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a community destroyed by bombs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Zabaneh, it will be MC Abdul’s first-ever performance in the United States, and the first time his Bay Area fans will see him perform live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For him to take his experience growing up in Gaza, and turn to music to share his story, and have an opportunity to play his music to Palestinian Americans who have followed him for years, but couldn’t see him live, that’s beautiful,” says Zabaneh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite being the state with \u003ca href=\"https://namecensus.com/ancestry/palestinian/\">the largest Palestinian population in the country\u003c/a>, Palestinian culture doesn’t often get attention in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to rally behind [these artists and business] to express what it’s like to be Palestinian and Palestinian American,” Zabaneh says. “Music and hip-hop have been used in the U.S. as a form of storytelling and Palestinians are using it to tell our story as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://pac-sf.org\">Palestine Cultural Day\u003c/a> takes place on Saturday, Sept. 9, at Leo Ryan Park, 650 Shell Blvd., Foster City. 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Free. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/44th-annual-palestine-cultural-festival-tickets-698683911387\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The 44th Annual Palestine Cultural Day will feature international artists like Elyanna and MC Abdul.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005059,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":504},"headData":{"title":"The Bay Area’s Biggest Palestinian Celebration Is in Foster City | KQED","description":"The 44th Annual Palestine Cultural Day will feature international artists like Elyanna and MC Abdul.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"WpOldSlug":"the-bay-areas-biggest-palestinian-celebration-is-in-foster-city","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13934383/palestine-cultural-day-foster-city","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928345/mishmish-vegan-palestinian-pop-up\">Knafeh\u003c/a>, dabke, thobes and keffiyehs aren’t typically the main attractions at Bay Area festivals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past 44 years, though, the \u003ca href=\"https://pac-sf.org/\">Palestinian American Coalition (PAC) of San Francisco\u003c/a> has made it their mission to showcase Palestine’s overlooked foods, music and fashion as part of Palestine Cultural Day, held this year on Sept. 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13928345","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s a day of not only celebration but creating opportunities for small Palestinian and Arab business owners,” says Nour Zabaneh, the Head of Media and Entertainment Committee for PAC who grew up in the Bay Area as a Palestinian American. “Whether it’s trying food, exploring a new vendor, learning about Palestinian clothing, or listening to musicians who speak about what it’s like to be Palestinian, it’s about sharing that love we have for one another with the Bay Area community at large.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After decades in San Francisco, the annual event has recently been held in Foster City, home to the first Palestinian-American mayor in California. The celebration promises sweet cheese pastries, cultural dances of hope and resistance, traditional garments, patterned scarves, chicken and beef shawarma, Arabic coffee and international music stars flying in from Palestine to perform for Bay Area fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Headline artists include Elyanna, who recently made history as \u003ca href=\"https://www.gqmiddleeast.com/news/elyanna-coachella-2023\">the first Palestinian to perform at Coachella\u003c/a>, and MC Abdul, a teenager who’s gone viral rapping about liberation and resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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/l8qay1Al7Dc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/l8qay1Al7Dc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“I want freedom for the population / Two million prisoners living in this location / Shouting at the wall but nothing is ever changing / That’s life under an occupation,” MC Abdul rhymes in his breakout song “Shouting At The Wall.” Viewed nearly a million times, the video shows the young emcee rapping passionately while walking through a community destroyed by bombs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Zabaneh, it will be MC Abdul’s first-ever performance in the United States, and the first time his Bay Area fans will see him perform live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For him to take his experience growing up in Gaza, and turn to music to share his story, and have an opportunity to play his music to Palestinian Americans who have followed him for years, but couldn’t see him live, that’s beautiful,” says Zabaneh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite being the state with \u003ca href=\"https://namecensus.com/ancestry/palestinian/\">the largest Palestinian population in the country\u003c/a>, Palestinian culture doesn’t often get attention in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to rally behind [these artists and business] to express what it’s like to be Palestinian and Palestinian American,” Zabaneh says. “Music and hip-hop have been used in the U.S. as a form of storytelling and Palestinians are using it to tell our story as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://pac-sf.org\">Palestine Cultural Day\u003c/a> takes place on Saturday, Sept. 9, at Leo Ryan Park, 650 Shell Blvd., Foster City. 11 a.m.–8 p.m. Free. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/44th-annual-palestine-cultural-festival-tickets-698683911387\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13934383/palestine-cultural-day-foster-city","authors":["11748"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_2457","arts_5826","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13934395","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13895586":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13895586","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13895586","score":null,"sort":[1618504035000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-salute-to-san-francisco-rap","title":"A Salute to San Francisco Rap","publishDate":1618504035,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Salute to San Francisco Rap | KQED","labelTerm":{},"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\">B\u003c/span>ack in December of 2020, as Vallejo’s E-40 and Oakland’s Too $hort \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13890437/e-40-and-too-horts-verzuz-battle-a-treasure-trove-of-bay-area-hip-hop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebrated the Bay’s hip-hop culture\u003c/a> during a Verzuz event, I got to thinking: the East Bay may have its icons, but someone should write about the current state of San Francisco’s rap scene. It’s lightweight on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artists are active. Songs are slapping. Community is coming together. And this might only be \u003cem>the start\u003c/em>. That is, if it’s handled properly. At least that’s what people are telling me.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superstar \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/24kgoldn/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">24K Goldn\u003c/a> is on the path to Bieber status. Rapper and \u003ca href=\"https://cookies.co/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cookies\u003c/a> cannabis company founder \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/berner415/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berner\u003c/a> is one of the biggest kingpins in the legal marijuana industry. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/larryjunetfm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry June\u003c/a> raps about player stuff like expensive watches and green smoothies, has a signature \u003ca href=\"https://www.lakai.com/collections/larry-june\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lakai shoe\u003c/a> and is behind the\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/honeybearboba_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Honey Bear boba shop\u003c/a> in the Dogpatch neighborhood—yet somehow still drops albums as often as BART experiences delays. (As he’d say to himself, “Good job, Larry.”) And \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Empire\u003c/a>, arguably the most influential independent rap label in the world right now, is based in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what does this all mean? Is SF having “a moment”? If so, where does this moment stand in the larger scope of things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started researching by listening to everything from San Francisco I could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/PqQHpU6Wli4\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\">I\u003c/span> gigged to\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thereal_lilkayla/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Lil Kayla\u003c/a>‘s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CJkNmPgx6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clone Me\u003c/a>” featuring East Oakland’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/officialsulan/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Su’lan\u003c/a>. And I bobbed my head to the bars that\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FrakThePerson/status/1364381425953165312?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Frak The Person\u003c/a> kicked over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/bakarybeatchallenge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bakary beat challenge\u003c/a>, which went so stupid \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Kehlani/status/1364635081998880769?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kehlani had to comment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I read about \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ladona415/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Doña\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/10/magazine/la-dona.