You’ve found your way to this website then you probably where encouraged (or assaulted) by a music videos, looking me up on a PDA during a live performance, or back in your room after one of my workshops. Thanks for the love and welcome to notarapper.com. I’ve been blessed to make the art that I love for people I love because family like you continues to support. Scan around the site, starting here where you can hear previews of almost every project I’ve released.
Many people have asked how they could help spread the positive messages and images in my music. Here’s a real easy thing to do. Join my fathers day countdown and email “Grown Ass Man” and “Peek-A-Boo” to at least 10 good fathers you know! Please support independent hip-hop by downloading just one song from the new album Radio Friendly! Let’s stay connected, I hope to see you in person soon!
Remember
“Music is the Language of Spirits”.
Bomani
RADIO FRIENDLY
Click here to buy an autographed copy of Radio friendly
With his “self-bootlegged” effort, Radio Friendly, Bomani “D’mite” Armah proves to his fans and foes that he’s more than just a misunderstood satirist or “Mr. Read-A-Book”. Bomani can take his place in line as the best lyricist you never heard. For those raised on a steady diet of hip hop and positive self images, it is often difficult to reconcile the music we love from the genre that doesn’t often love us back. Bomani’s Radio Friendly bridges the gap between who we are and what we strive to become. Radio Friendly this can’t be dismissed as just “conscious” or “backpack”, that’s way too easy and the ride from beginning to end, disallows lazy listening. This isn’t a passive CD. This is sing along, this is “oh snap! What did he just say?”, this is the very definition of a head nod. From the go-go tinged, Give the Drummer Some and the bouncy, clever Love Me In The Morning to the straight hip hop fire of, Logic and Theory. This is an album full of every corner of hip hop imaginable. You want crunk? You got it. You want go-go? You got it. You want a song about a toddler’s game, Peek-A-Boo punctuated by children’s laughter, you have that over a beat so infectious and happy, it recalls more 80s pop tune than anything else. Radio Friendly is nuanced, introspective, thought provoking and just plain good music. It’s the music we love and the way we allow it to love us– like fully functioning, highly intoxicating, brilliantly performed and produced and lyrics that have you searching for the rewind function. This is Grown ass hip hop by a Grown Ass Man for grown ass people. You will not be disappointed.
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The Hustle/Shake it Off
Growing up in the DC Metropolitan area, Bomani Armah has always felt a calling on his life. The stark contrast and disturbing similarities of the black utopia that was thought to be in PG County, and the realities of the tough streets of “murder capital” era Washington DC were incredible backdrop for an insightful artist who become known in 28 short years as D’mite. Tight rope walkng the line of poetry & emceeing, Gospel & Go-Go, street wise & academic learning, Bomani has sought to achieve the medium between straight headbangers & insightful lyricism. His debut enhanced maxi-single “The Hustle/Shake it Off” finds D’mite at a critical time, grasping with the realities of adult hood in a time where pop culture is becoming more and more immature. In his music and poetry you can hear the artistic freedom of Outkast, the soul stirring encouragement of Richard Smallwood, the funky swing of Chuck Brown, the prophetic lyricism of Khalil Gibran and the unbridled flow of Ludacris. His influence range from the seminal African novelist Ayi Kwei Armah and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakka to the golden era hip-hop of Tribe Called Quest and Scarface.
Bomani is a poet for the people, writing hooks and rhymes that stand on their own as slogans and motto’s. Check out the merch you can have delivered right to your door featuring your favorites like “Read a Book” and “Raise Your Kids”. Make sure to cop one of the “…Got My Back” t-shirts, and request one for your hood!
