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Wednesday October 1 2014
 8:30PM doors -- music at 9:00PM ••• ALL AGES
$25
Rhymesayers Entertainment presents...

Home Away From Home Tour
 featuring...
Brother Ali
brotherali.com/
 Hip Hop
 with...
Bambu
www.bambu.la/
 and
DJ LAST WORD
www.facebook.com/last.word.56
 Hosted by...
MaLLy
www.facebook.com/MaLLyMPLS

Brother Ali
-Ali Newman, better known by his stage name Brother Ali, is an American hip hop recording artist signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment.
-Fully recharged and inspired by his eye-opening first trip to Mecca, the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East, and the world wide Occupy movements, Brother Ali is prepared to unveil his fourth full-length offering Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color. Created during a self-imposed two-month exile in Seattle and helmed by platinum-selling producer Jake One (50 Cent, T.I., Wiz Khalifa), the album presents a scathing yet honest critique of America and its many flaws while simultaneously presenting a hopeful outlook of its possibilities. Preceded by the release of free music downloads with accompanying music videos such as “Shine On," "Writer’s Block,” and “Not A Day Goes By," Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color is the pièce de résistance.

In an age of hip-hop where the paradigm of swag over substance reigns supreme, few emcees are willing to use their platform to tackle the hot-button topics and pressing social maladies of our time - but it’s apparent that Minneapolis-based hip-hop artist Brother Ali is one of those few. Over the course of 14 tracks with assists from esteemed author/ professor Dr. Cornel West, revered Southern hip-hop icon Bun B, and Def Poetry Jam poet Amir Sulaiman, the album brazenly holds a mirror to the idiosyncrasies of American life while simultaneously painting a vibrant portrait of its wondrous potential. Actualizing hip-hop’s full range of motion as a gage for the times, Mourning In America and Dreaming In Color asserts itself as the definitive soundtrack of a disenchanted, disenfranchised, and wildly optimistic citizenry during a landmark period in American history. In a moment of artistic preemptive strike, Brother Ali recognized this prime opportunity to examine and address the underpinnings of the burgeoning stance of mass opposition 



Bambu
-from Los Angeles
-Bambu is a father, MC and community organizer. Raised in Los Angeles, as a young boy he experienced a life that other rappers have glorified, but rarely experienced. As he navigated through a turbulent youth, Bambu turned around the destructive energy that surrounded him and poured it into making music. Bambu has been lauded by his fans and contemporaries for his lyrical storytelling abilities. Whether fictional or autobiographical, his vividly-detailed narratives are characterized by an honesty that is equal parts brutal, thought-provoking and liberating. Bambu music is not for mere performance – he utilizes his music as a tool for a larger goal – to reach and support youth who face similar issues that he did, and move them to question what goes on in the world. Bambu has reached audiences across the country and internationally with his explosive and engaging live performance. Being paired on concert billings with such acts as Immortal Technique, Blue Scholars, Zion I, Psycho Realm, dead prez, Evidence, Atmosphere and Brother Ali, to name a few, has afforded Bambu the opportunity to garner fans from varying demographics. With a catalog of music stretching the span of ten-years, the Los Angeles emcee has allowed his fans to witness the growth of a gracefully honest artist, who truly embodies the sentiment of the people.   


DJ LAST WORD
-Mally's live DJ, and producer
- DJ LAST WORD may not be a household name, but he’s earned respect for his work producing and live mixing for local rappers like Dialogue Elevators, Ernie Rhodes, and more. He's been spinning since 2000, getting his start at former Dinkytown sandwich shop/music venue Bon Appetit.  


MaLLY
-South Minneapolis native Malik Watkins, 24, said he felt out of place growing up as one of the few black students at Minnehaha Academy, and one of the few straight-A students from his neighborhood. “I got it from both sides, black and white,” he remembers. While attending the University of St. Thomas, he dove into rapping alongside his other studies. “I just felt like I had something to say,” he said.
- Showing traces of Nas and early Jay-Z, MaLLy came to light with the ambitious, guts-spilling 2009 album “The Passion.” But it failed to drum up the attention he is now getting with his Fifteenth of the Month series. The free monthly downloads include the steam-blowing party track “Lights Off” and last month’s grittier “7 Days,” which were all sparked with new beatmaking partner the Sundance Kid (Jonathan Cliby, truly a kid at 21). “We didn’t really even know each other at first, but it was like we had an unwritten understanding of each other,” MaLLy said. “It happened so fast, I was like, 'Let’s just issue a song every month. Let’s not wait.’”