Gabriel Teodros Explained

Origin:Beacon Hill, Seattle, Washington
Genre:Hip hop, Northwest hip hop
Occupation:Rapper
Years Active:1999–present
Label:Independent, Fresh Chopped Beats, MADK, MassLine, Porto Franco Records
Associated Acts:Abyssinian Creole, CopperWire, Khingz, Meklit Hadero, Moka Only, Amos Miller, SoulChef, Burntface, Blue Scholars, Macklemore, Bocafloja, Shakiah
Website:http://www.gabrielteodros.com

Gabriel Teodros (born 1981) is a hip hop artist and a member of the groups Abyssinian Creole and CopperWire. He was raised on Beacon Hill, Seattle, Washington. Teodros' music often features socially conscious themes, and he was a catalyst in the surge of dynamic underground rap acts from the Pacific Northwest during the first decade of the 2000s.[1]

Early life

Teodros was born and raised in Seattle, Washington to an Ethiopian mother and a father of Scottish, Irish and Native American descent.[2] His parents met through anti-war organizing in the 1970s, and they split up around the time Gabriel was born. He stayed with his mother, and met grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins as they first emigrated to the United States and all stayed in the same house.[3]

Teodros's relationship with hip hop culture began at a young age within the South Seattle neighborhood of Beacon Hill. "A lot of kids in my neighborhood were affected by gang culture. And I kind of had a death wish. I felt like, at an early age, that I wasn’t going to live to 21," he said in an interview with Sheeko Magazine. He spent his high school years in Las Vegas, Nevada where as one out of approximately 30 students of color in a predominantly white school, something within him changed. "It was the first time I understood that there was a system in place that wanted kids like me to want to die. And understanding that in high school made me want to live," he said in the same interview. The former breakdancer, graffiti writer and closet-emcee finally began to take his career path seriously at age 16, using hip hop to both understand and explain his world.[4]

Music career

1999-2005: Beginnings and Abyssinian Creole

Teodros began his musical career around 1999, when he returned to Seattle and began working with a live band called 500 Years. That same year, he met an MC named Khalil Crisis (better known as Khingz), from the group Maroon Colony. The two groups began sharing bills together all over Seattle and the 2 MC's also began working with a community organization called Youth Undoing Institutionalized Racism. In 2001, YUIR sent them to a conference in New Orleans, and it was there that Teodros and Khingz saw how much they had in common outside of music. They formed the group Abyssinian Creole to both represent their peoples and the bridges between them.[5]

Also in 2001, Teodros released his first solo album, entitled Sun To A Recycled Soul.[4]

In 2005, Abyssinian Creole released its debut album, Sexy Beast,[5] a record that gives expression to the post-1990s cosmopolitanism thriving in South Seattle.[6] The album's featured guests include Moka Only, Geologic of Blue Scholars and Macklemore.[7] What Sexy Beast made apparent was the diversity of Northwest hiphop: It can come from anywhere (East Africa, Haiti) and be about anything (love, immigration, meditation).[8]

2006-2007: Lovework

See main article: Lovework. In the spring of 2006, Teodros completed the entire Lovework album with producer Amos Miller, around the same time MassLine Media was being formed with Teodros, Blue Scholars and Common Market.[5] Lovework had additional beat contributions from Sabzi of Blue Scholars, Moka Only, Kitone, and Specs One. Its sound was primarily influenced by Seattle veteran Vitamin D (who also mixed the record) and the late J Dilla.[6] The album title, Lovework was inspired by bell hooks and her book , where hooks insists that to truly know love, one must agree that love is a verb. She goes further to say to truly know love, one must work to undo every system of domination that stops people from truly loving. The title was also inspired by a quote from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet: "Work is love made visible".[5]

Also in 2006, Good Medicine was formed: a four-person group composed of Teodros, Khingz, Macklemore and Geologic of Blue Scholars. Good Medicine have headlined a handful of shows in the Seattle area but have never released any music as a group.[9] Towards the end of that year, Teodros independently released a mix-tape/CD entitled Westlake: Class of 1999, which was a collection of his unreleased songs recorded in four different cities between 2002 and 2006.[10]

