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Issa Rae created her idea of an awkward Black girl first as \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/nIVa9lxkbus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a YouTube series\u003c/a>, and from that came \u003ca href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Misadventures-of-Awkward-Black-Girl/Issa-Rae/9781476749099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a bestselling memoir\u003c/a>, the hit show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/40693/how-issa-raes-insecure-is-leading-a-quiet-revolution-in-television\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insecure\u003c/a>\u003c/em> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick, too, has managed to work and rework one specific concept, and we’ve watched it grow from a couple of lines, to a song, to a concept album and signature aspect of his artwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So let’s be clear: I’m here to tell you why the track “Average Joe,” from Kendrick Lamar’s 2010 \u003cem>Overly Dedicated\u003c/em> \u003cem>EP\u003c/em>, is his most important song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913174\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A young Black man holds an analog camera in the photo pit of a large arena event.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/Kendrick.2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kendrick Lamar attends the 2018 BET Experience Concert at L.A. Live on June 22, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Ser Baffo/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>o, it’s not his highest charting song (“Humble”), nor his most famous (“Alright”). It’s not the one that gets the party turnt (“Michael Jordan”). I’m not taking away from his collaborations with Bono or Beyoncé, and definitely not the voice of Tupac Shakur (“Mortal Man”) or the song that President Obama said was the best song of 2015 (“How Much a Dollar Cost”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenny’s catalog boasts songs with Travis and Drake that have been played so many times it’d be torture to hear them again. The Black Hippy tracks are dope, and despite his impending departure from their shared record label, Top Dawg Entertainment, I hope we get more collaborations from him and Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q. (Hell, even if we just get \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Z-48u_uWMHY?t=130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that song from the opening of the “Alright” video\u003c/a>, I’d be happy.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick’s career is decorated with honors and accolades, from executive-producing the \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> soundtrack to performing at this year’s Dr. Dre-led Super Bowl halftime performance. I mean, the guy won a freaking Pulitzer for \u003cem>DAMN\u003c/em>—a Pulitzer for \u003cem>spitting rhymes\u003c/em>—did we even know that was possible?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13865026']And even in failure, like losing a Grammy to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gawker.com/macklemore-is-a-ho-bag-1509862810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some white guy from Seattle\u003c/a>, Kendrick won our hearts—and proved why the act of reworking your craft is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the novel-like album \u003cem>Good Kid, M.A.A.D City\u003c/em>, Kendrick is a bystander exploring the dichotomy of good and evil in his community, using clever lyrics recited over drums that punch like Kimbo Slice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He describes his transformation as an outside observer on the track “m.A.A.D City”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Seen a light-skinned nigga with his brains blown out\u003cbr>\nAt the same burger stand where (redacted) hangs out\u003cbr>\nNow, this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it\u003cbr>\nBut ever since that day, I was lookin’ at him different\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, later in the song, he gets pulled into this world of sinister behavior:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>My pops said I needed a job, I thought I believed him\u003cbr>\nSecurity guard for a month and ended up leavin’\u003cbr>\nIn fact, I got fired, ’cause I was inspired by all of my friends\u003cbr>\nTo stage a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick, a neutral narrator who gets influenced by his associates, has been this guy for some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjKlzdnoBGg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his self-titled song “Kendrick Lamar,” a 2012 track where he drops the moniker K-Dot to go by his given name, he says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I’m just a good kid from Compton that want to rap\u003cbr>\nWeighing my options, pick up a Bible or a strap?\u003cbr>\nI never killed a man, never sold any crack\u003cbr>\nAll I ever did was try to keep my city on the map\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s these four bars, above, that underscore a philosophy further explored in 2012’s \u003cem>Good Kid m.A.A.D City\u003c/em>, and brought to visual life in \u003ca href=\"https://i.discogs.com/IisP10nUmJmiyxaAtenOChe3Ng5Q56YzMneN6GopVQQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzNjkw/NDItMTU4NjA5MTUx/OC03NzYyLmpwZWc.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the cover art for his \u003cem>Section 80\u003c/em> mixtape\u003c/a>. But before the idea shows up in album form, it’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jHV0HxQQGw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Average Joe\u003c/a>” where Mr. Duckworth explains the same concept in the earliest, most vivid colors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kendrick opens the song by saying “The hardest thing for me to do / Is to get you to know me within 16 bars.” He then does just that, illustrating his position of being gang-adjacent, a good kid who’s just trying to rap but is still getting caught up in the life:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_10886808']\u003cem>Everyone I knew was either Crip or Piru\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Cousins in elementary, relatives in high school\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>With that being said, each one of their rivals\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Was aiming something at my head, I needed survival\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Got jumped, got jacked, shot at, shot back\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>And I don’t even push a line, I’m just tryna push these rhymes\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>In the midst of staying neutral and discreet\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>My momma said you’re judged by the company you keep\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nutshell, this is Kendrick’s story; the premise of his entire career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why they fuck with me,” goes the chorus, twice, before Kendrick says, “I’m no gangster, no killer, I’m just your average Joe (know that) / But one thing you should consider, I’m the realest you know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boom. That’s it. He’s an authentic person who’s telling his story, and growing as he does. He hones this theme through poetically energetic slick storytelling, a mix of Iceberg Slim, Gil Scott-Heron, DMX and Rass Kass, but yeah: Kendrick’s formula really is that simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11057865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11057865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kendrick.Meline.jpg\" alt=\"Kendrick Lamar performs at Outside Lands, Aug. 8, 2015. (Photo: Gabe Meline/KQED)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kendrick.Meline.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kendrick.Meline-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kendrick.Meline-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kendrick.Meline-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Kendrick.Meline-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kendrick Lamar. