Venue : Barbican Theatre
17:00–18:00 | Wretch 32 in conversation | Chair: Suli Breaks
Before there was a stage, there was a pen and a pad. Before there was a crowd, there were bars written in silence, rewritten, thrown away, rewritten again.
Wretch 32 has spent two decades proving that grime and rap aren’t just music they’re literature. Wordplay as craft. Storytelling as survival. Punchlines with the same discipline as poetry, the same weight as prose. This is the artist who turned bar-for-bar lyricism into a whole generation’s education in language, and he’s here to break down exactly how he does it, the process, the influences, the moments a line finally clicks.
Expect sharp insight, real talk, and a reminder that some of the most powerful writing in Britain right now isn’t found on a bookshelf, it’s in the booth.
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