About
Martone The Emperor of House Music™ is an American author, recording artist, and cultural commentator whose work explores power, desire, memory, and survival through uncompromising truth. Known internationally as a pioneer in the house music world, Martone has extended his influence beyond sound into literature, crafting narratives that confront race, masculinity, trauma, and identity with emotional precision and intellectual force.
His debut poetry and prose collection, Deep & Raw: The Erotica of Martone, became a bestseller, reaching #3 on Amazon’s African Poetry list, and established him as a fearless literary voice. The book’s unflinching exploration of intimacy, vulnerability, and personal reclaiming positioned Martone as a writer unafraid to expose the interior life of a Black man navigating love, power, and visibility in modern America.
His forthcoming memoir, In Good Hands: Bad Faith and Burned Promises, documents systemic misconduct, consumer abuse, and regulatory failure through investigative narrative and lived experience, adding him to the tradition of author-witness chroniclers who write from inside injustice rather than at a distance. The manuscript incorporates verified documents, correspondence, and personal testimony to illuminate how institutions fail those they are designed to protect.
Martone is also at work on a major historical text, No: Actually, Black People Are Not Racists and Never Can Be, a rigorously researched examination of race construction, misinformation, and historical inversion in American culture. The book challenges prevailing narratives with documented analysis, anchoring modern racial discourse in historical evidence rather than ideology.
In parallel, Martone continues producing music under the same philosophical lens, using sound and narrative as twin vehicles for truth-telling. His forthcoming album, Phoenix Rising: The Emperor’s Ascension, serves as a companion narrative to his literary canon, examining rebirth, sensuality, power, and survival through the language of house music.
Martone writes not for approval, but for record. His work exists to document, disrupt, and survive history honestly. Through music and literature alike, he builds an archive of truth from a life lived against restraint.
Featured Work
Deep & Raw: The Erotica of Martone
Deep & Raw: The Erotica of Martone is an intimate collection of poetry and prose that explores desire as both a physical language and a form of survival. Written with emotional precision and unapologetic candor, the book traces the interior life of a Black gay man navigating love, power, vulnerability, and truth in a world that rarely makes space for softness in Black masculinity.
Through personal narrative and lyrical reflection, Martone chronicles longing, erotic autonomy, heartbreak, and self-reclamation — not as fantasy, but as lived experience. Each piece functions less as confession than as testimony, offering readers a view into intimacy not as performance, but as humanity.
What distinguishes Deep & Raw is its refusal to sentimentalize or sanitize. The collection insists that erotic expression is not indulgence, but a reclamation of body and voice — especially for those historically denied both. In Martone’s work, sensuality becomes an act of resistance, vulnerability becomes strength, and desire becomes language.
This is not a book of seduction.
It is a book of truth.
Deep & Raw: The Erotica of Martone stands as a declaration of selfhood written in skin and spirit — a record of becoming, rendered in honesty.
