成人快手

This month Google celebrated the 113th birthday of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes, with a special online doodle.

Hughes, says black British poet Mr Gee, represents "the emergence of African-American culture, taking a prominence in America and throughout the world".

"Nowadays we take hip hop, soul and funk for granted," he says.

"But prior to Langston Hughes, people were accessing African-American humour via minstrel shows. He was a black voice, speaking on black issues, in Harlem: the capital of black America at the time."

Hughes was first discovered by the poet Vachel Lindsay while working as a bus boy in Washington DC, at a time when, as Mr Gee says, "jazz and blues were new forms of music".

"He wrote according to jazz basslines. He broke away from the iambic pentameter, the sonnets and the haikus. It was a different form of cadence."

This clip is originally from 5 live Hit List on Sunday 8 February 2015.