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>‘ve followed Kendrick’s work since before 2011, when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cIQe2iaQRk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">performed at the New Parish in Oakland\u003c/a>—still the only time I’ve seen him perform. The first song I ever heard from him was “Heaven or Hell,” a track about the drastic dichotomies in life. Again, the same theme of good and evil, and him standing as an honest observer in the midst of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now on the verge of releasing \u003cem>Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,\u003c/em> the Gemini MC is bracing us for more stories about the polarizing aspects of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking at his catalog, there’s a lesson on the importance of revising, reworking and retelling our stories of growth. No, I’m not saying you too can be Kendrick Lamar—there’s only one big-eared Pulitzer Prize winning lyricist from Hub City. But we can all work and rework ourselves, and our stories. Word to Average Joe.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC7837936934&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/alan_chazaro\">Alan Chazaro\u003c/a> uses poetry to explore Bay Area culture, his love for hip-hop, and machismo stereotypes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13864326/rightnowish-alan-chazaro-navigates-machismo-with-poetry\">first talked\u003c/a> in 2019 about his first poetry collection, \u003ca href=\"https://www.blacklawrence.com/this-is-not-a-frank-ocean-cover-album/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album. \u003c/em>\u003c/a>Since then, Chazaro moved to Mexico, travelled through Central and South America, and then, ultimately, returned to the Bay Area. Chazaro has also been dabbling in the journalism trade– with stories that range from \u003ca href=\"https://thebolditalic.com/the-forgotten-san-francisco-warrior-b746d01d6ac4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first woman to play\u003c/a> professional men’s basketball to the tale of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/athletics/amp/hal-gordon-oakland-a-s-hot-dog-vendor-profile-16099242.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notable Oakland A’s hot dog vendor.\u003c/a> Chazaro has even freelanced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893070/on-his-solo-debut-the-seshens-kumar-butler-puts-activists-voices-front-and-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for KQED.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to all of that, Chazaro just published his second book, \u003ca href=\"https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/pinata-theory/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Pińata Theory, \u003c/em>\u003c/a>which takes a deeper dive into his Mexican-American identity, hip-hop and deconstructing concepts of masculinity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since April is \u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/national-poetry-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Poetry Month\u003c/a>, it seems like a good time to revisit our first conversation. And because so much has changed since then– traveling, book publication and more– we brought him back to give us a life update and a poem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/1a0EFQmuKDKXSoXl8CwTrt\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of our conversation and the poem Alan Chazaro chose to recite for this episode.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ode to Kendrick Lamar\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are nights like tonight when it rains / biblical amounts of everything and music plays while I drive somewhere I usually don’t / go after dark because I get lost in my head / while my wife plans for next week and I try to decide where to park and when to / leave but instead I down / IPAs and smash In N Out burgers into my gut before the smallest / words crawl out / forced. Some days I feel the dark rushing / a tidal wave of fuck / you’s cresting my insides. / I double-knot my Tims and avert eye contact in a hoodie and baseball cap. / I am not this façade / have never sailed the fist into a stranger’s / skull but there is a thunderstorm / coming and I must know my way. Tomorrow / I’ll drive a pickup to the end / of the road on the other side of 880. I’ll park and read / poetry while 18-wheelers rumble within inches of my chest. It is what excites / and repels my attention while riding this / neighborhood. How the blood of sweet grass reminds me of something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Thank you. Thank you for sharing that.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Bring us into your world, what was going on when you wrote that poem?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan: That particular poem I wanna say was written in like 2015. I remember that because I was a graduate student at the University of San Francisco in the creative writing program. And at that time I was living in South Hayward and I used to have to take the bus to get to the BART and then the BART all the way to the city…Kendrick had just dropped his secret album called Untitled Unmastered… I was bumping it a lot because I was riding the BART, or I was on the bus to like occupy my mind… I wanted to kind of honor Kendrick as an artist who is unafraid to just put out raw art and be himself, present him and his community in a sort of different way, right. It’s not always a stereotypical narrative. And when he does tell his narratives, I feel a sense of fullness and humanity in his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan: That’s what I love about poetry and writing in general, because when I read that poem, it transports me back to that moment in my life, when I was this graduate student, that was just grinding… I had a full ride scholarship. My only thing was reading, consuming poetry, and sort of vibing with different art forms and just being present in the Bay Area as fully as I could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Imagine if you could just be a grad student at all times, [laughs] like what you just described should be life, right?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan: [laughs] yeah.. I know it sounds cliché, but I always tell my students, like, ‘how lucky we that our purpose in this space is that we’re trying to grow in our craft, in our sense of knowing the world, in our in our sense of voice and possibility,’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan: Ya know, I try not to do [tell them that] too much because then they’re going to be like, ‘man, shut up, dude.’ But I think when you understand that that’s not a given in the world, you start to really appreciate how beautiful it is that our job is to learn right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Since interviewing you the first time I’ve been keeping up with you writing, your growth and seeing your byline in 48 Hills and S.F. Gate and being shared through the newsletters with The Warriors. What type of growth have you experienced behind the scenes? What have you learned about poetry?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan: It’s an art form of the interior. To me it’s like a meditative space. When I’m writing poems, I want to go inward and I want to reflect and I want to pick through the fragments of myself and sort of grapple with all of these layers of my identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan: But then there’s other days where I’m feeling very social and I want to talk to people and tell other people’s stories. So I’ve been doing a lot more journalism and I’ve found that I can apply my poetic sensibilities and my poetic craft to other forms of living, but particularly of writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Constant growth\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan: Mmhmm\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or click the play button at the top of this page and subscribe to the show on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish\">NPR One\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/Rightnowish-p1258245/\">TuneIn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish\">Stitcher\u003c/a> or wherever you get your podcasts. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Inside, a police officer was detaining a black 14-year-old suspected of drinking alcohol. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivXg7xp2F0\">In surveillance and body cam tape\u003c/a> released by the Greater Cleveland Authority Regional Transit Police, you can see the cop take the kid off the bus and handcuff him inside a sheltered bus stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Middleton could make out that something was going on. “I’m standing on the steps,” she says, “and all of a sudden, the crowd went from of folks saying goodbye to, ‘Oh, something’s happening.’ ” It had been less than a year since police shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old who was playing with an Airsoft gun outside a rec center, in the very same city. People started gathering at the scene, holding up their phones to record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the incident report, officers asked the 14-year-old for his mother’s name and address, which he gave to them. One of the bystanders also asked for this information. From the report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“That unknown female was informed by us that we will handle calling a parent or guardian. [REDACTED] blurted out to her his mother’s phone number. Ptl. Horton and Ptl. Dorko were blocking the crowd from entering the shelter and the ability for them to have any communication with [REDACTED] (for his safety).”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“Our ultimate goal was to make sure that this young child was not criminalized,” Middleton says. “That this child left the situation alive, and also that an adult who was accountable for that child was present.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd grew, more police showed up, and bystanders became protesters. Some of them linked arms around the police cars. An officer pepper sprayed them. The scene continued to intensify until, finally, the teen’s mother arrived. The police escorted mom and son to an ambulance, and then let them go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a story involving a young black male, escalating tensions, police in riot gear and people getting pepper sprayed, this is a happy ending. Some of the protesters begin to shout a familiar refrain: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUC_DOhfzwQ\">We gon’ be alright\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>Kendrick Lamar’s \u003cem>To Pimp a Butterfly\u003c/em> was released in the spring of 2015. “Alright” was the fourth single off the record. It’s hard to say exactly when the song was first used at a protest, but the story in Cleveland touched on many of the issues of the moment concerning police relations with black people. 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They’re haunting, in a way. “Maybe it’s the ancestors who never received the justice they deserved,” says Miles Marshall Lewis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the upcoming book \u003cem>Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar\u003c/em>, Lewis interviewed Lamar after the release of \u003cem>To Pimp a Butterfly\u003c/em> and learned the artist was inspired to write “Alright” by a trip to South Africa—specifically the cell on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. Similarly, Lamar told NPR in a 2015 interview that he was thinking about the history of chattel slavery in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four hundred years ago, as slaves, we prayed and sung joyful songs to keep our heads level-headed with what was going on,” Lamar said. “Four hundred years later, we still need that music to heal. And I think that ‘Alright’ is definitely one of those records that makes you feel good no matter what the times are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the song’s prechorus, Lamar lays this feeling out succinctly. He begins in the past:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>Wouldn’t you know, we been hurt, been down before\u003cbr>\nWhen our pride was low\u003cbr>\nLooking at the world like “Where do we go?”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The emotional payoff of the chorus isn’t complete without this lead-in, acknowledging the long history of black oppression. Then he brings us back to the present, where things are different, but not different enough:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>And we hate po-po\u003cbr>\nWanna kill us dead in the streets for sure\u003cbr>\nI’m at the preacher’s door\u003cbr>\nMy knees getting weak, and my gun might blow,\u003cbr>\nBut we gon’ be alright\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When the narrator shows up at a preacher’s door, reeling in the face of police violence and oppression, he’s holding a gun. Lewis says the moment reflects the old duality of the civil rights struggle: “He might trade in the Martin hat for the Malcolm hat, and have to defend himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s up to the listener to decide which way the gun is pointed: at the police, at the preacher, at someone else, or back at the artist himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>On June 17, 2015, a white nationalist shot and killed nine black people inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S. 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This isn’t going to change anything.’ And walk away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This sentiment is reflected in “Alright,” too — particularly the contrast of the bright, optimistic, communal chorus against the dark, self-critical and solitary verses: “I can see the evil, I can tell it, I know it’s illegal / I don’t think about it, I deposit every other zero.” There’s a powerlessness here, as even Lamar, who at this point in his career was positioned as \u003cem>the\u003c/em> rapper, succumbs to apathy and greed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not denying that we’re in a protracted state of trauma,” Middleton says. “He’s saying, ‘I know that we may have all of these things around us that will allow us to escape, but the movement is still there, the fight is still there.’ And I think it’s important to recognize that—because sometimes we don’t think about the psychological impact and trauma of fighting for your life every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the death of Freddie Gray, a lot of us was just stuck and lost,” says Devin Allen. He’s a photographer from Baltimore, who documented many of the protests, prayers, riots and marches that took place in 2015 when Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, died after injuries he sustained while being transported by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we spoke, Allen talked about the curfew that followed, the occupation, the black people shot by police who, for better or worse, haven’t become household names. He said that protesters in Baltimore weren’t singing “Alright” in the streets like in other cities. Instead, the song had a more private presence: something you listened to in the car by yourself, at home with your family, at the club with your friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen’s photos these days deal with softer subject matter: Friends, neighbors, random kids living their lives in Baltimore. It’s cautiously optimistic work that he says is inspired by Lamar. And he sometimes posts videos of his daughter dancing along to “Alright,” or mugging for the camera, rapping along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One day we will be all right,” he says. “Gotta keep fighting for that. The moment I don’t believe it’s gonna be all right, what am I fighting for?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read the phrase “We gon’ be alright” as indicative of some distant future, where white supremacy and oppression are no longer a major concern — \u003cem>one day\u003c/em>, as Allen puts it. But maybe it can also mean something simpler, sooner. Something as small as coming home to your family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>This weekend, an estimated 40,000 people will descend on downtown San Jose for the 30th anniversary of the \u003ca href=\"https://summerfest.sanjosejazz.