Everyday Nkali: A Mixed Methods Approach to Critically Interpreting Storytellers and Their Stories

All these years I been voicing my blues I'm a artist from the start, Hip-Hop guided my heart Graffiti on the wall coulda ended in Spoffard, juvenile delinquent But Pops gave me the right type’a tools to think with Books to read, like X and stuff Cause the schools said the kids had dyslexia In art class I was a compulsive sketcher of Teachers in my homeroom, I drew pix to mess them up Cause none’a them would like my style Read more books than the curriculum profile Said, “Mr. Jones, please come get your child Cause he’s writing mad poems and his verses are wild” (NasVEVO, 2005).