Oakland, California based emcee, poet and playwright Ise Lyfe announced last week that his play Who’s Krazy will be performed during the NAACP Theater Awards in Hollywood, California. The venue will be the Kodak Theatre on June 30th.
Of the opportunity and the works, Ise Lyfe told HipHopDX, “Who’s
Krazy speaks to reaction from environment and the way we struggle to
define ourselves in an assertive self driven way, but are still
reacting to the system that we grow up under. I believe that Hip Hop is
a reaction to poverty. That break dancing jumped off originally on
cardboard because poverty stricken communities didn’t have dance
schools. That graffiti went up on trains because the people doing that
art came from communities where no one would pay attention to them,
thus their name being blasted on a train that went all over the city
commanded that attention.“
For unfamiliar audiences, Ise added, “This story is a story about a man who is born in the hood, goes
corporate, and then fizzles out on his own hype. The hood is the 80’s,
his corporate career is the 90’s, and when the piece ends with him on
the ground moving his legs but going nowhere, he personifies and
embodies the current state of this vast Hip Hop culture spawned from
love, hunger, hopes, and bad decisions.“
The play will be running in Hollywood at the Stella Adler Theatre throughout July.
Ise Lyfe‘s second album Prince Cometh will release July 15. In 2006, he released SpreadtheWORD.
