The Welfare Poets
type: MusicGroup
genre: spoken word
description: The Welfare Poets are an Afro-Caribbean hip hop group that began to come into fruition up at Cornell University in the early 1990s, but it wasn't until around 1997 when Ray Ramirez and Hector Rivera w
popularity: 2
followers: 337
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  type: MusicAlbum
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  type: MusicAlbum
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