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> and just watched her latest video for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfqhEks9mCY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Setas y Ceros\u003c/a>“—she’s singing and she’s spittin’. I gave that new Show Banga and IAMSU! song, “\u003ca href=\"https://song.link/i/1562344727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lonely\u003c/a>” a spin. I added \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dregs_one/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dregs One’s\u003c/a> new track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRk_UNXtpUc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fog Mode\u003c/a>” (featuring Andre Nickatina), City P’s “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/supastarcity/top-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Top Down\u003c/a>” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNOBPFmBKHM/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Yee\u003c/a>‘s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Zbxnbh7o5XE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steppin’ On Steppers\u003c/a>” to my playlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of an upcoming episode of my \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Rightnowish\u003c/em> podcast\u003c/a> I read \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rockyrivera/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rocky Rivera\u003c/a>‘s book \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13894648/rapper-and-activist-rocky-rivera-embraces-growth-in-her-first-book-snakeskin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Snakeskin\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and reviewed her entire musical catalog. And through a recently published interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13895377/these-artists-amplify-415-days-message-of-resistance-resilience-and-restitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cereal for The Kids and Baghead\u003c/a>, I found out about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oldsoulko/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Old Soul Kollective\u003c/a>, as well as so many other artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung Lott’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqQHpU6Wli4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How To Survive\u003c/a>” has that classic west coast kick. Galaxy Atoms’ just-dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndK9zBP_O0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MVP\u003c/a>” sounds like newer west coast flavor. I know that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RichieCunning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richie Cunning\u003c/a> is entertaining on Twitter, as well as on the track. And I know that \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/adamraps/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Raps\u003c/a>, a.k.a. A-1, just celebrated a birthday and is about to release new music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/oTBurjAiL2g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/gunnagoesglobal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gunna Goes Global\u003c/a> is headlining \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNoGm6YscGB/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 415 Day show\u003c/a>, alongside \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stunnaman02/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">StunnaMan02\u003c/a> (aka Jordan Gomes)—and both Gunna and Gomes are also thespians, featured in the film \u003cem>The Last Black Man in San Francisco\u003c/em>, amongst other projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I revisited Bby Laana’s “2018 Freestyle” and the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HynpJ0ZHojE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lose Control Freestyle\u003c/a>” that she dropped the following year. I listened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/troyllf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Troy LLF’s\u003c/a> \u003cem>Free Play 4 \u003c/em>and a few of the projects he dropped before that. I got put on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soviciousofficial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">So Vicious \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/drew_beez_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drew Beez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/y0ungbari/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Bari,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/08_zaybang/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ZayBang\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lilbean/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Bean\u003c/a>, who all, in one way or another, told me the City’s rap scene is definitely having a moment. I read about the recent passing of 11-5’s Maine-O, and I also re-read the circumstances around \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-30/rapper-lil-yase-shot-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Yase’s death\u003c/a>; a sad loss of so much potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895805\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13895805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_0651.jpg\" alt=\"Hugh E.M.C poses for a photo for his album cover, as drug paraphernalia, a gun and cash lay in front of him.\" width=\"600\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_0651.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_0651-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugh E.M.C in a photoshoot for his 1994 album ‘The Mob.’ \u003ccite>(Via Hugh E.M.C. )\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> even went back, and called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hughemc/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hugh E.M.C.\u003c/a>, the artist behind the early ’90s song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o7KJcYEX80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H N*gga Groove (Keep a B*tch Broke)\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hugh, following his\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hugh-emc/sets/hiphopmanifesto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hip Hop Manifesto\u003c/a>,” is \u003c/span>now encouraging\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> artists to put out one conscious song per project. In regards to the current rap scene in San Francisco, he says, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is a \u003cem>type\u003c/em> of moment, but when I compare it to the past, San Francisco artists were having multi-regional, almost national moments… I would love to see it jump to another level.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called up another Frisco vet, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/equipto_415/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equipto\u003c/a>, who also got his start in the ’90s, and is steeped in community activism. He helped launch the anti-police hunger strike by the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/rapper-frisco-five-protester-equipto-arrested-in-mission-district-confrontation-with-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Frisco Five\u003c/a> and currently works with \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/frisco_copwatch/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frisco Cop Watch\u003c/a>—in addition to advocating for the unsheltered community through\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.poormagazine.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poor Magazine\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equipto, who recently dropped a new project with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9pTDmqO_h7UkQtdAYLCmaQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Watershed\u003c/a>, says, “Frisco ain’t never really had that highlight—the Bay Area might’ve—but Frisco never really had that run. And that’s what’s cultivating right now. There’s more eyes are on San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equipto tells me that SF always had that “underground, solid, rawness of what the industry needed.” But despite the notoriety of artists like Rappin’ 4-Tay and the late Cougnut, “We were just kind of always overlooked in the economics of it,” says Equipto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13895804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"Big Rich wears a leather letterman jacket and a big chain with his initials as he looks into the lens.\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Rich, cofounder of Project Level, turned “tragedy into triumph.” \u003ccite>(BillionDreams)\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\">A\u003c/span>sk \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/deo415/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D.E.O\u003c/a>, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/trackdout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trackdout app\u003c/a> and half of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/evenoddsmusic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evenodds\u003c/a> production team, and he’ll tell you that he believes there’s something good happening in his city too. But he’s weary of pitfalls that have come about in the past—namely the “politics,” in addition to the economics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The street politics of the City has been the curse of Frisco,” says D.E.O. “It goes back to RBL. One of the greatest hip-hop groups of all time was dismantled because of street beef.” D.E.O believes the murders of the RBL Posse’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/THE-KILLING-STREETS-A-Cycle-of-Vengeance-2839391.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hitman and Mr. Cee\u003c/a> played a significant role in labels turning their backs on San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells me that the divisions amongst communities, and the propensity for rappers to keep one foot in the streets while trying to run a legitimate business, have proven to be a major hurdle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A lot of Frisco artists,” says D.E.O, “don’t look at themselves as a commodity, they look at themselves as the savior of the hood—when it’s bigger than the hood. It’s fine to want to save the hood and everything, but you’ve got to think more about the corporate structure. How do real corporations work?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/big.rich/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Rich\u003c/a>” Bougere is a well-known San Francisco rapper who has some knowledge of how both the rap game and big corporations work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Big Rich parlayed his name recognition from music into an arts-based nonprofit for young folks called \u003ca href=\"https://www.projectlevel.