papi´s Account

Papi Kymone Freeman (guerrilla artist) is the director of the National Black LUV Festival recognized as a Wash D.C. Mayor's Art Award Finalist for Excellence in Service to the Arts in 2006 & received a Mayoral Proclamation in 2007. Freeman is a board member for Words Beats & Life a Hip Hop Non-Profit and host of Bum Rush the Boards one

of the largest annual youth chess competition in WDC. He

is the subject of one chapter of the book Beat of A

 Different Drum: The Untold Stories of African Americans Forging Their Own Paths in Work and Life (Hyperion). In addition, Papi Kymone Freeman is the author of a book of poetry entitled, Blood Sweat & Tears.  He is a founding member with Genesis Poets and has performed 

in the U.S. at the Carter Barron and Lincoln Memorial and abroad in Nairobi, Kenya. He received the 22^nd Annual

Larry Neal Award for Drama for the successful play

Prison Poetry that has appeared at the Historic Lincoln Theatre and Source Theatre during the Hip Hop Theatre Festival. He has studied under the legendary independent filmmakers Haile Gerima, Raoul Peck and Sam Greenlee. Freeman's first screenplay Nineveh: a conflict over

water a futuristic drama that paints a post-oil depleted

 world is currently in pre-production and seeking further funding.