Ended the year with getting my first cover. 
Seven years, celebrating our anniversary. Yes, “…And we still together.” 
Her smile is the shape of a wave’s curl. 
To capture the sun, you have to get close enough. She can date when I’m dead. 
I always try to click shots like this and never get it right. This was my closest. 
Same for this joint. 
At Micky D’s just pondering. 
B-Boy and B-Girl 
This was for international day at my baby’s school. 
I got my braces off. Had them shits on for a minute. They say it’ll take two years. You got’em on for seven. Fuck outta here. 
This is our main Thai spot. Order anything, they don’t fuck around. 
On my bike ride to downtown Orlando. 
Kantra showing out. 
You haven’t felt claustrophobic til you been to Japan. 
My abstract poetess 
On this trip we had the dope view. Wish I had a full frame cam though. 
Beast taking a picture of beauty. 
We just came back from Hokkaido. I was gonna write a post if I have time. 2018 don’t have no brakes.
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Mega Late Show logo by Lirc aka Kevin
If you haven’t read Part 1 of my interview with The Mega Late Show, or heard Late’s Liquid Wards mixtape, peep it here. The Mega Late Show is a Tokyo, Japan based hip-hop podcast. In just a short time, hosts Mega, Late, and Steze have helped foster a growing community of rappers, DJ’s, writers, and breakdancers. For ex-pats living in this homogenous society, MLS is a portal to connecting artists that otherwise, might not have linked. On the show, they’ve …
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Mega Late Show logo by Lirc aka Kevin 
Mega and Late. This was the day that I was a guest on their podcast.
Last summer, through the Facebook group, Black Creatives Japan, I met “hip-hop savvy listener” Mega. With his co-hosts Late and Steze, they produce The Mega Late Show. It might very well be one of the only English speaking hip-hop podcast in Japan. Mega gave me props on “The 20 Best Hip-Hop Guest Verses of All Time,” an LA Weekly listicle that I contributed to. “Man, how could you leave out Cappadonna’s verse off of Ghostface Killah’s ‘Winter Warz?’” he asked …
Young Ma 
All the black families that lived here, either knew each other or of each other. We played with everybody. 
Baby T Jizzle and Ma Dukes 
My mother’s family eventually settled in Apopka. 
Apopka 
Apopka 
Apopka 
NYC circa. 1996 
Pops cultivating his product. 
Tools of the trade. 
My Uncle painted this, “Starling 80” 
Still from the CBS documentary “Harvest of Shame (1960)” 
Moms and ya boy 
Kantra and Grandma 
The complete triangle.
My mother grew up on Minute Maid’s Florida groves. Her parents were migrant workers. From the Carolinas to South Florida, they picked oranges, tomatoes, and cotton. My mother was born in 1942, the last of 17 children. Her family lived in a one-room shack with a dirt floor. Describing the conditions of Florida’s migrant workers, the former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Joseph A. Califano, wrote in his memoir, Inside: A Public and Private Life (2005): We …
Standing on Mt. Fuji with a mega phone as big as The Titanic. It’s sound has the power of a whale making clicking sounds to talk to its fam from across the globe, “I got my first cover story!” It’s with Tokyo Weekender and it’s about the amazing photographer Lukasz Palka. If you’re in Tokyo, the issue is out now. Here‘s some spots to pick it up. It’s free. Man, I’ve been waiting a minute to announce this.
