Category: Lit
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Dean Atta pens poetic tribute to Stephen Lawrence with “I Am Nobody’s Nigger”
Renowned writer, performer and poet Dean Atta took inspiration from the recent sentencing of Stephen Lawrence’s killers and penned entitled “I Am Nobody’s Nigger” as an ode to the murdered teenager, who was stabbed to death almost 19 years ago in a racist attack.
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Gil Scott-Heron memoirs ‘The Last Holiday’ to be released January 2012 | News
Legendary poet, musician and spoken word artist Gil Scott-Heron is to have his memoirs published on January 16, 2012. The late great artist’s memoirs will be titled “The Last Holiday” and is set for release through publishers Canongate. The release date falls on the same day as Martin Luther King day, which is fitting because…
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50 Cent penning fitness book & nutrition guide Formula 50: A 6-Week Body Transformation Plan | Health
50 Cent aka Curtis Jackson has long since had more than music on his mind. The rapper turned business mogul has announced plans to release a fitness book through publishing house Avery Brooks.
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G.R.E.Ed.S & The Remedies – Ready | EP Review
With the stars of tomorrow putting in the graft from now, what they are currently hoping for is that their toils and grind result in a loyal fanbase which will follow them to fame. One of the more popular names in the live circuit is the rapper/poet G.R.E.Ed.S, whose easy on the ear wordplay is…
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G.R.E.Ed.S & The Remedies – Ready | EP Review
With the stars of tomorrow putting in the graft from now, what they are currently hoping for is that their toils and grind result in a loyal fanbase which will follow them to fame. One of the more popular names in the live circuit is the rapper/poet G.R.E.Ed.S, whose easy on the ear wordplay is…
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G.R.E.Ed.S + The Remedies present Ready EP launch in London, December 3rd | UK Events
South London spoken word poet Yomi Sode, known as G.R.E.Ed.S (Generating Rhymes to Enlighten Engaged Soul) fuses his signature spoken word style with indie, reggae, hip hop and soul beat patterns in his new EP, Ready. Following on from debut project ‘Volume in Silence’ back in 2009 which was a much darker offering, G.R.E.Ed.S says, “Ready is a…
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Prodigy: The Start Of Ur Ending (Part 2) [Video]
After the pallava that surrounded his new book, Illuminati P aka Prodigy has sat down to talk about the thoughts behind writing his book My Infamous Life and explain the reasons why some people might have interpreted some of the contents of the book as him ‘dry snitching’ – and also to explain the real…
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GREEdS – Sampler 5 [Spoken Word Mixtape] | Free Download
Emerging Spoken Word artist G.R.E.Ed.S recently released the fifth installment of his Sampler series – Sampler 5 – which sees the UK-based Spoken Word artist and Performance Poet continue to experiment combining his poetry with some of the most popular music of the time by way of “sampling” (hence the name). On Sampler 5, he…
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Nas memoir It Ain’t Too Hard To Tell set for 2012 release | Music News
This week Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books announced Nasty Nas has a memoir coming out in autumn of 2012, titled It Ain’t Too Hard To Tell and co-written with respected music journalist and FUSE TV personality Toure. Should be an interesting read right? Jay Z beef, his marriage to Kelis, working with Damian Marley……
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Malice drops “Pray” visuals for Wretched, Pitiful, Blind & Naked audiobook [Video]
Whilst one half of rap collective The Clipse‘s Pusha T is making G.O.O.D. Music, the other half Malice is back at it with a new series of vignettes in support of the audio book version of his novel Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind & Naked, which is out next month. These visuals, set in a doctors…