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It's like Shakespeare, with a nigga twist And that can only be a good thing. There ain't no ifs or maybes In addi­tion she has an Msc in psy­cho­logy, has worked as a ther­ap­ist, and paints abstract art pieces. You listen to a song like “Preacher and the Bear.”, [CLIP of the Golden Gate Quartet singing “The Preacher and the Bear.”], Lord, look here, you know you delivered ol’ Daniel from the lion's den.And you delivered three Hebrew children from the fiery furnace, and then…. pic.twitter.com/YwSM2ba2El. BARBARA: You have a rap about this, right? It's like Shakespeare with a nigga tiwst My shit, I tell em like this

BARBARA: So, you’re talking about the work that you do with The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company. It's like Shakespeare, with a nigga twist. Examined were rhym­ing pat­terns, vocab­u­lary size, rhym­ing struc­ture.

"We know what we are But know not what we may be" Akala. I always recognized that hip-hop had a range of expressions. And this is where we can begin to draw par­al­lels with oth­er means of expres­sion. AKALA: … describes it as jazz. Akala, at least, has been hav­ing fun with his games. When I spit on the rhythm I kill 'em, If Biggie Smalls told a story like that, people would say, why is he glorifying violence? It is a cath­arsis that allows those who might oth­er­wise engage in viol­ence, chan­nel those feel­ings in anoth­er way. To be fair, no MC close to the man AKALA: And spending time with him and hearing him rap, in Brazilian Portuguese, I was like, “the rhyme is not the same.” What I would hear audibly as a rhyme in English isn’t exactly what a rhyme is in Brazilian Portuguese. But can you identify which of the following quotes are from Akala's own songs and which are Shakespeare's? So dicks hate my shit That kid Akala Maybe it’s hatred I spew.”. Feelin' like you drunk drunk If you’ve been enjoying Shakespeare Unlimited, I hope you’ll consider reviewing the podcast on whatever platform you get this podcast from. Sim­il­arly Wal­lace Steven’s, an early 20th cen­tury poet, once described poets as being “the priest of the invis­ible”. And so if we take, say, jazz and we bring it all the way up to hip-hop, we talk about Congo Square. I don't spit what I don't know

AKALA: Precisely. And it’s ‘cause it was “mood” and “blood” or “loins” and “loins,” which means loins and lines. As Syr­ia falls apart, we watch the prob­lems  pro­gress, when will it end?”. It con­tex­tu­al­ises everything.

The death of his broth­er by sui­cide, expressed in “Bars for my Broth­er” teaches us the raw pain of loss. Browse our full list of Shakespeare Unlimited episodes. Now Akala’s stealing it back. And chicks say he's Chris For many, the ulti­mate draw of hip hop is in its lyr­i­cism.

It has to be sung….

But also to show that there’s still a rhythm in it. So, when you understand this context, when you understand the type of instrumentation in West Africa, it becomes much more easy to explain how these musical cultures were created in the Americas. Its like Shakespeare with a nigger twist, To be fair, no MC close to the man

So, I think, like I said, there’s a lot of pro—even Received Pronunciation. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. A Midsummer Night's DreamThe TempestNathan the Wise, Streaming for freeFull performance + special features. The answer?

But for me, the pro­ject is lack­ing a dimen­sion. AKALA raps the lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 over a 90 BPM beat.

Ben­jamin Zephaniah, the fam­ous Brit­ish poet, com­men­ted on why he wrote his nov­el ‘Gang­sta Rap’: “I love Rap music. I'm sick, raise ya spliff That's just beggin' it BARBARA: It has a very different… completely different atmosphere. That one’s actually from Much Ado About Nothing. [CLIP from the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight”], So after school, I take a dip in the pool, which is really on the wall.I got a color TV so I can see the Knicks play basketball.Hear me talking 'bout checkbooks, credit cards, more money, than a sucker could ever spend….

I mean I deliberately when… so when I designed this exercise, I deliberately obviously didn’t pick certain instances from Shakespeare with line….

The aim is to take pupils back in his­tory. The sim­il­ar­it­ies between hip-hop music and Shakespeare’s theatre are strik­ing. Ya'll dudes killin' me, think that ya killin' it I mean you gotta remember when blues was around, you know, in the UK, we have a paper called the Daily Mail, a favorite right-wing paper.

