"Poverty, Man featuring PovertyMan" by MC 117

Ever since I was a PovertyKid I've always wanted to be a puppet. Now I realize that its an impossibility, but I was more than excited when I found out I was portrayed as a puppet in west coast rapper, MC 117's newest song: "Poverty, Man". This awesome song was recorded for MC 117's upcoming release entitled Rhymes Against Humanity and this first song can be downloaded for free right here.

Compliment battle?!

No, this isn't a contest of niceties. Yesterday C0splay, one of the members of the award-winning, Nerdcore hip hop group Death*Star, released an awesome track. Its a brilliant bit of entertainment that might have scared away a lesser poor person. This piece was so clever and flattering that I'm glad it wasn't a competition, because I surely would have lost.

Make sure you check out Death*Star's bandcamp page for some great collections of genuinely entertaining music.

Holy Moly!

Is it weird that I totally forgot I had this web site until listening to my friends over at the Nerdcore Meow podcast just now? Thanks for the reminder, fellas.
If anyone can see this, they mentioned The vocalist/producer contest I'm currently participating in. I, the vocalist, was partnered up with renowned artist/producer, Benjamin Bear. Unfortunately our team was disqualified from the first round because of some terrible luck. I'll explain here for anyone who hasn't been following the excitement.
The way it all unraveled was pretty silly. Essentially, BBear sent me an instrumental. I wrote/recorded a rough draft of the song. Then, with a strange twist of fate, I became rather ill before my chance to get some more takes in. I held onto the track as long as I could hoping I'd recover enough get a hit song, but never got the opportunity.
I knew I had to get something submitted lest I would be the laughing stock of the nerd community (Which in retrospect doesn't seem too bad). I sent the track to BBear to have him mix the track per the rules of the competition when he realized he sent me the wrong instrumental!
Because I was sick there was no time to rectify this problem. Because the beat was not original for this competition we lost all our points from round 1.
Round two is going down.

Now, here's the really weird thing about this whole topic: The song I submitted for this contest was basically about a character who had died and decided to attempt to come back to life. In order to accomplish this he needed to defeat the grim reaper in a rap battle. This story was metaphorically about how I hadn't made any new music such a long time; I was musically dead. Defeating the grim reaper in the song allowed me to begin making new music. And it was the conversation about said song on the podcast that reminded me about this web page. So either I'm tired, or things are starting to make sense.

Nope. Just tired.

Keep that ball rolling.

With "Rap Cliche" still generating so much buzz I went ahead and had it submitted onto 'Coast2Coast mixtapes vol. 145- hosted by Asher Roth'. Make sure you download your copy today! Leave a comment on the page, rate the mixtape. Share it with your friends.



Coast 2 Coast Mixtape Vol. 145 - Hosted By Asher Roth Mixtapes Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes


Featuring: Asher Roth, Nottz, Young Chris, Meek Mill, Eve, Saigon, Cory Gunz, Whitefolkz, Tone Trump, Lupe Fiasco, BOB, Charles Hamilton, Diggy, The Kool Kids, Bun B, Mikey Halsted, Killer Mike, Crooked I, Chip Tha Ripper, Mstah FAB, Gillie Da Kid, iLLA, Whiz Khalifa, Pony Boi, Dirt Dolla, K-Dawg, Ole-E, Tron, Q Machette, Young Dro, Tha SB, HardCastle, Ms Drama Ganza, PovertyMan, L.C, Deathwish, Audio-ology


CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD OR STREAM THIS MIXTAPE FOR FREE!

PovertyFan mail # 1

Q: Who would you pick to collaborate with if you could work with any artist in the industry?

A: Its funny you ask. I find myself thinking about this question pretty often and I've got to say that there's a pretty huge list of artists out there I'd kill to work with. Some of them make more sense to me than others.

To get Matisyahu to lay down a hook for me would be amazing. He's just so talented and he has done so much for fighting stereotypes- which is a mission of mine.

Getting together with the diabolical Biz Markie would be a dream come true. I think Biz and I both pride ourselves on keeping our songs fun and entertaining.

Of course there's one triple feature that might change the world. Imagine a joint with Red/Meth/Pov. Whoa!

"Rap Cliche" reviewed by Cool & Dre

Producers Cool & Dre (who have worked with everyone in the industry; from Chris Brown and lil' Wayne to Ghost Face and Fat Joe) recently got their hands on PovertyMan's song, "Rap Cliche" and had tons of great things to say about it.

When asked about the vibe of the song they said, "First thing we noticed was the sample and old school hip hop vintage sound you got going. It sounds cool."

As high is "sounding cool" is on my list of priorities, I am always more interested in hearing what people say about my lyrical content. Cool and Dre said, "The topic you decided to rap about really differs from the normal rap song. We love how you used clever lyrics to take the listener to another place."

I can't argue. To find out what all the buzz is about and get your free download of "Rap Cliche" join the PovertyMan mailing list at reverbnation.com/povertyman.

Snoop Remix Contest!

Everyone should vote for my submission in the Snoop Dogg Remix contest. There are a few ways to vote. 1. Click the box and follow directions

2. Any myspace users left in the world? Head over to myspace.com/thepovertyman and click "vote" near the left side of the screen!

The winner gets flown out to Snoop concert to hang out back stage with him. I didn't realize the voting had already started so I'm playing catch up now. So vote for me!!

This contest got so big (over a thousand entries) that they started a secondary contest for voters. Find more details here.

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