Meat Meet 8: Marcel P. Black

Sunday February 28th, 2021 4-6 pm

Documentation

Video available on YouTube

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MARCEL P BLACK
The Non-Traditional Conscious Emcee
Performance and Interview

Featuring DJ Sole Lab BR
Interview by Hip-Hop Journalist Justin Ivey

Performance and interview live at twitch.tv/yeswecannibal

 

 

From Houston Press (2020)

For the uninitiated, we asked Black to describe what he does. We got two answers.

“The short answer is my name is Marcel P. Black and I make conscious rap for gang members,” he said with a laugh. “The long answer is Marcel P. Black, born in southern Oklahoma, I came to Baton Rouge in 2002 for college and I’ve been here for the most part ever since. Grew up in the church. My father was a gospel singer so he was my first influence as an artist.

“I’m a country boy, but I’m a true-blue hip-hop head,” he continued. “I’ve worked pretty intensively in the community here in Baton Rouge as a youth development worker, mental health counselor, teacher – now I teach a hip-hop and social justice class. I’ve done a lot of work primarily with young black males, youth development and basically being a youth advocate. That’s kind of my focus and it pretty much is reflected in my music.”

 

 

From the pulpits and street corners of Ardmore, OK comes Bryan Marcel Williams I aka Marcel P. Black (the emcee). Once a member of a underground hip hop collective, Black ventured out into solo territories and has been on a steady mission to revolutionize the way you think of, listen to and view hip hop music. Though inspired by multiple musical genres and great emcees, Black’s greatest influence as a hip hop artist can be found within himself. An ever evolving entity, Marcel P. Black at one time or another has been a misguided soul influenced by gang culture, an athlete, a band geek, a militant and a mentor but at all times has been authentically a man, authentically him.

https://marcelpblack.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/MarcelPBlack/
https://www.instagram.com/marcelpblack/