Establishment hip-hop

what do you think of plan b, dl?

Of all the wielders of words, Kate Tempest is my favourite.

i don't have strong feelings about plan b. was kind of semi-into a kate tempest album a couple of years ago but found i couldn't really go back to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGEXLWNccBM

hehe these wiki-references kinda funny

"Kate Tempest wins Ted Hughes poetry prize for 'spoken story'", Guardian, 27 March 2013
"A life of rhyme: Kate Tempest's poetry-music fusion". The Independent. 1 March 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
"Urban poets bring the spirit of William Blake back to the streets". Evening Standard. 12 June 2009. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
"William Shakespeare: A digital reinvention". The Economist. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
"Kate Tempest: the performance poet who can't be ignored" 10 April 2013, Guardian.

It will be interesting to see how she develops and whether, as she becomes more successful and affluent, she can retain the authenticity of experience of south London life that marks out her work and makes her such an astonishing live performer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFEBBSKwaIQ

Tempest has proved you can have intergenerational appeal and still be cool, and that you can stretch your creative wings and not settle in one place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuODRMitSCQ

Tempest was in Australia earlier this month socking it to them at the Sydney writers’ festival with a speech in which she insisted that guilt about racism is just another form of narcissism and that what is urgently required is “empathy, humility, reparation and change”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGAMJQzvj9Y

gripping thread, en masse