ArtUp will host a Special Evening with Marco Pavé on Thursday, February 13 from 6:00-8:00 pm. Join us to celebrate the work and historic appointment of this leading hip-hop artist as an Artist-in Residence at Georgetown University.

Memphis, TN native Tauheed “Marco Pavé” Rahim II is a hip hop artist, educator, and arts entrepreneurship advocate producing work influenced by Memphis’s legacy of blues, soul, and trap with KRS-One-meets-Project-Pat sensibilities. He is a Memphis Music Ambassador with Music Export Memphis and Founder and Creative Director at Radio Rahim Music, an independent record label working at the intersection of hip hop, arts communities, technology, and activism. Rahim reached #2 on the College Music Journal chart, earned an Addy advertising award for an anti-gun violence PSA, and is the librettist for Memphis’s first hip-hop opera, Grc Lnd 2030, which debuted in 2018 at Opera Memphis’s Midtown Opera Festival. Work from his 2015 EP Perception and 2017 album Welcome to Grc Lndhas been featured on NPR, MTVU, The Source, The Root, and MTV News. 

A former Memphis Music Initiative Teaching Fellow bringing hip-hop music, culture, and activism to middle and high schoolers, Rahim’s work has also taken him to college campuses across the country to talk arts-based approaches to social justice and entrepreneurship. As a 2019-2020 Next Level fellow, Rahim will work as a Cultural Ambassador through the U.S. State Department’s Next Level program, collaborating with emcees and artists in Bolivia to promote cross-cultural exchange across international hip-hop practice.

Through all his work, Rahim demonstrates the importance of hip-hop as cultural and political practice, he is also a 2019-2020 artist in residence at Georgetown University in the department of performance arts.