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But those who knew him in Oakland, pre-fame, say the news feels especially personal and painful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CvYsrpfN93k/?hl=en\">Kehlani paid tribute to Cloud on her Instagram\u003c/a> shortly after the news broke, writing: “sat for a long time. u fucked the whole world up, but you really fucked everybody at home up. it’s a deep one. not too many words when it’s this close to home. not many words when it’s a bigger conversation. i ain’t got much more to say except the real person was more complex & more solid than a tv character. that person deserve to be remembered in totality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cloud’s effortless charisma made him an instant star as soon as \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> hit TV screens in 2019. Given the near-impossible task of making a violent drug dealer a character to root for, Cloud went one step further and succeeded in making Fezco O’Neill the most lovable character in the whole show. Cloud brought an indescribable depth and well of emotion to the screen, despite delivering almost all of his lines in his naturally slow monotone. In Cloud’s masterful hands, a sly glance or a subtle shoulder hunch said more than any dialog could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cloud’s \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> co-star and fellow Oaklander \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvaft3SL4Zr/\">Zendaya dedicated an Instagram post to him\u003c/a> on Tuesday. “Words are not enough to describe the infinite beauty that is Angus,” she wrote. “I’m so grateful I got the chance to know him in this life, to call him a brother, to see his warm kind eyes and bright smile, or hear his infectious cackle of a laugh.” She went on: “I’d like to remember him that way. For all of the boundless light, love and joy he always managed to give us. I’ll cherish every moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13932507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-800x595.jpg\" alt=\"A young mixed race woman wearing a black suit and purple shirt drapes one arm over the shoulder of a smiling, bearded white man who is wearing a tuxedo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-1020x758.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-768x571.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-1536x1142.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zendaya and Angus Cloud at the 2022 ‘Vanity Fair’ Oscar Party. \u003ccite>(Matt Winkelmeyer/ VF22/ WireImage for Vanity Fair)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cloud’s standout performance on \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> won him small roles in 2021’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11165716/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_5_act\">\u003cem>North Hollywood\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and 2023’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10092170/\">\u003cem>The Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He has three more movies set for release in the coming months. These include \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16424988/?ref_=nm_flmg_unrel_2_act\">\u003cem>Your Lucky Day\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (a thriller set in a convenience store), an as-yet-unnamed horror project for Universal, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21942598/\"> \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which weaves together four separate stories unfolding in 1987 Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin “Jwalt” Walton, who attended \u003ca href=\"https://www.oakarts.org/\">Oakland School for the Arts\u003c/a> with Cloud, said it meant a great deal to his friend to work on a project set in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was Oakland to the fullest and always made sure people knew where he was from,” Walton told KQED Arts via text. “He was proud to be from the town and supported everything and everyone coming from [here]. No matter where he went he always stayed true to himself and what he knew. He was a friend, a great spirit, and big brother to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13932545 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-800x498.png\" alt=\"A large scale black and white painting of a young man, on a brick wall. The word Angus is painted in white next to the portrait. On the floor near the mural is a collection of candles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-800x498.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-1020x635.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-768x478.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-1536x956.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM.png 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After news of his death broke, artists quickly painted a mural honoring Cloud on the back wall of Markato Auto Detail, at the intersection of Park Blvd. and E. 19th St. in Oakland. Cloud’s portrait is accompanied by the phrases “Long live Angus” and “We love you.” Artists include Darin, M27, Silent, Kalonsta, Mag Dre, Grame and Baby Dee. \u003ccite>(Ryce Stoughtenborough)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cloud graduated from OSA in 2016, despite \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2022/tv/features/angus-cloud-broken-skull-euphoria-icon-1235336673/\">breaking his skull falling down a massive construction pit\u003c/a> in downtown Oakland at the age of 15, and suffering minor brain damage. Kev Choice, who taught at the school when Cloud was a student, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CvaZqiIvxCb/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">remembered him fondly in a post on Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many in my Oakland community, and around the world, my heart is heavy,” Choice wrote. “I remember vividly seeing him walking around the [OSA] campus and hanging with my students. He had an energy and presence that always stood out and was definitely loved amongst his peers and school community … He reflected the natural brilliance of a lot of our youth, his peers, community, and represented Oakland to the fullest in every way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Cloud’s high school years, he also interned at \u003ca href=\"https://yr.media/\">Youth Radio\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://adp.fm/\">All Day Play\u003c/a> radio station. Former station manager Ben Frost remembers Cloud as “a kind of quirky, artistic kid who really didn’t give a fuck about anyone’s take on him.” Frost, like most people in Cloud’s private life, refers to the actor by his birth name, Conor. (Angus was Cloud’s middle name.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just a very visually creative young kid … a skater and a graffiti kid,” Frost told KQED Arts. “[San Jose DJ \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/THE_CME/\">Cory “The C.M.E.” Randolph\u003c/a>] and his crew had this show on the station for a while called \u003cem>Oops Upside Your Head\u003c/em> and Conor did this one artwork for them that was so freaking good, I was blown away by it. I was trying to convince them to make T-shirts and stuff out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Frost, watching Cloud become a respected actor and fashion VIP was surreal. “It was crazy to me to just know that this wavy kid who was somewhat of a wild young man was suddenly this international icon,” he said. “He was just a very kind, humble dude who was very sincerely into the art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13932549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Four square graphics featuring graffiti-style lettering in bright colors. One says 'Sick Sad.' Another says 'All Day Players.' Another says 'Streets is Talking.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork made by a young Angus Cloud during his time interning at Youth Radio. “We’d go through all of the lessons about how everyone does normal graphic design,” Frost says. “He’d be like, ‘Yeah, I’m just going to hand draw it all with the mouse…’” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ben Frost)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the places Cloud skated in his formative years was \u003ca href=\"https://blog.skateboard.com.au/skateparks/united-states-of-america/town-park-skatepark/\">Town Park Skatepark\u003c/a> in West Oakland. Town Park founder and artist K-Dub told KQED Arts that, even post-fame, Cloud had kept in touch with him and other friends from the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It says something about that tight-knit community of skaters and young people trying to find themselves in this wacky world,” K-Dub said. “[Cloud] was part of a crew that would show up after school and help out when we were working on the ramps and everything. He and his friends would skate and film each other. They were a tight crew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K-Dub continued: “Hopefully, for our Oakland youth, they know that being creative and following your dreams as an outlet should always be a goal. And should have support. Sometimes you don’t know how much you’re supported … And things like this is when the town kind of puts its arms around you and says, ‘Hey, we recognize you and we appreciate you and love you’. Our Town Park kids are very proud of him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13932546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-800x531.png\" alt=\"A priority mail address sticker decorated with two clouds - one with a happy face, one shedding a tear - stuck to a post in front of a graffiti'd wall. The clouds have the word ANGUS scrawled between them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-768x510.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-1536x1020.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM.png 1614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homemade tribute to Cloud, stuck to a post near the new mural of him in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Ryce Stoughtenborough)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland School for the Arts also expressed pride over Cloud’s achievements in \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakarts.org/announcements/?capostid=74109\">a tribute to the actor on their website\u003c/a> posted on Monday afternoon. The school called his death a “tremendous loss.” The statement also noted: “Angus is remembered as a multifaceted and talented artist in Instrumental Music, Digital Media and Production Design who had a huge presence at OSA … We are equally proud of Angus’ artistic accomplishments in his career since graduating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cloud was big brother to twins Molly and Fiona, and son to Lisa Cloud and Conor Hickey. Hickey originally hailed from Ireland, and died there on May 18 after a brief illness. Cloud posted \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CurfSsxsZQJ/?hl=en\">a photo of his father\u003c/a> to Instagram on July 14, captioned simply, “miss u breh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains additional reporting by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/achazaro\">Alan Chazaro\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ogpenn\">Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cloud’s \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> co-star and fellow Oaklander \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvaft3SL4Zr/\">Zendaya dedicated an Instagram post to him\u003c/a> on Tuesday. “Words are not enough to describe the infinite beauty that is Angus,” she wrote. “I’m so grateful I got the chance to know him in this life, to call him a brother, to see his warm kind eyes and bright smile, or hear his infectious cackle of a laugh.” She went on: “I’d like to remember him that way. For all of the boundless light, love and joy he always managed to give us. I’ll cherish every moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932507\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13932507\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-800x595.jpg\" alt=\"A young mixed race woman wearing a black suit and purple shirt drapes one arm over the shoulder of a smiling, bearded white man who is wearing a tuxedo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-1020x758.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-768x571.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319-1536x1142.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/GettyImages-1388131771-scaled-e1690925992319.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zendaya and Angus Cloud at the 2022 ‘Vanity Fair’ Oscar Party. \u003ccite>(Matt Winkelmeyer/ VF22/ WireImage for Vanity Fair)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cloud’s standout performance on \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> won him small roles in 2021’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11165716/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_5_act\">\u003cem>North Hollywood\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and 2023’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10092170/\">\u003cem>The Line\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He has three more movies set for release in the coming months. These include \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16424988/?ref_=nm_flmg_unrel_2_act\">\u003cem>Your Lucky Day\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (a thriller set in a convenience store), an as-yet-unnamed horror project for Universal, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21942598/\"> \u003cem>Freaky Tales\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which weaves together four separate stories unfolding in 1987 Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin “Jwalt” Walton, who attended \u003ca href=\"https://www.oakarts.org/\">Oakland School for the Arts\u003c/a> with Cloud, said it meant a great deal to his friend to work on a project set in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was Oakland to the fullest and always made sure people knew where he was from,” Walton told KQED Arts via text. “He was proud to be from the town and supported everything and everyone coming from [here]. No matter where he went he always stayed true to himself and what he knew. He was a friend, a great spirit, and big brother to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13932545 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-800x498.png\" alt=\"A large scale black and white painting of a young man, on a brick wall. The word Angus is painted in white next to the portrait. On the floor near the mural is a collection of candles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-800x498.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-1020x635.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-768x478.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM-1536x956.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.13.13-AM.png 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After news of his death broke, artists quickly painted a mural honoring Cloud on the back wall of Markato Auto Detail, at the intersection of Park Blvd. and E. 19th St. in Oakland. Cloud’s portrait is accompanied by the phrases “Long live Angus” and “We love you.” Artists include Darin, M27, Silent, Kalonsta, Mag Dre, Grame and Baby Dee. \u003ccite>(Ryce Stoughtenborough)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cloud graduated from OSA in 2016, despite \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2022/tv/features/angus-cloud-broken-skull-euphoria-icon-1235336673/\">breaking his skull falling down a massive construction pit\u003c/a> in downtown Oakland at the age of 15, and suffering minor brain damage. Kev Choice, who taught at the school when Cloud was a student, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CvaZqiIvxCb/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">remembered him fondly in a post on Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many in my Oakland community, and around the world, my heart is heavy,” Choice wrote. “I remember vividly seeing him walking around the [OSA] campus and hanging with my students. He had an energy and presence that always stood out and was definitely loved amongst his peers and school community … He reflected the natural brilliance of a lot of our youth, his peers, community, and represented Oakland to the fullest in every way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Cloud’s high school years, he also interned at \u003ca href=\"https://yr.media/\">Youth Radio\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://adp.fm/\">All Day Play\u003c/a> radio station. Former station manager Ben Frost remembers Cloud as “a kind of quirky, artistic kid who really didn’t give a fuck about anyone’s take on him.” Frost, like most people in Cloud’s private life, refers to the actor by his birth name, Conor. (Angus was Cloud’s middle name.