Everybody Down
Kae is best known as a poet, perhaps a performance poet or a spoken word artist. They also has a novel coming out next year with Bloomsbury. But ask Kae what they are and they are more likely to say they are a rapper. That's their true and first love.
Artist: Kae Tempest
Genre: Hip Hop
Label: Big Dada
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More of Skinnyman than Seamus Heaney, more of Deal Real's legendary Friday night rap battles than a book signing and reading at Foyles. 'Everybody Down' has twelve 'chapters' telling one long, inspired story, a unique, one-off project and comes produced in its entirety by Dan Carey (Bat For Lashes, M.I.A and Hot Chip). The result is a revelation. Tempest takes the tropes of the hip hop story - drugs, money, gangsters - and brings them to life in a whole new way, a London way, but also a completely personal way, where she inhabits the different characters and shows the boredom and fear in their lives rather than some faked glamour, shows more than anything their need for love. Producer Dan Carey, meanwhile, sculpts soundscapes that pay tribute to the roots of hip hop while melding into the themes Tempest addresses, tough and gritty but intensely musical, the sound of a wet winter's night out in London. He even got US singer-songwriter Willy Mason to contribute a chorus! In the end we get an audio story Dickens might have tried to write, one which is, in Tempest's words, quite simply about 'loving more.
About the artist
Kae Tempest is an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright. At the age of 16, Tempest was accepted into the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. In 2013, they won the Ted Hughes Award for their work Brand New Ancients.
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