The Sudanese-Canadian poet and singer-songwriter – and recent NME Cover star – announced yesterday (December 10) that he will make a trek across the US before heading to UK and Europe, all before ...

There is a video of Mustafa at 14 years old reciting a poem he’d written titled I Walk. Like most of his work as a poet, the piece speaks to the experiences of his community in Regent Park — the ...

Rap is the CNN of the ghetto. An idea espoused by Public Enemy frontman Chuck D since the 1980s, it has since grown into a key hip-hop ideal, defining the music’s relationship with its public.

Mustafa's 2021 debut project, When Smoke Rises, is a collection of songs that immortalizes the lives of the friends he's lost to gang violence. The Juno-winning and Polaris Music Prize -shortlisted ...

Three years ago, I was sitting on a floor cushion in a small Soho venue as a folk singer entranced the room with his poetry and ethereal voice. He sang about loss, and, with the memories of the ...