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose Jazz Summer Fest\u003c/a>. (And yes, extra security is expected.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you might expect, the original ambition was decidedly more modest in 1990. So says Artistic & Festival Director Bruce Labadie, there at the creation: “We decided to have it free and outdoors and, basically, was going to be made successful by selling beer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, a few sponsorship deals helped, as did careful selection of eight headliners, including Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, and Poncho Sánchez. “10,000 people showed up over two days. It was amazing. So we knew it was going to be successful from the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>30 years later, the Summer Fest is much bigger: 14 stages instead of two, 150 acts, or so, instead of eight. 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It’s a huge street party, with fantastic music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Dee Dee Bridgewater headlined the 2001 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1194\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut-800x597.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut-768x573.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut-1020x761.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38405_Yes_2001deedeebridgewaterandy-qut-1200x896.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dee Dee Bridgewater headlined the 2001 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Andy Nozaka)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re also active year round. We do a couple hundred performances throughout all of San Jose throughout the year. We also do a Winter Fest and then we’re active in a lot of San Jose schools with different music education programs,” said Executive Director Brendan Rawson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marketing Director Massimo Chisessi adds, “San Jose Jazz has nurtured a local ecology of musicians here, through jams year-round. We also bring them work, gigs at local restaurants. One of the results is there’s a lot more interest now in live music (in downtown San Jose) than there was 30 years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13857655,arts_13804037,arts_10885260' label='More San Jose Jazz']Rawson estimates half of the Summer Fest’s audience is local to Silicon Valley. The other half is split between the greater Bay Area and the world beyond, stretching as far afield as Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full disclosure: I grew up in a family full of talented jazz composers, and I love jazz. But like a lot of musical traditions, jazz’s audience is growing frailer and paler, and it’s dropped off the radio dial in many cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I had to ask, how has San Jose Jazz survived and thrived? Short answer: like most jazz festivals, with a definition of jazz much more expansive than what insiders call “straight-ahead.” That, along with smooth jazz, makes up only 20 percent of what’s on the roster of San Jose Jazz today. The rest represents gospel, blues, funk, soul, hip hop, R&B, and of course, lots of salsa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue during the 2011 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1272\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-1200x795.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue during the 2011 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Bruce Fram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing like seeing a band live onstage, because it’s infectious, it’s contagious, it’s … it’s music that you want to dance to!” said Betto Arcos of KPCC in Los Angeles, one of a host of curators who bring specialized rolodexes with them, along with bigger, broader audiences from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year we’re bringing a band from Columbia (\u003ca href=\"http://www.la-33.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orquesta La 33\u003c/a>). This is like the top salsa band from Colombia has come into perform to the Jazz Fest,” Arcos adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert says San Jose Jazz’s commitment to Latin music has been genuine since the beginning. “Showing how that is woven in to the fabric of jazz. This year is no different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labadie say the audiences who come to San Jose Jazz come with big, broad musical appetites, keen to take in the unfamiliar and cheer on the young and the local. Why not, when about 40 percent of music is free?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jazz is roots music\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of these young artists that come of age in a hip hop generation, but they’re incredibly well-trained jazz artists, and you’re seeing them sort of in sort of informing and shaping a lot of popular music today,” Rawson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fair to say San Jose Jazz has helped to “inform and shape” by giving an early chance to musicians coming up. Labadie has a lot of stories along these lines…\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1543px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut.jpg\" alt=\"John Santos with the Machete Ensemble at the 2002 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.\" width=\"1543\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut.jpg 1543w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-768x597.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-1200x933.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1543px) 100vw, 1543px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Santos with the Machete Ensemble at the 2002 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Andy Nozaka)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Years ago, we had the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lulawashington.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lulu Washington Dance Company\u003c/a>, and the guy that promotes it, the husband of Lulu Washington, said, ‘Oh, my nephew is really a good player!’ I go, ‘Okay, whatever.’ Then I open \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> and there he was. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kamasiwashington.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamasi Washington\u003c/a>. He didn’t have an agent. We paid him a little bit of money, and then he was charging $50,000 right after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Same with Trombone Shorty, who we found. You know, played at the main stage, and became unaffordable a couple of years after we had him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like anybody else, the organizers are partial to headliners. Rawson’s favorite? “I’m really excited that we’re having \u003ca href=\"http://diannereeves.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dianne Reeves\u003c/a> back. She was named an \u003ca href=\"https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/dianne-reeves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NEA Jazz Master\u003c/a> last year. She was with us in our second year of the festival. She’s this will be her fourth time appearing with us, and it’s always there’s really a sense of almost homecoming for a lot of our folks that come each year, and she’s just outstanding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Jazz doesn’t typically have performance recording rights. The local radio station \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcsm.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KCSM\u003c/a> broadcasts some of the music live, and they do run a highlight show the following spring. There’s also some live streaming. But generally, you have to be in San Jose to experience Summer Fest in all its multi-faceted, musical glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/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/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003cstrong>San Jose Jazz Summer Fest\u003c/strong> runs August 9-11, 2019. For more information, click \u003ca href=\"https://summerfest.sanjosejazz.org/artists/7th-street-big-band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The rest represents gospel, blues, funk, soul, hip hop, R&B, and of course, lots of salsa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue during the 2011 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1272\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-768x509.