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You might be my manager, and you might be the biggest s***, and book me in the biggest places in the world,’” he says. ““But when I get out on that f***** stage with that horn and get in trouble, you can’t save me.’” When Collins retorts by invoking the N-word, Armstrong fights the urge to break a wine bottle over his head, in order to kill him. “But the first thing I thought,” he says, “[was] all them Black c********** in Harlem who’d say: \u003cem>I knew he would blow his top someday\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s so much straining beneath the surface of this moment: the stark indignity and mortal risk faced by even the elite African American entertainers of the day; the fraught prospect of a white protector, with all the attendant imbalances of power; the notion of a mask, and what it means to vent freely without one; the sporting interest of a community, or at least a constituency, taking their bets as the pressure builds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5jbSeBHVTQ&t=80s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues \u003c/em>is brilliantly steeped in these considerations — tracing them from the artist’s rough childhood in New Orleans to his pop culture transcendence, to his life as a neighborhood fixture in Corona, Queens. His modest brick home three is now the\u003ca href=\"https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/\"> Louis Armstrong House Museum\u003c/a>, which maintains a trove of scrapbooks, home recordings and other archival treasures that made this film possible. (Ricky Riccardi, Director of Research Collections at the museum, is credited as a consulting producer.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacha Jenkins, the film’s director, hails from Queens himself. So does the narrator he enlists to portray Armstrong in voiceover, the rapper Nas. Hip-hop is the cultural frame through which Jenkins approached this project — he’s the CCO of\u003ca href=\"https://massappeal.com/\"> Mass Appeal\u003c/a> and has made previous documentaries about \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/16318054/rick-james\">Rick James\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/15769897/wu-tang-clan\">Wu-Tang Clan\u003c/a> — and that influence can be felt in the film’s stylish visual flow as well as the frankness of its racial disquisition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues \u003c/em>isn’t the film to unpack what made Armstrong such an incandescent jazz pioneer, though it allows a few noted experts, like Wynton Marsalis, to rhapsodize about his music. What the documentary does instead, with focus and flair, is explore Armstrong’s multifaceted experience as a Black American musician who came of age right along with the 20th century, enduring the worst and somehow embodying the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13916363']The academic field of jazz studies has long apprehended Armstrong as a richly layered subject, possessed of more agency and ambiguity than his popular reputation would suggest. More than any other film that addresses his legacy, this one manages a similar depth of field. “Pops, he faced a lot of challenges, and he always faced them with style and maintained his sanity and his joy and his embrace of life,” attests Marsalis in the film. “And it was not a simpleminded happiness. It was a transcendent joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much of the archival material assembled by Jenkins and his team — notably the vibrant footage of Armstrong with his wife Lucille, in the harbor of their home or as far afield as Ghana (on a 1956 tour) — aligns with this characterization. But there’s also a strong subtext of critique that the film addresses in earnest, by revisiting a common complaint that Satchmo’s style reeked of “Uncle Tom” subservience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a perspective birthed out of the civil rights movement and an ensuing era of Black pride, though the film demonstrates how engaged Armstrong was in the cause — often from a pragmatic position behind the scenes but sometimes in an utterly exposed position along its front lines. We get to witness the dissonance of a time when Armstrong is being sent across the world by the U.S. State Department, even as white supremacy is rearing its head back home. Time and again, we see his guarded composure in the company of white interviewers, set against the exasperation of candid moments among friends or in the solitude of his study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hardly any of the film’s insightful commentators — old Armstrong associates like guitarist and banjoist Danny Barker, trusted advocates like journalist Dan Morgenstern and photographer Jack Bradley, Black cultural critics as ideologically distinct as Amiri Baraka and Stanley Crouch — ever appear on screen. That decision sharpens the focus on the archival photographs and scrapbook collages that Jenkins chooses to feature. It also heightens the power of the footage he does include, whether from concert films, home movies or clips from \u003cem>The Mike Douglas Show, The Danny Kaye Show\u003c/em> and the 1980s PBS series \u003cem>With Ossie and Ruby.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILFTWqYSMxg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that last scrap of footage, actor Ossie Davis recalls his own youthful ridicule of Armstrong’s onstage image — “sweat poppin’, eyes buggin’, mouth wide open, grinnin’ oh my Lord from ear to ear” — and then describes the moment he came around. He’d been cast alongside Armstrong in the 1966 Sammy Davis Jr. vehicle \u003cem>A Man Called Adam, \u003c/em>and spotted Pops in an unguarded moment on set, with a lonesome and faraway look on his face. “I never laughed at Louis after that,” Ossie Davis says gravely. “For beneath that gravel voice and that shuffle — under all that mouth, with more teeth than a piano had keys — was a horn that could kill a man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The admission lands with force, because of the way that Jenkins has set the stakes in the film. Armstrong was a titan who never forgot his humble upbringings, and also a public figure who carefully assessed his own weight in the world. He kept a history of slights and injustices in his back pocket, like anybody else. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note\u003c/strong>: Be sure to see ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">That’s My Word\u003c/a>,’ KQED’s series on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">Bay Area hip-hop\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A heated text message exchange about hip-hop artists from our region had my phone’s battery at less than 10%. You know it was bad because I was sitting on the couch with the phone charger right next to me. No time to plug in that stupid cord. I had points to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">The friend on the other end of the line was saying something I’ve heard for years: “I don’t listen to rappers from out here, they all sound alike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve heard this way too often. Let’s set the record straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, people do sound alike. As humans, our vocal cords only range so far. And despite our region’s unique lingo, our slang is still a derivative of the Queen’s English — the \u003ca href=\"https://statisticsanddata.org/data/the-most-spoken-languages-2022/\">most popular language in the world\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add to that, for something to be “hip-hop” it has to fall within the broad but limited confines of a certain sound. And a major part of hip-hop is repping your region. So it would make sense for an artist to make music that’s easily identifiable as something from the West Coast, specifically Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when we’re talking about one region, in one specific genre of audible artistic expression, you’re not going to get some expansive, thousand-miles-long variety of vibes. \u003cem>Sawry bruddah\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But come on man, this region is (and has been) home to some of the most diverse artists you’ll find. And right now, at this very moment, music makers from this rich soil are putting their foot down deep in this proverbial thing called “the rap game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you mean to tell me you don’t listen to any of them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rexx Life Raj - Save Yourself (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/_HkZCOsXBTY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re not tapped into the spiritually healing bars of Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.rexxliferaj.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a>? Vallejo’s \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/Gcompenny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LaRussell\u003c/a> isn’t inspiring you to become a Zen-like Croc-wearing entrepreneur who spits ether? You’re not pushing the speed limit in a mid-sized hybrid sedan while slappin’ the high energy music of East Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/officialsulan/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Su’Lan\u003c/a>? \u003cem>What are you smoking?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the time it takes you to order and eat four tacos from your favorite truck, you could listen to tracks from Stockton’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/haiti_babii/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Haiti Babii\u003c/a>, Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/konyginobili/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ShooterGang Kony\u003c/a> and Oakland duo \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/1100himself/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1100 Himself\u003c/a> & \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/producedbymitchell/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitchell\u003c/a>, and get very different, lyrically sound approaches to modern gangsterism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for the revolution? Just last week Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/PBO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People’s Programs\u003c/a> dropped \u003cem>Tales of The Town\u003c/em>, a companion project to \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/hellablackpod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their latest podcast series\u003c/a>. The album features a litany of big-name artists from the region: There’s the cool-kid flow of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p_lo/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">P-Lo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/g_eazy/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">G-Eazy\u003c/a>. The rugged bars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/whoisallblack/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ALLBLACK \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jstalinlivewire/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J. Stalin\u003c/a>. The wisdom of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kvnalln/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Allen\u003c/a>. The smooth flow of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/iamfijiana/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pallaví aka Fijiana\u003c/a>. The wordplay of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/firstnameian/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Kelly\u003c/a>. The laid-back gangsta of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/22ndjim/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22nd Jim\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shyan_g/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shy’an G\u003c/a> absolutely obliterates a track with her storytelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSO-zDfYcm4&feature=emb_title\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That album features the song “Risen” by the immensely talented \u003ca href=\"https://elujay.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elujay\u003c/a> and the newly appointed First Lady of Death Row, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/msjanehandcock/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jane Handcock.\u003c/a> On another project that dropped last week, Snoop Dogg’s Gangsta Grillz album \u003cem>I Still Got It\u003c/em>, Jane is featured on multiple tracks flaunting dope rhymes and high-quality vocals. I said she’s killin’ it in R&B and hip-hop, and she’s on Death Row. \u003cem>Don’t check me, check your ears.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop being lazy and writing off an entire group of artists just because of where they’re from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, there are artists who undeniably sound like “Cali rappers” — which, to be clear, \u003cem>isn’t a bad thing\u003c/em>. Maybe it’s the clear pronunciation of Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/iamsu/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IAMSU!\u003c/a>, the carefree gangsta flow of Vallejo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nefthepharaoh/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nef The Pharaoh\u003c/a>, or the cold mackin’ lines coming from Antioch’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mike_sherm/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Sherm\u003c/a>. But differences remain even among those with regional proximity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for instance, rising star \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/youngjr/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young JR\u003c/a>, who clearly sounds like he’s from here. And at the same time, he just sounds \u003ci>different\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I got a young JR sound,” Young JR tells me over the phone earlier this year. The East Oakland artist’s delivery has a sharp pitch and bit of a mumble, with a blatant tongue that’ll say some wild stuff over heavy beats that blap in your trunk. He looks the part too, from his fly attire and short locs to his turf dancing-inspired gigs. “I let it be known: for sure I’m a Town nigga, you feel me?” he says, about his aesthetics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZDFGeqA9I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young JR says he’s gotten comparisons to other Bay Area rappers, as well as southern artists, which makes sense. The amount of Black folks in the Bay with direct ties to the Bible Belt is astounding. Even a generation or three removed from the Great Migration, accents linger. (Have you ever heard someone with a heavy Richmond accent say “car”?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, because Northern California is home to so many people from places all around the globe, we inherently have an eclectic array of artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June of this year Young JR dropped his project \u003cem>Born Again\u003c/em>, which features San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stunnaman02/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stunnaman02\u003c/a>, Antioch’s \u003ca href=\"https://symba.komi.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Symba\u003c/a>, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/uc_kayla/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Kayla\u003c/a> and Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/omb_peezy/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OMB Peezy\u003c/a>, to name a few. “It was intentional to get different sounds,” Young JR tells me, noting the diversity in the region and then pointing out what’s going on in the Central Valley. “We’ve got a few Sacramento artists that sound \u003cem>different\u003c/em>,” he says, bringing to my mind artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cellyru/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celly Ru\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mozzy/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mozzy,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/db.boutabag/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DB Boutabag\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/natecurry_/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nate Curry.\u003c/a> “They got their own sound; they kept their own sound and perfected their own sound,” says Young JR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gritty Lex - Juice (Official Visual)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/uM2ietSPtX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/grittylex/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gritty Lex\u003c/a> has heard the Cali-rappers-sound-the-same claim, although she says it’s more about the men. “I don’t think there are a whole bunch of female rappers who get put into that category,” she tells me during a phone call a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She floats in between genres, but identifies as an alternative hip-hop artist. Someone once described her sound as “if Jhené Aiko and XXXTentacion had a baby,” she says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lex, who performed at Rolling Loud last year and just this month dropped a new project with Myles titled \u003cem>High Tolerance\u003c/em>, says the confining definition of the “West Coast sound” is something rappers deal with across the board. “A lot of rappers are already boxed in, no matter what they do. It’s not how I see it, but people’s attention spans are really short nowadays. Once a listener gets \u003cem>that\u003c/em>, they classify you as \u003cem>that\u003c/em>; it’s hard to break that barrier down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a point that I’ve contemplated for some time, and a bit of a chicken or egg question. Was “that barrier” put there because the people said early on that West Coast hip-hop is the standard, and anything from out here has to fit into that mold? Or did the industry say this is how the West Coast sounds, so only artists who fit that mold rise to the top?