About This Event
Rap Concert And Conversation For All Ages By Microsoft Engineer takes place Thursday, November 19, 2026, at 5:30 PM at the Community Empowerment Center, 1113 Oakland Avenue, Florence, SC 29506. The free, all-ages program is part of Peyt Spencer Dewar’s From The Ground Up tour across North America, combining a rap concert with conversation about his path of growth and universal principles for a well-rounded life.
Peyt Spencer, whose name rhymes with “heat,” is a rapper and software engineer from Bellevue, Washington. His music draws from the 2000s hip-hop artists he grew up listening to, including Ja Rule, LL Cool J, Ludacris, and T.I. Much of his songwriting is inspired by the Baha’i Faith.
After high school, Spencer completed a year of service in Veraguas, Panama, where he lived in Santiago and worked with children, early adolescents, youth, and adults through educational activities, study circles, and tutoring. During that time, he recorded raps on his laptop over mainstream beats, and his first live rap performance was in Spanish at a community gathering.
Spencer later attended the University of Florida, performing solo, with a live band, and with UF’s Hip-Hop Collective and the theater troupe Signs of Life. After graduation, he moved to the West Coast to join Microsoft, where he has worked as a software engineer for the past decade. He also founded Lyrist, a tool intended to help songwriters find beats and work through writer’s block.
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