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If you're looking for music right now, click below to hear "Bumpin in My SUV."

Most of my music has themes relating to social justice. Artists have always served as the conscience of our societies, and I see too many heinous acts of wanton greed & domination causing too much suffering to accept the bribe of a comfortable first-world life and keep my mouth shut. And among the means we have at our disposal to share our perspective with our communities, art's among the most compelling: it transcends boundaries, speaks to the hearts -- rather than minds -- of our audiences, and stimulates the creative energy animating all people.

Get Outta Your Chair

My debut CD, Get Outta Your Chair, includes socially conscious and personally reflective rhymes over funk, house, R&B, traditional hip-hop and soul tracks from a variety of producers including Thunderball, Starpeople and Bomani "D-Mite" Armah.

Tracks currently posted include:

• The Baghdad Blues, a soldier's lament expressed through an anti-war blues song
• Bumpin in My SUV, a funk tune ridiculing American consumption, its effects throughout the world, and libertarian refusals to recognize economic externalities
• We Watch Reality, a rhyme over beat-box proposing that we each "turn off the TV"
• The Disease of Industrialization, one my global fusion electronic beats fused with a rhyme about environmental destruction and our generations' tragic moral failure to preserve the Earth for our successors