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called someone who knows about vocals, the industry and the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"P-Lo - Luh U ft. Bosko (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/bM50ahgsRMc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CRXN6porW_G/?hl=en\">Bosko Kante\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based, Grammy-winning musician and creator of the handheld autotune instrument called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.electrospit.com/products/bosko-electrospit-talkbox-feature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ElectroSpit Talkbox\u003c/a>, is originally from Portland, Oregon. Before moving to the Bay, he spent years in Los Angeles working with Bay Area artists like E-40, the Luniz and Dru Down. He also spent some time in Atlanta, where he worked Big Boi of Outkast. In 2020, Bosko contributed to Dua Lipa’s “Levitate,” arguably the biggest song of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when he first moved to Los Angeles, Bosko says the popular artists of the time were Snoop and Warren G. “So I put out records, myself as a rapper, that sounded like those, because in my mind that’s what you had to do and that’s how you should sound to be successful,” Bosko tells me during a phone call. “To be within the West Coast rap genre, you have to be within a certain circle, but you want to be more toward the edge of that circle to stand out,” says Bosko, noting the odd balance of fitting in and simultaneously standing out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://hiiiwav.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Music Incubator\u003c/a> nonprofit, housed at the former site of Zoo Labs, Bosko helps artists develop their sound. So, clearly, I had to ask him if we all sound alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not agree that all Northern Californian artists sound the same,” says Bosko. “What I will say is that I think the Bay Area culture is one where we want to be different. So, in some ways, maybe we sound the same in that we sound different than the rest of the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that most artists from this region are proud of being from here, and that’s shown through their unique slang and style. “I’ll give it up to the Bay for being the most unique region in the country, in my opinion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Larry June & Cardo - Gas Station Run (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hyod7v38Ho0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever your flavor, you’ll find it between the Sierra Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could be on some healthy player stuff and listen to San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/larryjunetfm/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry June\u003c/a>. Or you could be on some ten-toes down “real P” stuff and listen to Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/capolow304/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capolow\u003c/a>. Both of these artists use the ad-lib “Aye,” but do it in a different way. And you mean to tell me neither of them float your boat?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stunnagirl/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stunna Girl\u003c/a> just dropped the braggadocio track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8r-s0OyDHc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shut Me Up\u003c/a>.” Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fredobagz4500/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fredo Bagz\u003c/a> has the aggressive flow on this week’s release “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT-NUfQns6U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">123\u003c/a>“. There’s the the spacey creative concepts found in \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/senorgigio/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Señor Gigio’s\u003c/a> music. The boom-bap music of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ovrkast/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ovrkast\u003c/a>. San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thereal_lilkayla/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Kayla\u003c/a> has been running it up all year — her confident but relaxed bars on “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjDu0rZSKM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11:11\u003c/a>” illustrate her approach to the game. Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/paris.nights/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paris Nights\u003c/a> is spittin’ with aggression on a track she dropped earlier this month, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CSIc2Cvwh4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coldest\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stunna Girl - Shut me up (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/R8r-s0OyDHc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/allhailtheqing/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qing Qi\u003c/a>, the Bay Area actor and active member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/putangclanofficial/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pu Tang Clan\u003c/a>, just released the first episode of her web series \u003cem>All Hail The Qing\u003c/em>. But if you need some raunchy bars, I’d suggest checking last year’s song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsMhenbNtjE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big D\u003c/a>.” Frisco factor \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dregs_one/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dregs-One\u003c/a> is a graffiti writer, hip-hop historian and lyricist who has a beer named after one of his recent projects, \u003cem>Fog Mode\u003c/em>. San Lorenzo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rubyibarra/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ruby Ibarra\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.today.com/tmrw/vaccine-scientist-day-rapper-night-how-ruby-ibarra-defying-stereotypes-t218167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a scientist\u003c/a> outside of her rap career, raps in English and Tagalog in the song “Us,” and it \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgDki5-FQgY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was featured on NBA 2K23\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the Spanglish wordplay about street life coming from Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/babygas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baby Gas\u003c/a>. That gritty straightforward flow San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/blimesbrixton/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blimes Brixton\u003c/a>. The cutthroat bars of Stockton’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMO5gBczc7Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EBK Bckdoe\u003c/a>. The flashy and uptempo music of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/drebaexo/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drebae\u003c/a>. The openly honest and catchy tunes coming from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/marikasage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marika Sage\u003c/a>. And there’s the multi-layered sounds of R&B, ranchera and rap coming from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ladona415/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Doña\u003c/a>, a daughter of the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La Doña - Le Lo Lai (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/f13atQz5QtI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/professagabel/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professa Gabel\u003c/a> has a chill flow. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fraktheperson/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frak The Person\u003c/a> is a punchline and battle rapper. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/richiecunning/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richie Cunning\u003c/a> just dropped an album, \u003cem>Big Deal\u003c/em>, that merges rap with that smoky, jazz-club Sinatra sound. All three are white dudes from San Francisco, and even \u003cem>they\u003c/em> sound different from one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the hardened tales of returning from being incarcerated and getting back into the streets coming from artists like Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/killa_fonte/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Killa Fonte\u003c/a> and Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_blastacannon_/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bla$ta\u003c/a>. And there’s the glossy pop-style sound of Frisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/24kgoldn/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">24KGoldn\u003c/a>, who just might be the next Bieber — but with more bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"24kGoldn - Mood (Official Video) ft. iann dior\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/GrAchTdepsU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literally everything you could ask for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To overlook the diversity of sounds coming from the people who call this place home is to completely dismiss what makes this place unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you’re telling me everyone from this region sounds the same? You, my friend, sound like everyone making that same old played-out-ass claim.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note\u003c/strong>: Be sure to see ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">That’s My Word\u003c/a>,’ KQED’s series on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">Bay Area hip-hop\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A heated text message exchange about hip-hop artists from our region had my phone’s battery at less than 10%. You know it was bad because I was sitting on the couch with the phone charger right next to me. No time to plug in that stupid cord. I had points to make.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">The friend on the other end of the line was saying something I’ve heard for years: “I don’t listen to rappers from out here, they all sound alike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve heard this way too often. Let’s set the record straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, people do sound alike. As humans, our vocal cords only range so far. And despite our region’s unique lingo, our slang is still a derivative of the Queen’s English — the \u003ca href=\"https://statisticsanddata.org/data/the-most-spoken-languages-2022/\">most popular language in the world\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add to that, for something to be “hip-hop” it has to fall within the broad but limited confines of a certain sound. And a major part of hip-hop is repping your region. So it would make sense for an artist to make music that’s easily identifiable as something from the West Coast, specifically Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when we’re talking about one region, in one specific genre of audible artistic expression, you’re not going to get some expansive, thousand-miles-long variety of vibes. \u003cem>Sawry bruddah\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But come on man, this region is (and has been) home to some of the most diverse artists you’ll find. And right now, at this very moment, music makers from this rich soil are putting their foot down deep in this proverbial thing called “the rap game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you mean to tell me you don’t listen to any of them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rexx Life Raj - Save Yourself (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/_HkZCOsXBTY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re not tapped into the spiritually healing bars of Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.rexxliferaj.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a>? Vallejo’s \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/Gcompenny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LaRussell\u003c/a> isn’t inspiring you to become a Zen-like Croc-wearing entrepreneur who spits ether? You’re not pushing the speed limit in a mid-sized hybrid sedan while slappin’ the high energy music of East Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/officialsulan/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Su’Lan\u003c/a>? \u003cem>What are you smoking?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the time it takes you to order and eat four tacos from your favorite truck, you could listen to tracks from Stockton’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/haiti_babii/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Haiti Babii\u003c/a>, Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/konyginobili/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ShooterGang Kony\u003c/a> and Oakland duo \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/1100himself/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1100 Himself\u003c/a> & \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/producedbymitchell/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitchell\u003c/a>, and get very different, lyrically sound approaches to modern gangsterism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking for the revolution? Just last week Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/PBO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People’s Programs\u003c/a> dropped \u003cem>Tales of The Town\u003c/em>, a companion project to \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/hellablackpod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their latest podcast series\u003c/a>. The album features a litany of big-name artists from the region: There’s the cool-kid flow of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p_lo/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">P-Lo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/g_eazy/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">G-Eazy\u003c/a>. The rugged bars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/whoisallblack/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ALLBLACK \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jstalinlivewire/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J. Stalin\u003c/a>. The wisdom of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kvnalln/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Allen\u003c/a>. The smooth flow of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/iamfijiana/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pallaví aka Fijiana\u003c/a>. The wordplay of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/firstnameian/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Kelly\u003c/a>. The laid-back gangsta of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/22ndjim/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22nd Jim\u003c/a>. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/shyan_g/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shy’an G\u003c/a> absolutely obliterates a track with her storytelling.\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/zSO-zDfYcm4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/zSO-zDfYcm4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>That album features the song “Risen” by the immensely talented \u003ca href=\"https://elujay.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elujay\u003c/a> and the newly appointed First Lady of Death Row, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/msjanehandcock/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jane Handcock.\u003c/a> On another project that dropped last week, Snoop Dogg’s Gangsta Grillz album \u003cem>I Still Got It\u003c/em>, Jane is featured on multiple tracks flaunting dope rhymes and high-quality vocals. I said she’s killin’ it in R&B and hip-hop, and she’s on Death Row. \u003cem>Don’t check me, check your ears.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop being lazy and writing off an entire group of artists just because of where they’re from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, there are artists who undeniably sound like “Cali rappers” — which, to be clear, \u003cem>isn’t a bad thing\u003c/em>. Maybe it’s the clear pronunciation of Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/iamsu/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IAMSU!\u003c/a>, the carefree gangsta flow of Vallejo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nefthepharaoh/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nef The Pharaoh\u003c/a>, or the cold mackin’ lines coming from Antioch’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mike_sherm/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Sherm\u003c/a>. But differences remain even among those with regional proximity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for instance, rising star \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/youngjr/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young JR\u003c/a>, who clearly sounds like he’s from here. And at the same time, he just sounds \u003ci>different\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I got a young JR sound,” Young JR tells me over the phone earlier this year. The East Oakland artist’s delivery has a sharp pitch and bit of a mumble, with a blatant tongue that’ll say some wild stuff over heavy beats that blap in your trunk. He looks the part too, from his fly attire and short locs to his turf dancing-inspired gigs. “I let it be known: for sure I’m a Town nigga, you feel me?” he says, about his aesthetics.