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Witness the final track of their 1985 four-song EP on their very own Cold Fresh label: the talk box-laced B-boy jam “Rock Your Body,” which showcases Jonathan Brown’s Egyptian Lover-esque freaky flow on each verse and foreshadows his solo “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEuMgpw5j6M&ab_channel=TorstenWolf\">Bass Creator\u003c/a>” sound to come. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Two3MYH3U\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Rated X, ‘Be Cool To Your Girl’ (1990)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rated X were a group outta Midtown consisting of Cool Breeze, DJ Ajax and Captain Crunch, aka \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/174133-C-Funk\">C-Funk\u003c/a>, who was a major factor in EPA rap while racking up production credits for Conscious Daughters, Rappin’ 4-Tay, Daz and Kurupt from the Dogg Pound and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Be Cool To Your Girl” was a local hit, released on the well funded and Cameron Paul-associated label \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/39569-Tandem-Records?sort=year&sort_order=asc\">Tandem Records\u003c/a> (based out of the very un-‘urban’ peninsula town of Burlingame), and was the first of its kind to be played on mainstream radio. Utilizing a jazzy, deceptively rugged sample of Mel & Tim’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nToIwbn3GJQ\">Keep The Faith\u003c/a>” (much later sampled by the likes of DJ Premier and Madlib), the song was a voice of compassion towards female companions which, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts4ePdVAQP4\">in an era of heavy bitch ’n hoe raps\u003c/a>, was a breath of fresh air. But it was also a perfect target — whether due to jealousy, or simply to point fingers at a sucker ‘Captain Save a Hoe’ type — for an immediate backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cue Parts Unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylq1ejZwpDI\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. Parts Unknown, ‘Another Day In EPA’ (1990)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Released solely on cassette, \u003cem>Time For Turmoil\u003c/em> was essentially a raw, low-budget compilation of rap acts from ‘The Ville,’ The Village, who had a rivalry with Midtown and who finally made their voices heard after a couple years of anonymity. The whole tape starts with the above-mentioned Rated X’s regional hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EVVaGp6QfQ\">promptly being scraped off the turntable\u003c/a>, and main rapper Kilo G boldly stating “FUCK CRUNCH” after each of his verses, stating “…Crunch has got an attitude / Girls approach him and they find his manner’s plenty rude” — implying that, in reality, the Rated X frontman may not have been so cool to his girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tape’s centerpiece is “Another Day In EPA,” a long-winded piece of murderous street storytelling that doubles as an early roll call of fellow Village street stars and rappers. Young Mack and K-9, who went on to form \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/365346-SIC-4\">S.I.C. (Sic Insane Criminals)\u003c/a>, rhyme over a beat that magically turns Soul II Soul’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVooz47WUOE\">Keep On Movin’\u003c/a>” into mobbed-out menace. Mixed with \u003cem>Ultimate Breaks & Beats\u003c/em> sample staples like James Brown’s “Big Payback” and Esther Williams’ phone-ringing hit “Last Night Changed It All,” the track finds Young Mack cuttin’ town getting “a room at the ‘Cozy'” and later jumpin’ on the “‘Way Way’ to go chill with the n-ggas down in P.A.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUQJ648MMfQ\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. EPA’s Own Parental Advisory, ‘A N-gga Named Dopestyle’ (1990)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A cassette-only project spearheaded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/219951-MC-Dopestyle\">MC Dopestyle\u003c/a> outta The Gardens, \u003cem>The Cum Song\u003c/em> EP was an all-out assault on rap music and perhaps just music in general. Think the Cold Crush Brothers’ “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Ze773VqLM\">Punk Rock Rap\u003c/a>” flipped on its head — or “Ultramagnetic MCs on steroids,” as a friend once described it — driving much harder into the essence of punk as utter rebellion rather than just a flashy look or surface sound. Dopestyle seeked to destroy. You can hear his frustration and total defiance on “A N-gga Named Dopestyle,” “gunning meatheads down with vocab,” a “pro-Black n-gga” who “drink(s) Clorox” and whose “shit I write is really Black literature.” This man was a true rogue, full of glorious contradictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxbFJLfhCg\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Totally Insane, ‘What Ya Know’ (1991)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chances are you \u003cem>have\u003c/em> heard this one. Considered by many to be \u003cem>the\u003c/em> crown rulers of EPA Rap, Totally Insane consisted of rappers Ad Kapone and Mac-10, featuring supremely solid production — and a connection to San Francisco giants I.M.P., Dre Dog and RBL Posse — via official member \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/329739-TC-8\">T.C.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On “What Ya Know,” Ad Kapone, in his signature laid-back flow, schools us on his fateful meeting with neighborhood kingpin \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/8817445\">Mike D. Washington\u003c/a>, who funded much of the group’s early activity. As Ad Kapone explains in his second verse, Washington “Jumped out his drop Benz like a Black god / He stepped to me and pulled out a fat-ass wad / He said ‘With this you will kick the gangster shit, Ad’ / I called up Mac-10 and Mac wasn’t even mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the track’s luxurious gangster flip of Idris Muhammad’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GB2w1J8FyY\">Power Of Soul\u003c/a>” that conjures grandiose images of pyramids in the EPA backstreets, it’s no wonder Totally Insane attained such status in the region, and to this day are held in the highest regard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luOXxmygtOs\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. Chunk, ‘What Waz I To Do?’ (1992)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A prolific artist who made three full-length albums in the span of just two years on the Tandem label, Chunk was a Midtown rapper graced mainly with classic C-Funk production before hooking up with the mighty \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/362683-Sean-T-2\">Sean T\u003c/a> in 1993 and signing with \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/59339-Murder-One-Records\">Murder One Records\u003c/a>. Before going solo, Chunk was in a group called Reality with \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/5038924-Doc-Loui\">Doc Loui\u003c/a> and Ad Kapone of Totally Insane. As Ad recently explained in \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/YxGYB18foZ0?si=91YlZiVWdIOGCdIO&t=1279\">a recent interview with Dregs One\u003c/a>, he had to stop making music with them due to the intense rivalry between Midtown and The Ville (Doc Loui was from the latter part of town), with a shootout at the local talent show proving just how heated the funk had gotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was ever a hit single from Chunk, “What Waz I To Do?” was it. Busting hardcore lyrics over a smooth \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFqciMVpI8\">Lonnie Liston Smith sample\u003c/a>, the perfect blend of “street” and “cosmic” is achieved as Chunk runs through the trials and tribulations of growing up in the EPA streets backed by a hopeful soundtrack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrJhFnVjVaY\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7. Funk Lab All Stars, ‘La Da Da’ (1991)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A heavily P-Funk-inspired project reminiscent of Oakland’s Digital Underground, Funk Lab All Stars were led by C-Funk and included a young \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13818092/pam-the-funkstress-pioneering-bay-area-dj-passes-away\">Pam The Funkstress\u003c/a> on the turntables. Boots Riley of The Coup once \u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?id=520078663&story_fbid=10155969256363664\">told of seeing Pam DJ for Funk Lab in 1992\u003c/a> and being dead-set on hiring her for his own group; she became The Coup’s DJ shortly afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La Da Da” is a silly but playful track and video, and the Funk Lab All Stars’ sole album \u003cem>Music From A Motion Picture Funktrack\u003c/em> is worth checking out for a fun late-night weekend party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngnmhkb_jJA\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>8. Money Marc, Ad Kapone, Doc Loui & … – Demo Track (1991)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When first unearthed, this was thought to be a lost track from Totally Insane’s \u003cem>Crazy Shit\u003c/em> album, which was scrapped due to Mike D. Washington passing away. But after a few listens, it became evident that it’s simply another slammin’-ass track that just never saw a proper release, likely recorded not too long after the release of Totally Insane’s classic \u003cem>Direct From The Backstreets\u003c/em>. Found on an old Maxell cassette, it’s being uploaded for the first time here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first MC to bat on this buried gem is Money Marc of \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/785633-Neva-Legal\">Neva Legal\u003c/a>, a group that didn’t have a proper full-length release until 1998. The track is definitely rough and unfinished, as evidenced by the gritty, slightly slap-backed delay on Ad Kapone’s vocals on the second verse, sonically inconsistent with the other rappers’ sound. Ad slays the track, rhyming “test a ‘G'” with “recipe,” and the third verse features an pre-pubescent sounding Doc Loui rapping about the “first day in my life as a gangster,” during which he robs a local bank with his posse and makes a quick getaway from the cops “cuz they just too slow.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intro’s impression of then-president George Bush Sr. is comedy gold, claiming that those awful East Palo Alto Guys “are pulling too many jacks, and uhhh selling too many sacks…and it’s just uhhh ruining the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpN-KWPBc98\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>9. M.O.G. – P.A. Thang (1992)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While helping lead the Bay Area into a new era of mobb music with less samples and more live instrumentation, Sean T of M.O.G. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/2914416\">Murder One Gangster\u003c/a>) gained massive cred blessing \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/362683-Sean-T-2?superFilter=Credits\">artists from all around the Bay\u003c/a> with his unforeseen levels of musical talent. (Ever witnessed the club go crazy to Mac Dre’s “Feelin’ Myself”? That’s Sean T’s beat, right there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with G-Man Stan — the guitarist, engineer, producer and head of the Oakland-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/414121-Find-A-Way-Studios\">Find A Way Studios\u003c/a> — Sean T went on to define the EPA sound of the mid-’90s. The two formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/56694-Young-Gotti-Records\">Young Gotti Records\u003c/a> in 1996 and released Sean’s classic LP \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/release/2958772-Sean-T-Pimp-Lyrics-Dollar-Signs\">Pimp Lyrics & Dollar Signs\u003c/a>, among many others. