Raw Potential (see also AR-15)

Website: http://www.AR15hiphop.com
Booking Info: AR15ent@gmail.com

Raw Potential grew up in Washington State and now lives in Los Angeles, California. A student of Hip-Hop, Raw is a championship performance poet, and has represented strongly at four of the biggest Hip-Hop battles in the Bay Area.

He co-facilitated the “Whites in Hip-Hop: Roles and Responsibilities” Community Forum in Minneapolis, MN in 2002; and most recently, Raw worked as producer for the rap groups E.B.T.B. and AR-15- conducting anti-racist, Hip-Hop workshops and performances at schools nationwide. He is featured, along with Jus Rhyme, in the book, “Other People’s Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America” (Bloomsbury Press, 2007).

Raw has also devoted two years to national service in Americorps*National Civilian Community Corps, assisting various grassroots and non-profit initiatives. He has a Marketing Certificate from San Francisco State University, and has completed "An Introduction to Grassroots Anti-Racist Organizing" with the Challenging White Supremacy workshop and Californians for Justice. His favorite emcee is KRS-One.

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