CKUT's Off the Hour: RAP THE NEWS with Monk. E

CKUT News celebrates 25 Years Strong on the air with hip hop and spoken word poets

by CKUT Community News Collective

This piece was originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour on Friday, October 26th, 17h-18h.

CKUT's Community News Collective is inviting Montreal's greatest hip hop artists and spoken word poets to come and RAP THE NEWS. We are celebrating CKUT's 25 years on the air & the annual Funding Drive.

CKUT correspondent Nicole speaks to Monk-e, a freestyle poet, MC and visual artist based in Montreal. She caught him on the intersection of Marion and Buillon, where one of his newest graffiti pieces can be found. Monk-e speaks to us on the importance of art as a form of media in expressing ideas and tells us about his other graffiti piece on Bernard and St. Laurent, created on a big pillar. He also gives us a sweet interlude to his upcoming album: by wrapping a verse.   All sound in the piece is from local producer Swamp Wolf.

This is the one time of the year we ask you to donate to help keep independent, community-based, volunteer driven, daily one air news program, Off the Hour and the radio station behind it.

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