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Hip Hop Wasn’t an Option

August 11, 2017

Y'all remember that scene from the movie "Brown Sugar" where Latham's character asked the pivotal and somewhat poignant question? You know the question. It was asked so much and in such a way that I found myself getting annoyed with hearing it. When did you first fall in love with HIP HOP? People in real life have asked me this question. When they do. I tend to laugh at them. I normally answer by saying that Hip Hop was never an option for me.

Hip Hop to me is like me being born a male. I didn't have a say in the matter. This is how I was born. Well I feel that I was never given the choice of whether to like or love hip hop or not. I was born at the time when it was created in the city that it was created in. Hip hop is in my DNA. It courses through my veins. It oozes through my pores. It's in my walk. It's in my talk. It's in my style. It's in my confidence or swagger.

The very first time I heard my first sounds. I was immersed into the culture of hip hop. By the time I was able to crawl. I did so on the grounds in which the hip hop culture emanated. It had reached my
Borough before I got there. For that I am grateful. I didn't have to find hip hop. I didn't have meet it and fall in love with it. It was all I knew. Today I am proud to say it is the same as it ever was. I just have a greater appreciation of it.

So when did I fall in love with hip hop? Ha! I am hip hop. Hip hop is me. I just learned how to love myself. The moments where I was the odd man out due to hip hop not reaching some of parts of the country that I had visited. The moments where I just spontaneously busted a move at a party when I heard the 808. The moments people looked at strangely when I dropped a dope beat on a cafeteria table. All these moments were indicative of hip hop being a part of me.

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Mr. Nicholson currently runs a graphic design business in Gahanna, Ohio as well as provide hip-hop fitness dance instruction at Life Time Fitness, Urban Active Fitness, Diamond Dance & Fitness and Phlex Fitness among others.

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Michael Demetrius Nicholson was born on March 2nd in Brooklyn, New York.

Paul Roberson is one of my heroes who inspired me to be who I am today.

While in New York. It was discovered that Michael had artistic talent. He began drawing life like portraits at the age of 6 years old. He began dancing at the age of 8. This prompted his parents to enroll him in schools for the gifted and talented. This experience even more so fostered Michael’s creative talents. He later attended the High School of Art and Design where he studied commercial art and photography.

Michael received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Ohio Wesleyan University. He originally attended the university to double major in French and theology but decided that his passion was in the arts.

Mr. Nicholson currently runs a graphic design business in Gahanna, Ohio as well as provide hip-hop fitness dance instruction at Life Time Fitness, Urban Active Fitness and Diamond Dance & Fitness.

To all you haters,
to all you trolls,
close your eyes
and picture me rollin'.

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