Blog: LocalCut

Born: 1972 in New York. Latest release: NGH WHT—The Dead Emcee Scrolls with the Arditti Quartet, a collaboration with composer Thomas Kessler. Why you care: Quick—name a slam poet other than Saul Williams. Guaranteed, if that were a question on Cash Cab, 10 out of 10 contestants would get kicked to the curb. But it isn't just that Williams is the face—make that the only face—of a niche art form; it's hard to find a performer, in any medium, who possesses the same level of intensity. (Hell, [...]