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Keeping it Loose Egusi all of May with plenty gigs! Come through for a dance and a drink, a wiggle and some wine, and endless Black and African music, guaranteed good times and healing vibes.

8th - @nextdoorrecords_
9th - @thirst.drinks.syndicate
16th - @theboatpod
16th - @itsgood.w2
19th - @the_bbe_store
22nd - @thejazzcafe for @ebo_fest !

Peace and blessings, yɛnkor, let’s go 🌍🪩

💜✊🏾✌🏾

Keeping it Loose Egusi all of May with plenty gigs! Come through for a dance and a drink, a wiggle and some wine, and endless Black and African music, guaranteed good times and healing vibes.

8th - @nextdoorrecords_
9th - @thirst.drinks.syndicate
16th - @theboatpod
16th - @itsgood.w2
19th - @the_bbe_store
22nd - @thejazzcafe for @ebo_fest !

Peace and blessings, yɛnkor, let’s go 🌍🪩

💜✊🏾✌🏾

On the 71st edition of Your Favorite DJ‘s Favorite DJ, I got to kick it with poet and African music enthusiast @repeatbeatpoet aka @mr.loose.egusi. The Repeat Beat Poet shared how he began writing poetry on his first trip to New York at the age of eight, the difference between performing as a solo act à la DJing and poetry as opposed to being a part of an ensemble and why it’s important to scrutinize artists’ and their work in order to hold them to a higher standard. Mr. Loose Egusi then shared a mix he played at the @steamdown jam chock full of funk and soul from all across the diaspora.

🔗 to listen is in my bio 🎧

Thank you to @tice.cin for the introduction, @tai.wav for the mastering and editing, @joshuagarcia for the art and 🫵🏿 for listening and your continued support.

Next episode will drop Monday 6.2 📡📻

P.S.

YFDFD will be hosting a Memorial Day function on the rooftop at @portajerseycity; come join @nknx, @blvck_truffle and yours truly for an afternoon of house, pizza and cold drinks 🍕🥂🎶

🎟️ in bio

Immaculate Vibes 🫡 @jononabowu @insxght_ @repeatbeatpoet

‘Now’s The Time’ by Jon Onabowu debut album • released May 22nd 2026 • www.jononabowu.com • #dontmisstheboat

Listen | Watch Back • www.theboatpod.com

#theboatpod #independentradio #independentartist #jazz

CHA! Back with another night of African & afro-diasporic dance music for you at the iconic BBE Store in London. In my mind, African musicking is the perfect portal and platform for us to understand, deconstruct, and remake the world. Musciking is the collect act of music, a verb encompassing everything it takes to make music happen - not just the songwriters and musicians, but the venues, the promoters, the labels, the pressing plants, the distributors and most importantly YOU - the audience. When we come together to share attention and INTENTION, we can remodel how we move as a single unit made up of different people, and that is what my dream dancefloor looks like. Come co-create something special as the world whirls out of control, we’ll be spinning records, embodying freedoms, and stomping down Babylon. Keep it Loose Egusi 🌍🪩

It’s an all-vinyl affair, it’s FREE, and 2 heavyweight selectors in tow, @stooty_mama of the Grand Funk fundraisers and @bridgeteke repping @hotelzamara so don’t delay, get your ticket today! 🎟️ tickets via RESIDENT ADVISOR🎟️

LOOSE EGSUI AFRO DISCO #8
@the_bbe_store
MAY 19th
18:00-23:00

🎨 - Betty Acquah, Child At Heart, 2016

#Africa #AfricanMusic #London #Afrobeat

Hip hop Poet @repeatbeatpoet is joining us on 21st MAY at Hitchin’s Market Theatre for a night of outstanding spoken word 💥 tickets are pay-what-you-feel, starting from £5. Lineup includes The Repeat Beat Poet, Jake Wild Hall plus local acts.

Bad Betty co-founder @jakewildhall is joining us on 21st MAY at Hitchin’s Market Theatre for a night of outstanding spoken word 💥 tickets are pay-what-you-feel, starting from £5. Lineup includes Jake Wild Hall, The Repeat Beat Poet plus local acts.

🎟️ Tickets available now via 🔗 in bio

#repeatbeatpoet #jakewildhall #hitchin #poetrynight #hertfordshire

🎥 credit - Loud Poets Productions

POW! @theroebuckse1 is tonight …. then in July we have headliners Julie Cheung @julieecheung and The Repeat Beat Poet @repeatbeatpoet (pictured). Peter deGraft-Johnson is a queer, neurodivergent, British-born Ghanaian writer, and DJ working with poetry, music, and histories from Black & Pan-African perspectives. As comfortable in the cadence of charismatic preachers as the bounce of rappers, he’s performed across the UK, Europe, and West Africa, and his debut pamphlet, A Testament To Life & Death was released in 2022, being sold and taught across 4 continents. He has been featured by Amnesty International, the UN at COP 26 and anthologised by Penguin. Peter has been a poet-in-residence at the Library Of Africa & The African Diaspora in Accra and for BBC 6Music, alongside appearing at festivals like We Out Here, WOMAD, and consecutive years at Love Supreme, collaborating with Grammy award-winning jazz musicians including Thundercat and Blue Lab Beats. Peter also hosts the British Podcast Award nominated Lunar Poetry Podcast, and the poetry-vinyl listening series Words On Wax.

