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RyanNicoleakaRYE

Lyricist well-versed in Legalese

About Me

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“Louder than a bomb, with the grace of a swan are the expressive deliveries of RyanNicole a.k.a. Rye.”
MC, Poet, Writer, Actress, Activist Ms. RyanNicole approaches every stage like a summer breeze. Gentle and unassuming, she fires each word with the force of a cannon, increasing power with every line. Like the blows of a championship boxer, Ms. Nicole liberates every strike, overwhelming audiences to explode with accolades and praise screaming for more. Intense, profound and potent, her words extraordinarily rouse the spirit of the 400 years of the black American experience.
RyanNicole’s works are saturated in an awareness that is beyond her years. She knows without a shadow of a doubt that she is a vessel, and that hip-hop and the spoken word—her gifts—are her weapons of mass direction. She has even created platforms for her ministry on various stages with Barack Obama, Saul Williams, Floetry, Kindred, Bilal, Dwele, and MTV's Sway of Sway and King Tech, to name a few. With an arsenal of creations including Incorporated Omission, She's Back, and most popularly, Bootstraps, Ms. Ryan’s music and prose stand next to the stylings of legendary greats such as Nikki Giovanni, Lauryn Hill and Jessica Care Moore. Her steadfast philosophies can only be compared to academic marvels like Cornel West, Tavis Smiley and Michael Eric Dyson.
Her stage work is as eclectic and far-reaching as her other endeavors. As a playwright and actress, she has partnered with some of the most reputable theater organizations in the nation. An Associate Artist for the California Shakespeare Theater, Ms. RyanNicole most recently collaborated with Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco and internationally renown playwright, Naomi Izuika to produce, Hamlet: Blood In the Brain a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, playing "O" (Shakespeare's Ophelia). Extensive and continuing to astound, her theater work includes such other pieces as Chocolate Covered Truth (San Diego, adaptation For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Wasn't Enough, Ntozake Shange), Tree (San Francisco , Juile Hebert), and Everything Has Been Arranged (San Francisco, adaptation Small Boys Unit, Denis Johnson).
Ms. RyanNicole's latest creative foray is a collaborative hip hop project by the name of Tenure: Nu Dekades. This effort is one shared with two other MC's, K.E.V. (Kickin' Every Verse) and Sheiksha Mihdnight Suhn. Together they have been the featured performers for Camp Lo, Lifesavas, and Baron Davis' L.A. Stars charity event. They will be releasing their forthcoming FREE mixtape "NuDekadesMusic" in late 2007. Be on the lookout!
RyanNicole feels that works that mean something to the person, also mean something to the people. With this philosophy she writes as the voice of her people, women, and her generation in particular. Thus, writing and performing have solidified her belief that regardless of our outer conditions or circumstances, we are all interconnected. Undoubtedly, we are all one and blessed to have a young woman with such conviction equipped to speak for us all.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/10/2005
Band Website: sonicbids.com/ryannicole
Band Members: RYANNICOLE (LIVE) @ CREST THEATER (2007)


RYANNICOLE (LIVE) @ LINEN LIFE (2005)


TENURE: NU DEKADES @ LA PENA (2008)


TENURE: NU DEKADES - EARLY PERFORMANCE @ LAST 2232 SHOW (2007,
PT. 3 of 3 of 1st Performance Ever

Influences: In No Particular Order: Mos Def, Nikki G., Nina Simone, Sonja Sanchez, Tananarive Due, Lauryn Hill, Queen Latifah, Octavia Butler, God, Gwendolyn Brooks, the Sun, the Trinity, Earth, Water, air, Earth Wind and Fire, Tauruses, Janet Jackson, Erykah Badu, My mama, Auntie Patty, Uncle Lee, Dad, Collage, Zap Mama, The Roots, Sunny Hawkins, Ise Lyfe, Outspoken Dialects, Keyshia Cole, Latoya London, Fantasia, Dwayne Wiggins, Raphael Saadiq, Various MySpace artists, Steely Dan, James Taylor, Carley Simon, Todd Rungren, Jethro Tull, Paul McCartney, The Beattles, Pharrel, N.E.R.D., Jay-Z, Beyonce, Outkast, Ceelo, Goodie Mob, Ras Kass, KRS-1, Monie Love, Ms. Melody, Oaktown's 357, Hammer, 2Pac, Sarah Vaugn, Milton Nascimiento, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Amel Larrieux, George Clinton, Funkadelic, The Parliament, Tower of Power, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Lalah Hathaway, M'Shell N'dgeocello, Cassandra Wilson, Amerie, John Legend, Kanye, Kenny Loggins, Spyro Gyra, Liz Story, Winton Marsalis, Bradford Marsalis, Chick Corea, Miles, Duke, Thelonius, Art Blakely, George Duke, George Benson, Mary J. Blige, Prince,....are you serious? Like this list ever stops

Sounds Like: Her-damn-self
Type of Label: None

My Blog

READ A BOOK!

Okay...We're gonna do this backwards... HERE'S WHAT I THINK: Frankly, I think it is AWESOME and HILARIOUS!  This cartoon is satirical and can't be compared to the likes of Sesame Street o...
Posted by RyanNicoleakaRYE on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:11:00 PST

Woo-hoo!!! What a weekend!

man, oh, man! what a smash weekend the TENURE: NU DEKADES (hereinafter "NU10") crew had! For a such a young posse, the NU10 camp has been blessed to have the kind of shows veteran groups gig well in...
Posted by RyanNicoleakaRYE on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:57:00 PST

TENURE & CAMP LO, AUG 24TH

Come out and close out your summer with me, my crew Tenure: Nu Dekades & the legendary CAMP LO@ Club 6 (60 6th Street, SF), August 24th, 2007.Check it out!...
Posted by RyanNicoleakaRYE on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:25:00 PST

Ouch!!!

Don't let the smooth taste fool you! Do you ever feel like the world is out to get you?  Or maybe, just the cops.  Let me tell you about my horrible ass day.  First I wake up and eve...
Posted by RyanNicoleakaRYE on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:07:00 PST