"Richard Corey" is the pseudonym for a Washington, D.C., born hip-hop artist and poet. Richard Corey has gained some Internet notoriety for his hip-hop styled poetry that he performs live in Washington, D.C. Currently, Richard Corey pieces are seen, discussed and enjoyed on many English-speaking and on several international Web sites.
Richard Corey is a published author and has been awarded the Morgan State University, "Creative Writing Award" for 2000. It was around this time that Richard Corey, while living in the Northwest section of Washington, D.C., began to immerse himself in Hip Hop culture. Corey dabbled in emceeing and graffiti before settling on a combination of the two, a unique style of "visual poetry" that he and a few friends called "scrypt." Scrypt (also known as script but mostly referred to as text) is a style of contemporary hip hop poetry popular on several hip hop-oriented Internet message boards. It is inspired from the lyrics to underground rap music and differs from traditional poetry in that it heavily incorporates complex and structured rhyme and rhyme scheme, dialect, implied rhythm and visual wordplay. The promotion of this form of poetry led Corey and several others, to create the Hip Hop Web site, projectrhyme.com.
Recently, Richard Corey has acted as the primary editor for Sons Of Jacob Publishing LLC. And in 2005, he wrote the foreword for the company's first publication, DaRon Clark's "In These Written Words." The collection of poems can be purchased from sonsofjacob.org.
Richard Corey is currently compiling work for his upcoming project and plans to publish a collection of scrypt-styled poems and short stories in early 2007. Examples of his work are located on this page.
Copies are being sold for $5. Send an email to richardcorey1@yahoo.com for more information on purchasing a copy.