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38408_SJJSummerfest_TromboneShortyandOrleansAvenue6_creditBruceFram-qut-1200x795.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue during the 2011 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Bruce Fram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing like seeing a band live onstage, because it’s infectious, it’s contagious, it’s … it’s music that you want to dance to!” said Betto Arcos of KPCC in Los Angeles, one of a host of curators who bring specialized rolodexes with them, along with bigger, broader audiences from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This year we’re bringing a band from Columbia (\u003ca href=\"http://www.la-33.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orquesta La 33\u003c/a>). This is like the top salsa band from Colombia has come into perform to the Jazz Fest,” Arcos adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert says San Jose Jazz’s commitment to Latin music has been genuine since the beginning. “Showing how that is woven in to the fabric of jazz. This year is no different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labadie say the audiences who come to San Jose Jazz come with big, broad musical appetites, keen to take in the unfamiliar and cheer on the young and the local. Why not, when about 40 percent of music is free?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jazz is roots music\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of these young artists that come of age in a hip hop generation, but they’re incredibly well-trained jazz artists, and you’re seeing them sort of in sort of informing and shaping a lot of popular music today,” Rawson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s fair to say San Jose Jazz has helped to “inform and shape” by giving an early chance to musicians coming up. Labadie has a lot of stories along these lines…\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13863069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1543px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13863069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut.jpg\" alt=\"John Santos with the Machete Ensemble at the 2002 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.\" width=\"1543\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut.jpg 1543w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-800x622.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-768x597.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-1020x793.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/RS38406_Yes_2002johnsantosandy-qut-1200x933.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1543px) 100vw, 1543px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Santos with the Machete Ensemble at the 2002 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Andy Nozaka)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Years ago, we had the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lulawashington.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lulu Washington Dance Company\u003c/a>, and the guy that promotes it, the husband of Lulu Washington, said, ‘Oh, my nephew is really a good player!’ I go, ‘Okay, whatever.’ Then I open \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em> and there he was. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kamasiwashington.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamasi Washington\u003c/a>. He didn’t have an agent. We paid him a little bit of money, and then he was charging $50,000 right after that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Same with Trombone Shorty, who we found. You know, played at the main stage, and became unaffordable a couple of years after we had him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like anybody else, the organizers are partial to headliners. Rawson’s favorite? “I’m really excited that we’re having \u003ca href=\"http://diannereeves.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dianne Reeves\u003c/a> back. She was named an \u003ca href=\"https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/dianne-reeves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NEA Jazz Master\u003c/a> last year. She was with us in our second year of the festival. She’s this will be her fourth time appearing with us, and it’s always there’s really a sense of almost homecoming for a lot of our folks that come each year, and she’s just outstanding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Jazz doesn’t typically have performance recording rights. The local radio station \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcsm.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KCSM\u003c/a> broadcasts some of the music live, and they do run a highlight show the following spring. There’s also some live streaming. But generally, you have to be in San Jose to experience Summer Fest in all its multi-faceted, musical glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/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/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003cstrong>San Jose Jazz Summer Fest\u003c/strong> runs August 9-11, 2019. For more information, click \u003ca href=\"https://summerfest.sanjosejazz.org/artists/7th-street-big-band\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "Mozzy On 'Gangland Landlord,' Kendrick and How a Persistent Grind Pays Off",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>ix years ago, Mozzy thought his rap career was almost over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artist was 25 and had already served several stints behind bars on drug and weapons charges. His first child was on the way, and his mixtapes and music videos depicting Sacramento’s hardscrabble gang lifestyle hadn’t attracted much of an audience outside of his Oak Park neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flash forward to February 2018, when Kendrick Lamar accepted his Grammy for Best Rap Album. The first words out of his mouth to 19.8 million viewers at home and an auditorium of celebrities? “This is special, man. Like my guy Mozzy say, ‘God up top all the time,’ real talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon hearing the unexpected Grammys shout out, West Coast rap fans exploded with excitement on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=kendrick%20mozzy%20grammy%27s&src=typd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and national publications \u003ca href=\"http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/a-guide-to-mozzy-the-sacramento-rapper-kendrick-lamar-loves.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clued readers in\u003c/a> to the identity of the little-known artist who just received Lamar’s ultimate cosign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things only sped up from there. Less than a week after the Grammys, Ryan Coogler’s record-shattering \u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em> came out in theaters. During the last scene, when T’Challa and Shuri visit the Oakland park that once contained a milk-crate basketball hoop, millions of viewers in sold-out theaters across the country heard Mozzy’s song “Sleep Walkin'” from his 2017 album \u003cem>1 Up Top Ahk\u003c/em>. Mozzy’s was the voice that symbolized that moment of returning to one’s roots to take care of those who are still struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/cAgRk2rBhlg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like, ‘Mama, we made it.’ After all the work we put in underground, they started to pay attention and recognize us on a national level,” says the 31-year-old Mozzy in a recent phone interview. “This is what we were shootin’ for. If I was to stop right now, I lived a dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozzy’s autobiographical new album, \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gangland-landlord/1438263477?