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ALL NEW EVERYTHING COMING SOON
swearin in as public defender with a very public agenda / wound lick shit the only way to publicly mend her / any gentler image of me won't render / nothing tender about a rocked bitch on stage with a mic and a Fender
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- Now you can download this so you can run to it and feel like no one can touch you because they can't.
- In case you haven't heard... I'm back.
- Da bitch is back.
- Licki can talk about shit that Lauren never could.
- Three days.
- you can now buy tickets online for my June 23rd show in the Hollywood Fringe Festival
- so ready for some fightin words
- some sins to get yo' may started
- on may eleventh, it is mine
- Jack of Co.Z + The Mad Psyentist = Deadly. "The Seven Sins EP," free online May 1
- raging. ranting. raving. #toProtectYou, 05/11/12
- "TO PROTECT YOU" begins 05.11.12. watch dis space for detailz...
- most recently, mah features on Jack of Co.Z's "Kush&SnowDay" double mixtape
- 'member deez memorable vocal performances on Jack of Co.Z's "The Forecast"?
- get excited for da rebirth. listen to deez age-old tracks; you won't believe how far i've come y'all
- i have somethin to say about dis on May 11. who's ready to hear it??
- "Licki embodies my interest in art made to ease a heart’s break, and in a heart freely tendered to better art’s overall make and efficacy." - Lauren
- "only became a rapper to heal pain / now i'm slayin every bitch up in dis game"
- "guess what? i fucked your girlfriend / ..." - licki.
- "now i'm reppin team #noHOmo / ain't fuckin wit no mo' hoes, soo..." - Licki.
- da whole mixtape (pt Snow)
- Jack of Co.Z featuring Licki Ucroj, in case u had any questionz
- Jack of Co.Z featuring Licki Ucroj & Jack McCrack
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- Still staring across oceans and states and rooms at you.May 20, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Project Knock-This-Extra-2%-of-Body-Fat-Off begins tomorrow after a rather self-indulgent hiatus.May 20, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- "Crouching mulatto, hidden lesbian." Well-played, @BisHilarious, well-played.May 19, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- On this big budget short film set in DTLA, sporting post-apocalyptic garb, finally falling back in love with my life.
- When the pen came to the subject of love, it broke.
- I don't think you'll ever know but everything is better when you're near me.
- I love it when my buns are sore.May 19, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- So much cookin' en nuestra Crocina hoy @smcroceMay 19, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- So many bodies. Filming at the Mansion @smcroce @harto @BisHilarious @saramedd @AnnaRGoods @SarahSokolski #WWGMay 19, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Now playing "T-shirt & my panties on" at Reject Mansion. Reminiscing @JLHPerformance @MonicaLindz
- A new favorite: Cold Black Widow by Hell & Lula http://t.co/S27d90Zy on #SoundCloud
- A new favorite: Set The World On Fire (Beat Mass Dubstep Remix) by Hell & Lula http://t.co/YwfomlPk on #SoundCloud
- And that's a (w)rap on you, my muse.May 18, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- I wouldn't have traded her for anything in the world. But I won't have her. So I'll have to take (on) the world.May 18, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- "We're always better together" - @the_nicky_gMay 18, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- I miss my @JLHPerformance. Inimitable.May 18, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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- 1 tracks (03:47)Part One: Inhospitable Bed
Part Two: Ghetto University
Part Three: P****/Cat
COMING THIS SUMMER - 5 tracks (29:08)Tracks featuring www.soundcloud.com/lickiucroj on www.soundcloud.com/getjacked's "Kush&SnowDay" (two disc) mixtape
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- A SUMMARYLicki Ucroj is a performance raptor: solo performer, comedienne, rapper, writer, Vlogger, and apprentice to master ripper Jack of Co.Z.
Currently, Licki is recording "The Carpet Mixtapes," a three-part demo series to serve as a precursor to her memoir (CARPET: or, how DD's, double D's, and universiD's left me sleeping on the floor), which will be shockingly honest, heartbreakingly hilarious, and generally like nothing you've ever before read.
Her solo comedy/cabaret shows, "how to do thangz with wordz" and "valencrimez" premiered to large audiences at Brown University and received several grants and awards for excellence in the performing arts. Though technically Licki makes no appearances in Lauren Neal's third solo show, "Girls With Guns," a great deal of content of interest to Licki comes from the themes it addresses.
