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Cleveland Where the real mysteries are hidden Dark magic Teleportation devices like the portal Separating St Clair from MLK University Circle Spitting a uni-verse in circles On loop even when shit hits the fan We know how to resist the flow, I learned in Twelve Bricks breaking vocal cords; sore throats Hard not to lose your voice in the midst of Cleveland Hard to find your voice in the midst of Cleveland Hard not to mimic someone else's voice and mistake it for yours in the midst of Cleveland Hard to do any of those things without catching a cold in Cleveland in chaos That's the realness The illness Cleveland always got the flu Even in the summertime blues clueless caress of mama nature under stress Cleveland: Where you experience 4 seasons in 24 hours Where people stay salty all winter yet there's still all this ice on these streets Where construction fixes white smiles And skips over frowns Claiming we couldn't be seen with our hoods over our heads “Aye that's the hood up ahead. Thank the Lord for the freeway protecting Bratenahl” It ain't never been this cold It ain't never been this cold in the home land This is Cleveland on fire Ground yourself to this earth Cleveland on Earth This is not our Hell There are 4 seasons 4 elements 4 directions; And we all integrate into Twelve Literary Arts For Cleveland
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You must recognize you’re a disturbance Your presence presses the wealth out of cobblestones You are a misplaced part an abstract art in the way you move like music owns you because someone has to Forgo your desire to sire Orkids from gravel enough memorials litter lights to call this a house a Home let it guide you back. you will never be lost here follow this glass brick road, collect enough shards to call yourself whole But hold your holes as secrets Remember, you are only as broken as you pretend to be. So pretend that there is no need to leave a Home made of hollow ground why not stay here out of the way in comfortable consistence? Minority is meant to be seen, not heard. or only heard when their art is consumable meant to melt on tongues like sugar Like memories You are a history of loss why not claim this as yours too We bet you want to own something and everyone here already knows your death song been singing it to stars since the first fell since you fell make these streets celestial railroad a grapevine straight to glory meet glory and flinch. You are not worthy of meeting eyes so meet deadlines miss deadlines miss rent miss home miss faith lose faith lose yourself call this a compromise call this survival call this: the preface to disappearing OR Just recognize that you are a disturbance Feel your presence presses into cobblestones You are a misplaced part and We just want to find you a Home.
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"Scratch the Paint off the Wall" is a deeply personal portrait of a lifelong Cleveland hustler, written and performed by emerging Cleveland musical artist Peachcurls. Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jessica Yafanaro support Peachcurls along with Eriq Troi (bass and guitar) and Elijah G on drums.

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In the midst of a pandemic, global beat icon and super-producer Tall Black Guy took a spiritual journey in search of talent in the most interesting of places: Cleveland, Ohio. With the help of a small arts non-profit led by rapper/poet/activist Daniel Gray-Kontar aka Replife, this is what he found.

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released June 19, 2021

Produced and curated by Tall Black Guy
Mixed by Eric Lau
Mastered By Josef Blackwell at Planet Bounce, NZ

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Twelve Literary Arts Cleveland, Ohio

Twelve Literary Arts is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) literary arts and education organization founded by Executive Artistic Director Daniel Gray-Kontar in May 2016. Twelve Literary Arts provides literary arts instruction and leadership development to elementary and high school-aged youth, adult poets, writers, and storytellers. ... more

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