Rabbi Darkside
Brooklyn
Rabbi Darkside is a Hip Hop MC/DJ/Beatboxer/Educator, first appearing on wax and in NYC Public School classrooms in the year 2000. His movements and music aim to incite empathy and empowerment through social justice education and creative freedom. His prowess as a multi-elemental artist has led to 15 international tours, landed his latest album atop the CMJ Hip Hop charts and found him on MTV’s “Made,” Okayplayer, New York Times, the Today Show, CBS Early Show, HipHopDX, 2DopeBoyz, Showtime's "Nurse Jackie" and the Village Voice. Darkside blurs the line between Hip Hop, Jazz, Folk, Poetry and Progressive Soul, facilitated by his mastery of improvisation, vast influences and elastic collaborative abilities. Recent performance highlights include headlining the 2016 and 2015 Blue Note Jazz Club (NYC), 2014 SXSW, 2013 CMJ Festival, 2012 WNYC Battle of the Boroughs, while sharing stages and studios with Aloe Blacc, Antibalas, Black Sheep, Blue Man Group, Common, Da Beatminerz, DJ Rob Swift, Fishbone, Homeboy Sandman, J-Live, Prince Paul, Rahzel, Robert Glasper, Rosie Perez, Sadat X, Slick Rick, Soulive, Talib Kweli, The Coup and many others. He’s won every freestyle rap competition in NYC in the new millennium, including being the 20-time Freestyle Mondays “Off the Head Gameshow” Champion and 2010 End of the Weak MC Challenge U.S. Co-Champion. He is in his 3rd year as resident DJ at The Lesson, NYC’s acclaimed live Hip Hop jam session, and continues to prove himself one of the city’s favorite party rockers. Darkside is currently a professor at The New School (NYC), teaching seminars of his own design entitled “Hip Hop Pedagogy & Practice” and “Hip Hop Skills, Style & Science.” He is the co-founder of the Hip Hop Re:Education Project, a Hip Hop Education Fellow at the H2ED Hip Hop Ed Center at NYU, and the artistic creator of NYS Regents test prep program "Fresh Prep.” In 2015 he traveled to Kampala, Uganda as a Cultural Ambassador with the Next Level Initiative, a collaboration between the U.S. State Department and UNC-Chapel Hill, and in 2017 was the Visiting Artist at Universal American School in Dubai, where he ran workshops and performances focused on Artistic Voice in Cultural Communities. He is also a secular ordained minister and recently presided over his 7th wedding.
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