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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Aug 1

Curated by King Esseen. Inspired by Saul Williams.
Fresh Since 79™ transcends.
Art Is Influence™ writes a new gospel in sound.

Sonic Scriptures

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Aug 1

💡 For the poets who spit galaxies.
For the visionaries who move dimensions.
For every soul that knows art isn’t entertainment—it’s emancipation.

👉🏽 Listen Now – Sonic Scriptures: Vol. 14
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Sonic Scriptures

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Aug 1

this playlist is stitched together with the same pulse that runs through Saul’s own universe of thought, rebellion, and resonance.

📜 This isn’t just a playlist. It’s scripture set to basslines.
🎧 A coded hymnbook for the ones dreaming beyond the margins.

Sonic Scriptures

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Aug 1

curated in honor of Cultural Icon Saul Williams, the poet-prophet who turned words into weapons and sound into spiritual architecture.

Every track is a verse.
Every rhythm, a revelation.
From Fela’s fire to Alice Coltrane’s ascension, BDP’s philosophy to Cymande’s eternal message—

Sonic Scriptures

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Aug 1

🔥 King Esseen Presents | King’s Picks Vol. 14
Sonic Scriptures – A Cosmic Soundtrack for Saul Williams

This week’s Fresh Since 79™ playlist is a transmission from another dimension—

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 30

Because this isn’t just a podcast—
It’s what prophecy sounds like after dark.

Fresh Since 79 : Sound of the Seer

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 30

🌀 Spoken word as spellwork. Music as multidimensional resistance.
If you believe art isn’t just expression—but expansion—this conversation is for you.

▶️ Watch + Listen on YouTube → youtu.be/3oSsZZ4vYbE
📲 SUBSCRIBE so you never miss the sound of revolution in motion.

Fresh Since 79 : Sound of the Seer

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 30

From slam stages to sonic dimensions, Saul Williams has spent decades bending language into liberation. In this episode, he opens portals—sharing how poetry becomes prophecy, how rhythm dismantles systems, and why words are weapons of both memory and future-making.

Fresh Since 79 : Sound of the Seer

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 30

🎙 New Episode Alert! King Esseen’s “The Instinctive Midnight Theory”
📼 S01 E08 — “Sound of the Seer” featuring Cultural Icon Saul Williams

📣 Now LIVE on YouTube + All Major Podcast Platforms!

This one is cosmic, cutting, and carved in truth.

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 29

👉🏽 Read the Full Article Now:
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📲 Follow the Icon: @SaulWilliams + SaulWilliams.com
Because when he speaks—it’s not performance. It’s prophecy.

Codes of the Cosmos : Saul Williams & the Rhythm of Resistance - King Esseen

Enter the sonic cosmos of Saul Williams—where poems prophesy, rhythms resist, and every word builds a universe of truth, fire, and futuristic liberation.

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 29

✅ What makes language a form of intergalactic protest
✅ Why Saul’s legacy isn’t echo—it’s instruction

🎤 If a poem ever cracked you open or a beat ever made you believe—this one’s for you.
For the lyricists. The lightworkers.
The ones who write with fire and walk in frequency.

Codes of the Cosmos : Saul Williams & the Rhythm of Resistance - King Esseen

Enter the sonic cosmos of Saul Williams—where poems prophesy, rhythms resist, and every word builds a universe of truth, fire, and futuristic liberation.

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 29

Through cosmic verse, sonic rebellion, and lyrical fire, he’s architected a new dimension of Black liberation and artistic truth.

Inside, you’ll discover:
✅ Why Saul’s words aren’t just spoken—they’re encoded
✅ How rhythm becomes ritual, and verses become portals

Codes of the Cosmos : Saul Williams & the Rhythm of Resistance - King Esseen

Enter the sonic cosmos of Saul Williams—where poems prophesy, rhythms resist, and every word builds a universe of truth, fire, and futuristic liberation.

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 29

the seer, spellcaster, and sound sculptor who made rhythm a revolutionary language.

From slam stages to Sinners to Afrofuturist soundscapes, Saul has never just performed—he’s prophesied.

Codes of the Cosmos : Saul Williams & the Rhythm of Resistance - King Esseen

Enter the sonic cosmos of Saul Williams—where poems prophesy, rhythms resist, and every word builds a universe of truth, fire, and futuristic liberation.

