Harold Green, III definitely has "Something to Live For" and shares his emotions with in this clip. In his most recent video, Green gives an inspiring ode to fatherhood and more specifically, his love and admiration for his own young son.
Nitty Scott, MC isn't just an MC, she's also a poet. In this video, from a new diary series recorded in preparation for the iTunes release of her Boombox Diaries Vol. 1 EP, she celebrates turning 21 with a unique coming-of-age verse.
Award-winning poet and acclaimed writer Dean Atta released his new poetry EP Love or Money about a week ago and has already been mentioned by several media sources, including a review by MTV. With all this attention, it'd be easy to forget that this is a poetry EP and not a chart-selling music compilation.
Award-winning poet and acclaimed writer Dean Atta released his new poetry EP Love or Money about a week ago and has already been mentioned by several media sources, including a review by MTV. With all this attention, it'd be easy to forget that this is a poetry EP and not a chart-selling music compilation.
London based writer, performer and poet Dean Atta reveals his new poetry EP project Love or Money. Following his last EP Missing Piece, released two years ago, the BEFFTA award winning poet puts together the new five-track EP as a free download.
"Play Nice" is the latest offering from Chicago spoken word standout Harold Green, III, whom we first featured in 2011. Once again teaming with director Sanicole (who shot Green's masterful Honey Moon, a collabo with soul standout B.J. The Chicago Kid), "Play Nice" is a gritty reminder of the dark realities many face. Unafraid, Green claps back at life's grim circumstances: "I hope these words bust yo' skull like a lead pipe." Peep the video below.
Renowned writer, performer and poet Dean Atta opened many an eye and gained much attention with his recently penned poem "I Am Nobody's Nigger"; inspired by the [much delayed] sentencing of Stephen Lawrence's murderers, and the discovery that the n-word was the last the teenager heard before being stabbed to death in a racist attack almost 19 years ago.
G.R.E.Ed.S (Generating Rhymes to Engage the Enlightened Soul) is a British Nigerian Spoken Word artist from London. Quite well known and well loved within London’s underground live music and poetry circuits, G.R.E.Ed.S has been creating and performing glorious spoken word/music for over three years and it is simply about time this music reaches the masses.
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 transition from the dark to a more comfortable place."
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 takes on such songs as Adele's "Someone Like You", Pusha T's "Trouble On My Mind", The Throne's "Welcome To The Jungle" and Seun Kuti's "Rise" amongst others.
Listen to Sampler 5 in its entirety below and download the mixtape underneath.