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The Hip Hop Verb
The Verb considers the poetics of rap, rhyme and flows with a celebration of 50 years of hip hop.
The Verb goes back to the brilliant Contains Strong Language Festival held in September last year in Leeds to consider the poetics of rap, rhyme and flows with a celebration of 50 years of hip hop. Rapper and playwright, and friend of The Verb, Testament led a panel discussion on one of the 20th and 21st century’s most powerful and influential literary movement with guests UK rapper Jehst, writer and spoken word performer Michelle Scally Clarke, and hip hop luminary Paul 'Oddball' Edmeade.
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Fri 2 Feb 202422:00
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Something Borrowed
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