This month Forty Fierce is profiling playwright, comedienne, acrtress, screenwriter, emcee and underground hip-hop battle afficianado, Radha Blank. Radha is an industry vet who started her career as a teaching artist and found herself behind the scenes writing for television, on stage doing comedy, and eventually as an award winning playwright crafting plays that tell real stories of people of color in America through a social justice lens. Radha's latest project might be the greatest conflation of talent produced in recent memory: RadhaMUSprime: The 40-Year-Old Version.
We will have a full interview with the "goddes emcee'' later this month on Forty is the New Forty, but for now, please dig in to this teaser for her show. She will be performing live at Joe's Pub in New York on April 22nd, so if you are in the area, practice self-love and do NOT miss this show! It's going to be crazy.
Here's a short description:
RadhaMUSprime, The 40‐Year‐Old Version: A Mixtape which launches later this year, is an original, self‐produced Hip Hop/Comedy mash‐up of dope beats, catchy hooks and thought‐provoking rhymes‐ and a precursor to Radha Blank's forthcoming mocumentary web series of the same name set to launch in 2015. While the series will showcase Radha’s acting, writing and directing talents, the mixtape and live show, showcases her skills as an emcee and provocateur. With the brash, braggadocious wit of Ghost Face and the raunchy, self‐deprecating tone of Moms Mabley, RadhaMUSprime answers a crucial question: where is the overweight, undersexed, overworked, underpaid, single, 40‐Year‐Old Black Woman’s voice in Hip Hop? RIGHT CHERE YO! RadhaMUSprime speaks unapologetic ‘troof to power’ on everything from sex, dating and aging, to race, immigration and body acceptance. She often performs with DJ Jahmedicine, her trusty sound God and eye candy ‘fo da ladies’.