AJA-MONET is amazing

"tattoo the walls of my womb with hope" is the myspace tagline of ms AJA-MONET, a uban-Jamaican poet originally from East NY, Brooklyn, residing in Harlem, NY who has spark not only my attention and interest but mostly my respect. She’s a phenomenal spoken word artist who had a dynamic presence when she performs, or should I say SHARES what lines deep within the woumb of spirit, birthing new passions, and reviving old ones like an Emanuele conception multiplied by a divine resurrection. She has a new track called Rosado, which in Spanish translate as pink, a perfected title for a song that features none other than the talented mr. Charles Hamilton.

She state in her blog how “Charles and I go way back to the high school days with late night conversations and debates about Eminem and Nas even before I had my own apartment, when I was living with a then best friend at the time in Harlem, I would’ve been homeless had it not been for her and her wonderful family.” I believe that brilliance incapable of surrounding itself without other intellectually radiant people, and despite the frivolous contentious or diverse views towards Charles Hamilton, I respect his work ethic and his freestyles are reflective of a masterful dominion of linguistics space, time and rhythm, aka he’s a sick MC.


Aja-Monet at the Bowery Poetry Club from Conor Stratton on Vimeo.

To go back to AJA-MONET, her work resonates with my own theological and Socratic questions, especially in pieces like You make Holy war live and her Vimeo video above from the Bowery Poetry Club.




Aja-Monet at the Bowery Poetry Club from Conor Stratton on Vimeo.


“When god made you he wrote his 1st suicide note, folding into your breath and prayed you’d be the death of him” are the line that demand my attention like someone swing a bat at my face, it hits you before you can stop it from coming…

“I went to church today and left 2 pills of Advil for God at the alter and said a prayer for him that he will not turn to narcotics and lonely night of drinking wine in his room” remind me of Dorothee Soelle’s book “Theology for Skeptics” because it humanizes god divinity. Soelle argues that people celebrate the godness of Jesus at the expense of his humanness to which nothing reasonable is left over (p.88). With regards to AJA-MONET’s You make Holy war live, I contemplate how we too are often leaning on one if not both side of a road of what’s considered profane and sacred, searching our secret wishes but often like the man who throws a penny into a founting making a wish, sometimes the fountains of our ideals throw what we cast towards them, back at us AJA-MONET fascinate that conversation with us in a passionate powerful way. I think she’s great. Check her out at:

http://www.ajamonet.com
http://www.ajamonet.blogspot.com
http://www.twitter.com/aja_monet