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Gangland Landlord\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, released Oct. 5 on San Francisco distribution label Empire, is his first offering with the national spotlight on him. And although he recorded it knowing the industry was watching, the project comes across as an un-self-conscious, genuine self-portrait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gangland Landlord\u003c/em> weighs heavy with traumatic memories, with tense violins, pensive piano and ominous church bells underscoring narratives of Mozzy clawing himself out of poverty. It’s Mozzy’s most cleanly executed release since \u003cem>Bladadah\u003c/em>, the 2015 album that expanded his reach beyond Sacramento and made him a star of Northern California’s underground scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big dog, I’m the fella-fella,” says Mozzy, explaining that the album’s title is a reflection of his new stature. “I’m the one the people come to. I’m the people’s champ.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842714\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13842714 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/mozzy-gangland-landlord-stream-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover art for Mozzy’s ‘Gangland Landlord.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>t’s easy to call oneself a people’s champ; acting on it is the hard part. Amid a whirlwind press tour, Mozzy recently made time to go back to Sacramento (he currently lives in Los Angeles). He threw a charity event at a local park where he gave away backpacks, school supplies, haircut vouchers and $7,000 in cash to his old neighbors and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Provide for your people—I’m just looking out for mine,” says Mozzy, whose real name is Tim Patterson. “I’m the ‘landlord’ of this region, so I’m responsible. I don’t want no cookie, I don’t want no applause from nobody. No matter what I’m doing in life, if I have the means to look out for ’em, that’s what I’ma do, because these are the same people who was rooting for me when it was ugly, when it was spunky, when I only had seven listeners and 10 views on YouTube.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozzy’s rise to the national stage is particularly remarkable because his subject matter, even on an album he knew would reach beyond his regional audience, is decidedly niche. He raps devotedly—militantly—about a gang lifestyle that’s far removed from anything Middle America could relate to, in a notorious neighborhood in a city whose culture is little-known to outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no sugarcoating or sanitizing on \u003cem>Gangland Landlord\u003c/em>, either. Unlike Migos or Future, who depict shoot-outs in trap houses as minor detours on the way to innumerable rap-money riches, Mozzy is deeply reflective about his street activities and time behind bars, and how both of those things have affected his mental health and development as a man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smile now, cry later when I’m by myself / More chains for the gang than I buy myself / Misled by the blind, tryna find myself,” he raps in a gravelly voice over low piano notes and a bass-heavy knock on “Not Impressive.” Later in the verse, he breaks from his growly cadence, trailing off into a whisper with the last word of every bar, betraying the pain behind his tough exterior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/KOVLJdPRlZE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozzy is a keen storyteller whose snapshots of life in inner-city America are as brutally realistic as they are vulnerable. “Perhaps his core talent is to convey violence in a way that feels honest, which makes his competition seem mediated, dishonest, even exploitative,” wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/40-best-rap-albums-of-2015-40015/mozzy-bladadah-26234/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>\u003c/a>‘s David Drake when the magazine named Mozzy’s \u003cem>Bladadah\u003c/em> the 22nd best rap album of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mozzy’s music slaps, but the gruff lyricist is a bard,” asserted \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>‘s Hannah Giorgis in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/10/mozzy-sacramento-gangland-landlord-rap-album/572281/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent profile\u003c/a> of the rapper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ain’t afraid to cry in my music,” Mozzy tells me. “I ain’t afraid to cry out for help. I ain’t afraid to let you know I don’t know, I don’t got all the answers. I ain’t afraid to let you know my faults, to let you know I was hurt, I was broke, I was starving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hile Bay Area rappers often complain that national labels and publications pass over them in favor of championing artists from Los Angeles, getting national recognition is even more of an uphill battle for a rapper from Sacramento, a city whose culture rarely makes a blip on the national radar beyond movies like \u003cem>Lady Bird\u003c/em>, which depicts a much whiter, safer version of the city Mozzy raps about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I ask how it feels to represent Sacramento and Oak Park on the national stage, Mozzy replies with a long, resounding, “HAAAAAAAAANH!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For sure we the underdogs, but I ain’t gon’ lie, we movin’ mountains right now,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozzy was raised in Oak Park by his grandmother, a former Black Panther, practicing Muslim and strict disciplinarian. His father was often in and out of jail, his mother struggled with addiction and many of his aunts and uncles were affiliated with the Bloods. Outside of the confines of his grandmother’s orderly home, Mozzy began getting in trouble at an early age and was selling drugs and breaking into houses by the time he was in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was raised in a respectful manner. There were other households that were less fortunate,” he reflects. “But the streets shaped me a lot. I was stuck in the streets for a long time. It got a lot to do with my character: I’d say the aggressive push, the way I bite down with my music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mozzy plays Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mozzy plays Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Mozzy realized he wanted to be a rapper like his uncle, GP the Beast, who recorded Mozzy for the first time when he was just 11 and going by Lil Tim. In the years that followed, rapping and making quick money in the streets began to consume Mozzy. He ended up dropping out of high school to pursue music, but music only overtook his street activities much later, when his star began to rise after \u003cem>Bladadah\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2015, fresh out of jail, that’s when people started offering me thousands for projects. That’s when I knew—ain’t never made this type of money,” he says, still in disbelief. “First time I touched $50,000, legitimately—I could ride around with this 50 and the police can’t take it from me because I have proof of where I got it from—that’s when I was like, it’s real. When I gave my grandmother $100,000, that’s when I was like, ‘Yeah, this is what we doin’, f-ck all that other sh-t.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2005 and 2008, Mozzy went to Sacramento County Jail on a variety of charges, including evading police and possessing marijuana with intent to sell. The repercussions of those convictions from his late teens and early ’20s follow him to this day. He was barred from owning a gun as a convicted felon, but, as he explains it, life in Oak Park required the protection of a weapon. In 2014, he served a year in San Quentin State Prison on firearms charges. (Mozzy says that, nowadays, his prior convictions still sometimes affect his ability to perform abroad.