Am 8. Februar brennt das Skaters Palace, Afu Ra kommt mit den Perverted Monks nach Deutschland.Afu Ra Perverted Monks aus New York City kommen nach Münster in die Palace LoungeAm 8. Februar brennt das Skaters Palace in Münster, Afu Ra kommt wieder nach Deutschland mit Unterstützung von den Perverted Monks.Afu Ra (NYC) & Perverted Monks (NYC)Aftershowparty with DJ NimbleEinlass 22.00 Uhr – VVK 11,00 € / AK 14,00 €Wer mehr über Afu Ra wissen möchte, sollte sich diesen Text an sehen!With his astonishing debut album, 2000’s Body Of The Life Force, Afu-Ra demonstrated that his stellar appearances with Jeru The Damaja in the mid-1990s offered only a small glimpse into his advanced lyrical realm. The mystical Whirlwind Thru Cities became an underground favorite while subsequent heater Bigacts Littleacts with GZA showed that Afu-Ra could rip up the mic alongside one of the genre’s most respected lyricists. Anxious to show the musical world that he can please more than just underground Hip-Hop fans, Afu-Ra returns with his second album, the ambitious, sonically diverse Life Force Radio. The collection features the same phenomenal lyrical displays that Afu-Ra fans have come to expect but goes further by incorporating more than braggadocio rhymes and gritty, hard-core Hip-Hop production. I tried to go to new areas,Afu-Ra explains of his new album. „If you say the same thing over and over again, people get bored with that. I get bored, so I don’t want to keep repeating myself. People know where I’m coming from as an artist, so I felt like it’s time for people to know more about who the person is behind the songs and behind Afu-Ra.“ After recording a few early tracks for what would become Life Force Radio, Afu-Ra realized that these initial songs had radically different sounds from one another. The New Yorker quickly had a creative vision. „I wanted to do an album coming from the perspective of… what if I had my own radio station,“ Afu-Ra says. „If I had a chance to do the songs that were going to be played on the radio station, it would involve many different musical genres all fused into this Hip-Hop world.“ A prime example of this new approach is the hard-hitting single „Hip Hop.“ With raging guitars and an overall aggressive vibe, this song has the potential to be the biggest of Afu-Ra’s career, both in reach and in force. „This is my anthem,“ Afu says. „Like a lot of successful Hip-Hop albums, a lot of them have an anthem track. Method Man, Ja Rule and dead prez, they all have tracks that became their anthems. I approached this song with that in mind; that this is going to be my anthem. When I get a chance to travel all around the world, this is going to be that track that makes goose bumps pop up on the skin and hair stand up.“ „Open“ will also have hair standing on end, but for a different reason. This cut, a duet with the legendary Teena Marie, features Afu-Ra addressing some of his personal shortcomings and how that has affected his relationship with his wife. Produced by underground stalwart Domingo, the brassy „Open“ again shows the artistic reach that is within Afu-Ra’s grasp. Unique collaborations inundate this record. „Nobody is going to see this coming,“ Afu-Ra says. „I’ve got RZA on the album. I did a song with GZA, but to go work with Teena Marie on a Domingo-produced track, nobody’s going to see that coming.“ Die-hard Afu-Ra followers will appreciate such trunk-rattling, straight-up Hip-Hop selections as „Scatman,“ „Caution“ and „Stick Up,“ the latter of which features Big Daddy Kane. Growing up listening to Kane and eventually recording in the famous Hip-Hop hotbed D&D Studios at the same time as Kane, Afu-Ra felt privileged to record with the respected rapper. „He’s one of the reasons I wanted to be an MC,“ Afu says of Kane. „He was the person whose lyrics I was reciting when I was 15 years old. Afu-Ra knows about legendary status. Like his first album, Life Force Radio is executive-produced by esteemed beat maker DJ Premier, the sonic architect behind Gang Starr who’s also delivered hits for The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Nas, Rakim, Big L, KRS-One, Jeru The Damaja, Group Home and others. With one of the best ears in music guiding his album, Afu-Ra knows that his foray into new sounds comes off. After all, if DJ Premier endorses your product, you know it’s on point. Just a few years ago, Afu-Ra had little idea on how to make a song, let alone an album. He was just a hungry Big Apple resident rhyming for fun over the instrumentals of other artists or reciting lyrics from his favorite acts. He had only written one verse, one that impressed friend Jeru The Damaja so much that he had Afu spit the bars on his own „Mental Stamina,“ a cut included on Jeru’s classic debut album, „The Sun Rises In The East.“ Traveling overseas with Jeru to promote „The Sun Rises,“ Afu-Ra was floored by Hip-Hop fans who didn’t speak English but who could recite his lyrics from „Mental Stamina.“ Having touched these fans, Afu-Ra knew that his lyrical gift could transform him from a talented guest artist into an artist with his own identity and fan base. With „Life Force Radio,“ it’s clear that Afu-Ra has taken a tremendous creative step, catering to fans of all forms of music while satisfying the Hip-Hop devotees who have elevated him to underground hero status. If Life Force Radio is any indication, it will redirect modern music.“