The Lovework album was released on February 27, 2007 on MassLine, to critical acclaim.[11] The album topped the CMJ Hip Hop charts for two weeks and came in at #19 for the year 2007.[12] Teodros was also named as one of URB Magazines "Next 100".[13]

2009-2010: Air 2 A Bird and GT's Ethiopium

In the fall of 2009, after being deported from the London-Heathrow Airport and having to cancel a European tour, Teodros found himself in a Brooklyn, New York recording studio with Lovework producer Amos Miller.[14] They spent two weeks together crafting a 12 track album produced using mostly GarageBand, a piano, and the recordings of actual birds.[15] The result was Air 2 A Bird's Crow Hill, released independently in the summer of 2010.[16]

In December 2009, Teodros released GT's Ethiopium: A Jitter Generation Mixtape.[17] This release shined a light on the realities of Ethiopia, touched on America's own imperfections and stressed the importance of exploring one's own intelligence and spirituality. It was made completely using instrumentals from Oh No's Ethiopium, which was made completely using old-school and rare samples of Ethiopian music.[18]

2012: Colored People's Time Machine and CopperWire

In January 2012, Teodros released Colored People's Time Machine, his first full-length solo album since Lovework.[19] Colored People's Time Machine was recorded in Seattle and Brooklyn and is a multi-lingual, multi-genre album that featured vocal, instrumental, and production collaborations with 20 different artists. On it, he explored themes of love (Goodnight, a brief interlude on a long-distance relationship), cultural identity (Blossoms of Fire), personal identity (Alien Native, a biographical tale), the concept of home (Diaspora and Beit), loss (Ella Mable Bright, a tribute to his grandmother featuring Meklit Hadero), music (Colored People’s Time Machine, and Sun and Breeze, also featuring Meklit Hadero and Amos Miller), and the music industry (You A Star, on which he warns about the pitfalls of the industry and the danger of buying into the illusion of stardom).[20] Other guests on the album include Mexico City's Bocafloja, Los Angeles emcee SKIM, and Palestinian wordsmith Sabreena Da Witch.[19]

On April 17, 2012, CopperWire's debut album Earthbound was released on Porto Franco Records.[21] CopperWire is a group composed of Teodros, Meklit Hadero and Burntface. All three celebrate their Ethiopian ancestry on the album, but do so through the characters of galactic fugitives aboard a hijacked starship.[22] Earthbounds story, as described in liner notes by award-winning science fiction author Nnedi Okorafor, casts CopperWire members as characters that journey to Earth in the year 2089 to learn what it means to be human. They include mad scientist Scholar Black (Burntface), alien-human hybrid Getazia (Gabriel Teodros) and interstellar telepath Ko Ai (Meklit Hadero).[23] The album uses metaphors of intergalactic distances to talk about diaspora and cultural connection and disconnection.[24] The album also uses sonified light curves (that is the sound of stars, processed through Fourier analysis into frequencies that can be heard by humans) courtesy of SETI Institute researcher and NASA Kepler Labs analyst Jon Jenkins.[23]

2014: Children of the Dragon and Evidence of Things Not Seen

On May 7, 2014, Teodros independently released the album Children of the Dragon with Washington, DC-based producer AirMe. Teodros met AirMe in 2011 during a 24-hour layover in Washington, DC while traveling between the cities of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Seattle, WA. They recorded their first song together that day, before co-creating 20 more tracks together the following month.[25] The title Children of the Dragon is a reference to mythology Teodros first heard of in Haile Gerima's film Teza.[26]

On October 28, 2014, Teodros released the album Evidence of Things Not Seen with Auckland, New Zealand-based producer SoulChef, and featured vocals from Jonathan Emile, Shakiah and Sarah MK. The album and its title were largely inspired by James Baldwin, and it was released within a full-size book of Teodros' lyrics.[27] City Arts Magazine described it as the best album of Teodros' career.[28]

2018: History Rhymes If It Doesn't Repeat (A Southend Healing Ritual)

On September 21, 2018, Teodros released his fifth solo album, History Rhymes If It Doesn't Repeat (A Southend Healing Ritual), a concept album about healing from trauma that was partially inspired by Bessel van der Kolk's book . The album's featured guests included Meklit Hadero, Khingz, Nikkita Oliver, Essam, Shakiah, Mikaela Romero, Otieno Terry and it was entirely produced by Moka Only. [29] [30] NPR Music featured the album in a story titled "Beyond Grunge: 15 Artists Redefining Seattle Music" where they declared "Gabriel Teodros is one of the bravest rappers currently working in Seattle."[31]

