poetry
It’s Drake season again. On Friday, the OVO head released his seventh studio album, Honestly, Nevermind, a 14-track project that was co-executive produced by him, Noah “40” Shebib, Oliver El-Khatib, Noel Cadastre, and Black Coffee. Now, it seems like we’ll be getting more from Drizzy in the coming months. On his new radio show, Table […]
Travis Scott‘s daughter Stormi turns three today. To celebrate her birthday, her father penned a poem dedicated to her time on earth. With it, Scott took to Instagram, posting pictures of him and Stormi sharing father/daughter moments: Scott captioned the post, “3 is bigger than 2/3 more years of love that’s true/3 more inches u might have grew/3 […]
Raised on Peckham’s infamous North Peckham Estate, South East London, poet Caleb Femi’s story speaks to the crucial importance of preserving your imagination amidst the harshness of a system built to trap you. Caleb’s unbreakable imagination has empowered him: in 2016, he was named as the first Young People’s Laureate for London; he’s directed short films […]
Before establishing himself as one of hip-hop’s most celebrated lyricists, Tupac Shakur was a prolific poet who wrote about universal themes such as loneliness, love, and heartbreak. In honor of National Poetry Month, the late rapper’s estate has launched a competition and a limited merch collection that celebrates Pac’s passion for writing. The contest, aptly dubbed the “Tupac […]
It seems Nipsey Hussle was a talented wordsmith long before he entered the rap game. Days after Nipsey was fatally shot in South L.A., the artist’s childhood poetry and short stories surfaced online. The pieces were shared by a Twitter user who claimed to be a former classmate of Nipsey, whose real name was Ermias Asghedom. “So it turns out that […]
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