Kae Tempest is a musician who plays words. 

They’ve written albums, song-lyrics, poetry collections, novels, non-fiction, and theatre productions. What binds everything they write, is a musicality of language, born from the years spent rhyming with friends, trying to get on the mic at parties and cyphers, and studying the craft of golden-era rap gods and London’s legendary MC’s. 

At fifteen, Kae caught an obsession with words that changed the course of their life. Nearly twenty-five years later, they still have it, and it’s seen them go from busking by the food trucks at festivals, to playing the main stages. 

With five studio albums, a novel, a book-length essay, five plays and five collections of poetry to their name, and with three more projects on the go, Kae Tempest has firmly established themself as one of the most unique, thought-provoking, and critically acclaimed voices of their generation.