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“P.A. Thang” is a slow-rolling, pimped-out track, with Sean and his groupmates Top Dog and Kaos narrating what it’s like to live and die in the EPA streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieS77wvQOcQ\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>10. Female Fonk – Sucka Free\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Responsible for perhaps the first rap to turn Juicy’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHLCxviD7oY\">Sugar Free\u003c/a>” into a play on words, \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/981327-Female-Fonk\">Female Fonk\u003c/a> were the duo of Ju Boo and Pam The Funkstress, signed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/97700-Buck-Fifty-Records\">Buck Fifty Records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With labelmates like Rappin’ 4-Tay and San Quinn, it’s a wonder that these two didn’t do more damage than a cassette-only release. But Pam was quickly snatched up by Boots Riley of The Coup, and the rest is history. RIP Pam The Funkstress. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s note\u003c/strong>: This story is part of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">That’s My Word\u003c/a>\u003cem>, KQED’s year-long exploration of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">Bay Area hip-hop\u003c/a> history.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An obsessive collector of underground Bay Area rap cassettes, J. Darrah has chronicled \u003ca href=\"https://12manrambotapes.blogspot.com/\">over 500 Northern California hip-hop tapes from 1985–2000\u003c/a> on his blog, \u003ca href=\"https://12manrambotapes.blogspot.com/\">12ManRambo\u003c/a>. Here, he shares 10 standout tracks from his archive by lesser-known East Palo Alto rap artists.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>or its small size, the city of East Palo Alto has contributed immensely to underground Bay Area rap, and its influence goes much deeper than most people know. In fact, when a group of young men from the Fillmore ran into the Beastie Boys on the street in 1992, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYeTat_PB78&ab_channel=Porkys1982\">they got out their boomboxes and played Totally Insane’s East Palo Alto classic \u003cem>Direct From the Backstreet\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to show the Beasties what the hottest Bay Area rap was sounding like at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1008px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/totallyinsane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1008\" height=\"1407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937089\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/totallyinsane.jpg 1008w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/totallyinsane-800x1117.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/totallyinsane-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/totallyinsane-768x1072.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Totally Insane, from East Palo Alto, pictured in 1991. \u003ccite>(In-A-Minute Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Much of that credit goes to master producer Tomie Witherspoon, a.k.a. \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/329739-TC-8\">T.C.\u003c/a>, a major factor in East Palo Alto who linked Totally Insane’s Ad Kapone and Mac-10 up with the likes of I.M.P., RBL Posse, Dre Dog and other San Francisco artists starting to bubble. At the time, it marked a rare cross-pollination between cities; up to that point (the 1988 \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/master/172622-The-Dangerous-Crew-Dangerous-Crew\">Dangerous Crew compilation\u003c/a> notwithstanding), rap in the Bay Area was largely hyper-regional. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It’s about that smaller town coming fully formed from the get-go, with their own style and lingo, and letting their light shine through the whole Bay Area — showing that true “\u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rogue&page=2\">rogues\u003c/a>” always get their piece of the pie.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4EG5lWCt1ng'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4EG5lWCt1ng'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>1. Members Only Crew, ‘Rock Your Body’ (1985)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Responsible for what’s likely the very first rap record out of Silicon Valley, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiU_ysKjoyc\">Members Only Crew\u003c/a> were a group of young Stanford students who essentially created hip-hop radio as a format on campus station \u003ca href=\"https://kzsu.stanford.edu/\">KZSU 90.1 FM\u003c/a>. The two prominent crew members were DJ Kevvy Kev and Jonathan Brown. In addition to establishing \u003cem>The Drum\u003c/em> on KZSU — the longest-running hip-hop radio show in the country — \u003ca href=\"http://trueskool.com/page/dj-kevvy-kev\">Kevvy Kev\u003c/a> was a founding member of Sway & Tech’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HraCuAkZlBU&ab_channel=SWAY%27SUNIVERSE\">Wake Up Show\u003c/a> and later served as tour DJ to the RZA. \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/248247-Jonathan-Brown\">Jonathan Brown\u003c/a>, a Tulsa transplant turned late ’80s/’90s EPA resident, is an endlessly prolific DJ, producer and MC who created his own eccentric, auteur-like musical universe via his \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQgdn5i35uI\">Bass Way International\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/32556-Jubwa-Nation-Records\">Jubwa Nation\u003c/a> monikers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before there was even anything clearly defined as “EPA rap,” the influence of the Members Only Crew on the general region’s street scene was undeniable. Witness the final track of their 1985 four-song EP on their very own Cold Fresh label: the talk box-laced B-boy jam “Rock Your Body,” which showcases Jonathan Brown’s Egyptian Lover-esque freaky flow on each verse and foreshadows his solo “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEuMgpw5j6M&ab_channel=TorstenWolf\">Bass Creator\u003c/a>” sound to come. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/N_Two3MYH3U'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/N_Two3MYH3U'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>2. 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Utilizing a jazzy, deceptively rugged sample of Mel & Tim’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nToIwbn3GJQ\">Keep The Faith\u003c/a>” (much later sampled by the likes of DJ Premier and Madlib), the song was a voice of compassion towards female companions which, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts4ePdVAQP4\">in an era of heavy bitch ’n hoe raps\u003c/a>, was a breath of fresh air. But it was also a perfect target — whether due to jealousy, or simply to point fingers at a sucker ‘Captain Save a Hoe’ type — for an immediate backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cue Parts Unknown.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Ylq1ejZwpDI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Ylq1ejZwpDI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>3. Parts Unknown, ‘Another Day In EPA’ (1990)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Released solely on cassette, \u003cem>Time For Turmoil\u003c/em> was essentially a raw, low-budget compilation of rap acts from ‘The Ville,’ The Village, who had a rivalry with Midtown and who finally made their voices heard after a couple years of anonymity. The whole tape starts with the above-mentioned Rated X’s regional hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EVVaGp6QfQ\">promptly being scraped off the turntable\u003c/a>, and main rapper Kilo G boldly stating “FUCK CRUNCH” after each of his verses, stating “…Crunch has got an attitude / Girls approach him and they find his manner’s plenty rude” — implying that, in reality, the Rated X frontman may not have been so cool to his girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tape’s centerpiece is “Another Day In EPA,” a long-winded piece of murderous street storytelling that doubles as an early roll call of fellow Village street stars and rappers. Young Mack and K-9, who went on to form \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/365346-SIC-4\">S.I.C. (Sic Insane Criminals)\u003c/a>, rhyme over a beat that magically turns Soul II Soul’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVooz47WUOE\">Keep On Movin’\u003c/a>” into mobbed-out menace. Mixed with \u003cem>Ultimate Breaks & Beats\u003c/em> sample staples like James Brown’s “Big Payback” and Esther Williams’ phone-ringing hit “Last Night Changed It All,” the track finds Young Mack cuttin’ town getting “a room at the ‘Cozy'” and later jumpin’ on the “‘Way Way’ to go chill with the n-ggas down in P.A.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qUQJ648MMfQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qUQJ648MMfQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>4. EPA’s Own Parental Advisory, ‘A N-gga Named Dopestyle’ (1990)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A cassette-only project spearheaded by \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/219951-MC-Dopestyle\">MC Dopestyle\u003c/a> outta The Gardens, \u003cem>The Cum Song\u003c/em> EP was an all-out assault on rap music and perhaps just music in general. Think the Cold Crush Brothers’ “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Ze773VqLM\">Punk Rock Rap\u003c/a>” flipped on its head — or “Ultramagnetic MCs on steroids,” as a friend once described it — driving much harder into the essence of punk as utter rebellion rather than just a flashy look or surface sound. Dopestyle seeked to destroy. You can hear his frustration and total defiance on “A N-gga Named Dopestyle,” “gunning meatheads down with vocab,” a “pro-Black n-gga” who “drink(s) Clorox” and whose “shit I write is really Black literature.” This man was a true rogue, full of glorious contradictions.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/BxxbFJLfhCg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/BxxbFJLfhCg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>5. Totally Insane, ‘What Ya Know’ (1991)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chances are you \u003cem>have\u003c/em> heard this one. Considered by many to be \u003cem>the\u003c/em> crown rulers of EPA Rap, Totally Insane consisted of rappers Ad Kapone and Mac-10, featuring supremely solid production — and a connection to San Francisco giants I.M.P., Dre Dog and RBL Posse — via official member \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/329739-TC-8\">T.C.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On “What Ya Know,” Ad Kapone, in his signature laid-back flow, schools us on his fateful meeting with neighborhood kingpin \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/8817445\">Mike D. Washington\u003c/a>, who funded much of the group’s early activity. As Ad Kapone explains in his second verse, Washington “Jumped out his drop Benz like a Black god / He stepped to me and pulled out a fat-ass wad / He said ‘With this you will kick the gangster shit, Ad’ / I called up Mac-10 and Mac wasn’t even mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the track’s luxurious gangster flip of Idris Muhammad’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GB2w1J8FyY\">Power Of Soul\u003c/a>” that conjures grandiose images of pyramids in the EPA backstreets, it’s no wonder Totally Insane attained such status in the region, and to this day are held in the highest regard.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/luOXxmygtOs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/luOXxmygtOs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>6. Chunk, ‘What Waz I To Do?’ (1992)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A prolific artist who made three full-length albums in the span of just two years on the Tandem label, Chunk was a Midtown rapper graced mainly with classic C-Funk production before hooking up with the mighty \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/362683-Sean-T-2\">Sean T\u003c/a> in 1993 and signing with \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/59339-Murder-One-Records\">Murder One Records\u003c/a>. Before going solo, Chunk was in a group called Reality with \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/5038924-Doc-Loui\">Doc Loui\u003c/a> and Ad Kapone of Totally Insane. As Ad recently explained in \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/YxGYB18foZ0?si=91YlZiVWdIOGCdIO&t=1279\">a recent interview with Dregs One\u003c/a>, he had to stop making music with them due to the intense rivalry between Midtown and The Ville (Doc Loui was from the latter part of town), with a shootout at the local talent show proving just how heated the funk had gotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was ever a hit single from Chunk, “What Waz I To Do?” was it. Busting hardcore lyrics over a smooth \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFqciMVpI8\">Lonnie Liston Smith sample\u003c/a>, the perfect blend of “street” and “cosmic” is achieved as Chunk runs through the trials and tribulations of growing up in the EPA streets backed by a hopeful soundtrack.