Saul Williams
Saul Williams
Saul Stacey Williamsis an American rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and actor. He is known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop, and for his lead roles in the 1998 film Slam and Holler If Ya Hear Me, a Broadway musical featuring music by Tupac Shakur...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth29 February 1972
CityNewburgh, NY
CountryUnited States of America
blown mind people power
There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.
cnn people hip-hop
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.
people ears slowly-but-surely
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry
powerful people hip-hop
What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.
people needs comfort
I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones.
moving thinking people
You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.
simple people sensitive
I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.
reality people done
I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.
people vulnerable train
I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.
lying race people
If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.
powerful people hip-hop
There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.
signs
The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.
age time
You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.
define itself simply
'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.