Forward ever backward never. When I was toasting (rapping) on sound systems this was one of my favorite chants, it was also used as a chant on demonstrations, and even on carnivals. The idea was that after my parent’s generation [...]

Why I want to celebrate the other side of Birmingham that Benefits Street doesn’t show. (First published in the Daily Mirror 10-3-14) I love Birmingham. When I left there for the brighter lights of London I didn’t really like it [...]

When this web site was built for me the designer said that I should have this section and use it as a blog, but I haven’t. I really, really struggle to fit the things that I have to do into [...]

Yes, that’s right, I’ve got a new DVD and book out. It’s a kind of Zephaniah on the road jam, and it features my mum and my nephew, Zayn. He’s a good boy, but he can’t play football as good [...]

I don’t do this very often, but I want to tell you about a poet called Peter Leyland. I came across him when I visited the home of the Kung Fu teacher, Sifu Julian Hitch. Peter Leyland is no longer [...]

From being one of the first artists in Britain to have a web site, I went to probably the laziest. Things had been added over the years, but site itself had not changed. Now look at me, a brand new [...]