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/IrJhFnVjVaY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/IrJhFnVjVaY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>7. Funk Lab All Stars, ‘La Da Da’ (1991)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A heavily P-Funk-inspired project reminiscent of Oakland’s Digital Underground, Funk Lab All Stars were led by C-Funk and included a young \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13818092/pam-the-funkstress-pioneering-bay-area-dj-passes-away\">Pam The Funkstress\u003c/a> on the turntables. Boots Riley of The Coup once \u003ca href=\"https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?id=520078663&story_fbid=10155969256363664\">told of seeing Pam DJ for Funk Lab in 1992\u003c/a> and being dead-set on hiring her for his own group; she became The Coup’s DJ shortly afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“La Da Da” is a silly but playful track and video, and the Funk Lab All Stars’ sole album \u003cem>Music From A Motion Picture Funktrack\u003c/em> is worth checking out for a fun late-night weekend party.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Ngnmhkb_jJA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Ngnmhkb_jJA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>8. Money Marc, Ad Kapone, Doc Loui & … – Demo Track (1991)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When first unearthed, this was thought to be a lost track from Totally Insane’s \u003cem>Crazy Shit\u003c/em> album, which was scrapped due to Mike D. Washington passing away. But after a few listens, it became evident that it’s simply another slammin’-ass track that just never saw a proper release, likely recorded not too long after the release of Totally Insane’s classic \u003cem>Direct From The Backstreets\u003c/em>. Found on an old Maxell cassette, it’s being uploaded for the first time here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first MC to bat on this buried gem is Money Marc of \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/785633-Neva-Legal\">Neva Legal\u003c/a>, a group that didn’t have a proper full-length release until 1998. The track is definitely rough and unfinished, as evidenced by the gritty, slightly slap-backed delay on Ad Kapone’s vocals on the second verse, sonically inconsistent with the other rappers’ sound. Ad slays the track, rhyming “test a ‘G'” with “recipe,” and the third verse features an pre-pubescent sounding Doc Loui rapping about the “first day in my life as a gangster,” during which he robs a local bank with his posse and makes a quick getaway from the cops “cuz they just too slow.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intro’s impression of then-president George Bush Sr. is comedy gold, claiming that those awful East Palo Alto Guys “are pulling too many jacks, and uhhh selling too many sacks…and it’s just uhhh ruining the nation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vpN-KWPBc98'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vpN-KWPBc98'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>9. M.O.G. – P.A. Thang (1992)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While helping lead the Bay Area into a new era of mobb music with less samples and more live instrumentation, Sean T of M.O.G. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/2914416\">Murder One Gangster\u003c/a>) gained massive cred blessing \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/362683-Sean-T-2?superFilter=Credits\">artists from all around the Bay\u003c/a> with his unforeseen levels of musical talent. (Ever witnessed the club go crazy to Mac Dre’s “Feelin’ Myself”? That’s Sean T’s beat, right there.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with G-Man Stan — the guitarist, engineer, producer and head of the Oakland-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/414121-Find-A-Way-Studios\">Find A Way Studios\u003c/a> — Sean T went on to define the EPA sound of the mid-’90s. The two formed \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/56694-Young-Gotti-Records\">Young Gotti Records\u003c/a> in 1996 and released Sean’s classic LP \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/release/2958772-Sean-T-Pimp-Lyrics-Dollar-Signs\">Pimp Lyrics & Dollar Signs\u003c/a>, among many others. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“P.A. Thang” is a slow-rolling, pimped-out track, with Sean and his groupmates Top Dog and Kaos narrating what it’s like to live and die in the EPA streets.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ieS77wvQOcQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ieS77wvQOcQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>10. Female Fonk – Sucka Free\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Responsible for perhaps the first rap to turn Juicy’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHLCxviD7oY\">Sugar Free\u003c/a>” into a play on words, \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/981327-Female-Fonk\">Female Fonk\u003c/a> were the duo of Ju Boo and Pam The Funkstress, signed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/label/97700-Buck-Fifty-Records\">Buck Fifty Records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s among the most tired, inaccurate lines arts-lovers are used to hearing in the Bay Area: \u003cem>all the musicians are gone.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is true that it takes a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13829537/the-hustle-a-snapshot-of-artists-finances-in-the-bay-area\">staggering amount of hustle\u003c/a> to survive as a working artist here in one of the most expensive regions in the U.S. — which means the folks who are doing it need every ounce of support, appreciation and celebration the community can muster.[aside postid='arts_13930570']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s part of what staff at the San Francisco Public Library had in mind when they announced \u003ca href=\"https://baybeats.sfpl.org/\">Bay Beats\u003c/a>, a free, streamable collection of albums from more than 100 local artists, in genres including jazz, soul, hip-hop, classical, indie rock and more. The platform launches Oct. 28 with a daylong party at the main library, including performances by a half-dozen artists whose work was selected to appear in the collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a party nearly six months in the making: The SFPL first issued an open call for submissions back in May, announcing that any artist working in the nine-county Bay Area region was eligible. Over the following three months, more than 600 submissions were considered by an all-star panel of jurors, including the library’s own staff archivist, Avengers frontwoman and punk icon Penelope Houston; rapper, graffiti artist and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13916721/sucka-free-history-with-dregs-one\">hip-hop historian Dregs One\u003c/a>; and Latin-rhythms-by-way-of-San Francisco singer, community activist and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13913890/la-dona-ybca-san-francisco-guaranteed-income-pilot-artists\">rising star La Doña\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/image.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13936903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/image-800x741.jpg\" alt=\"a band of five people, most of them in cowboy hats, performs on an outdoor stage at El Rio, a bar in the Mission District of San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"741\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/image-800x741.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/image-1020x945.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/image-160x148.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/image-768x711.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/image.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nashville Honeymoon is one of 100 Bay Area artists who were selected to have their music uploaded to the San Francisco Public Library’s new streaming platform for local music, Bay Beats. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For anyone wondering whether we’ve still got it, I can personally assure you that the music scene in San Francisco and beyond is alive and well,” librarian Brian Weaver, who helped launch the program, said in a statement. “The talent we saw from the submissions round was phenomenal and it was a real challenge to be able to select only 100 albums … We can’t wait for everyone to discover bands and artists they’ve never heard before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word discovery is key here, as the platform doesn’t stand to serve as a meaningful source of income for musicians; each artist selected received a one-time $250 honorarium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13936509']But a free streaming platform hosted by a nonprofit educational space — amplifying local artists and ensuring access to even the community’s lowest-income residents — certainly flips the script laid out by the music industry’s current vulture-like giants. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893952/musicians-demand-better-pay-at-spotify-headquarters-around-the-world\">Spotify\u003c/a>, for example, pays an average of between $0.003 and $0.005 per stream, meaning an artist needs between 50,000 and 80,000 streams to even receive $250. Meanwhile Bandcamp, known for the last 15 years as the most artist-friendly site on which to stream and download music, faces a deeply uncertain future following a buyout and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936509/idiotic-and-cruel-musicians-slam-layoffs-at-bandcamp\">mass layoffs at the Oakland-based company\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the library has effectively done is absorb the cost of the necessary tech partnership; the Bay Beats platform is powered by the software company Rabble, which has also helped libraries in Austin, Seattle, Nashville, New Orleans and Portland set up streaming sites to celebrate their local music scenes. At the SFPL, the music on Bay Beats will be free to all users, but — as if you needed extra incentive to get a library card — it will also be downloadable for cardholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbBiqH_Bsjs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ffffff\">p\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\nThe artists performing at Saturday’s launch are a testament to the breadth of the music being made in the Bay: The day will feature 30- to 40-minute sets from children’s artist Alison Faith Levy; honkytonk/“California Country” from Nashville Honeymoon; hip-hop by UnLearn the World; neo-soul from veterans Tori Roze & The Hot Mess; eclectic multilingual tunes by Razteria and moody pop from gloomy june.