Saul Williams: ‘The bullshit lyricists have the catchiest hooks ’

The American rapper and actor on the state of hip-hop, mashing up Shakespeare with his music, and backing Sanders for US presidentYour latest album, MartyrLoserKing, tells the story of a Burundian hacker who sparks a revolution via the internet. Where did the idea come from?Around 2012 I was spending time in places like Senegal, South Africa and Reunion island, collecting sounds and stories. All sorts of things were going on around the world – the Occupy movement, global uprisings, whistle-blo...

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