2020: What We Leave Behind

On June 24, 2020, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and on the 20th anniversary of his first solo show at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center in South Seattle, Teodros released What We Leave Behind, a collection of previously unreleased tracks spanning decades in their creation, along with a few new songs recorded specifically for the release. Some of the track highlights included a Sandra Bland, Angela Davis and James Baldwin-inspired collaboration with Aisha Fukushima titled "If They Come for Me in the Morning...",[32] a DJ B-Girl-produced meditation on the pandemic's early months titled "Listening to Bill Withers",[33] and "Solidarity" an anthem for Black & Asian solidarity with Kimmortal and Wundrkut on production.[34]

2023-2024: From the Ashes of Our Homes and Embers

On September 23, 2023, Teodros released his sixth solo album From the Ashes of Our Homes. The albums themes range from a tragic fire that he and his spouse, Ijeoma Oluo, had to flee from in September 2020, to longtime friends that have passed away, and a shifting landscape wracked by the pandemic, wars, and the climate catastrophe. Alex Ruder at KEXP wrote "From the Ashes of Our Homes finds strength in its honest and reflective lyrics that focus on building and nurturing relationships, both at home and in the community." Ashes also marks Teodros introduction to the world as a beat producer on a majority of the tracks.[35] [36]

On May 31, 2024, Teodros released Embers, a collection of new songs alongside previously unreleased remixes and reimagined songs from past projects.[37]

Touring

As a part of Abyssinian Creole, Teodros performed alongside Khingz at the Under the Volcano Festival in North Vancouver, BC in 2003,[38] 2004[39] and 2009.[40]

Teodros performed at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, Washington in 2006 (with Abyssinian Creole), 2007 (as a solo artist, and with Good Medicine), and in 2010 (with Air 2 A Bird).[41]

In 2007, Teodros toured the Western part of the United States with Blue Scholars and Common Market,[42] for the first and only MassLine Tour.[43] Also in 2007, Teodros performed at the Sasquatch! Music Festival, which was headlined by Björk, and also featured Manu Chao and Ozomatli.[44] Teodros also performed at the Trinity International Hip Hop Festival in Hartford, Connecticut in 2007 (as a solo artist),[45] and in 2008 (as a part of Abyssinian Creole).[46]

In the summer of 2009, Teodros toured in Mexico with Bocafloja, Eternia and Para La Gente.[3] [47]

In 2011, Teodros toured Ethiopia alongside Meklit Hadero and Burntface,[48] where they did 12 shows including the first Hip Hop shows to ever happen in the cities of Harar and Gondar. He recorded an album in Washington, DC inspired by the experience,[49] that was released in May 2014[50]

Teodros has also performed in the United States alongside the likes of Lupe Fiasco,[51] Black Star,[52] K'naan,[19] Zap Mama, Fishbone, KRS-One and The Coup.[53]

Other work

Teodros currently hosts a podcast titled Worldwide Underground focused on the art and politics of storytelling across every medium. [54]

Teodros leads writing workshops with youth, has helped spearhead after-school programs, and organizes all-ages events.[14]

In November 2012, Teodros did a TED Talk about hip hop and science fiction, at TEDxRainier in Seattle, Washington.[55] [56] The Pittsburgh-based artist Alisha Wormsley cites this TED Talk as an inspiration in her afro-futurist project There Are Black People In The Future.[57] [58]

In 2015, Teodros wrote curriculum, taught and helped launch The Residency, a summer program focused on youth development through hip-hop, in partnership with the Museum of Pop Culture, Arts Corps, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.[59] [60]

Also in 2015, Teodros made his speculative fiction debut with a time-travel story titled "Lalibela" published in the anthology Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (AK Press).[61] In 2016 he graduated from the Clarion West Writers Workshop for Speculative Fiction.[62]

From 2017-2023[63] Teodros was a DJ and Host on KEXP 90.3 FM in Seattle, WA. He started with an overnight show, and launched the show Early in the summer of 2020, which aired every weekday from 5-7AM, Pacific Time.[64] Teodros also served as Associate Music Director at the station, and he had a hand in bringing in shows like Sounds of Survivance[65] and Overnight Afrobeats[66] to the station.