[aside postid='arts_13930122']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So go celebrate the launch, stream some music on Bay Beats, discover your new favorite local artists — and then go to their shows. Buy their records and T-shirts. Send them (respectful) love letters. And maybe, some day, we won’t have to spend time combatting the tired narrative that they don’t exist at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Bay Beats Local Music Collection launch party takes place Saturday, Oct. 28 from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Fulton Plaza at San Francisco’s Main Library, near Civic Center. Free. \u003ca href=\"https://baybeats.sfpl.org/\">More info here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The seven songs on \u003cem>Desolation’s Flower\u003c/em> include the title track, a “hymn to queer and trans ancestors,” and “DTA” (“Death to America”), which literalizes the concept of protest music by integrating a field recording from the 2020 George Floyd protests in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to tie in the actual sound of a movement, a revolution of people living and breathing and experiencing in that moment,” says Maria. “It’s really powerful to hear that energy, and stressful to tear gas hitting the ground and cops and people chanting. It’s a feeling I wanted to invite into our music and have people think about. I just want people to think about revolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coley and Maria met in 2011 in Olympia, a focal point for the raw and atmospheric style of metal that’s come to be associated with the Pacific Northwest and its rainy, rugged landscape. They first bonded over Wolves in the Throne Room, one of Olympia’s most influential metal bands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time we ever met was at a grocery store,” says Coley. “We were each with a different friend, and I was wearing a Wolves in the Throne Room T-shirt, and Maria thought it was cool, which was very flattering. Our mutual friends encouraged us to meet and play music together.” [aside label='More Music Coverage' postid='arts_13928718,arts_13936776,arts_13936614']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duo works in a style that has often been described as “blackened doom metal” — a fusion of the foreboding crawl of doom metal with the rugged, elemental sound of black metal. “The two of us wanted to play something that felt unique and heavy and dark and beautiful,” says Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both musicians describe themselves as “drummers first” and trade vocal, songwriting and guitar duties. Maria describes her songwriting style as simpler and more lyrics-driven, while Coley describes their own style as more complex. “Maria writes catchier hits,” Coley jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ragana’s catchiest hit to date is 2017’s “You Take Nothing.” No one leaves a Ragana show without its titular refrain in their head, which Maria shouts over and over again like a shamanic invocation against evil. At the band’s performance at the Swedish American Hall at 2022’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/noise-pop\">Noise Pop\u003c/a>, opening for the legendary Northwest indie-folk project The Microphones, the duo led the crowd in an ecstatic shout-along that seemed to energize the audience and lift the spirits in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two musicians’ frequent switching between instruments at live shows lends an element of unpredictability to their performances. “The band just wouldn’t be the same if we weren’t switching instruments on each song and writing different songs,” says Coley. “It renews or changes the energy when we switch instruments, which is cool to experience as a musician.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1871941623/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all its musical innovation, heavy metal can be a surprisingly conservative genre, with a strong reactionary streak. This is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cjr.org/first_person/heavy-metal-capitol-spotting-nazis.php\">especially true in black metal\u003c/a>, some of whose stars have openly expressed racist, homophobic and fascist views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how are metal fans reacting to a proudly queer duo going against the grain? 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They often switch instruments during shows. \u003ccite>(Debi Del Grande )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Flenser has become something of a hub for heavy bands that embrace open-mindedness in both music and philosophy. Ragana’s labelmates include \u003ca href=\"https://agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/album/agriculture\">Agriculture\u003c/a>, an “ecstatic black metal” band co-fronted by trans musician and writer \u003ca href=\"https://leahlevinson.info/\">Leah B. 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At the band’s performance at the Swedish American Hall at 2022’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/noise-pop\">Noise Pop\u003c/a>, opening for the legendary Northwest indie-folk project The Microphones, the duo led the crowd in an ecstatic shout-along that seemed to energize the audience and lift the spirits in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two musicians’ frequent switching between instruments at live shows lends an element of unpredictability to their performances. “The band just wouldn’t be the same if we weren’t switching instruments on each song and writing different songs,” says Coley. “It renews or changes the energy when we switch instruments, which is cool to experience as a musician.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1871941623/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all its musical innovation, heavy metal can be a surprisingly conservative genre, with a strong reactionary streak. This is \u003ca href=\"https://www.cjr.org/first_person/heavy-metal-capitol-spotting-nazis.php\">especially true in black metal\u003c/a>, some of whose stars have openly expressed racist, homophobic and fascist views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how are metal fans reacting to a proudly queer duo going against the grain? 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"content": "\u003cp>On Saturday, Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell handed the key to the city to one of its biggest musical icons: E-40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even know anywhere else. I only knew 4 blocks. I was just a ghetto child. I never thought I’d be selling tapes out of the trunk of the car over at M&M liquor to having my \u003cem>own\u003c/em> liquor,” said Earl Stevens, aka E-40, at the ceremony on a stretch of Magazine Street that now bears the honorary street sign E-40 Way. It marks the neighborhood where he was raised and began his chart-topping career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936795\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936795 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Earl “E-40” Stevens greets community members after the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl ‘E-40’ Stevens greets community members after the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can see the type of talent this city has produced over many many decades,” said Mayor McConnell, addressing the crowd of hundreds that gathered for the ceremony. “Continuously when you move throughout the Bay Area and when you live in other cities, you meet people who say ‘I grew up and I lived in Vallejo,’ and they’re very proud of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we want to acknowledge his success, and more importantly, we want to acknowledge his contributions to the city,” added McConnell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936788\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936788 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-8-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Vallejo High School cheerleaders perform at Earl “E-40” Stevens’ honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-8-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-8-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-8-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-8-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-8-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-8-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-8-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vallejo High School cheerleaders perform at Earl ‘E-40’ Stevens’ honorary ceremony, with E-40 (right) sitting beside Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell on stage. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland-born hip-hop and hyphy artist Mistah F.A.B., master of ceremonies at the event, said E-40 was somebody he grew up idolizing as an artist and as a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is about being here for somebody that has opened up doors, somebody that has pioneered and championed what it is like to be not only an artist, but to be an entrepreneur, to be a father, to be a friend, to be a family member, to be a great business man,” said Mistah F.A.B., who is also a community organizer, entrepreneur and activist. “I think that you guys are just as proud as we are and we’re happy. … This is a beautiful moment, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936789\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936789 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-25-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Earl “E-40” Stevens’s family members sit in the audience during the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-25-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-25-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-25-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-25-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-25-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-25-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-25-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl ‘E-40’ Stevens’s family members sit in the audience during the honorary ceremony. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>E-40 is a name practically synonymous with \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">Bay Area hip-hop\u003c/a>, and he’s enjoyed impressive career longevity rarely seen in rap. He got his start in the late ’80s as a member of The Click, a group that also featured his sister Suga-T, brother D-Shot and cousin B-Legit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with peers like Too Short, E-40 set the standard for independent music distribution by selling tapes “out the trunk.” His label Sick Wid It Records later signed a distribution deal with Jive, and The Click’s second album, 1995’s \u003cem>Game Related\u003c/em>, peaked at No. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936794 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Earl “E-40” Stevens unveils the sign of the renamed Magazine St, aka E-40 Way, during the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl ‘E-40’ Stevens unveils the sign of the renamed Magazine St, aka E-40 Way, during the honorary ceremony. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good opportunity for the kids that are coming up here, to build something positive for the children coming up in Vallejo,” said Vallejo resident Rosalyn Robinson. “I think it’s a monumental event, giving Vallejo that credit that’s well needed. E-40 has been in the game for four decades, and this celebration is way past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13935408 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/09/HKGT-part-2-web-image-1020x574.png']In 1993, E-40 launched his solo career with the album \u003cem>Federal\u003c/em> and continued collaborating with members of The Click on hits like 1995’s “Sprinkle Me” featuring Suga-T as his national profile grew. He’s credited with inventing and popularizing many Bay Area slang terms — such as “broccoli” for cannabis, “fasheezy” and “flamboastin’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-40’s hit-making streak continued with the 2006 smash “Tell Me When To Go,” which came to define hyphy — the local, hard-partying rap subculture — for the rest of the country. His 2014 song “Choices” became a Golden State Warriors anthem that amped up the team during its championship games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936792 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Earl “E-40” Stevens’s son, Earl Stevens Jr. talks about his father’s legacy during the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl ‘E-40’ Stevens’s son, Earl Stevens Jr. talks about his father’s legacy during the honorary ceremony. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dennis Lastra, who grew up next-door to Stevens in his grandmother’s house, said despite all the success and the accomplishments, E-40 was always humble and always made sure to visit them whenever he was in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just so proud of him, man. Because like, just from day one, I seen her struggle as a single mother, and she raised her kids,” said Lastra of Earl Stevens’ mother, who raised him and his siblings as a single parent. “\u003cb>\u003c/b>I give all props to that man. … You feel that gratitude that he has. It’s just humbling to hear that from someone that has achieved so much. … And the hard way, it wasn’t the easy way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936791\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936791 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"E-40 Way seen on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E-40 Way in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, E-40 collaborated with younger Bay Area artists like P-Lo and national rap stars, including Snoop Dogg, T.I. and Ice Cube. While continuing to make music, he’s shifted his energy toward his philanthropy and liquor and food businesses. He has a forthcoming cookbook with Snoop Dogg, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/untitled-snoop-cookbook-2\">Goon With the Spoon\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, out Nov. 14 via Chronicle Books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936790\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936790 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Earl “E-40” Stevens speaks during the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl ‘E-40’ Stevens speaks during the honorary ceremony. