Vancouver Busker shut down.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/HQlbxDgnmk0

I first heard Un-1 (Mark Stokes) a free-style rapper and Van City busker a couple of years ago when I was strolling around Granville Street with my boy. He was so good that I went around the block and came back to hear him again.

He’s loud and charming and engaging and exactly the kind of performer that would get under the skin of anybody looking for ‘trouble-makers’.

I don’t know the details, but it looks like Un-1 started free-styling the wrong police officer and as you can hear in this Voicemail to Mark, they closed him down. Please have a look at this and decide if you think he needs and deserves your support.

I think he does.

Of course he’s a ‘trouble-maker’. He’s an artist. I hope I’ll be good enough to be a ‘trouble-maker’ one day.