Rhys Langston Podell is a musician, visual artist, and writer born, raised, and based in Los Angeles, California. Publications such as The LA Times, AFROPUNK, LA Weekly, DJ Booth, and SPIN have praised his musical efforts, notably the 2020 album and book Language Arts Unit: a Rap Textbook. Combining rap music as written poetry with a meandering lyric essay, and a mixed media painting using his own hair, it showed the full bloom of his many talents. A graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, he remains the poet laureate of his living room and has a higher vertical leap than your favorite rapper.