Many, many years ago, Jay Money aka PoSafe Beats, and I started working on Poetry In Motion. This was the follow up to our first CD together as The Rhyme Commission. At that time I was always working on something. Actually, I was usually working on two projects at a time. Money and I had completed the recordings for Conversations around the same time we released Cerebral Poetry. (Our first album) That album was finished in 2002. So Poetry In Motion was being worked on at the same time as Beats 2 The Rhymes. Then everything went completely nuts when married the WRONG woman.
After I got my divorce I made it my mission to complete all the projects I had left unfinished. A lot of people helped create Beats 2 The Rhymes. That's why it had to be finished first. Next after that for me was Conversations, and then NRS which was another whole project with my brother. That only project left was Poetry in Motion. This was different then all the others in that we never finished putting enough songs together to complete the album. We only recorded a few songs for the album. I had done a handful of other songs over the last few years but many were more to deal with my stress and frusterations over that time. They weren't really intended for Poetry In Motion or any other project.
As life does mine has changed once again. I am a father to a wonderful eight month old daughter and stepdad to a wonderful 14-year old high school girl. Between work and trying to be here for my girls there's not much time to devote to music. My wonderful Gail has been great about encouraging me to take a night every now and then to go to Jay Money's lab, The Library, and work on the final songs for Poetry In Motion. We're almost there. We've recorded three new songs so far and I have three more concepts that I beleive will put the perfect finishing touches on this album.
When I first thought of the title for this album I just thought hey. That's the perfect description of what rap is. It's just poetry moving over a beat. Like a musical timeline. Poetry In Motion. It's funny how things work though. Now the album is like the motion of the poetry in my life. Some of these songs were written before I was married, during marriage, after the divorce, and now when I've found the right woman and had my amazing daughters.
Now that's.....Poetry in Motion
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