From time to time you’ll find an artist who totally changes
your impression of the genre they’re performing, they'll inspire you and change
how you see the world, for me there’s only ever been a couple; the now defunct
ska-punk band The King Blues and Scroobius Pip. In my eyes they changed my
life, they inspired me to ask question, read into their beliefs and make a more
educated decision in regards to my view of the world. Back in December last
year I saw Scroobius Pip during his spoken word tour, he was supported by
comedy creation Brian Gittins and another spoken word artist, Kate Tempest of
the band ‘Sound Of Rum’.
The track here is Our Town by letthemusicplay with vocals by
the south London based poet/playwright and it’s something pretty amazing right
from the start. Letthemusicplay consist of Rollo Armstrong and Sister Bliss,
both highly successful DJ and producers in their own rights who've come
together to form the new collective which is making some pretty amazing stuff,
the quality is something to be truly marvelled at and shows other producers how
things should be done.
The overall highlight for me here is however Tempest, having
been the first under forty year old to win the Ted Hughes award for innovation
in Poetry you can tell that she is going to go down in history as one of the
greatest poets of our generation, everything she does she pours her heart into
and this is no different.
“Let’s go staggering through alleyways laughing into kisses”
She does something that a million writers have done before
so beautifully that it sound so new, the romanticism of London, the dreams of
success in the big city, or town as its put here show her love and passion for
the place that has moulded her as an artist. For me it resonates with me due to
the dreams I had when I first moved to London, you think it’s going to be easy
sailing, the world at your feet with opportunity at every corner yet you
inevitably find yourself in bed with three bottles of wine. The magnitude of
her love of hip hop and poetry is displayed clearly for the listener to hear,
she puts her all into everything she does and comes out with pieces people will
marvel at for years to come.
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