\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/7WZDFGeqA9I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7WZDFGeqA9I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Young JR says he’s gotten comparisons to other Bay Area rappers, as well as southern artists, which makes sense. The amount of Black folks in the Bay with direct ties to the Bible Belt is astounding. Even a generation or three removed from the Great Migration, accents linger. (Have you ever heard someone with a heavy Richmond accent say “car”?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, because Northern California is home to so many people from places all around the globe, we inherently have an eclectic array of artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June of this year Young JR dropped his project \u003cem>Born Again\u003c/em>, which features San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stunnaman02/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stunnaman02\u003c/a>, Antioch’s \u003ca href=\"https://symba.komi.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Symba\u003c/a>, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/uc_kayla/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UC Kayla\u003c/a> and Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/omb_peezy/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OMB Peezy\u003c/a>, to name a few. “It was intentional to get different sounds,” Young JR tells me, noting the diversity in the region and then pointing out what’s going on in the Central Valley. “We’ve got a few Sacramento artists that sound \u003cem>different\u003c/em>,” he says, bringing to my mind artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cellyru/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celly Ru\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mozzy/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mozzy,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/db.boutabag/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DB Boutabag\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/natecurry_/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nate Curry.\u003c/a> “They got their own sound; they kept their own sound and perfected their own sound,” says Young JR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gritty Lex - Juice (Official Visual)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/uM2ietSPtX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/grittylex/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gritty Lex\u003c/a> has heard the Cali-rappers-sound-the-same claim, although she says it’s more about the men. “I don’t think there are a whole bunch of female rappers who get put into that category,” she tells me during a phone call a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She floats in between genres, but identifies as an alternative hip-hop artist. Someone once described her sound as “if Jhené Aiko and XXXTentacion had a baby,” she says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lex, who performed at Rolling Loud last year and just this month dropped a new project with Myles titled \u003cem>High Tolerance\u003c/em>, says the confining definition of the “West Coast sound” is something rappers deal with across the board. “A lot of rappers are already boxed in, no matter what they do. It’s not how I see it, but people’s attention spans are really short nowadays. Once a listener gets \u003cem>that\u003c/em>, they classify you as \u003cem>that\u003c/em>; it’s hard to break that barrier down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a point that I’ve contemplated for some time, and a bit of a chicken or egg question. Was “that barrier” put there because the people said early on that West Coast hip-hop is the standard, and anything from out here has to fit into that mold? Or did the industry say this is how the West Coast sounds, so only artists who fit that mold rise to the top?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called someone who knows about vocals, the industry and the coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"P-Lo - Luh U ft. Bosko (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/bM50ahgsRMc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CRXN6porW_G/?hl=en\">Bosko Kante\u003c/a>, an Oakland-based, Grammy-winning musician and creator of the handheld autotune instrument called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.electrospit.com/products/bosko-electrospit-talkbox-feature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ElectroSpit Talkbox\u003c/a>, is originally from Portland, Oregon. Before moving to the Bay, he spent years in Los Angeles working with Bay Area artists like E-40, the Luniz and Dru Down. He also spent some time in Atlanta, where he worked Big Boi of Outkast. In 2020, Bosko contributed to Dua Lipa’s “Levitate,” arguably the biggest song of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back when he first moved to Los Angeles, Bosko says the popular artists of the time were Snoop and Warren G. “So I put out records, myself as a rapper, that sounded like those, because in my mind that’s what you had to do and that’s how you should sound to be successful,” Bosko tells me during a phone call. “To be within the West Coast rap genre, you have to be within a certain circle, but you want to be more toward the edge of that circle to stand out,” says Bosko, noting the odd balance of fitting in and simultaneously standing out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://hiiiwav.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Music Incubator\u003c/a> nonprofit, housed at the former site of Zoo Labs, Bosko helps artists develop their sound. So, clearly, I had to ask him if we all sound alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not agree that all Northern Californian artists sound the same,” says Bosko. “What I will say is that I think the Bay Area culture is one where we want to be different. So, in some ways, maybe we sound the same in that we sound different than the rest of the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He adds that most artists from this region are proud of being from here, and that’s shown through their unique slang and style. “I’ll give it up to the Bay for being the most unique region in the country, in my opinion,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Larry June & Cardo - Gas Station Run (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hyod7v38Ho0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever your flavor, you’ll find it between the Sierra Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You could be on some healthy player stuff and listen to San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/larryjunetfm/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry June\u003c/a>. Or you could be on some ten-toes down “real P” stuff and listen to Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/capolow304/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capolow\u003c/a>. Both of these artists use the ad-lib “Aye,” but do it in a different way. And you mean to tell me neither of them float your boat?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stunnagirl/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stunna Girl\u003c/a> just dropped the braggadocio track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8r-s0OyDHc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shut Me Up\u003c/a>.” Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fredobagz4500/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fredo Bagz\u003c/a> has the aggressive flow on this week’s release “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT-NUfQns6U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">123\u003c/a>“. There’s the the spacey creative concepts found in \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/senorgigio/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Señor Gigio’s\u003c/a> music. The boom-bap music of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ovrkast/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ovrkast\u003c/a>. San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thereal_lilkayla/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Kayla\u003c/a> has been running it up all year — her confident but relaxed bars on “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjDu0rZSKM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11:11\u003c/a>” illustrate her approach to the game. Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/paris.nights/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paris Nights\u003c/a> is spittin’ with aggression on a track she dropped earlier this month, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CSIc2Cvwh4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coldest\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stunna Girl - Shut me up (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/R8r-s0OyDHc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/allhailtheqing/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Qing Qi\u003c/a>, the Bay Area actor and active member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/putangclanofficial/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pu Tang Clan\u003c/a>, just released the first episode of her web series \u003cem>All Hail The Qing\u003c/em>. But if you need some raunchy bars, I’d suggest checking last year’s song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsMhenbNtjE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big D\u003c/a>.” Frisco factor \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dregs_one/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dregs-One\u003c/a> is a graffiti writer, hip-hop historian and lyricist who has a beer named after one of his recent projects, \u003cem>Fog Mode\u003c/em>. San Lorenzo’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rubyibarra/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ruby Ibarra\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.today.com/tmrw/vaccine-scientist-day-rapper-night-how-ruby-ibarra-defying-stereotypes-t218167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a scientist\u003c/a> outside of her rap career, raps in English and Tagalog in the song “Us,” and it \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgDki5-FQgY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was featured on NBA 2K23\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the Spanglish wordplay about street life coming from Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/babygas/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baby Gas\u003c/a>. That gritty straightforward flow San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/blimesbrixton/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blimes Brixton\u003c/a>. The cutthroat bars of Stockton’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMO5gBczc7Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EBK Bckdoe\u003c/a>. The flashy and uptempo music of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/drebaexo/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drebae\u003c/a>. The openly honest and catchy tunes coming from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/marikasage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marika Sage\u003c/a>. And there’s the multi-layered sounds of R&B, ranchera and rap coming from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ladona415/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Doña\u003c/a>, a daughter of the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La Doña - Le Lo Lai (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/f13atQz5QtI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Look, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/professagabel/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professa Gabel\u003c/a> has a chill flow. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fraktheperson/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frak The Person\u003c/a> is a punchline and battle rapper. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/richiecunning/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richie Cunning\u003c/a> just dropped an album, \u003cem>Big Deal\u003c/em>, that merges rap with that smoky, jazz-club Sinatra sound. All three are white dudes from San Francisco, and even \u003cem>they\u003c/em> sound different from one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s the hardened tales of returning from being incarcerated and getting back into the streets coming from artists like Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/killa_fonte/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Killa Fonte\u003c/a> and Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_blastacannon_/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bla$ta\u003c/a>. And there’s the glossy pop-style sound of Frisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/24kgoldn/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">24KGoldn\u003c/a>, who just might be the next Bieber — but with more bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"24kGoldn - Mood (Official Video) ft. iann dior\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/GrAchTdepsU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Literally everything you could ask for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To overlook the diversity of sounds coming from the people who call this place home is to completely dismiss what makes this place unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>No take on San Francisco is more clichéd than proclaiming that the year of one’s arrival was a golden age from which the city has steadily descended, shedding its luster with each passing season. And when it comes to the city’s blues scene, one can make a righteous case for any decade in the latter half of the 20th century as a high-water mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by God, the mid-1990s, when I just happened to move to the Bay Area, was an extraordinary moment for the blues in San Francisco, an era reigned over by one of the fiercest artists ever to walk the earth, John Lee Hooker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A potent artifact from that long-gone moment arrives Friday with the Craft Recordings reissue of Hooker’s epochal 1989 hit album \u003cem>The Healer\u003c/em>, which reignited his career amidst a gaudy cast of guest artists eager to bask in his sharkskin-suited glory, including Carlos Santana, George Thorogood, Los Lobos, Canned Heat, Charlie Musselwhite and Robert Cray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of print for the past decade, the album not only earned the 73-year-old guitarist, vocalist and songwriter his first Grammy Award (for the Bonnie Raitt duet “I’m in the Mood”), it put Hooker at the center of the scene when the blues still occupied a significant swath of the cultural terrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n6fctAUjX4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hooker went on to make several more popular albums also produced by slide guitarist Roy Rogers, while various labels excavated his vast discography, which got off to a brilliant start with his chart-topping 1948 single “Boogie Chillen.” His iconic status continued to grow over the next decade with his 1991 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and his Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>National icon, local legend\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Locally, Hooker’s star hung over the Fillmore, where Alexander Andreas rechristened a nightspot long known as Jack’s Tavern as the Boom Boom Room, in honor of Hooker’s signature 1962 hit, “Boom Boom.” Contrary to the widespread belief that Hooker owned a piece of the club, Andreas made him an honorary partner, and many a night he could be found behind a red velvet rope in his reserved booth, surrounded by a bevy of ladies and a coterie of musicians. Occasionally a brave fan might approach to pay homage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"arts_13876143,arts_13809453,arts_13897443\"]Robert Cray, who toured widely with Hooker as an opening act and appeared on \u003cem>The Healer\u003c/em>’s funky third track “Baby Lee,” recalled the scene on the Boom Boom Room’s opening night, when the club was packed with dozens of other musicians, television crews and Mayor Willie Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of \u003cem>The Healer\u003c/em> was huge, and then when the Boom Boom Room opened it meant people knew where to find him,” Cray said. “John always seemed to me to have this great attitude about everything. He always had people around who adored him. It was a really exciting time. Carlos and Bonnie Raitt would pop in. We played the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Sacramento Blues Festival and all the clubs in San Francisco and the South Bay. It was pretty live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As late as the 1990s, the blues scene was still inextricably linked to the frisson around the Fillmore Auditorium in the 1960s — when a rising generation of white Chicago transplants (including Paul Butterfield, Barry Goldberg, Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield) all prevailed upon Bill Graham to present the Black masters who’d mentored them on the Southside (particularly Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and B.B. King). It’s a story well-told in filmmaker Bob Sarles’ 2021 documentary \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8X1n58B9Dw\">\u003cem>Born in Chicago\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1960s also saw Hooker connecting with the blues-besotted cohort of young British musicians on the swinging London scene, and it’s no coincidence that the Yardbirds, the Spencer Davis Group and the Animals all recorded his songs. He moved to Oakland late in the decade and worked steadily, with a particularly fruitful collaboration with Canned Heat. When \u003cem>The Healer\u003c/em> put him back on top, he took it all in stride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUUyFrHERpU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bassist Ruth Davies, who recorded with Hooker on several albums following \u003cem>The Healer\u003c/em>, remembers one celebratory night at the Boom Boom Room after he’d won two Grammys for his 1997 album \u003cem>Don’t Look Back\u003c/em>, which was co-produced by Van Morrison. He spotted her in the club and motioned for her to join him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt so privileged,” said Davies (who performs \u003ca href=\"https://secure.thefreight.org/11704/pamela-rose-presents-blues-is-a-woman\">Nov. 19 at Freight & Salvage\u003c/a> backing Pamela Rose’s \u003cem>Blues Is a Woman\u003c/em>). Before Davies started working with Hooker, she gained prominence during her long tenure with West Coast blues legend Charles Brown, and went on to tour and record with guitarist Elvin Bishop’s band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the blues legends were living here around that time,” Davies said. “Etta James, Charlie Musselwhite and Elvin Bishop were here. Bonnie Raitt was in Marin, and she did so much to help revive Charles Brown’s career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920970\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-800x739.jpg\" alt=\"an older Black man in a hat and sungalsses next to a white woman with bangs in a dark suit in a club\" width=\"800\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-800x739.