Press, news + writings from Breakbeat Creatives and founder Kevin Coval Archive essays interview poems press talk David Nala 5/3/22 David Nala 5/3/22 "STRAIGHT FROM THE SEWERS": THE GRIMY VERBAL VIRTUOSITY OF DAS EFX Read More Kevin Coval 4/13/22 Kevin Coval 4/13/22 THE MÉLANGE AND MELODY OF THE WEST SIDE Read More David Nala 12/18/21 David Nala 12/18/21 Hip Hop Is Not A Fountain Of Youth: Reflections On The Big Daddy Kane/KRS-ONE Verzuz Battle Read More interview David Nala 12/5/21 interview David Nala 12/5/21 Hustling For The Right Reasons… An Interview With Pakistani B-Boy And Hip-hop Organizer Taishi Read More press David Nala 9/20/21 press David Nala 9/20/21 Electric Lit: A City Can’t Live Without Artists and the Working Class Read More press David Nala 9/20/21 press David Nala 9/20/21 The New Republic: A Poet’s History of Chicago Read More press David Nala 9/20/21 press David Nala 9/20/21 Remixing the Narratives: A Conversation with Kevin Coval Read More poems David Nala 9/20/21 poems David Nala 9/20/21 Molemen Beat Tapes Read More David Nala 7/16/21 David Nala 7/16/21 Ode To The Clown Prince Read More talk David Nala 1/8/20 talk David Nala 1/8/20 Life and Death of an American Neighborhood Read More David Nala 9/2/19 David Nala 9/2/19 Ode to the Waitress Read More poems David Nala 8/14/19 poems David Nala 8/14/19 Drive By in Humboldt Park Read More poems David Nala 3/11/19 poems David Nala 3/11/19 400 DAYS Read More poems David Nala 3/11/19 poems David Nala 3/11/19 Fresh To Death Read More poems David Nala 3/11/19 poems David Nala 3/11/19 Meditations in The Decline of Western Civilization Read More poems David Nala 3/11/19 poems David Nala 3/11/19 Ode to the Old Barbers Read More David Nala 10/10/17 David Nala 10/10/17 "Graffiti: An Erasure" Short Film Read More David Nala 9/26/17 David Nala 9/26/17 Why We Build in a Cipher: Hip-Hop in the civic sphere Read More essays David Nala 3/11/15 essays David Nala 3/11/15 How Growing Up Jewish Taught Me To Love Hip-Hop Read More essays David Nala 4/3/14 essays David Nala 4/3/14 Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago, a tale of two cities Read More BooksTitles available for order at Haymarket Books and on Amazon. Everything Must Go: The Life and Death of an American Neighborhood Milwaukee Avenue Human Highlight: An Ode To Dominique Wilkins (BreakBeat Poets) A People's History of Chicago (BreakBeat Poets) This Is Modern Art: A Play (BreakBeat Poets) 1989, The Number The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop Schtick Everyday People Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica) L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems
David Nala 5/3/22 David Nala 5/3/22 "STRAIGHT FROM THE SEWERS": THE GRIMY VERBAL VIRTUOSITY OF DAS EFX Read More
David Nala 12/18/21 David Nala 12/18/21 Hip Hop Is Not A Fountain Of Youth: Reflections On The Big Daddy Kane/KRS-ONE Verzuz Battle Read More
interview David Nala 12/5/21 interview David Nala 12/5/21 Hustling For The Right Reasons… An Interview With Pakistani B-Boy And Hip-hop Organizer Taishi Read More
press David Nala 9/20/21 press David Nala 9/20/21 Electric Lit: A City Can’t Live Without Artists and the Working Class Read More
press David Nala 9/20/21 press David Nala 9/20/21 The New Republic: A Poet’s History of Chicago Read More
press David Nala 9/20/21 press David Nala 9/20/21 Remixing the Narratives: A Conversation with Kevin Coval Read More
poems David Nala 3/11/19 poems David Nala 3/11/19 Meditations in The Decline of Western Civilization Read More
David Nala 9/26/17 David Nala 9/26/17 Why We Build in a Cipher: Hip-Hop in the civic sphere Read More
essays David Nala 3/11/15 essays David Nala 3/11/15 How Growing Up Jewish Taught Me To Love Hip-Hop Read More
essays David Nala 4/3/14 essays David Nala 4/3/14 Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago, a tale of two cities Read More