the word has existed and coexisted with the world for that word has been life, clutching to mics we attempt to recite the meaning searchin...
Posted by Slangston Hughes on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:51:00 PST