Essential MC {E=MC2} - Bio
b. Rey Aponte the Essential MC was born with a unique purpose to raise consciousness through the power of the spoken word. He has worked with local and national organizations as a lecturer, hip-hop emcee, spoken word artist, mentor and workshop facilitator. Some of the organizations have been the Agape International Spiritual Center, NAACP, National Urban League, HeArt Foundation, Star Education, J.U.I.C.E., Avant Yard and others.
As a speaker, Essential has been known to captivate audiences in his keynotes by delivering his message in a style that resonates with the attendees. He innately tunes in to the energy of the audience and "uplifts them to another level of consciousness". Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith (The Secret). Essential adds a component of centeredness, vision and self determination from the perspective of a young, focused leader, that is transformational and quite essential to future leaders.
As an artist, Essential has had the priviledge of sharing stages with artists such as: Mos Def, Common, Talib Kweli, Jill Scott, Jessica Care Moore, The Roots, dead prez, Methd Man, Saul Williams, and many more. He is currently being featured on KRS One's Stop the Violence 2 album, along side artists such as Nelly, The Game, Ne-Yo, Talib Kweli, Lyfe Jennings, Busta Rhymes and many others.
Essential has also recently released his self produced motivational CD entitled "Essential Affirmations" which was designed to reprogram the subconscious mind by using declaritve poerty set to hypnotic tribal rhythms. Currently he is working n his hip-hop/world music album which features his live band as well as platinum producer Duane "Da Rock" Ramos.
Recently Essential was featured as the top #22 unsigned hip-hop artists on myspace.com, which has been confirmation that uplifting hip-hop music is not only growing, but that he is at the forefront of that shift. He is currently booking dates for lectures as well as world wde performances.
As an advocate of shifting the state of hiphop culture, Essential has met wit and interviewed: Jesse Jackson, Magic Johnson, Akon, Rza, The Roots, Louis Gossett Jr., Hill Harper, Vondee Curtis Hall, Vanessa A. Williams, Talib Kweil, E40, Snoop Dogg, Master P., and so many other activists, actors and artists.
Essential has been known to have a gift of effectively communicating the principals of a higher consciousness, through his lectures, workshops and music. In what seems to be a Universal season of change, Essential MC is quite an essential element to that shift.