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just a very visually creative young kid … a skater and a graffiti kid,” Frost told KQED Arts. “[San Jose DJ \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/THE_CME/\">Cory “The C.M.E.” Randolph\u003c/a>] and his crew had this show on the station for a while called \u003cem>Oops Upside Your Head\u003c/em> and Conor did this one artwork for them that was so freaking good, I was blown away by it. I was trying to convince them to make T-shirts and stuff out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Frost, watching Cloud become a respected actor and fashion VIP was surreal. “It was crazy to me to just know that this wavy kid who was somewhat of a wild young man was suddenly this international icon,” he said. “He was just a very kind, humble dude who was very sincerely into the art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13932549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Four square graphics featuring graffiti-style lettering in bright colors. One says 'Sick Sad.' Another says 'All Day Players.' Another says 'Streets is Talking.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Angus-Cloud-artwork-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork made by a young Angus Cloud during his time interning at Youth Radio. “We’d go through all of the lessons about how everyone does normal graphic design,” Frost says. “He’d be like, ‘Yeah, I’m just going to hand draw it all with the mouse…’” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ben Frost)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the places Cloud skated in his formative years was \u003ca href=\"https://blog.skateboard.com.au/skateparks/united-states-of-america/town-park-skatepark/\">Town Park Skatepark\u003c/a> in West Oakland. Town Park founder and artist K-Dub told KQED Arts that, even post-fame, Cloud had kept in touch with him and other friends from the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It says something about that tight-knit community of skaters and young people trying to find themselves in this wacky world,” K-Dub said. “[Cloud] was part of a crew that would show up after school and help out when we were working on the ramps and everything. He and his friends would skate and film each other. They were a tight crew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K-Dub continued: “Hopefully, for our Oakland youth, they know that being creative and following your dreams as an outlet should always be a goal. And should have support. Sometimes you don’t know how much you’re supported … And things like this is when the town kind of puts its arms around you and says, ‘Hey, we recognize you and we appreciate you and love you’. Our Town Park kids are very proud of him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13932546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13932546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-800x531.png\" alt=\"A priority mail address sticker decorated with two clouds - one with a happy face, one shedding a tear - stuck to a post in front of a graffiti'd wall. The clouds have the word ANGUS scrawled between them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-800x531.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-1020x677.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-768x510.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM-1536x1020.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-10.20.44-AM.png 1614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homemade tribute to Cloud, stuck to a post near the new mural of him in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Ryce Stoughtenborough)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland School for the Arts also expressed pride over Cloud’s achievements in \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakarts.org/announcements/?capostid=74109\">a tribute to the actor on their website\u003c/a> posted on Monday afternoon. The school called his death a “tremendous loss.” The statement also noted: “Angus is remembered as a multifaceted and talented artist in Instrumental Music, Digital Media and Production Design who had a huge presence at OSA … We are equally proud of Angus’ artistic accomplishments in his career since graduating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cloud was big brother to twins Molly and Fiona, and son to Lisa Cloud and Conor Hickey. Hickey originally hailed from Ireland, and died there on May 18 after a brief illness. Cloud posted \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CurfSsxsZQJ/?hl=en\">a photo of his father\u003c/a> to Instagram on July 14, captioned simply, “miss u breh.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Reubens made his name in the 1980s with the fun-loving character of Pee-wee Herman, which brought ostentatious camp to Saturday morning TV and the movie theater screen. The character with his too-tight gray suit, white chunky loafers and red bow tie was best known for the film \u003cem>Pee-wee’s Big Adventure\u003c/em> and the TV series \u003cem>Pee-wee’s Playhouse\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman created Pee-wee when he was part of the Los Angeles improv group The Groundlings in the late 1970s. The live \u003cem>Pee-wee Herman Show\u003c/em> debuted at a Los Angeles theater in 1981 and was a success with both kids during matinees and adults at a midnight show. HBO would air the show as a special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She was a star from her 1987 debut album T\u003cem>he Lion and the Cobra\u003c/em> and became a sensation in 1990 with her cover of Prince’s ballad “Nothing Compares 2 U,” a seething, shattering performance that topped charts from Europe to Australia and was heightened by a video featuring the gray-eyed O’Connor in intense close-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #ffffff\">p\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n“Nothing Compares 2 U” received three Grammy nominations and was the featured track off her acclaimed album \u003cem>I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got\u003c/em>, which helped lead \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> to name her Artist of the Year in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She proved that a recording artist could refuse to compromise and still connect with millions of listeners hungry for music of substance,” the magazine declared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was a lifelong non-conformist — she would say that she shaved her head in response to record executives pressuring her to be conventionally glamorous — but her political and cultural stances and troubled private life often overshadowed her music. She feuded with Frank Sinatra over her refusal to allow the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at one of her shows and accused Prince of physically threatening her. In 1989 she declared her support for the Irish Republican Army, a statement she retracted a year later. Around the same time, she skipped the Grammy ceremony, saying it was too commercialized.[aside postid='arts_13919744']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critic of the Catholic Church well before allegations sexual abuse were widely reported, O’Connor made headlines in October 1992 when she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II while appearing live on NBC’s \u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> and denounced the church as the enemy. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1480\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_.jpg 1480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1480px) 100vw, 1480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bennett performs at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco in February, 2000. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he first time I ever saw Tony Bennett was in 1995, for a free noontime show in Union Square. In San Francisco. Naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After proclamations by various city figures — I distinctly remember Angela Alioto got booed — Bennett took the stage with his trio of piano, bass and drums, and went right into what he did so well, over and over. What he was unquestionably born to do, really, until his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931917/tony-bennett-dies-at-96\">death this week at age 96\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My friend Kim and I stood in the large crowd with a sense of awe. There we were, seeing a legend, Tony Bennett, for free, singing timeless numbers like “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” and “Fly Me to the Moon” with elegant grace. All around the square, the city seemed to grind to a halt. Cabbies on Geary Street leaned their heads out to listen. Hotel guests in the upper floors of the St. Francis watched out of their windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, in the heart of the city with which he’d be forever associated, Tony Bennett started singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” The crowd collectively sighed — a good sigh — as Bennett settled into the familiar verse about going home to his city by the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right then and there, in the middle of Tony Bennett singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” a cable car rattled up Powell Street behind the stage, piercing the hushed city quiet. In a moment I’ll never forget, right on time with the song, it rang its bell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931943\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1963\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-800x614.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-1020x782.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-768x589.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-1536x1178.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-2048x1571.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-1920x1473.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein rides a cable car with Tony Bennett. June 22, 1984. \u003ccite>(Frederic Larson/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There was no singer in the world like Tony Bennett. Or, I should say, there were many singers \u003cem>like\u003c/em> Bennett, tons of Steve Lawrences and Vic Damones and Al Martinos. But none on his level of seemingly effortless technique, nor his gift of interpretation. As Frank Sinatra once said, in his famous quote to \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> magazine about Bennett being “the best singer in the business”: “He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How Bennett came to record the defining song about San Francisco is a story \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20160807090410/http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/where-the-heart-is-the-story-behind-san-franciscos-official-ballad-tony-bennett-george-cory-the-fairmont-hotel-i-left-my-heart-in-san-fra/Content?oid=4814656&showFullText=true\">full of improbable twists and turns\u003c/a>, ending with the city adopting it as \u003ca href=\"https://sfmuseum.org/hist1/song.html\">one of two official songs\u003c/a>, artist-painted \u003ca href=\"https://sfghf.org/hearts-in-san-francisco/\">hearts all over the city\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/tony-bennett-honored-with-statue-for-90th-birthday-in-san-francisco-7480167/\">statue in front of the Fairmont Hotel\u003c/a>, and the ceremonial \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC-vb76c30g\">playing of the song at the ballpark after Giants games\u003c/a>. (Or, occasionally, Bennett \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB5WJsaOM7Q\">waltzing onto the field and singing it live\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1728\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931964\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-768x518.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-2048x1382.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-1920x1296.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Giants Willie Mays (L) stands with singer Tony Bennett (R) as the San Francisco Giants honor Bennett for his 90th birthday prior to the start of the game against the New York Mets at AT&T Park on August 19, 2016 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Written by George Cory and Douglass Cross, a gay couple then living in Lake County, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” was recorded almost on a fluke. In 1959, Cory and Cross had run into Bennett’s pianist Ralph Sharon on the street in New York and handed him the sheet music. Two whole years later, before going on the road out West, Sharon tossed it into his suitcase on a whim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After trying the song out in after-hours sessions, Bennett premiered it at the Venetian Room of the Fairmont Hotel in 1961; the applause was so great he was forced to turn right around and sing it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone liked “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” Herb Caen once called it “a travel poster, and just as two-dimensional.” Bob Grimes, a San Francisco store proprietor who built one of the largest private collections of sheet music in the country, said to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> that it was “saccharine, soporific and focuses on people who are out of the city rather than its residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, Bennett had \u003cem>so many other songs\u003c/em>. Hundreds. “Just In Time.” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” “The Good Life.” “Because of You.” “For Once in My Life.” The list goes \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1072910960245977089\">on and on\u003c/a>. All indelible reminders that love and sincerity are more valuable than jadedness and irony. All sung in thousands of concerts all over the globe, and punctuated on the final downbeat by Bennett’s signature pose: outstretching his arms to the audience and smiling wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bennett performs on stage during a concert in Everett, Massachusetts in 2019. \u003ccite>(JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was lucky to have seen Bennett six or seven times over the years. One time I paid $125 for a ticket; another time, I snuck in for free. Yet another time I hung around the backstage door afterward to watch him emerge, flanked by two large Italian bodyguards, and got to shake his hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time he came around was in 2018, two years into his Alzheimer’s diagnosis. I had made an unusual habit of bringing tattooed friends from the punk scene to see Tony Bennett with me, but this time was special: I went with my 9-year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an incredible 92 years old, he sang 24 songs. And then, at the end of the night, came another Tony Bennett moment I’ll never forget: he set the microphone down, walked to the front of the stage, and, unamplified, sang “Fly Me to the Moon” to the rafters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP9skLqKQ2c\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It brought the house down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that Tony Bennett genuinely loved San Francisco. But San Francisco loved him right back, tenfold. Wherever he is now, he’s left much more than his heart here. Indeed, a giant piece of him is woven into this city — and me — forever.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931947\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1480\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_.jpg 1480w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.MAIN_-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1480px) 100vw, 1480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bennett performs at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco in February, 2000. \u003ccite>(Lea Suzuki / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he first time I ever saw Tony Bennett was in 1995, for a free noontime show in Union Square. In San Francisco. Naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After proclamations by various city figures — I distinctly remember Angela Alioto got booed — Bennett took the stage with his trio of piano, bass and drums, and went right into what he did so well, over and over. What he was unquestionably born to do, really, until his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931917/tony-bennett-dies-at-96\">death this week at age 96\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My friend Kim and I stood in the large crowd with a sense of awe. There we were, seeing a legend, Tony Bennett, for free, singing timeless numbers like “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” and “Fly Me to the Moon” with elegant grace. All around the square, the city seemed to grind to a halt. Cabbies on Geary Street leaned their heads out to listen. Hotel guests in the upper floors of the St. Francis watched out of their windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, in the heart of the city with which he’d be forever associated, Tony Bennett started singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” The crowd collectively sighed — a good sigh — as Bennett settled into the familiar verse about going home to his city by the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right then and there, in the middle of Tony Bennett singing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” a cable car rattled up Powell Street behind the stage, piercing the hushed city quiet. In a moment I’ll never forget, right on time with the song, it rang its bell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931943\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1963\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-800x614.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-1020x782.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-768x589.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-1536x1178.