“We were totally blind sided by the first attacks,” rapper and producer M.Sayyid said about the January 2015 Paris terror attacks. For his Parisian wife, him and his 14-year-old daughter moved to Paris in 2013. “It was ambitious,” he said. He was living in the French Capitol, out of his New York, Yonkers element. “I felt really uncomfortable not being in control.” The second wave of horror would happen in November of that same year, surpassing what was already thought …
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Note: If you’re not familiar with rapper and producer M.Sayyid, please read the previous post I wrote about him, here. At the beginning of the new century, Y2K was suppose to turn our computers against us. They would be unable to count to the year 2000 and thus go into flicking fits that’d crash planes and fail to alarm 9-to-5ers to start their day. The panic mode of this time was like a script that New York City rap quartet …
Floridian artist and humanitarian activist Swoon has a show, “Motherlands” that just opened at Galerie LJ. MizLiz via Fecal Face shot this video interview of her talking about the concept behind “Motherlands.” The visuals look like sort of a compilation from her past shows. That’s not a bad thing if you really hate seeing a great contemporary artist whose work speaks to modern times from a progressive perspective. This lady has went all city in multiple cities many times over. More …
LA graf local legend Augustine Kofie has been doing it big these days, global style. He just flew back from Paris, France after blessing the Graffuturism exhibition. Top Circulatory System No. 24, 2012 60 x 60 x 2 inches, stertched. Acrylic, spray paint, white-out & bitumen on canvas. Finished in matte satin varnish. Bottom Elective cargo [2013] 8 x 10.5 inches Found paper, ink, and spray paint on chipboard. Bound with 3m adhesives, finished in archival matte varnish A mix…tape? put together …
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