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Level\u003c/a>, which he co-founded with his partner \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/industrymomma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Danielle Banks\u003c/a>. After an incident in the summer of 2019, where staff of the major fashion retailer Forever 21 mistakenly accused young folks from Project Level of stealing, the two groups met and developed\u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/20/racial-profiling-incident-at-forever-21-leads-to-remarkable-partnership-for-non-profit-group/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a partnership\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We turned tragedy into triumph,” Big Rich tells me during a phone call. “It opened up doors, we have Black equity in a major corporation.” It’s a\u003c/span> big 180° to the way big companies treated Big Rich’s business when he was rapping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he wants to see more investment from billion-dollar corporations into the careers of young artists of color. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is the culture of the industry, this is where the money is generated from,” says Big Rich of the young people he works with. “We have to reinvest into these communities.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Project Level, Big Rich has also seen how investing in the community can lead to striking gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/trU-S53fK04\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\">O\u003c/span>n a rainy April 15th, at a 415 Day celebration in 2018, a young artist named \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/24kgoldn/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">24K Goldn\u003c/a> grabbed the microphone. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“H\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">e electrified the stage, but no one was really there,” says Big Rich. “I was like, ‘This kid is dope!'”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning that 24K Goldn was already en route to USC in the fall, Big Rich connected him to a manager in Southern California. Now 24K Goldn, who went \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/24kGoldn/status/1258103370562146304?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">platinum last year\u003c/a> and just dropped a new album, \u003cem>El Dorado\u003c/em>, a month ago,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “is arguably the hottest artist in the country right now,” according to Big Rich—and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/24kgoldn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billboard charts\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the question is, how can more San Francisco artists shine like 24K Goldn?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question that’s not just about talent. It’s about “politics,” structure and business acumen. It’s about navigating the high cost of living. And, for some, it’s about being a member of the small percentage of working class Black and brown folks struggling to make ends meet in one the world’s most expensive cities—and still make art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ghazi at Empire has a plan,” Big Rich tells me. “He’s investing in artists in the City, and I think it’s going to pay off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13895809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477-1020x1020.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of 'Zaytoven Presents Fo15,' released by Empire. \" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of ‘Zaytoven Presents Fo15,’ released by Empire.\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> didn’t realize we were having a moment,” Ghazi says during a Zoom call earlier this week. “I was trying to create a moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ghazi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghazi\u003c/a> is the head of the major independent label Empire, and the A&R behind the newly released album, \u003cem>Zaytoven Presents:\u003c/em> \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.empi.re/listen/index.php?id=172356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fo15\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which celebrates some of San Francisco’s rawest talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album is produced by San Francisco’s own mega-producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/zaytovenbeatz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zaytoven\u003c/a>, known for his collaborations with southern rappers like Gucci Mane. The album features members of Frisco’s next wave of stars: Lil Bean, ZayBang, Prezi, Kxng Lamma and Lil Pete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghazi, who grew up listening to artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/338893-IMP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I.M.P\u003c/a>. and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/332457-Get-Low-Playaz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get Low Playaz\u003c/a>, says, “A big part of putting this project together was to do for the next generation what those artists did for me, which is creating bigger and better things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that in the past, a lot of the issues the City’s rap scene faced were “due to lack of infrastructure, lack of proper mentorship, the political landscape that surrounds a lot of the neighborhoods, the socioeconomics,” and a bunch of other things going on in the City. But now there’s potential do things differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghazi makes a basketball comparison, saying that an artist putting up great individual stats isn’t the same as the whole team putting up great stats, or having a coaching staff that can compete with the rest of the league. “We’ve always had the talented players,” says Ghazi of San Francisco’s artists. “But we never had the franchise, we never had the coaching staff, and we never ran an 82 game season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/uZpWqUpAbbo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my mind, San Francisco is not having a moment,” Ghazi tells me over the video chat as he drives through East Oakland. “In my mind, the whole entire Bay Area has been dry for quite some time, and most people have no idea what the glory years were like in the Bay… \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s a little bit of something happening, and I wouldn’t call it a moment, but there’s potential for a great moment if we stay on it. I wouldn’t call it a moment, yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the primary hurdles the City faces is the issue with talent leaving—not just artists, but talented people who work behind the scenes in businesses that support the industry. That’s why Ghazi’s been mindful to keep his company in San Francisco and create space for culture to flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This album is proof of the factory existing,” says Ghazi of the \u003cem>Fo15\u003c/em> project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, in order to get to that true “moment”—or rather, a time period of extended success for San Francisco—Ghazi has a simple formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gotta tell our story,” Ghazi tells me. He’s firm in his beliefs that people should know and be proud of all of the talent that has come from San Francisco—from Andre Nickatina to Apple’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thelarryjackson/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry Jackson\u003c/a> (who plays a significant role in making those \u003ca href=\"https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/13/apple-musics-larry-jackson-weighs-in-on-verzuz-collaboration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Verzuz events\u003c/a> happen) and back to every rapper named in this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more individual success stories you create, you raise the economy of the region,” says Ghazi. “When you raise the overall economy of the region, people are less inclined to leave the region because they have something to do. And when people don’t leave, you keep the talent in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid from Oakland who grew up listening to E-40 and Too $hort, as well as Messy Marv, JT the Bigga Figga, and San Quinn, I get it. We’re a vast region with different cultures in each city, neighborhood and block. That said, when one section is going about their business correctly, the honorable thing to do is give them a salute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco, here’s to you.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The City got somethin' to say, that's all I got to say.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019167,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":2333},"headData":{"title":"A Salute to San Francisco Rap | KQED","description":"The City got somethin' to say, that's all I got to say.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Commentary","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13895586/a-salute-to-san-francisco-rap","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\">B\u003c/span>ack in December of 2020, as Vallejo’s E-40 and Oakland’s Too $hort \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13890437/e-40-and-too-horts-verzuz-battle-a-treasure-trove-of-bay-area-hip-hop-culture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebrated the Bay’s hip-hop culture\u003c/a> during a Verzuz event, I got to thinking: the East Bay may have its icons, but someone should write about the current state of San Francisco’s rap scene. It’s lightweight on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artists are active. Songs are slapping. Community is coming together. And this might only be \u003cem>the start\u003c/em>. That is, if it’s handled properly. At least that’s what people are telling me.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superstar \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/24kgoldn/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">24K Goldn\u003c/a> is on the path to Bieber status. Rapper and \u003ca href=\"https://cookies.co/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cookies\u003c/a> cannabis company founder \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/berner415/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berner\u003c/a> is one of the biggest kingpins in the legal marijuana industry. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/larryjunetfm/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry June\u003c/a> raps about player stuff like expensive watches and green smoothies, has a signature \u003ca href=\"https://www.lakai.com/collections/larry-june\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lakai shoe\u003c/a> and is behind the\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/honeybearboba_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Honey Bear boba shop\u003c/a> in the Dogpatch neighborhood—yet somehow still drops albums as often as BART experiences delays. (As he’d say to himself, “Good job, Larry.”) And \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/empire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Empire\u003c/a>, arguably the most influential independent rap label in the world right now, is based in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what does this all mean? Is SF having “a moment”? If so, where does this moment stand in the larger scope of things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started researching by listening to everything from San Francisco I could find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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/PqQHpU6Wli4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PqQHpU6Wli4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\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> gigged to\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thereal_lilkayla/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Lil Kayla\u003c/a>‘s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CJkNmPgx6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clone Me\u003c/a>” featuring East Oakland’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/officialsulan/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Su’lan\u003c/a>. And I bobbed my head to the bars that\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FrakThePerson/status/1364381425953165312?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Frak The Person\u003c/a> kicked over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/bakarybeatchallenge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bakary beat challenge\u003c/a>, which went so stupid \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Kehlani/status/1364635081998880769?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kehlani had to comment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I read about \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ladona415/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Doña\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/10/magazine/la-dona.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> and just watched her latest video for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfqhEks9mCY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Setas y Ceros\u003c/a>“—she’s singing and she’s spittin’. I gave that new Show Banga and IAMSU! song, “\u003ca href=\"https://song.link/i/1562344727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lonely\u003c/a>” a spin. I added \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dregs_one/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dregs One’s\u003c/a> new track “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRk_UNXtpUc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fog Mode\u003c/a>” (featuring Andre Nickatina), City P’s “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/supastarcity/top-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Top Down\u003c/a>” and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNOBPFmBKHM/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Yee\u003c/a>‘s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Zbxnbh7o5XE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steppin’ On Steppers\u003c/a>” to my playlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of an upcoming episode of my \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Rightnowish\u003c/em> podcast\u003c/a> I read \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rockyrivera/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rocky Rivera\u003c/a>‘s book \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13894648/rapper-and-activist-rocky-rivera-embraces-growth-in-her-first-book-snakeskin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Snakeskin\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and reviewed her entire musical catalog. And through a recently published interview with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13895377/these-artists-amplify-415-days-message-of-resistance-resilience-and-restitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cereal for The Kids and Baghead\u003c/a>, I found out about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oldsoulko/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Old Soul Kollective\u003c/a>, as well as so many other artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung Lott’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqQHpU6Wli4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How To Survive\u003c/a>” has that classic west coast kick. Galaxy Atoms’ just-dropped “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndK9zBP_O0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MVP\u003c/a>” sounds like newer west coast flavor. I know that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RichieCunning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richie Cunning\u003c/a> is entertaining on Twitter, as well as on the track. And I know that \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/adamraps/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Raps\u003c/a>, a.k.a. A-1, just celebrated a birthday and is about to release new music.\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/oTBurjAiL2g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/oTBurjAiL2g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/gunnagoesglobal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gunna Goes Global\u003c/a> is headlining \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CNoGm6YscGB/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a 415 Day show\u003c/a>, alongside \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stunnaman02/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">StunnaMan02\u003c/a> (aka Jordan Gomes)—and both Gunna and Gomes are also thespians, featured in the film \u003cem>The Last Black Man in San Francisco\u003c/em>, amongst other projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I revisited Bby Laana’s “2018 Freestyle” and the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HynpJ0ZHojE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lose Control Freestyle\u003c/a>” that she dropped the following year. I listened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/troyllf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Troy LLF’s\u003c/a> \u003cem>Free Play 4 \u003c/em>and a few of the projects he dropped before that. I got put on to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/soviciousofficial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">So Vicious \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/drew_beez_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drew Beez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/y0ungbari/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Bari,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/08_zaybang/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ZayBang\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lilbean/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Bean\u003c/a>, who all, in one way or another, told me the City’s rap scene is definitely having a moment. I read about the recent passing of 11-5’s Maine-O, and I also re-read the circumstances around \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-30/rapper-lil-yase-shot-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Yase’s death\u003c/a>; a sad loss of so much potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895805\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13895805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_0651.jpg\" alt=\"Hugh E.M.C poses for a photo for his album cover, as drug paraphernalia, a gun and cash lay in front of him.\" width=\"600\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_0651.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_0651-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugh E.M.C in a photoshoot for his 1994 album ‘The Mob.’ \u003ccite>(Via Hugh E.M.C. )\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> even went back, and called \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hughemc/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hugh E.M.C.\u003c/a>, the artist behind the early ’90s song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o7KJcYEX80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H N*gga Groove (Keep a B*tch Broke)\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hugh, following his\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “\u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hugh-emc/sets/hiphopmanifesto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hip Hop Manifesto\u003c/a>,” is \u003c/span>now encouraging\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> artists to put out one conscious song per project. In regards to the current rap scene in San Francisco, he says, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is a \u003cem>type\u003c/em> of moment, but when I compare it to the past, San Francisco artists were having multi-regional, almost national moments… I would love to see it jump to another level.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I called up another Frisco vet, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/equipto_415/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equipto\u003c/a>, who also got his start in the ’90s, and is steeped in community activism. He helped launch the anti-police hunger strike by the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/rapper-frisco-five-protester-equipto-arrested-in-mission-district-confrontation-with-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Frisco Five\u003c/a> and currently works with \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/frisco_copwatch/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frisco Cop Watch\u003c/a>—in addition to advocating for the unsheltered community through\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.poormagazine.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poor Magazine\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equipto, who recently dropped a new project with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9pTDmqO_h7UkQtdAYLCmaQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Watershed\u003c/a>, says, “Frisco ain’t never really had that highlight—the Bay Area might’ve—but Frisco never really had that run. And that’s what’s cultivating right now. There’s more eyes are on San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Equipto tells me that SF always had that “underground, solid, rawness of what the industry needed.” But despite the notoriety of artists like Rappin’ 4-Tay and the late Cougnut, “We were just kind of always overlooked in the economics of it,” says Equipto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13895804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-1020x1530.jpg\" alt=\"Big Rich wears a leather letterman jacket and a big chain with his initials as he looks into the lens.