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“E-40 is a trailblazer and he’s opened up many doors for young people to walk through,” said Rosalyn Robinson. “He’s very humble, always been humble. He’s always been loyal. And I think it’s important for the kids to see, and it’s important for events like this to keep happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Attila Pelit contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Saturday, Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell handed the key to the city to one of its biggest musical icons: E-40.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even know anywhere else. I only knew 4 blocks. I was just a ghetto child. I never thought I’d be selling tapes out of the trunk of the car over at M&M liquor to having my \u003cem>own\u003c/em> liquor,” said Earl Stevens, aka E-40, at the ceremony on a stretch of Magazine Street that now bears the honorary street sign E-40 Way. It marks the neighborhood where he was raised and began his chart-topping career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936795\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936795 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Earl “E-40” Stevens greets community members after the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-74-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl ‘E-40’ Stevens greets community members after the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can see the type of talent this city has produced over many many decades,” said Mayor McConnell, addressing the crowd of hundreds that gathered for the ceremony. “Continuously when you move throughout the Bay Area and when you live in other cities, you meet people who say ‘I grew up and I lived in Vallejo,’ and they’re very proud of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we want to acknowledge his success, and more importantly, we want to acknowledge his contributions to the city,” added McConnell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure 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He got his start in the late ’80s as a member of The Click, a group that also featured his sister Suga-T, brother D-Shot and cousin B-Legit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with peers like Too Short, E-40 set the standard for independent music distribution by selling tapes “out the trunk.” His label Sick Wid It Records later signed a distribution deal with Jive, and The Click’s second album, 1995’s \u003cem>Game Related\u003c/em>, peaked at No. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936794\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936794 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Earl “E-40” Stevens unveils the sign of the renamed Magazine St, aka E-40 Way, during the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-70-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl ‘E-40’ Stevens unveils the sign of the renamed Magazine St, aka E-40 Way, during the honorary ceremony. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good opportunity for the kids that are coming up here, to build something positive for the children coming up in Vallejo,” said Vallejo resident Rosalyn Robinson. “I think it’s a monumental event, giving Vallejo that credit that’s well needed. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 1993, E-40 launched his solo career with the album \u003cem>Federal\u003c/em> and continued collaborating with members of The Click on hits like 1995’s “Sprinkle Me” featuring Suga-T as his national profile grew. He’s credited with inventing and popularizing many Bay Area slang terms — such as “broccoli” for cannabis, “fasheezy” and “flamboastin’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E-40’s hit-making streak continued with the 2006 smash “Tell Me When To Go,” which came to define hyphy — the local, hard-partying rap subculture — for the rest of the country. His 2014 song “Choices” became a Golden State Warriors anthem that amped up the team during its championship games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936792 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Earl “E-40” Stevens’s son, Earl Stevens Jr. talks about his father’s legacy during the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-53-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl ‘E-40’ Stevens’s son, Earl Stevens Jr. talks about his father’s legacy during the honorary ceremony. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dennis Lastra, who grew up next-door to Stevens in his grandmother’s house, said despite all the success and the accomplishments, E-40 was always humble and always made sure to visit them whenever he was in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just so proud of him, man. Because like, just from day one, I seen her struggle as a single mother, and she raised her kids,” said Lastra of Earl Stevens’ mother, who raised him and his siblings as a single parent. “\u003cb>\u003c/b>I give all props to that man. … You feel that gratitude that he has. It’s just humbling to hear that from someone that has achieved so much. … And the hard way, it wasn’t the easy way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936791\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936791 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"E-40 Way seen on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-34-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E-40 Way in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In recent years, E-40 collaborated with younger Bay Area artists like P-Lo and national rap stars, including Snoop Dogg, T.I. and Ice Cube. While continuing to make music, he’s shifted his energy toward his philanthropy and liquor and food businesses. He has a forthcoming cookbook with Snoop Dogg, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/untitled-snoop-cookbook-2\">Goon With the Spoon\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, out Nov. 14 via Chronicle Books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936790\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13936790 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Earl “E-40” Stevens speaks during the honorary ceremony on Oct. 21, 2023 in Vallejo, Calif.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/E-40-33-MV-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earl ‘E-40’ Stevens speaks during the honorary ceremony. \u003ccite>(Michaela Vatcheva for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“E-40 is a trailblazer and he’s opened up many doors for young people to walk through,” said Rosalyn Robinson. “He’s very humble, always been humble. He’s always been loyal. And I think it’s important for the kids to see, and it’s important for events like this to keep happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Attila Pelit contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he story of Black Benjie and the Ghetto Brothers is “a prequel to hip-hop,” explains Chuck D \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> best known as the frontman of Public Enemy, the rebels without a pause who brought fiery social commentary to hip-hop’s golden era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His latest project, as the narrator and executive producer of PB&J Productions’ podcast \u003ca href=\"https://www.audible.com/pd/Can-You-Dig-It-Podcast/B0CBCW31N8\">\u003cem>Can You Dig It?\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, fills in the details of an essential missing chapter in hip-hop culture’s evolution. Set in the South Bronx in the late ’60s and early ’70s, the audio docu-series traces the story of how a street gang became a cultural organization, reforming the community and paving the way for what followed in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black Benjie and the whole scene right in the Bronx before the birth of hip-hop, really sparking the birth of hip-hop, seemed as important as any other story about hip-hop 50 that we heard this year,” Chuck says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voiceover reminds listeners that “while art and music offer temporary distraction from everyday life, the kids in these communities struggled well beyond the norm. Hope, prospects and positive influences were fleeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent interview over Zoom he adds, “these weren’t bad kids, it was what it was.” The story’s takeaway isn’t that underprivileged inner-city youth in the South Bronx formed street gangs. It’s that the impetus to transform their lives and communities directly resulted in the creation of the most-influential popular culture movement of the past half-century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/06/03/black-benjie-ghetto-brothers-gangs-hoe-avenue-peace-treaty-south-bronx-longwood/\">Cornell “Black Benjie” Benjamin\u003c/a>’s life has long been an urban legend. It parallels the fictional tale of Cyrus, the enigmatic figure whose death is the catalyst for the events of the 1965 novel and 1979 Hollywood adaptation of \u003cem>The Warriors\u003c/em>. In the fictional accounts, Cyrus summons together New York’s 40,000 gang members for a summit, at which he urges them to stop fighting and killing each other — and take on The Man instead. After uttering the iconic, oft-sampled sound bite, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTUrWYv2vtU\">caaaaan you dig itttttt\u003c/a>,” however, Cyrus is shot and killed by Luther, leader of the Rogues, who then blames the killing on the Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In real life, Black Benjie was a gang leader and former addict who became a drug counselor and community activist. The Ghetto Brothers flew colors and maintained their territory, just like all the other Bronx gangs of that time — including the Savage Skulls, the Black Spades, the Seven Immortals and the Young Lords. But after being mentored by an art teacher, \u003ca href=\"https://ritafecher.com/news.html\">Rita Fecher\u003c/a>, and community organizer \u003ca href=\"https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/1wyt8fmrwrsdsyf3z745mjpjzl549p\">Evelina Antonetty\u003c/a>, the “Puerto Rican Rosa Parks” and founder of United Bronx Parents, the Ghetto Brothers became involved with the Youth Services Agency, a social services organization funded by then-mayor John Lindsay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/mguK4xMpd2Y?si=aL2OK0NiLj0u_sfZ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ghetto Brothers gained media visibility after renouncing violence and seeking to better their community. Their efforts centered around the concept of “community control,” a self-determinant creed not unlike that of Oakland’s Black Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A further complication was the Ford Foundation’s funding of community service organizations in the Bronx as part of an initiative to quell racial violence between minority populations. Ford’s agenda seemingly aligned with the YSA/Ghetto Brothers alliance, yet ran counter to New York’s entrenched political establishment, whose underdevelopment and outright neglect of the South Bronx created the hellish conditions that allowed the street gangs to proliferate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1775\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-768x533.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-1536x1065.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-2048x1420.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-1920x1331.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View, across a trash-strewn vacant lot, of a colorful mural on a wall, Bronx, New York, 1975.