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-2048x1571.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1298825223-1920x1473.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein rides a cable car with Tony Bennett. June 22, 1984. \u003ccite>(Frederic Larson/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There was no singer in the world like Tony Bennett. Or, I should say, there were many singers \u003cem>like\u003c/em> Bennett, tons of Steve Lawrences and Vic Damones and Al Martinos. But none on his level of seemingly effortless technique, nor his gift of interpretation. As Frank Sinatra once said, in his famous quote to \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> magazine about Bennett being “the best singer in the business”: “He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How Bennett came to record the defining song about San Francisco is a story \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20160807090410/http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/where-the-heart-is-the-story-behind-san-franciscos-official-ballad-tony-bennett-george-cory-the-fairmont-hotel-i-left-my-heart-in-san-fra/Content?oid=4814656&showFullText=true\">full of improbable twists and turns\u003c/a>, ending with the city adopting it as \u003ca href=\"https://sfmuseum.org/hist1/song.html\">one of two official songs\u003c/a>, artist-painted \u003ca href=\"https://sfghf.org/hearts-in-san-francisco/\">hearts all over the city\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/tony-bennett-honored-with-statue-for-90th-birthday-in-san-francisco-7480167/\">statue in front of the Fairmont Hotel\u003c/a>, and the ceremonial \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC-vb76c30g\">playing of the song at the ballpark after Giants games\u003c/a>. (Or, occasionally, Bennett \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB5WJsaOM7Q\">waltzing onto the field and singing it live\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931964\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1728\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931964\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-800x540.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-768x518.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-2048x1382.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-595239568-1920x1296.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Giants Willie Mays (L) stands with singer Tony Bennett (R) as the San Francisco Giants honor Bennett for his 90th birthday prior to the start of the game against the New York Mets at AT&T Park on August 19, 2016 in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Written by George Cory and Douglass Cross, a gay couple then living in Lake County, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” was recorded almost on a fluke. In 1959, Cory and Cross had run into Bennett’s pianist Ralph Sharon on the street in New York and handed him the sheet music. Two whole years later, before going on the road out West, Sharon tossed it into his suitcase on a whim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After trying the song out in after-hours sessions, Bennett premiered it at the Venetian Room of the Fairmont Hotel in 1961; the applause was so great he was forced to turn right around and sing it again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone liked “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” Herb Caen once called it “a travel poster, and just as two-dimensional.” Bob Grimes, a San Francisco store proprietor who built one of the largest private collections of sheet music in the country, said to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> that it was “saccharine, soporific and focuses on people who are out of the city rather than its residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, Bennett had \u003cem>so many other songs\u003c/em>. Hundreds. “Just In Time.” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” “The Good Life.” “Because of You.” “For Once in My Life.” The list goes \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/gmeline/status/1072910960245977089\">on and on\u003c/a>. All indelible reminders that love and sincerity are more valuable than jadedness and irony. All sung in thousands of concerts all over the globe, and punctuated on the final downbeat by Bennett’s signature pose: outstretching his arms to the audience and smiling wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931932\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/GettyImages-1160447812-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bennett performs on stage during a concert in Everett, Massachusetts in 2019. \u003ccite>(JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was lucky to have seen Bennett six or seven times over the years. One time I paid $125 for a ticket; another time, I snuck in for free. Yet another time I hung around the backstage door afterward to watch him emerge, flanked by two large Italian bodyguards, and got to shake his hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time he came around was in 2018, two years into his Alzheimer’s diagnosis. I had made an unusual habit of bringing tattooed friends from the punk scene to see Tony Bennett with me, but this time was special: I went with my 9-year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an incredible 92 years old, he sang 24 songs. And then, at the end of the night, came another Tony Bennett moment I’ll never forget: he set the microphone down, walked to the front of the stage, and, unamplified, sang “Fly Me to the Moon” to the rafters.\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/sP9skLqKQ2c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/sP9skLqKQ2c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It brought the house down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that Tony Bennett genuinely loved San Francisco. But San Francisco loved him right back, tenfold. Wherever he is now, he’s left much more than his heart here. Indeed, a giant piece of him is woven into this city — and me — forever.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” graced a decadeslong career that brought him admirers from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, died Friday. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publicist Sylvia Weiner confirmed Bennett’s death to The Associated Press, saying he died in his hometown of New York. There was no specific cause, but Bennett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last of the great saloon singers of the mid-20th century, Bennett often said his lifelong ambition was to create “a hit catalog rather than hit records.” He released more than 70 albums, bringing him 19 competitive Grammys — all but two after he reached his 60s — and enjoyed deep and lasting affection from fans and fellow artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/GettyImages-106373428-e1587583661461.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Bennett performing in 2010.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1217\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13879120\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bennett performing in 2010. \u003ccite>(BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bennett didn’t tell his own story when performing; he let the music speak instead — the Gershwins and Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern. Unlike his friend and mentor Sinatra, he would interpret a song rather than embody it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If his singing and public life lacked the high drama of Sinatra’s, Bennett appealed with an easy, courtly manner and an uncommonly rich and durable voice — “A tenor who sings like a baritone,” he called himself — that made him a master of caressing a ballad or brightening an up-tempo number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I enjoy entertaining the audience, making them forget their problems,” he told The Associated Press in 2006. “I think people … are touched if they hear something that’s sincere and honest and maybe has a little sense of humor. … I just like to make people feel good when I perform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett was praised often by his peers, but never more meaningfully than by what Sinatra said in a 1965 Life magazine interview: “For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/Bennett-Statue-IMG_3350-e1471283958629-800x486.jpg\" alt=\"Sculptor Bruce Wolfe and his model, singer Tony Bennett in Wolfe's Piedmont studio\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936142\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/Bennett-Statue-IMG_3350-e1471283958629-800x486.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/Bennett-Statue-IMG_3350-e1471283958629-400x243.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/Bennett-Statue-IMG_3350-e1471283958629-768x466.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/Bennett-Statue-IMG_3350-e1471283958629-1180x717.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/Bennett-Statue-IMG_3350-e1471283958629-1920x1166.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/Bennett-Statue-IMG_3350-e1471283958629-960x583.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sculptor Bruce Wolfe and his model, singer Tony Bennett, in Wolfe’s Piedmont studio. Wolfe created a statue to honor Tony Bennett in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bruce Wolfe)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He not only survived the rise of rock music but endured so long and so well that he gained new fans and collaborators, some young enough to be his grandchildren. In 2014, at age 88, Bennett broke his own record as the oldest living performer with a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart for “Cheek to Cheek,” his duets project with Lady Gaga. Three years earlier, he topped the charts with “Duets II,” featuring such contemporary stars as Gaga, Carrie Underwood and Amy Winehouse, in her last studio recording. His rapport with Winehouse was captured in the Oscar-nominated documentary “Amy,” which showed Bennett patiently encouraging the insecure young singer through a performance of “Body and Soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His final album, the 2021 release “Love for Sale,” featured duets with Lady Gaga on the title track, “Night and Day” and other Porter songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bennett, one of the few performers to move easily between pop and jazz, such collaborations were part of his crusade to expose new audiences to what he called the Great American Songbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No country has given the world such great music,” Bennett said in a 2015 interview with Downbeat Magazine. “Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern. Those songs will never die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_11928855']Ironically, his most famous contribution came through two unknowns, George Cory and Douglass Cross, who in the early ’60s provided Bennett with his signature song at a time his career was in a lull. They gave Bennett’s musical director, pianist Ralph Sharon, some sheet music that he stuck in a dresser drawer and forgot about until he was packing for a tour that included a stop in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ralph saw some sheet music in his shirt drawer … and on top of the pile was a song called ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco.’ Ralph thought it would be good material for San Francisco,” Bennett said. “We were rehearsing and the bartender in the club in Little Rock, Arkansas, said, ‘If you record that song, I’m going to be the first to buy it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Released in 1962 as the B-side of the single “Once Upon a Time,” the reflective ballad became a grassroots phenomenon staying on the charts for more than two years and earning Bennett his first two Grammys, including record of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSIF3KtwGUA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By his early 40s, he was seemingly out of fashion. But after turning 60, an age when even the most popular artists often settle for just pleasing their older fans, Bennett and his son and manager, Danny, found creative ways to market the singer to the MTV Generation. He made guest appearances on “Late Night with David Letterman” and became a celebrity guest artist on “The Simpsons.” He wore a black T-shirt and sunglasses as a presenter with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the 1993 MTV Music Video Awards, and his own video of “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” from his Grammy-winning Fred Astaire tribute album ended up on MTV’s hip “Buzz Bin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led to an offer in 1994 to do an episode of “MTV Unplugged” with special guests Elvis Costello and k.d. lang. The evening’s performance resulted in the album, “Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged,” which won two Grammys, including album of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett would win Grammys for his tributes to female vocalists (“Here’s to the Ladies”), Billie Holiday (“Tony Bennett on Holiday”), and Duke Ellington (“Bennett Sings Ellington — Hot & Cool”). He also won Grammys for his collaborations with other singers: “Playin’ With My Friends — Bennett Sings the Blues,” and his Louis Armstrong tribute, “A Wonderful World” with lang, the first full album he had ever recorded with another singer. He celebrated his 80th birthday with “Duets: An American Classic,” featuring Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re all giants in the industry, and all of a sudden they’re saying to me ‘You’re the master,'” Bennett told the AP in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLjXbkSm8B4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long associated with San Francisco, Bennett would note that his true home was Astoria, the working-class community in the New York City borough of Queens, where he grew up during the Great Depression. The singer chose his old neighborhood as the site for the “Fame”-style public high school, the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, that he and his third wife, Susan Crow Benedetto, a former teacher, helped found in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is not far from the birthplace of the man who was once Anthony Dominick Benedetto. His father was an Italian immigrant who inspired his love of singing, but he died when Anthony was 10. Bennett credited his mother, Anna, with teaching him a valuable lesson as he watched her working at home, supporting her three children as a seamstress doing piecework after his father died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were very impoverished,” Bennett said in a 2016 AP interview. “I saw her working and every once in a while she’d take a dress and throw it over her shoulder and she’d say, ‘Don’t have me work on a bad dress. I’ll only work on good dresses.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.astoria-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.astoria-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.astoria-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.astoria-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.astoria.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of Tony Bennett’s album ‘Astoria: Portrait of the Artist,’ picturing the singer as a young man in front of his childhood home. \u003ccite>(Columbia Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He studied commercial art in high school, but had to drop out to help support his family. The teenager got a job as a copy boy for the AP, performed as a singing waiter and competed in amateur shows. A combat infantryman during World War II, he served as a librarian for the Armed Forces Network after the war and sang with an army big band in occupied Germany. His earliest recording is a 1946 air check from Armed Forces Radio of the blues “St. James Infirmary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett took advantage of the GI Bill to attend the American Theater Wing, which later became The Actors Studio. His acting lessons helped him develop his phrasing and learn how to tell a story. He learned the more intimate Bel Canto vocal technique which helped him sustain and extend the expressive range of his voice. And he took to heart the advice of his vocal coach, Miriam Spier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said please don’t imitate other singers because you’ll just be one of the chorus whoever you imitate whether it’s Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra and won’t develop an original sound,” Bennett recalled in the 2006 AP interview. “She said imitate musicians that you like, find out how they phrase. I was particularly influenced by the jazz musicians like (pianist) Art Tatum and (saxophonists) Lester Young and Stan Getz.