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David Medina first fell in love with Hip Hop when he was seven years old. It was nineteen eighty-two and his brother had UTFO, Roxanne Shante and Afrika Bambaataa on vinyl. He took the Afrika Bambaataa record "Planet Rock" and put it on his mother's record player, the kind where the television and speakers were all attached. He put the needle on the first groove. The crackling popped in his ears followed by a drum and a laser gun sound. When he listened, he couldn't believe music could do that. Then he heard Afrika Bamabaataa's voice say "Just start to chase your dreams" as he's riding the drums. It was nothing David had heard before. All he heard to this point was salsa music played by his mother. The music captivated his attention as he sat there playing the record over and over again.

Fast-forward to nineteen eighty-six, the golden era of Hip Hop. The revolutionary and unique voices of Hip Hop took over David's personality. All he wanted to do was learn every word coming from the speakers. He spent hours listening to BDP's "By Any Means Necessary", Big Daddy Kane's "Long Live The Kane", Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid In Full" and Public Enemy's "It Takes A Nation of Millions" and writing down the lyrics. He would then recite the lyrics over and over along with the tapes until he memorized every sentence, syllable and breath. He was intrigued on how the words were used and how they fit together. This is what started his journey into the world of writing. David wanted to use words like the emcees he emulated so he could state his own thoughts and ideas where they could be heard. The black composition notebook became a safe haven to play with words and write some of his first poetry.
As the years went by, David continued to write poetry, scripts, short stories and lyrics. It wasn't until David went to college at SUNY Brockport in nineteen ninety-three that he saw writing as a way to express himself for the rest of his life.
After completing college, David went on to start an on-line Hip Hop magazine called Inkwell Media with his partners Benjamin De Point and Jaesun Hammel. He interviewed up and coming and established artists like Broke, Little Brother, the legendary MC Shan, Ladybug Mecca of Digable Planets, Main Flow of Mood, Crisis Center and many others. After a successful four year run the magazine closed shop. He also has freelanced for City Beat, The Connex List, Cellar Noise, Elemental Magazine and other publications.
David was also in the Hip Hop group drop! with Benjamin and they dropped an album, "Elements, Vibrations and Life Enzymes". David has performed his poetry on stages like The Nuyorican Poets Café and the Bowery Poetry Club. He has performed with organizations like Resonant Voices.
More currently, David is volunteering at Harlem RBI where he coaches baseball in Spanish Harlem. He is also a member of the Nkiru Writers Workshop and Open Spaces Workshop, where he continues to hone his art.
David worked on the autobiography of JamesTOP, a pioneer graffiti artist, and is working on his first novel, loosely based on his childhood in Brooklyn.
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Posted by on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:18:00 GMT

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