In 2023, Teodros co-taught an interdisciplinary course in the University of Washington's Honors program called "Lovework: an unfinished syllabus", named for his 2007 LP and inspired by the work of bell hooks. [67]

Discography

Solo albums

Collaborative albums

EPs

Mixtapes

Non-album singles

Guest appearances

Videography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Biography by Cyril Cordor
  2. https://thefindmag.com/hip-hop-interviews/interview-gabriel-teodros/ "Interview: Gabriel Teodros"
  3. http://thefindmag.com/?p=4096 Interview: Gabriel Teodros
  4. http://alisonisaac.com/?p=277 "Profile: Gabriel Teodros" by Alison Isaac
  5. http://insomniacmagazine.com/interviews/gabriel-teodros-of-abyssinian-creole-interview-by-todd-e-jones/ Gabriel Teodros (of Abyssinian Creole) - interview by Todd E. Jones
  6. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=166020 "Let 'Lovework' Rule" by Charles Mudede
  7. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=25416 "My Philosophy" by Larry Mizell Jr
  8. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=479748 "Up & Coming" by Charles Mudede
  9. http://seattletimes.com/html/musicnightlife/2003530978_nite19.html "Things are hopping for hip-hoppers Blue Scholars" by Tom Scanlon
  10. http://www.shotgunreviews.com/archive/reviews/music/hiphop/gabriel_teodros.html "I Don't Label, I Just Call It Like I Hear It" by Angelica LeMinh
  11. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=157973 "My Philosophy" by Larry Mizell Jr
  12. http://www.cmj.com College Music Journal
  13. http://www.urb.com/promotions/next1000/profile.php?BandId=32 "Next 100" Gabriel Teodros - Reviewed by Kevin Polowy
  14. http://www.addistunes.com/index.php?c=gabriel_teodros_talks_about_life_music_and_the_future "Gabriel Teodros Talks about Life, Music, and the Future" Interview by AddisTunes
  15. http://kexp.org/reviews/albumreview.aspx?reviewid=4039 Air 2 A Bird "Crow Hill" Album Review by Alex
  16. http://www.ssgmusic.com/gabriel-teodros-amos-millers-air-2-a-bird/ "Gabriel Teodros & Amos Miller’s Air 2 A Bird" by Chul Gugich
  17. http://www.lastnightsmixtape.com/2009/12/17/ethiopium/ "Ethiopium" by Toast
  18. http://dopehug.com/2009/12/18/gabriel-teodros-gts-ethiopium-a-jitter-generation-mixtape/ "Gabriel Teodros – GTs Ethiopium: A Jitter Generation Mixtape (2009)"
  19. http://www.okayplayer.com/reviews/gabriel-teodros.html "Review: Gabriel Teodros - Colored People's Time Machine" by Jonathan Cunningham
  20. http://www.thisisafrica.me/new-releases/detail/19379/%22Colored-People%E2%80%99s-Time-Machine%22,-by-Gabriel-Teodros "New Release: Colored People's Time Machine by Gabriel Teodros" by Anne Mazimhaka
  21. http://206up.com/2012/04/16/new-music-earthbound-copperwire/ "NEW MUSIC: Earthbound – Copperwire"
  22. http://news.discovery.com/space/space-music-copperwire-eastern-bloc-funk-and-m%C5%93bius-120425.html "Space Music: CopperWire, Eastern Bloc Funk and Mœbius" by Robert Lamb
  23. https://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/04/copperwire-earthbound/ "With Earthbound, CopperWire Creates a Soulful Sci-Fi Space Opera" by Scott Thill
  24. http://www.sfbg.com/2012/05/02/star-search "Star search" by Mirissa Neff
  25. http://www.okayafrica.com/gabriel-teodros-airme-24-hour-layover-okayafrica-premiere/ "Premiere: Gabriel Teodros x AirMe '24 Hour Layover'" by Alyssa Klein
  26. http://africaspeaks4africa.org/gabriel-teodros-children-of-the-dragon/ "Gabriel Teodros: Children of the Dragon"
  27. http://www.okayafrica.com/gabriel-teodros-evidence-of-things-not-seen-album/ "Stream Gabriel Teodros' James Baldwin-Inspired 'Evidence Of Things Not Seen' LP" by Z Weg
  28. http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/issue/december-2014/ "The Power Of Place" by Jonathan Cunningham
