Say What You Need to Say ft. J.Ellis & BS

Excited to share this episode featuring BS & J.Ellis from Freestyle Love Supreme Academy!

David “BS” Bradshaw has been an active emcee, beatboxer, and event host for the past decade. His primary focus for the better part of the last five years has been refining his craft as an educator, teaching artist, curriculum developer, and programming specialist. He has toured regionally, performed at the Apollo, been featured on BET's 106&Park, RedbullTV, Beatbox The Movie, and The Today Show.

BS is a BEAT Global T3 certified instructor with a background as a Dual Language teacher. He currently facilitates freestyle rhyming, songwriting, and beatboxing workshops for learners of all ages and abilities including full-time emcees, hobbyists, incarcerated youth, and special needs learners.

J.Ellis is an Ohio made & Harlem molded actor, improvisor, instructor and musician, who has coached, directed & performed on Broadway, for “America’s Got Talent”, in the historic main-stage of Carnegie Hall, and at Off Mic Comedy School. He most recently created and directed the fully improvised hip-hop musical “BARS”, produced by Playhouse Square & Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory.

J.Ellis is grateful to be a proud advocate for LGBTQ+ artists’ perspectives in hip-hop!

Speaking of Hip-hop- this episode is a big ol' geek out session on music. We get into how we as humans and artists can mold our communities by simply showing up to move tolerance and progression forward in the hip-hop genre and in all creative spaces.

Elise shares her own experience in Freestyle Love Supreme Academy and we all chat about how freestyle rap & psychologically safe spaces can bring about healing. We also get into experiences we’ve had having to code switch in different areas of our lives and how that parallels the duality we experience in hip-hop culture. We even address how masculine societal emphasis has impacted our willingness to be emotional, heart-led humans. LISTEN- this episode has it ALL!

You can find BS teaching at Freestyle Love Supreme’s Freestyle Rap Academy or at his own Freestyle Fitness and Beatbox Express workshops. Keep up with him by visiting TRUSTBS.COM or following him on socials @trustbs .

J.Ellis can currently be seen directing (“Got Your Back 5: I Got PRIDE”), instructing (Foundations of Freestyle/Recess of Color/youth programming) for the freestyle love supreme academy as well as performing with TONY award winning Freestyle Love Supreme. Follow him @jellis14.

Mentioned: FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME ACADEMY ; @flsacademy

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