The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah

Because of my touring with D’Angelo, the Roots hadn’t had a chance to truly cash in on the neo-soul movement. We were Moses and the movement was the Promised Land: We had led people to it, helped organize it, ushered people through the first awkward phases, made sure that there was an audience that understood and appreciated the music. And yet we d

As I sit alone with these words, I think about how brave he was in so many ways, and how brave he was to go into that studio every day with his demons and his angels, and labor to put them on canvas.

Par ailleurs, j’écrivais plus d’articles pour les magazines rock — Crawdaddy, Circus, Rolling Stone. C’était une époque où la profession de journaliste musical avait ses lettres de noblesse. Paul Williams, Nick Tosches, Richard Meltzer et Sandy Pearlman, entre autres, étaient des écrivains que je tenais en haute estime. Je prenais modèle sur Baudel