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-1020x942.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-160x148.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-768x709.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-1536x1418.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-2048x1891.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-1920x1773.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Lee Hooker and Ruth Davies in Hooker’s booth at the Boom Boom Room. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ruth Davies)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“But it wasn’t just the scene here. Traveling was easier. When I started touring with Charles, we did a lot of concerts and festivals, and it seemed like there were three tiers. There were the stars who got paid the most. The middle tier — Charles was in that group. And the local artists. That middle tier is gone,” she said, along with the post-World War II generation of innovators. (Now 86, guitar legend Buddy Guy recently announced a farewell tour in 2023.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A shifting center of gravity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The infrastructure that sustained the scene has also all but disappeared, with nothing arising to fill the void left by the end of the San Francisco Blues Festival, a major annual event that ran from 1973-2008. The city’s dwindling Black population is another challenge, but the story is similar all over the region. Oakland long boasted a more vital and influential blues scene than San Francisco, anchoring an East Bay soul archipelago that stretched from Richmond and Berkeley out to Camp Stoneman in Pittsburg, and almost all of the clubs and joints that once hosted the blues are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the music’s inextricable roots in Black culture continue to manifest in various guises. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fayecarol.com/\">The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol\u003c/a> provides an essential link to the glory days of the East Bay scenes wherever she performs (like her\u003ca href=\"https://secure.thefreight.org/11867/black-womens-roots-festival\"> Black Women’s Roots Festival\u003c/a>, Nov. 27 at Freight & Salvage). Oakland blues vocalist Terrie Odabi has carved out an international career over the past decade, and some of the Bay Area’s best jazz vocalists, like Kim Nalley and Tiffany Austin, make a point of including blues as an essential thread in jazz’s elastic fabric. \u003ca href=\"http://littlevillagefoundation.com/\">The Little Village Foundation\u003c/a> label, created by veteran blues keyboardist and John Lee Hooker sideman Jim Pugh, has boosted the careers of several Bay Area blues artists, like Mumbai-born harmonica player Aki Kumar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2EG6svjz0w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the music’s center of gravity continues to shift away from San Francisco. Yoshi’s keeps blues in the musical mix, with shows like the Nov. 21 \u003ca href=\"https://yoshis.com/events/buy-tickets/bay-area-harmonica-convergence-1/detail\">Bay Area Harmonica Convergence\u003c/a>. Norwegian-born San Jose guitarist and recording engineer Kid Andersen has turned his \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Greaseland/\">Greaseland Studios\u003c/a> into the top spot for Bay Area blues acts to document their music (while working hand-in-hand with Little Village). San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"https://poorhousebistro.com/\">Poor House Bistro\u003c/a> just relocated — literally the entire building — to Little Italy, to make way for Google’s massive new downtown development. Blues great Angela Strehli’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ranchonicasio.com/\">Rancho Nicasio\u003c/a> is an important outpost in the North Bay, while the biggest blues bills tend to take place at Vallejo’s Empress Theatre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same thing in Seattle,” Cray said. “There used to be a bunch of clubs in town. Now we always hit the outskirts, where there might be the theaters and some of the clubs. We’re not downtown in places where it used it happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Myron Mu has kept \u003ca href=\"http://sfblues.weebly.com/saloon-schedule.html\">The Saloon in North Beach\u003c/a>, the city’s oldest venue, in business presenting blues seven nights a week. The city’s premiere club, \u003ca href=\"https://biscuitsandblues.com/\">Biscuits & Blues\u003c/a>, still hasn’t reopened since it was forced to shutter in 2019 by a persistent plumbing problem and an ensuing legal struggle with the neighboring Jack In the Box — but that might finally be coming to an end, said owner Steven Suen said. More than optimistic, he sounded downright philosophic about a musical tradition born out of a need to find solace and communal release in hard times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The blues as a form of music will never die,” said Suen, who was born in Hong Kong and ended up buying the club after he started managing the venue in 2006. “People keep going back to the roots, figuring out how that music comes about. It will always have a place. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Robert Cray, who toured widely with Hooker as an opening act and appeared on \u003cem>The Healer\u003c/em>’s funky third track “Baby Lee,” recalled the scene on the Boom Boom Room’s opening night, when the club was packed with dozens of other musicians, television crews and Mayor Willie Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of \u003cem>The Healer\u003c/em> was huge, and then when the Boom Boom Room opened it meant people knew where to find him,” Cray said. “John always seemed to me to have this great attitude about everything. He always had people around who adored him. It was a really exciting time. Carlos and Bonnie Raitt would pop in. We played the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Sacramento Blues Festival and all the clubs in San Francisco and the South Bay. It was pretty live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As late as the 1990s, the blues scene was still inextricably linked to the frisson around the Fillmore Auditorium in the 1960s — when a rising generation of white Chicago transplants (including Paul Butterfield, Barry Goldberg, Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield) all prevailed upon Bill Graham to present the Black masters who’d mentored them on the Southside (particularly Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and B.B. King). It’s a story well-told in filmmaker Bob Sarles’ 2021 documentary \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8X1n58B9Dw\">\u003cem>Born in Chicago\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1960s also saw Hooker connecting with the blues-besotted cohort of young British musicians on the swinging London scene, and it’s no coincidence that the Yardbirds, the Spencer Davis Group and the Animals all recorded his songs. He moved to Oakland late in the decade and worked steadily, with a particularly fruitful collaboration with Canned Heat. When \u003cem>The Healer\u003c/em> put him back on top, he took it all in stride.\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/nUUyFrHERpU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/nUUyFrHERpU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Bassist Ruth Davies, who recorded with Hooker on several albums following \u003cem>The Healer\u003c/em>, remembers one celebratory night at the Boom Boom Room after he’d won two Grammys for his 1997 album \u003cem>Don’t Look Back\u003c/em>, which was co-produced by Van Morrison. He spotted her in the club and motioned for her to join him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt so privileged,” said Davies (who performs \u003ca href=\"https://secure.thefreight.org/11704/pamela-rose-presents-blues-is-a-woman\">Nov. 19 at Freight & Salvage\u003c/a> backing Pamela Rose’s \u003cem>Blues Is a Woman\u003c/em>). Before Davies started working with Hooker, she gained prominence during her long tenure with West Coast blues legend Charles Brown, and went on to tour and record with guitarist Elvin Bishop’s band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the blues legends were living here around that time,” Davies said. “Etta James, Charlie Musselwhite and Elvin Bishop were here. Bonnie Raitt was in Marin, and she did so much to help revive Charles Brown’s career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920970\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-800x739.jpg\" alt=\"an older Black man in a hat and sungalsses next to a white woman with bangs in a dark suit in a club\" width=\"800\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-800x739.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-1020x942.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-160x148.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-768x709.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-1536x1418.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-2048x1891.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/With-John-Lee-Hooker-1920x1773.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Lee Hooker and Ruth Davies in Hooker’s booth at the Boom Boom Room. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ruth Davies)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“But it wasn’t just the scene here. Traveling was easier. When I started touring with Charles, we did a lot of concerts and festivals, and it seemed like there were three tiers. There were the stars who got paid the most. The middle tier — Charles was in that group. And the local artists. That middle tier is gone,” she said, along with the post-World War II generation of innovators. (Now 86, guitar legend Buddy Guy recently announced a farewell tour in 2023.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A shifting center of gravity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The infrastructure that sustained the scene has also all but disappeared, with nothing arising to fill the void left by the end of the San Francisco Blues Festival, a major annual event that ran from 1973-2008. The city’s dwindling Black population is another challenge, but the story is similar all over the region. Oakland long boasted a more vital and influential blues scene than San Francisco, anchoring an East Bay soul archipelago that stretched from Richmond and Berkeley out to Camp Stoneman in Pittsburg, and almost all of the clubs and joints that once hosted the blues are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the music’s inextricable roots in Black culture continue to manifest in various guises. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fayecarol.com/\">The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol\u003c/a> provides an essential link to the glory days of the East Bay scenes wherever she performs (like her\u003ca href=\"https://secure.thefreight.org/11867/black-womens-roots-festival\"> Black Women’s Roots Festival\u003c/a>, Nov. 27 at Freight & Salvage). Oakland blues vocalist Terrie Odabi has carved out an international career over the past decade, and some of the Bay Area’s best jazz vocalists, like Kim Nalley and Tiffany Austin, make a point of including blues as an essential thread in jazz’s elastic fabric. \u003ca href=\"http://littlevillagefoundation.com/\">The Little Village Foundation\u003c/a> label, created by veteran blues keyboardist and John Lee Hooker sideman Jim Pugh, has boosted the careers of several Bay Area blues artists, like Mumbai-born harmonica player Aki Kumar.\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/W2EG6svjz0w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/W2EG6svjz0w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Meanwhile, the music’s center of gravity continues to shift away from San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cp>As companies all over the world cut ties with Ye (formerly Kanye West) this month, statements against the rapper’s litany of antisemitic assertions have been decisive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous,” said Adidas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot support any content that amplifies his platform,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kanye-ye-west-documentary-mrc-shelved-1235247299/\">MRC announced\u003c/a>, as the film and TV company shelved its already-completed Ye documentary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13920819'] Fashion house Balenciaga, talent agency CAA and \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2022/10/21/vogue-has-no-intention-of-working-with-kanye-west-again/\">\u003cem>Vogue\u003c/em>’s Anna Wintour\u003c/a> all cut ties with Ye without much fanfare, but organizations not even working with the rapper took their own stands. “We can’t support hate speech, bigotry or anti-Semitism,” talent agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/caa-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west-as-hollywood-boycott-calls-grow-1235247333/\">UTA emailed to its staff\u003c/a>. “Please support the boycott of Kanye West.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not for nothing. Ye’s recent antisemitic statements have been both shocking and relentless. There was his Oct. 4 declaration that he was going “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.” There was a \u003ca href=\"https://www.xxlmag.com/kanye-west-war-diddy-texts/\">text exchange Ye himself leaked\u003c/a>, in which he told Sean Combs: “Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.” And there was the Fox News appearance where Ye stated (among many other terrible, terrible things): “I’d prefer my kids knew Hanukkah than Kwanzaa — at least it would come with some financial engineering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This latest bout of hate speech is the culmination of years during which Ye has made incendiary and harmful comments — none of which prompted the kind of professional consequences he’s now facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adidas, Balenciaga and CAA all stuck by Ye in 2018 after he suggested that \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/watch/0-lrudlmxu/\">slavery was “a choice”\u003c/a> on TMZ. The companies didn’t react later that year when Ye ended an episode of \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/30/17920676/kanye-west-snl-performance-donald-trump\">a rant\u003c/a> that included him saying, “Blacks weren’t always Democrats. It’s like a plan they did to take the fathers out the homes and promote welfare. Does anybody know about that? That’s the Democratic plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ye’s business arrangements were not impacted in 2016 after he specified that he would be hiring “multiracial women only” for Yeezy Season 4 — a choice that inspired accusations of colorism. Nor were they impacted in 2020 when, speaking at a rally, \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/kanye-west-political-rally-abortion-kim-kardashian-north-2020-7\">Ye said that Harriett Tubman “never actually freed the slaves”\u003c/a> but instead sent them to “go work for other white people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Ye appeared at Paris Fashion Week wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt earlier this month, Adidas did put his contracts under review. But it took \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920788/ye-adidas-boycott-kanye-west-antisemitism\">a mountain of online pressure\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/resources/letter/adl-letter-adidas-executives-regarding-kanye-west\">an open letter from the Anti-Defamation League\u003c/a> to spur Adidas into more decisive action. (“At this point, what more do you need to review?” ADL CEO Jan Runau asked.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908594'] Even with the rash of companies cutting ties with Ye now, the impetus appears to be rooted almost entirely in opposition to his antisemitism. The fact that earlier this month Ye also suggested that George Floyd was killed by fentanyl — and not the police officer \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Derek_Chauvin\">convicted of his murder, Derek Chauvin\u003c/a> — has been far less of a focus. (“If you look,” Ye told the \u003cem>Drink Champs\u003c/em> podcast, “the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.”) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920562/the-family-of-george-floyd-plans-to-file-a-250-million-lawsuit-against-ye\">Floyd’s family plans to sue\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Drink Champs\u003c/em> has since denounced Ye’s comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not been lost on the Black community that Ye’s many statements denigrating Black people have never prompted the kind of corporate pushback that his antisemitic comments have. Discussions around it dominated Twitter on Tuesday. “Wish being anti-Black held this much weight,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/scottiebeam/status/1584892766290841600\">Scottie Beam noted\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/scottiebeam/status/1584892766290841600\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MrErnestOwens/status/1584726943508799489\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/oranicuhh/status/1584616304153366528\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also worth wondering why Ye’s longstanding history of misogynistic behavior was never a deal-breaker for his business associates. Ye’s casual sexism started over a decade ago with his repeated attempts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/28206/how-amber-rose-became-an-unlikely-feminist-icon\">publicly humiliate Amber Rose\u003c/a>. He has been open about the joy he gleans from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13908594/julia-fox-kanye-west-ye-fashion-kim-kardashian-paris\">exercising control over his romantic partners’ wardrobes\u003c/a>. (And, thanks to Kardashian-based reality television, we’ve seen the scathing insults he sends when these women don’t comply.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ye has made not one but two videos in which he fetishizes lifeless female bodies. 2010’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oinTbQxETo\">Monster\u003c/a>” was first, with its dead models hanging from the ceiling and dead models lying next to him in bed. (It never got an official release.) Then came 2016’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7FCgw_GlWc\">Famous\u003c/a>,” a video that depicted real, non-consenting humans (including Taylor Swift and Amber Rose) as naked and unconscious in bed with Ye and Kim Kardashian. Kardashian was in a face-down position, shielding her modesty. Swift and Rose were not given the same consideration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Ye decided to proudly (and loudly) \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-marilyn-manson-donda-1292671/\">collaborate with Marilyn Manson\u003c/a>, right after the rocker was accused of a litany of sexual and physical abuses by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910124/phoenix-rising-evan-rachel-wood-marilyn-manson-abuse-hbo-documentary\">Evan Rachel Wood and a dozen other women\u003c/a>. Ye’s decision to do this was a middle finger to abuse survivors everywhere, and he openly enjoyed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_49104'] Then there’s Ye’s frightening treatment of his now-ex-wife, which he has openly broadcast, entirely unafraid of potential consequences either to him as a parent, or to his divorce proceedings. Nobody dropped Ye after he released a song letting Kardashian know that her “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzu9PKB8bLY\">security gon’ need security\u003c/a>” — shortly after buying the house opposite hers. Nobody dropped Ye when he made \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy7sci2az88\">a video depicting the murder and beheading of Kardashian’s new boyfriend\u003c/a>, Pete Davidson, whom he also publicly and repeatedly threatened. And nobody batted an eyelash when \u003ca href=\"https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/4468852/kanye-west-admits-punching-autograph-hunter/\">Ye punched an autograph hunter\u003c/a> and blamed it on the stress of his divorce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Ye’s newfound obsession with baseless conspiracies about the Jewish community is undoubtedly dangerous, this is not the first group of people Ye has used his platform to endanger. Ye has been skating past this kind of bad behavior, unscathed, for so many years now, is it any wonder he thought he could say antisemitic things and not get dropped by Adidas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adidas, Balenciaga, CAA et al. can feign shock and disgust now, but it has been clear for a very long time who Ye is and what he thinks of the rest of the world. That he suffered no serious financial consequences until this month is part of the reason why his behavior has devolved to this level.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/djayslim-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/djayslim-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/djayslim-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/djayslim-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/djayslim-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/djayslim-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/djayslim.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Originally from Kenya, DJAYSLIM has been playing African music in the Bay Area for 20 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a Ugandan American music journalist, African music has been at the center of my work and personal life for years. Before I moved to the Bay Area earlier this year, I’d spent countless evenings dancing to African music in clubs in cities with large, visible African populations like Washington D.C. and New York. I was aware of other hotspots like Atlanta and Houston based on the tour schedules of my favorite artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one place that never popped up on my radar as a hub for African music was the Bay. That is, until I heard Fireboy DML’s inescapable 2021 hit, “Peru.” The globetrotting track name-drops other locales beyond its Latin American title, but it was a reference to the Bay that immediately caught my ear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/GP_LpUoNx-I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in San Francisco jamming,” Fireboy sings in the bridge. From there he reminds us that he “just flew in from Miami” before moving on to other topics like partying and romance. To most it might seem like a throwaway line, something that just sounded nice in the moment, but I wanted to know more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living in San Jose and working in San Francisco, I wasn’t seeing large African communities like the ones I’d seen on the East Coast. If Fireboy’s song was a clue to where I might find them, I was ready to start looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I soon found out that Fireboy DML recorded “Peru” in San Francisco at the studios of the independent label and distributor, \u003ca href=\"https://empi.re/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EMPIRE\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/ourturbulentdecade#arts_13870578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Founded by San Francisco native Ghazi in 2010\u003c/a>, the company made its name in the hip-hop world, inking distribution deals with popular artists like Kendrick Lamar and XXXTentacion. In recent years though, the company has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/rileyvansteward/2022/02/16/african-music-is-big-business-in-america-tik-tok-helped/?sh=3f4291773bee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">setting its sights on Africa\u003c/a>, specifically the infectious pop music coming out of Nigeria and Ghana commonly referred to as Afrobeats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emboldened by this knowledge, I went looking for the Afrobeats scene, and within a few weeks of moving to the South Bay, I found myself at a monthly party called Soundgasm in San Jose. It’s organized by a DJ named Flygerian Jeff who runs an event company called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/unitedtribesof_africa/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Tribes of Africa\u003c/a>. Born and raised in Oakland to Nigerian parents, Jeff is one of the most active DJs and event organizers in the scene, throwing regular events all across the Bay Area. [aside postid='arts_13918796']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when I walked in, the first person I saw was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djayslim/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJAYSLIM\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was queuing up hit after hit: “Assurance” by Nigerian star Davido, then “Case” by fellow Nigerian Teni. When his turn at the decks was over, we got to talking, and I learned that he has been playing African music in the Bay Area for close to two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, DJAYSLIM, whose real name is Martin Mwangi, left Nairobi, Kenya and moved into his sister’s place in Oakland. Her boyfriend at the time was a DJ. Mwangi had never considered DJing, but his deep love of music and an open set of turntables in the house propelled him to give it a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would just practice in the house when my sister [was] at work during the day. At that time my love was reggae and dancehall. That’s the time for ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InlfCLX02V8&ab_channel=TantoMetroandDevonte-Topic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everyone Falls In Love\u003c/a>,’ ‘Heads High.’ That’s all you heard the whole time,” recalled Mwangi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/tMPP1F45ptM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 2000s, the reggae and dancehall scene in Oakland was robust. Clubs like New Karibbean City, Oasis and Air Lounge had regular events. African music, however, was a lot harder to find. The first time Mwangi heard someone playing African music at a club in the Bay, it came from an unexpected source. He went to an international-themed party at the Shattuck Down Low in Berkeley where he saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INkYANBjd-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Fuze\u003c/a>, of the storied Bay Area hip-hop group Digital Underground, spinning the latest jams from the continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DJ Fuze had gone on tour to Paris, France, and when he was there, he’s a curious guy so he’s like, ‘Oh, what music is this they’re listening to?’ So he collected [Magic System’s] ‘Premier Gaou.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/XCXqRDb0EDM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He played it while we were there at the club. I ran to the DJ booth. I’m like, ‘How does this guy know this music?’ There’s no YouTube, there’s nothing, right? So us Africans, we went crazy. And at that moment I was like, ‘This is what I want to do, and I want to do it the African style.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mwangi started off throwing house parties for the Kenyan community, where he would cycle between dancehall, reggae and a few CDs of African pop music he would get from someone who had recently traveled home. It wasn’t the most efficient way to share music, but it worked in bringing together different groups of Africans in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nigerians used to hang out with Kenyans a lot here,” Mwangi recalled. “One of the gentlemen used to be a promoter. [He] came to a Kenyan event and heard me play and he was like, ‘Yo, I’m gonna invite you for this Nigerian event. Just come, we’ll give you the music.’ And guess what he gave me? ‘No One But You,’ P-Square! He gave me that CD, saying ‘Play number one and number four,’ I’ll never forget!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/ty2advRiWJM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artists with Pan-African hits like Ivorian group Magic System and Nigerian duo P-Square helped popularize African pop music in the diaspora. African DJs like Mwangi, capitalizing on this growing popularity, started pushing promoters to let them play African music in mainstream clubs. Eventually, Mwangi and another key figure named DJ Burt started one of the first regular events, a monthly night called First Saturdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was all African music from the beginning to the end. Now Africans had a place to go at a mainstream club,” said Mwangi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CiJbvDVPVeV/?hl=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since meeting Mwangi, I’ve spent many weekend nights at African parties in Oakland clubs like AU Lounge, Zanzi and Parliament. These days, Mwangi is one of many players in the East Bay African music scene, which includes established event organizers like United Tribes of Africa and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/afrobeatsoakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afrobeats Oakland\u003c/a>, the latter of which is spearheaded by a DJ named Juan G, who throws a \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/how-this-oakland-dj-is-helping-push-afrobeats-into-the-pop-mainstream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">huge Afrobeats day party at Lake Merritt every summer\u003c/a>. But since I don’t live or work in the East Bay, I remained curious about other parts of the region, like San Francisco, where it was harder to find African communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920649\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920649\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The front of Bissap Baobab on Mission Street in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My search ended when I found myself at the grand re-opening of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bissapbaobab.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bissap Baobab\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission district last month. During the day it’s a Senegalese restaurant, and in the evening it’s a sweaty dance floor pumping out the latest African pop music. And it’s been serving this dual role in the community for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was a re-opening because, in 2019, owner Marco Senghor sold the original space to help pay the legal fees of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/The-legacy-and-death-of-Bissap-Baobab-San-13703961.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sudden immigration battle\u003c/a>. With help from community members and friends, he was able to stay in the country, but he lost his venue along the way. This fall, after a three-year absence, Bissap Baobab was finally able to reopen its doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ricky’s Grupo Afro-Nativo perform at Bissap Baobab on Mission Street in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inside, the space is immediately warm and inviting. The walls are awash with shades of orange, red, yellow and blue, murals and eclectic art. It doesn’t all go together, but it feels like that’s the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Friday night I attended, by 11 p.m. the dance floor was full of people letting loose. The DJ spun a blend of African, Latin American and Caribbean music, and the vibe was energetically joyful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First-timer Ineza, who withheld her last name for privacy reasons, tells me she’s from Rwanda and that it’s shocking to find a space like Baobab in San Francisco due to limited Black visibility in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’ve been transported to a metropolitan African city,” Ineza said. “I’m really enjoying the music and the vibes. I love the African art everywhere. It’s making me feel like home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920650\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of Bissap Baobab on Mission Street in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ineza’s shock at finding a Black venue in the city is not unfounded. The Black population in San Francisco is the only racial demographic in the city that has consistently declined since the 1970s. In 1990 San Francisco was 10% Black – lower than other major cities but still comparable to the national average of 12% at the time. However, by 2021, the city’s Black population had shrunk to 5.7% while the national average rose to nearly 14%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native San Franciscan Chris, who also withheld his last name, is a longtime attendee of Baobab’s parties. For him, Bissap Baobab represents much more than just a fun place to go out and listen to African music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It’s the] last hope for the Black people around this community, pretty much,” he told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first set out looking for African music in the Bay I didn’t expect to find much of a community, let alone one as resilient as Bissap Baobab or as robust as the clubs and DJs in the East Bay. It’s a helpful reminder that there’s often much more than meets the eye. When in doubt, to follow the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>\u003cem>If you want to hear some African music in the Bay this weekend, on Oct. 21 you can catch \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ginger-afrobeats-eventoakland-tickets-428352412597?aff=odcleoeventsincollection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Tribes of Africa\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrobeats-to-the-world-oakland-tickets-411394972437?aff=ebdsoporgprofile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afrobeats Oakland\u003c/a> in the East Bay. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when I walked in, the first person I saw was \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djayslim/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJAYSLIM\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was queuing up hit after hit: “Assurance” by Nigerian star Davido, then “Case” by fellow Nigerian Teni. When his turn at the decks was over, we got to talking, and I learned that he has been playing African music in the Bay Area for close to two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, DJAYSLIM, whose real name is Martin Mwangi, left Nairobi, Kenya and moved into his sister’s place in Oakland. Her boyfriend at the time was a DJ. Mwangi had never considered DJing, but his deep love of music and an open set of turntables in the house propelled him to give it a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would just practice in the house when my sister [was] at work during the day. At that time my love was reggae and dancehall. That’s the time for ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InlfCLX02V8&ab_channel=TantoMetroandDevonte-Topic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everyone Falls In Love\u003c/a>,’ ‘Heads High.’ That’s all you heard the whole time,” recalled Mwangi.\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/tMPP1F45ptM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/tMPP1F45ptM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In the early 2000s, the reggae and dancehall scene in Oakland was robust. Clubs like New Karibbean City, Oasis and Air Lounge had regular events. African music, however, was a lot harder to find. The first time Mwangi heard someone playing African music at a club in the Bay, it came from an unexpected source. He went to an international-themed party at the Shattuck Down Low in Berkeley where he saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INkYANBjd-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Fuze\u003c/a>, of the storied Bay Area hip-hop group Digital Underground, spinning the latest jams from the continent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DJ Fuze had gone on tour to Paris, France, and when he was there, he’s a curious guy so he’s like, ‘Oh, what music is this they’re listening to?’ So he collected [Magic System’s] ‘Premier Gaou.’”\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/XCXqRDb0EDM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/XCXqRDb0EDM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“He played it while we were there at the club. I ran to the DJ booth. I’m like, ‘How does this guy know this music?’ There’s no YouTube, there’s nothing, right? So us Africans, we went crazy. And at that moment I was like, ‘This is what I want to do, and I want to do it the African style.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mwangi started off throwing house parties for the Kenyan community, where he would cycle between dancehall, reggae and a few CDs of African pop music he would get from someone who had recently traveled home. It wasn’t the most efficient way to share music, but it worked in bringing together different groups of Africans in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nigerians used to hang out with Kenyans a lot here,” Mwangi recalled. “One of the gentlemen used to be a promoter. [He] came to a Kenyan event and heard me play and he was like, ‘Yo, I’m gonna invite you for this Nigerian event. Just come, we’ll give you the music.’ And guess what he gave me? ‘No One But You,’ P-Square! 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Since meeting Mwangi, I’ve spent many weekend nights at African parties in Oakland clubs like AU Lounge, Zanzi and Parliament. These days, Mwangi is one of many players in the East Bay African music scene, which includes established event organizers like United Tribes of Africa and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/afrobeatsoakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afrobeats Oakland\u003c/a>, the latter of which is spearheaded by a DJ named Juan G, who throws a \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/how-this-oakland-dj-is-helping-push-afrobeats-into-the-pop-mainstream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">huge Afrobeats day party at Lake Merritt every summer\u003c/a>. But since I don’t live or work in the East Bay, I remained curious about other parts of the region, like San Francisco, where it was harder to find African communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920649\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920649\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59458_002_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The front of Bissap Baobab on Mission Street in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My search ended when I found myself at the grand re-opening of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bissapbaobab.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bissap Baobab\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Mission district last month. During the day it’s a Senegalese restaurant, and in the evening it’s a sweaty dance floor pumping out the latest African pop music. And it’s been serving this dual role in the community for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was a re-opening because, in 2019, owner Marco Senghor sold the original space to help pay the legal fees of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/The-legacy-and-death-of-Bissap-Baobab-San-13703961.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sudden immigration battle\u003c/a>. With help from community members and friends, he was able to stay in the country, but he lost his venue along the way. This fall, after a three-year absence, Bissap Baobab was finally able to reopen its doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59468_012_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ricky’s Grupo Afro-Nativo perform at Bissap Baobab on Mission Street in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inside, the space is immediately warm and inviting. The walls are awash with shades of orange, red, yellow and blue, murals and eclectic art. It doesn’t all go together, but it feels like that’s the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Friday night I attended, by 11 p.m. the dance floor was full of people letting loose. The DJ spun a blend of African, Latin American and Caribbean music, and the vibe was energetically joyful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First-timer Ineza, who withheld her last name for privacy reasons, tells me she’s from Rwanda and that it’s shocking to find a space like Baobab in San Francisco due to limited Black visibility in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like I’ve been transported to a metropolitan African city,” Ineza said. “I’m really enjoying the music and the vibes. I love the African art everywhere. It’s making me feel like home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920650\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/RS59464_007_KQED_BissapBaobabSF_10192022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of Bissap Baobab on Mission Street in San Francisco on Oct. 19, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ineza’s shock at finding a Black venue in the city is not unfounded. The Black population in San Francisco is the only racial demographic in the city that has consistently declined since the 1970s. In 1990 San Francisco was 10% Black – lower than other major cities but still comparable to the national average of 12% at the time. However, by 2021, the city’s Black population had shrunk to 5.7% while the national average rose to nearly 14%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Native San Franciscan Chris, who also withheld his last name, is a longtime attendee of Baobab’s parties. For him, Bissap Baobab represents much more than just a fun place to go out and listen to African music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It’s the] last hope for the Black people around this community, pretty much,” he told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first set out looking for African music in the Bay I didn’t expect to find much of a community, let alone one as resilient as Bissap Baobab or as robust as the clubs and DJs in the East Bay. It’s a helpful reminder that there’s often much more than meets the eye. When in doubt, to follow the music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/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>\u003cem>If you want to hear some African music in the Bay this weekend, on Oct. 21 you can catch \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ginger-afrobeats-eventoakland-tickets-428352412597?aff=odcleoeventsincollection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Tribes of Africa\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrobeats-to-the-world-oakland-tickets-411394972437?aff=ebdsoporgprofile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afrobeats Oakland\u003c/a> in the East Bay. Bissap Baobab has an African dance party every Friday and Saturday night. And on Oct. 23, DJAYSLIM will be throwing his \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj2KVWfInwu/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afro Sundays day party\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>October 25, 2022 marks the third anniversary of the launch of the Rightnowish podcast!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First formed as a radio show in early 2019, Rightnowish, the podcast launched in late October of the same year. Since then we’ve been churning out stories just about every week: Rain, shine, pandemic or protests, we’ve been talking to artists, activists, actors and academics about this thing called life in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, we’re revisiting an episode that’s emblematic of this show’s ethos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July of 2021 we published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900205/rightnowish-trackademicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an episode\u003c/a> featuring Alameda’s own producer and DJ, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/trackademicks/?hl=en\">Trackademicks\u003c/a>. Known as the “cool collar scholar” from the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HNRLcrew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HNRL collective\u003c/a>, Trackademicks is a music producer who makes original songs and has a knack for remixing popular tracks, and adding that Bay Area flavor. In the early 2000s, his “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii7QSbxg88w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tell Me When To Go\u003c/a>” remix cemented his name in the Bay Area musical history books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii7QSbxg88w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we talked last year, we discussed the history of Hyphy music and how he, as a Black and Filipino person, sees remixing as a part of his DNA. Since then, he’s DJ’d at functions in LA, and he’s produced more music including some forthcoming remix projects, like this mashup of\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjt00PsvKX0/\"> Janet Jackson and Andre 3000\u003c/a>. Check it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annnnndddddd…Trackademicks has recently gotten married! Congrats to him and his partner!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5 id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC2929807156\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3MR9RVL\">Read the transcript\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Below are lightly edited excerpts of our episode on Hyphy history with Trackademicks. Listen to get the full experience and to hear more about how Trackademicks remixed a classic and worked with artists like Mistah F.A.B. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> I think it’s time for a Bay Area history lesson on hyphy music, and who better to talk to than the cool collar scholar himself, the HNRL producer who has worked with J. Stalin, Kamaiyah, Mistah F.A.B. and more. His name is Trackademicks, and he knows a thing or two about hip-hop history in this region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> What’s the first hyphy song you ever heard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> I’d have to say that E-40 album … it had the song “Gasoline” with Turf Talk. That’s when I first started hearing like, ‘oh, this is an actual crazy sound.’ The hyphy sound. Turf Talk’s voice next to E-40’s voice, it just kind of created this crazy tone where it’s just unruly. It was in your face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySel0OB-TDw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> The beat’s by Rick Rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> Rick Rock was the Northern California producer behind classic old-school songs, contemporary hits, and a ton of songs from major hip-hop artists, like Tupac, Jay-Z … even \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDaNJW_jEBo\">Busta Rhymes and Mariah Carey\u003c/a>. Rick Rock was one of the producers who laid the cornerstone to the hyphy sound — producing songs like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7ohnlZhBc\">“Hyphy”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vtZ0bYEW28\">“Go Dumb”\u003c/a> by The Federation, as well as E-40’s “Yay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71IXLQpGss\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> Rick Rock was making crazy beats. He was making more uptempo songs with wacky, wacky sounds and crazy percussion. This is something different, it’s hyphy. I mean, we didn’t have the terminology yet. But it slapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where Did the Word “Hyphy” Come From?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> “Hyphy” the word was first said on record by East Oakland’s Keak Da Sneak in the mid-’90s. It gained popularity in the early 2000s. But in the early days when Keak started using it, “hyphy” didn’t mean what it means now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> He’s the one who created the hyphy terminology. In Oakland, hyphy … didn’t mean fun. Hyphy meant … “They hyphy over there.” Like I’m not trying to go over there. They might rob you. You never know what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> But, as language does, the term evolved to mean hyperactive — in a good way. Full of exuberant energy, the life of the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> Hyphy is pure energy. It’s not a clap sound or ghostriding whips and all that … it’s pure energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Musical Lineage that Created Hyphy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> The hyphy sound in the mid-2000s didn’t come out of nowhere; it was a combination of the energy of the people and the evolution of music styles happening locally. To start us off, back in the day, there was funk music…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQ4AtsFWVM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> The heavy bass and synthesizers from funk shifted into a darker tone… becoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.criticalminded.com/2016/11/27/bay-area-mobb-music/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mobb music\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> In the ’80s, you had prehistoric mobb music. I call it prehistoric, Cro-Magnon mobb music, where it was influenced by East Coast rap like Whodini.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMnTawcUZLQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> Specifically here, it’s just the bass lines, and the ominous sounds … the Moog synths, and the different synthesizers that they were using back then. So that’s the first iteration, like that mobb, that ’80s, you know, Too Short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b8kTV4VtKA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> Everyone knows Short sampled Parliament Funkadelic and James Brown, but it’s the deep cuts that show how foundational the funk was. Tracks like the Conscious Daughters’ “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8KZ2CIpjto\">Somethin’ to Ride To (Fonky Expedition)\u003c/a>”. That song is built off a sample of the S.O.S. Band’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSEbDN49bYM\">No One’s Going to Love You\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> As it went through the late ’90s, mobb music started re-interpolating a lot of things. Musicians like Ant Banks and Khayree were producing very lavish productions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2QjOclOzkU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis: \u003c/strong>That sound got juiced up and grew into what we know as hyphy — same bass, more tempo, not as dark, and a lot more fun. The mobb era came with different flavors from all across Northern California. Similarly, the hyphy movement had different flavors from different towns too. There was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLRCIja0Eb4\">Dem Hoodstarz\u003c/a> out of East Palo Alto. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6FDYlpKek0\">J. Stalin and Livewire Records\u003c/a> out of West Oakland, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7ohnlZhBc\">The Federation\u003c/a> out of Fairfield, to name a few. And many artists had careers that spanned both mobb music and the hyphy movement — like Too Short, E-40, and this one guy whose birth name is Andre Hicks. But you might know him as the Furly Ghost, Ronald Dregan, Thizzelle Washington, Andre Macassi, the Cold Crest Creeper, or simply: Mac Dre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> The thing that Mac Dre brought was the energy of hyphy, the caricature, the character of hyphy. He kind of set the groundwork of the fun aspect of it. And as the music started to catch up, with Rick Rock and E-40 bringing that actual sonic sound of hyphy, that connected with the characters that Mac Dre gave F.A.B in the 2000s. The baton from Mac Dre was kind of passed to Mistah F.A.B, and in that regard, everybody else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v37_C3WaTNk\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Music Today\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> What’s going on right now in terms of the Bay Area sound?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> It’s all like a post-mobb and hyphy sound kind of mixed together. So you have a lot of the slap and kind of the general rhythmic disposition. We’re back to the ominous chords and the pianos. It’s undeniable that the sonic backdrop of it all is a direct descendant of the older Bay Area music. Even someone like Rexx Life Raj, where it’s almost like soulful mobb or soulful hyphy. It amazes me how much it stays ingrained in our music. And I believe that it’s going to stay, because it actually has influenced the whole landscape of music.\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>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>October 25, 2022 marks the third anniversary of the launch of the Rightnowish podcast!