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozzy’s stint at San Quentin was a wake-up call. “My dad was in jail when I was my daughter’s age,” he says, referring to his eldest, Ariana-Dooterz, who is now five. “We was in the same prison, though. So you know, I’m walking the same yard he was walking, history repeating itself. I couldn’t wait to get out so I could bite down, so I could get it together, so I could be a man. I had responsibilities and I didn’t want to put that burden on my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Mozzy’s music started gaining traction outside of Sacramento. In 2013, he recorded a \u003cem>Tonite Show\u003c/em> album with Oakland’s DJ Fresh, the producer responsible for hyphy-era regional hits like D-Lo’s “No Hoe” and Mistah F.A.B.’s “We Go Stupid in the Bay.” Oakland’s Philthy Rich tapped Mozzy for the downcast, piano-heavy “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBMDZGnhQs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I’m Just Being Honest\u003c/a>“; Joe Blow, another Oakland rapper with local clout, invited him to feature on the nostalgically soulful “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iC65U0DK9Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locked In\u003c/a>.” Mozzy’s name began to circulate in Bay Area rap circles, and in 2015, he cemented himself into the local scene with \u003cem>Down to the Wire: 4th Ave Edition \u003c/em>on J. Stalin’s Livewire Records, a household name for anyone who followed the Oakland street rap scene of the 2000s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just took off from me from right there. The whole Bay started f-ckin’ with me,” he says. “They embraced me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s Mozzy’s reputation as a searingly honest wordsmith grew, he remained on probation through 2017 and was barred from leaving the state of California without permission from his officer. This posed an inconvenience to his career: his 2016 and 2017 albums \u003cem>Mandatory Check\u003c/em> and \u003cem>1 Up Top Ahk\u003c/em> reached No. 11 and No. 36 on Billboard’s top R&B/hip-hop albums chart, and he began getting requests to perform out of state. Fortunately, his probation officer usually obliged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842718\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Cover art for Mozzy's '1 Up Top Ahk.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover art for Mozzy’s ‘1 Up Top Ahk.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without these hindrances, Mozzy might be farther along in his career. But he still doesn’t regret his past. “It do put a damper on some things, it threw a lot of things off,” he says. “But I don’t regret nothing. If I hadn’t went through the beautiful struggles I went through, I think it would have minimized my hunger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though his criminal past is key to understanding him as a person and artist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/sacramento-gangster-rapper-mozzy-is/content?oid=20363358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early stories\u003c/a> about Mozzy sometimes read more like crime reports than profiles of an exciting new artist. And indeed, if Mozzy’s career continues to progress the way it has the past three years, he’s about to be scrutinized by a lot more label heads, journalists, streaming service execs and listeners who may harbor stereotypes and misconceptions about his background or previous way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mozzy plays Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mozzy plays Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Mozzy says he’d sooner fall off than censor himself. “I ain’t in it for the money,” he says, defiant. “If I decline financially, it wouldn’t hurt me as much as changing and tweaking my music for someone else. That would do more damage to my inner self than financial problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozzy is living a new lifestyle now, far away from the trenches he raps about. He’s a family man with a girlfriend and two daughters (seven-month-old Zayda was born earlier this year). They’re living in L.A. in a safe neighborhood, in a building with an elevator, far away from the dangers of Oak Park. “I gotta make sure they don’t go through the same beautiful struggles I went through,” Mozzy says, adding that his daughters are his biggest motivation. “I want them to be 10 times doper than me. No matter what career choice, no matter what they’re doing in life, I want to provide them with that head start and that healthy household with a mother and father present, unlike the majority of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s no room for f-ckin’ up.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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If I was to stop right now, I lived a dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozzy’s autobiographical new album, \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gangland-landlord/1438263477?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Gangland Landlord\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, released Oct. 5 on San Francisco distribution label Empire, is his first offering with the national spotlight on him. And although he recorded it knowing the industry was watching, the project comes across as an un-self-conscious, genuine self-portrait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gangland Landlord\u003c/em> weighs heavy with traumatic memories, with tense violins, pensive piano and ominous church bells underscoring narratives of Mozzy clawing himself out of poverty. It’s Mozzy’s most cleanly executed release since \u003cem>Bladadah\u003c/em>, the 2015 album that expanded his reach beyond Sacramento and made him a star of Northern California’s underground scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big dog, I’m the fella-fella,” says Mozzy, explaining that the album’s title is a reflection of his new stature. “I’m the one the people come to. 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Amid a whirlwind press tour, Mozzy recently made time to go back to Sacramento (he currently lives in Los Angeles). He threw a charity event at a local park where he gave away backpacks, school supplies, haircut vouchers and $7,000 in cash to his old neighbors and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Provide for your people—I’m just looking out for mine,” says Mozzy, whose real name is Tim Patterson. “I’m the ‘landlord’ of this region, so I’m responsible. I don’t want no cookie, I don’t want no applause from nobody. No matter what I’m doing in life, if I have the means to look out for ’em, that’s what I’ma do, because these are the same people who was rooting for me when it was ugly, when it was spunky, when I only had seven listeners and 10 views on YouTube.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozzy’s rise to the national stage is particularly remarkable because his subject matter, even on an album he knew would reach beyond his regional audience, is decidedly niche. He raps devotedly—militantly—about a gang lifestyle that’s far removed from anything Middle America could relate to, in a notorious neighborhood in a city whose culture is little-known to outsiders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no sugarcoating or sanitizing on \u003cem>Gangland Landlord\u003c/em>, either. Unlike Migos or Future, who depict shoot-outs in trap houses as minor detours on the way to innumerable rap-money riches, Mozzy is deeply reflective about his street activities and time behind bars, and how both of those things have affected his mental health and development as a man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smile now, cry later when I’m by myself / More chains for the gang than I buy myself / Misled by the blind, tryna find myself,” he raps in a gravelly voice over low piano notes and a bass-heavy knock on “Not Impressive.” Later in the verse, he breaks from his growly cadence, trailing off into a whisper with the last word of every bar, betraying the pain behind his tough exterior.