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5f-e3Wajq4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1947, Bennett made his first recording, the Gershwins’ standard “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” for a small label under the stage name Joe Bari. The following year he gained notice when he finished behind Rosemary Clooney on the radio show “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts.” Bennett’s big break came in 1949 when singer Pearl Bailey invited him to join her revue at a Greenwich Village club. Bob Hope dropped by one night and was so impressed that he offered the young singer a spot opening his shows at the famed Paramount Theater, where teens had swooned for Sinatra. But the comedian didn’t care for his stage name and thought his real name was too long for the marquee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought for a moment, then he said, ‘We’ll call you Tony Bennett,'” the singer wrote in his autobiography, “The Good Life,” published in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1950, Mitch Miller, the head of Columbia Records’ pop singles division, signed Bennett and released the single, “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” a semi-hit. Bennett was on the verge of being dropped from the label in 1951 when he had his first No. 1 on the pop charts with “Because of You.” More hits followed, including “Rags to Riches,” “Blue Velvet,” and Hank Williams’ “Cold, Cold Heart,” the first country song to become an international pop hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett found himself frequently clashing with Miller, who pushed him to sing Sinatra-style ballads and gimmicky novelty songs. But Bennett took advantage of the young LP album format, starting in 1955 with “Cloud 7,” featuring a small jazz combo led by guitarist Chuck Wayne. Bennett reached out to the jazz audience with such innovative albums as the 1957 “The Beat of My Heart,” an album of standards that paired him with such jazz percussion masters as Chico Hamilton, and Art Blakey. He also became the first white male singer to record with the Count Basie Orchestra, releasing two albums in 1958. Sinatra would later do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll1cmbBrvlM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett’s friendship with Black musicians and his disgust at the racial prejudice he encountered in the Army led him to become an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. He answered Harry Belafonte’s call to join Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march and perform for the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett’s early career peaked in the 1960s as he topped the charts with “San Francisco” and became the first male pop solo performer to headline at Carnegie Hall, releasing a live album of the 1962 concert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1966, he released “The Movie Song Album,” a personal favorite which featured Johnny Mandel’s Oscar-winning song “The Shadow of Your Smile” and “Maybe September,” the theme from the epic flop “The Oscar,” noteworthy because it marked Bennett’s first and only big-screen acting role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as rock continued to overtake traditional pop, he clashed with Columbia label head Clive Davis, who insisted that the singer do the 1970 album “Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today,” with such songs as “MacArthur Park” and “Little Green Apples.” Bennett left Columbia in 1972, and went on to form his own record label, Improv, which in 1975-76 produced two duet albums with the impressionistic pianist Bill Evans now considered jazz classics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LIW7q_cFeA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite artistic successes, Improv proved a financial disaster for Bennett, who also faced difficulties in his personal life. His marriage to artist Patricia Beech collapsed in 1971. He wed actress Sandra Grant the same year, but that marriage ended in 1984. With no recording deals, his debts brought him close to bankruptcy and the IRS was trying to seize his house in Los Angeles. After a near-fatal drug overdose in 1979, he turned to his son, Danny, who eventually signed on as his manager. Bennett kicked his drug habit and got his finances in order, moved back to New York and resumed doing more than 200 shows a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is survived by his wife Susan, daughters Johanna and Antonia, sons Danny and Dae and nine grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2005 and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2006. He also won two Emmy Awards — for “Tony Bennett Live By Request: A Valentine Special” (1996) and “Tony Bennett: An American Classic” (2007).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides singing, Bennett pursued his lifelong passion for painting by taking art lessons and bringing his sketchbook on the road. His paintings, signed with his family name Benedetto — including portraits of his musician friends and Central Park landscapes — were displayed in public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love to paint as much as I love to sing,” Bennett told the AP in 2006. “It worked out to be such a blessing in my life because if I started getting burnt-out singing … I would go to my painting and that’s a big lift. … So I stay in this creative zone all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP National Writer Hillel Italie contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Ironically, his most famous contribution came through two unknowns, George Cory and Douglass Cross, who in the early ’60s provided Bennett with his signature song at a time his career was in a lull. They gave Bennett’s musical director, pianist Ralph Sharon, some sheet music that he stuck in a dresser drawer and forgot about until he was packing for a tour that included a stop in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ralph saw some sheet music in his shirt drawer … and on top of the pile was a song called ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco.’ Ralph thought it would be good material for San Francisco,” Bennett said. “We were rehearsing and the bartender in the club in Little Rock, Arkansas, said, ‘If you record that song, I’m going to be the first to buy it.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Released in 1962 as the B-side of the single “Once Upon a Time,” the reflective ballad became a grassroots phenomenon staying on the charts for more than two years and earning Bennett his first two Grammys, including record of the year.\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/YSIF3KtwGUA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/YSIF3KtwGUA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>By his early 40s, he was seemingly out of fashion. But after turning 60, an age when even the most popular artists often settle for just pleasing their older fans, Bennett and his son and manager, Danny, found creative ways to market the singer to the MTV Generation. He made guest appearances on “Late Night with David Letterman” and became a celebrity guest artist on “The Simpsons.” He wore a black T-shirt and sunglasses as a presenter with the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the 1993 MTV Music Video Awards, and his own video of “Steppin’ Out With My Baby” from his Grammy-winning Fred Astaire tribute album ended up on MTV’s hip “Buzz Bin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led to an offer in 1994 to do an episode of “MTV Unplugged” with special guests Elvis Costello and k.d. lang. The evening’s performance resulted in the album, “Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged,” which won two Grammys, including album of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett would win Grammys for his tributes to female vocalists (“Here’s to the Ladies”), Billie Holiday (“Tony Bennett on Holiday”), and Duke Ellington (“Bennett Sings Ellington — Hot & Cool”). He also won Grammys for his collaborations with other singers: “Playin’ With My Friends — Bennett Sings the Blues,” and his Louis Armstrong tribute, “A Wonderful World” with lang, the first full album he had ever recorded with another singer. He celebrated his 80th birthday with “Duets: An American Classic,” featuring Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re all giants in the industry, and all of a sudden they’re saying to me ‘You’re the master,'” Bennett told the AP in 2006.\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/VLjXbkSm8B4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/VLjXbkSm8B4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Long associated with San Francisco, Bennett would note that his true home was Astoria, the working-class community in the New York City borough of Queens, where he grew up during the Great Depression. The singer chose his old neighborhood as the site for the “Fame”-style public high school, the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, that he and his third wife, Susan Crow Benedetto, a former teacher, helped found in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is not far from the birthplace of the man who was once Anthony Dominick Benedetto. His father was an Italian immigrant who inspired his love of singing, but he died when Anthony was 10. Bennett credited his mother, Anna, with teaching him a valuable lesson as he watched her working at home, supporting her three children as a seamstress doing piecework after his father died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were very impoverished,” Bennett said in a 2016 AP interview. “I saw her working and every once in a while she’d take a dress and throw it over her shoulder and she’d say, ‘Don’t have me work on a bad dress. I’ll only work on good dresses.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.astoria-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.astoria-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.astoria-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.astoria-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/TonyBennett.astoria.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of Tony Bennett’s album ‘Astoria: Portrait of the Artist,’ picturing the singer as a young man in front of his childhood home. \u003ccite>(Columbia Records)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He studied commercial art in high school, but had to drop out to help support his family. The teenager got a job as a copy boy for the AP, performed as a singing waiter and competed in amateur shows. A combat infantryman during World War II, he served as a librarian for the Armed Forces Network after the war and sang with an army big band in occupied Germany. His earliest recording is a 1946 air check from Armed Forces Radio of the blues “St. James Infirmary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett took advantage of the GI Bill to attend the American Theater Wing, which later became The Actors Studio. His acting lessons helped him develop his phrasing and learn how to tell a story. He learned the more intimate Bel Canto vocal technique which helped him sustain and extend the expressive range of his voice. And he took to heart the advice of his vocal coach, Miriam Spier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She said please don’t imitate other singers because you’ll just be one of the chorus whoever you imitate whether it’s Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra and won’t develop an original sound,” Bennett recalled in the 2006 AP interview. “She said imitate musicians that you like, find out how they phrase. I was particularly influenced by the jazz musicians like (pianist) Art Tatum and (saxophonists) Lester Young and Stan Getz.”\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/I5f-e3Wajq4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/I5f-e3Wajq4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1947, Bennett made his first recording, the Gershwins’ standard “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” for a small label under the stage name Joe Bari. The following year he gained notice when he finished behind Rosemary Clooney on the radio show “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts.” Bennett’s big break came in 1949 when singer Pearl Bailey invited him to join her revue at a Greenwich Village club. Bob Hope dropped by one night and was so impressed that he offered the young singer a spot opening his shows at the famed Paramount Theater, where teens had swooned for Sinatra. But the comedian didn’t care for his stage name and thought his real name was too long for the marquee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought for a moment, then he said, ‘We’ll call you Tony Bennett,'” the singer wrote in his autobiography, “The Good Life,” published in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1950, Mitch Miller, the head of Columbia Records’ pop singles division, signed Bennett and released the single, “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” a semi-hit. Bennett was on the verge of being dropped from the label in 1951 when he had his first No. 1 on the pop charts with “Because of You.” More hits followed, including “Rags to Riches,” “Blue Velvet,” and Hank Williams’ “Cold, Cold Heart,” the first country song to become an international pop hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett found himself frequently clashing with Miller, who pushed him to sing Sinatra-style ballads and gimmicky novelty songs. But Bennett took advantage of the young LP album format, starting in 1955 with “Cloud 7,” featuring a small jazz combo led by guitarist Chuck Wayne. Bennett reached out to the jazz audience with such innovative albums as the 1957 “The Beat of My Heart,” an album of standards that paired him with such jazz percussion masters as Chico Hamilton, and Art Blakey. He also became the first white male singer to record with the Count Basie Orchestra, releasing two albums in 1958. Sinatra would later do the same.\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/Ll1cmbBrvlM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Ll1cmbBrvlM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Bennett’s friendship with Black musicians and his disgust at the racial prejudice he encountered in the Army led him to become an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. He answered Harry Belafonte’s call to join Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march and perform for the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett’s early career peaked in the 1960s as he topped the charts with “San Francisco” and became the first male pop solo performer to headline at Carnegie Hall, releasing a live album of the 1962 concert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1966, he released “The Movie Song Album,” a personal favorite which featured Johnny Mandel’s Oscar-winning song “The Shadow of Your Smile” and “Maybe September,” the theme from the epic flop “The Oscar,” noteworthy because it marked Bennett’s first and only big-screen acting role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as rock continued to overtake traditional pop, he clashed with Columbia label head Clive Davis, who insisted that the singer do the 1970 album “Tony Sings the Great Hits of Today,” with such songs as “MacArthur Park” and “Little Green Apples.” Bennett left Columbia in 1972, and went on to form his own record label, Improv, which in 1975-76 produced two duet albums with the impressionistic pianist Bill Evans now considered jazz classics.\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/7LIW7q_cFeA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7LIW7q_cFeA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Despite artistic successes, Improv proved a financial disaster for Bennett, who also faced difficulties in his personal life. His marriage to artist Patricia Beech collapsed in 1971. He wed actress Sandra Grant the same year, but that marriage ended in 1984. With no recording deals, his debts brought him close to bankruptcy and the IRS was trying to seize his house in Los Angeles. After a near-fatal drug overdose in 1979, he turned to his son, Danny, who eventually signed on as his manager. Bennett kicked his drug habit and got his finances in order, moved back to New York and resumed doing more than 200 shows a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is survived by his wife Susan, daughters Johanna and Antonia, sons Danny and Dae and nine grandchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bennett was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2005 and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2006. He also won two Emmy Awards — for “Tony Bennett Live By Request: A Valentine Special” (1996) and “Tony Bennett: An American Classic” (2007).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides singing, Bennett pursued his lifelong passion for painting by taking art lessons and bringing his sketchbook on the road. His paintings, signed with his family name Benedetto — including portraits of his musician friends and Central Park landscapes — were displayed in public and private collections, including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love to paint as much as I love to sing,” Bennett told the AP in 2006. “It worked out to be such a blessing in my life because if I started getting burnt-out singing … I would go to my painting and that’s a big lift. … So I stay in this creative zone all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s note\u003c/strong>: This story is part of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">That’s My Word\u003c/a>\u003cem>, KQED’s year-long exploration of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareahiphop\">Bay Area hip-hop\u003c/a> history.