Lifelong friend and collaborator of Scottt, its Kyle Rapps!!!! Check out his music on all platforms and support The Mayhem Poets in reaching more schools, universities and theaters around the world. In this episode we riff on many different films and their intersection with poetry and our lives.
Thanks to Renzo for his new friendship and keeping these two ramblers on task – who can tangent with the best of them when not tethered to a poem.
Shout out to the other incredible Mayhem Poets– Mason Granger, and Mikumari Caiyhe, We cant wait to have you on the pod.
Honorable Mentions in this episode go out to poets Chris FLOWMENTALZ Cook. Check out his incredible poem from Def Poety Jam, They Call Me Drama and Asia Samson of the Asia Project, @theAsiaProject on instagram. We were blown away by your work when we first heard you on a mutual college tour. Let’s Connect and please come on the podcast!!!
The poem Peace Piece or NBA Peace Piece appears in this podcast off Reverse Birth by the Mayhem Poets ~2006, written by Scottt Raven and Kyle Rapps mixed by Nate Greenberg in Brooklyn. A sequel to the poem was written and recorded in Mexico City ~2016 and is yet to be released, while a third part is now in the works reinspired by the recent NBA finals by these lifelong Knicks fans.
Mask Era appears at the end of this podcast and was a poem written by Kyle Rapps and Scottt Raven on behest of a visit to an all girls school in Manhattan NY. It was maybe performed 2 or 3 times total and was also recorded by NG in Brooklyn NY.
Many of the references in both these pieces are a little outdated, but are a product of the period in which they were written. Some references and lines are built upon the premise of getting close to the line, toeing the line- maybe even putting one foot that crosses the line in an effort to better articulate and more impactfully make a point by poem’s conclusion.
Enjoy our conversation with Kyle, true grit is to be swiftly witty and free, Knicks in 53- enjoy the poems and Keep it REEL.