
Swan Songs
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Lee Scott
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Lee Scott
About this listen
An experimental and humorous modern satire about Leonard Swanson, a hip-hop visionary from the north-west of England, as he works in factories and tries to make the greatest rap album of all time.
Unfortunately, making the greatest rap album of all time was to be put on hold as the insidious Job Centre advisors had finally had enough of my shit. I would be forced to sign up to one of the town's two recruitment agencies, or I would be starved of weed money.
Leonard Swanson lives in an obscure northwestern town - the kind that has a knack for swallowing you whole. He is supposed to be making the greatest rap album of all time, Swan Songs, but instead is forced to work in one of the town's factories, picking things up and putting them down for 12 hours in a giant white room.
Swan Songs follows Leonard as he works, quits, signs on, and travels the country, playing in small capacity venues for even smaller capacity audiences, for which he gets paid in booze, drugs and a night on a bedbug-ridden mattress somebody dragged in from the street, all the while making the album he thinks will change hip-hop forever.
Part Alan Sillitoe and part William Burroughs, British rapper Lee Scott's debut novel, partially based on his own experiences of becoming a rapper in Runcorn, UK, is an experimental and humorous modern satire about the perils of being a hip-hop visionary far from the beaten track.
©2021 Lee Scott (P)2021 RepeaterA very enjoyable ride
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A clockwork orange meets 8 mile.
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Great work
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In terms of the story, yes, Lee Scott has written a masterpiece. It is funny, all together real, and at the same time, so bloody interesting I actually wanted to listen to the whole thing all at once, except I would have been late for my factory job.
All in all, I'm hoping that Lee releases another book. It's been thoroughly enjoyable. I'm not even at the end yet and just had to come and review it!!
Lee Scott is better than Dostoevsky
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and even better listening to the man himself
speak the words,
the accent makes each sentence
hit so much harder,
lee scott is quickly becoming
one of my all time favourite writers
amazing work
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I even heard he will sign your audiobook once you've bought it,
great book
Lee Scott does it again but with a book this time
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