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The Dash
Willie Colon
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August 4th |
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Music is my
essence. As a kid I used to listen to old 45’s with my
pops, everything from Marvin Gaye to Oscar de Leon. It’s
only natural that I mixed my love for music and a love
for my people to create my own brand of hip-hop.
Politics and the collective community consciousness have
always been of utmost importance to me.
I’ve always been the go to guy for hip-hop. In high
school, I staged battles at lunch time with special
permission from the security guards and principal. I was
the only one with Tony Touch’s 50 MC’s mixtape so I
hooked everyone up. I remember I got my hands on Nas’ “I
Am” 2 months before it dropped and hooked my whole
school up. I always wanted to be that dude. I’m the cat
who will argue hip-hop all day everyday with anyone who
will listen. I started DJing at 13 and began writing
lyrics casually later throughout high school.
In college I hosted my own hip-hop radio show for a few
years and kept DJing as well. The college I went to
taught me a lot because of the disproportionate racial
demographics at the school and the inequality in the
surrounding community. I love the time I spent at
Salisbury University because it showed me the real
United States . As I began to learn more about politics,
history and modern day problems that plague our
community like poverty, mis-education and racism, I
began to really come full circle with my lyrics and
music. I started performing, battling and speaking out
more and more. By the time I graduated I had performed
up and down Maryland ’s Eastern Shore , DC , Pittsburgh
and Florida . I’ve collaborated with Cypher Street
Music, Tribes of Africa (my Nigerian soldiers!) my own
Spic Spit Movement (Latinos Stand Up!), Dash down in
Florida and countless mixtape djs. I’m down to move with
people who are “down for a cause, not just because”.
I try to combine lyricism with pertinent issues that
everyone can understand. You can sum up my music by one
of my quotes from “Geek Down” (Welcome to the Revolution
Vol.1): “People don’t listen to the message if the music
is wack”. I truly believe that and so I’m going to
continue to keep elevating the music, crushing all that
ignorant minstrel show, snap music nonsense. In 2006 I
dropped “Welcome to the Revolution Vol. 1” and followed
that up in 2007 with “RE:Evolution”. “Resurrecting the
Champ” EP is scheduled for early 2008.
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