  29. https://southseattleemerald.com/2018/10/04/gabriel-teodros-addresses-trauma-and-the-healing-he-found-in-music-and-the-southend-on-his-new-album/ "Gabriel Teodros addresses trauma and the healing he found in music and the Southend on his new album" by Regan Jackson
  30. https://www.cityartsmagazine.com/history-rhymes-if-it-doesnt-repeat-a-southend-healing-ritual-by-gabriel-teodros/ "‘History Rhymes If It Doesn’t Repeat (A Southend Healing Ritual)’ by Gabriel Teodros" Album Review by Jonathan Zwickel
  31. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/731579136/beyond-grunge-15-artists-redefining-seattle-music "Beyond Grunge: 15 Artists Redefining Seattle Music"
  32. https://kexp.org/podcasts/song-of-the-day/2020/7/10/gabriel-teodros-if-they-come-me-morning-feat-aisha-fukushima/ "Gabriel Teodros - If They Come for Me in the Morning... (feat. Aisha Fukushima)" Song Of The Day
  33. https://scratchedvinyl.com/reviews/gabriel-teodros-what-we-leave-behind/ "Gabriel Teodros - What We Leave Behind" Review by Chi Chi Thalken
  34. https://www.kexp.org/read/2021/8/30/world-where-many-worlds-fit-kimmortal-and-gabriel-teodros-black-and-asian-solidarity/ "“A World Where Many Worlds Fit”: Kimmortal and Gabriel Teodros on Black and Asian Solidarity" Interview with Tia Ho.
  35. https://www.kexp.org/read/2023/9/25/new-music-reviews-925/ "New Music Reviews (9/25)".
  36. https://www.whereweconverge.com/post/gabriel-t-a-lifelong-journey-in-music-and-community "Gabriel T: A Lifelong Journey in Music and Community" by RayJaun Stelly.
  37. https://kexp.org/read/2024/6/3/new-music-reviews-63/ "New Music Reviews (6/3)"
  38. http://volcano.resist.ca/2003/waterfront.html Waterfront Stage
  39. http://volcano.resist.ca/2004/malcolm_lowry.html Artists - Malcolm Lowry Stage
  40. http://volcano.resist.ca/2009/performers.html Performers
  41. http://bumbershoot.org/lineup/history/ History
  42. http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/node/4454 "Massline West Coast tour with Blue Scholars, Common Market, Gabriel Teodros" by imaginary dana
  43. http://seattletimes.com/html/musicnightlife/2003701753_nite11.html "A study in educated hip-hop" by Tom Scanlon
  44. http://www.sasquatchfestival.com/gallery/detail/2007-sasquatch-posters 2007 Sasquatch Posters
  45. http://trinityhiphop.com/archive/2007-2/ 2007
  46. http://trinityhiphop.com/archive/2008-2/ 2008
  47. http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/2009/jul/30/road-warriors/ "Road Warriors" by Zachary Stahl
  48. http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2012/05/copperwire_on_jamming_in_ethio.php "CopperWire: How Jam Sessions in Ethiopia Became a Hip-Hop Space Opera" by Ian S. Port
  49. http://blog.kexp.org/2012/02/24/song-of-the-day-gabriel-teodros-mind-power/ "Song of the Day: Gabriel Teodros - Mind Power" by Leigh Bezezekoff
  50. http://gabrielteodros.blogspot.com/2014/05/gabriel-teodros-airme-children-of-dragon.html/ "Gabriel Teodros & AirMe - Children Of The Dragon"
  51. http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-01-31/calendar/seattle-weekly-s-recommended-events/ "Seattle Weekly's Recommended Events" by Kate Silver and Rachel Shimp
  52. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/my-philosophy/Content?oid=10565891 "My Philosophy" by Larry Mizell Jr
  53. http://terrorbird.com/album/lovework Lovework Album Assets
  54. https://www.gabrielteodros.com/podcast Worldwide Underground
  55. http://www.tadias.com/12/09/2012/tedx-video-gabriel-teodros-does-hip-hop-science-fiction/ "TEDx Video: Gabriel Teodros Does Hip Hop & Science Fiction" by Tigist Selam
  56. http://thefindmag.com/videos/video-gabriel-teodros-hip-hop-science-fiction-tedxrainier/ "Video: Gabriel Teodros – Hip Hop & Science Fiction (TEDxRainier)" by Danny
