Azeem Blessings Kareem is a charismatic, award winning MC, musician, producer, dancer, actor, farmer, educator and community organizer who is known to live up to his name Blessings. 

 

As an MC praised for his high level of skill as a lyricist combined with a constant message of healing, empowerment and uplifting his audience, he has been making a name for himself on a national level. Some of his highlights include winning a competition to open The Trinity International Hip Hop Festival for Big Daddy Kane, sharing a stage with Jay Electronica, KRS-One and Smif-N-Wessun, performing on the first ever entirely livestream Hip Hop festival headlined by Rah Digga and Zion I and being made the face of the Northeastern region of the Hip Hop Congress, one of the largest underground Hip Hop networks in the world.

 

Blessings can perform every element of Hip Hop, from grafitti writing to beat boxing, but the skill he's most known for in Hip Hop when not rapping is dance. His electric dance performance is the gift he originally drew a reputation for in the local Hip Hop world. With over a decade of experience, study, travel, showcases and competitions, his introduction to Hip Hop as a living culture was as a B-Boy. From Breaking, he would go on to learn Popping, Krumping, Boogaloo, Locking and a number of other dance styles. The dance world is what began his very in-depth study of Hip Hop history and culture, and his display of that knowledge has even earned him praise from the legendary Shabba Doo of The Lockers. As a farmer, Blessings is the co-founder and co-owner of Samad Gardens Initiative, a farm business with a mission to educate the community about agriculture and self-sufficiency. As a production farm, Blessings, along with his business partner and wife Sarah Rose, produce thousands of pounds of food, herbs, and flowers annually. They have their own line of teas, spices and other herbal products. As educators, they've taught in

 person classes teaching how to grow food to thousands across the western hemisphere. Blessings also helps organize farmers across the US who share the vision of creating a healthier community starting with the food.