Akeem Stonedwithcupid Chandler-Prescod is relishing the success of his poem Dot Com, which was released on February 14th, 2022, and has amassed 280,000 views on popular social media site Tik Tok.The poem in which he did a poetic cover of Usher’s song Dot Com which was a sultry poetry version, was well received with views, as well as over 60,000 likes. The poem has since gone viral with persons sharing their interpretation of the poetic content on Instagram.Speaking to Barbados TODAY, the former Combermere student said poems like Dot Com have been something he has been conceptualizing for the past two years.“The poetry cover to Usher’s Dot Com is the result of something I have been doing for two years now which is finding a popular soul or R&B song and creating a poetic to it is an entry point for people who may find raw poetry difficult to consume. My previous attempt at this was Killing Me Softly which was originally written by Roberta Flack. That piece went on to get over 30k streams on Spotify and has a music video that is accessible on Youtube. Dot Com was created for valentines as the original song fits the romantic holiday well. I then packaged it in short form for Tik Tok as that is where a lot of younger people frequent,” he said.
