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The Mission
The Problem
Hip-hop began in the early 70s focused around joy, knowledge, and community resilience. It is the most impactful cultural movement in modern history, but in the early 90's there was a notable shift in the message.
Lead by corporate entities, hip-hop/rap took a sharp departure from it's constructive roots and leaned heavily into a raunchy, violent image: the unapologetically immoral "thug" shouting obscenities while boasting about his sexism, drug abuse, and criminal exploits.
If that weren't bad enough, the top 2 investors in the music industry are also the top 2 investors in the prison industrial complex.
This is the new blackface. This is the new slave pipeline.
The Solution
By removing the common hip-hop industry tropes that have become standard from my solo music I give range to hip-hop, representing a side that is pensive and cerebral.
By funding and running The Alan Blueford Center for Justice in downtown Oakland I provide my community a space to constructively voice what they experience living under state sponsored terrorism, overpolicing, and police brutality.
Using grassroots outreach I connect with diverse groups of people providing necessary insight on the assumptions that influence our reality. By my presence alone in a line of work that requires high character, I counter the false narrative mainstream media sells.
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The Root
Racism as we know it in the United States of America is 350 years old.
In 1676 Nathanial Bacon led a several months long rebellion of Europeans and Africans against the "planter elite" in Virginia. In response they indentured servitude, established Africans as a permanent slave class, and began codifying a separation of races with special privileges granted to "white" people.
That is the genesis of white supremacy. They fear US.
Together we are very powerful. And if we learn from this history we get our power back.