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Foundation Movement members; Eroc, Optimus,
and DJ El are a diverse group of young artists with origins from
Puerto Rico, Liberia, and Guatemala, who all met in Boston and
united to form the group. This cultural fusion, as well as their
experiences growing up in Boston, has influenced The Foundation’s
music. Not another rap group with watered down lyrics, and messages
of misogyny and materialism.....Full
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Eroc began performing in his fathers church
at age 14 later he was in the underground group “The Next
Movement.” In August of 2001 he founded “The Foundation”
and later on a live radio performance he met Optimus who was a
radio personality and the program director at the station the
two quickly became close friends and very quickly began collaborating
as partners in rhyme. Stating that he loves music and loves the
idea of “using music as a vehicle for social change,”
Eroc has never strayed from that premise, his motto that “silence
is the voice of complicity”... Full
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Optimus (B. Browne), of the Kru & Grebo
tribes (Liberia), conceived his first rhyme at the time of Public
Enemy’s “911 Is A Joke.” In honor of his major
musical influences of the time, Big Daddy Kane & Flavor Flav
(1990), he dubbed himself Big Flavor B. He did not write his next
lyric until two years later, when a childhood friend, Kranberry
(K. Woozencraft) urged B to pick up his pen again.... Full
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