It's a few hours after I finally got back to reading my poetry at an open mic and it felt really good. I've been needing that release for a long long time.
One of the spokesmen, who's about 20 years old, said that he called his event the Urbane Culture Lounge because it was the more sophistocated lyrics than hip-hop uses. Which I disagree a little with, but I think he's got the bigger contemporary picture. Of course, hip-hop started out very urbane and pop culture ravished it. But there's still that undercurrent, the grassroots that desire to keep their lyrics profound.
Anyway, I've been trying to get over my fear of singing in front of others. Singing has been a passion of mine for a while. I've been singing since I was a young girl, since my sister started singing in her high school thespian society and I wanted to be able to sing better than her. So, now I'm trying to sing in front of as many people as possible to get as much practice as possible and to get over my nervousness. And all this has been going on in the past few days.
Next time I go to the UCL, I hope I can feel comfortable enough to sing in front of that really cool crowd. The people there were really awsome, talented, and supportive. I'm really looking forward to going back there.
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L.O.T. - I see what you say bout such a definition of Hip hop as it exists relative to poetry or spoken word. Here exists both the trouble and the beauty of language - terms can get so small when trying to speak of music (and all else of course). Genre subgenre downlowsuperdooper subgenres - In this wonderfully anoying run on sentence (magical mis-spellings and all) I am only meaning to say: What a treat!! (ooo I so dislike exclamation points)
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