Malik Yusef
Malik Yusef
Top Songs
| 1 | Promised Land | ||
| 2 | SUMMERTIME (Ultralight Beam)E | ||
| 3 | STONE LUHV (Hardstone National Anthem)E | ||
| 4 | GOLD NIGGODS (Gold Digger)E | ||
| 5 | LUKAN (Wolves)E |
Albums
Nov 2024 • 25 songs
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About
Biography
Southside Chicago poet turned rapper Malik Yusef (aka the Wordsmyth) started honing his craft in the mid-'90s with appearances at open-mike nights. While he was performing a spoken word set, director Ted Witcher was in the audience looking for inspiration for his next movie about urban poetry. Impressed by Yusef's loose but powerful free-form style, he hired him as a coach for Lorenz Tate in 1997's Love Jones. This opened some doors in Hollywood, leading to appearances on BET's Rap City and HBO's Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry TV shows, where he performed "I Spit...." Maj...