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Mr. Adrian

About Me

LIVE WITHOUT FEAR AND YOU CAN NEVER BE BROKEN. LIVE WITH FEAR AND YOU ARE BROKEN BEFORE YOU EVER GET TO LIVE. Resident Brooklyn emcee/producer, teacher by profession, artist by passion, Mr. Adrian has been making music to move people since 1996. A little bit old school, true school, politic, personal, and comedy, Mr. Adrian's music is not easily boxed in, but is geared towards making your neck snap and your mind focus. As an educator and former literacy instructor, lyrical content and imagery are vital to this man's music and to the life blood of Hip-Hop on a whole. Therefore, the ability step outside of the radio format box and still reach the youth is what it's all about for Mr. Adrian. ____________________________________________________________ ____ "They say write where you from, although it's not about that/ Rakim said it's really all about where you at/ And if they haven't changed, then your perspective in tact/ So i make music for those tired of gettin' knocked on their backs/Franz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth, I'm with that/ Literary lessons become weapons when we spit facts/ Literally lickin' oppposition like quick fast/ Two-tiered syllable play, tongue twister split backs"

My Interests

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Member Since: 8/17/2004
Band Members:
Influences: Curran Hall (RIP), John McGregor (RIP), my Father (RIP), Mr. Junius Hickman (RIP), Ms. Ruth Matthews (RIP), Aunt Ena (RIP), Warren (RIP), Mr. Gary Davis, Mom, Peter, Mark, Reid, Dave, Toya, Alicia, Dan, Khary, Khalil, Abu, Jorge, Dzifa, Joel, Ron, Brian, Molly, Laura, Bashir, Miles, Black Bottom Collective, Danny, Cyphalliance, Colin, Gabe, Shomari, Sun, Aaron, Candida, Tsighe, Fisiwe, Patrick, Boog, Aunt Vickie, Ms. Matthews, Delania and Donte, all my couzins, Aunt Lois, Conquest, Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Howard Zinn, bell hooks, The Zapatistas, The IRA, Lao Tzu, Bruce Lee, KRS-One, Chuck D, Wise Intelligent, Gang Starr, Rage Against the Machine, Miss Renee, Mr. Turner, Dr. Gilda Sheppard, Dr. Carl Waluconis, Dr. Willie Parson, Dr. Joye Hardiman, Dr. Artee Young, my true and LOYAL friends and family, and all my students, past and present.
Interview: KRS-One at the BET Hip Hop Awards
Sounds Like: Underground, true skool, little bit politic, little bit personal, little bit comedy, a bit more musical than the last thing you heard. Check it out for yourself...."Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power." - Robert Greene, 48 LAWS OF POWER
Record Label: BYMYDAMNSELF RECORDS
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

History Channel

Recently one of my Education classes at Brooklyn College asked us to bring in a list of 10 websites we would point our social studies students towards for the sake of research, and 1 which we would st...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:44:00 GMT

what are your raps about?

Page after page after page... of the most mundane, boring, played out "rappers" that could be found.  Yo, if you ever, EVER mention your car, or your jewelry in a song, or models, or bottles, or ...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:18:00 GMT

pleasure and pain

Mobilization out of pleasure or fear is the purest impotency.  There is no power in it. Action that is spurned by desire for pleasure is not powerful, it is slavery to whims and lust. Action that...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:09:00 GMT

CAN'T KICK OR PUNCH... MUST IMPROVISE

My first real album out the gate.  Under the name Righterz Bloc, it took me 4 years to put this album together, making some material dated, but solid effort, so I've been told.  You can tell...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:38:00 GMT

What'chou got to offer?

Tell me somethin'.  If a young woman's self description simply describes the fact that she likes to shop, get her hair and nails done, and loves a particular famous person, what in the world make...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:32:00 GMT

white kids

Yo, since when did it just become normal and okay for white kids to start throwing the word "nigga" around like that shit is alright? What the fuck? I keep coming across these pages (especially white ...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 09:06:00 GMT

Fear

A frightened people are an easy people to control. When we are in a state of fear, we do not think clearly, and subsequently make rash decisions. Especially when the decision is in regards to that whi...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT

Fuck hip-hop

I'm quitting.  Yep that's it, it's done.  I have quit.  Well, quit performing anyway.  I'll always make music and continue to write, especially with and for my kids, but fuck perfo...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT

Affirmative Action

Was watching this talk show on TV this morning in the waiting room of my oral surgeon, just before having to get one of my teeth yanked out of my head.  There was this ongoing debate about affirm...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT

tender young thang

Seriously, why the fuck is there so much pedophilism goin' on in this site?!?!?!? I understand young folks gotta have an outlet too, but dudes that chase 16 year old girls are fuckin' herbs and chump...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT