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Saul Williams

Born in Newburgh, New York, on February 29, 1972, Saul Williams is an American poet, rapper, author, actor and director whose career spans literature, music and performance. He made a name for himself in the late 1990s on the New York spoken word scene, before publishing his first collections, The Seventh Octave (1998), Said the Shotgun to the Head (2003) and The Dead Emcee Scrolls (2006), alongside a theatrical and film career that culminated in his starring role in the film Slam (1998), winner of the Caméra d'or at Cannes. On the musical front, he released Amethyst Rock Star (2...