by Paul D


I apologize to all the faithful web journal readers for not having a Back Talk! journal for three weeks. It was partly because the show’s low attendance had me a little discouraged but mostly because I got too much going on!!

But, I had to step up this week because the show was so hot! We had 75 lovely folks out tonight and some amazing vibes to go along with it. The nation’s apparent anger over the stolen election on November 2, 2004 had a lot of people pissed off and looking for an outlet.

We are still missing the presence of our favorite dj, J-Will. Paul D tried to hold it down, playing a lot of laid back tunes.

Keboi started out the show with "Black on Black Rhymes: The Is Is Edition". 

Maura was the first to voice her anger with her untitled piece about the elections. She mostly talked about how she was learning the Canadian National Anthem for when she moves there.

Chris represented with "Just Imagine". 

Bro. John aka The Ancinet Newcomer blessed us with his presence and the poem "Tribute to Black Music", which was commisioned for Black Music History Month. 

Ali performed a snippet of his newest piece, which has to do with plagiarism and then performed another new piece, "We’ve All Heard the Story Before". 

Ali stopped in between his performace when Black on Black Rhyme’s The Conscious Party’s L.I.F.E. stepped through the door with D-Slack, a poet from New Jersey.