New hip-hop record connects Memphis, St. Louis
Two musicians from Mississippi River cities are teaming up on a new project.
Tauheed “Marco Pavé” Rahim is a Grammy-nominated rapper and activist from Memphis.
Tef Poe (left) and Marco Pavé. (Submitted)
He served as Georgetown University’s Department of Performing Arts’ first hip-hop artist-in-residence and as a U.S. cultural ambassador to Bolivia.
Kareem “Tef Poe” Jackson is a rapper and activist from St. Louis, Missouri.
He served as a Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute and as a U.S. cultural ambassador to Jordan.
On Wednesday, Feb. 26, Rahim and Jackson released a joint EP called “Nothing’s Easy.”
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Elle Perry
A native Memphian, Elle Perry has earned graduate degrees from the University of Memphis and Maryland Institute College of Art. She’s written for publications including the Memphis Business Journal, Memphis Flyer and High Ground News, and previously served as coordinator of The Teen Appeal.
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