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t was a characteristic East Oakland scene: On the night of Feb. 2, 2015, a group of friends sat in their car on 94th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland, taking turns rapping. Another group, including Dominick Newton, stood on the sidewalk, watching the fun go down. As the vibes continued, all was good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, around 8:15 p.m, a car slid by spitting bullets at the parked car. Newton was hit in the head. A neighbor tried to slow the bleeding with a towel until medics arrived, but Newton, known in Islamic circles as Shaheed Akbar, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/10357773/the-jacka-killed-in-oakland-shooting\">died at Eden Medical Center\u003c/a> a few hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13923938']If you really knew the gangsta rap scene well, you knew Newton as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jackamobfigaz/?hl=en\">The Jacka\u003c/a>. Hailing from Pittsburg, California, Jacka was respected around the world for his violently visual lyrics laced with positive Islamic undertones. The murder of the 37-year-old rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13874024/five-years-after-his-death-the-jackas-collaborators-remember-his-complex-legacy\">shook the Bay Area rap world to its core\u003c/a>, and his killers have never been caught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very few murders of rappers are ever solved. The shootings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13869588/slow-burn-season-3-is-taking-on-the-murders-of-biggie-and-tupac\">Tupac Shakur\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/105-remembering-mac-dre-the-jacka/id1459775067?i=1000464857465\">Mac Dre\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/105-remembering-mac-dre-the-jacka/id1459775067?i=1000464857465\">The Jacka\u003c/a>, along with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920198/zumbi-zion-i-improper-restraint-at-hospital\"> death of Zion I’s Zumbi\u003c/a> under suspicious circumstances at Alta Bates Medical Center, remain conspicuously unsolved or ignored by local police departments. For many, this can feel like deliberate psychological warfare on Black America; piles upon piles of cold cases leave grieving families and fans hollow from the pain inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094-1536x1020.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jacka, in contemplation between takes, recording at 17 Hertz Studios in Hayward. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often, a rapper’s murder becomes their identity, eclipsing their artistry. In death, most rappers’ music fades under the algorithms as new artists and sounds try to claw their way to the top. Many die with no legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But The Jacka was different. His legacy in rap shines bright as the light from the East. Why is that so? The most common answer, for most who knew him well, is Islam.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Black crescent over The Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To those outside of hip-hop, Islam’s influence on the art form might seem unlikely. But if you know that the seeds of hip-hop were sown in Black American ghettos, and understand their history, it makes perfect sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The religion of Islam arrived in America within the hearts of Muslims trapped in the hulls of ships during the transatlantic slave trade. Some of them were \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXVAE4eMFn8\">legitimate royalty\u003c/a>, and intellectually miles above those who kidnapped, tortured and sold their people. Centuries of this brutal treatment, along with Jim Crow, redlining and other racist policies, created the degraded living environment of the 1970s American ghetto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13924126']Rap music arose in these hoods like a divine phoenix from of the ashes of the civil rights era, during which the United States government demolished radical Black Power movements (and their \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/03/us-history-first-women-terrorist-group-191037\">white allies\u003c/a>). As rap music got its baby legs, the crack epidemic and an unprecedented \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWX562Q8t38\">wave of gang violence\u003c/a> spread across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in Black neighborhoods lucky enough to avoid being murdered usually did some time in jail. Poet Sonia Sanchez once remarked that, for Black men, prison was the first time they were able to be still and think. Copies of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X\">The Autobiography of Malcolm X\u003c/a>\u003c/em> and Elijah Muhammad’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_to_the_Blackman_in_America\">Message to the Blackman in America\u003c/a>\u003c/em> circulated, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJZ6lxgQjiM\">5% Nation of Gods and Earths\u003c/a> grew in American prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1980s and early 1990s, African American Sunni Muslims and followers of the Nation of Islam helped the hood thrive with new dignity, negotiating truces among warring gangs and creating entrepreneurial businesses. Among the gang violence and crack epidemic of the era, the Muslim message of self-reliance and living a clean lifestyle held an understandable appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925188\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/tcd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"745\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/tcd1.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/tcd1-160x159.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Conscious Daughters with mentor and producer Paris in the 1990s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CMG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parallel with the rise of hip-hop, Islam gave young Black people an understanding of their history before slavery. It highlighted Black achievements in math, science, art and literature that weren’t taught in the racially bigoted American education system. While both Black and Islamic societies were often framed in America’s schools as savage, rap became the pathway by which many Black kids learned about Black and Muslim history and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact on hip-hop was immeasurable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1980s, the rising despair, unemployment rates, violence and cases of police brutality fomented conditions that made the Black nationalist message of self-determination, racial pride and self-defense more attractive,” says Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, author of \u003cem>Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap\u003c/em>. “Malcolm X, the former spokesman for the Nation of Islam, was sampled by everyone from Public Enemy to Ice Cube. Simultaneously, the current head of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, was ascending in popularity among the hip-hop generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaheed, a.k.a. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mobmanagement/?hl=en\">Big Za\u003c/a> from Richmond, was one of the early young Muslims to convert in that late-’80s, early-’90s era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rap had consciousness to it and it had substance to it,” Za recalls. He names \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1vKOchATXs\">Boogie Down Productions\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo83vZkS8Zc\">Public Enemy\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhEQ43gGTuU\">Brand Nubian\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze0C08bkPJY\">Big Daddy Kane\u003c/a> as long-distance teachers to millions of Black youth. The influence of the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X and Oakland’s Black Panthers pulsed in their veins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SatYcmmSWA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big Za swung on a deadly pendulum between the cocaine-powdered street corners and a love for the Qu’ran. He was not alone: In 1991, the West Coast success of Ice Cube’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hPEHrRWCYo&list=PLJaQqb1_vqOR61QOgVgb9femXfFW6BDZz\">Death Certificate\u003c/a>\u003c/em> and Da Lench Mob’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hPEHrRWCYo&list=PLJaQqb1_vqOR61QOgVgb9femXfFW6BDZz\">Guerillas in The Mist\u003c/a>\u003c/em> brought an intoxicating balance of Black Panther militance with Islamic spiritual conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, albums arrived from Bay Area rappers like Paris with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSQqcvvmp4\">The Devil Made Me Do It\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Askari X with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SatYcmmSWA\">Ward of the State \u003c/a>\u003c/em>and the Ansārs with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSnLtTdiG_s\">Righteous Black Guerillas\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, keeping the streets aflame with militant \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXiK47eSncw\">anti-war\u003c/a>, anti-police abuse lyrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To government officials, church leaders and white America at large, these fearless, militant Black men in rap were cause for full-blown alarm. Black Islam-infused rap lyrics were feeding the minds and hearts of millions of young Black men and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young aspiring rapper Dominick Newton was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jacka. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Straight outta Pittsburg\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newton was born in Phoenix, Arizona to young teenage parents before moving to Richmond. Family life was hard, and in the late ’80s, along with many other Black families, Newton moved to Pittsburg. Despite being new to town, he quickly got along with pretty much everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacka’s former manager \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goldenmeanpk/?hl=en\">PK\u003c/a> was just 15 when he met Newton through a mutual friend known as Tron, sometime around 1994. PK and Tron both went to De La Salle High School in Concord. Jacka cut hair on the side for cash, and PK and Tron would often be at Jacka’s place to get a fade or to just hang out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PK can still recall his first impression of Newton. “He was a cool dude. You wanted to be around him. He made people feel good about themselves just being around him,” he says. After attending USC and moving back to the Bay Area, PK reconnected with Newton, who asked PK to be his manager. Their partnership would last until Jacka’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' citation='Husalah']It was hard to find anybody who had knowledge of self at all. There were people that all they knew was crack cocaine.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before he was known as The Jacka, Newton recorded with his friend FedX at the Pittsburg home of then-undiscovered producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/robloblahkop/?hl=en\">RobLo\u003c/a>. “They had a song out back then called ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX0Cv1oEnL8\">Million Dollar Dream\u003c/a>,’ under the group name Fatal Mentality,” PK says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through RobLo, Newton met Husalah, an aspiring rapper who played first-chair trumpet in high school. His grandfather had introduced him to the beauty of jazz, but he grew to love rap more. Huslah was raised in Pittsburg on “the project side of town,” and connected with Newton at RobLo’s house, which was central for many teen boys in the ‘hood at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Along with close friend the Jacka, Husalah (above) found a way out of dire circumstances through music. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Husalah says of meeting Jacka, “He was one of the coolest dudes. He didn’t have to act tough or act hard. He hung with all the tough guys and all the square guys. We were learning how to rhyme, and how to make intricate rhyme patterns. Our styles were all over the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Husalah recounts how drug dealing permeated their circle. The schools and the streets had them “indoctrinated with self-hate. It was hard to find anybody who had knowledge of self at all. There were people that all they knew was crack cocaine. Almost everyone you knew had a physical vice. Aunties, uncles, parents, neighbors. Crack cocaine was everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music and searching for a higher power through Islam became pathways out for both of them.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Thugs in the masjid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before long, Jacka, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/golasoaso/?hl=en\">Husalah\u003c/a>, his cousin \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/klydesta/?hl=en\">Rydah J. Clyde\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mobfigaz_ap9/?hl=en\">AP-9\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fedx_mobfigaz/?hl=en\">FedX\u003c/a> came together to create the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f5CfU2pSUqY\">Mob Figaz\u003c/a>. Their music quickly took over the streets with RobLo’s hypnotic mix of Bay Area basslines, hard drums and emotionally shifting samples. Sacramento gangsta rapper C-Bo was impressed by their lyricism and authenticity, and agreed to put out their debut album. \u003cem>C-Bo’s Mob Figaz\u003c/em> moved more than 100,000 units with almost zero support from local radio. The streets, however, validated their sound and their flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy-800x625.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy-1020x797.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy-768x600.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy-1536x1200.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mob Figaz. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not long after, Jacka got caught for some robberies in the East Bay. At that point, he had already studied the Nation of Islam theology under Oakland’s Dr. Yusuf Bey. While locked up, though, Jacka was exposed to the Orthodox practice of Sunni Islam, and his mind and music began to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Big Za, after serving time in Santa Rita Jail, Newton took Shahada, the Islamic testimony that affirms one’s faith. Big Za and his friend Shak had taken Shahada in 1991; Shak was involved in a murder case in 1995 and met Newton in Santa Rita. Behind the cold steel and cement walls of the jail, Shak taught Jacka how to pray and gave him his Islamic foundation. Not long after, Jacka took on the Islamic name Shaheed Akbar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Listen to a playlist of songs by the Jacka influenced by Islam, curated by his former manager PK:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/2JDsWmFPJDkccZa7WuKYlB?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously there is a clash between how young men like Jacka know they should be living and the backdrop of soul-scorching poverty, addiction and miseducation. Unfortunately, few support systems exist for new converts stuck between the Detroit Red lifestyle of a young Malcolm X and the cultivation of a higher self. For converts like Big Za, Jacka and millions of others, the Shahada does not always mean an immediate 180-degree turn from the life they’ve been living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13928550']Also, like Tupac, Jacka had respect from East Coast rappers with real street credibility. His relationships with Cormega, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS670D0j7UQ\">Freeway\u003c/a>, Beanie Sigel and many others were truly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As PK points out, it helped that Freeway and Beanie Sigel were also Sunni Muslim. “But I think it was because he was a real rapper, an MC with skills,” he adds. When they came out to California, they got firsthand proof that what Jacka rapped about was authentic. “Whether it’s the sideshows, the guns, the drugs — all that stuff is really happening out here. Then they were like ‘OK, this dude is real.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That magnitude of respect from the East Coast was rare for a Bay Area rapper. “Other than Pac, I never saw anybody get love like that,” PK recounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Deeper than rap\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Jacka’s star rose, instead of staying in the streets or partying 24/7, he could often be seen in Richmond’s Masjid An-Noor on Cutting Boulevard. Filled with books and ruby-red rugs, the mosque provided Jacka with solace in searching for Allah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the hyphy era, the Jacka remained close with others who weren’t necessarily on his same spiritual path. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He could just as easily be over at Masjid Al-Islam on 82nd and MacArthur in Oakland — or anywhere he could continue his search for knowledge and a higher understanding of Islamic philosophy. Kevin, a.k.a. K9, his former assistant manager, says that “Islam spoke to more of the realities that he was seeing. He got interested and read the Qu’ran in jail, and went back to it often.