\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/IMG_2507.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Rich, cofounder of Project Level, turned “tragedy into triumph.” \u003ccite>(BillionDreams)\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\">A\u003c/span>sk \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/deo415/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D.E.O\u003c/a>, founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/trackdout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trackdout app\u003c/a> and half of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/evenoddsmusic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evenodds\u003c/a> production team, and he’ll tell you that he believes there’s something good happening in his city too. But he’s weary of pitfalls that have come about in the past—namely the “politics,” in addition to the economics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The street politics of the City has been the curse of Frisco,” says D.E.O. “It goes back to RBL. One of the greatest hip-hop groups of all time was dismantled because of street beef.” D.E.O believes the murders of the RBL Posse’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/THE-KILLING-STREETS-A-Cycle-of-Vengeance-2839391.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hitman and Mr. Cee\u003c/a> played a significant role in labels turning their backs on San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tells me that the divisions amongst communities, and the propensity for rappers to keep one foot in the streets while trying to run a legitimate business, have proven to be a major hurdle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“A lot of Frisco artists,” says D.E.O, “don’t look at themselves as a commodity, they look at themselves as the savior of the hood—when it’s bigger than the hood. It’s fine to want to save the hood and everything, but you’ve got to think more about the corporate structure. How do real corporations work?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/big.rich/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Rich\u003c/a>” Bougere is a well-known San Francisco rapper who has some knowledge of how both the rap game and big corporations work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Big Rich parlayed his name recognition from music into an arts-based nonprofit for young folks called \u003ca href=\"https://www.projectlevel.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Level\u003c/a>, which he co-founded with his partner \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/industrymomma/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Danielle Banks\u003c/a>. After an incident in the summer of 2019, where staff of the major fashion retailer Forever 21 mistakenly accused young folks from Project Level of stealing, the two groups met and developed\u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/20/racial-profiling-incident-at-forever-21-leads-to-remarkable-partnership-for-non-profit-group/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a partnership\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We turned tragedy into triumph,” Big Rich tells me during a phone call. “It opened up doors, we have Black equity in a major corporation.” It’s a\u003c/span> big 180° to the way big companies treated Big Rich’s business when he was rapping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he wants to see more investment from billion-dollar corporations into the careers of young artists of color. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is the culture of the industry, this is where the money is generated from,” says Big Rich of the young people he works with. “We have to reinvest into these communities.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Project Level, Big Rich has also seen how investing in the community can lead to striking gold.\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/trU-S53fK04'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/trU-S53fK04'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\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\">O\u003c/span>n a rainy April 15th, at a 415 Day celebration in 2018, a young artist named \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/24kgoldn/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">24K Goldn\u003c/a> grabbed the microphone. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“H\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">e electrified the stage, but no one was really there,” says Big Rich. “I was like, ‘This kid is dope!'”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning that 24K Goldn was already en route to USC in the fall, Big Rich connected him to a manager in Southern California. Now 24K Goldn, who went \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/24kGoldn/status/1258103370562146304?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">platinum last year\u003c/a> and just dropped a new album, \u003cem>El Dorado\u003c/em>, a month ago,\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “is arguably the hottest artist in the country right now,” according to Big Rich—and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/24kgoldn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billboard charts\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the question is, how can more San Francisco artists shine like 24K Goldn?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a question that’s not just about talent. It’s about “politics,” structure and business acumen. It’s about navigating the high cost of living. And, for some, it’s about being a member of the small percentage of working class Black and brown folks struggling to make ends meet in one the world’s most expensive cities—and still make art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ghazi at Empire has a plan,” Big Rich tells me. “He’s investing in artists in the City, and I think it’s going to pay off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13895809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13895809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477-1020x1020.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of 'Zaytoven Presents Fo15,' released by Empire. \" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/unnamed-2021-04-09T131257.477.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of ‘Zaytoven Presents Fo15,’ released by Empire.\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> didn’t realize we were having a moment,” Ghazi says during a Zoom call earlier this week. “I was trying to create a moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ghazi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ghazi\u003c/a> is the head of the major independent label Empire, and the A&R behind the newly released album, \u003cem>Zaytoven Presents:\u003c/em> \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.empi.re/listen/index.php?id=172356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fo15\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which celebrates some of San Francisco’s rawest talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The album is produced by San Francisco’s own mega-producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/zaytovenbeatz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zaytoven\u003c/a>, known for his collaborations with southern rappers like Gucci Mane. The album features members of Frisco’s next wave of stars: Lil Bean, ZayBang, Prezi, Kxng Lamma and Lil Pete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghazi, who grew up listening to artists like \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/338893-IMP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I.M.P\u003c/a>. and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.discogs.com/artist/332457-Get-Low-Playaz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get Low Playaz\u003c/a>, says, “A big part of putting this project together was to do for the next generation what those artists did for me, which is creating bigger and better things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that in the past, a lot of the issues the City’s rap scene faced were “due to lack of infrastructure, lack of proper mentorship, the political landscape that surrounds a lot of the neighborhoods, the socioeconomics,” and a bunch of other things going on in the City. But now there’s potential do things differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghazi makes a basketball comparison, saying that an artist putting up great individual stats isn’t the same as the whole team putting up great stats, or having a coaching staff that can compete with the rest of the league. “We’ve always had the talented players,” says Ghazi of San Francisco’s artists. “But we never had the franchise, we never had the coaching staff, and we never ran an 82 game season.”\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/uZpWqUpAbbo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/uZpWqUpAbbo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“In my mind, San Francisco is not having a moment,” Ghazi tells me over the video chat as he drives through East Oakland. “In my mind, the whole entire Bay Area has been dry for quite some time, and most people have no idea what the glory years were like in the Bay… \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s a little bit of something happening, and I wouldn’t call it a moment, but there’s potential for a great moment if we stay on it. I wouldn’t call it a moment, yet.