When Kate Tempest raps, her whole body raps with her. Her words seem to bubble up from within, coaxed along by an arched blonde eyebrow or her extended fingers, before exploding from her mouth in a torrent of rhymes. Watching her perform before a packed, overheated audience in Paris last night was like watching a small hurricane of vocabulary. Never had her stage name seemed more appropriate.
It's been a busy year for the South Londoner, born Kate Calvert, who, at 29, has firmly established herself as one of Britain's most intriguing hip-hop artists. She may already be the most hyphenated. Rapper-poet-playwright is the combination most people go with, but the order can be difficult to nail down. Her debut album, Everybody Down, was s...
Kate Tempest was a lyrical force of nature at her Paris show
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