Middle Passage, music with a social conscience

From: Indianapolis Recorder | Date: January 14, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Shonda McClain
Indianapolis Recorder
01-14-1995
Middle Passage, music with a social conscience.

If your senses have been dulled by pseudo hip hop groups being cranked out of record companies like uncreative cyborgs, then you will be happy to learn that true originality and creativity is not dead.

Middle Passage is a new hip hop group signed to Vivi Records, an independent record label in Bloomington, Ind.

It is comprised of four members, Jimmy Coleman, 23 and Akare, 25 from Fort Wayne, Ind. and Alicia Squires, 22 and Quinn Anderson, 25 of Indianapolis.

The four met while attending Indiana ...

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