Poetry takes center stage as The Grammys introduces a new category for spoken word poetry albums. Poet J. Ivy helped create the new category after petitioning the Recording Academy.
, which had a significant influence on the development of rap."J.Ivy's work is to be heard. It's not to be whispered. It's to be said loud in your face," Oyewole tellsHe was born James Ivy Richardson II on Chicago's South Side in 1976, growing up to spit rhymes as a teen and, in college, confront his own history through writing. He says his dad's drug and alcohol abuse meant they didn't see each other for a decade.
You got me open and hoping this ill feeling will pass, won't last. I wear a mask so my piece won't ask for the truth, truthfully speaking the truth hurts but I'm beyond hurting, I'm in pain, and when I was a shorty I thought you left because I wouldn't behave. Later on in life I found out that it was the pain as well as other things and with all the scars it was hard but I learned to forgive and forgave....
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