\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/KOVLJdPRlZE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/KOVLJdPRlZE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Mozzy is a keen storyteller whose snapshots of life in inner-city America are as brutally realistic as they are vulnerable. “Perhaps his core talent is to convey violence in a way that feels honest, which makes his competition seem mediated, dishonest, even exploitative,” wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/40-best-rap-albums-of-2015-40015/mozzy-bladadah-26234/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>\u003c/a>‘s David Drake when the magazine named Mozzy’s \u003cem>Bladadah\u003c/em> the 22nd best rap album of 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mozzy’s music slaps, but the gruff lyricist is a bard,” asserted \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>‘s Hannah Giorgis in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/10/mozzy-sacramento-gangland-landlord-rap-album/572281/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent profile\u003c/a> of the rapper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ain’t afraid to cry in my music,” Mozzy tells me. “I ain’t afraid to cry out for help. I ain’t afraid to let you know I don’t know, I don’t got all the answers. I ain’t afraid to let you know my faults, to let you know I was hurt, I was broke, I was starving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hile Bay Area rappers often complain that national labels and publications pass over them in favor of championing artists from Los Angeles, getting national recognition is even more of an uphill battle for a rapper from Sacramento, a city whose culture rarely makes a blip on the national radar beyond movies like \u003cem>Lady Bird\u003c/em>, which depicts a much whiter, safer version of the city Mozzy raps about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I ask how it feels to represent Sacramento and Oak Park on the national stage, Mozzy replies with a long, resounding, “HAAAAAAAAANH!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For sure we the underdogs, but I ain’t gon’ lie, we movin’ mountains right now,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozzy was raised in Oak Park by his grandmother, a former Black Panther, practicing Muslim and strict disciplinarian. His father was often in and out of jail, his mother struggled with addiction and many of his aunts and uncles were affiliated with the Bloods. Outside of the confines of his grandmother’s orderly home, Mozzy began getting in trouble at an early age and was selling drugs and breaking into houses by the time he was in middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was raised in a respectful manner. There were other households that were less fortunate,” he reflects. “But the streets shaped me a lot. I was stuck in the streets for a long time. It got a lot to do with my character: I’d say the aggressive push, the way I bite down with my music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mozzy plays Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0741-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mozzy plays Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Mozzy realized he wanted to be a rapper like his uncle, GP the Beast, who recorded Mozzy for the first time when he was just 11 and going by Lil Tim. In the years that followed, rapping and making quick money in the streets began to consume Mozzy. He ended up dropping out of high school to pursue music, but music only overtook his street activities much later, when his star began to rise after \u003cem>Bladadah\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2015, fresh out of jail, that’s when people started offering me thousands for projects. That’s when I knew—ain’t never made this type of money,” he says, still in disbelief. “First time I touched $50,000, legitimately—I could ride around with this 50 and the police can’t take it from me because I have proof of where I got it from—that’s when I was like, it’s real. When I gave my grandmother $100,000, that’s when I was like, ‘Yeah, this is what we doin’, f-ck all that other sh-t.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2005 and 2008, Mozzy went to Sacramento County Jail on a variety of charges, including evading police and possessing marijuana with intent to sell. The repercussions of those convictions from his late teens and early ’20s follow him to this day. He was barred from owning a gun as a convicted felon, but, as he explains it, life in Oak Park required the protection of a weapon. In 2014, he served a year in San Quentin State Prison on firearms charges. (Mozzy says that, nowadays, his prior convictions still sometimes affect his ability to perform abroad.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozzy’s stint at San Quentin was a wake-up call. “My dad was in jail when I was my daughter’s age,” he says, referring to his eldest, Ariana-Dooterz, who is now five. “We was in the same prison, though. So you know, I’m walking the same yard he was walking, history repeating itself. I couldn’t wait to get out so I could bite down, so I could get it together, so I could be a man. I had responsibilities and I didn’t want to put that burden on my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Mozzy’s music started gaining traction outside of Sacramento. In 2013, he recorded a \u003cem>Tonite Show\u003c/em> album with Oakland’s DJ Fresh, the producer responsible for hyphy-era regional hits like D-Lo’s “No Hoe” and Mistah F.A.B.’s “We Go Stupid in the Bay.” Oakland’s Philthy Rich tapped Mozzy for the downcast, piano-heavy “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBMDZGnhQs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I’m Just Being Honest\u003c/a>“; Joe Blow, another Oakland rapper with local clout, invited him to feature on the nostalgically soulful “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iC65U0DK9Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locked In\u003c/a>.” Mozzy’s name began to circulate in Bay Area rap circles, and in 2015, he cemented himself into the local scene with \u003cem>Down to the Wire: 4th Ave Edition \u003c/em>on J. Stalin’s Livewire Records, a household name for anyone who followed the Oakland street rap scene of the 2000s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just took off from me from right there. 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Fortunately, his probation officer usually obliged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842718\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Cover art for Mozzy's '1 Up Top Ahk.'\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1-up-top-ahk.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover art for Mozzy’s ‘1 Up Top Ahk.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without these hindrances, Mozzy might be farther along in his career. But he still doesn’t regret his past. “It do put a damper on some things, it threw a lot of things off,” he says. “But I don’t regret nothing. If I hadn’t went through the beautiful struggles I went through, I think it would have minimized my hunger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though his criminal past is key to understanding him as a person and artist, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/sacramento-gangster-rapper-mozzy-is/content?oid=20363358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early stories\u003c/a> about Mozzy sometimes read more like crime reports than profiles of an exciting new artist. And indeed, if Mozzy’s career continues to progress the way it has the past three years, he’s about to be scrutinized by a lot more label heads, journalists, streaming service execs and listeners who may harbor stereotypes and misconceptions about his background or previous way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13842296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13842296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Mozzy plays Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/MG_0740-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mozzy plays Rolling Loud Bay Area on Sunday, September 16, 2018. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Mozzy says he’d sooner fall off than censor himself. “I ain’t in it for the money,” he says, defiant. “If I decline financially, it wouldn’t hurt me as much as changing and tweaking my music for someone else. 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