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚨 New King Esseen Blog Drop 07.29! 🌀🔥
Codes of the Cosmos : Saul Williams & the Rhythm of Resistance

This week’s Fresh Since 79™ feature opens the portal—where poetry becomes prophecy and every verse bends time.

💡 In this visionary tribute, King Esseen honors Saul Williams—

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 28

🎥 Learn more + stream: KingEsseen.com

🌀 This ain’t just poetry. It’s prophecy.
Stay fresh. Stay free.

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Curating the Future of Creativity. Connecting the Dots Between Culture + Innovation King Esseen is an artistic visionary and cultural curator who taps into the authentic power of the arts—music, fashi...

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 28

🎟 Fall Tour Dates: From Yoshi’s to TreePeople, NYC to London—Saul is taking the frequency global. Follow for updates.

From Broadway stages to Senegalese cinema, from Tupac’s lyrics to Neptune Frost—Saul Williams doesn’t chase trends. He channels truth.

Follow: @SaulWilliams

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Curating the Future of Creativity. Connecting the Dots Between Culture + Innovation King Esseen is an artistic visionary and cultural curator who taps into the authentic power of the arts—music, fashi...

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 28

🎧THURS: King’s Picks Vol. 14 – Sonic Scriptures Playlist on Spotify
🧥FRI: Merch Drop – “WORD IS BOND.” Tee + Afrofuturist Zine Capsule

🎧Plus — the lead single “Sound then Words” from Saul’s upcoming album Saul Williams meets Carlos Niño & Friends at TreePeople is out now w/full album dropping 8/28.

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 28

This week, we honor the one who reminds us that language is a portal—and that we are the code.

🎯 THIS WEEK’S SAUL WILLIAMS CONTENT LINEUP

✍🏾 TUES: Blog – “Codes of the Cosmos: Saul Williams & the Rhythm of Resistance”
🎙 WED: Podcast – We Been Fresh LIVE: “Sound of the Seer”

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Curating the Future of Creativity. Connecting the Dots Between Culture + Innovation King Esseen is an artistic visionary and cultural curator who taps into the authentic power of the arts—music, fashi...

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 28

Through albums, operas, scores + sci-fi cinema, Saul has carved out a sacred space where language becomes spellwork, rhythm becomes revelation + Black imagination becomes strategy for liberation

He’s the poet who said it before we felt it
The artist who scored tomorrow
The seer who named the sound.

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Curating the Future of Creativity. Connecting the Dots Between Culture + Innovation King Esseen is an artistic visionary and cultural curator who taps into the authentic power of the arts—music, fashi...

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 28

From Sundance spotlights to symphonic revolutions, from the pulpit of Slam to the sonic realms of Afrofuturism—Saul has never just performed. He has prophesied.

His voice doesn’t just echo—it builds.
His pen doesn’t just write—it awakens.
And his body of work isn’t just art—it’s instruction.

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Curating the Future of Creativity. Connecting the Dots Between Culture + Innovation King Esseen is an artistic visionary and cultural curator who taps into the authentic power of the arts—music, fashi...

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 28

🖼 CULTURAL ICON OF THE WEEK 07.28 👁‍🗨
Saul Williams | Word Is Bond. Sound Is Seer.
July 28 – August 3 | Fresh Since 79™ Series

This week, Fresh Since 79™ closes the Legacy in Motion cycle with a cosmic crescendo—honoring the multidimensional griot, rebel poet, and frequency shifter: Saul Williams.

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 25

Art Is Influence™ becomes sound.

Photo Credit: Swarm Exhibit (Maori Karmael Holmes and Terence Nance) by Constance Mensh (@cocobanal)

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 25

For the artists who stitch sound to vision.
For the storytellers who make screens sacred—this one’s for you.

👉🏽 Listen Now – Frame by Frame: Vol. 13
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Curated by King Esseen. Inspired by Maori Karmael Holmes.
Fresh Since 79™ rolls on.

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 25

each song was handpicked for its texture, tone, and storytelling power. It’s not just what you hear—it’s what you feel between the frames.

🎬 This isn’t a playlist. It’s a cinematic archive.
🎧 Scored in reverence. Sequenced in resistance.

💡 For the curators who build memory.

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King Esseen @kingesseen.bsky.social · Jul 25

curated in honor of Cultural Icon Maori Karmael Holmes, the visionary who turned cinema into ceremony and curating into cultural resistance.

These tracks feel like film reels unspooling in rhythm.
From Little Simz to OutKast, Björk to De La Soul—

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