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1971, Black Benjie was murdered while attempting to de-escalate a confrontation between the Ghetto Brothers and a rival gang. Following his death, a local television station produced a short film examining the Ghetto Brothers’ attempts at community rejuvenation and the social and environmental conditions they sought to transcend; throughout the film, Sly Stone’s “Just Like A Baby” serves as an elegiac soundtrack to the visual narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Benjie’s death catalyzed the Ghetto Brothers to press forward with the proposed gang truce he had been brokering, as well as to further evolve down an alternate path, undertaking cultural activities that became crucial to hip-hop’s original foundation. Other former gang leaders, such as Afrika Bambaaataa, followed in the Ghetto Brothers’ wake. In 1975, Bambaataa formed a cultural organization (the Universal Zulu Nation), renouncing violence in favor of what would become known as hip-hop and a credo of “peace, love, unity and having fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bits and fragments of this story have been told before, most notably through the documentaries \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKbqGNtkIsM\">\u003cem>Flyin’ Cut Sleeves\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Rubble Kings\u003c/em>, which focused on pre-hip-hop street gang culture. Steven Hager’s reporting for \u003cem>The Village Voice\u003c/em> and his 1984 book \u003cem>Hip Hop\u003c/em> reference the fact hip-hop evolved from street gangs; Jeff Chang’s book \u003cem>Can’t Stop Won’t Stop\u003c/em> traced the social and political conditions that created the reality of the South Bronx in the late ’60s and early ’70s \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> including such urban renewal initiatives as the Cross Bronx Expressway, which isolated the neighborhood from the rest of New York (much like how the 980 freeway bifurcated West Oakland from downtown).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/CKbqGNtkIsM?si=QDML0ClaykmIMxcM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Can You Dig It? \u003c/em>represents the deepest dive to date into the Ghetto Brothers and Black Benjie story. The docu-series demythologizes the story, Chuck maintains \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> allowing the listener to parse fact from folklore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its value, he says, lies in the pertinent details and the questions they raise: “It’s the story of a disenfranchised borough, a city that left it for dead. This had all the other things that went along with it. Was it serviced properly? Why were the buildings burning two or three years later? What happened to the Bronx when people came back from Vietnam?… I mean, you get into a historical backdrop. That makes the creation of hip-hop make all that much more sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The setting of \u003cem>Can You Dig It?\u003c/em> appealed to Chuck because of his own lived experience. “I’m different from a lot of those rap cats out there. I come from that time,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up in Long Island, he was initially disconnected from what was happening in the South Bronx. But as he witnessed hip-hop’s evolution unfold “in real time,” he gained an understanding of why it was important. He remembers terminology changing from “Negro” to “colored” to “Black,” experiencing the rawness of James Brown and the revolutionary “mixing pot” of Sly Stone, as well as being “fed by the Black Panthers’ breakfast programs,” and “being privy to” Oakland and Chicago Panther chapters “getting wiped out” by the time he was 13 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Black American, he says, “It’s almost like we live our life de-mythizing things. You know what I’m saying? I don’t believe the hype on a lot of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1575083888.jpg\" alt=\"A street sign in the Bronx, New York reads 'Cornell 'Black Benjie' Benjamin Way.'\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1575083888.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1575083888-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1575083888-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1575083888-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1575083888-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stretch of street in New York’s Bronx after being renamed “Cornell ‘Black Benjie’ Benjamin Way.” \u003ccite>(Christina Horsten/picture alliance via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In digging deeper into the environmental landscape and cultural fabric of the South Bronx and focusing on the community reform efforts of the Ghetto Brothers, the docu-series goes beyond one such common myth, that of the so-called Holy Trinity of Bambaata, Kool Herc, and Grandmaster Flash — first presented by Hager, \u003cem>The Village Voice\u003c/em> reporter. By leaning into the Ghetto Brothers’ ambitious efforts to move away from violence toward a cultural, community-centric path, \u003cem>Can You Dig It?\u003c/em> does as good a job of explaining hip-hop’s \u003cem>raison d’être\u003c/em> as any contemporary source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matter of fact,” Chuck elaborates, “it plugs into why hip-hop 51 is important. So the past, present and future all lined up great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Told with an array of immersive storytelling techniques, \u003cem>Can You Dig It?\u003c/em> places archival sound bites, interviews and dialogued scenes based on real-life accounts alongside Chuck’s narrative voiceovers. The effect is a mix of historical exhibit, social documentary and theatrical drama that not only recreates the world in which Black Benjie and the Ghetto Brothers lived, but presents key context and encourages critical thinking beyond mere entertainment. [aside label='More Hip-Hop 50 Coverage' postid='arts_13934715,arts_13933590,arts_13931795']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up in the Bronx was very musical, very colorful,” photographer Joe Conzo says in the docu-series. In the pre-boombox era, local parks were awash with congueros hanging out and playing live music, as well as others with AM transistor radios. Conzo’s first photographic subjects included neighborhood figures Bambaataa and the Cold Crush Brothers, as well as Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri. These cultural inspirations are contrasted by continuous arson fires, high unemployment and the reassignment of city blocks into gang territory that limited residents’ ability to move from place to place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The influence of the Black Panthers — identified as a key inspiration of the Ghetto Brothers — on the Bronx shows up fairly early, at around the 19-minute mark of the first episode, when former Panther Joseph Mpa speaks. “I grew up in a time when the Bronx was burning and people were dying,” he says. After hearing about the Panthers and their police patrols on radio station WBAI, he adds, “I felt this sense of, things can change.” But in order to make that change a reality, “I have to do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History tends to be cyclical. The story of the development of blues parallels that of hip-hop, Chuck says, in that the creativity sprang up as a resilient reaction to adverse, even bleak, conditions. “When they tell you, oh yeah, people in the Delta made blues out of nothing, it really wasn’t nothing. But, you know, we get it,” he explains. “If you thought that nothing was there, you’re left with nothing. And we made something out of nothing. It was the same thing with the Bronx. … But the circumstances that led up to it really had to be examined. And that’s what \u003cem>Can You Dig It?\u003c/em> does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.audible.com/pd/Can-You-Dig-It-Podcast/B0CBCW31N8\">Can You Dig It?\u003c/a>’ is available on Audible and Amazon Music.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/06/03/black-benjie-ghetto-brothers-gangs-hoe-avenue-peace-treaty-south-bronx-longwood/\">Cornell “Black Benjie” Benjamin\u003c/a>’s life has long been an urban legend. It parallels the fictional tale of Cyrus, the enigmatic figure whose death is the catalyst for the events of the 1965 novel and 1979 Hollywood adaptation of \u003cem>The Warriors\u003c/em>. In the fictional accounts, Cyrus summons together New York’s 40,000 gang members for a summit, at which he urges them to stop fighting and killing each other — and take on The Man instead. After uttering the iconic, oft-sampled sound bite, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTUrWYv2vtU\">caaaaan you dig itttttt\u003c/a>,” however, Cyrus is shot and killed by Luther, leader of the Rogues, who then blames the killing on the Warriors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In real life, Black Benjie was a gang leader and former addict who became a drug counselor and community activist. The Ghetto Brothers flew colors and maintained their territory, just like all the other Bronx gangs of that time — including the Savage Skulls, the Black Spades, the Seven Immortals and the Young Lords. But after being mentored by an art teacher, \u003ca href=\"https://ritafecher.com/news.html\">Rita Fecher\u003c/a>, and community organizer \u003ca href=\"https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/1wyt8fmrwrsdsyf3z745mjpjzl549p\">Evelina Antonetty\u003c/a>, the “Puerto Rican Rosa Parks” and founder of United Bronx Parents, the Ghetto Brothers became involved with the Youth Services Agency, a social services organization funded by then-mayor John Lindsay.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/mguK4xMpd2Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/mguK4xMpd2Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The Ghetto Brothers gained media visibility after renouncing violence and seeking to better their community. Their efforts centered around the concept of “community control,” a self-determinant creed not unlike that of Oakland’s Black Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A further complication was the Ford Foundation’s funding of community service organizations in the Bronx as part of an initiative to quell racial violence between minority populations. Ford’s agenda seemingly aligned with the YSA/Ghetto Brothers alliance, yet ran counter to New York’s entrenched political establishment, whose underdevelopment and outright neglect of the South Bronx created the hellish conditions that allowed the street gangs to proliferate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1775\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-768x533.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-1536x1065.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-2048x1420.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-1217374638-1920x1331.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View, across a trash-strewn vacant lot, of a colorful mural on a wall, Bronx, New York, 1975.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n 1971, Black Benjie was murdered while attempting to de-escalate a confrontation between the Ghetto Brothers and a rival gang. Following his death, a local television station produced a short film examining the Ghetto Brothers’ attempts at community rejuvenation and the social and environmental conditions they sought to transcend; throughout the film, Sly Stone’s “Just Like A Baby” serves as an elegiac soundtrack to the visual narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Benjie’s death catalyzed the Ghetto Brothers to press forward with the proposed gang truce he had been brokering, as well as to further evolve down an alternate path, undertaking cultural activities that became crucial to hip-hop’s original foundation. Other former gang leaders, such as Afrika Bambaaataa, followed in the Ghetto Brothers’ wake. In 1975, Bambaataa formed a cultural organization (the Universal Zulu Nation), renouncing violence in favor of what would become known as hip-hop and a credo of “peace, love, unity and having fun.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bits and fragments of this story have been told before, most notably through the documentaries \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKbqGNtkIsM\">\u003cem>Flyin’ Cut Sleeves\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Rubble Kings\u003c/em>, which focused on pre-hip-hop street gang culture. Steven Hager’s reporting for \u003cem>The Village Voice\u003c/em> and his 1984 book \u003cem>Hip Hop\u003c/em> reference the fact hip-hop evolved from street gangs; Jeff Chang’s book \u003cem>Can’t Stop Won’t Stop\u003c/em> traced the social and political conditions that created the reality of the South Bronx in the late ’60s and early ’70s \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—\u003c/span> including such urban renewal initiatives as the Cross Bronx Expressway, which isolated the neighborhood from the rest of New York (much like how the 980 freeway bifurcated West Oakland from downtown).