  57. https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/562 "How Do We Build a Better Future?" by Arlette Hernandez
  58. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/podcasts/still-processing-disney-marvel-racist-stereotypes.html "40 Acres and a Movie" by Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham
  59. https://www.cityartsmagazine.com/hip-hop-summer-camp/ "Hip-Hop Summer Camp" by Shaun Swick
  60. https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/macklemores-youth-program-seeks-permanent-home-in-gentrifying-seattle-for-the-next-generation/ "Macklemore’s youth program seeks permanent home in gentrifying Seattle for the next generation" by Michael Rietmulder
  61. http://www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com/a-crash-course-in-the-history-of-black-science-fiction/ "A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction" by Nisi Shawl
  62. https://www.clarionwest.org/2016/03/31/introducing-the-clarion-west-class-of-2016/ Introducing the Clarion West Class of 2016
  63. https://www.kexp.org/read/2023/7/18/a-radio-lineup-update/ A Radio Lineup Update
  64. https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/the-many-lives-of-kexp-now-a-more-diverse-online-global-phenomenon/ "The many lives of KEXP, now a more diverse, online global phenomenon" by Brendan Kiley
  65. https://www.earshot.org/project/2024-08-kexps-new-indigenous-radio-show-sounds-of-survivance/ "KEXP’s New Indigenous Radio Show Sounds of Survivance" by Devon Leger
  66. https://publicola.com/2021/12/28/2021-in-review-new-kexp-dj-signals-emergent-seattle/ "2021 in Review: New KEXP DJ Signals Emergent Seattle" by Josh Feit
  67. https://honors.uw.edu/faculty/faculty-list/faculty-details/?instructor_id=632 Faculty Details
  68. http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rs/teodros-07.php Review by Robert Christgau
  69. http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2012_01F_coloredpeoplestime.html "RapReview Of The Week" by Steve 'Flash' Juon
  70. http://www.okayafrica.com/2014/03/27/gabriel-teodros-children-of-the-dragon-exclusives/ "Gabriel Teodros ‘Children Of the Dragon’ Exclusives"
  71. http://www.mtviggy.com/articles/gabriel-teodros-evidence-of-things-not-seen-ethiopian-hip-hop/ "Gabriel Teodros Unearths Things Not Seen Via His Ethiopian Hip Hop"
  72. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/12/731579136/beyond-grunge-15-artists-redefining-seattle-music "Beyond Grunge: 15 Artists Redefining Seattle Music"
  73. https://scratchedvinyl.com/reviews/gabriel-teodros-what-we-leave-behind "Gabriel Teodros - What We Leave Behind" by Chi Chi Thalken
  74. https://krcl.org/blog/best-of-september/ "Best of September"
  75. https://kexp.org/read/2024/6/3/new-music-reviews-63/ "New Music Reviews (6/3)"
  76. http://www.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2010/07/cd_review_air_2_a_bird_gets_ch.php "Air 2 A Bird Gets Chirpy via Gabriel Teodros and Amos Miller's Crow Hill" by Nick Feldman
  77. http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Copperwire-s-Earthbound-album-review-3478153.php "Copperwire's 'Earthbound' album review" by Aidin Vaziri
  78. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=20524 "My Philosophy" by Larry Mizell, Jr
  79. http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/04/19/gabriel-teodros-x-dj-ian-head-computer-parlor "Gabriel Teodros x DJ Ian Head - Computer Parlor" by Larry Mizell, Jr
  80. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/my-philosophy/Content?oid=125342 "My Philosophy" by Larry Mizell Jr
  81. http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/924316-129/happenings "Tonight: Gabriel Teodros at Chop Suey" by Kevin Capp
  82. http://www.discogs.com/Moka-Only-Flood/release/533452 Moka Only - Flood
