MOTION
This is how she moves it! Her name is Motion, emerging from the northern side of the hip hop world. She
is a lyricist, a multi-talented artist with the skills to party-rock an audience into a frenzy, or
insight a listener with thought-provoking lyrics. Armed with body-moving production, tight flows,
experience and vision, Motion achieves in any arena she chooses; the stage, the page and the radio
waves. And in the millennium, this MC, writer, poet and radio personality combines her ammunition
into one powerful tool: soul-hitting hip hop.
In the beginning...
Born in Toronto to parents hailing from Antigua and Barbados, Motion grew up with the seeds of hip hop
that surrounded the city. The sounds of reggae, calypso and soul were constantly booming off the walls
at home, and Motion became and avid listener to her parents large record collection, lip syncing,
dancing and harmonizing to everything from Bob Marley and Sparrow, to Isaac Hayes and Roberta Flack. At
the first opportunity, the young musician-in-the-making started playing piano, free-styling songs into
tape recorders and writing lyrics. By 12, the girl who would become Motion began putting pen to paper,
taking example from Grand Master Flash, LL Cool J and Roxanne Shante, scribing her rhymes over old
school b-side instrumentals, and became the "lady of the crew" trading lines with brothers from her
block.
As hip hop exploded, Motion stepped into the scene with a vengeance. Still in high school, she was
writing lyrics, dancing, singing in talent shows, playing instruments, and steadily rhyming in the
hallways. It was here that she met a young DJ/producer, Power of the Soul Controllers, and together
they began making tracks and were soon performing at local shows and community centers. Starting with
underground tapes on the local hip hop radio station, Motion went on to form her first crew Nu Black
Nation, a crew of female MC's and B-Girls, produced by Power. NuBN went on to record on the first
compilation of Canadian hip hop ColdFront [Attic], and also appeared on The Gathering, which received
a Juno Award for Best Recording.
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