Come and join us in the heart of Hitchin town for a night with two of poetry’s hottest names - THE REPEAT BEAT POET and JAKE WILD HALL 💥 along with a lineup of incredible local acts!

💥 Thursday 21st May at 7:30pm
💥 The Market Theatre, Hitchin
💥 Tickets start at £5 and are available via the link in our bio!

#hitchin #whatsonherts #poetrynight #hitchincreative #hitchintown

Man liiiiiiike @joshuaidehen , the big boss, purveyor of finest bars and hardcore hope, my favourite 9ja uncle in this poetry game, and my good friend. I’m still buzzing from this SOLD OUT KOKO show, and I’ll be forever lifted by Joshua’s words, whether on wax, on the page, in vids & clips, or live. If you need a boost; run up his album “I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try” (I’m the voice on track 2 - It Won’t Always Be Like This”) and catch him at a festival in summer or on his next tour in November.

And always remember, rhythm is a weapon ✊🏾

Man liiiiiiike @joshuaidehen , the big boss, purveyor of finest bars and hardcore hope, my favourite 9ja uncle in this poetry game, and my good friend. I’m still buzzing from this SOLD OUT KOKO show, and I’ll be forever lifted by Joshua’s words, whether on wax, on the page, in vids & clips, or live. If you need a boost; run up his album “I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try” (I’m the voice on track 2 - It Won’t Always Be Like This”) and catch him at a festival in summer or on his next tour in November.

And always remember, rhythm is a weapon ✊🏾

Man liiiiiiike @joshuaidehen , the big boss, purveyor of finest bars and hardcore hope, my favourite 9ja uncle in this poetry game, and my good friend. I’m still buzzing from this SOLD OUT KOKO show, and I’ll be forever lifted by Joshua’s words, whether on wax, on the page, in vids & clips, or live. If you need a boost; run up his album “I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try” (I’m the voice on track 2 - It Won’t Always Be Like This”) and catch him at a festival in summer or on his next tour in November.

And always remember, rhythm is a weapon ✊🏾

Man liiiiiiike @joshuaidehen , the big boss, purveyor of finest bars and hardcore hope, my favourite 9ja uncle in this poetry game, and my good friend. I’m still buzzing from this SOLD OUT KOKO show, and I’ll be forever lifted by Joshua’s words, whether on wax, on the page, in vids & clips, or live. If you need a boost; run up his album “I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try” (I’m the voice on track 2 - It Won’t Always Be Like This”) and catch him at a festival in summer or on his next tour in November.

And always remember, rhythm is a weapon ✊🏾

Man liiiiiiike @joshuaidehen , the big boss, purveyor of finest bars and hardcore hope, my favourite 9ja uncle in this poetry game, and my good friend. I’m still buzzing from this SOLD OUT KOKO show, and I’ll be forever lifted by Joshua’s words, whether on wax, on the page, in vids & clips, or live. If you need a boost; run up his album “I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try” (I’m the voice on track 2 - It Won’t Always Be Like This”) and catch him at a festival in summer or on his next tour in November.

And always remember, rhythm is a weapon ✊🏾

Selector 1/7 @aajamusic this Sunday with @togetherwemake_ox ✨

The one and only @mr.loose.egusi / @repeatbeatpoet

Armed with his deep vinyl collection, indestructible rhythms and an infectious energy, the multi-disciplinary artist and longtime selector Repeat Beat Poet carries his joyful resistance and potent funk to every dancefloor, embodying and encouraging those most human freedoms; to dance, to sing, to feel and to dream. Keep it Loose Egusi ♾️

The Loose Egusi Afro Disco Show!! 🌎

Here are our favorite moments from the beautiful journey 🪇 we were taken on by this amazing selector @mr.loose.egusi

Look out for our next dates 16/04 back at @thehaggerston and 01/05 at @earthackney. Link in bio!! ❤️

The Loose Egusi Afro Disco Show!! 🌎

Here are our favorite moments from the beautiful journey 🪇 we were taken on by this amazing selector @mr.loose.egusi

Look out for our next dates 16/04 back at @thehaggerston and 01/05 at @earthackney. Link in bio!! ❤️

The Loose Egusi Afro Disco Show!! 🌎

Here are our favorite moments from the beautiful journey 🪇 we were taken on by this amazing selector @mr.loose.egusi

Look out for our next dates 16/04 back at @thehaggerston and 01/05 at @earthackney. Link in bio!! ❤️

The Loose Egusi Afro Disco Show!! 🌎

Here are our favorite moments from the beautiful journey 🪇 we were taken on by this amazing selector @mr.loose.egusi