Licki's inceptor is going to be a very serious and very famous actress, but Licki has one up on her because Licki doesn't have to be worried about her reputation. Still, Licki would love to be your hero, if you will let her.+++A HISTORY(the following is an article from the Brown Daily Herald's post- magazine, originally published on November 11, 2010, and written by Lauren Neal)
I’m an actor. I’m the child of a white mother and a black father. I don’t have a lot of money. I’m female. I’m queer.
Given the difficulty I still have stating these seemingly simple words, it was not only natural but also necessary for me to enroll in a Theatre Arts & Performance Studies course entitled “Acting Outside the Box: Considering Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Performance.” Directed by Kym Moore, students conduct extensive research in service of monologue and scene study assignments. We play ethnicities, ages, genders, and orientations not our own. We combat previously held social, cultural, and political assumptions. We allow questions to lead only to more questions. We creep toward understanding others by first acknowledging – and then inhabiting – others’ experiences and words without reserve or retreat. Is our work revolutionary? I’m not yet sure.
I do know this: I find it difficult to leave the room when class ends, as the environment we have cultivated is one where people actually listen to one another. After class, eyes avoid my gaze when I speak. After class, minds wander when I attempt to offer up my strengths or expose my weaknesses. After class, I don’t listen well to others, either. I don’t listen or share much for fear my heart will spring a leak until miniature puddles muddy the bottoms of my feet, my liquid courage kicked to the curb and pooled in the street. I remain well protected: all dried up in some desert void of really feeling, really listening, really seeing, and really saying.
There is a fortress, a strong-held box in my chest where I keep-safe my multiplicitous identities, my circuitous emotional history, and my unorthodox inclinations. My heart securely houses heaps of secrets, fears, nightmares, and dreams. I am afraid, above all, of not meaning what I say, of not meaning much to those who matter to me, and of becoming a mean, embittered soul if I never brave the bridge or invite anyone in.
In May of this past year, my locked box gave birth to Licki Ucroj, a hip hop- inspired alter ego to whom I gift rapped and left the key to understanding myself. Why Licki Ucroj? Phonetically, Licki Ucroj rhymes with Nicki Minaj – currently the hip-hop industry’s most coveted and controversial female icon, a rapper who uses her theatre training to vocalize verses with uncanny characterizations and dynamic performativity. Cathartically, Licki Ucroj names, and therefore makes palpable, a space for the parts of myself that make others -- and me -- uncomfortable, a space for the parts of myself that have little room to breathe. Laughably, Licki Ucroj is ridiculous, naïve, vulgar, and hopelessly sincere; all things I am, and all things I often loathe being.
I am not interested in ‘art for art’s sake’: art that emblematizes or is created for little more than a self-contained celebration of its own existence. Licki embodies my interest in art made to ease a heart’s break, and in a heart freely tendered to better art’s overall make and efficacy. After a lifetime of entertaining and almost four years of studying performance, I have found that, for me, ‘acting outside the box’ means exploring every cardiac compartment and allowing the contents to engage in careful conversation with the comparably delicate, intricate truths of others. TAPS professor Rebecca Schneider might brilliantly add that performance is the means by which “we [as human beings] show ourselves to ourselves.”
Prophetically, when Licki Ucroj speaks and raps, she ‘tells me to myself.’ Licki is a better wordsmith than I could ever hope to be. When I forget, she reminds me that (1) words do hurt people and (2) true words have the power to do productive things.
So, truthfully, Licki Ucroj is a rapper who curses in front of her grandmother. She publicly exposes all of her underwiring: Licki wears nothing but a bra, offering a shortcut to the organ furiously beating life into her blood. She is not afraid to be honest. Licki Ucroj is me and she is not me, highlighting a fundamental problematic of performance studies: an actor both is and is not the character she plays. Every human – actor or not – is sometimes one thing, sometimes another, sometimes both things, and sometimes neither.
Words are our artillery in the battle out of the limitations of certain boxes; words are our weapons in the war into the palpitations of myriad others.
"it's no escape, i'm not crazy – i'm
embracing faces i'd otherwise
hate, see: no word pacing
your body's a shot
in the dark; no phoneme's a
waste" -- Licki Ucroj
