TG Music - RHYMELANGUAGE (project submission)

Like fast rhymes? Well there is TG Music for that.

This midwest connect is back again with a layered project called RHYMELANGUAGE.

It’s a mix of experimental production, a soul sample, some fast bars, and a lot of mental twist.Is this word play. Mind f*ckin, and poetry? Maybe.

Our favorite track has to be “Dippin’ Around” with the fire sample and the line that made us go “damn”: 

“Yea I really hate your guts but that has never got me in it.”

& on that note, we are out!

/CW

Listen to Rhymelanguage on Spotify. TG Music · Album · 2021 · 9 songs.

Dear Heart | Poem by Geronimo Ronin @blackyojimbo84

Dear Heart

 Dear Heart,

  Where do I even begin?

I pray for courage as I purge these thoughts,

And as I peer from within,

There’s much to address,

And if this chapter must close,

There are some things I have to say out loud,

Some truths that you must know. 

  Dear Heart,

  I was wrong! How many wrongs can I right?

How many days can I fight longing and wanting?

Missing your embrace your touch and laugh,

But they seem like echoing apparitions haunting my senses,

I stand looking at the desolation from the aftermath,

Of false statements and half-truths,

That took something so pure and made it mephitic,

ACIDIC,

I can’t stand looking at myself sometimes,

Trying to extend myself grace 

It’s my only chance at redemption,

And your contempt is warranted,

And my loneliness: a just sentence. 

Dear Heart,

 The say love is a battlefield,

I thought I was battle tested,

And I understood that time, and honesty, and care was all you requested,

I heard once that all is fair in love and war,

But no one expects to be hit with friendly fire,

I should’ve watched my aim,

I should’ve used safety with a loaded gun,

Instead of leaving you wounded,

In shock because of whom the shot came from

Dear Heart,

  I was cavalier and callous at times,

Biding my time as if the only affected was mines,

But broken clocks don’t keep track of time wasted,

Or time lost, or time unaccounted for,

Where time and time again all you asked was that when it came to other lovers,

NEVER! NO MORE. 

And for my recklessness and carelessness for my past crimes,

I have hurt a heart because I hurt hearts,

I didn’t know that last time would be the LAST TIME.

  Dear Heart,

  I can’t ask you to forgive me,

You’re erasing me to forget me,

Soon I’ll just be an unwanted memory,

A reminder of again why love isn’t hard,

But the people who fail to recognize and respect its purity,

A man of many words but failed to be a man of my word,

How absurd!

I stare at pictures of you and me and the gut-wrenching feeling….

Dear Heart, I’m so disturbed

  Dear Heart,

  This is goodbye forever, Adios!

I’ve lost many in my lifetime, but I’ll miss you the most,

Te’amo mi Corazon. I hope if you’ve moved on,

That they cherish your thoughtfulness and humor,

They learn to breathe love into you, 

And get it right where I got it wrong. 

I sit here listening to playlists you curated,

Listening to every song as a reminder of when you loved me,

Thinking had I taken the time to really study your language,

I would have known how to love you more fluently. 

No one is perfect I made my mistakes,

But how can I expect you to wait until I get it right?

My failure to move fast enough became my own personal slight.

Now I’m dead to you! Just a ghost! 

A mere remnant. 

Now you’re mere miles away yet the journey seems so distant.

So Dear Heart, please know I get it now. 

I know there’s nothing else I can do,

But press my hand on my dear heart, wondering who’s loving you.

/Geronimo Ronin @blackyojimbo84

HealthyMKE.com Website Upgraded to Better Serve Vaccine Seekers in Advance of April 5 Eligibility Expansion

*Info Provided by INPOWER

HealthyMKE.com Website Upgraded to Better Serve

Vaccine Seekers in Advance of April 5 Eligibility Expansion

Milwaukee’s trusted online resource for vaccine information now features an enhanced COVID vaccine locator to connect the community with appointments across Milwaukee County

Milwaukee, WI – HealthyMKE, a one-stop source of trusted information on COVID vaccines and other health resources, has been upgraded in advance of next week’s significant expansion of statewide vaccine eligibility with the addition of a robust vaccine locator feature to help connect the Milwaukee community with vaccinators, community events and walk-in clinics in neighborhoods throughout Milwaukee county.

