“I Be a Poem” - A poetry masterclass with Will Diggs

Yeah, so Sepia Soul is a collective.

It's an idea in a group of people.

So me and Ket, it's like I see it like it was yesterday.

So actually, it was originally like four young brothers.

It was me, Ket, Wadi, a duo name.

Man, man.

I feel so bad that that actually makes me feel bad, but it was, it was one of our like mutual homes.

And we, we met up one night and we were just like, yo, you know, like I'm a, I'm a poet.

You a DJ MC, you know, you a, you a community, you know, and Cat does poetry too.

And, and our, our other dude, he was good with the lenses.

He was, he was also, you know, taking pictures.

And so, so we all just, man, we just kind of like, man, like who is really holding it down for like the younger crowd when it comes to, you know, spoken word and just like being, you know, getting together and, Cause I do believe in the, in the power of, you know, the collective, the collective one, right.

Where like, when, when there are a lot of people on the same kind of energy that, that get in one place, um, i think the universe appreciates that and you know i think like there's something like in the in the church or they say you know where two or more gather you know um and then there's like

exact thoughts yeah yeah

yeah and then there's also like a song and it's like like i remember at my grandma's church they would sing it's like you know you you desire to abide in the praises of your people

and

so i just find it so interesting that like when we get together and like our passions are at the forefront and we are uplifting ourselves and each other then i think that something kind of deeply spiritual happens.

And I wanted to do my part to show people that like, spoken word like i think we have like this idea of like you know spoken word a lot of people think of like def jam or you know like erica badu you know with the instance going it's like it can be that but it also can just be you know these different iterations like you know the project that we did with you you know where where we have them up on the wall and then you know um and then the spoken word but there's always going to be when you think of sepia so you know sepia some people say sepia sepia sepia it didn't mean brown um but yeah so when you think of sepia so it's just like People are going to be singing and people are going to be spitting poems and hella people are probably going to be dancing.

And when you get there, you know, we just want people to feel loved.

Yeah.

It's about love.

And, you know, again, I'm just glad that we're able to, like, connect with so many people in the community.

Like, we engage with vendors, artists, you know, other artists who we connect with and stuff like that.

And being able to, like...

I'm anti-capitalist, but being able to put money in the pockets of people who matter to us and paying people for their time and stuff like that.