U Street Hip-Hop Roots: 2000 to 2020
Unearthing some formative DC music from the year 2000. Just in time for the last Bandcamp Friday of 2020.
Tag: poem-cees
Video: I Remember U – A Live Mixtape Experience
This is how we used to get down on U Street before gentrification.
Old dudes who still rap better than you
Coming out of semi-retirement to dust off the old turntables and mics. Getting back in the saddle again has been like a heist film, except no one is going to die. Also, cop the album.
2011 Rap-Up
No, Skillz isn’t doing one this year. And I’m not writing a long treatise about the hippity-hop. This 2010 Pitchfork piece still has that covered. These are just the last couple of things I wrote…
That lost POEM-CEES album
Despite the fact that this record was held in limbo indefinitely, folks still check for us old guys who do the rappity-rap stuff. In gratitude for that, this is the album that you always knew…
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Hey look! A new POEM-CEES song!
I still do the rappity-rap music with those other two guys. I forgive you if maybe you forgot. Some young fans actually took to a sort of bizarre hunger strike where they attempted to live…
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On its way to mastering
Godisheus & Poem-Cees, Fri. 3/13
GODISHEUS w/ Poem-Cees Friday March 13 Asylum 2471 18th St NW Washington, DC Cost: FREE! Forgot about us? A refresher’s in order. I’m with these guys: We’ll be guests of these guys:
Revenge of The Cat-Headed Baby
Even as we continue the slog to finish the album, one of us managed to find another outlet for his considerable talents. And since the cast also includes the inimitable Twain Dooley, I highly recommend…
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Almost ready…
It’s been a long time and the ritual is well established. POEM-CEES records are birthed primarily during bleary eyed night-shift sessions. Leave work, hit studio, go back to work, manage the delirium. It’s coming up…
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