  83. http://www.discogs.com/Macklemore-The-Language-Of-My-World/release/1985779 Macklemore - The Language Of My World
  84. http://seattletimes.com/html/entertainment/2003682695_hiphop27.html "Seattle's hip-hop scene comes into its own" by Andrew Matson
  85. http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-05-20/music/pho-shizzle/ "Pho Shizzle" by Jonathan Cunningham
  86. http://www.okayplayer.com/reviews/the-kafa-beanz-201001049588.html "The Kafa Beanz" by Will Georgi
  87. http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-06-17/music/khingz-time-to-share-the-wealth/ "Khingz: Time to Share the Wealth" by Jonathan Cunningham
  88. http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-07-22/music/big-world-breaks/ "CD Review: Big World Breaks' 4 Those Lost" by Jonathan Cunningham
  89. http://www.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2009/08/seattles_new_summertime_hip-ho.php "Seattle's New Summertime Hip-Hop Group" by Jonathan Cunningham
  90. http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profiles/publicola/articles/canary-sings-lioness-talks-about-tonights-ladies-night "Canary Sing's Lioness Talks About Neumos Ladies Night" by Jonathan Cunningham
  91. http://www.hiphoparchive.org/university/bibliography/a-woman-under-the-influence A Woman Under The Influence
  92. http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/thats-so-random/content?oid=3267736 "That's so Random" by Nick Miller
  93. http://www.ritmourbano.com.mx/2012/08/bocafloja-agonia-videoclip/ "Bocafloja – Agonia"
  94. http://www.okayafrica.com/2013/11/06/gabriel-teodros-sarah-mk-black-love/ "Gabriel Teodros ft. Sarah MK ‘Black Love’"
  95. http://www.seattlemag.com/article/seattle-music-2014-soul-artists "Seattle Music 2014: Soul Artists"
  96. https://kexp.org/podcasts/song-of-the-day/2021/11/29/chris-carroll-blue-feat-gabriel-teodros/ "Song Of The Day: Chris Carroll - Blue (feat. Gabriel Teodros)"
  97. https://www.thestranger.com/stranger-suggests/2023/09/20/79174625/stranger-suggests-dees-nuts-three-body-problem-who-is-she-record-release-party-and-new-music-from-gabriel-teodros-and-khingz "Stranger Suggests: Dee's Nuts, Three-Body Problem, Who Is She? Record Release Party, and New Music from Gabriel Teodros and Khingz"
  98. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/zia-mohajerjasbi/Content?oid=2708885 "2009 Stranger Film Genius Zia Mohajerjasbi" by Charles Mudede
  99. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/my-philosophy/Content?oid=262638 "My Philosophy" by Larry Mizell, Jr
  100. http://www.okayplayer.com/reviews/gabriel-teodros-200701184939.html "Gabriel Teodros - Lovework" by dantana
  101. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=638222 "My Philosophy" by Larry Mizell, Jr
  102. http://www.okayplayer.com/news/video-gabriel-teodros-blossoms-of-fire.html "Video: Gabriel Teodros - Blossoms of Fire" by Shamz
  103. http://www.mtviggy.com/blog-posts/premiere-copperwires-new-music-video-phone-home/ "PREMIERE: CopperWire’s New Music Video - Phone Home" by Garrett Houghton
  104. http://www.africanhiphop.com/musicvideos/gabriel-teodros-mind-power/ "Gabriel Teodros - Mind Power" by Ado
  105. http://www.okayafrica.com/news/gabriel-teodros-soulchef-black-love-sarah-mk-shimby-nsoromma-video/ "Watch Gabriel Teodros & SoulChef’s ‘Black Love’ Ft. Sarah MK [Premiere]"
  106. http://www.okayafrica.com/news/gabriel-teodros-evidence-of-things-not-seen-album/ "Stream Gabriel Teodros' James Baldwin-Inspired 'Evidence Of Things Not Seen' LP"
  107. http://www.okayafrica.com/news/gabriel-teodros-soulchef-greeny-jungle-protest-video-shakiah/ "Gabriel Teodros & SoulChef Premiere Their Protest Video For 'Greeny Jungle"
  108. http://sociedadcimarrona.com/sabor/2016/9/3/gabriel-teodros-soulchef-domestic-imperialism "Gabriel Teodros & SoulChef / Domestic Imperialism"