“HealthyMKE provides real-time updates from Milwaukee vaccinators on locations and community events in Milwaukee county,” said Greg Stadter, the UEOC’s Vaccine Navigation workgroup chair. “It is a critical component of our efforts to improve access to vaccines and advance health equity.”

The site launched initially in December through a partnership with the Milwaukee Unified Emergency Operations Center (UEOC) and is developed and maintained by INPOWER, a local Black- and woman-owned communications agency located in the 53206 ZIP code. The site offers a variety of trusted information on the vaccines, including Frequently Asked Questions, infographics and links to important resources from local, state and federal agencies, and is fully accessible in both Spanish and Hmong as well as English. 

“Our intent is for HealthyMKE to serve as the first step for members of our community as they formulate their vaccine plan,” said Aziz Abdullah, co-founder of INPOWER and part of the site’s development team. “Particularly now, with our entire adult population days from vaccine eligibility, it’s essential that we offer easy-to-use resources for those who are eager to get vaccinated, and those looking for more information.”

When using the vaccine locator tool, site visitors will be able to explore the wide variety of potential vaccination options geographically closest to them, including clinics run by the City, County, local health departments, health care providers, pharmacies and others. Each vaccinator listing includes details on eligibility, whether or not appointments are required, and links for online scheduling if applicable. While primarily geared towards those who live or work in Milwaukee County, many of the site’s resources are applicable to anyone in Wisconsin, including links to other vaccine finder services like Wisconsin DHS’s statewide vaccine provider map and the CDC-backed national Vaccine Finder tool.

For individuals who can’t or prefer not to access HealthyMKE’s vaccine location information online, assistance in finding vaccine locations in Milwaukee County is also available via phone at 844-684-1064.

HealthyMKE is supported with funding and resources from Milwaukee Health Care Partnership, Medical College of Wisconsin, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, United Healthcare Community Plan of Wisconsin and the Alliance of Health Insurers.

Established in March 2020, the UEOC facilitates efforts among local government, fire, EMS, law enforcement, public health, health care, academia, the business community and others to coordinate and elevate a unified multi-sector public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing affected vulnerable populations.

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For more information, contact:                                                                        

Mark Rosenberg – 2-Story Creative

mark@2-story.com 612-269-7902                                                                                                           

Aziz Abdullah – INPOWER                                                                                    

aziz@tryinpower.com 414-975-8774

Evisu Mane - Minding my Business (video submission)

See the problem is y’all nosy!

[I said what I said]

Evisu Mane, has a cure for all the extra curiosity with his video “Minding my Business”. The track is a nice little bop, accompanied by playful banter reminding you that those of us focused on our own bag don’t have time to be consumed with what other people are doing.

[Accept for you bitters. We see you peeking. Go ahead and put them in check for us Evisu.] 

This is the type of track that may lift a heavy spirit and switch way over to a hustle and grind aura. Go ahead and mind y’all business after giving this a few plays.

/CW

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Enough of a Woman | Poem by Lexi S. Brunson [Editor-in-Chief]

Enough of a Woman

I have been balancing without footing since the day I was created.

Chiseled from both flesh & dreams.

Perched on ideas that do not suit my fancy but instead interrogated my ability.

A cry for help

An internal struggle for redemption

in a place

no reparations shall be given.

[the strong woman's complex]

I will not snark at my uprising

of an upbringing.

For I was forged from something fierce.

Feminism at its own demise and womanizing at its most vulnerable. 

They thought I'd be the best of my bread.

I was loved from tip to toe.

I knew lust before it kissed me.

Pleasure

before it slid into my deepest depths. 

Heartbreak before it had a name. 

It was enough.

In the midst of it all I had been chosen to carry the burden to bare life.

