D etroit Michigan is the town of Dr. Geek’s humble beginning. Starting out as an ice cream man selling his wares to the kids on the eastside of the Motor City, long before rap or hip-hop, Dr. Geek was selling ice cream up and down the block, for 18 years in a unique rhyme scheme. Little did Geek realize the lyrical development he would go through. He was the unofficial cheerleader at Kettering High School’s sporting events. You could still hear the echoes of the “Wine Song” and other fight songs reverberating off the floors and walls of the hallowed gym of Kettering High, where Dr. Geek, as the 13th man from time to time, brought the basketball team back from certain annihilation, with an inspirational rhyme pumping new life into the crowd and team, and from the dismal dregs of defeat, another bone chiller victory. Whether it was in school or selling
ice cream, kids and parents alike would look forward to hearing the rhymester sing his jingles. Hanging out at the Motor Cycle Clubs in Detroit singing rhymes over funk tunes on the dance floor and taking the crowds up to a fevered frenzied of funkiness also help develop his lyrical skills that would eventually led him to California and a fiery passionate lady by the name of Rhoda Robinson and an organization by the name of Brotherhood Through The Arts Foundation. Geek would get invited to elementary and middle schools at the early stages of his career around the Motor City, when the rap craze hit. It seems that time finally caught up with Dr. Geek and gave his vaunted rhyme ability a forum in which to expand.
In 1990 He became an active board member of B.T.T.A.F. Teaming up with Rhoda and others in writing and performing in a play called “We Are One” with a diversified cast of kids and young people which would take his writing to a different level. Later, the BluBlocker Co. would fly him out to New York where he and Rhoda would team up again and write “The Friendship Train” with yet another diversified cast of young people. No matter what the endeavors, Dr. Geek and Wordology as he calls it would always be about uplifting and
encouraging young and old alike to get along with each other and strive to achieve their fullest potential.
Dr. Geek has appeared on numerous sporting news programs and different types of TV shows.
A few of them are as following, This Week in Baseball with the late Mel Allen, Into The Night with Rick Dees, BET, Yo MTV, Video Hits One, CNN, The Gong Show twice (winner1time) Inside Stuff/NBA, The Tonight Show, Street Stories/with Ed Bradley. From 1987 to the present, Geek have traveled to several Super bowels and appeared on Fox Sport News, HBO’s Inside The NFL and the list goes on and on.
One accomplishment that gave the versifier his greatest visibility to the public is the Blublocker Sunglasses’ infomercial, Dr. Geek made up a rhyme unrehearsed and sold 20 million pairs of Blublockers from September 1990 to January 1997. Years later, people not only in America, but Canada, New Zealand, and Australia stills recognize Dr. Geek In 1995 to the present; Geek has lent his remarkable skills to the entertainment and inspiration of the foster kids of the county of Los Angles California, which is overseen by County Supervisor Yvonne Braithewake Burkes.
The Los Angeles City Council members honored Dr. Geek with a plaque for his positive raps in 1996. Dr. Geek was also honored as the 1998 Poet Laureate By the County of Los Angeles and it’s Supervisor The First Lady, Ms. Yvonne Braithewake Burkes, for his ongoing work with the foster kids of Los Angeles County.
Dr. Geek’s philosophy on life is summed up like this:
“WHILE OTHERS ENTERTAIN TO LIVE, I LIVE TO ENTERTAIN”
NUFF SAID!