Celebrating a new generation of underground poets, Grammy-nominated
Afro-European World Music artists "Les Nubians" set twenty-one young,
urban, international poetry competition winners to music in this amazing
dual-language book and CD release. Representing the heart of an
innovative, contemporary, urban, creative form and forum, this spoken
word urban poetry fusion contains four distinct chapters, each
addressing the issues of urban life, loves, and the spirit in human
nature. The Grammy-nominated international Hip-Hop, R&B duo "Les
Nubians'" multicultural sensibilities span from Afro-Jazz to British
Break Beat to Cameroonian Hip-Hop. Their latest CD, included in the
collection, wasrecorded all over the world; New York, Paris, Bordeaux,
London, Marseilles, and San Francisco, and is a fusion of urban poetry
from the most promising poets of the urban underground, and modern
music, including World Beat samplers, Hip-Hop inspired rhythms, American
rappers, global Afrobeat and R&B!"