young skin/Wise Mind/Old Soul

by Amanda Diva Seales

The honesty of Amanda Diva's work is felt through her combination of a powerful singing voice and a powerful inner voice, which she melds together to create her unique exuberant style of poetics. Addressing issues of politics as well as everyday occurrences and headaches that everyone deals with, Amanda Diva puts them in an explosive rhyme format that forces the highest sadiddy to come down to earth, and the most thorough thug to awaken his intellect. A lyrical cardiologist who rhymes from the heart, she considers herself a contemporary hip-hop poet, representing the voice of consciousness that is currently far too lacking in hip-hop music. young skin/ Wise Mind/ Old Soul, is the lyrical journey to the beginning of a future rooted in poetics and committed to revealing the real.

132 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2005