Length1h 17m
About this audiobook
The Black Knight Tapes is a raw Poetic Cinema archive of memory, survival, street life, power, policing, contradiction, and transformation. Through unfiltered raps and reflections, Vernon Snell opens the microphone to Benson—the younger version of himself shaped by Washington Heights, money, danger, pride, friendship, confrontation, and the rules of the street. But as the tapes continue, another man begins to emerge: the older Vernon, looking back across decades and questioning what the younger man believed, what he survived, and what it all meant. These recordings are not cleaned up to create a hero or rewritten to create a villain. They preserve the voice as it existed—angry, funny, defiant, wounded, proud, and human. The Black Knight Tapes asks one question without answering it for you: Who is this guy?
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning, Biography and Memoir
Length1 hr 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Copyright
2Content Note
3Before You Press Play
4TAPE 01 — ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL
5TAPE 02 — MR. POLICEMAN
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6TAPE 03 — MR. BLUE
7ARCHIVAL CUT 03-B — MR. BLUE’S CLUES
8TAPE 04 — MR. BLUE RAN
9TAPE 05 — MR. POLICE PLEASE
10TAPE 06 — INVISIBLE WAR
11TAPE 07 — ALBIE: MY BROTHER IN BLUE
12TAPE 08 — ALBIE: THE ONLY ONE IN BLUE
13TAPE 09 — IMAGINE THAT
14TAPE 10 — MAC-10 LESSON
15TAPE 11 — THE BLACK KNIGHT’S SYMPHONY
16EPILOGUE TAPE — WAR AIN’T OVER, JUST DIFFERENT
17BONUS RECORDING — MR. POLICE PLEASE: HARDER THAN HARD
18About the Archive
19About Poetic Cinema
20About the Author
21A Note from Vernon
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