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Brother Earl “Mochas Story”

  • February 19, 2018
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Brother Earl “Mochas Story”

Bronx Rapper Brother Earl depicts the bold narrative “Mocha’s Story” which is an autobiographical account of his female friend who wanted him to do a song about her life. This song oozes with realness and showcases Brother Earl’s ability to tell stories as an emcee. One of the issues is that I feel the narrative reinforces some of the negative stereotypes of the African-American community which is common throughout Hip Hop but every rapper can’t be Common or Dead Prez, but at the same time Brother Earl does reinforce positive examples of love and acceptance. The song was recorded in Harlem and produced by Yondo. The song “Mocha’s Story” is one of the singles on the self titled album Brother Earl which is available for free on Datpiff.com, Soundcloud.com, and YouTube.

Brother Earl is a talented emcee that is underrated in an oversaturated rap scene and is insightful, has an undeniable talent with creating crispy visuals with wordplay, rhymes skills and content discussing some of the difficult themes that do exist in the black community. This song in comparison is the contemporary “Black Girl Lost” but at the same time I feel it promotes Thot culture. As an emcee vocally though he reminds me of being in the vein of Beanie Sigel pre lung removal more than any of his New York predecessors or contemporaries.

Strangely I couldn’t find much information about Brother Earl except for his music and album art which shows a man with a 70s type afro in clouds. Nonetheless if I can catch up with the mysterious Bronx Rapper I would love to interview him on my youtube channel. Check out his music and let me know if you agree with the review and if you would like for me to interview him in the comments!!

https://soundcloud.com/edotpage/mochas-story

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Chris Ryan

Chris Ryan is an accomplished promoter, event planner, producer, activist, counselor, poet and blogger. Within the course of two and a half years Chris Ryan has worked with some of NYC's most established promoters/event planners, been named 2007′s GaySocialite of the year, granted a promoter of the year award from NYC's most famous gay establishment, Splash. He's worked in some of NYC's top venues including; Avalon, Capitale, Cipriani, Cielo, Pacha, Element, Le Poisson Rouge, XL, G Lounge, Plumm, Hilton Hotel, Indigo Hotel, Spirit, Myst/Quo, Splash, The Ritz, Vlada, Roseland Ballroom, Heaven, etc. In 2008, Chris Ryan has begun to unveil some of the most innovative & unique parties New York City has ever seen. The Fusion events "fuse" together all disciplines of art into an event that remains diverse yet cohesive at the same time. ChrisRyanNYC.com won best gay promotions website from NYC Event Patrons in 2008 & he was granted an award from the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, Gov. Patterson & Michelle Clunie (QAF) saluting him for his hard work in nightlife. Chris Ryan has also begun working with many renown companies, including; doctors, lawyers, physicians, modeling agencies & more. Chris Ryan has been responsible for wide-scale promotions for all these companies & generating tremendous business. Chris Ryan has even started to become National with events taking place in LA & Miami this year. In May of 2009 Chris Ryan received the very prestigious honor of being named a "40 Under 40″ Gays in America by the Advocate Magazine. He also created three successful parties that generated over 1,500 patrons each. In January of 2010 Chris Ryan was featured as one of the top promoters to look out for in Noize Magazine Chris Ryan joined forces with legendary promoter/event producer, Lee Chappell and created one of the most talked about events of all 2010, Desire @ Capitale. Chris Ryan and Lee featured one of the most outstanding artists NYC has ever seen, "Oh Land." Her performance coupled with an exquisite and unforgettable set design added to this extravagant event that held over 1,000 patrons in one of NYC's most successful PRIDE events! Chris Ryan then joined forces with legendary Pacha promoter, Rob Fernandez in addition to Jake Resnicow and Tommy Marinelli to bring one of the largest and most successful parties worldwide to NYC, MATINEE. The event on Governor's Island saw over 2,000+ attendees and one of the most ambitious productions ever. In 2011 Chris Ryan started Emerge Music Promotions with business partner Darren Melchiorre. Emerge Music promotions began signing artists with plans to develop and market the artists to the community at large. Emerge Music promotions has big events planned for 2012 and 2013. Chris Ryan debuted the IMAGE events which took place on top of two of NYC's most beautiful rooftop venues, Rare View and Indigo Hotel. The events were blogged everywhere and featured the fashion designs of several clothing designers, artists and photographers. Chris Ryan felt that fashion and art should be displayed at every event and attracted the likes of Malan Breton, Calvin Klein and even Katy Perry. Chris Ryan began an extremely successful event which incorporated the concept of a house party into a nightclub atmosphere. The event Twist'D at G Lounge has been one of the most talked about events in NYC and allows it's audience to play nearly-naked Twister, beer pong, flip cup & more with other attendees. Chris Ryan was granted an excellence in volunteering award from AVP (Anti-Violence Project) for all his efforts in supporting the organization. 2013 has a very promising landscape on the horizon and Chris Ryan is complacent in saying "you haven't seen anything yet!"

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