Figures of Speech is a hip hop group consisting of MCs Eve and Jyant. They performed at the Good Life Cafe in the early 1990s and were featured on the Project Blowed compilation. A figure of speech is the use of a word diverging from its usual meaning
Eve (Ava DuVernay) went on to direct the feature-length documentary about the Good Life open-mic nights titled This Is the Life (2008), and later to direct the feature film "Selma (film)" chronicling the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by Dr. Martin Luther King and the SCLC.
Discography
In 2007, Figures of Speech released their first album The Last Word exclusively on iTunes.
References
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