Mic Crenshaw
Mic Crenshaw is an American recording artist, political activist, and educator. Currently living in Portland Oregon, Mic Crenshaw creates music and musical platforms that connect artists across political and geographic boundaries.
Biography[edit]
Mic Crenshaw was born on the South Side of Chicago in 1970.[1] He graduated high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he became a leading voice for social equity and racial justice. In 1992, he moved to Portland, Oregon to focus anti-racist activism into music and music education.[2] Currently he works for Portland Public Schools (Oregon) as a teaching artist and high school civics teacher, integrating African and African American history into arts-based curriculum for elementary, middle, and high school students.[citation needed]
Musical career[edit]
Mic Crenshaw is represented by Global Fam Entertainment.[3] He has recorded and produced over ten albums throughout a twenty- year career as a spoken word, hip hop and performing artist. Mic Crenshaw recorded and performed with Dead Prez and Immortal Technique, and in 1994 formed the Portland-based hip hop group Hungry Mob as its frontman.[3] Merging lyricism and live performance, he became a competitive slam poet and leading battle emcee in the Pacific Northwest. In 2001, Mic Crenshaw won the Portland Poetry Slam and finished as a national finalist. He has served as Station Co-Manager of KBOO Community Radio twice since 2015.[4]
Activism[edit]
In his teenage years, Crenshaw actively confronted white supremacist gangs in the hard-core music scene and was a founding member of Anti-Racist Action.[2] Mic co-founded GlobalFam a non-profit project to create and maintain a computer center for young people in Burundi. Mic also partnered with Education Without Borders (NGO), which supports education, music and art initiatives such as Books to Prisoners. Mic Crenshaw uses music to critique American law enforcement as a system that perpetuates brutality against black and brown people. He works with the Black Lives Matter movement and acts as the Political Director of Hip Hop Congress[5]
In 2004, Mic Crenshaw attended the Economic Justice and Youth Empowerment conference in Rwanda.[3] In 2013, Mic Crenshaw worked with a global group of hip hop artists to found Afrikan Hip Hop Caravan. The mission is to connect artists across Africa and the Diaspora through annual performance tours in Eastern and Southern Africa. During 2013–2015, the Caravan toured a live performance set in Cape Town, South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe; Arusha, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.[6] In 2014, Afrikan Hip Hop Caravan produced "Afrikan Hiphop Caravan Collaborations" with Soundz Of the South. Mic Crenshaw is the lead organizer of Afrikan Hip Hop Caravan in the United States.[3]
Discography[edit]
- Hungry Mob: Economics (1996)
- Hungry Mob: It Is What It Is (1997)
- Suckapunch: Pocket Change Philosophy (2005)
- Psychopath Society (2006)
- Hungry Mob: 3 Days of Darkness (2007)
- Cleveland Steamers: Treasure Chest (2007)
- Mic Crenshaw: Thinking Out Loud (2008)
- Under the Sun (2009)
- Bionic Metal (2013), EP
- Afrikan Hiphop Caravan Collaborations with Soundz of the South (2014)
- Superheroes (2015)
- Hope and Danger (2016)
- Earthbound (2018)
- Paradox (2018), featuring Rocker aka Micah Fletcher
References[edit]
- ↑ Zalokar, Suzanne. "Mic Crenshaw: Talking music, race and getting results, the Portland artist and activist doesn't mince words". Street Roots. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dineen, James. "Interviews Sessions From The Box: Mic Crenshaw Live from Fur Vault PDX". Vortex Magazine. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Zalokar, Suzanne. "Mic Crenshaw: Talking music, race and getting results, the Portland artist and activist doesn't mince words". Street Roots. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ↑ Singer, Matthew. "Q&A: Mic Crenshaw The Portland MC and new KBOO co-manager talks community radio and the war on hip-hop". Willamette Week. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ↑ MORLETTI McINTYRE, Christine. "On rap: how Mic Crenshaw gets on". Oregon Arts Watch. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ↑ Peet, Roger. "Afrikan Hip-Hop Caravan: Interview with Mic Crenshaw". Just Seeds. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
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