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K9 recalls a day in 2008, when Jacka brought him to Rumi Bookstore in Fremont, owned by respected teacher \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfyDMkdlxI&t=20s\">Feraidoon Mojadedi\u003c/a>. Jacka bought up a series of lectures from Zaytuna College Founder Hamza Yusuf. One of the books recommended to him was called \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp9KifxHZy8&list=PLNVqarhUYzInkISPRcMVFnUjnqFMFdpu6\">Purification of the Heart\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a Mauritanian sacred text from 1844 CE about the spiritual diseases of the heart (greed, anger, jealousy) and their cures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13874024']After studying the text deeply in 2009, Jacka released \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_z3d6sV2Q\">a song with the same title\u003c/a>. A rap song with Islamic themes — the streets went nuts for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how such an unlikely situation could unfold, Mojadedi says that Jacka “was with the right people, in the right place, with the right intention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those intentions took The Jacka across the planet, something most kids from the Bay can only dream of.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Writing without a pen\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Philadelphia rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/phillyfreeway/?hl=en\">Freeway\u003c/a> met Jacka in 2001 while on tour with Jay-Z in Oakland. Once they connected, they never stopped working together, be it in the studio or learning about their faith. They traveled across Africa together in 2012, and went on a lecture tour in the UK in 2014 on the topic of Islam and hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that they [Bay Area rappers like Jacka] were just like me,” Freeway says today. “They were living just like me. They were Muslim, but they were on the West Coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280-1536x1010.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) The Jacka, photographer D-Ray and Nipsey Hussle backstage at the New Parish nightclub in Oakland, 2013. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the studio, Freeway says, Jacka was a force of nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He mastered writing [songs] without a pen. He would write in his phone. But by the time he got to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I4QJ4F_mgg\">What Happened to the World\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, he said, ‘Yeah Free, I mastered writing [whole songs] without a pen.’” Jacka was keeping whole songs complete, in his head, with no paper and no phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While on tour together, Freeway says he saw Jacka literally give people the shirt off his back: “He would get an outfit for the tour. Then when he got off stage he would give the hoodie away. When he died it affected me more than with some people I grew up with. That’s how much our hearts connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1767\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507-800x736.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507-1020x939.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507-160x147.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507-768x707.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507-1536x1414.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A roadside memorial for The Jacka near the intersection of 94th and MacArthur in East Oakland, shortly after his murder in 2015. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Freeway was not alone in that feeling. Bay Area rap fans and Muslims across the planet are still mourning Dominick Newton, a.k.a. the Jacka, a.k.a. Shaheed Akbar. However, his impact on the streets — and in the hearts of young Muslims — will remain through his music for decades to come.\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>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/real64blocks/?hl=en\">Adisa Banjoko\u003c/a> is an author and curator of hip-hop history. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If you really knew the gangsta rap scene well, you knew Newton as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jackamobfigaz/?hl=en\">The Jacka\u003c/a>. Hailing from Pittsburg, California, Jacka was respected around the world for his violently visual lyrics laced with positive Islamic undertones. The murder of the 37-year-old rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13874024/five-years-after-his-death-the-jackas-collaborators-remember-his-complex-legacy\">shook the Bay Area rap world to its core\u003c/a>, and his killers have never been caught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very few murders of rappers are ever solved. The shootings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13869588/slow-burn-season-3-is-taking-on-the-murders-of-biggie-and-tupac\">Tupac Shakur\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/105-remembering-mac-dre-the-jacka/id1459775067?i=1000464857465\">Mac Dre\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/105-remembering-mac-dre-the-jacka/id1459775067?i=1000464857465\">The Jacka\u003c/a>, along with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920198/zumbi-zion-i-improper-restraint-at-hospital\"> death of Zion I’s Zumbi\u003c/a> under suspicious circumstances at Alta Bates Medical Center, remain conspicuously unsolved or ignored by local police departments. For many, this can feel like deliberate psychological warfare on Black America; piles upon piles of cold cases leave grieving families and fans hollow from the pain inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094-768x510.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/The-Jacka-Freeway-17Hertz-Studio-day-2-094-1536x1020.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jacka, in contemplation between takes, recording at 17 Hertz Studios in Hayward. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Often, a rapper’s murder becomes their identity, eclipsing their artistry. In death, most rappers’ music fades under the algorithms as new artists and sounds try to claw their way to the top. Many die with no legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Rap music arose in these hoods like a divine phoenix from of the ashes of the civil rights era, during which the United States government demolished radical Black Power movements (and their \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/03/us-history-first-women-terrorist-group-191037\">white allies\u003c/a>). As rap music got its baby legs, the crack epidemic and an unprecedented \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWX562Q8t38\">wave of gang violence\u003c/a> spread across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in Black neighborhoods lucky enough to avoid being murdered usually did some time in jail. Poet Sonia Sanchez once remarked that, for Black men, prison was the first time they were able to be still and think. Copies of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X\">The Autobiography of Malcolm X\u003c/a>\u003c/em> and Elijah Muhammad’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_to_the_Blackman_in_America\">Message to the Blackman in America\u003c/a>\u003c/em> circulated, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJZ6lxgQjiM\">5% Nation of Gods and Earths\u003c/a> grew in American prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1980s and early 1990s, African American Sunni Muslims and followers of the Nation of Islam helped the hood thrive with new dignity, negotiating truces among warring gangs and creating entrepreneurial businesses. Among the gang violence and crack epidemic of the era, the Muslim message of self-reliance and living a clean lifestyle held an understandable appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925188\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/tcd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"745\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/tcd1.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/tcd1-160x159.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Conscious Daughters with mentor and producer Paris in the 1990s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CMG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parallel with the rise of hip-hop, Islam gave young Black people an understanding of their history before slavery. It highlighted Black achievements in math, science, art and literature that weren’t taught in the racially bigoted American education system. While both Black and Islamic societies were often framed in America’s schools as savage, rap became the pathway by which many Black kids learned about Black and Muslim history and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact on hip-hop was immeasurable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1980s, the rising despair, unemployment rates, violence and cases of police brutality fomented conditions that made the Black nationalist message of self-determination, racial pride and self-defense more attractive,” says Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, author of \u003cem>Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap\u003c/em>. “Malcolm X, the former spokesman for the Nation of Islam, was sampled by everyone from Public Enemy to Ice Cube. Simultaneously, the current head of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, was ascending in popularity among the hip-hop generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaheed, a.k.a. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mobmanagement/?hl=en\">Big Za\u003c/a> from Richmond, was one of the early young Muslims to convert in that late-’80s, early-’90s era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rap had consciousness to it and it had substance to it,” Za recalls. He names \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1vKOchATXs\">Boogie Down Productions\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo83vZkS8Zc\">Public Enemy\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhEQ43gGTuU\">Brand Nubian\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze0C08bkPJY\">Big Daddy Kane\u003c/a> as long-distance teachers to millions of Black youth. The influence of the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X and Oakland’s Black Panthers pulsed in their veins.\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/9SatYcmmSWA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/9SatYcmmSWA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Big Za swung on a deadly pendulum between the cocaine-powdered street corners and a love for the Qu’ran. He was not alone: In 1991, the West Coast success of Ice Cube’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hPEHrRWCYo&list=PLJaQqb1_vqOR61QOgVgb9femXfFW6BDZz\">Death Certificate\u003c/a>\u003c/em> and Da Lench Mob’s \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hPEHrRWCYo&list=PLJaQqb1_vqOR61QOgVgb9femXfFW6BDZz\">Guerillas in The Mist\u003c/a>\u003c/em> brought an intoxicating balance of Black Panther militance with Islamic spiritual conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, albums arrived from Bay Area rappers like Paris with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSQqcvvmp4\">The Devil Made Me Do It\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, Askari X with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SatYcmmSWA\">Ward of the State \u003c/a>\u003c/em>and the Ansārs with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSnLtTdiG_s\">Righteous Black Guerillas\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, keeping the streets aflame with militant \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXiK47eSncw\">anti-war\u003c/a>, anti-police abuse lyrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To government officials, church leaders and white America at large, these fearless, militant Black men in rap were cause for full-blown alarm. Black Islam-infused rap lyrics were feeding the minds and hearts of millions of young Black men and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young aspiring rapper Dominick Newton was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13931799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DJQUESTJACK-015.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jacka. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Straight outta Pittsburg\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newton was born in Phoenix, Arizona to young teenage parents before moving to Richmond. Family life was hard, and in the late ’80s, along with many other Black families, Newton moved to Pittsburg. Despite being new to town, he quickly got along with pretty much everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacka’s former manager \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/goldenmeanpk/?hl=en\">PK\u003c/a> was just 15 when he met Newton through a mutual friend known as Tron, sometime around 1994. PK and Tron both went to De La Salle High School in Concord. Jacka cut hair on the side for cash, and PK and Tron would often be at Jacka’s place to get a fade or to just hang out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PK can still recall his first impression of Newton. “He was a cool dude. You wanted to be around him. He made people feel good about themselves just being around him,” he says. After attending USC and moving back to the Bay Area, PK reconnected with Newton, who asked PK to be his manager. Their partnership would last until Jacka’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before he was known as The Jacka, Newton recorded with his friend FedX at the Pittsburg home of then-undiscovered producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/robloblahkop/?hl=en\">RobLo\u003c/a>. “They had a song out back then called ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX0Cv1oEnL8\">Million Dollar Dream\u003c/a>,’ under the group name Fatal Mentality,” PK says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through RobLo, Newton met Husalah, an aspiring rapper who played first-chair trumpet in high school. His grandfather had introduced him to the beauty of jazz, but he grew to love rap more. Huslah was raised in Pittsburg on “the project side of town,” and connected with Newton at RobLo’s house, which was central for many teen boys in the ‘hood at that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Photos-By-D-Ray-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Along with close friend the Jacka, Husalah (above) found a way out of dire circumstances through music. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Husalah says of meeting Jacka, “He was one of the coolest dudes. He didn’t have to act tough or act hard. He hung with all the tough guys and all the square guys. We were learning how to rhyme, and how to make intricate rhyme patterns. Our styles were all over the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Husalah recounts how drug dealing permeated their circle. The schools and the streets had them “indoctrinated with self-hate. It was hard to find anybody who had knowledge of self at all. There were people that all they knew was crack cocaine. Almost everyone you knew had a physical vice. Aunties, uncles, parents, neighbors. Crack cocaine was everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music and searching for a higher power through Islam became pathways out for both of them.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Thugs in the masjid\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before long, Jacka, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/golasoaso/?hl=en\">Husalah\u003c/a>, his cousin \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/klydesta/?hl=en\">Rydah J. Clyde\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mobfigaz_ap9/?hl=en\">AP-9\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fedx_mobfigaz/?hl=en\">FedX\u003c/a> came together to create the group \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f5CfU2pSUqY\">Mob Figaz\u003c/a>. Their music quickly took over the streets with RobLo’s hypnotic mix of Bay Area basslines, hard drums and emotionally shifting samples. Sacramento gangsta rapper C-Bo was impressed by their lyricism and authenticity, and agreed to put out their debut album. \u003cem>C-Bo’s Mob Figaz\u003c/em> moved more than 100,000 units with almost zero support from local radio. The streets, however, validated their sound and their flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931802\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy-800x625.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy-1020x797.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy-768x600.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/PHOTOS-BY-D-RAY-mob-figaz-15-Copy-1536x1200.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mob Figaz. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not long after, Jacka got caught for some robberies in the East Bay. At that point, he had already studied the Nation of Islam theology under Oakland’s Dr. Yusuf Bey. While locked up, though, Jacka was exposed to the Orthodox practice of Sunni Islam, and his mind and music began to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Big Za, after serving time in Santa Rita Jail, Newton took Shahada, the Islamic testimony that affirms one’s faith. Big Za and his friend Shak had taken Shahada in 1991; Shak was involved in a murder case in 1995 and met Newton in Santa Rita. Behind the cold steel and cement walls of the jail, Shak taught Jacka how to pray and gave him his Islamic foundation. Not long after, Jacka took on the Islamic name Shaheed Akbar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Listen to a playlist of songs by the Jacka influenced by Islam, curated by his former manager PK:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/2JDsWmFPJDkccZa7WuKYlB?