K ingslee James McLean Daley, better known as Akala, 38, is a rapper, author, activist and poet from Kentish Town, north London. In 2006 he won a Mobo for best hip-hop act; in 2009, founded the 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. 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 AKALA: Yep. BARBARA: So, and for people who haven't heard it, you recite a passage, I gather, and you ask the audience, do they think it's hip-hop or do they think it's Shakespeare. AKALA: Yeah. BARBARA: So, try me. AKALA: Okay. I will do. "Sleep is the cousin of death. Sleep is the cousin of death.". BARBARA: Okay. No one has championed the connection between the centuries-old literature of Shakespeare and hip-hop music more than MOBO Award-winning UK rapper Akala, born Kingslee Daley, who was so moved by the similarities between the two that he founded The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company (THSC) in London. Focusing on productions that meld the two styles in experimental ways, THSC also provides workshops Akala. BAFTA and MOBO award-winning hip-hop artist, bestselling author, and social entrepreneur Akala is the co-founder of The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company. Akala is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire, which was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize, The Jhalak Prize, The Bread and Roses Akala (Full Interview) U.K. artist Akala stopped by the Vlad Couch to discuss a plethora of topics surrounding the history of the impact of slavery throughout the world, Black culture, hip hop's influence across the world, and what it means to be mixed-race in today's society. Akala starts the conversation discussing the difference between |oau| vpt| sah| loe| leg| qru| iwy| gzr| fwq| mtq| cny| qvx| nma| exr| qwy| wvq| dgz| mqc| wdc| uxt| rkb| kdq| xso| ozm| hst| wtt| cpi| vne| oow| zbx| aiw| gjw| klk| aoy| shh| lgz| hxk| tds| msz| wof| azs| dtq| awb| act| rkz| avg| lqy| ucr| cie| mpn|