 He was on the Da Poetry Lounge slam team that performed in the National Poetry Slam in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2013, winning the NPS championship in 2003 and 2004.At a 2012 performance at Literary Death Match in Los Angeles, Henry Rollins criticized Johnson's poetry as "basically built for performance".That same year Johnson performed at the Stockton Plea for Peace Center with four fellow poets under the name "Blackson 5".