I’m excited to be a featured artist at Thursday Night Love, July 24th at Bronxlandia, 910 Hunts Point Ave. 

I’ll perform a 30 min set of songs from my latest release We Have Been Change a gut-check for Millennials at mid-life, and an invitation for intergenerational conversation about where we go from here.

With passionate vocals, Bori-Ritmo grooves, Bronx-Love, and lyrics that make you wanna listen close, I will offer Hiphop from the heart that respects your intelligence. I hope you get lifted, and we get to talk after the show.

The event runs from 6-10pm. I think my set will be sometime in the middle of that. Let me know if you might be going, and I’ll get back to you when I’ve got more details.

¡Yo soy de la Guagua!

Contigo,

Marcos

It's a cabaret style storytelling tour of three generations of family legends. It's a Bronx tour de la Guagua, powered by imagination and cariño. It's my first solo show in a decade. I will perform songs powered by Bori-Ritmo, bridging Hiphop and Gospel, plus original poetry and fiction, all about the Bronx.

Find yourself uptown. Meet me in the Bronx. 

Buy advance tickets to help us plan. Pay what you wish, plus fees, cheaper in advance.

Show at 7pm.

Come at 6pm for happy hour, stay after for more Bronx-versation.

Meet the venue BoogieDownGrind.com , BoogieDownGrind.com/menu

This project is supported by funding from NY State and the City of NY, through the Bronx Council on the Arts.

Happy 8/11!

Hip-hop heads revere the founders S. Bronx founders of our movement for “making something out of nothing”. It’s a poetic affirmation of the great barriers that our founders overcame. But literally, nothing comes from nothing. Life comes from life. Culture springs from cultures. Ubuntu: a person becomes a person among people.

            The site most celebrated as “Hiphop’s Birthplace” isn’t nothing; it’s affordable housing, with a rec room. Key resources for the midwifery of Hiphop included:

-Affordable housing, 1520 Sedgewick Ave built and maintained with public subsidies*, home to the Campbell family.

-Cultural space, a rec room, where Clive Campbell/DJ Kool Herc could DJ a party that his sister Cindy Campbell promoted.

            Hiphop isn’t something out of nothing. It’s something out of a rec’ room.

            Do you love Hip-Hop? A good birthday present for Hiphop this year and every year would be more affordable housing and accessible cultural spaces.

#BXology,#Hiphop

*1520 Sedgewick is a Mitchell-Lama building. It's called a “non-subsidy” program, but that's just incomplete accounting. Government policy supported resources for affordable housing are it's origin.