P.P.S. The Writah 'Weerul Ci Mane'
“I am the pen and you are the ink”
Citing Bill Withers’ classic beauty Lean on Me, Senegalese star emcee P.P.S. The Writah delivers an addictive love poem to his hip hop family back in Dakar, from Brooklyn.
The video from Nomadic Wax, with English subtitles. Play it to your crew, to your family. Play it loud, play it often…
Putos Inmortales, a spoken word video developed from the album Sinergia by Capitan Humano, featuring the voice of Al Kronstadt (Pipas de Coco).
French emcee Pumpkin performs her Rose Combat piece acapella. Bastien Burger’s chiaroscuro film brings it all back to the elemental, the voice and the face and the energy.
Two Sydney artists, two great communicators, have joined forces to inspire us to action. Candy Royalle & Kween G combine - and seriously, what a combination! - for a confrontational, unapologetic track about racism in Australia and the world over.
A spoken word video of Melbourne rapper 1/6 is being shared far and wide today and that fact gives me hope. That when truth is simply spoken it resonates. That we stop and listen. That we take it as meant, and work together to manifest more truth in our daily lives. This piece, writes 1/6, "was inspired by and in support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. It's purpose is to help raise awareness of the ongoing race issues happening not only in America but worldwide."
Accra-based poet, musician and filmmaker GhaliLeo released this video a few days ago, influenced by African-American jazz, hip hop, metaphysics and neocolonialism
Released in September this year, a full concept spoken word album from Bologna’s Matteo Buratti.
Last week, Puerto Rican hip hop artist Ikol Santiago released this video for a track from his April ’13 album Iguacas.
Essential hip hop. Pataphysics is Pat Marks, Melbourne-based soulful guerilla hip hop artist. Musician and revolutionary poet with insightful rhymes, in both English and Sri Lankan. Latest video hits home, hard.
A powerful new video from Eyewitness, of Senegal's Wagëblë, with Cameroon / Switzerland based hip hop and gospel singer and social activist Olivier Cheuwa.