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Ode to the MC by Dante Basco
Recently I watched the film, “Beats, Rhymes & Life,” it’s the documentary directed by Michael Rappaport about the one of my favorite bands of all time, A Tribe Called Quest. I just needed to write about the flick because I enjoyed it so much and I definitely wanted to help get the word out about the film. I went to see it with my girl and we both graduated in 1993, so this group was of the bands that definitely make up that sound track of our lives. Revisiting this band and seeing their travels was like going back in…

Added: August 17, 2011

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Hip Hop Dancer/Krunk Fu Battle Battle
Here’s a poem I wrote to honor my dancing days… I started out as a dancer and I’ll always be a dancer in my heart. Since the 80′s, me and my brothers and sister have been dancing. First as breakdancers in contests and on  the streets of San Francisco. Later at the San Francisco Ballet Company, then ultimately we moved to Los Angeles and we all got into acting and it would seem that we moved on from dance. But for anyone who was around the LA club scene in the last 20 years, you probably seen me getting…

Added: June 15, 2011

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