The Legend of Mike Smith

Soweto Kinch

2012

The Legend of Mike Smith is a double album epic from Soweto Kinch that tells the story of an aspiring rapper possessed by each of the seven deadly sins.

Fusing jazz, hip-hop and spoken word narrative the album explores corporate sin, the temptations of capitalism and the travails of a young artist attempting to get signed. Soweto Kinch performs a jazz-rap opera based on Dante’s inferno and the theology of sin – and Hip-hop