So I would find grief in my induction into the club of red-rush between my legs.

A monthly celebration of my ripeness, that would follow with grief of misogyny.

I was upset that my gender was political. 

A statement of sexualization that I could not fight without wounds.

I could no longer be ANYTHING

I wanted to be.

[they call me woman]

I had hips, thighs, breast and an aura trained in swift battles of gender equity, pimpin, stubbornness, manipulation, and survival.

I was a dormant weapon in a fight I didn't know existed.

She was enough.

In time I was deemed ruthless. 

A temptress untouchable. 

A prize to be won, a purity to be kept.

The thought of wearing white to my matrimonial casket was torture.

I had to be dominant or be stepped on.

I navigated space with only the memory as guidance.

I had to hold my head high as if losing my paternal link had not broken me.

I had to hold my shoulders square like not having my brother's bond did not mar me.

[this is vulnerability]

I tried to find my way into the den of a wolf pack, because the testosterone smelled like comfort.

Here I would find a truth that was never meant for my eyes.

I was privy to information

that changed me

I was now loaded with arsenal that could never leave me blind

I could not unsee our curse

That behind closed doors their allegiance was never loyal

For every keeper

there were 3 throw away(s). 

For every forever

there were several for now(s).

I didn’t want to be loyal to a lie.

I didn't want to feel the pain of giving up tomorrow.

But I never betrayed the barriers

of their truth.

Until it I was sliced

by a double edged sword.

I had never been enough.

I had been cast aside

for and by my gender.

To perfect was my dismissal.

Intimidation was the poison.

I became unsuspecting wing man 

of fairy tales we publicly call goals

& privately envy.

[thus ignorance is bliss]

Ruined by options, I became an option.

A piece of a picture that had no frame.

A disregard of reality 

A word left unsaid

A speech tongueless

A happy home covered in happy homes, by way of a duck off's and funk off's.

Not a woman's woman. 

So my sisterhood would be stricken off the record.

Not a guy's girl.

So there is no ledger of platonic woe’s. 

Somewhere suspended between big cahonas & an intimidating cunt.

I suffered.

But that was not enough.

I would never bare title

So I made my own.

I would never hold rank. 

So they curse me as a martyr.

I spit back a five star general.

I bleed. Bucked. But would never fold.

It became the ego balance,

nature versus nurture.

A fight for the glory.

But my war had been started

in the womb of some other women,

in the sacrifice of some girls dreams,

in the blitz of some man's play.

Still I stand idol

Abusing my lineage

Willing to sign a peace treaty for the next woman's altar.

So she may never have to 

spill her own blood.

And yet still there leaves the question…

Is there ever enough of a WOMAN?

Lexi for /CW

Speak On It! REDESIGN OUR CITY!

Our Editor-in-Chief, Lexi S. Brunson, will be presenting her knowledge on authentic creative community development and more!

Register to attend Here!

Celebrate April 2021 National Poetry Month w/ CopyWrite Magazine

All month long CopyWrite Magazine will be dropping lines from some of our favorite poets, giving you a taste of CW poetry nostalgia, fun facts about our poetry roots, and more!

Have a poem you would like to share?

Submit your poetry to copywrite.mke@gmail.com

Meet us for a new era of the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts! Sunday, March 28th!

Diversity and inclusion are buzz words right now. But we know an organization that is actively trying to engage by way of inclusivity with the creative community in a real way. Come [virtually] to learn about the new Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts and how it may serve you!

Watch on facebook live!

#WeSeeYou JMarie offers new book "Street Code" on Amazon

If you know contemporary MKE [Black] music and media history then you have heard or seen the work of JMarie. With much respect, her skin in the game has lead her ambitions in many directions including her latest in Urban Novel authorship with "Street Code".

With Women’s history month still underway it is only right we give some flowers out while they can be appreciated.

Here are your flowers JMarie. #WeSeeYou and we thank you!

Check out her new book “Street Code” here.

/CW

This Weekend!!! Indoor ArtWalk