Warrior G.R.I.O.T.
"Ghetto Representative Interpreting Our Thoughts"
Warrior mixes poetry in spoken word form with bits of traditional hip hop and an "in your face" delivery with some powerfully real messages that respectfully hold the collective attention hostage to make sure you feel him.
Straight out of the roughest "Hood" in the Boston Massachusetts USA, Roxbury ("the Bury"), this brother has evolved from being one of the Bury's infamous Hood Celebrity's to becoming an internationally respected spoken word artist, a powerfully effective motivational speaker and committed social "actionist" From a life time of hard fought battle victories and defeats, experiences and research comes a real voice that speaks in a language we all can understand.
In 2005 Warrior G.R.I.O.T. joined Synchrovision reccords to produce and release his new album produced by Mr.Goo.
"The sun will be coming soon so why be afraid of the moon?" ~Warrior~
Warrior has Featured / Participated in:
-pARTicipate Conference 2004 Washington DC
Juneteenth Celebration 2004 Wadsworth Athineum Hartford Conn.
-ACORN Friends of the People Banquet
Omni Parker House, Boston
-Mattapan Family Service Center
National Black Agenda Convention, Boston
-Juice C' Juice, LA California
-Sips, BaltimoreØ Street Peace Day 2003 (Host)
-Men’s Night @ Mosque #11 2002 & 2003, Million Woman’s March Foundation Celebration 2001 & 2002
-100 Black Men Celebration 2002, Roxbury Youth Works Inc. Graduation (he was Keynote Speaker)
-The Renaissance School Renaissance Man Pageant 2002
-Lizard Lounge (Twice Featured), Mega Cipher (twice Co- Feature), Maylenium (Feature and Host)
-Cambridge Multi- Cultural arts Center, Cambridge Senior Center
-Museum for the National Center of Afrikan American Artist, the Piano Factory,
-Strand Theatre (Boston), Boston Rocks (Comedy Connection), John Hancock Hall,
-The Summerville Theatre, Club Lido @ the Wonderland Ball Room,
-The Middle East, The Western Front, All Asia Café, Milky Way Lounge and many more.
-Warrior has also been sited in / Featured at:
-ACLU College Tour 2003 @ Saunders Theatre Harvard University with Saul Williams
as host of the panel discussion on the “Patriot Act” and the Warrior opening for “Dead Prez”
-Beats for Peace Tour Summerville Theatre with “Pharoahe Monche”, and “Madusa” (Boston)
-The NAACP National Convention 2003 (Miami Fla.) Youth and College
-Was member of the security team for Amiri Baraka @ Wellesley College
-Black August International South (New Orleans)
-Blackout Arts Collectives Lyrics on Lock Down Tour (Boston, DC, Ct. Miami)
-Host of the BAC 5th Anniversary Show @ the Point in the Bronx (NY)
-One of the openners for "Chico Debarge", "Curtis Blow" and "Whoodini"
-George Papp Public Theatre (NY), Soul Café 42nd Street (NY)
-Hot Chocolate Soul @ the Bushnell & the Bond Ball Room (Hartford Ct.) several appearances
-Hard Rock Café & the Royal (New Orleans), Twisted Tongue (VA)
-Niagra Movement II (Atlanta Ga.), Magic Johnson Starbuck’s (Atlanta Ga.)
-Bar None (DC), Sheraton Newark Airport (NJ) Logan’s (Springfield),
-Café Mawonaj (DC), Soul Sanctuary & Fluids (Phila), Verbalization (Boston) etc.
-Debut CD “Soul of a Warrior…Vol #1 A Man Thinketh” was Mass Communications nominee in 2003
for Best Spoken Word CD in Boston (Cambridge Poetry Awards)
THE PERFECT STORM. 09/10/05
I have a message for heads on this "Perfect Storm" that destroyed New Orleans parts of Mississippi and Alabama but reconstructed Black Unity.
I am overwhelmed by the love my people have shown for each other in this tragedy.
As you can see the Government really doesn't give a damn about Black Folk so we have to fend for self.