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously there is a clash between how young men like Jacka know they should be living and the backdrop of soul-scorching poverty, addiction and miseducation. Unfortunately, few support systems exist for new converts stuck between the Detroit Red lifestyle of a young Malcolm X and the cultivation of a higher self. For converts like Big Za, Jacka and millions of others, the Shahada does not always mean an immediate 180-degree turn from the life they’ve been living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Also, like Tupac, Jacka had respect from East Coast rappers with real street credibility. His relationships with Cormega, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS670D0j7UQ\">Freeway\u003c/a>, Beanie Sigel and many others were truly unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As PK points out, it helped that Freeway and Beanie Sigel were also Sunni Muslim. “But I think it was because he was a real rapper, an MC with skills,” he adds. When they came out to California, they got firsthand proof that what Jacka rapped about was authentic. “Whether it’s the sideshows, the guns, the drugs — all that stuff is really happening out here. Then they were like ‘OK, this dude is real.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That magnitude of respect from the East Coast was rare for a Bay Area rapper. “Other than Pac, I never saw anybody get love like that,” PK recounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Deeper than rap\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Jacka’s star rose, instead of staying in the streets or partying 24/7, he could often be seen in Richmond’s Masjid An-Noor on Cutting Boulevard. Filled with books and ruby-red rugs, the mosque provided Jacka with solace in searching for Allah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/IR3725868-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the hyphy era, the Jacka remained close with others who weren’t necessarily on his same spiritual path. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He could just as easily be over at Masjid Al-Islam on 82nd and MacArthur in Oakland — or anywhere he could continue his search for knowledge and a higher understanding of Islamic philosophy. Kevin, a.k.a. K9, his former assistant manager, says that “Islam spoke to more of the realities that he was seeing. He got interested and read the Qu’ran in jail, and went back to it often.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K9 recalls a day in 2008, when Jacka brought him to Rumi Bookstore in Fremont, owned by respected teacher \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfyDMkdlxI&t=20s\">Feraidoon Mojadedi\u003c/a>. Jacka bought up a series of lectures from Zaytuna College Founder Hamza Yusuf. One of the books recommended to him was called \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp9KifxHZy8&list=PLNVqarhUYzInkISPRcMVFnUjnqFMFdpu6\">Purification of the Heart\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, a Mauritanian sacred text from 1844 CE about the spiritual diseases of the heart (greed, anger, jealousy) and their cures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After studying the text deeply in 2009, Jacka released \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_z3d6sV2Q\">a song with the same title\u003c/a>. A rap song with Islamic themes — the streets went nuts for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked how such an unlikely situation could unfold, Mojadedi says that Jacka “was with the right people, in the right place, with the right intention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those intentions took The Jacka across the planet, something most kids from the Bay can only dream of.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Writing without a pen\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Philadelphia rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/phillyfreeway/?hl=en\">Freeway\u003c/a> met Jacka in 2001 while on tour with Jay-Z in Oakland. Once they connected, they never stopped working together, be it in the studio or learning about their faith. They traveled across Africa together in 2012, and went on a lecture tour in the UK in 2014 on the topic of Islam and hip-hop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I realized that they [Bay Area rappers like Jacka] were just like me,” Freeway says today. “They were living just like me. They were Muslim, but they were on the West Coast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931806\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280-800x526.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280-768x505.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thanksgiving-Nipsey-Hussle-280-1536x1010.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) The Jacka, photographer D-Ray and Nipsey Hussle backstage at the New Parish nightclub in Oakland, 2013. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the studio, Freeway says, Jacka was a force of nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He mastered writing [songs] without a pen. He would write in his phone. But by the time he got to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I4QJ4F_mgg\">What Happened to the World\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, he said, ‘Yeah Free, I mastered writing [whole songs] without a pen.’” Jacka was keeping whole songs complete, in his head, with no paper and no phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While on tour together, Freeway says he saw Jacka literally give people the shirt off his back: “He would get an outfit for the tour. Then when he got off stage he would give the hoodie away. When he died it affected me more than with some people I grew up with. That’s how much our hearts connected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1767\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507-800x736.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507-1020x939.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507-160x147.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507-768x707.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/DSC_0507-1536x1414.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A roadside memorial for The Jacka near the intersection of 94th and MacArthur in East Oakland, shortly after his murder in 2015. \u003ccite>(D-Ray)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Freeway was not alone in that feeling. Bay Area rap fans and Muslims across the planet are still mourning Dominick Newton, a.k.a. the Jacka, a.k.a. Shaheed Akbar. However, his impact on the streets — and in the hearts of young Muslims — will remain through his music for decades to come.\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>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/real64blocks/?hl=en\">Adisa Banjoko\u003c/a> is an author and curator of hip-hop history. In 2015, he delivered a lecture on The Jacka and Malcolm X at the \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/120733251\">Malcolm X 50 Conference at Lehigh University\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve ever walked around a city with a skateboarder, you’ve probably been inundated with comments about a concrete ledge’s history here, or the backstory of a set of stairs there. Through magazines and videos, skaters map the world according to the spots they skate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skaters are clerks to memorized libraries of not just existing skate spots, but potential spots, across our daily environment. Staircases become new measuring sticks for difficult tricks, and parking lot curbs become ageless playgrounds. As Dischord Records founder Ian MacKaye said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYKYU-Qj_Ro\">a 2013 lecture to the Library of Congress\u003c/a>, skateboarding means “learning how to redefine the world around you.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viewers can now take a tour of San Francisco with this unique eye to the streets with art historian, writer and skateboarder \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tedbarrow/?hl=en\">Ted Barrow\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> magazine’s new web series “This Old Ledge.” Barrow offers a new way of seeing things most residents pass by every day, delivering onsite historical lessons on both the architectural and skateboarding history of key skate spots. Barrows’ seemingly freestyle, well-researched presentations are interspersed with archival photos from the San Francisco Public Library’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/sf-history-center/digital-collections\">Digital Archive\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://m.thrashermagazine.com/magazine/covers-archive/\">own\u003c/a>, telling the city’s history through those who have skated its streets. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXrdZ5kWRqs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrow is the professor who can skate and dress better than his students. With a bemused grin and sharp tongue, his commentaries are part snark, part self-deprecation. In one episode, dedicated to the \u003ca href=\"https://artandarchitecture-sf.com/embarcadero-ribbon.html\">Embarcadero Art Ribbon project\u003c/a> that became the skate spot Bay Blocks, Barrow details the “massive compromises” made to the project before construction, including gaps added between the concrete ledges for pedestrian accessibility — and opportunity. “It’s the gaps that activate this as a [skate] spot,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden these ideas crystallize around you,” Barrow tells me. “You can see the actual history of a built environment in a city and how people’s stories impacted the city through the juxtaposition of buildings and different spaces.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-768x381.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-2048x1015.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1920x951.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R): Karl Watson, nollie 180 switch crooked grind at Pier 7, 1996; Chico Brenes, backside kickflip at Bay Blocks, 1997; Fred Gall, switch crooked grind at Hubba Hideout, 1995. \u003ccite>(Watson and Brenes: Luke Ogden; Gall: Gabe Morford; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barrow returned to the Bay Area a few years ago after many years in New York, teaching art history at such universities as Baruch and City College, while pursuing his PhD (he successfully defended his dissertation this year) and appearing in skate videos. He also gave walking tours, sneaking in skate references when describing the First Customs House where George Washington signed the Declaration of Independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It always seemed like there was this very rich history that videos and interviews with skateboarders didn’t always fully address,” he says, particularly around “how we think about space and how we think about place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg\" alt=\"Two teenage boys in baggy shirts on a concrete ledge\" width=\"1200\" height=\"786\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931484\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Henry Sanchez and John Cardiel at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Tobin Yelland; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting landmarks of modern street skating\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“This Old Ledge” begins at Justin Herman Plaza, simply known to skaters as Embarcadero or Embarco. Designed in 1971 by modernist architect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11316687/halprins-experiments-in-environment-still-radical-50-years-later\">Lawrence Halprin\u003c/a>, it’s one of several civic-minded projects designed by Halprin in response to a generation of failed urban renewal projects, describing it as a “total environment in which all the elements working together create a place for participation.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the plaza’s skateable features have changed over the years. But the silhouettes of former plaza obstacles are still visible along the bricks, Barrow shows, as are thousands of axle marks from skateboarders turning the plaza, from 1991 to 1994, into street skating’s modern laboratory of innovation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13916267']Reading these visual histories is “part of the intimidation of these skate spots,” Barrow explains. “They’re palimpsests: they’ve changed, things have been removed, but you can still read the history of skateboarding etched into those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researching the series, Barrow discovered how “the actual ledges and obstacles that people skated in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s weren’t there. And I always presumed that they were there.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg\" alt=\"A backhoe demolishes a large concrete walkway\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After years as a formative skate spot, as detailed in ‘This Old Ledge,’ Hubba Hideout was eventually demolished. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a different episode, we follow Barrow to another skate spot Halprin unintentionally designed, Hubba Hideout. In 1976, Halprin joined a team to connect the Alcoa Building with the waterfront through a pedestrian bridge extending from the building, over Davis Street, and into a newly landscaped plaza. The X-braised Alcoa Building would eventually mark the spot for skaters to find the bridge’s “harsh, brutalist concrete” handrails going down some stairs into a plaza with Halprin’s signature red bricks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, many would “hide out and smoke crack in the middle of one of the most profitable commercial districts in the world in broad daylight” explains Barrow. Hubba, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pArkWvlAebg\">Bay Area slang for crack cocaine\u003c/a>, became skate lingo for any concrete ledge acting as a handrail downstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> magazine’s President, Tony Vitello, describes the now-defunct spot as “a proving ground,” with the nickname representative of San Francisco’s influence on skateboarding. “You could be at a [skatepark] planning meeting with some local government, and they’re talking about a hubba ledge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a flannel shirt rides a skateboard high atop a concrete block\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931483\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Jack-Curtin_Switch-Nosegrind-at-Bay-Blocks_Photo-by-Dan-Zaslavsky-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Curtin, switch nosegrind at Bay Blocks. \u003ccite>(Dan Zaslavsky; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A historian’s eye for design and context\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of Vitello’s inspiration for “This Old Ledge” came at jury duty. On the wall of the courthouse was a framed photo of an abandoned San Francisco mansion, the Old Koshland House on Washington Street, whose curved exterior hubba ledge was \u003ca href=\"https://64.media.tumblr.com/b52e8b45d1554d98e9978416f510d2a1/tumblr_nqglutAUZJ1sgg3dvo1_500.gifv\">briefly a popular skate spot\u003c/a>. The photo was “dated the day after the 1906 earthquake,” with notable damage to buildings nearby. Vitello then considered the popular St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and found drawings from when the Cathedral was built. “The out ledge that \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/atlantic-drift-episode-2-st-paul-s/\">everyone has skated\u003c/a> is sitting there in the 1600s, from a period before skateboarding was even invented – that trips me out.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through original videos, \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s “been pushing to expand further into personality and cultural stuff,” Vitello says, “beyond just ‘Here’s a [skate] video with music in the background.’” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This push isn’t only palpable across their nearly seven million Instagram followers, but in the magazine’s hiring a full-time archivist to help log \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s entire photo and video history. Between these archives and the number of San Francisco skate spots replicated in skateparks worldwide, “San Francisco has had such an outsized influence on skateboarding,” Vitello says, “and therefore everything connected to our culture.