And the Hello and welcome to So Dijaker on songwriting, episode 162.

This is Simon here with Brian, and we hope you're all still coping okay

and continuing to stay safe and well

during the craziness that continues to consume the world.

Joining us today is a Mercury Prize and Brit Award Nominated rapper Poet, Novelist and Playwright.

In late 2019 she released her critically acclaimed third album The Book of Traps and Lessons, which served

to further cement her reputation as one of the most engaging, intelligent, powerful and provocative

creative voices the UK has to offer.

We're delighted to welcome the brilliance Kate Tempus to the show.

We met with K to their local pub in Lewisham, South London on a very rainy afternoon in

early March and had great fun chatting with her. Remember when you could still meet up with people in pubs,

Bry? Faintly. Crazy that was only a matter of a few weeks ago we recorded this interview,

it feels like about six months. I know, it does. Anyway Anyway Kate was in fine form and had some truly

fascinating things to say about how she goes about her work. She did indeed and

you're really going to enjoy this one or your money back. Our guest was born Kate Calbert in

1985 in South London and grew up in the district of Broccoli. She was

exposed to a great deal of art and literature as a child. She was a

veracious reader from a young age and as a teenager became increasingly preoccupied with music.

She left school at 16 to attend the famous Brit school in Croydon, which also boasts the likes of Adele and Amy Weinhouse among its former students and went on to study English literature at Goldsmiths.

Kate credits hip-hop acts like the Woot-Tang Clan, Lauren Hill and Notorious B-I-G with introducing

G here to the power of rap, while on the literary front her formative influences included Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and Alan Ginsburg.

When she was aged just 16, she was already demonstrating prodigious skills as a word Smith and cut her performing teeth at the regular

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