Ghetto Poets are a seven man hip hop group that is a mixture of writers, battle emcees, producers and business owners. Together they complement each other well with a wide variety of styles and energy. When it comes to making great music this group is in a league of their own shying away from the commercial gimmicky rap that is so common today to make music from the soul with true meaning and feel. Ghetto Poets have continually composed records that are radio ready and mainstream mobileand they continue to rock crowds all over the Twin Cities at venues such as: Karma Night Club, Fine Line Music Cafe, the Dinkytowner, and Trocadero’s.

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James (Afro-Preachah) Porter iii, was born to Rev. James and Anita Porter Jr in Kansas City Mo as the oldest of three children. Afro’s musical roots were given to him by his father and grandfather, both Baptist preachers, and step-father, hustler by trade. At the age of 5 he started singing in choir while going to blues and jazz clubs with his father. Sitting in his father’s practices, Afro was awed at the way James Jr. would have the whole apartment complex jumping. Afro always saw his father as a music mystical shaman. Everyone in there apartment complex would come home from work and knew that the music his father played would heal them. James and Anita divorced when young Afro was 7 killing his passion for music.

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I was concerned that doing a phone interview with Tech N9ne would make it difficult for him to open up to me. Luckily, when the first words out of his mouth were in the form of a freestyle about the origins of my name, I knew I had nothing to worry about. With his new album, Everready The Religion in stores and fans who have been loyal since day one, Tech N9ne, charismatic personality always apparent, is ready for what lies ahead.

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Walking up the steps of Phatty McGee’s seemingly average home in the outskirts of suburban North St. Paul everything was so normal–normal house, normal neighborhood, normal dog yapping as I knocked on the door. The only things that appeared to be out of place were the cars parked unevenly in his driveway. Both had “Loonatix Productions” proudly painted across the back in fancy white script. As I entered his house I crossed the threshold between normality and what Phatty McGee would later call the dwellings of “a new genre” of music. Loonatix Productions, featuring the combined efforts of two core musical groups, Ruthless and Playaz Lounge Crew, has been defining and redefining itself for almost a decade and has finally found its place in a smoke filled haze of creativity, determination and pure energy.

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