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1118px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg\" alt=\"Young boys sit on their skateboards amidst a concrete and brick plaza\" width=\"1118\" height=\"739\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg 1118w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1118px) 100vw, 1118px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Kevin Thatcher; courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Betsy Gordon, Project Manager at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, struck up a friendship with Barrow at the academic skate conference Pushing Boarders, where they both presented. She attests to his style of teaching: “I appreciate the fact that he has advanced skills and is very well-educated,” she says, “but never makes you feel stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrow recently contributed to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianstore.com/four-wheels-and-a-board-11042/\">Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, co-edited by Gordon. She looped in Barrow to write and contribute several pieces, including an introductory chapter to the 1990s section. “Not everybody can have that historian’s eye of seeing that context and say, ‘Oh, that trick for the ‘90s was really progressive’ with a sense of what was possible,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13891248']Still, a skateboarder’s relationship with space evolves over time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skateboarding is aging,” Gordon explains. “It was always very future-focused; now there’s more appreciation for history and what came before.” This ongoing relationship with space grounds Barrow’s deep historical knowledge into the present, making his onsite testimonies resonate that much deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vitello places that impact, and the project’s, into his everyday life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes you just forget to look up,” he explains. “I’ve found myself, even in a city I grew up in, looking up and looking at things a bit different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘This Old Ledge’ is on \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/\">Thrasher magazine’s website\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@ThrasherMag/videos\">YouTube channel\u003c/a> now. New episodes drop each Wednesday. Ted Barrow also runs a Patreon, \u003ca href=\"https://www.patreon.com/beratethebirds\">Berate the Birds\u003c/a>, centered around art history and skateboarding. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you’ve ever walked around a city with a skateboarder, you’ve probably been inundated with comments about a concrete ledge’s history here, or the backstory of a set of stairs there. Through magazines and videos, skaters map the world according to the spots they skate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skaters are clerks to memorized libraries of not just existing skate spots, but potential spots, across our daily environment. Staircases become new measuring sticks for difficult tricks, and parking lot curbs become ageless playgrounds. As Dischord Records founder Ian MacKaye said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYKYU-Qj_Ro\">a 2013 lecture to the Library of Congress\u003c/a>, skateboarding means “learning how to redefine the world around you.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Viewers can now take a tour of San Francisco with this unique eye to the streets with art historian, writer and skateboarder \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tedbarrow/?hl=en\">Ted Barrow\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em> magazine’s new web series “This Old Ledge.” Barrow offers a new way of seeing things most residents pass by every day, delivering onsite historical lessons on both the architectural and skateboarding history of key skate spots. Barrows’ seemingly freestyle, well-researched presentations are interspersed with archival photos from the San Francisco Public Library’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/locations/main-library/sf-history-center/digital-collections\">Digital Archive\u003c/a> and \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://m.thrashermagazine.com/magazine/covers-archive/\">own\u003c/a>, telling the city’s history through those who have skated its streets. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/hXrdZ5kWRqs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/hXrdZ5kWRqs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Barrow is the professor who can skate and dress better than his students. With a bemused grin and sharp tongue, his commentaries are part snark, part self-deprecation. In one episode, dedicated to the \u003ca href=\"https://artandarchitecture-sf.com/embarcadero-ribbon.html\">Embarcadero Art Ribbon project\u003c/a> that became the skate spot Bay Blocks, Barrow details the “massive compromises” made to the project before construction, including gaps added between the concrete ledges for pedestrian accessibility — and opportunity. “It’s the gaps that activate this as a [skate] spot,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden these ideas crystallize around you,” Barrow tells me. “You can see the actual history of a built environment in a city and how people’s stories impacted the city through the juxtaposition of buildings and different spaces.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931481\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-768x381.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-2048x1015.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Thrasher.Triptych-1920x951.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R): Karl Watson, nollie 180 switch crooked grind at Pier 7, 1996; Chico Brenes, backside kickflip at Bay Blocks, 1997; Fred Gall, switch crooked grind at Hubba Hideout, 1995. \u003ccite>(Watson and Brenes: Luke Ogden; Gall: Gabe Morford; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barrow returned to the Bay Area a few years ago after many years in New York, teaching art history at such universities as Baruch and City College, while pursuing his PhD (he successfully defended his dissertation this year) and appearing in skate videos. He also gave walking tours, sneaking in skate references when describing the First Customs House where George Washington signed the Declaration of Independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It always seemed like there was this very rich history that videos and interviews with skateboarders didn’t always fully address,” he says, particularly around “how we think about space and how we think about place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg\" alt=\"Two teenage boys in baggy shirts on a concrete ledge\" width=\"1200\" height=\"786\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931484\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Henry-Sanchez-left-and-John-Cardiel-right-at-Embarcadero_1992_Photo-by-Tobin-Yelland-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) Henry Sanchez and John Cardiel at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Tobin Yelland; Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Revisiting landmarks of modern street skating\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“This Old Ledge” begins at Justin Herman Plaza, simply known to skaters as Embarcadero or Embarco. Designed in 1971 by modernist architect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11316687/halprins-experiments-in-environment-still-radical-50-years-later\">Lawrence Halprin\u003c/a>, it’s one of several civic-minded projects designed by Halprin in response to a generation of failed urban renewal projects, describing it as a “total environment in which all the elements working together create a place for participation.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the plaza’s skateable features have changed over the years. But the silhouettes of former plaza obstacles are still visible along the bricks, Barrow shows, as are thousands of axle marks from skateboarders turning the plaza, from 1991 to 1994, into street skating’s modern laboratory of innovation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Reading these visual histories is “part of the intimidation of these skate spots,” Barrow explains. “They’re palimpsests: they’ve changed, things have been removed, but you can still read the history of skateboarding etched into those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researching the series, Barrow discovered how “the actual ledges and obstacles that people skated in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s weren’t there. And I always presumed that they were there.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg\" alt=\"A backhoe demolishes a large concrete walkway\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Hubba-Hideout-destruction-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After years as a formative skate spot, as detailed in ‘This Old Ledge,’ Hubba Hideout was eventually demolished. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a different episode, we follow Barrow to another skate spot Halprin unintentionally designed, Hubba Hideout. In 1976, Halprin joined a team to connect the Alcoa Building with the waterfront through a pedestrian bridge extending from the building, over Davis Street, and into a newly landscaped plaza. The X-braised Alcoa Building would eventually mark the spot for skaters to find the bridge’s “harsh, brutalist concrete” handrails going down some stairs into a plaza with Halprin’s signature red bricks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here, many would “hide out and smoke crack in the middle of one of the most profitable commercial districts in the world in broad daylight” explains Barrow. 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On the wall of the courthouse was a framed photo of an abandoned San Francisco mansion, the Old Koshland House on Washington Street, whose curved exterior hubba ledge was \u003ca href=\"https://64.media.tumblr.com/b52e8b45d1554d98e9978416f510d2a1/tumblr_nqglutAUZJ1sgg3dvo1_500.gifv\">briefly a popular skate spot\u003c/a>. The photo was “dated the day after the 1906 earthquake,” with notable damage to buildings nearby. Vitello then considered the popular St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and found drawings from when the Cathedral was built. “The out ledge that \u003ca href=\"https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/atlantic-drift-episode-2-st-paul-s/\">everyone has skated\u003c/a> is sitting there in the 1600s, from a period before skateboarding was even invented – that trips me out.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through original videos, \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s “been pushing to expand further into personality and cultural stuff,” Vitello says, “beyond just ‘Here’s a [skate] video with music in the background.’” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This push isn’t only palpable across their nearly seven million Instagram followers, but in the magazine’s hiring a full-time archivist to help log \u003cem>Thrasher\u003c/em>’s entire photo and video history. Between these archives and the number of San Francisco skate spots replicated in skateparks worldwide, “San Francisco has had such an outsized influence on skateboarding,” Vitello says, “and therefore everything connected to our culture.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13931485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1118px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg\" alt=\"Young boys sit on their skateboards amidst a concrete and brick plaza\" width=\"1118\" height=\"739\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13931485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419.jpg 1118w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Skaters-at-Embarcadero_January-1992_photo-by-Kevin-Thatcher_419-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1118px) 100vw, 1118px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skaters at Embarcadero, 1992. \u003ccite>(Kevin Thatcher; courtesy Thrasher magazine)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Betsy Gordon, Project Manager at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, struck up a friendship with Barrow at the academic skate conference Pushing Boarders, where they both presented. She attests to his style of teaching: “I appreciate the fact that he has advanced skills and is very well-educated,” she says, “but never makes you feel stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrow recently contributed to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianstore.com/four-wheels-and-a-board-11042/\">Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, co-edited by Gordon. She looped in Barrow to write and contribute several pieces, including an introductory chapter to the 1990s section. “Not everybody can have that historian’s eye of seeing that context and say, ‘Oh, that trick for the ‘90s was really progressive’ with a sense of what was possible,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In the last few decades, advances in technology and horticultural knowledge have allowed botanical gardens to cultivate the corpse flower more widely.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you’re not familiar with why the flower has its distinctive name — when the corpse flower unfurls, tiny male and female flowers at the base of its large central spike emit a putrid odor, akin to rotting meat and stinky laundry.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Titan Arums have a fairly long and unpredictable flowering cycle, and they can take up to a decade before they flower for the first time. Even mature plants can go years between blooms. Essentially, they work on their own schedules — which is part of the excitement for viewers.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CuSUe7tvCS3/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the big deal? \u003c/strong>Right now, two corpse flowers are blooming in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One is at San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers, while the other is at the San Diego Botanic Gardens.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Conservatory’s corpse flower is named Scarlet, and last bloomed in 2019. She began blooming again earlier this week, and is \u003ca href=\"https://conservatoryofflowers.org/corpse-flower-2023/\">still standing tall\u003c/a> for her many visitors in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Diego’s flower du jour last bloomed in 2021, and is already \u003ca href=\"https://sdbg.org/explore-our-plants/whats-in-bloom/corpse-plant/#live-stream\">noticeably more shriveled \u003c/a>than the peak event earlier this week. 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"content": "\u003cp>Getting \u003ca href=\"https://www.darcydrollinger.com/\">D’Arcy Drollinger\u003c/a> ready for her first official appearance as San Francisco drag laureate was a production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artist, night club owner and newly appointed government official stood in the living room of her San Francisco apartment as two helpers grappled with a set of bejeweled, custom-made artificial nails and wedged her into a pair of white patent stilettos and a tight, pink skirt suit. Finally, Drollinger stepped out of the house, and into a very busy schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am speaking at the San Francisco Arts Commission,” Drollinger said. “I’m also on the same day speaking at the Entertainment Commission. I’m also going to speak at a high school. I’ll be in the parade with the mayor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “laureate” is most often attached to the winner of a Nobel Prize, or a poet whose job it is to mark official occasions in verse. 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And so to city officials, a drag laureate seemed to be — if not a cure, at least something of a panacea, thanks to “the creativity, the joy that a drag laureate brings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883181']Breed said one of Drollinger’s selling points as a candidate for the job, which comes with an 18-month term and $55,000 stipend, was her track record as a spreader of sparkle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nightclub owner pivoted during lockdown to run a food delivery service — “Meals on Heels” — out of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfoasis.com/\">Oasis\u003c/a>, the drag club she owns in downtown San Francisco. Performers in drag from Oasis delivered meals and cocktails to local residents, with a side order of curb-side lip-synching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought a lot of love and excitement,” Breed said of Drollinger’s drag performance-infused food delivery service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBWRRwJk-jc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breed said the recent attacks against drag performers, as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/02/08/1151731736/at-least-10-state-legislatures-trying-restrict-criminalize-drag-shows\">rise in anti-drag legislation\u003c/a> in different parts of the country, now make the appointment of a drag laureate particularly crucial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In some of those communities where something like this wouldn’t be considered acceptable behavior, there’s a kid that’s thinking, ‘Oh my goodness: she’s like me. I can be myself without fear,'” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LGBTQ activists around the country are working to fight a slew of anti-drag laws currently under consideration in various states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s scary right now,” said Kylo Freeman, CEO and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.forthem.com/\">For Them\u003c/a>, a trans-owned brand that makes apparel for transgender people, and the force behind “Drag is Divine,” an advertising campaign that aims to raise awareness and funding to help fight anti-drag laws. “The backlash is real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13930407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930407\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/for-them-campaign-poster_custom-e3a730771e0d2f0f7a6a3ba1bc625714e3432712-800x350.jpg\" alt='A drag king and queen recline together in a tropical green space. 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