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The Mission
The Problem
Hip-hop began in the early 70s with the intention of empowering a community devastated by state sponsored terror. It is the most impactful cultural movement in modern history, but in the early 90's there was a notable perversion of the message and goal.
Lead by corporate entities, hip-hop/rap took a sharp departure from it's constructive roots and leaned heavily into a destructive, violent image: the unapologetically immoral "thug" boasting about his misogyny and criminality.
Coincidentally, the same top 2 investors in the hip-hop media marketplace are also the top 2 investors in prison, fossil fuel, weapons, erc.
This is the new Blackface. This is the hip-hop to prison pipeline.
The Solution
By removing the tropes that have become standard in mainstream hip-hop from my solo music I invite the true range of hip-hop culture, representing a side that is pensive and cerebral.
Using grassroots outreach I connect with diverse individuals, exposing the stereotypes and assumptions that influence our reality. By my presence alone I counter the false narrative mainstream media sells.
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The Root
Many people have no idea that the entire concept of "white supremacy" is only 350 years old.
In 1676 Nathanial Bacon led a several months long rebellion of Europeans and Africans against the "planter elite" in Virginia. Fearful of losing their positions of influence, these plantation owners established Africans as a permanent slave class, and began codifying a separation of "races" with special privileges granted to "white" people.
The goal was always divide and conquer, and therein lies the true message.
We The People are VERY powerful. As soon as we learn from this history we get our power right back.
If this sounds like the kind of work that you can get behind