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Rose Hackman's avatar

(Also tell your wife that your voice is butter smooth so she must surely be wrong about the rest)

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

ha!

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

Rose did the most beautiful reading of Hopeless's poem...

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ARC's avatar

agreed! I loved hearing her read it!

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Damn man, another one to listen to!? I'm dyin' over here. And I can't wait. Miguel is fantastic and ARC is always a great wheelman.

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ARC's avatar

Thanks a ton brother.

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

I loved this episode from head to toe. My favorite part was the analysis of Hopeless. You really blew open their writing for me. The question and answer session was magic. I will have to listen again and quote the shit out of it. Is there a transcription option available? The culture you cracked up here takes the poetry into a true literary zone, where fiction slams hard up against truth!

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ARC's avatar

wow thanks for such a dope comment. Yes, there is a transcript. I can see about attaching it for people who want to read back their answers.

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Tabitha Blair's avatar

Only way to get good at riding the beat is to keep doing it till you find the pocket to rocket to rock it. Spit that collab 😝.

Meanwhile thanks for highlighting da hype of rap fiction — Imma have to subscribe to Miguel to dig in dem crates and see what’s up with a fellow rap fiction god.

Appreciate you as always for being a passionate champion of POETRY.

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and now Miguel's avatar

Peace Tabitha, thank you 🙏🏽😊!

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Rose Hackman's avatar

Loved the sonic curator. Thank you for sharing his work. Excited for that collab song. Loved hope(less) and her excellent answers. (the part about descaling their tails I am still recovering from)

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and now Miguel's avatar

Yes! I was so happy to hear that, sonic curator, 🙏🏽.

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ARC's avatar

you so sonic you got me rhyming on beat

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and now Miguel's avatar

🙏🏽💚, you got an incredible voice, got to use it!

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and now Miguel's avatar

Rose! I forgot to include how incredible you sound on the mic! So dope. There were moments where I really felt the energy of the words just come to life. Very moving performance 🙏🏽

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Sandolore Sykes's avatar

Miguel is a true discovery. I love how Andrew unpacked his lines... it really opened the work up for me.

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ARC's avatar

so happy to hear that. He is a gentle and dope poet.

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and now Miguel's avatar

Thank you listing 🙏🏽, such a blessing to have this brotha @ARC my stories and poems.

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hope(less) on sundays's avatar

National treasure Rose Hackman reading one of MY little poems?!!? woweee this is my biggest accomplishment ever i can just about retire now i think, she more than did it justice, it's beautiful, it's elevated, it's everything i could ever hope for, thank you to infinity!! ARC absolutely killed it, again, would have listened for 3 more hours, my bad for making you play the interviewer, interviewee and commentator roles all by yourself though, but you're a natural born entertainer!!! visuals were insane, some would say you learnt from the best :) and are you telling me rose didn't have D.E.I D.I.E on repeat?? because personally that was a banger!! and now Miguel... MIGUEL!!! by far the best doing it right now, way too talented for substack, i'm just happy to even be in the same conversation. love you all

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ARC's avatar

Thanks Hope(less)on sundays!

Yeah, she give me some love on DEI/DIE.

Yes, And Now Miguel is legendary and a amazing soul.

Congrats on an outstanding rollout yesterday!

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