It’s Bandcamp Friday, which means that when you buy music from Bandcamp, today, all the proceeds will go directly to the artist. It’s COVID, it’s despair, a lot of these these artists are essential workers. They are not ornamental. They help you get through the day. Let’s stop acting like art isn’t an incredibly important part of our lives, our children’s lives. If you’re practical then creativity is problem solving. Loving your favorite artist means that you support them. Some …
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Thank you to everyone for reading my work. When my Huffpost article first hit the Internet, I was stunned by the world’s reaction and got caught completely off guard. People started looking to me and asking for advice, but I didn’t feel comfortable or qualified. I was as I am now a father doing the best I can to raise my daughter. None of this was planned. It just happened this way. We do what we can. Your kids are …
For CharlotteFive, I wrote about becoming a Black father in Japan and raising my daughter in Tokyo and Charlotte, North Carolina. Read the piece here. …
For almost a decade 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 up …
Did you memorize the first verse of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Method Man” from reading The Source Magazine’s “Hip-Hop Quotables?” Did you know what KRS-One’s name stood for? Were you “independent as fuck?” For the early 90’s rap kids and independent artist alike comes the documentary Adult Rappers, a rare look into the real lives of working-class rappers. The film features a lot of notable underground artists like Open Mike Eagle, Blueprint, Breeze Brewin, J-Zone, Evidence, Masta Ace, Blockhead, Atoms Family members …
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