About Me
AS A WRITER. I haven’t been dedicating enough time to cultivating my gifts in the poetry medium partly because I’ve been restricted to trying to contribute to a culture in an era that markets drugs, sex, and violence to the masses using black faces. I would like to travel overseas to experience how hip-hop generally influences people outside of the country and I think I would have more career opportunities as a progressive mind. I believe in art, music and literature to be reflective, affective and powerful. I think that hip-hop artists should be encouraged to take the art form as seriously as any study be it business, health care, law, marketing. I will continue to write songs since songwriting is a part of my make-up, however I’m thinking about publishing my rhymes in order to launch my career. This way I’ll be able to cater to an audience who appreciates the value of words. As a writer I’m not angry at hip-hop music, I believe as many black people do at a point, I have outgrown some of the ideas, principals and beliefs. And the industry is saturating the masses with a formula that isn’t good for the mind. Monotony stunts the growth of the mind and the spirit. Repetition promotes a conditioning process. I live in the south. Widely known in the hip-hop culture as "the dirty south" The racism that we experience as the working class needs to be acknowledged and written about in hip-hop music today. The economic development of people of color should be addressed as investors from time to time. The music that is being promoted in the mainstream reflects the way people in the hip hop entertainment industry treat each other. Since our society in the US is sliding into an economic state that needs free slaves, I don’t expect the mainstream to support positive progressive black people. A mind is programmed for success or failure. Mainstream hip hop programs thinkers to believe in an assimilated reality that keeps us mentally imprisoned. This is why the music makes us sound weak and inferior as if we lack empowerment, independence, spirituality. The words are elementary as if black people are illiterate. Black music promotes selling drugs like we can’t make money any other way. The industry makes black women look like they will never be viewed as equal in society because all they can do is sexy. The next black person trying to make an honest living can’t get respect because people expect her to be the idea of what yall get paid to act like. So I feel sorry for those black faces who feel like they aren’t being represented in hip hop music, or feel like they can’t win. Because if blacks get paid to call blacks niggers, and racists get paid to treat blacks like niggers and people who don’t speak English get paid to learn how to associate us with the idea of what a nigger is then HOW IS ANYONE SUPPOSED TO FIGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF OUR PEOPLE?
I hope someday the music of black artists who don’t have slave chains around their lyrics and who write songs that uplift and program minds for success, love, happiness, growth, prosperity, as well as messages that make people aware of what we face as those who have lived in or live in poverty, are given the opportunity to market successful mainstream music.
"Stop killing us with your words."AS A PRODUCER. The Untitled Collection was produced by DJ BOO MAN for Beat Bruvas Productions; Baltimore. SLIM 78 for Aphasia Inc; Washington DC. PHILIP "BRIDGE" HENERY for Analog Arts Productions; Washington DC. ARIOSO LEGATO; New York City. RYAN ROOF; Hampton Va (created all acoustic guitar work for every song on the album except "Decline"and "Purple Shadowed Angels") KENN OLDEN for House of Kahns; Washington DC. ISABELLA BANNEKER for Stellas Break; Washington DC. AYCHELLE for YantraMusicGroup; Washington DC. Featured artists: DeAundre Shaifer (trumpet solo). Charles, Precious Winn, Jay Reed (lyricists). Mason Dixon, Timothy McCants, Isabella Banneker (back up vocals) Engineered by Kenn Olden.
The collaborative effort was successfully completed in 2003, and is still being distibuted for promotional purposes.
I Am proud of everyone who was dedicated to making the Untitled Collection a reality. The producers have a genuine love for the art and a consistent work ethic. They make music to last a lifetime. I was raised with a lot of the producers who influenced my perception of music in a very positive way.
Today I am independently producing an album called, "Fortune." or "Ms. Fortune."
Independently as a producer, I’m creating cinematic compositions. Also, I’m working on not being influenced by other artists. My goal is to create music that is a true reflection of myself without sounding like someone else.
I’ll speak on the business aspect and the vocalist aspect in the near future.
Until next time,
-Isabelle Banneker
