ipoet.laureate

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This is Sintax the Terrific of Illect Recordings. Rapper and original member of deepspace5. Among my many aliases are the ipoetlaureate, Samuel L. Rhythms, Huckleberry Spins, Tom Lawyer, Mark Slang, and Ludwig van Beatshoven. I’m also a licensed attorney. Current events and social justice have always been an important element of my music. The time delay that historically existed between when a song was written and recorded and when it could be published to the world, however, had the effect of quickly dating cultural and political commentary in an artist’s lyrics. Unlike a blog which can speak immediately to an event, the process of music production and distribution necessarily comes at the expense of timeliness. I saw this site as an opportunity to create running commentary set to music. Like, a news report in song. Or song blog. Roughly translated, “blong.” But, I’m not, nor have I any aspiration to be, a scoop journalist. My goal is to summarize in lyric important events of our time that might otherwise seem uncommon to musical composition. I certainly editorialize but I am philosophically adamant that there are almost always two reasonable sides to a story, which should at least be respected in tone. The songs are neither Billboard hits nor Ivy League analysis. But my legal and musical backgrounds position me to share a take that has a touch of art and substantive sophistication in the same moment. Think “Schoolhouse Rock” for hip hop heads or “Yo MTV raps” for

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