SEEN

The death of hip-hop was declared in the press recently, but ring-tone sales have proven that the genre isn’t deceased. It has just been a little sick, so all it needs a little medicine. Allow me to introduce Medicine Music Group and its flagship artist, SEEN.

SEEN is an MC/songwriter who has been recording exceptional hip-hop music for many years. He is one of the most impressive artists that you have never heard, unless you are one of the many thousands of fans, admirers, and friends that he has accumulated on myspace for the past year. His name denotes vision, for the urban culture that has grown to dominate popular culture is now in limbo as to where it will go in the next few years. SEEN delivers timeless songs on his debut CD, Millennium Gentleman, which will hit stores early this spring. Millennium Gentleman is full of great music like "You Did It", which is a tribute to teachers, and "Long Way 2 Go", which is a realistic introspective look about the grind of reaching your dreams. Songs like "Go For It" and "Don't Stop" are powerful enough to encourage any thug, and clean enough to get play around your most devout church mothers. Songs like "Do That" and "Medicine Music" are just plain fun for the dance floor, while tunes like "Secrets" and "We Can Make It" reveal the heart and emotions of a man who has experienced some real challenges in the paths that he's taken in life. His music is positive, yet unpreachy, with enough boom bap to satisfy any hip-hop lover.

What really sets SEEN apart is his honesty. He had a small taste of the street life as a youth, but he spent most of his adult years as a counselor, teacher, and a school administrator. Those years that he spent as a teacher showed him that if someone is going to learn something, there has to be an example to demonstrate the lesson. For Hip-Hop in this Millennium, if we want change, that example has got to be SEEN.