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EZRA (DRS Recordings)

I'm the tears in a mother's eyes when her son dies

About Me

EZRA (Extremely Zealous Rhyme Advocate) has been rapping and saying poems in public for over six years. Before that, he only did it in the bathroom, in front of the mirror, like in 8 Mile. He's that real. According to vitaMN magazine, EZRA also "wows with his terse but lilting and sexy staccato pattern of rhyme."



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A two-time Minneapolis Slam Team member, EZRA recently went to the semi-finals stage as part of the 2007 Soap Boxing Slam Team, the first ever National Poetry Slam Team from St. Paul.
EZRA is also half of the local Hip-Hop group Mess Crew, recently signed to Death Ray Scientific. Stay up on upcoming Slam and/or Mess Crew shows by visiting this page or soap-boxing.com
EZRA has also recently published a book of poetry, short stories and essays (mostly about films), available now, exclusively online at lulu.com. To preview and/or buy the book, go to lulu.com and search Ezra Stead, or simply copy and paste this URL into your browser:
http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?search_forum=-1&se arch_cat=2&show_results=topics&return_chars=200& search_keywords=&keys=&fSearch=ezra+stead&fSearc hFamily=0
Yo, watch me eat it in this battle:
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/3/2006
Band Website: deathrayscientific.com
Band Members: EZRA - lyrics, vocals and harmonica.
Various producers
Mess Crew: EZRA & Shelltoe - emcees; various producers.
Influences: Saul Williams; Public Enemy; Blackalicious; Jared Paul; Sol.Illaquists of Sound; Kool Keith; Frank Zappa; Doomtree; Eyedea; Heiruspecs; MC Paul Barman; Shane Hawley; Toussaint Morisson; Common; Talib Kweli; Mos Def; not to mention tons of movies and everything I've ever experienced.
Sounds Like: You tell me: [email protected]

Record Label: Death Ray Scientific
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

OLDER & STRONGER

if I was a stronger man maybe I could hold my breath longer than my patience hold myself in abeyance find faces of fans and hold their hands maybe I could hold change when change remains constantly ...
Posted by EZRA (DRS Recordings) on Fri, 09 May 2008 01:36:00 PST

THE WAY IT GOES

  her daddy raised her till that word became its homonym she should have a champion belt the way she fought with men keeps her outside pretty polished while she rots within smoke plenty trees bu...
Posted by EZRA (DRS Recordings) on Thu, 08 May 2008 03:34:00 PST

METAFOREPLAY

  I am & You are &   I am. You are.   I am a quill pen dipped in soul-black pitch. You are my notebook. I open you, and begin to inscribe your pages.   Fuck love  we make po...
Posted by EZRA (DRS Recordings) on Wed, 07 May 2008 11:17:00 PST

WAX

We spin stories like wax:   Cats walk like assault rifles in dark alleys and side streets, finessing the white lines into yellow brick roads, and we be like tin men with no hearts, forever har...
Posted by EZRA (DRS Recordings) on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:11:00 PST

HE-SLUT

  Wedding rings are the bane of my existence; my only defense is to ignore them.   They call me a player, but I ain't the one who wants to make rules; see, I think monogamy is a game, and ...
Posted by EZRA (DRS Recordings) on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:31:00 PST

WILD AT HEART

"Love Me Tender" is Sailor's favorite song, but he won't sing it to Lula; he says he'll only sing that song to his wife.   They are wild at heart, and their love is like a new gun: immaculate a...
Posted by EZRA (DRS Recordings) on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:15:00 PST

DRUM

My first roommate was a junkie. Probably still is, actually. He moved to his own drum, and it played punk-rock cut-time, fast and choppy. He used to scramble comically around the house hiding his shit...
Posted by EZRA (DRS Recordings) on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:11:00 PST

I WROTE A BOOK!

Greetings, people. Just posting this to let you know that I have self-published a book of poetry, short stories and essays (mostly about films), and it's available now, exclusively online at lulu.com....
Posted by EZRA (DRS Recordings) on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:51:00 PST

MY FAVORITE EMCEES

My good friend Mike Mlekoday sent me a list of his top 25 favorite emcees and asked me to send him the same, so this is what I gave him: Alright, so this is just my favorites, as I can't assume to say...
Posted by EZRA (DRS Recordings) on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:52:00 PST

WATER

I light my last cigarette with my last match and step into the rain    Tssssssss&.   Grey slate cuts through my white shirt, line by line, until it's soaked through, pink flesh glisten...
Posted by EZRA (DRS Recordings) on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:05:00 PST