Listening Party: J. Ivy, 'The Poet Who Sat By The Door'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Oct 3, 2022

The NAACP Image award-winning slam poet J. Ivy is back with his sixth album, The Poet Who Sat By The Door, with his spoken word featured under music featuring John Legend, PJ Morton, Musiq Soulchild, BJ the Chicago Kid, and more. Ivy is widely known for his appearances on the "HBO Def Poetry" series, as well as his inclusion on Kanye West's The College Dropout (Ivy also was a lead writer on the recent Netflix documentary series, "jeen-yuhs: A Kanye West Trilogy"). J. Ivy joins us for a Listening Party.

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