We always making history, except that this month the woefully ignored contributions that black people have made to this planet will be suddenly elevated. To usher in the celebration we got Noname wrapping rhymes around some minimal funk and jazz grooves. In 1974, Angela Davis sounded like she’s talking about today. Saba and Chance The Rapper kill it on “Logout.” From the makers of the HBO show Random Acts of Flyness, comes a short film and collaboration with 24-year-old, old …
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Last year my daughter, Kantra forced me to pick up my crown. For many nights, on my knees, helping my four-year-old get dressed for bed, at eye level she’d tell me, “I’m a Princess. Mommie is Mommie Queeen and you’re Daddy King.” We could be in a grocery store aisle and out of her pocket she pulls rocks, rose pedals, acorns, and handfuls of sand. She got a bike for Christmas and a remote control car. In the last few …
It’s been a minute. I’m working on something, but not sure what it is. Mostly I’m in a schizophrenic series of modes, writing this “thing” and then turning that off to write a profile on Jazz musician and beat maker Karriem Riggins. He just dropped his second album Headnod Suite. Riggins is a musical descendant of the late J Dilla. They were frequent collaborators. But Riggins definitely has his own approach to production. My ears perked up to him when I saw …
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