Poet of the Angels opened the stage at The Brew with lively performances by talented Hip Hop artists and poets during The Motley Arts Movement on Saturday, September 15, 2012.

The Motley Arts Movement is a blend of music and poetry, an awakening fuel within the threads, eclipsing the spirit, renewing the mind and moving the heart to visualize purpose. Motley Arts Movement’s events and spotlight on artists can be found here.

Poet of the Angels

Poet of the Angels enlightened the audience with original poems, Spiritual Messenger, The Color of Death, Lifting the Curse, The Mustard Seed and Inner Peace. Tisha Emberton, who is also known as Poet of the Angels can be found on Facebook.

BUNKS

Joshua Smotherman, who is known as J.Smo and also the co-founder of Middle Tennessee Music, brought a blend of spoken word poetry based on music from his hip hop group BUNKS.

BUNKS is an acronym as well as a philosophy: Bringing Unmatched Noise Knowledge and Sound. Smo performed The Message, Generica, Addicted, Gladiators, Coffee Flavored Memories and Ridin Thru Tennessee.

Audience participants were nodding while chanting, “YEAH!” Smo fueled the audience and left them wanting more as he paved the way for the following acts.

Jurassik

Hip Hop artists, Jurassik and Peezy made their mark on the stage at The Brew performing songs, What You Waiting For, My Life, Forgive Me and Aftermath from Jurassik’s upcoming album, Never Surrender, which is due out around January 2013.

Peezy said about Self Made Music’s mission statement – “Our music is motivational. We want people’s lives to be touched in a way they can relate to and maybe help you through a struggle you’re going through.”

Jurassik’s song, World War 3 should be dropping around October 15, 2012. Jurassik belongs to Self Made Music, which also consists of artists, Peezy, Petro, Lo, Kokayne and Producer Yung Los.

Jurassik (Sean Lackey), who is native to Coffee County, met the CEO of Self Made Music, Petro, through another Rap artist, Big Vinnie. Jurassik’s music can be heard on ReverbNation. You can check out our interview with Jurassik, Peezy and Producer Yung Los of Self Made Music below:

121

Christian Rap artists, 121 brought a positive message. 121 gets their name from a KJV biblical scripture, Romans 12:1 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service“.

121 consists of Youth Pastor, John Templeton and 18-year-old, Dillon Blake Rowland from McMinnville, TN. John Templeton wants everyone to know that God doesn’t make mistakes and that everyone has a purpose. Most notable songs 121 performed were Dead Man Walking, Take It Away and Step Off Me. You can listen to 121 on Myspace.

Jakeata Conyers

Poetess Jakeata Conyers from Nashville, TN, warmed the stage at The Brew with her presence of poetic flow. Beautiful Jakeata influences imagery of light within the poetic art of her voice with original poems, Inspire, Social Butterfly, Play Ya Cards Right and Battles. Jakeata has also performed at Musictree: A Festival of The Arts and Dee Jay Magnetic’s Sound Therapy. You can find her on Facebook.

Below is a video of her performance of poem, Dream Girl:

Aubrey the Poet

Aubrey The Poet headlined the event. Aubrey Simpson, also known as Aubrey The Poet from Nashville, Tennessee, brought static to the stage as the crowd was shocked and charmed by his spoken word poetry and philosophy.

As Poet of the Angels welcomed Aubrey The Poet to the stage, he sat in his seat and then stood up on the table and said,

“I will stand and deliver this poem from my seat because when these histrionic willows weep, their tears will flood this room. Believe me; the shit gets deep. Drowning in history’s sorrows. Forget the promises of our ancestors’ tomorrows”,

These words are the opening message of his poem, Prophetic Gestation.

As he continued the poem, the stage opened a gate of philosophy and poetic flow. Aubrey The Poet said this is what he is born to do – to travel and spread the message behind his philosophy and poetry.

He related to the audience commentary between poems as he introduced each original piece performed, including: Prophetic Gestation, Flesruoy evol (Love Yourself in reverse), Like a Simile, Aubany (about his daughter), Stop Running (about his Stepfather) and closed with his poetic masterpiece, Die Out Loud (about the death of Treyvon Martin).

A performance of Aubrey’s poem, Prophetic Gestation, can be viewed below:

Aubrey has been featured on Middle Tennessee Music before. Here is that article.

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