For the past nine years I had been living in Tokyo, Japan. With my wife Haruki and our seven-year-old daughter, Kantra we were on a 13-hour flight from Tokyo to JFK airport in New York City. It was the day before 9/11 and it was our first touchdown in the States. NYC was one of the global epicenters of COVID. At JFK we had to go through immigration and transfer to a connecting flight to Charlotte. Throughout the weeks leading …
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My latest article for CharlotteFive just got published. Read it here. Below is how the piece has been received thus far. …
Three weeks after landing in Charlotte, NC, here’s my first story featured on the front page of Charlotte Five for The Charlotte Observer. Read it here. …
Pharrell’s single “Entrepreneur (ft. Jay Z)” is an ode to black businesses. Storied snapshots of black entrepreneurs get elevated out of obscurity and placed center stage before the world. When TMG favorite, filmmaker Darryl Wharton-Rigby saw the video, which included a few notable figures from Japan’s Black community, he knew that he needed to broaden the scope of local individuals profiled in “Entrepreneur.” Enter Darryl’s “Japan Edition.” The music video is a montage of various successful Black businesses and I’m …
Recently I interviewed with Mega of Mega Late Show podcast. It was for their “Temperature Check” series. We talked about my former music crew Stolen Music Imprint, writing, and “The Fire This Time.” Dr. Malachi Z. York sucked me into a wormhole and spit me into the real possibility of malware microchips floating in my high school cereal. Armand Hammer, Run The Jewels 4, and Jay Electronica get some looks. Listen to the chat below. Also I informally announced Humancloud …
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