It’s Nas. For the Folger Shakespeare Library, I’m Folger Director Michael Witmore. How? Its no democracy, dictatorship So, for example, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, the great, you know, historian from Oxford University, he has a book called Millennium. They call blues “devil’s music” and they called it “the Negro’s revenge.” That’s an actual quote from the Daily Mail. All the shit I kick, so crazy And you could take any verse of Shakespeare that’s in iambic pentameter and you can put it on most regular 4/4 hip-hop and you can put it on most of what we call in the UK “grime”—it’s a very transferable rhythm.

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Raw like the Ball of Brazilians

The second…. Spit poetry so shady, for lords on road and my hood ladies

AKALA: Right. And so people would gather.

the writer guesses. I think there’s something about Shakespeare as a brand, but I think that comes as much from what has been written about him as what he wrote.

You don't trouble, left layin in a puddle So dicks hate my shit AKALA: There was a … it has echoes of Hamlet. BARBARA: Well, as you say, they haven’t ever been exposed to this tradition of there’s this, you know, bifurcation in hip-hop. It’s for me…”, BARBARA: Well this is politics. But, actually, perceptions of Shakespeare can be problematic. And that isn’t an accident. You listen to Chinese music and be like, I can’t tell it apart. I'ma whole different kettle of fish AKALA: You’d be like, forget it. MICHAEL WITMORE: This is a Shakespeare podcast so let’s start by reading some Shakespeare. And a lot of people still have the belief that that’s all kind of hip-hop has to contribute, has to say. AKALA: It’s… well, (a) it’s the rhythm of the human heart. But it is also a neces­sary one. 'Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire' is a semi-biographical book that discusses issues and questions around race and culture in Britain and around the globe. I mean he was not Oxford….

Nitro flow, oh-so-cold, I'mma blow yo

BARBARA: Well that … let’s talk about that. And what true hip hop lov­ers know inher­ently is being con­sol­id­ated aca­dem­ic­ally. Last.fm Music | Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. / All rights reserved. ©2017 No Bounds www.nobounds.org.uk | Creative Commons License: I Am Hip-Hop Magazine work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Rap tells it as it is. And the point is, the guy wrote performance poetry and great stories that were about sex and violence and love and tragedy. I'm the nigga, that's that So, we can play you the Golden Gate Quartet, who are a gospel quartet. Surrender yourself to the floor.Mowbray: come, come, settle down,Don’t spit away your blood when you don’t have a crown…. Feelin' like you drunk drunk ", He went on to say, "I'd like to thank the entire Caribbean pan-African community that helped me through school and encouraged an intellectual curiosity and self development from a very young age. Ian McKellen came. Choose from a variety of Folger events and programs, on Capitol Hill, around Washington, DC, and across the country. I mean and a lot of… even some of the Shakespeare’s most famous stuff, the opening of Romeo and Juliet, you know, “two households both alike in dignity,” that is iambic. True story bro. Your ears and your brain literally are not yet trained to understand the vocabulary of that music. So, you have some, you know, highly sophisticated centralized structures of government in early medieval West Africa. Thou shall not fuck with 'dis [Chorus] BARBARA BOGAEV: Well, part of me just wants you to rap for half an hour. The first person I saw give a lecture was KRS-One. That is, the young miso­gyn­ist­ic black man speak­ing of bitches, money, and dis­play­ing greed and wealth.

Since the begin­ning of time words have been the world’s most potent weapon. All the shit I kick, so crazy Do they say, oh… do they always think it can’t possibly be Shakespeare because it sounds so modern? But I think some of the perceptions are because of the way a lot of commercial modern hip-hop is, that basically it doesn’t take much intelligence to be a rapper from people that don’t know about hip-hop. It's Shakespeare, reincarnated, except I spit flows and strip hoes naked My hits, major shit AKALA: So what we do with that is we take five different verses and we play a beat, any kind of beat and we… there’s… so not all of them are iambic.

For lords on road and my hood ladies It doesn’t matter that it’s from the projects of Staten Island. Move sick, look, sample techno Number 1 for so long, its just getting' silly

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