LYRICAL
is a well known Boston area emcee who has chart topping underground Hip Hop singles, an award winning album and scores of freestyle MC battle titles to his credit. If you are a Hip Hop fan you may have heard some of his early work, including the classic single “Butta Messenga” on the radio as far back as 1997 with his native Lowell based group X-Caliber. After moving from Lowell to Cambridge, Lyrical Lord Plourde became better known as "Lyrical" - and member of the group Invasion, which released several successful singles and performed in numerous shows all around New England. If you have never seen Lyrical perform as a solo artist you may have heard his name as a promoter in the Greater Boston area throwing hundreds of shows since 2003. As an executive member of The Mass Industry Committee he helped organize several networking parties and events, including the Mass Industry Committee Hip Hop Awards which he spearheaded in 2006.
Perhaps what distinguishes Lyrical the most from the average Hip Hop lyricist is his dedication to social reform and education. You may know him as Professor Lyrical if you are a student in the Boston area at one of the several colleges he has been contracted to teach various courses at. Lyrical has a Masters Degree in Mathematics, and a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts (Lowell). Over the last two plus years Lyrical has taught Entertainment Event Planning, Music Appreciation II, Hip Hop Culture & Lyricism, Musical Comedy, Geometry, Algebra, Statistics, Trigonometry, Convention Planning, Sports Entertainment Management, and Entertainment Internship Seminar, and all of these courses he taught while juggling a busy career as a Hip Hop artist and student himself at both UMass-Lowell and Harvard University. He has been a guest lecturer and speaker/performer at Harvard, Berklee, Northeastern, Bentley, and countless other area colleges.
Click here to view Lyrical's Biography/EPK (CV format)
Colleges Lyrical Teaches/Taught @(2007-10) Bay State College, -Entertainment Mangmt, Music Entertainment, Venue Management, Sports Ent, Entertainment Practicum, Entertainment Internship, Convention Promotions (spring only), Algebra, Statistics Fisher College, -Algebra (Elementary), Algebra (II) Lasell College -Hip Hop Culture & Lyricism, Entertainment (Hip Hop) Event Planning, Special Event Planning, Geometry, Musical Comedy, Music Appreciation II Boston Culinary Institute (Le Cordon Bleu), -College Math, Basic Math Middlesex Community College, -Algebra I, Algebra II, Intermediate Algebra, Basic Math New England Arts Institute,, -Algebra I, Basic Math Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, -Statistics, Basic Math, Algebra II/Trigonometry
Full Time Northeastern University, 2010 (Calculus, Precalc, Alg I and Alg II, Foundations)
LYRICAL -NEW ENGLAND (Spring 2007 & Spring 2008) COLLEGE PERFORMANCES & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS 3/28/09 SNUH Southern NH University, NHHEAF Network Organizations’ signature event, Destination College,
3/12/09 Curry College, Healthy Choices & District Attorney Keating's office,
5/7/08 Northeastern University Sports in Society Speaking engagement & Performance, 4/21/08 Harvard Grad School of Education Youth Day (Black Student Union), Hip Hop Lyrics & History Presentation and Workshop & Performance, 3/22/08 Southern New Hampshire College (Manchester, NH) NHHEAF Local Success Stories "How College Made the Difference" Panel, 2/19/08 Berklee College Lyrical Lecture & Performance (songwriting department), 4/27/07 Harvard University Graduate School of Education (HGSE) –Black Student Union Youth Day Hip Hop History, 4/20/07 Bristol Community College -New England Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges, 4//6/07 Bentley College -The Business and Culture of Hip Hop, 4//5/07 Bentley College -The Business and Culture of Hip Hop/Historical Context, 4/3/07 Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA -Youth Violence Prevention Meeting, 3/17/07 Plymouth State College -8th Annual Statewide College Convention – Destination College, 2/26/07 Harvard Graduate School of Education -Screening of Beyond Beats and Rhymes & Panel & Performance, 2/1/07 Emmanuel College Daley Library Lecture Hall -Screening of Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes, 1/23/07 Democracy Center (Harvard Square w/Harvard) -Screening of Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes
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I was at this game, sickest game ever!
The Focuz Is Back
Mr. President from Rene Dongo on Vimeo.
BUTTA MESSENGA by X-Caliber (Featuring Lyrical Lord Plourde of X-Caliber, Fee, Syntax, & Ruby)
LE MISERABLES (DON'T MAKE IT HARD)
Click here to hear HOT by Lyrical Featuring "Love Jones"