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the primary hurdles the City faces is the issue with talent leaving—not just artists, but talented people who work behind the scenes in businesses that support the industry. That’s why Ghazi’s been mindful to keep his company in San Francisco and create space for culture to flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This album is proof of the factory existing,” says Ghazi of the \u003cem>Fo15\u003c/em> project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, in order to get to that true “moment”—or rather, a time period of extended success for San Francisco—Ghazi has a simple formula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gotta tell our story,” Ghazi tells me. He’s firm in his beliefs that people should know and be proud of all of the talent that has come from San Francisco—from Andre Nickatina to Apple’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thelarryjackson/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry Jackson\u003c/a> (who plays a significant role in making those \u003ca href=\"https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/13/apple-musics-larry-jackson-weighs-in-on-verzuz-collaboration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Verzuz events\u003c/a> happen) and back to every rapper named in this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more individual success stories you create, you raise the economy of the region,” says Ghazi. “When you raise the overall economy of the region, people are less inclined to leave the region because they have something to do. And when people don’t leave, you keep the talent in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a kid from Oakland who grew up listening to E-40 and Too $hort, as well as Messy Marv, JT the Bigga Figga, and San Quinn, I get it. We’re a vast region with different cultures in each city, neighborhood and block. That said, when one section is going about their business correctly, the honorable thing to do is give them a salute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco, here’s to you.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13895586/a-salute-to-san-francisco-rap","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_2767","arts_10342","arts_2457","arts_10278","arts_831","arts_2640","arts_14115","arts_2519","arts_974","arts_4355","arts_1146","arts_14114"],"featImg":"arts_13895808","label":"source_arts_13895586"},"arts_13894449":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13894449","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13894449","score":null,"sort":[1616714879000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"evangeline-elder-women-sound-off-empire","title":"Evangeline Elder, Brand Whisperer and Festival Co-Founder, is Demystifying the Music Industry","publishDate":1616714879,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Evangeline Elder, Brand Whisperer and Festival Co-Founder, is Demystifying the Music Industry | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":4525,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]J[/dropcap]ust a few years ago, the Free Nationals were a humble soul quartet providing entertainment at weddings. Fast forward through several Anderson .Paak tours, music festival appearances and an opening gig for Beyoncé, and the band just celebrated their first Grammy nomination earlier this month with a hi-fi Dolby Atmos version of their album, a huge Times Square billboard and a Twitch concert sponsored by Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893043/how-rexx-life-raj-fantastic-negrito-and-salami-rose-joe-louis-pivoted-from-touring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Without live shows\u003c/a>, the last year has created numerous obstacles to visibility and income for independent artists. But the Free Nationals were able to ink those deals with the help of Evangeline Elder, who works in brand partnerships at the San Francisco distribution label \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/ourturbulentdecade/2012-empire-brought-the-music-industry-back-to-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EMPIRE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While artists from past generations might have balked at the prospect of “selling out” to advertising, Elder sees it as a way to open up resources once reserved for the big stars to independent artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/freenationalsXX/status/1370757180631093250?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a new era where you can tell a brand what you want and build a plan around your goals as an artist,” says Elder in a recent Zoom interview, mentioning collaborations she helped make happen for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMVbUGBgPL-/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D Smoke and Puma\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMAqb4bgFfQ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Jackson and Bumble\u003c/a>. “And the pandemic actually lit that on fire further. When touring disappeared, brand partnerships for everyone became a new channel of revenue, a new channel of collaboration and relevancy. When you can’t tour, when you can’t have those in-person moments that you display across your socials, you have to look at your career and figure out how you generate energy. How are you generating attention? That’s what the name of the game is these days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CMAqb4bgFfQ/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also an \u003ca href=\"http://allanglesagency.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">artist manager\u003c/a> and the co-founder of the Oakland festival and conference \u003ca href=\"https://womensoundoff.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women Sound Off\u003c/a>, Elder took an unconventional route to becoming a behind-the-scenes mover and shaker in the music industry. In her different roles, she brings an entrepreneurial passion for helping artists get paid for realizing their dreams, all the while championing a “lift all boats” philosophy to get women—especially Black women and other women of color—more recognition in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This new generation you’re seeing the past 10 years in the social media era, where women who are making moves behind the scenes now have a public following for their business acumen—that’s a fairly new thing,” says Elder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were very different when she got started in music after graduating from UC Riverside in 2013. She witnessed women getting typecast and sexualized—or simply sidelined if they weren’t deemed appealing enough for the male gaze. “I didn’t want to be [backstage] because I was an object or someone’s girlfriend,” Elder says. “I wanted to be back there and be 5’9” and plus-sized and have a purpose and command your attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]lder’s confidence and self-motivated hustle developed early while watching her parents, serial entrepreneurs who were also active in community service through their church. Their bakery, Elder’s Gourmet Bakery and Deli on MacArthur Boulevard and 73rd Avenue, had a cult following in East Oakland for its sweet potato pies and 7 Up cakes in the late ’80s and ’90s, and was featured on Oakland’s pioneering, Black-owned television network Soul Beat TV. (In true Oakland fashion, their wholesome commercial about birthday cakes and sandwiches had a Too $hort beat playing in the background.) [aside postid='arts_13877570']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those days, Elder’s parents also ran a day care and a senior care facility. And even though money was sometimes tight during her childhood, she says they never let her and her siblings know it. “My parents were very sharp people. They weren’t just smart. They understood what pieces needed to be moved in order for an outcome to be had,” Elder remembers. “They always accounted for the things people didn’t account for. That’s something that I can say rubbed off on me. … I wouldn’t be who I am if I was that little girl in the back of the car watching them work and make their rounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BxY8hPDgwFq/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder’s parents were avid record collectors who enlisted her help for crate digging at garage sales. They had the Jackson 5 and the Temptations on heavy rotation, and also loved albums by gospel star Mahalia Jackson and even Martin Luther King speeches on wax. These trips imbued Elder with a taste for music with soul, rhythm and a social purpose—a fair characterization of the artists she works with today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In middle school and high school—like most millennials with a passion for music—Elder’s first experiences in curation came in the form of burning mix CDs for her friends. But when she entered college, she couldn’t see a direct line to a creative career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She majored in public policy but didn’t find herself inspired, and soon her life became consumed with drinking and partying. A rude awakening came in the form of a near-death experience in 2013. During her last year of college, a hit-and-run collision in Los Angeles caused her car to hit a pole and spin three times. By the time she was able to unbuckle herself and climb out of her upside down vehicle, her shoes were on the other side of the freeway. But other than a cut on her foot, she was mostly unscathed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' citation='Evangeline Elder']“I didn’t want to be [backstage] because I was an object or someone’s girlfriend. I wanted to be back there and be 5’9” and plus-sized and have a purpose and command your attention.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kind of woke up after that accident mentally, and I realized I was wasting my existence,” she says. “If my life would have ended that night, I wouldn’t have done anything that I wanted to. I wouldn’t have nourished any creative projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, Elder launched her first venture, Rehab Online Magazine, from her university’s computer lab. In the early 2010s, music blogs, Soundcloud and Tumblr were the flourishing, new spaces for taste-making, and Elder was blogging about the burgeoning, soul- and jazz-influenced, indie rap and R&B scene that artists like Duckwrth, Xavier Omar and Masego were pioneering at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this alternative renaissance,” she says. “Illroots and \u003cem>The Fader\u003c/em> were reporting on all these artists that didn’t have marketing plans, reporting on unsigned artists. So I was really enamored with this new sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ith the rise of curated Spotify playlists and social media, the music blog era came to an end, and Elder quietly retired Rehab Online Magazine in 2017. But that same year, she launched an even bigger venture, Women Sound Off, the interdisciplinary arts conference and festival she dreamed up with her close friend Carmena Woodward, a.k.a. DJ Red Corvette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evangeline Elder (far right) at a Women Sound Off panel in 2019. \u003ccite>(Belinda Mann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It started off under the name Women In Music, and featured concerts, panels, wellness workshops, art markets and mixers where local, independent artists and established women in the industry alike were welcome. (I was a panelist in 2017 and ’18.) Each year, she and Woodward worked around the clock booking artists and locations, coordinating volunteers and lining up corporate partners like Pandora. 