{"id":1765,"date":"2019-09-05T11:14:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/?post_type=spotlight&#038;p=1765"},"modified":"2023-02-21T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:09:09","slug":"the-repeat-beat-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/2019\/09\/05\/the-repeat-beat-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Repeat Beat Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spoken Word | Apples and Snakes : Blackbox | For the Poets and the Faithful by The Repeat Beat Poet\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NfVG-W8ymRU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h5>Describe yourself in 3 words<\/h5>\n<p>Hip Hop Poet (easy)<\/p>\n<h5>What inspires you?<\/h5>\n<p>The love, support, energy, and goodwill of my friends and family, and the people in the artistic communities I&#8217;m in.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>Then a guy physically took the mic and said &#8220;leave it mate&#8221;. Traumatising.<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5>Tell us about your worst ever gig?<\/h5>\n<p>Not strictly a gig, but I&#8217;ve died spectacularly in some cyphers. First-year of uni, house party in Mitcham, the beat started off on smooth head-noddin&#8217; backpack rap (home turf) and switched to a skippy 140bpm grime beat, and two bars in, I was done for &#8211; stumbling on words, out of my depth, then a guy physically took the mic and said &#8220;leave it mate&#8221;. Traumatising.<\/p>\n<h5>What\u2019s your number one poetry pet peeve?<\/h5>\n<p>Poetry awards that are actually popularity contests, and that judge audience engagement and reach, not poetry.<\/p>\n<h5>Whose words do you love at the moment?<\/h5>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently reading\u00a0<em><b>Hanif Willis Abdurraqib&#8217;s<\/b>\u00a0<\/em><b><em>Notes To A Tribe Called Quest,<\/em><\/b>\u00a0it&#8217;s a seamless mesh of memoir, reportage, letter-writing, poetry, essays, centred around an iconic group in Hip Hop. Other than that, I stan\u00a0<b>Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan<\/b>\u00a0and everything she&#8217;s doing,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>What piece of advice would you give to your younger self?<\/h5>\n<p>My advice to my younger self is\u00a0<b>ask for help<\/b>. You&#8217;re not weak for asking, you&#8217;re not lesser for needing people around you, you&#8217;re doing fine, and it&#8217;ll get better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>What&#8217;s one material thing you couldn&#8217;t live without?<\/h5>\n<p>#nosponsorship but I love my Minirig speaker, I&#8217;ve had it since 2014, and it&#8217;s been the material embodiment of music for me, couldn&#8217;t live without it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Perry Jonsson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Describe yourself in 3 words Hip Hop Poet (easy) What inspires you? The love, support, energy, and goodwill of my friends and family, and the people in the artistic communities I&#8217;m in. 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