Coaching

‘Move till you can’t breath, finish what you start. Movement in motion, give it your heart. Challenges start, break apart with your art, star that you are.’ - ‘Push’, Electric Cinnamon, spiritchild & Creative Maze

spiritchild offers personal coaching to musicians, bands, performers and artists who want to hone their artistic expression and identity and are looking for guidance along their creative journey. Personal coaching can range from fine tuning your craft, receiving constructive feedback…

The art of sound selecting

‘Keep the blood pumping. Hit them with something. Give the club substance.’ 

-  ‘She be freedom’, Eclipse of Hope, spiritchild

Technology and computerization make us dj’s/soul selectors a dying breed and spaces to exchange frustrations and joys, techniques and stories limited. No Pandora, Spotify or iPod playlist can tap into the emotions of people like another human being can. A dj displays the craft of human contact and interaction, motivates the movement and presence of the…

The art of words – sound – power 

‘I could write till the ink stops to flow from my pen and still write within the memories of our being.’ - ‘Repatriation’, Eclipse of Hope, spiritchild

Creating a song is about embracing the opportunity to say something that has never been said before, both lyrically and musically. As songwriters we need to ask the song what story it wants to tell by eliminating the distraction, which is the human brain, from the equation. Songwriting is about channeling the…

The art of nurturing your creativity and sustainability

‘Resist, organize, rebel, feel the fire, react, prepare to ride, retell, write them rhymes.’ 

-  ‘We acid’, Electric Cinnamon, spiritchild & Creatize Maze

We wait for the moment of recognition by the industry. An industry that when we become part of it, labels us, limits us, puts us in a box, while we lose touch with the people. Don’t wait for the industry to give you permission to do what you love. Don’t wait for a stage, create the stage. Be…

Know your roots, Know your rights

‘I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be, as if our peoples history started with slavery.’ 

– ‘Leaving the past’, Revolutionary Vol.2, Immoral Technique

Policing in the streets, metal detectors, check points, being seen as commodities, from schools to prisons, it is not the way we are genetically prone to be.We didn’t always live this way. Indigenous people didn’t live this way. We exhibited more healing practices and were intergenerationally integrated by…

The criminalization and oppression of our youth

‘I is your I. When you fight, I fight, you die, I die. I is your I, when you live to live, live to live. Rise.’ 

- ‘I is your I (Assata)’, Through Sips of Love & Hallucinations, Mental Notes

Textbooks and lectures only go so far, especially when we are talking about social change. To make social change happen we need to be connected to our communities, learn from the grassroots movements, study their trial and errors, setbacks and victories. Learn from…

Critical Revolutionary

Hip Hop pedagogy

‘We fight for liberation, fight for education, fight with these Hip Hop organized nations.’ 

- ‘Organize nations’, Dark Matters, spiritchild

We need to redefine our pedagogy. A lot of learning is disconnected and sees students as vessels to pour information into. People of the past don’t have the answers for the youth of the future. Revolutionary Hip Hop pedagogy places the student in the center, emphasizes the importance of mentorship and involves…

The science and politics of Hip Hop

‘Join the movement, seduced with this universal kinetic swift movement, infused with intelligence, souls in development.’ - ‘Hip Hop Locked’, Event Horizon, Mental Notes

Hip Hop is the beat of change that constantly changes its beat. Hip Hop is the voice of the struggle. Hip Hop is the rhythm of persistence and never stagnant.  It is the universal language that speaks to youth, especially oppressed nationality youth. By going back to the roots of Hip Hop and…