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First formed as a radio show in early 2019, Rightnowish, the podcast launched in late October of the same year. Since then we’ve been churning out stories just about every week: Rain, shine, pandemic or protests, we’ve been talking to artists, activists, actors and academics about this thing called life in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, we’re revisiting an episode that’s emblematic of this show’s ethos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July of 2021 we published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900205/rightnowish-trackademicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an episode\u003c/a> featuring Alameda’s own producer and DJ, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/trackademicks/?hl=en\">Trackademicks\u003c/a>. Known as the “cool collar scholar” from the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HNRLcrew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HNRL collective\u003c/a>, Trackademicks is a music producer who makes original songs and has a knack for remixing popular tracks, and adding that Bay Area flavor. 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Listen to get the full experience and to hear more about how Trackademicks remixed a classic and worked with artists like Mistah F.A.B. \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> I think it’s time for a Bay Area history lesson on hyphy music, and who better to talk to than the cool collar scholar himself, the HNRL producer who has worked with J. Stalin, Kamaiyah, Mistah F.A.B. and more. His name is Trackademicks, and he knows a thing or two about hip-hop history in this region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> What’s the first hyphy song you ever heard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> I’d have to say that E-40 album … it had the song “Gasoline” with Turf Talk. That’s when I first started hearing like, ‘oh, this is an actual crazy sound.’ The hyphy sound. Turf Talk’s voice next to E-40’s voice, it just kind of created this crazy tone where it’s just unruly. It was in your face.\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/ySel0OB-TDw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ySel0OB-TDw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> The beat’s by Rick Rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> Rick Rock was the Northern California producer behind classic old-school songs, contemporary hits, and a ton of songs from major hip-hop artists, like Tupac, Jay-Z … even \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDaNJW_jEBo\">Busta Rhymes and Mariah Carey\u003c/a>. Rick Rock was one of the producers who laid the cornerstone to the hyphy sound — producing songs like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7ohnlZhBc\">“Hyphy”\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vtZ0bYEW28\">“Go Dumb”\u003c/a> by The Federation, as well as E-40’s “Yay Area.”\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/K71IXLQpGss'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/K71IXLQpGss'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> Rick Rock was making crazy beats. 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Full of exuberant energy, the life of the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Trackademicks:\u003c/strong> Hyphy is pure energy. It’s not a clap sound or ghostriding whips and all that … it’s pure energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Musical Lineage that Created Hyphy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis:\u003c/strong> The hyphy sound in the mid-2000s didn’t come out of nowhere; it was a combination of the energy of the people and the evolution of music styles happening locally. 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He was 97.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe died Friday night at home in Palm Springs, California, after catching pneumonia, said Joanna Morones, a spokesperson for Laboe’s production company, Dart Entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His final show was produced last week and broadcast Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe is credited with helping end segregation in Southern California by organizing live DJ shows at drive-in eateries that attracted white, Black and Latino listeners who danced to rock ‘n’ roll — and shocked an older generation still listening to Frank Sinatra and Big Band music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DJ is also credited with coining the phrase “oldies but goodies.” In 1957, he started Original Sound Record, Inc. and in 1958, released the compilation album \u003cem>Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 1\u003c/em>, which stayed on the Billboard’s Top 100 chart for 183 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 449px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-74258282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-74258282.jpg 449w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-74258282-160x212.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe and host of the television show ‘American Bandstand’ Dick Clark chat, circa 1960. \u003ccite>(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He later developed a strong following among Mexican Americans for hosting the syndicated \u003cem>The Art Laboe Connection Show\u003c/em>. His baritone voice invited listeners to call in dedications and request a ’50s-era rock ‘n’ roll love ballad or a rhythm and blues tune from Alicia Keys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His radio shows gave the families of incarcerated loved ones, in particular, a platform to speak to their relatives by dedicating songs and sending heartfelt messages and updates. California and Arizona inmates would send in their own dedications and ask Laboe for updates from family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a role Laboe said he felt honored to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t judge,” Laboe said in a 2018 interview with The Associated Press at his Palm Springs studio. “I like people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often told a story about a woman who came by the studio so her toddler could tell her father, who was serving time for a violent crime, “Daddy, I love you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time he had heard his baby’s voice,” Laboe said. “And this tough, hard-nosed guy burst into tears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Macias, a University of California, Riverside ethnic studies professor, said the music Laboe played went with the dedications, enhancing the messages. For example, songs like Little Anthony & the Imperials’ “I’m on the Outside (Looking In)” and War’s “Don’t Let No One Get You Down” spoke of perseverance and a desire to be accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/1000-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/1000-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/1000-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/1000-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/1000.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe in his studio on Oct. 9, 2018, in Palm Springs, Calif. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Russell Contreras)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born Arthur Egnoian in Salt Lake City to an Armenian-American family, Laboe grew up during the Great Depression in a Mormon household run by a single mom. His sister sent him his first radio when he was 8 years old. The voices and stories that came from it enveloped him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I haven’t let go since,” Laboe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He moved to California, attended Stanford University and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Eventually, he landed a job as a radio announcer at KSAN in San Francisco and adopted the name Art Laboe after a boss suggested he take the last name of a secretary to sound more American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later returned to the Southern California area, but a radio station owner told the aspiring announcer he should work on becoming a “radio personality” instead. As a DJ for KXLA in Los Angeles, Laboe bought station time and hosted live overnight music shows from drive-ins where he would meet underground rockabilly and R&B musicians. “I got my own built-in research,” Laboe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He soon became one of the first DJs to play R&B and rock ‘n’ roll in California. Teen listeners soon identified Laboe’s voice with the fledgling rock ‘n’ roll scene. By 1956, Laboe had an afternoon show and became the city’s top radio program. Cars jammed Sunset Boulevard where Laboe broadcast his show, and advertisers jumped to get a piece of the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Elvis Presley came to Hollywood, Laboe was one of the few to get an interview with the new rockabilly star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13907004']The scene that Laboe helped cultivate in California became of the nation’s most diverse. Places such as the El Monte’s American Legion Stadium played much of the music Laboe aired on his radio show, giving birth to a new youth subculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe maintained a strong following throughout the years and transformed into a promoter of aging rock ‘n’ roll acts who never faded from Mexican-American fans of oldies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Art Laboe, the pioneering radio DJ who read heartfelt song dedications to generations of loyal listeners and was credited with helping end segregation in Southern California during an eight-decade broadcast career, has died. He was 97.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe died Friday night at home in Palm Springs, California, after catching pneumonia, said Joanna Morones, a spokesperson for Laboe’s production company, Dart Entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His final show was produced last week and broadcast Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe is credited with helping end segregation in Southern California by organizing live DJ shows at drive-in eateries that attracted white, Black and Latino listeners who danced to rock ‘n’ roll — and shocked an older generation still listening to Frank Sinatra and Big Band music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DJ is also credited with coining the phrase “oldies but goodies.” In 1957, he started Original Sound Record, Inc. and in 1958, released the compilation album \u003cem>Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 1\u003c/em>, which stayed on the Billboard’s Top 100 chart for 183 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 449px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-74258282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-74258282.jpg 449w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-74258282-160x212.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe and host of the television show ‘American Bandstand’ Dick Clark chat, circa 1960. \u003ccite>(Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He later developed a strong following among Mexican Americans for hosting the syndicated \u003cem>The Art Laboe Connection Show\u003c/em>. His baritone voice invited listeners to call in dedications and request a ’50s-era rock ‘n’ roll love ballad or a rhythm and blues tune from Alicia Keys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His radio shows gave the families of incarcerated loved ones, in particular, a platform to speak to their relatives by dedicating songs and sending heartfelt messages and updates. California and Arizona inmates would send in their own dedications and ask Laboe for updates from family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a role Laboe said he felt honored to play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t judge,” Laboe said in a 2018 interview with The Associated Press at his Palm Springs studio. “I like people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He often told a story about a woman who came by the studio so her toddler could tell her father, who was serving time for a violent crime, “Daddy, I love you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time he had heard his baby’s voice,” Laboe said. “And this tough, hard-nosed guy burst into tears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Macias, a University of California, Riverside ethnic studies professor, said the music Laboe played went with the dedications, enhancing the messages. For example, songs like Little Anthony & the Imperials’ “I’m on the Outside (Looking In)” and War’s “Don’t Let No One Get You Down” spoke of perseverance and a desire to be accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/1000-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/1000-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/1000-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/1000-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/1000.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Laboe in his studio on Oct. 9, 2018, in Palm Springs, Calif. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Russell Contreras)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born Arthur Egnoian in Salt Lake City to an Armenian-American family, Laboe grew up during the Great Depression in a Mormon household run by a single mom. His sister sent him his first radio when he was 8 years old. The voices and stories that came from it enveloped him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I haven’t let go since,” Laboe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He moved to California, attended Stanford University and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Eventually, he landed a job as a radio announcer at KSAN in San Francisco and adopted the name Art Laboe after a boss suggested he take the last name of a secretary to sound more American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later returned to the Southern California area, but a radio station owner told the aspiring announcer he should work on becoming a “radio personality” instead. As a DJ for KXLA in Los Angeles, Laboe bought station time and hosted live overnight music shows from drive-ins where he would meet underground rockabilly and R&B musicians. “I got my own built-in research,” Laboe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He soon became one of the first DJs to play R&B and rock ‘n’ roll in California. Teen listeners soon identified Laboe’s voice with the fledgling rock ‘n’ roll scene. By 1956, Laboe had an afternoon show and became the city’s top radio program. Cars jammed Sunset Boulevard where Laboe broadcast his show, and advertisers jumped to get a piece of the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Elvis Presley came to Hollywood, Laboe was one of the few to get an interview with the new rockabilly star.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The scene that Laboe helped cultivate in California became of the nation’s most diverse. Places such as the El Monte’s American Legion Stadium played much of the music Laboe aired on his radio show, giving birth to a new youth subculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laboe maintained a strong following throughout the years and transformed into a promoter of aging rock ‘n’ roll acts who never faded from Mexican-American fans of oldies. A permanent display of Laboe’s contributions resides in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, iHeartMedia’s KHHT-FM dropped Laboe’s syndicated oldies show after the station abruptly switched to a hip-hop format, sparking angry protests in Los Angeles. “Without Art Laboe, I’m So Lonely I Could Cry,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/03/02/without-art-laboe-im-so-lonely-i-could-cry/ideas/nexus/\">wrote essayist\u003c/a> Adam Vine. Later that year, Laboe returned to the Los Angeles airwaves on another station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lalo Alcaraz, a syndicated cartoonist and television writer who grew up listening to Laboe in San Diego, said the DJ maintained a strong following among Mexican Americans for generations because he always played Latino, white and Black artists together on his shows. Laboe also didn’t appear to judge listeners who asked for dedications for loved ones in prison, Alcaraz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here is someone who gave a voice to the most humble of us all through music,” Alcaraz said. “He brought us together. That’s why we sought him out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Nogales, president and CEO of the Los Angeles-based National Hispanic Media Coalition, said generations of Latino fans attended Laboe-sponsored concerts to hear the likes of Smokey Robinson, The Spinners or Sunny & The Sunliners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see these really tough looking guys in the crowd. I mean, they look scary,” Nogales said. “Then Art comes out and they just melt. They love him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Former Associated Press reporter Russell Contreras contributed biographical material to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "‘He Should Still Be Here’: Zumbi’s Loved Ones Demand Charges for Hospital Staff, Security",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the last weeks of his life, Oakland hip-hop artist Stephen Gaines, better known as Zumbi of Zion I, had started a hopeful new chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2021, he headlined a concert in Nevada City where eager fans lined up for pictures and autographs. He’d come down with COVID-19 after the show, but with his partner of four years, Millaray Rodriguez Avila, he began recovering. The couple visited the beach and went on hikes, and Gaines regained his appetite, eating second helpings of vegan ramen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaines laid plans to release new music and embark upon a Zion I reunion tour with his longtime musical