Who is Potent Whisper (@PotentOfficial)

Q. How would you describe your style of Hip Hop?

It’s music with a motive. Some people listen to a rap­per for their mes­sage, some for their word play, some for their flow; people listen to my music because I deliv­er all at once very com­fort­ably and con­sist­ently. My work deliv­ers a mes­sage whilst still remain­ing enjoy­able to listen to.

Music­ally, I am still exper­i­ment­ing with the types of pro­duc­tions I vocal but I am def­in­itely lean­ing away from the old Boom Bap sound and for­mu­lated song struc­tures. Right now I am all about tak­ing my con­tent and find­ing the most emotive and excit­ing back­drops for it!

Q.  How power­ful do you think hip hop is with­in the con­text of fight­ing against the powers that oppress us?

Here’s what I think:
1) If we are uni­fied and edu­cated then nobody can oppress us
2) The incred­ible power that music has in unit­ing and edu­cat­ing people is undeniable
3) I have come to learn that Hip Hop music is the most listened-to and pur­chased genre of music on earth

For these reas­ons it is eas­ily jus­ti­fied to say that Hip Hop as an art form holds massive influ­ence and our artists are some of the most power­ful people on earth

QLook­ing at your music videos and see­ing you per­form live, I don’t believe I have ever seen you wear any col­or apart from black. Is there a par­tic­u­lar reas­on behind this?

For the past three years I have only worn black and no oth­er col­or. I do this for two main reas­ons. Firstly, black is the col­or of mourn­ing; I mourn for my fam­ily being killed, glob­ally, every single day. Secondly, it serves as a daily remind­er of the ter­rible suf­fer­ing in the world and reminds me WHY I am doing what I do. Maybe it will inspire oth­ers too…

Q. You have set up a quarterly meet­ing called the Pro>Cypher. Could you speak a bit on what you would like to achieve with the Pro>Cypher?

Yeah, thanks for men­tion­ing it. For those who don’t know, the Pro>Cypher is a quarterly event where vari­ous mem­bers of the Hip Hop com­munity meet to dis­cuss the most import­ant issues that we feel need address­ing. The event is about self-reflec­tion as a com­munity so that we can move for­ward in a pos­it­ive and pro­gress­ive way. I would urge every­one read­ing to keep your eyes open for our next event and come through

Q. What are you cur­rently work­ing on?

I am happy to tell you that my new single “Move in the Moon­light” will be with you all very soon! It fea­tures vocals from Yemi Bolati­wa and pro­duc­tion from STG (Unit 137) Strong video too…shouts to Den­isha Anderson

Aside from the single, I have a mul­ti­tude of pro­jects pop­ping off from all sides. I have writ­ten a short film which I am devel­op­ing, some new inter­est­ing Spoken Word mater­i­al is sur­fa­cing and I am also deliv­er­ing lyr­i­cism and rap work­shops both nation­ally and inter­na­tion­ally. Lot’s going on, keep updated at www.potentwhisper.com

Love and thanks
Potent Whisper
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