Last month, alone, I flew home to Orlando, Florida. This time, Kantra understood that I was leaving. Haruki was stabbing me with her tears.“I will hang your underwear outside so people will think that you’re still here,” she said.When my bus pulled off Kantra chased after me. Haruki hugged her. Kantra stomped the earth.I didn’t want to go the closer it got to leaving. It’s like driving into a storm cloud on a flat plain. This was my first trip …
Author: Tracy Jones
I was a guest on The Mega Late Show earlier this month and the episode just dropped today. This was my first podcast. We were drinking beers in the wee afternoon. I sound sedated and awkward. Listening to myself made me cringe, but Mega and Late were good hosts to pop my cherry to. It was casual. Felt like we were just kicking it talking shit. Realizing that people can actually listen to me mumble rap halfway into a mic, I …
The new Oddisee video for his single “I Grew Up” off his latest album, Iceberg, is a simple animated illustration of the beautiful idea and complicated reality of America. A place of slaves and immigrants, telling the world to: Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Oddisee’s character sketches are intentionally skeletal. They’re archetypes that, through the usage of time, cultivate into juxtaposing views. A system built on white supremacy can’t do anything else, …
The Young Giantz, Courtesy of Priority Records -
Mega and Late. This was the day that I was a guest on their podcast. 
Artist Keen hooked me up with this keychain that he made. Dude fucks wit 3D printers. He’s got these crazy business cards made of plastic, leather and other materials. 
At the podcast, mic checking. 
“There’s a thousand emcees lined up against the wall….” What single is that from? He was a Wu-filiate. 
Spidey the lighty
Deuce Mac and Bigg Joe West are The Young Giantz, two brothers from South Central, Los Angeles. I interviewed and wrote about them for LA Weekly. Read it here. Last Saturday I was on The Mega Late Show. That was my first ever podcast. We recorded it in Mega’s man cave, appreciate him having me over. Thanks for having me on the show. I’ll post it when it drops, some time later this month, I think. Peace to artist Keen …
The importance of Ikeda Manabu’s work can’t be overstated or more timely. This is anti-automation. It’s what you get when you take away the screen, look at the world and just draw it. He worked 10 hours a day for three and a half years to produce his latest piece, “Rebirth.” It’s a 13 x 10 foot painting within a painting that’s within a painting. The narratives that weave throughout it are like strings of tangled sentences. “Rebirth” is Manabu’s …
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