collaborator, Amp Live. He and Rodriguez Avila prepared to sign a lease on a house in Oakland, where they planned to live with Gaines’ mother, his young three boys and Rodriguez Avila’s middle school-age son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of those plans ground to a halt on Aug. 13, 2021, when Gaines was killed during a stay at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. [aside postid='arts_13920004']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day prior, Gaines had called 911 for help during an apparent mental health crisis and checked himself into Alta Bates. His family and their lawyers say he should have walked out of the hospital alive. Instead, they allege, hospital staff and Allied Universal security guards used excessive force and killed him. According to the coroner’s report, three men, including a patient transporter and a security guard, piled on top of Gaines, placing their weight on his arms, legs and upper torso. They held Gaines to the ground for approximately five to 10 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner determined that Gaines died by homicide, with the official cause of death as “physiologic stress of altercation and restraint during a psychotic episode,” and COVID-19 and an enlarged heart as contributing factors. Yet more than a year since Gaines’ death, Berkeley police have not announced any suspects nor made arrests. After initially stating that Gaines’ killing did not “appear criminal in nature,” the Alameda County District Attorney’s office reversed course on Oct. 5 and announced that, in light of new information, criminal charges could still be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi%E2%80%99s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zumbi’s family joins the main stage for a tribute to the Zion I MC at the Hiero Day festival in Oakland on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The restraints used by a combination of Allied Universal staff and Alta Bates staff [were] homicidal,” says Elizabeth Grossman, one of the attorneys representing Gaines’ mother Carolyn, Gaines’ three boys and Rodriguez Avila. Grossman says criminal charges are likely, and that she plans to file a civil lawsuit against Alta Bates hospital and Allied Universal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Ms. Gaines said it right when she was talking to Nancy O’Malley, the district attorney, the other day,” says Grossman. “She sadly recognized that she’s joined a terrible, small club of mothers whose sons have been murdered — not only sons, but children who have been murdered — and she called out George Floyd’s mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement’s lack of answers and long delays have frustrated those close to Gaines. Now, on what would have been Gaines’ 50th birthday, Oct. 9, loved ones who’d previously stayed silent as the investigation took its course are demanding answers and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing I want is charges for the people who are responsible for ending a beautiful life the way that they did,” says Rodriguez Avila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/millaray-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millaray Rodriguez Avila holds a photo of Stephen Gaines, her partner of four years. Before he died under suspicious circumstances at Alta Bates hospital, the couple had plans to move in together with Gaines’ mother, his three boys and Rodriguez Avila’s son. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lawyers point to wrongful treatment on the hospital floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the coroner’s report, Gaines called 911 on Aug. 12, 2021, to seek help for suicidal ideation. He checked himself into the hospital, where he was placed on a 5150, the code for a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold. His toxicology screen was negative, and he was given anti-anxiety medication. Rodriguez Avila says she communicated with Gaines while he was in the hospital, and that he seemed optimistic about his recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sleeping through most of the night, the report says, Gaines awoke suddenly in his bed as attending nurses discussed ordering a CT scan. Witnesses said he chased nurses through the halls and put a pregnant security guard “in a choke hold.” After security and staff pulled Gaines from the guard, a patient transporter took Gaines to the floor, held him face down, and laid on top of him, straddling Gaines’ upper torso. A security guard later piled on top of the patient transporter, putting additional weight on Gaines’ torso, back, and left arm. A third person restrained Gaines’ legs and left elbow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unknown how much body weight was placed on Mr. Gaines,” the coroner’s report notes. Witnesses estimate Gaines was on the ground for “approximately 5-10 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few minutes of struggle, according to the autopsy, the men on top of Gaines noticed blood coming from his mouth, and “could not tell if he was breathing.” When Berkeley police arrived, they attempted to handcuff Gaines while the three men stood up. Officers noticed that Gaines was unresponsive, rolled him on his back, and then put him in handcuffs before administering CPR. By then it was too late. Gaines was pronounced dead at 5:51 a.m. on Aug. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Millaray Rodriguez Avila']‘I want the truth. What happened that day? How did security and hospital staff end [the life of] a person who was so beautiful?’[/pullquote]That morning, Rodriguez Avila got a call from the hospital director. The partner she had been building a life with was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of collapsed,” she says now, over a year later. “I lost myself, where I was. I thought it was a movie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the truth,” Rodriguez Avila continues. “What happened that day? How did security and hospital staff end [the life of] a person who was so beautiful?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and friends who knew Gaines for decades describe him as a kind, gentle soul — a loving parent, partner and friend. They remember him as a health-conscious meditation practitioner who aspired to be his best self and encouraged people to be kinder to each other. That message was audible in his music, which often dealt with themes of societal injustices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He taught me love,” says Rodriguez Avila. “In our relationship, the beautiful thing is that love, that passion that we had for each other, it was around us, too. It was with our kids. It was with our friends. Everywhere we [went], we projected and received back love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember him as somebody who always spread love and spread light, and somebody who was an innovator, extremely creative, original,” says friend and fellow hip-hop artist Dustin Sharpe. “Almost like a God-sent prophet because he always spoke wisdom. He always looked at the positive side of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people close to Gaines say he didn’t have a history of mental illness. He dealt with normal life stressors from parenthood and his career as an artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I heard that he brought himself to the hospital, I knew that something was up, that he must have been going through something,” says longtime friend and musical collaborator The Grouch. “People can reach a point of struggle, and whatever happens in that hospital, the hospital is the professionals, and they should be trained to take care of the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal regulations outline safe techniques for restraining patients in hospitals. “They specifically call out in the federal regulations that there cannot be positional asphyxiation,” Grossman says. “Most importantly, the regulations require that medical aid be given while restraints are being applied. These regulations were written with a history of understanding that mental health situations often result in restraints being used, and trying to correct bad practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case, every bad practice happened,” Grossman continues. “For the five to 10 minutes that he was being restrained with three men lying on his back, there was not one ounce of medical care offered to save this man’s life. That is ugly beyond belief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='left' citation='Deuce Eclipse']‘The bottom line for me is he should still be here.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends of Gaines are frustrated law enforcement hasn’t named any suspects. “What are the names of these people who laid on him for five to 10 minutes thinking that was right, whether he was having an episode or not?” says Gina Madrid, a friend and fellow hip-hop artist. “Because you’re not going to kill our brother like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have to be held accountable,” says hip-hop artist Deuce Eclipse, who had been close with Gaines since the two were in high school. “The bottom line for me is he should still be here. There’s no reason I can find in my mind, my heart, my spirit and my soul why he would be killed in the hospital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley police, Alta Bates or its security company, Allied Universal, did not respond to requests for comment as of press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/DSC01278_FreeReinTour_2018.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zumbi (back right) backstage with his friend Deuce Eclipse (front right) in 2018. The two had been close since high school. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Deuce Eclipse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Loved ones call for accountability for hospital security guards and staff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the eyes of his partner and friends, Gaines’ death is another example of authority figures treating the life of a Black person as disposable. For Rodriguez Avila, the loss was shocking, but it also felt disturbingly familiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s happened before in this country. It’s happened in California. It’s happened in the Bay Area before,” she says. “And there’s so many families, mothers, brothers, sisters that are waiting for answers for other brown, Latino and Black people that have been killed by use of force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others, what happened to Gaines is indicative of abuse and racism in the medical and criminal justice systems. “I think that there needs to be a magnifying glass put on the hospitals and how they function,” says The Grouch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes the private security companies that hospitals hire. Allied Universal is a multi-billion-dollar global conglomerate that operates in 90 countries and employs 800,000. Liv Styler, a friend of Gaines and an independent journalist, points out that \u003ca href=\"https://livmuthafknstyler.medium.com/misuse-of-force-is-an-under-reported-epidemic-in-private-security-and-may-have-played-a-role-in-the-646f2627375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">security guards receive significantly less use-of-force training than police officers\u003c/a>. Unlike police, security guards have no public oversight. They aren’t compelled to disclose information by public records laws, which makes it possible to hide misconduct. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/07/10/california-has-no-clear-use-of-force-standard-for-security-guards-regulators-say-that-leaves-their-hands-tied/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another death at the hands of Allied Universal security guards\u003c/a> in 2019 prompted a new California law that will \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/10/28/new-california-law-requires-use-of-force-training-for-security-guards-prompted-by-capradio-investigation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">create use-of-force standards\u003c/a> for the industry in 2023.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11907746']“We need the same type of pressure that happened with police officers to happen with private security,” Styler says. “I think the fact that no one even really considers it an issue is huge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation into Gaines’ death lasted for over a year, the Alameda County Coroner’s Bureau has said, because of delays in obtaining the toxicology report. Meanwhile, the delay in the district attorney’s decision on whether or not to file charges is “becoming detrimental to the case, and also just to the emotions and the sentiment of those who are close to him as we try to process this,” says musician and longtime friend Kev Choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Gaines’ friends and family fear there could be further obstacles. O’Malley, the Alameda County District Attorney, will retire when her term ends at the beginning of 2023. A spokesperson for the D.A. told KQED on Oct. 7 that there is currently no timeline for a decision in Gaines’ case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been 14 months,” says Rodriguez Avila. “What is gonna happen to the review of the case she says that she’s doing? I want to know the result of the review … I want her to [file] charges before she leaves office, before the elections in November next month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m learning for the first time how to go day-by-day without my love. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner determined that Gaines died by homicide, with the official cause of death as “physiologic stress of altercation and restraint during a psychotic episode,” and COVID-19 and an enlarged heart as contributing factors. Yet more than a year since Gaines’ death, Berkeley police have not announced any suspects nor made arrests. After initially stating that Gaines’ killing did not “appear criminal in nature,” the Alameda County District Attorney’s office reversed course on Oct. 5 and announced that, in light of new information, criminal charges could still be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13918678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13918678\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi%E2%80%99s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/Baba-Zumbi’s-Family-on-the-main-stage-at-Hiero-Day-in-Oakland-on-Monday-Sept.-6-2022.-002-Estefany-Gonzalez.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zumbi’s family joins the main stage for a tribute to the Zion I MC at the Hiero Day festival in Oakland on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The restraints used by a combination of Allied Universal staff and Alta Bates staff [were] homicidal,” says Elizabeth Grossman, one of the attorneys representing Gaines’ mother Carolyn, Gaines’ three boys and Rodriguez Avila. Grossman says criminal charges are likely, and that she plans to file a civil lawsuit against Alta Bates hospital and Allied Universal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think Ms. Gaines said it right when she was talking to Nancy O’Malley, the district attorney, the other day,” says Grossman. “She sadly recognized that she’s joined a terrible, small club of mothers whose sons have been murdered — not only sons, but children who have been murdered — and she called out George Floyd’s mother.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement’s lack of answers and long delays have frustrated those close to Gaines. Now, on what would have been Gaines’ 50th birthday, Oct. 9, loved ones who’d previously stayed silent as the investigation took its course are demanding answers and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing I want is charges for the people who are responsible for ending a beautiful life the way that they did,” says Rodriguez Avila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13920210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/millaray-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millaray Rodriguez Avila holds a photo of Stephen Gaines, her partner of four years. Before he died under suspicious circumstances at Alta Bates hospital, the couple had plans to move in together with Gaines’ mother, his three boys and Rodriguez Avila’s son. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lawyers point to wrongful treatment on the hospital floor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to the coroner’s report, Gaines called 911 on Aug. 12, 2021, to seek help for suicidal ideation. He checked himself into the hospital, where he was placed on a 5150, the code for a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold. His toxicology screen was negative, and he was given anti-anxiety medication. Rodriguez Avila says she communicated with Gaines while he was in the hospital, and that he seemed optimistic about his recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After sleeping through most of the night, the report says, Gaines awoke suddenly in his bed as attending nurses discussed ordering a CT scan. Witnesses said he chased nurses through the halls and put a pregnant security guard “in a choke hold.” After security and staff pulled Gaines from the guard, a patient transporter took Gaines to the floor, held him face down, and laid on top of him, straddling Gaines’ upper torso. A security guard later piled on top of the patient transporter, putting additional weight on Gaines’ torso, back, and left arm. A third person restrained Gaines’ legs and left elbow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unknown how much body weight was placed on Mr. Gaines,” the coroner’s report notes. Witnesses estimate Gaines was on the ground for “approximately 5-10 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few minutes of struggle, according to the autopsy, the men on top of Gaines noticed blood coming from his mouth, and “could not tell if he was breathing.” When Berkeley police arrived, they attempted to handcuff Gaines while the three men stood up. 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