Peace to Kanye West for firing the first shot and letting everybody know that this is for real.
Peace to David Banner for packing his Hummer then calling his mans and them telling to do the same then headed for the boarder of Mississippi but got turned around. He has set up a whole relief effort.
Peace to Russell Simmons and Phat Farm for sending trucks of supplies to the N.O.
Peace to the whole ATL for putting up thousands of my people.
Peace to Houston for doing the same.
Peace to DJ Goo and Synchrovision for the spirit of unity and the effort put forth to combine the global Black family long before this.
Peace to my family the Blackout Arts Collective for spearheading one of the first efforts to help the families of this Perfect Storm. We (Blackout) are for real for real about this. Blackout is about the business (24/7 365) of freeing the minds, hearts and bodies of Black folk everywhere.
F@#% the media for calling "Survival"
Looting when it comes to Black folk doing what they have to do to survive but White folk are privileged to
"Find" food under the very same conditions.
Racism was a survivor of this Perfect Storm. It will never die in this country.
Black People everywhere listen,
this is America the land of filth and money home of the thief and the slave trade. The land that paid the builders nothing but no attention and a history of lynching but paid every other culture full reparations for for their suffering.
We Black Americans still have no respect and no stake in this land. Recognize us world as your family and know that we are not taking it anymore.
Black folk are still considered 3/5 of a man. Now is the time to combine the global Black family so we will never have to worry about being left to die in a Perfect Storm. We will never have to depend on our oppressor to save us. We are united for now and forever.
This is Warrior G.R.I.O.T. Ghetto Representative Interpreting Our Thoughts
If you are scared move a get out the way.
If you with this Holla Back at me.
9/27/2005
Greetings Family,
This is the Warrior G.R.I.O.T.
Ghetto Representative Interpreting Our Thoughts
Writer/Poet/Motivational Spoken Word "Actionist" from Boston.
which is an affiliate of the New York Foundation of the Arts
www.nyfa.org 2003 nominee for "Best Spoken Word CD in Boston" at the Cambridge Poetry Awards.
I have been blessed to perform nationally in :
-Mass,
-Ct.
-NY,
-NJ,
-Baltimore,
-DC,
-Virginia,
-Maryland,
-GA,
-Illinois,
-New Orleans,
-Florida,
-California
Internationally I have performed and facilitated workshops in
-Zurich Switzerland and recorded a soon to be released album in Geneva Switzerland produced by DJ Goo for Synchrovision Records
University/College credits:
-Harvard,
-Tufts,
-Northeastern,
-Depaul, Tolson,
-UMass Boston, Wellesley,
-Wesleyan,
-Leslie,
-Springfield College,
-Roxbury Community College
and so much more.
Thank you for making the show even more beautiful with your presence and support. I look forward to seeing you again at the next event.
I will be preforming at:
-Sept 28, 2005
Plymouth State University, Plymouth New Hampshire
-Sept 30, 2005
Simmons College, Boston
Featuring: Denice De la Cruz formally of the spoken word group "Slanguage" and her band.
Also joining us will be Eroc of the Foundation
-Oct 7 or 8, 2005
Cosmopolitan, Batterymarch St. Downtown Boston
Featuring: Azizi Carle
-Oct 29, 2005
Northeastern University, Boston
Plus more bookings to come so stay tooned and I will keep you informed and updated. Feel free at any time to reply "remove me" if you would no longer like to receive words from the Warrior.
Please come to a show or workshop near you and support a very hard working Warrior.
Let the Warrior spice up your event with some inspiring words of wisdom, love, politics, comedy. You name it. Can I spit it? Yes can.
Wanna Book the Warrior for your unique function, graduation, wedding, birthday party, fashion show, club, university/college, high school, elementary or community function?
Just call:
Dawn Perry @ 617-680-1726
or email me direct with event idea and dates @
www.warriorgriot.com
Check out the gallery to see:Warrior GRIOT pictures in the CHDB Synch lab in GVA/Swiss
Freedom
The Warrior Mgriot 
Ghetto Representative Interpreting Our Thoughts
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