2019—the same year Elder started her job at EMPIRE—was Women Sound Off’s biggest year: it expanded to include year-round events, and was featured in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/20/all-female-music-festival-lineups-native-loud-women-fest-boudica-hearher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian\u003c/a>\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/janeclairehervey/2019/01/14/19-conferences-every-creative-should-attend-in-2019/?sh=a775e5d3e218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, who called it a conference “every creative should attend in 2019.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, of course, came the pandemic. Slated for April 2020, Women Sound Off was one of the first events to get canceled as shelter-in-place orders shut down the arts in the Bay Area. Although it throttled the festival’s plans, the pandemic also allowed Elder to take a much-needed mental health break, especially as non-stop videos of violence and racism dominated news feeds during the George Floyd protests and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Women Sound Off had always been engaged with its community on social media and continued to put on online events in the past year, “there was a lot of pressure on digital platforms to become rapid response platforms,” she recalls. “People don’t realize that as a Black person who is running a platform, it can be very, very triggering to report on Black death or on cop killings over and over. That was something that 100% slowed me down, rightfully so. I was not willing to sacrifice my own mental health to satisfy the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning to prioritize self-care has been an important journey for Elder, who has long lived with clinical depression. After a much-needed six-month recharge last year, she was able to dive back into her work in a more purposeful way. Women Sound Off partnered with her sister Candice Elder’s community organizing group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastoaklandcollective.com/our-team.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Oakland Collective\u003c/a>, for a massive food drive serving residents of some of the neighborhoods hit hardest by the pandemic. [aside postid='arts_13828811']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a full circle moment where you could see the Elder power harnessed for good,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also coincided with some of Elder’s most successful brand collaborations at EMPIRE. She helped secure sponsorship from Tequila Herradura for the label’s \u003ca href=\"https://music.empi.re/voicesforchange1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Voices for Change Vol. 1\u003c/em>\u003c/a> compilation, which featured a slate of the EMPIRE’s up-and-coming artists—including Sacramento heavyweight Mozzy, Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893043/how-rexx-life-raj-fantastic-negrito-and-salami-rose-joe-louis-pivoted-from-touring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a> and Chicago rapper and singer Jean Deaux, whom Elder manages. The project raised money for the ACLU and was part of a voter registration campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All while doing these projects, Elder’s latest endeavor has been mentoring other artist managers. Her goal is to demystify the music business and remove barriers to entry—especially for Black creatives who spur so much of the innovation but don’t always see the profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I account for resources. I account for being a low-income manager or a low-income executive who is not in any famous, rich Hollywood circles,” she says. “I account for independent artists who don’t have more than $200 for their roll-out and want to make noise. I hope that more people start consulting and bringing out a different level of realness in the industry that doesn’t reek of fucking privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"She didn't see many women on the business side of music, so she charted a path that led her to EMPIRE and Women Sound Off.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019283,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1868},"headData":{"title":"Evangeline Elder, Brand Whisperer and Festival Co-Founder, is Demystifying the Music Industry | KQED","description":"She didn't see many women on the business side of music, so she charted a path that led her to EMPIRE and Women Sound Off.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13894449/evangeline-elder-women-sound-off-empire","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">J\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ust a few years ago, the Free Nationals were a humble soul quartet providing entertainment at weddings. Fast forward through several Anderson .Paak tours, music festival appearances and an opening gig for Beyoncé, and the band just celebrated their first Grammy nomination earlier this month with a hi-fi Dolby Atmos version of their album, a huge Times Square billboard and a Twitch concert sponsored by Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893043/how-rexx-life-raj-fantastic-negrito-and-salami-rose-joe-louis-pivoted-from-touring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Without live shows\u003c/a>, the last year has created numerous obstacles to visibility and income for independent artists. But the Free Nationals were able to ink those deals with the help of Evangeline Elder, who works in brand partnerships at the San Francisco distribution label \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/ourturbulentdecade/2012-empire-brought-the-music-industry-back-to-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EMPIRE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While artists from past generations might have balked at the prospect of “selling out” to advertising, Elder sees it as a way to open up resources once reserved for the big stars to independent artists.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1370757180631093250"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a new era where you can tell a brand what you want and build a plan around your goals as an artist,” says Elder in a recent Zoom interview, mentioning collaborations she helped make happen for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMVbUGBgPL-/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D Smoke and Puma\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CMAqb4bgFfQ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Jackson and Bumble\u003c/a>. “And the pandemic actually lit that on fire further. When touring disappeared, brand partnerships for everyone became a new channel of revenue, a new channel of collaboration and relevancy. When you can’t tour, when you can’t have those in-person moments that you display across your socials, you have to look at your career and figure out how you generate energy. How are you generating attention? That’s what the name of the game is these days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"CMAqb4bgFfQ"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Also an \u003ca href=\"http://allanglesagency.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">artist manager\u003c/a> and the co-founder of the Oakland festival and conference \u003ca href=\"https://womensoundoff.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women Sound Off\u003c/a>, Elder took an unconventional route to becoming a behind-the-scenes mover and shaker in the music industry. In her different roles, she brings an entrepreneurial passion for helping artists get paid for realizing their dreams, all the while championing a “lift all boats” philosophy to get women—especially Black women and other women of color—more recognition in the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This new generation you’re seeing the past 10 years in the social media era, where women who are making moves behind the scenes now have a public following for their business acumen—that’s a fairly new thing,” says Elder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things were very different when she got started in music after graduating from UC Riverside in 2013. She witnessed women getting typecast and sexualized—or simply sidelined if they weren’t deemed appealing enough for the male gaze. “I didn’t want to be [backstage] because I was an object or someone’s girlfriend,” Elder says. “I wanted to be back there and be 5’9” and plus-sized and have a purpose and command your attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">E\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>lder’s confidence and self-motivated hustle developed early while watching her parents, serial entrepreneurs who were also active in community service through their church. Their bakery, Elder’s Gourmet Bakery and Deli on MacArthur Boulevard and 73rd Avenue, had a cult following in East Oakland for its sweet potato pies and 7 Up cakes in the late ’80s and ’90s, and was featured on Oakland’s pioneering, Black-owned television network Soul Beat TV. (In true Oakland fashion, their wholesome commercial about birthday cakes and sandwiches had a Too $hort beat playing in the background.) \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13877570","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those days, Elder’s parents also ran a day care and a senior care facility. And even though money was sometimes tight during her childhood, she says they never let her and her siblings know it. “My parents were very sharp people. They weren’t just smart. They understood what pieces needed to be moved in order for an outcome to be had,” Elder remembers. “They always accounted for the things people didn’t account for. That’s something that I can say rubbed off on me. … I wouldn’t be who I am if I was that little girl in the back of the car watching them work and make their rounds.