Real City Ambassadors

Episode 4: Rappin' 4-Tay

It was a pleasure and honor, as a Frisco native to have on our podcast the one and only, the Playa of the Bay, the man with the brim hat on who put Frisco on the map, Rappin' 4-Tay.

Anthony Forté aka Rappin’ 4-Tay is an original Bay Area rapper from the Fillmore District of San Francisco, California. 4-Tay wasted no time showing the world his swag style. Right after high school, he made his debut featuring on the album Life Is...Too Short by the legend Too Short. After a brief stint away (for some weed, which is legal now), Rappin' 4-Tay returned with the album Rappin’ 4-Tay Is Back. 4-Tay and his friends Franky J and Fly released the record on their new record label, Rag Top Records. 4-Tay cemented his reputation as the #1 player/rapper with the hit single “Playaz Club” off his 1994 album Don't Fight the Feelin'. This new album made him a local favorite, due to his hardcore style, which didn't romanticize the ghetto.

Throughout his career Rappin 4-Tay has earned the respect of his
peers. In 1996, the legendary 2Pac tapped 4-Tay for a feature on “Only God Can Judge Me”, one of the most popular songs on the 7x platinum album All Eyez on Me. He was featured on the song "My Alphabets" on fellow Bay Area rap veteran Mac Dre's 2004 album The Genie of the Lamp. In 2014, 4-Tay provided Drake with a verse for the hit song “Who Do You Love?” released with rapper YG. Rappin’ 4-Tay is currently working with a number of artists on features, new tracks, beats, and live appearances.

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Episode 3: Tongo Eisen-Martin

Tongo was born in San Francisco and earned his MA at Columbia University. He is the author of Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press, 2015), nominated for a California Book Award; and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights, 2017), which received a 2018 American Book Award, a 2018 California Book Award, was named a 2018 National California Booksellers Association Poetry Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize.

Tongo is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails.

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Episode 2: Myrna Melgar

Myrna is an urban planner, economic development and housing policy expert, and dedicated public servant running for Supervisor in District 7 in San Francisco.

Myrna’s family immigrated to San Francisco when she was a child during the 1980's from El Salvador, fleeing that country’s civil war. The Melgars came to join extended family members who had lived in San Francisco for generations. As for so many others before and after, San Francisco provided Myrna’s family with refuge and economic opportunity. Like so many immigrants to our City, Myrna’s family eventually integrated into the workforce and school.

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Episode 1: Charlie L. Morales

Charlie L. Morales is a San Francisco native and the 10th child in a Salvadoran family of 15. Living in one of the most expensive cities in the world was never simple, however, his spirit and "hustle" mentality led him to overcome every obstacle. 

As a University of Southern California (USC) Master's Graduate, Charlie is now an equity-minded counselor who strives to master the tools that identify resources, provide academic support, and offer guidance that are essential in developing each students skill base for success in higher education and beyond.

 

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