AARON MINGO: UMUM ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

There are times when art triumphs over artifice. Aaron Mingo is an artist and it is clearly evidenced in each song on his debut album, The Motion Picture Ming Mixtape hosted by J.J. Brown. From the very first cut, “Septa Pension” Mingo is flipping lyrics like Kush in the Nile Valley. Nilotic griot linked to his ancestral past through some ancient Sasa wisdom but communicated in that Philly Hip Hop Nation lingo.

Motion Picture Mingo’s Mixtape is a multivariant, psychological portrait of an artist casting bright lights on those sets, scenes, situations in various urbanscapes of the North. Here we are right in the midst of those Twisted Tales in Mingo’s own Philly Streets. Streets keep calling! Gotta change his number. Allegheny alligators snatching bodies like a loving mother gripping her new born. Every night them boyz popping things off all over the neighborhood. Determined to move beyond the boundaries of their immediate loci, Ma Dukes carried the sons to the MD so they could continue looming magic out of endless dreams. They lived in their dreams and twisted all of this into realities. In 2008, the Fam is moving in the crucible force of history.

Les grande mutiles taking place in the streets of Pistolvania. Who was the young boy whose spines were ripped asunder in the morning sun? Whose son is he? Where is the setting for all of this action? NP. North Philly streets be so hot you think you’re in the Cajun Jungle. What you know about that? Shots coming for hours at a time. What you know about being born on the bathroom floor in the heart and soul of NP? This seasoned MC Mingo be spitting that crazy Hip Hop narrative as he carries his camcorder to scene after scene (from “ Stop Frontin’ and “Chosen” through “China Chubakka,” “Remember Me” and “Back Home.”)

In The Motion Picture Ming Mixtape, Aaron Mingo provides us a cinematic view of a fast paced world in process, here is a truth-seeking persona that illuminates not only Seringhetti Ming but Ming Mang Tang and Mingo the Merciless. Incredible fragments of a whole range of yellow-taped intimate self-presentations. This kid is spitting lava like his mouth’s on fyah. The rich contours of his journey enables the listener/viewer to explore a diverse background of experiences; comfort zones in Mexico, Miami Beach, Rockville, Willingboro, D.C. and Philly. That’s deeply deep.

Mingo’s So Hot He’s Spittin The Sun
What’s that Sound? Son’s on his mission. The inchoate flow of events like water from the Ming Spring.
I know them haters talking/But they better be straight walking
Black out in Midday/ Gotta respect his GRIND anyway.
Killing them son. What Ming doing? Killing MCs like flies. Miskeening it on some old Grand Hustle Wild Life ish. Smooth brother style with the philarillo’s and that PHI swagger. Corporate hustler in a 2008 B-Boy pose. Moving in the zones of reality and surreality, of possibility and the impossible. Turn the lights on. Action. Camera smashed. Walking real slow. Raw like that. Remember me murking them freestyling ninjas and writing hooks on McDonald’s napkins, yo. That’s C-RAZY! Viton Mercy. Tees at the Kulture Shop on Ave B-More. Kith and Kin. All Fam.

How will they take it/ When we get back home
No time for fakin/When you’re on your own.
They thought they knew you then/ But now you’re grown
Got to Make it/ Ain’t no other choice.

This Hip Hop artist is dipping real low with that Seringhetti flow. Ride with me. Beast on the MIC. That’s why his Daddy introduced him as Bad little MoFo. And in MD they called him Carmico. Check the boards. Shit ain’t even close. They loving Mingo like DC loves Go Go. Mingo is swimming hard just to keep what he loves. Tha Global Cipha Artist Spotlight is shining on Aaron Mingo and we urge you to check out his cinematic music. We are pleased to introduce The Motion Picture Mixtape to the Global Hip Hop Community. He’s featured on several projects. To hear his music and get more information you may visit: www.askformercy.com.

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