Saul Williams

I love this man. He is so talented and beautiful and eloquent... anyone else?
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Edited because I'm a dumbass.

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[Edited on Mar 10, 2003 by mtlqueen]

Hey Queenie,

Saul's off my radar. You have to hook me up!

I remember I picked up She on a lark a number of years ago and enjoyed it immensely. I'd thought that Williams was a minimalistic poet who worked well within the genre. It wasn't until later that I learned he was a slam! poet.

I keep waiting for his next book to come out, but it never does. Kinda like Corso, that.

hes extremely talented...I love his poetry and his music.

seeing him live reading poetry, doing his rhymes acapella was awesome...he's so down to earth but, at the same time, completely transcending it...y'know that one song that's more d'n'b where it's like "in the name of, robeson, mumia etc.." he was doing that, no music, and at one point he just forgot the words and asked the audience who was next...and then he had question and answer time...he was so sweet even tho there were a lot of foolish questions asked...i love him

I love him, the movie slam was great, his cd was great and his books other wordly. I saw him when he did a tour of his poetry readings, and he is a very warm person in life. He is very intelligent and insightful See him on any level of performance.

If you like Saul williams check out the songs elohim(1972) and twice the first time, he did the tracks for a british hip-hop label called big dada which is a subsidiary of a british electronic label called Ninja Tune.
Good Shit

amethyst rockstar gets constant rotation in my cd player every few months... i saw him live at the detroit electronic music festival a couple years ago... it was a great performance. he doesn't do much that i'm not impressed by.

I just saw him at the berkeley community theater (berkeley high school...heh) with annie defranco,michael franti,chuck d,etc. and I gotta say he really moved me (and the rest of the crowd).he has an _amazing_ gift with spoken word...really super powerful.
too bad michael franti is turning into the phil collins of world beat,but wtf,he's good at what he's doing... /end of rant

i think his gift is his sharp mind... i think that's how the words come out sounding so right

i dunno whatever it is, i love his work

ya, love saul also...have met him a couple times. such a good man and father...was shocked to see him in K-Pax 'while back, he was great. if you like him...check out Earman Ali at www.liquilab.com. more in the vein of old-school Gangstarr though. mmmm. great comment re: michael franti...i think i lost it when the name changed from just spearhead; although some tracks off that record were still slammin'.

suh-weet.

thanks mtl.

If anybody has ever seen Scorcese's "Last Temptation of Christ" Saul Williams is playing the part of John the Baptist...of the Music World.

I was lucky enough to see him a couple years back on the Sno-Core Tour and after all the mind altering lyricism he admitted such a humble thought...even HE doesn't understand everything he's saying...made me feel, I don't know...more human?

Saul is great
his cd is smart and slamin
i saw him speak once and he blew my mind
i wish i could write like him
everyone should check him out

bump

The newest CD & video are so good and he's doing shows with Nine Inch Nails at the moment which I find such a strange but awesome combination.

check his website out.

I been following him since he wrote for Vibe.

He's crazy. Literally.

In all the right ways though.
I was one of those kids that jumped on board when SLAM came out.

saul good

I find it odd that not that many people know about him. He seems relatively mainstream.

I finally got round to picking up his eponymous album. I've only listened to it once, but it seemed to be pretty great. Unfortunately, I didn't hear a song on par with the beautiful Tao Of Now - the song that got me into him.

Black Stacey.

Has anyone heard him on the new Coldcut album truly amazing!

I saw Saul Williams do a couple of songs with NIN at Voodoo Fest back in October. One of the songs was "where my niggas at" or something like that, and Trent was doing the chorus. It's not everyday you hear Trent fucking Reznor singing "where my niggas at". Priceless.

It was the first time I saw Saul and I was impressed. The guy seems to be genuinely talented.