The Miseducation of Central State University

My name is Tim Gmeiner. Those of you who read my blog know me as “Ill Poetic”, a Hip-Hop artist based out of Cincinnati & Columbus, Ohio. Over the past 4 years, I’ve had the amazing opportunity to pursue my artistry as a full-time career; touring and performing everywhere from Skate Parks in Germany to Community Centers in Cincinnati. One of the greatest gifts this winding career path has given me is the prospect of meeting so many people from so many different walks of life, all tied together through our common experiences and love for Hip-Hop Music and the culture surrounding it. From scene to scene and city to city, we become families of different races, genders, creeds, and sexual preferences. We’ve become a generation of kids who’ve peeled away our forefathers’ ugliest stereotypes without even realizing we were doing so. We are a culture with a wide range of values, beliefs, and life experiences, capable of exhibiting artists with messages from all ends of the spectrum; those positive, as well as those with the negative. Yet and still, a recent experience with Central State Universities Administrative faculty has shown that 25 years later, Hip-Hop as a genre, culture and community still finds itself defending its music and lifestyle to a population of people who group millions of complex, creative and intelligent people into a single negative image of the likes that Mainstream television and radio outlets project hip-hop to be.

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L.e For The Uncool “The Measure” (Free Download)

Been waiting on this record since Anti-Parachute Theory dropped last year. Worth the Wait

Here is The Measure

If you aren’t familiar with L.E, you can visit his site MilknSyrup.com

Fresh Voice (double entendre).

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Citybeat Column: The Hip-Hop (Un)Scene #9 “We Don’t Believe You, You Need More People”

Click Here for the Full Article

PS Comin’ back home May 13th.
Details TBA

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Copyright Criminals Trailer (PBS)

PBS Jan. 24th…Definitely going to be an interesting documentary.

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