Fair Lawn Lyricist to Perform at Drug-Free New Jersey Competition
The 8th Annual Parternship for a Drug-Free New Jersey's Shout Down Drugs competition will feature 38 New Jersey high school students performing their original songs.
Tysheam Morton, of Fair Lawn, will be one of 38 New Jersey high school students performing Thursday at the 8th Annual Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey's Shout Down Drugs competition. The competition challenges high school students across the state to create original music with lyrics that contain powerful peer-to-peer drug prevention messages. Morton, a student at Chancellor Academy in Pompton Plains, will perform his original song “Influence,” at Thursday's concert, which is being held at Newark's New Jersey Performing Arts Center. "I went through this experience," Morton raps in the song's final verse. "It ain't worth it to have the people that you love hurtin'/Finally got up and like a good transmission and I'm working/I'm …
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9:45 am on Thursday, May 24, 2012
What a bunch of baloney more ›