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Billy Tuggle is Karma Three-Sixty

Conscience Under Pressure, 2004

Poems by Billy Tuggle
40 pp., 5 1/2" x 8 1/2",
saddle stitched paperback
ISBN: 1-933126-03-5

• Author Profile - click here to expand profile

  • Billy Tuggle, a.k.a. Karma Threesixty, is a B-Boy poet and vocalist
    born and raised in the Chicagoland area. He is a HipHop cultural
    activist: He co-founded Chicago crews S.T.0.R.M.TROOPERS
    and 7 In a Cipher, as well as serving as a local organizer for the
    Temple of HipHop.
    
    Billy has performed in bars and clubs, museums and colleges,
    and the Red Line at rush hour in Chicago, and has made his way
    around the continent as a slam competitor. As a regular at Mental
    Graffiti, he represented Chicago/Wicker Park in the 2002 Midwest
    Slam League and, in 2004, at the National Poetry Slam. Billy
    appeared as a slam poet (now there’s a stretch) in New Film
    Productions 2003 release, Urban Poet. Billy briefly hosted the
    open-mic “Elevation” in Lakeview, and he is currently a member of
    the PolyRhythmic Arts Collective. Billy’s work was published in the
    14th Columbia Poetry Review, and he has appeared as a music
    journalist in Underground Weekly Hip-Hop newspaper, Velocity
    magazine, and the Black Rock Coalition Newsletter.
    
    Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times calls Billy’s style
    “uncompromising, anti-corporate and straight-forward.” His biggest
    ambition is in recording. KarmaO can be found on projects by
    Hip-Hop artists DJ Risky Bizness (800 lb. Gorillas), 0-Type Star
    (Frontline), and Vector Sigma (Third Op). Billy is also at work on
    new projects with MN8, Jesse De LaPena and more. You can still
    find him on dance/soul/poet Das Bruce’s single “I Think I’m in Love”
    in independent record shops. The Turnstyle Sessions, Billy’s
    full-length, solo debut, will be coming soon from Syllaballistic Recordings.

Contents - Click Table of Contents to see poem titles

• Table of Contents
  • Invocation 3
  • Concrete Lion 5
  • Crush 8
  • Rough Draft 10
  • Chasing the Dancer 12
  • Bush Doctor 15
  • 17 of Hearts 18
  • Is 20
  • 10:00 News 22
  • Chance 23
  • Aftermath 26
  • Groundation for the 6th of February 28
  • Manifest 30

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