Steven Willis - Ode to the Boys Who Die to Make Hip Hop Happen
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- Опубліковано 2 лют 2020
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Steven Willis, performing at Rustbelt 2019 in Saint Louis, MO.
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seeing all these comments are super sweet, he teaches my acting class at the university I go to and he's super cool and an amazing actor, you go Steven!!
Really! This must be nice to have an as a teacher. What school does he teach at??
Okay but sissss where does he teachh??
@@Missopata220 At Iowa
chills within seconds. the devastating truth no one realizes 💔
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.” ~ T.S. Eliot
“If you listen closely you can hear my body drop before the beat does”...whewwwww that line right there so true
That beginning acting was great
"big momma, her baby boys got his own hymn now." killed me, it cut me so deep i started choking and bawling, one moment fine and the realization of what he said destroyed me. Beautiful.
His poems are always so raw and amazing
The transition from the euphoric “I’m a hit!” to the horrified “I’m hit!” hit me so hard I had to get up and take a few laps around my living room. Dark, yet profound shit. Steven Willis is the GOAT
*Agressively snapps fingers*
With all these young rappers dying this poem hurts so much more
Literally got chills from that performance 😥
And just so you know, I'm not sure what i am doing 23 years after the night of my brother Bobby's suicide but I create compulsively so I don't destroy everything else. And I look for you, the writers who are not stoppable with the tongues like a lie detector spitting up the truths, blowing ink blowing ink, turning senseless bloodshed in the air finding a new Gutenberg and stepping up to the ages, wireless casting and no not for fish but the other future when you finally got the chance to realize how to make reservations for now, write yourstory, our story thistory..
I went to a funeral for a black man today and he was young and old and he was non violent in the way of a violent space in time.
My brother Bobby fought for a war and he got a purple heart and the war never came back from him. I was bought out of my record label deal for the first offer I made as a joke and I have been a professional never been coulda been has been before I saw thirty-one.
Now I have a ghost and a lot more memories of my life than the actual people and landmarks which built them. But I am not going anywhere. I live in the circuity and I listen to you and I roar and crackle in rapture to feel more vitality to the world. Create. Be. Tell me that you are...
Here i am!!!
A sacrifice for the culture 😌🖤
He may just be my favorite. All of his poems make me repeat that shit for like 20 minutes. So powerful
Every single one of his poems hit hard as I don't know what
"I'm hit!" Yeah. Right in the heart. If anyone's not hit by this, their heart is rock and it ain't rolling!
Well said John!
this is not what i should be focusing on but his side profile is .. perfect
That’s what I was thinking 😅
So deep, honest and beautifully written. A extremely talented man with an even brighter future
One of my favorite spoken word poets 👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥
1st comment, 3 views, 3rd like.
This poem spoke so much truth and emotion within such small time. You can hear the emotion in his voice. Truly beautiful
every hair on my body is standing rn
Brutal. I had chills repeatedly.
This man is a standing ovation itself! Powerful message that every man should acknowledge before thinking Hip hop of today... Is the life we suggested.
I heard this poem a year ago and still cannot stop thinking about it. Amazing
Thank god they finally got this poem on here Steven. Hope i see you again sometime man
Beautiful poem and performance 👏🏾👏🏾
Goosebumps. Tears. Chills. This is incredible.
Thank you!
This is why the art still thrives. Wonderful work
By the way I am a 20 year old guy who’s having my 1st poetry book published in around a month if not less. I’d really appreciate it if you’d keep an eye out for it, tell your friends and give it a go. You don’t have to if you don’t want to, I don’t mind, but I’d still really appreciate it. It’ll be online on amazon and in shops in the uk too. Here’s one poem I wrote earlier for my grandad who sadly past away last night.
For my dearest grandad
My inspiration
My family
My life and joy
You have lived a wonderful life
Filled with adventures and excitement
You were always so strong and dependable
We will all remember you always
And think of all our memories we’ve shared
From wheeling me around in a wheelbarrow as a child to patting me on the back when I got my first job we all love you so much remember that forever and always rest in peace my dear grandad❤️xxxxx
Thank you for making this poem!!! I’ve always felt this way but could never put it into proper words and didn’t feel comfortable doing so because I’m a woman. Great piece 😩🙌🏾
His delivery.... Word for word AMAAAAAZING!!!!!!
Holy crap. That might have been one of the best things I’ve seen in my life.
Powerful
Chills. The ENTIRE time
Damn. You made me cry. Great writing, terrific performance!
Man that hits heavy
This is quite literally one of my favorite poems EVER. First time I saw it live in competition I was shooketh!!!
Snaps!
Omg ! I got chills so beautiful
POWERFUL!!!
one of the most beautiful works of performative art I've seen. thank you
Holy trap this was so beautifully crafted and expressed 🔥🔥🙌🏽💯
One of my favorite poets.
Just beautiful ..
Wow, great poem and even greater delivery !
I just needed to release what was felt through this spoken word my Brother. My body pumps with the life you spoke of. This is phenomenal. Incredibly phenomenal . Thank you.
Thank you Steven Willis for the goosebumps; this poem is too powerful!
This is one of my favorite videos, its built so well and everything flows amazing until the final moments. Its a genuine masterpiece in my opinion one of the videos I feel like would still be great in ten or fifteen years.
My guy gave me goosebumps
Watching every poem of his I come across
Wow 🙏🏼 Well done!
Whew! 🔥 🔥 🔥
wow, just wow.
WOW the reality isn’t that glamorous. This was powerful
Phenomenal.
i am obsessed .
That was amazing
That's some cold fire brother.
chills
Just wow
Sooo dope!! 🔥 🔥 🔥
Nice, well spoken
DEEP
So good
wow.
This man is THE FUCKING TRUTH!!!!! I see his name and I’m clicking.
dayyem
Steven where you been!!!..? 🤨🗣🎶👂🏾😌🔥💯❤️
This is too🥶🥶🥶he went in I felt that
✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
The one that said oh shot at the beginning
I'm a Hit.....Chills!!!
Wow
My nephewpoet is a straight up beast.
That’s deep
ASTOUNDING
Chills throughout the whole performance!
Damn!
The ending 😢
' i'm hit! i'm a hit!
Damn. 💕
if this isn't the poetry that needed to be sung to make authority listen then I don't know what
He so talented he just outright cold and today I stop listening to violent hip hop
Very realistic
God damn.
🗣🔥
My guy is a PROBLEM👑👑👑
💪🏾
RIP POP 💔
this is my favorite poem to date. fuck man.
Jev served this sample well
*"Chief Keef adlibbed into the afterlife"*
That's fucking real dawg
RIP to Popsmoke
Is that what it sounds like when someone is shot?
I can’t tell if the audience is booing or like
*"But aint that your favorite part of the song?"*
"I sacrificed for the culture".
thank you for sharing @mystere
Wow