Mr. C N I L E (born Carl Bellamy) is an independent hip-hop artist and music producer from Baltimore, Maryland. N I L E is an acronym for Notorious In Lyrical Expression which is appropriately named his strong gift of lyricism along with his diverse styles of flow. But most impressive about N I L E is his metaphor and phrase usage in his songs that very spiritually emerge from the depths of his soul when he writes through the inspiration of his personal testimonies and the Holy Spirit. Born in Philadelphia, PA, he moved to Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 10 where his gift of music was developed into a phenomenal demonstration of how God uses the ordinary to do the extroadinary. N I L E has always had a spiritual relationship with God since his youth, and that faith has carried him through some of the most chaotic and tragic times of his life. His music is nothing less than an awsome testimony of how good the Lord truly is. More incredibly, the hip hop music that he creates is no doubt blessed with the anointing of the Holy Spirit while at the same time expressed with the raw, uncut authority that N I L E verbally delivers enabling his music to minister with his gift of God given wisdom to youth suffering from broken spirits.
N I L E has always had a vision of owning his own music production company. This vision was not for the sake of financial gain, but for the control and authority over the music that he has been blessed to create to minister through by way of the Holy Spirt. After doing years of secular hip hop music, N I L E began to realize that all of his secular music was merely a means of therapy for him to deal with the everyday trials & tribulations that he constantly faced. Ironically, on every album, he has cried out to God to take his life as a means of a cry for help from the pain and suffering that he had to personally endure. Bringing the vision to reality was truly an answer from God telling Carl that He has heard his every cry and is now here to use the very gift that enabled Carl to express his pain to now minister words of hope, love and re-assurance to the broken spirited.

My art is a weird and very different sometimes crazy afrofuturistic mix of music and poetry performance and recording circumambulating around the ideas of freedom and defiance through the rebellious yet intergalactic lense of black identity and melanated living, magic, truth and expression manifested as a human Wu Tang song amalgamated info fractal made flesh.

1NE Man Movement represents the ultimate in one individuals artistic expression truly set free. 4 (the 5th one doesn’t exist, it’s not real and I refuse to acknowledge it) different creative entities embodied within one human. (Victor Frantz Rodgers the 2nd) All with distinctively different styles, artistic approaches and even opinions. Over the years they have appeared and creatively manifested throughout the underground art world (primarily in Baltimore, DC, VA, Philly, NYC and Pittsburgh as well as other various places throughout the country) of HipHop, Spoken Word Poetry, Jazz and Theatre. Usually in a seasonal like manor where each one would get major individual shine for a period of time before the mantel was passed on to another. And this particular creative process repeated for about a decade and a half. However I feel that now is the time for each to reemerge simultaneously as one united force of artistic expression! 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TpCdSgAUrUM

Slick Vic Low, born Victor F. Rodgers the 2nd began his journey into Hip-Hop @ age 8. Originally a native of the Steel City of Pittsburgh he came to the Baltimore area in 2001 to study media and urban arts production at Coppin State University and in the mean while integrated himself and his abilities into the regions artistic community. Slick Vic Low is an emcee through and through inspired by the rhyme and driven by the beat. With the ability to create lyrics in multiple styles with diversity in technique. And HipHop is his eternal heartbeat. 


https://m.soundcloud.com/onemanmovement/return-of-the-lyricist

Lyrical Leviathan is the evoL ancestor of Slick Vic Low, who first emerged into this time period and dimension around early 2000. A ferocious war emcee and very vivid lyricist Leviathan's arrival was originally prophesied in the Nas classic "It ain't hard to tell". He is very dangerous and yes potentially evol at all times, yet always capable of evolving that evoL into its reverse which is Love! Lyrical Leviathan is at complete oneness with the Hip-Hop Spirit Ether, sent by God to Bless the Mic and bring balance back to the force of Hip-Hop expression. A born battle emcee who uses bars like mathematic equations with extremely complex rhyme schemes and punchline mastery. An ancient soul from the future. An emcee who just happens to also write poetry yet in the words of the god Rakim he takes this “way more serious than just a poem!”

The Second twin cousin of the group is none other than the entity known as Thelonious Coltrane. Imagine the spirits of Jazz musicians that live inside HipHop lyrics brought to life. That is the essence of Thelonious Coltrane. Inspired by a description of the producer Madlib’s approach to creating beats plus Victor Rodgers’ long time obsessive level of appreciation for Jazz and how it was in many ways one of HipHops key musical and creative DNA strands, Thelonious Coltrane was born. A Jazz Emcee who fuses poetry with HipHop lyricism in strange and often unusual ways Thelonious Coltrane essentially seeks to lyrically live inside the beat. Thelonious Coltrane is “Existence Music”. 

https://theloniouscoltrane.bandcamp.com/track/soul-music

Slangston Hughes is a National Slam Champion based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Director of Youth Poetry at Dew More Baltimore and lead coach of the world champion Baltimore City Youth Poetry Team. And founder of Speak Out: Slammageddon. Slangston was also a member of the Slammageddon Baltimore slam team that won the 2016 National Poetry Slam and Southern Fried Slam in 2017 & 2018.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zNkWSZr4yLs

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