00:00I would love to talk about your writing of poetry as well, and kind of how that started for you, if it's still, you know, current practice.
00:08I think, yeah, I think for me, writing poetry began as, well, I'll take you back.
00:16So, so we, I grew up on, we call it flats, but you can call it projects. In the flats, like we would, as a way of connecting and as a way of sort of spending our time, we would rap.
00:38Someone would like make a beat and someone would spit bars, or we'd have clashes where two people would just go at it, or we'd have clashes.
00:50So it started, it started as sort of something that was something that you would do with your friends and your family, you know, in your local area.
01:00And then for me, it transitioned into, yes, being fun, but also being therapeutic for me.
01:07So I would then start to write more personally, and would actually find that that helped me through things.
01:20And then it sort of went from that to spoken word.
01:24Okay.
01:24And then next thing I know, I'm like, at a spoken word event, and people are like.
01:28So it sort of transitioned like that.
01:36So it was like, purely fun and for the joy of it.
01:41And that fun and joy never left throughout the whole journey.
01:43It still hasn't left, but things just accompanied it, accompanied it.
01:47Like it became therapeutic for me and I started to write more personally.
01:51That's all that changed.
01:52And yeah, I still, I still like to write now and again.
02:00And yeah, I think, I think I'm most inspired by, if we're talking a poet, Langston Hughes.
02:09And my favorite poem from him is April Rain Song.
02:12And if you haven't read it, it's not very long, but you should check it out.
02:16Okay.
02:16Absolutely.
02:18He's the man.
02:20Okay.
02:20Okay.
02:20Okay.
02:22Okay.
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