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'''The Poetess''', born '''Felicia Morris''', is an [[United States|American]] [[rapper]] and [[radio]] personality.
Felicia “The Poetess” Morris made her radio debut at the age of 5 years old on [[KDIA|KDIA-AM]],<ref>[http://bayarearadio.org/audio/kdia/ ] archived at [https://web.archive.org/web/20140201110346/https://bayarearadio.org/audio/kdia/]</ref> a soul station in the San Francisco Bay Area, where her father, Johnny Morris, was a popular disc jockey. Felicia would soon follow in her famous dad’s footsteps by moving to Los Angeles and landing her first on-air gig as radio co-host on Bailey Broadcasting’s nationally syndicated “Hip Hop Countdown and Report.” Since 1989, her skills as a researcher and consummate authority on Black music have been utilized on a weekly basis.
A love for writing poetry, Ms. Morris, parlayed her poems to rap songs and soon landed a recording contract with Poetic Groove/Interscope Records in 1992 and released her debut album Simply Poetry<ref name="allmusic.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/simply-poetry-mw0000081282|title=Simply Poetry - Poetess - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic|website=AllMusic}}</ref> that included appearances by Academy Award winning actor [[Jamie Foxx]], [[Def Jef]] and [[Kool G. Rap]]. “Love Hurts,” the album’s first single broke the Top 10 on The Gavin Report's Rap Radio Charts<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Gavin-Report/90/92/Gavin-1992-03-27.pdf]</ref> quickly establishing her as a fixture in hip hop.
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