Look out for our next dates 16/04 back at @thehaggerston and 01/05 at @earthackney. Link in bio!! ❤️

The Loose Egusi Afro Disco Show!! 🌎

Here are our favorite moments from the beautiful journey 🪇 we were taken on by this amazing selector @mr.loose.egusi

Look out for our next dates 16/04 back at @thehaggerston and 01/05 at @earthackney. Link in bio!! ❤️

Ahoy-hoy you transcendental souls! Spring is finally peeking its flowery head out from the trenches of winter, the days are getting longer, and the music is keeping us vivacious and thriving! Excited to share my new discoveries with you, so here’s where you can catch me slanging wax and serving up poems in April 🌍🪩🇬🇭🎤

1st - Running tunes for iconic jam night @sdweekly . Come thru for Afro-consciousness raising music, and improvised experiments in sound!

2nd - My first time at @listeningroom.soho , playing a chunky 5 hour all afro set in this lovely location, spanning golden-era and contemporary sounds; soukous, afrobeat, highlife, and all manner of afro-fusions - afro-jazz hybrids from Ethiopia and South Africa, West African blues, Afro-Cuban / Afro-Latin orchestras, and afro-rock / afro-soul. Top notch sound system from Friendly Pressure, elite Japanese cuisine, bosh.

3rd - @imaginarymillions day! We’re pon de @sohoradio airwaves in the afternoon with new music and special guests, cosmic fusion drummer & bandleader @jononabowu and @bemanzini , founder of the Newham Poetry Prize, speaking on her new initiative BASS - Barz & Stanzas Soundscaped.
And hopping in the mix with Joy to soundtrack Friday night revelry at Kingly Court as part of their Soho Sounds series. FREE

14th - Featuring at @onenightslam , the wrestling-inspired poetry slam I’ve always dreamed of. I’ll be doing my best Oba Femi impression and airing NEW PIECES which may/may not be inspired purely by Kit Wilson and alternative masculinities as displayed through gimmicks in wrestling ! Also, £50 cash prize if you wanna slam (👀)

16th - Bringing the afro-disco/afro-funk/boogie vibe to the wonderful @bauhaus_warehaus in Dalston, for 4 hours of polyrhythmic pulsating grooves!

18th - Loose Egusi Radio on @theboatpod ! Telling some stories of my favorite African bands and releases to celebrate Record Store Day! Ebo Taylor, The African Dawn, the Soul To Soul and Wattstax festivals and more.

26th - So excited to link up with the lovely af @earthgrooveevents collective for a Lebanese Relief fundraiser at @aajamusic in Deptford!

Keep it Loose Egusi
🌍🪩
💜✌🏾✊🏾

Ahoy-hoy you transcendental souls! Spring is finally peeking its flowery head out from the trenches of winter, the days are getting longer, and the music is keeping us vivacious and thriving! Excited to share my new discoveries with you, so here’s where you can catch me slanging wax and serving up poems in April 🌍🪩🇬🇭🎤

1st - Running tunes for iconic jam night @sdweekly . Come thru for Afro-consciousness raising music, and improvised experiments in sound!

2nd - My first time at @listeningroom.soho , playing a chunky 5 hour all afro set in this lovely location, spanning golden-era and contemporary sounds; soukous, afrobeat, highlife, and all manner of afro-fusions - afro-jazz hybrids from Ethiopia and South Africa, West African blues, Afro-Cuban / Afro-Latin orchestras, and afro-rock / afro-soul. Top notch sound system from Friendly Pressure, elite Japanese cuisine, bosh.

3rd - @imaginarymillions day! We’re pon de @sohoradio airwaves in the afternoon with new music and special guests, cosmic fusion drummer & bandleader @jononabowu and @bemanzini , founder of the Newham Poetry Prize, speaking on her new initiative BASS - Barz & Stanzas Soundscaped.
And hopping in the mix with Joy to soundtrack Friday night revelry at Kingly Court as part of their Soho Sounds series. FREE

14th - Featuring at @onenightslam , the wrestling-inspired poetry slam I’ve always dreamed of. I’ll be doing my best Oba Femi impression and airing NEW PIECES which may/may not be inspired purely by Kit Wilson and alternative masculinities as displayed through gimmicks in wrestling ! Also, £50 cash prize if you wanna slam (👀)

16th - Bringing the afro-disco/afro-funk/boogie vibe to the wonderful @bauhaus_warehaus in Dalston, for 4 hours of polyrhythmic pulsating grooves!

18th - Loose Egusi Radio on @theboatpod ! Telling some stories of my favorite African bands and releases to celebrate Record Store Day! Ebo Taylor, The African Dawn, the Soul To Soul and Wattstax festivals and more.

26th - So excited to link up with the lovely af @earthgrooveevents collective for a Lebanese Relief fundraiser at @aajamusic in Deptford!

Keep it Loose Egusi
🌍🪩
💜✌🏾✊🏾

The boy’s in bloom 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 happy spring you motherlovers