\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/CKbqGNtkIsM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/CKbqGNtkIsM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Can You Dig It? \u003c/em>represents the deepest dive to date into the Ghetto Brothers and Black Benjie story. 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"content": "\u003cp>Britney Spears’ highly anticipated memoir \u003cem>The Woman in Me\u003c/em> will be released Tuesday, revealing the pop superstar’s personal take on events that have played out publicly in her decades as one of the most scrutinized figures in American life, along with private moments that she previously kept under wraps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book details her childhood and rise to stardom, along with her marriages, her nearly-14-year court conservatorship and even a brief mention of a July incident where she was hit in the face by security for NBA player Victor Wembanyama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_111253']Much of \u003cem>The Woman in Me\u003c/em> focuses on the father and sons, the husbands and boyfriends, who have dominated her life, for better and for worse. Several chapters are devoted to her relationship with Justin Timberlake, including deeply personal details about a pregnancy, abortion and painful breakup. In others she chronicles her custody fight with ex-husband Kevin Federline, and how it fueled what was viewed as a public meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spears speaks much less of recent events, making no mention of her pending divorce from Sam Asghari, whom she describes as holding her hand while she addressed a judge during a key hearing that freed her from court control in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the opening dedication, she writes simply, “For my boys, who are the loves of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the details revealed in\u003cem> The Woman in Me\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Timberlake years\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1728px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936732\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-76235990.jpg\" alt=\"A young white man with short curly hair and a diamond stud in his ear sits with a young, tan blonde woman. 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He is wearing a white sweater, she is wearing a low cut black top and choker.\" width=\"1728\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-76235990.jpg 1728w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-76235990-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-76235990-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-76235990-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-76235990-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-76235990-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1728px) 100vw, 1728px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake at the MTV VMAs in 2000. \u003ccite>(Kevin Mazur/ WireImage)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a period at the turn of the millennium, Spears and Timberlake were America’s it couple. As Spears writes, they were in love — but purity was a facade. “There were a couple of times during our relationship when I knew Justin had cheated on me. Especially because I was so infatuated and so in love, I let it go, even though the tabloids seemed determined to rub my face in it,” she writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Spears was painted in the press as the unfaithful one, she says she only stepped out on the relationship once, to kiss choreographer Wade Robson, confirming a long-speculated rumor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also writes of her pregnancy and Timberlake’s dismay, first reported in excerpts published by \u003cem>People\u003c/em> earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sure people will hate me for this, but I agreed not to have the baby. Abortion was something I never could have imagined choosing for myself, but given the circumstances, that is what we did,” she writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They decided she would not go to a doctor or hospital: “It was important that no one find out about the pregnancy or the abortion, which meant doing everything at home,” she writes, adding that they didn’t tell her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She describes the physical pain of the medication abortion as “excruciating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kept crying and sobbing until it was all over,” she writes. “It took hours, and I don’t remember how it ended, but I do, twenty years later, remember the pain of it, and the fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Magical musical moments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The song that launched Spears’ solo career, “…Baby One More Time” was directly inspired by Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love.” Spears was listening to it the night before she was going in to record with famed Swedish producer Max Martin (who Spears describes simply as “magic.”) She wanted to mimic the English synthpop duo’s sound, so she stayed up late, giving her voice the fried, raspy tone that would become iconic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept for the music video, too, was her idea. Jive Records wanted her to “play a futuristic astronaut,” she writes. “I told the executives at the label that I thought people would want to see my friends and me sitting at school, bored, and then as soon as the bell rang, boom — we’d start dancing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Heartbreak\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Spears says Timberlake broke up with her via text message while making his 2002 solo debut album, \u003cem>Justified\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_33345']“He started being very standoffish with me. I think that was because he’d decided to use me as ammunition for his record, and so it made it awkward for him to be around me staring at him with all that affection and devotion,” she writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the period following the breakup, Spears became isolated, writing that she experienced ‘serious social anxiety.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found herself living in an apartment alone in New York for a few months, rarely leaving. (One of her few visitors? Madonna, who dreamt up their 2003 kiss at the MTV Video Music Awards as a reclamation of personal autonomy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after, Spears felt pressured by her father to do what would become an infamous interview with Diane Sawyer, in which the host pushed her to explain what she did to Justin Timberlake to cause him “so much pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had been exploited,” she writes, “set up in front of the whole world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for Timberlake did not respond to messages seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Motherhood and mental health struggles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848.jpg\" alt=\"A laughing young woman wearing a green sweater and an blue LA baseball cap embraces two young boys. The children are wearing LA Dodgers jerseys and baseball caps.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spears poses with sons Sean Preston Federline (L) and Jayden James Federline (R) at Dodger Stadium in 2013. \u003ccite>(Jon SooHoo/ LA Dodgers via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2004, Spears married dancer Kevin Federline and they had two sons together. 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I didn’t want anyone taking my baby,” she writes. “Before I knew what was happening, a SWAT team in black suits burst through the bathroom door as if I’d hurt someone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for Federline did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The shaved head\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Other moments in her slide toward the conservatorship were anything but private, and Spears gives her take with a degree of emotion previously kept in check by those surrounding her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she shaved her own head at a Los Angeles salon as an act of rebellion against the media, the paparazzi, and her family, who expected her to behave like a pretty and proper pop star even though she was “out of my mind with grief” over the custody battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shaving my head was a way of saying to the world: F—- you,” she writes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later at a gas station, she attacked the car of a photographer with an umbrella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She writes the man would not stop taunting her and asking her “terrible” questions, including how it felt not seeing her kids, as he smirked, at “one of the worst moments in my whole life.” She says he was clearly trying to provoke a reaction, and to her regret she gave him one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t even do any damage with an umbrella,” she says. “It was a desperate move by a desperate person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Her father takes control\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the court established the conservatorship in February of 2008, Spears said her father, with the power of law behind him, established absolute control over her life decisions and finances, at one point even telling her, “I’m Britney Spears now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13901695']Spears says he forced her to break up with the photographer she had been dating, and subjected anyone else she wanted to date to extensive background checks. She said he persistently told her she looked fat, and put the staff that surrounded her on strict instructions not to allow her any unapproved food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she said she felt that from the start, the arrangement existed so that he could pay himself handsomely, while her allowance left her hardly able to buy dinner for her dancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s always been all about the money,” she writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for Spears’ father declined comment. But James Spears has said in multiple court filings that he only ever acted in her best interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The Woman in Me’ is released on Oct. 24, via Gallery Books.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 692px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-20-at-1.24.55-AM.png\" alt=\"A book cover featuring a black and white photo of a young blonde woman standing in profile, topless, with her arms folded across her chest. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He started being very standoffish with me. I think that was because he’d decided to use me as ammunition for his record, and so it made it awkward for him to be around me staring at him with all that affection and devotion,” she writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the period following the breakup, Spears became isolated, writing that she experienced ‘serious social anxiety.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She found herself living in an apartment alone in New York for a few months, rarely leaving. (One of her few visitors? Madonna, who dreamt up their 2003 kiss at the MTV Video Music Awards as a reclamation of personal autonomy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after, Spears felt pressured by her father to do what would become an infamous interview with Diane Sawyer, in which the host pushed her to explain what she did to Justin Timberlake to cause him “so much pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like I had been exploited,” she writes, “set up in front of the whole world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for Timberlake did not respond to messages seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Motherhood and mental health struggles\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848.jpg\" alt=\"A laughing young woman wearing a green sweater and an blue LA baseball cap embraces two young boys. The children are wearing LA Dodgers jerseys and baseball caps.