E67: The Vision, to Philly and Beyond

7/23/202641 min

Join us with Philly Legend and OG Vision the Poet as he takes us through his journey from past to present and into the future.

Poetry touches so many lives and industries as we as artists learn to grow and pivot along the way.

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First 90 seconds

Speaker 10:00
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Vision· Guest1:01
Yeah. So, um, started writing and, and went on the scene in Philly and met some really dope other poets, and Philly was like, really like a little kind of renaissance going on between neo-soul and poetry, and this is Allen Iverson, and this is State Property and Roc-A-Fella.
Josephus· Host1:17
Yeah, yeah.
Vision· Guest1:17
So Philly was like a art mecca at the time. And so, you know, as that kind of transitioned out, um, a friend of mine, Greg Corbin, started, um, an organization called Philly Youth Poetry Movement, PYPM,