New music video from Shirlette Ammons - "Take a Chance"

After a releasing a fantastic EP last year with Chapel Hill soul/rock band the Dynamite Brothers, Durham poet and hip hop artist Shirlette Ammons is back this year with her debut solo album titled Twilight for Gladys Bentley.

The album will be out soon, but you can check out a music video from the album now. It's for the song "Take a Chance" and offers a more straightforward hip-hop sound that Ammons' music with the Dynamite Brothers. Watch the video below.

Shirlette and some friends will be performing songs that have been banned throughout the years at a special event at the Durham Public Library on Roxboro Road on Saturday, October 6 at 3 p.m.