Devine Carama is an Emmy Award-winning artist and activist recently featured on Good Morning America and the Jennifer Hudson Show!
Devine recently went viral in a video where he talked about the importance of emotional intelligence to a group of young boys that he mentors.
Devine Carama is a nationally renowned, 2022 Emmy Award-winning hip-hop artist, educator, community activist, & motivational speaker from Lexington, KY who has spoken to over 250,000 youth across the country. He was most recently featured on Good Morning America and the Jennifer Hudson Show after a video of him teaching emotional intelligence to young boys went viral. He is the new director of the Mayor of Lexington's youth gun violence reduction program, ONE Lexington, which has launched several new initiatives in its first 2 years under his direction. 2023 has seen a considerable drop in homicides and shootings in Lexington. Devine is also the founder and director of a youth-focused nonprofit organization called Believing In Forever Inc.
In December 2018, Devine performed outside in the cold for 48 hours straight to raise awareness for his annual youth coat drive, "A Coat to Keep The Cold Away". Over the last 10 years, Believing in Forever has facilitated the collection and delivery of over 22,000 coats to children in Central and Eastern Kentucky. In 2017, Believing In Forever led a citywide effort to collect thousands of gallons of water to combat the Flint water crisis. In 2020, Devine walked across the entire state of Kentucky (Pikeville to Paducah) to raise voter awareness.
“Your legacy isn’t what you collect while you’re here, but what you leave behind once you’re gone.”
“Devine Carama”
2025 Lexington Hip Hop Day Show
On Saturday, August 9th, from 7-9 pm, the city of Lexington will celebrate its 3rd annual "Lexington Hip Hop Day" with a vintage hip-hop set at The Farish Theater (inside the downtown Lexington Public Library).
Discography
With socially conscious & spiritual subject matter over soul sample & boom bap laden beats, Devine’s full discography shows the growth of a man transitioning from artist to activist.
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ONE Lexington (anti-youth violence)
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Guardians of the Boom Bap!
Devine Carama & Amadeus 360 Preserve the Culture with New Album.
Following his 2021 full-length collaboration with Termanology 360, Amadeus360 firmly etched his name as a modern torchbearer for raw, gritty Boom Bap with his 2023 magnum opus, The MPC Jedi. In contrast to the throng of cross-generational spitters featured across that album’s 18 tracks, the self-proclaimed "Beat King" has, once again, locked in with one MC. This time, he's tapped Lexington, Kentucky's Emmy-winning Hip-Hop luminary Devine Carama for Guardians of the Boom Bap. Released on all major digital streaming platforms via Soulspazm on June 13, the new album serves as a full, concise body of work dedicated to the bare essentials of Hip-Hop’s "Golden Era". “We want listeners to get that same feeling they got listening to hip-hop in the 90's”, Carama explains. “Just beats, rhymes, and life.” As an activist, youth advocate, published author, and college professor, Carama’s socially conscious tenor shines throughout the album. “I am a sucker for a real lyricist, and Devine is an animal on the mic!" says Amadeus. The album follows the fourth installment of Carama's critically acclaimed Kingtucky series.