Education
Originally wanting to attend Columbia University in New York, Dessa felt the pressure was too great, and instead went to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities on a basketball scholarship, which she was forced to forfeit after injuring her Anterior Cruciate Ligament. She achieved a Masters in Philosophy at the University of Minnesota.[1] Before becoming an artist full time, Dessa was a technical writer for a medical manufacturer.[2]
read the wiki its pretty interesting..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessa
she also dated P.O.S. for awhile (im sure josh knew but i had no idea)
Yeah, she and Stef used to date. That's how she got into Doomtree...after a while of knowing her and doing some music with her, the rest of the crew met up without P.O.S. and decided that they wanted her to join Doomtree for real.
ReplyDeleteFrom an article written in 2004 when they were still dating:
'An essayist and a poet, she raps and sings in the hip-hop trio Medida, sharing another band house and studio two doors down from Doomtree, the old Wookiefoot headquarters. That stoop is where she met P.O.S., who always would stop to share a smoke with whoever was there.
"Stef was driving by, this big black man in a very small green car," she says. "He was in a Festiva and it said 'Doomtree' on the side. I thought, 'Who the fuck is that?'"
He came over to talk to a friend of hers, but P.O.S began trading barbs with Dessa so quickly that her friends assumed they knew each other. For their first date, he invited her to split a bottle of whiskey under a highway overpass. "You know, my mom was right to warn me about you," she says.'