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Aphropik

I do it for you. -from Torquois 2008, Aphropik

About Me

To me, freedom of speech is something that represents the very dignity of what a human being is…That’s what marks us off from the stones and the stars. You can speak freely. It is really the thing that marks us as just below the angels. - Mario Savio 1942-1996


I was born on a river sailing upstream

The sun set behind me in the west

Drifting east on a watermelon rind

The creator cut me from a mold of truth untold

So I can walk through worlds of lies

With a look that's cold

I still can't behold lies

I wear shades to block they rays

Its madness/ cover my eyes to stop the craze

On the night of my conception the stars was fixed

Asked Cassandra Wilson she said check with Mars you dig?

I'm a child of the moon and daughter of Oshun

With a gift to rock mics shake bable and roll egun egun

Father Abraham had many sons and daughters

And more than one of us can walk on water...

I am the Alley Angel Artist, Aphropik. Aphropik because, well that's my rap name and Angelic because my momma named me Angela because she wanted an Angel. I love hip hop music and that's all I want to do with my life. I want to effect a positive change in the world through it. I look at my career and all the things I go through as an independent artist as a pursuit of true happiness. I am from Chicago but you can't tell by the flow. Its universal. And no that wasn't suppose to rhyme. I have released four musical compilations independently (Abracadabra & Other Magic Words (2003), Say My Name (2004), S.park T.he A.rtist R.evolution (2005) and Aphropik's Phreaken Mixtape (2006)).
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I am currentin production on fifth independent project that I believe will be my last...well if I do this again I want someone to PAY ME up front that's all I'm saying. Its hard out here for a (fe)Pimp yall! I am really exciting about getting this new music out to yall though. The project is titled "TURQUOIS" mainly because I wrote the whole thing OFF GREEN.There are many other reasons that I thought TORQUOIS would be a fitting title. What is color anyways? Isn't it the vibration of the atoms moving and the rate of which the light hits an object and send the vibes to our eyes or something like that. I'm sure that was a very artistic way to explain it (or maybe autistic!lol) but if there was no light, would we still see color? If a tree falls in the forest....yeah well how about this one...If a person has no voice or is voiceless if you will....can we hear them speak?Hell yeah...those and many other questions will be discussed on this project and I hope yalls likes it!!! Look for

Some major artists that influence me on a regular are Bob Marley, Cassandra Wilson (even though I don't have a copy of Thunderbird, hint hint), Black Star (even though Mos and Talib are doing their independent thing I still consider them a unit), Common Sense (he will always be Common Sense to me!) and Rah Digga (I love the way she spits). I am feeling Shawnna from DTP right now. I love her actually. I think Jean Grea got some flow too. She be ripping. Let's see who else? L-boogie of course. Well classically you know I love Del the Funky Homosapien, Wu-Tang (They have this new indie compilation like album that is the shit! It has this cool rainbow W on it, kind of looks like the apple macintosh computer logo), Chemical Brothers, Jungle Brothers, The Fugees (Yeah they got back together!). Check the slideshow under "influences" to see some others.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/7/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/aphropiktheangelic
Band Members: In August, all of us Angelas meet on Uranus and spit bars at the people in the stars to entertain us. On Earth they hate us. On Mars we straight famous plus it amaze them, how we keep our garments so stainless. Paint the rainbow with a paintbrush. Dip it in my brain and pull out celestial slang that you hear after the rain. Came from C H I, with more vision than a hawk's eye. Now I hope to grow old as my goals unfold. Living radically! Born with the gift of artistry. Analytical individual, hear the poets plea "Where art she!?! The one with the PIK!" I point it towards the sky on some masonic shit! Flow unpredictable like Mothertime is. Yes! Mothertime cause father couldn't be bothered! He was masturbating with the hands of time and I caught him. Had video tapes and pictures of it but I lost it. Not really. Truthfully, Mothernature came and got them. Now they are all chasing me. Forget the Bronx, its a rumble in my head! Where's Bruce Lee? Cause its gonna take more than Jackie Chan to get me free again. I be sitting in the sand singing sinnerman. I ran to the rock and the rock cried out that he couldn't hide me. I said, "Man, what are you talking about? I'm divine, see?" I ran to the river and she said the same so I grabbed a cloud out of the sky and I p'd out the rain. Slit my wrist and let the water, drain from my brain. Flew away from the earth until the morning light came....



Influences:
This is a new section I'm going to try to update periodically. I put it under influences because children have a huge impact on my music. MySpace is good for a lot of things. Why not find some missing kids while we get our networking and flirting on? This is Nellie Dowanna Pirtle. She has been missing since January 10, 2007. She was last seen in Nashville, Tennessee.

If you have seen Nellie, please contact the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department at (615) 862-7635. Peace and blessings. -Pik.
Sounds Like:

I don't sound like this chick but I had to show some love cause she spits ridiculous!

What up Cole!

Just like a star in the sky

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

1 Timothy c. 4 v. 14 "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee."


Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Off Green

Peace and blessings to everyone. Blessings like "the end of pain" and "the beginning of happiness." And Peace like "Jesus on my mind all day long!" This blog is written with my forthcoming album, "Tu...
Posted by Aphropik on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:46:00 PST

Freedom

I like Myspace. I wish I had more time to be here. I know some of you are disappointed that this isn't a rhyme already. I hope you'll keep reading. If not, I do understand. I am after all an emcee. I ...
Posted by Aphropik on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:46:00 PST

Smoke

Let me clear my throat...ahem... before I choke on all of this...Smoke I watched Gunsmoke in the afternoons with my mama Cause preschool let out at noon My brothers and sisters would be home with the ...
Posted by Aphropik on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:41:00 PST

Venting Magic

Abracadabra and other magic words I write so fly like I'm a bird Its out-of-sight when I off other magic herbs You know the history that back in school I was a nerd Computer geek, rhyming at lunch is ...
Posted by Aphropik on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:17:00 PST