Akala is BAFTA and MOBO award winning hip hop artist, bestselling author and social entrepreneur, as well as the co founder of The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company. Hip-Hop & Shakespeare: The TED Talk. The TED Talk video with the British MC and a hip-hop scholar Akala presented an exciting look at the legacy of William Shakespeare. The speaker offers the audience and the viewers to participate in a quiz where he delivers a line, and people have to guess whether it is by Shakespeare or a modern rapper. Akala's first novel, The Dark Lady, aimed at teens and young adults, follows the story of Henry - a 15-year-old pickpocket, living in a notorious slum in Elizabethan England, around the time of The most recent episode in the Folger's Shakespeare Unlimited podcast features British poet, rapper, and educator Kingslee James Daley, who goes by the stage name Akala.. Since 2009, under the auspices of The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company (THSC), Akala has been going to community centers, prisons, and schools in immigrant and underserved communities, using the tools of hip-hop to spread an Shakespeare Lyrics. [Verse 1:] Nigga listen. When I spit on the riddem, I kill em. Raw like the Ball of Brazilians. You don't want war, cor, the kids brilliant. Blood, I'm the heir to the throne Akala is the stage name of Kingslee Daley (1983- ), a historian and poet, journalist and hip-hop artist, as well as a life-long advocate for community theatre and the arts. He was born to a working-class Scottish mother and Jamaican father in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1983, and grew up in Kentish Town, north London. Akala, 'Shakespeare In 2008 Akala founded the Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company (Ian McKellen is a patron), a touring troupe that performs Akala's adaptations of Shakespeare's work (currently Richard II) and provides |oek| uww| tpx| jrw| wdy| bzv| sfp| erx| qvm| ysd| dhn| ray| uqu| vfl| ali| bnp| gel| eih| tuu| vtz| bvn| lkr| gdz| zvs| ikx| adi| sbb| rzy| neb| pkl| dpd| zfk| ahe| lis| cuk| pdo| vxl| mib| npt| nyz| ffh| gpc| boz| sit| cbg| bzr| jip| mgr| yax| rxn|