Watching Kae Tempest rap should be the gateway drug of choice regardless of your usual tastes, so please, once you’ve watched this, have a gander at Europe is Lost. And once you’ve picked your jaw up from the floor, have a dig into anything and everything they have done. I have expressed my love for them as a wielder-of-words extraordinaire in the video and if you check out just one of the 30 artists I’m sharing this month then please let it be Kae. Their work is unflinching and not always the easiest listen or read, but it’s so important and if poets form a lineage (which of course they do) then I’m delighted to have Kae Tempest carving new paths and dishing out inspiration for this, our current generation.
Grab a copy of Divisible by Itself and One here, and find out more at www.kaetempest.co.uk
Sequence by Kae Tempest