Show review: M.I.C. Wars

Last night was the official Kickoff party for the first battle league in NEPA, M.I.C. Wars. Tons of artists from around the tri-state area came out to this inaugural ball and the town of Delware Water Gap may never be the same.

Every ball needs its bell, and DJ Tiny definitely wouldn't fit into any glass slippers: His mixing was pretty clean (except for a couple mash ups that weren't synced at all); his beat selection for the freestyling set was on point (Though, he switched beats very awkwardly); he queued those CD's so hard.

So there was a battle. I think there was a signup fee. Is that common practice?

The evening's champion, Loedis, showed off some rhyme schemes and freestyled a few licks. All the battlers did their thing. Not sure if anyone was expecting blood and guts. There wasn't any.

Over 20 rappers performed. 20. I really wanted to offer a review of each, but... having so many rappers really cut back on set lengths. Rappers who thought their sets were a certain length had it cut in half and it was difficult to form an opinion on most of the artists: Like guessing the taste of a drink by holding a glass. I understand that they wanted to break a bottle on the bow of the battle league ship, and having 20 artists would ensure a larger attendance, but hopefully this over-booking-practice will be left for the christening.

Artists had to pay the cover to get in. Is that common practice?

Cool show. Lots of potential. Hopefully they'll work out all the kinks.

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PovertyMan opens for M.I.C. Wars!

To show his support for a new rap battle league in the Poconos, PovertyMan will be performing a set on Saturday, March 15th, at the Pocono Inn in Delaware Water Gap, PA.

PovertyMan's long time collaborator, Sinister Sev, will be there with his trademarked delivery and you can expect to hear a few tracks from their upcoming EP.

On top of that PovertyMan will be performing a new song to knock your socks off. Two words come to mind: Pocono. Anthem.

March 15th. 9PM. $5 cover. 21+. Leave your kids in the car. Crack a window.

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New Music You Might Have Missed

Its mid-December. You're trying to figure out if there are any new PovertyMan songs since the previous post. You're experiencing various symptoms of withdrawal: you're agitated and can't sleep; you've been vomiting for what seems like hours and can't get your sponsor on the phone. Relax. Take a breath because there's good news. There are new songs. Over the summer I teamed up with Death*Star, the deadliest NerdCore trio since the massacre of jocks the government tried to cover up back in the mid 80's, to create what is arguably a song. Make sure you check out Death*Star's newest album, "The Prequel", to hear the masterfully crafted Mexican Stand-Off (feat. PovertyMan). The entire Death*Star catalog is amazing and worth checking out (and purchasing). Then if you weren't scared enough a song was released on this year's NerdCore Halloween Mixtape entitled "Back From the Dead". I'm happy to announce this is the first single from the upcoming PovertyMan album, "Crumbs for the Masses". Expect that to be released mid 2014. One last announcement for the PovertyManiacs out there. There will be an EP released early 2014 from long time collaborators PovertyMan and Sinister Sev. Stay tuned for more, you dirty dogs.

Sound of the Snake by Torrentz

Recently I was featured (along with a ton of other talented artists) in a song called "Sound of the Snake" with the international rap collective, Torrentz, released on Scrubclub Records. You can download the entire album, Torrentz Internationl, for FREE at Scrubclubrecords.com. Also, Torrentz is currently raising money to unite for the first time ever at this year's Nerdapalooza. Check out their indiegogo for different ways to help get them there!

"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.