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/GettyImages-166911960-scaled-e1697791404848-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spears poses with sons Sean Preston Federline (L) and Jayden James Federline (R) at Dodger Stadium in 2013. \u003ccite>(Jon SooHoo/ LA Dodgers via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2004, Spears married dancer Kevin Federline and they had two sons together. After the children were born, she says she suffered from perinatal depression, displaying symptoms of sadness, anxiety and fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a new mom is challenge enough without trying to do everything under a microscope,” she writes. “With Kevin away so much, no one was around to see me spiral—except every paparazzo in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple divorced in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A custody standoff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Spears describes what she calls a “SWAT team” bursting into a bathroom where she was holding 16-month-old son Jayden, instead of returning him to Federline as required. The moment in January 2008 led to her being hospitalized on a 72-hour psychiatric hold and was a major factor in the establishment of a court conservatorship that took over her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He’s just not sure where the primate came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13925408']“I forgot where I got him?” Stone muses. “Baboon store?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His book, co-written with Ben Greenman, overflows with wit and wordplay befitting a maestro whose funkiest song with his band the Family Stone was “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” — also the title of the book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born Sylvester Stewart in Texas and raised in Vallejo, he studied music composition at a junior college while working as a radio DJ, becoming known for his whimsical patter and eclectic playlists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone clearly recalls his early and evolving vision of a no-barriers style of music that would meld Motown pop-soul, James Brown’s funk, R&B, gospel and psychedelic rock. Shortly after forming in 1966, Sly and the Family Stone produced a string of sunny hits including “Everyday People,” “I Want To Take You Higher,” “Hot Fun in the Summertime” and “Stand!” that captured the hippy spirit of the times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY_5CUmvpdw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone’s band included Black and white musicians while featuring women not just singing but playing instruments — a rarity at the time. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me-UKbXOFts\">A triumphant set at Woodstock\u003c/a> and a star turn in the subsequent film of the concert made him a household name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rhythm, melody and lyrics carried inspiration to the people,” he writes. That inspiration became a lasting influence for generations of artists including The Jackson 5, Prince and countless hip-hop acts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13936226']Stone’s music took a darker and more cynical turn as drugs took hold and the dream of the ’60s devolved into political assassinations, racial strife and lingering war in Vietnam. He takes readers through the agonizing recording process of his 1971 classic “There’s a Riot Goin’ On,” on which he says he “sacrificed technique for feeling.” The album has an anguished tone, exemplified by the volatile funk of the single “Luv N’ Haight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile at concerts, fans never knew whether they’d get one of his famously ecstatic performances, or if Stone would bother showing up at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He espoused Black Power, but not loudly enough for Black Panthers, who accused Stone of acquiescing to white America. Meanwhile, some white people thought he was too militant. While unafraid to be political, he remained defiantly nonviolent and never shook the notion that, yes, people can all get along. “We exist to coexist,” he writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That uplifting spirit returns, if only sporadically, for 1973’s \u003cem>Fresh\u003c/em>, his last great album. The band splintered soon after and Stone entered a decades-long cycle of addiction, middling solo offerings, doomed tours and tax troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Predictably, the memoir contains no shortage of occasionally humorous — but mostly bleak — backstage tales of debauchery and drug abuse. While on tour in his glory days Stone carried a violin case filled with cocaine. Later he said he went on PCP binges because “it threw your perspective off, which I liked.” Eventually he was overtaken by a dependence on crack cocaine that drained his talents, ruined relationships and led to regular stints in jail and rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13924126']“Arrest records were the new records, and I was hitting the charts,” he writes. “Court dates were my new concerts, and I was still just as good at arriving on time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hip-hop empresario Questlove, whose publishing imprint produced the book, writes in the introduction that “Sly has lived a hundred lives, and they are all here.” Fans will certainly appreciate the vivid accounts from recording studios, concert stages and star-studded parties. But readers looking for personal insights will come away disappointed. Stone is self-aware but not particularly self-reflective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even during his gloomiest days, Stone said he relied on his compositions to keep the darkness out, always remaining true to “the larger idea of music as a spiritual force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)’ by Sly Stone with Ben Greenman is out Oct. 17, 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Juvenile.full_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Juvenile.full_.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Juvenile.full_-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Juvenile.full_-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Juvenile.full_-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Juvenile.full_-768x519.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Juvenile.full_-1536x1038.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rapper Juvenile performs during the Collegrove Tour at the Oakland Arena on Nov. 10, 2016 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s been nearly 25 years since New Orleans rapper Juvenile released his megahit “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYqmQPklI_0\">Back That Azz Up\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means for a quarter-century now, people have been running to the dance floor at the sound of the strings that start one of the greatest hip-hop songs of all time. Produced by Mannie Fresh, the seductive beat and celebratory lyrics have provided a soundtrack for generations of folks looking to shake what their momma gave ’em. The song followed the smash single “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww9VlmXKYgs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ha\u003c/a>,” both off of Juvenile’s multiplatinum album \u003cem>400 Degrees\u003c/em>, which signified the rise of the Cash Money Records empire as they took over for the ’99 and the 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nieYw00ee-Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To celebrate the 25th anniversary of this landmark album, Juvenile, Mannie Fresh and an accompanying live band are scheduled to perform at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxtheateroakland.net/events/juvenile-20-october-2023/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Theater in Oakland\u003c/a> this Friday, Oct. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juvenile, whose summer 2023 performance at \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kes2P4IC2bQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR’s Tiny Desk\u003c/a> has racked up nearly six million views, has performed a few shows in the Bay Area before. Those include a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11956265/heiro-day-2016-lineup-too-short-juvenile-invisibl-skratch-piklz-just-blaze-many-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 Hiero Day set that filled the block\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN6C9COoTZc\">KMEL’s Legends of Summer Jam concert\u003c/a> in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a show that \u003cem>didn’t\u003c/em> fully happen — at the Oakland Arena in January of 2000, while Juvenile was part of the Cash Money group the Hot Boys — remains legendary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13923938']Before the Hot Boys set, multiple physical altercations erupted in the audience after a group of young men rushed toward the stage. Folding chairs were thrown, one person was pushed from the balcony and gunshots were reported inside and outside the venue. The concert was canceled on the spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the conflicts had nothing to do with Juvenile, the Hot Boys or Cash Money, that event left an indelible mark on their Bay Area fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was my first concert,” says the Da Boy Dame, Def Jam artist and A&R of Yo Gotti’s Collective Music Group (CMG). About 12 years old at the time, Dame and his cousins had received tickets to the concert as a Christmas gift. Excited, the whole crew coordinated their clothes in preparation for the show. “We all had our jean outfits, and we thought we was Cash Money that day,” he tells me on a recent phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13936543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13936543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/img_8318_720.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/img_8318_720.png 480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/img_8318_720-160x240.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Da Boy Dame, Def Jam artist and A&R of Yo Gotti’s Collective Music Group. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Da Boy Dame)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dame recalls seeing the opening acts, the Ruff Ryders and Ginuwine. “The next thing you know, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/15/concert.fight/index.html\">Oakland made national CNN headlines\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple outlets, including MTV and \u003cem>The Washington Post,\u003c/em> covered the unfortunate event, which resulted in approximately 25 injuries — and left a young Dame disappointed that he didn’t to see his favorite artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades later, Dame has helped orchestrate Juvenile’s return to Oakland at the Fox Theater on Friday, and is slated to be an opening performer. “That’s really why I always try to do things with Juvie and Mannie, because I feel like we never really got the chance to see it while everything was on fire,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11954252']In addition to an intimate set by Juvenile and Mannie Fresh, Dame says the show will feature a few special guest appearances from veteran Bay Area artists. For concertgoers looking to tap back into a landmark era for hip-hop, the show is guaranteed to to be a time machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty-five years ago — that was probably the best time in a lot of people’s lives,” says Dame. “I think this is going to be a time when people can relax and enjoy themselves and embrace the nostalgia of the music, the parties, and everything that came along with the ’99 and 2000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Juvenile and Mannie Fresh perform with a live band on Friday, Oct. 20, at the Fox Theater in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://thefoxoakland.com/events/juvenile-231020\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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