Song of the Planet 2016: Europe is Lost by Kate Tempest

Kate Tempest is a poet whose work challenges the distinction between hip hop and spoken word poetry. Basically two versions of the same thing, hip hop music and spoken word poetry are compatible in a way that can create complex, layered stories within an album. That's what Kate Tempest has done with Let Them Eat Chaos , her 2016 album that tells a story of seven Londoners' lives, all taking place at 4:18 a.m. The album came out on October 7, between the Brexit catastrophe and the looming U.S. el...