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Review by REX STONE

In the game of hip-hop you certainly have to do a lot to be original because there are so many artist that think outside the box. If Mack Mistress was able to hit the mainstream then Missy Elliot better start looking for a new job. This San Francisco Bay Area native is the answer to the age old question can female emcees spit just as hard and deliver like the boys, well with the release of “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” we definitely have an answer. This west coast representative is not playing any games with her quick delivery, ability to change style from one song to the next and then spit a hot 16 that would make Source Magazine want to post them!

From the beginning to the end of the CD you know that Mack Mistress is a well-developed artist that has taken time to put together a solid product. This album goes from hip-hop to rock-hop while all at the same time keeping its California style. It almost feels as if you were at Lake Merritt in Oakland on a Saturday in ’93! Not since Yo-Yo has the west put out a female that could represent like this. The lyrics, delivery, tracks, and production quality on this album are on point and rival most homo-hop releases to date.

Filled with street anthems, bay area hyphy songs, ladies sing-a longs, and hip-hop bangers this CD has it all. Mack Mistress has laid the foundation that will stand the test of industry time. Check out the killer tracks, “If You Want Too”, “Where My Girls At”, “Go Crazy”, and “Stand Up”. This is one album that has opened up the game for all of the other female rappers in the out hip-hop movement! Finally a rapper that has taken time to please the audience and not themselves!

Check out a teaser from Real Talk w/Mack Misstress airing Dec. 14th

Felice Archbold created FreshVibe Media out of the acknowledgement of the Bay Area’s ridiculous talent. The Bay is breeding ground to one of the most profound and richly diverse cultural scenes. We are dope artists and technologies’ innovators, and deserve to be scene as we are. FreshVibe Media’s design is to inspire, unite and build with these originators by developing and executing the blueprint of their creative dream. We’re here to challenge tradition, create new paths and continuously redefine the future of music and entertainment business with a fresh innovative style.

Check out a teaser from Real Talk w/Felice airing Dec. 14th

Here are a couple of teasers from REAL TALK w/Kiki and Miz Chris, pilot episode airing November 2nd at 1pm on KPFA 94.1.

Mona Webb

DJ Olga T

Mona Webb

Ramona “Mona” Webb is a Performance Artist who moved to the Bay Area from Baton Rouge Louisiana where she was co-founder and president of The Baton Rouge Poetry Alliance for 8yrs. Webb is the Artistic Director of Lyrical Minded for A.B.L.E., which is a art based learning for equity hip hop, theater and performance poetry curriculum implemented in the San Francisco School District. She is a full time working artist in San Francisco perusing an MFA degree in writing for stage and screen with an emphasis in Experimental Performance. Webb’s work has been reviewed as “docu-ritual- drama theater”. The last 4 productions Ramona has written have debuted in San Francisco. Her most recent production New Orleans Anonymous debuted in The National Queer Arts Festival in 2009. Ramona is the host, organizer, and Slam Master of the San Francisco City Slam & Experimental Mic ,which is the venue the Adult San Francisco National Poetry Slam Team is produced and is the head coach of the SF team, which won 3rd in the Nation this year at the national competition. The slam is combined with the Experimental Mic, which is a forum for lyrical creativity, poetry, music, visual art, dance and all avenues of artistic expression..

Upon Bay Area arrival Ramona won a spot on the 2006 Modesto California National Poetry Slam team and compete with them at the National competition in 2006. Ramona has been competing on a National team for 9 years and has been an activist performance poet for 12years. Webb was on the Baton Rouge National Poetry Slam Team in 2000(placing 12th in individuals), 2001(team went to semifinals at nationals), 2002, 2003(2003 team won regional competition), 2004, 2005, (2005 Team went to semi-finals). Webb moved to Baton Rouge from Lexington Kentucky where she was a member of the Poetry Slam Team in 1997(1997 Webb placing 8th at the regional competition) and 1998.

DJ Olga T

DJ Olga T has been active in the LGBTQ community since her early work at the Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center (LYRIC). Her peer leadership experience there led her to develop her then undiscovered talent for DJing. A Puerto Rican born in New York and raised in San Francisco, Olga Texidor (aka DJ OLGA T) started her DJ career in 1996. A long time resident DJ for countless premiere clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, DJ Olga T brings an unparalleled excitement to any party in which she performs. Spinning at all the premiere lesbian clubs and events in the Bay Area has allowed her to express her musical passion to the masses. Her signature style of seamlessly mixing vocal, Gospel, Latin, and Deep House music while infusing Hip Hop, R&B, Old School Classics, and Dancehall/Reggae into her sets with unparalled creativity and intensity, brought a new element to the women’s club scene. Her tremendous passion for music and DJing is transferred through the turntables and connects her with the audience in a very unique and intimate way. One of the few DJs in the Bay Area to play multiple music formats with such intense precision and crowd satisfaction sets her apart from the rest. No matter what type of music she plays, when Olga T is spinning you’re gonna wanna dance!

Currently, Olga T is the music director for Movement Production events (which produces the legendary BLISS Weekend – An Oasis for Women of Color in the Desert), creator of THE ALLSTAR JAM, resident DJ at MANGO, BABYLON, Club RIMSHOT.  Also, staying true to her original love, Olga is the creator of OUR HOUSE, a club specifically for the Househeads of the Bay Area. In 2005, Olga launched Her Grooves, which offers DJ classes and one on one personal DJ instruction for women. In addition, Olga’s producing her own Hip Hop and House re-mixes and continues to put out limited copies of her numerous CD compilations. These CDs are guaranteed to rock your party and they go fast. So, don’t sleep…

What a great opportunity, to be a voice for the Queer Women of Color (QWOC) community! Its really difficult to find the words to express how excited I am to be apart of this venture. I’ve been out of the closet for 10 years now and have endured some very encouraging and very hurtful times.  Being an out, bisexual woman of color in the Bay Area has been a journey! Some of my most encouraging times have been when I’m sitting amongst friends chatting about what’s happening in this community, what challenges we’re facing, who’s holding what event, what new artist is performing, etc. These were the times that I really felt I was apart of this QWOC community. We’re fairly separated and I want to change that! I’ve decided to be the change I wish to see.

This, for me, is about giving us a voice. We don’t currently have a space on the radio where we don’t have to sugar coat who we are. We are Queer Women of Color! This shouldn’t be taboo to say….this is who we are and we should have the ability to regularly discuss concerns surrounding us.

Let me also point out the name of this show is “Real Talk” which of course means we’re going to be very real in our opinions. This space is created for addressing all happenings whether they be positive or negative and moving forward. So if you don’t agree with what we say…that’s ok! I hope you write to us and tell us your thoughts. Lets create healthy dialogue through this show. I’m looking forward to it!

Peace ~ Kiki

Oooooooohhhhhhhh I am sooooo excited to be here!  Thank you Women’s Magazine on KPFA for giving us our own little spot in radioland.  This is an exciting new venture for all of us.  Women of Color voices on the airwaves in the Bay Area, oh yeah!

There are so many things I want to talk about, issues I want to address and conversations that need to be heard.  My hope for the show is that we provide a space for Women of Color to speak their minds, learn about each other, support one another and have the hard conversations that we need to have with each other.  Our time is now.

We all need to be the voices that encourages, enlightens, explains and engages with, not only each other, but with other communities.  We are a rich, diverse and beautiful community of queer women of color that needs to do more than hold space we need to TAKE UP SPACE.

This is a journey, for me,  into discovery and I hope you will join me and us for the ride!  Who knows where it will take us

Peace

Miz Chris