PAUL SCHRAG: Q-DOT PERFORMS AT BOB'S JAVA JIVE TONIGHT >>>

When Q-Dot isn’t flying around in his hip-hop superhero cape rapping, making beats, recording, performing, and running his own record label, Tre’dmarks, he goes simply by Q or Quincy. He was named after Quincy Jones, and has earned badges as an MC, producer, songwriter, pianist, singer, recording engineer, mixer and DJ.

His latest album, Underground Railroad, is chock full of talent, and shows how much time and energy this local independent rapper put into developing his game.

Q-Dot is a thinker, and balances his wit with lots of flava, walking a tightrope between swagger and delivering a message. He puts out plenty of radio ready tracks, drops plenty of punch lines, but always seems to slip in a message.

He’ll be at Bob’s Java Jive this Friday. 

[Bob’s Java Jive, with Fame Rilla, Freddie Fingers, Mac & Harlem, DJ T-Real, Friday, Sept. 18, 9 p.m., $5, 2102 S. Tacoma Way, Tacoma, 253.475.9843]