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Southside Chicago poet turned rapper Malik Yusef (aka the Wordsmyth) started honing his art within the mid-’90s with appearances at open-mike evenings. While he was carrying out a spoken term set, movie director Ted Witcher is at the audience searching for motivation for his following movie about metropolitan poetry. Impressed …

First establishing himself mainly because an influential poet, and mainly because an award-winning screenwriter/actor, Saul Williams continued to determine himself mainly because an MC. His strategy wasn’t exactly good traditional college of hip-hop. His rhymes weren’t actually rhymes but instead his poetry shipped inside a frenzied spoken term manner which …