Album Notes

Urban Poets is a verbal dynamic duo featuring two prominent Slam poets.

Thea Monyee', the lady of the two, is mostly recognized from her appearance on Def Poetry Jam where she performed track 6 of "the Family Album", and BET's "Lyric Cafe' " and "The Way We Do It". Thea was also a member of the Los Angeles 2002 Slam Team. Perhaps you've never seen these programs and have no clue what a poetry Slam is, yet her material still sounds familiar. Maybe out of the hundreds of performances she has per year, she was fortunate enough to have you in the audience at one of them. She tends to be unforgettable.

GaKnew (Roxwel), the mad scientist of the poetic tag team, is the only two time Grand Slam Champion that "Da' Poetry Lounge" ( largest poetry venue on the west coast, if not country) has ever seen. You may recognize his voice from the hype 911 call of the 2004 Nike Battlegrounds commercial. Or maybe you know him for his passionate stories and lyrical craftsmanship displayed on the "Grand Opening", a hiphop album released in 1999 by the "Underground Poet Society" (UPS). Though UPS, appears to have been inactive since the release of the Grand Opening, GaKnew never stopped. While on a nomadic performance journey throughout the west coast poetry world, GaKnew has been spending time learning the ways of a producer and obtaining the needed equipment to gain independence. He's the breath of fresh air (or old 1994 Tribe Called Quest, Pete Rock and C L Smooth air) that today's Hiphop is missing.

Married in July of 2003 and birthing a little poet of their own shortly after, the three have become a family ,hence, "The Family Album".