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"BxY8hPDgwFq"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Elder’s parents were avid record collectors who enlisted her help for crate digging at garage sales. They had the Jackson 5 and the Temptations on heavy rotation, and also loved albums by gospel star Mahalia Jackson and even Martin Luther King speeches on wax. These trips imbued Elder with a taste for music with soul, rhythm and a social purpose—a fair characterization of the artists she works with today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In middle school and high school—like most millennials with a passion for music—Elder’s first experiences in curation came in the form of burning mix CDs for her friends. But when she entered college, she couldn’t see a direct line to a creative career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She majored in public policy but didn’t find herself inspired, and soon her life became consumed with drinking and partying. A rude awakening came in the form of a near-death experience in 2013. During her last year of college, a hit-and-run collision in Los Angeles caused her car to hit a pole and spin three times. By the time she was able to unbuckle herself and climb out of her upside down vehicle, her shoes were on the other side of the freeway. But other than a cut on her foot, she was mostly unscathed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"“I didn’t want to be [backstage] because I was an object or someone’s girlfriend. I wanted to be back there and be 5’9” and plus-sized and have a purpose and command your attention.”","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","citation":"Evangeline Elder","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kind of woke up after that accident mentally, and I realized I was wasting my existence,” she says. “If my life would have ended that night, I wouldn’t have done anything that I wanted to. I wouldn’t have nourished any creative projects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, Elder launched her first venture, Rehab Online Magazine, from her university’s computer lab. In the early 2010s, music blogs, Soundcloud and Tumblr were the flourishing, new spaces for taste-making, and Elder was blogging about the burgeoning, soul- and jazz-influenced, indie rap and R&B scene that artists like Duckwrth, Xavier Omar and Masego were pioneering at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was this alternative renaissance,” she says. “Illroots and \u003cem>The Fader\u003c/em> were reporting on all these artists that didn’t have marketing plans, reporting on unsigned artists. So I was really enamored with this new sound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">W\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ith the rise of curated Spotify playlists and social media, the music blog era came to an end, and Elder quietly retired Rehab Online Magazine in 2017. But that same year, she launched an even bigger venture, Women Sound Off, the interdisciplinary arts conference and festival she dreamed up with her close friend Carmena Woodward, a.k.a. DJ Red Corvette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13894630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13894630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-2048x1368.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/IMG_1156-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evangeline Elder (far right) at a Women Sound Off panel in 2019. \u003ccite>(Belinda Mann)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It started off under the name Women In Music, and featured concerts, panels, wellness workshops, art markets and mixers where local, independent artists and established women in the industry alike were welcome. (I was a panelist in 2017 and ’18.) Each year, she and Woodward worked around the clock booking artists and locations, coordinating volunteers and lining up corporate partners like Pandora. 2019—the same year Elder started her job at EMPIRE—was Women Sound Off’s biggest year: it expanded to include year-round events, and was featured in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/20/all-female-music-festival-lineups-native-loud-women-fest-boudica-hearher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian\u003c/a>\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/janeclairehervey/2019/01/14/19-conferences-every-creative-should-attend-in-2019/?sh=a775e5d3e218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, who called it a conference “every creative should attend in 2019.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, of course, came the pandemic. Slated for April 2020, Women Sound Off was one of the first events to get canceled as shelter-in-place orders shut down the arts in the Bay Area. Although it throttled the festival’s plans, the pandemic also allowed Elder to take a much-needed mental health break, especially as non-stop videos of violence and racism dominated news feeds during the George Floyd protests and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Women Sound Off had always been engaged with its community on social media and continued to put on online events in the past year, “there was a lot of pressure on digital platforms to become rapid response platforms,” she recalls. “People don’t realize that as a Black person who is running a platform, it can be very, very triggering to report on Black death or on cop killings over and over. That was something that 100% slowed me down, rightfully so. I was not willing to sacrifice my own mental health to satisfy the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning to prioritize self-care has been an important journey for Elder, who has long lived with clinical depression. After a much-needed six-month recharge last year, she was able to dive back into her work in a more purposeful way. Women Sound Off partnered with her sister Candice Elder’s community organizing group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastoaklandcollective.com/our-team.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Oakland Collective\u003c/a>, for a massive food drive serving residents of some of the neighborhoods hit hardest by the pandemic. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13828811","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was a full circle moment where you could see the Elder power harnessed for good,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also coincided with some of Elder’s most successful brand collaborations at EMPIRE. She helped secure sponsorship from Tequila Herradura for the label’s \u003ca href=\"https://music.empi.re/voicesforchange1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Voices for Change Vol. 1\u003c/em>\u003c/a> compilation, which featured a slate of the EMPIRE’s up-and-coming artists—including Sacramento heavyweight Mozzy, Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893043/how-rexx-life-raj-fantastic-negrito-and-salami-rose-joe-louis-pivoted-from-touring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a> and Chicago rapper and singer Jean Deaux, whom Elder manages. The project raised money for the ACLU and was part of a voter registration campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All while doing these projects, Elder’s latest endeavor has been mentoring other artist managers. Her goal is to demystify the music business and remove barriers to entry—especially for Black creatives who spur so much of the innovation but don’t always see the profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I account for resources. I account for being a low-income manager or a low-income executive who is not in any famous, rich Hollywood circles,” she says. “I account for independent artists who don’t have more than $200 for their roll-out and want to make noise. I hope that more people start consulting and bringing out a different level of realness in the industry that doesn’t reek of fucking privilege.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13894449/evangeline-elder-women-sound-off-empire","authors":["11387"],"series":["arts_4525"],"categories":["arts_1"],"tags":["arts_2457","arts_10278","arts_4213"],"featImg":"arts_13894626","label":"arts_4525"},"arts_13869513":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13869513","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13869513","score":null,"sort":[1573175790000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rexx-life-raj-father-figure-3-empire","title":"In the Algorithm Age, Rexx Life Raj Charts a Path Without Gimmicks","publishDate":1573175790,"format":"standard","headTitle":"In the Algorithm Age, Rexx Life Raj Charts a Path Without Gimmicks | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rexxliferaj.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a> spent the last year headlining shows in London, eating \u003cem>fromage\u003c/em> in Paris and touring the United States with Dreamville rapper Bas. A long way from his humble beginnings working at his parents’ package delivery business in Vallejo, the Berkeley-raised artist seems, by all counts, to be living the musician’s dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, on his new album \u003cem>Father Figure 3: Somewhere Out There\u003c/em>, there’s a sense of survivor’s guilt. On the track “Burgundy Regal,” Raj meditates on two of his childhood best friends, Devin and Ronnie. Over a warm guitar loop with a vintage feel, Raj reminisces about the trio taking the 72 bus line after school from Berkeley to Richmond’s Hilltop Mall. Later, once old enough to drive, they would cruise around in Raj’s Buick, spending hours videotaping each other freestyling, dancing and goofing around at the Berkeley Marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj went on to play Division 1 football at Boise State University. But his friends’ lives took completely different paths. Tragically, Devin was killed during Raj’s freshman year. (“Just being at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Raj says with a sigh.) Meanwhile, Ronnie is currently incarcerated at a facility near Fresno. In a tender falsetto on the track’s chorus, Raj reflects with gratitude on how these friends helped him visualize his dreams of a music career. “Head to the sky I push / Pushin’ for the ones who ain’t had a chance,” he sings. “Now I open my eyes and it looks / Just like the convos that we used to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Rexx Life Raj in front of a mosaic at Willard Middle School, where he got his start in music in the early 2000s. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rexx Life Raj in front of a mosaic at Willard Middle School, where he got his start in music in the early 2000s. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of the main things I remember about Devin is that he was older and wiser than his age,” says Raj, as he leads me on a walk around Willard Middle School, where he met Devin in 6th grade, at the end of Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue strip. At another friend’s house on the edge of the soccer field, where preteens run around for P.E. when we walk by, is where he recorded his first mixtape—an actual cassette—using a karaoke machine and a keyboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We then hop in the car to visit Raj’s childhood home in West Berkeley, driving away from Telegraph’s colorful hippie shops and record stores to a concrete landscape dotted with liquor stores and construction sites. “If [Ronnie] was out, he’d be here with me doing everything,” Raj says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few days, Raj will head off on his first national headlining tour, with a San Francisco stop at \u003ca href=\"https://www.theindependentsf.com/event/9945715/rexx-life-raj/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Independent on Nov. 20\u003c/a>. “Whenever I talk to Ronnie, he’s always like, ‘Damn bro, we used to talk about this.’ I think that’s why even harder for him.” [aside postid='arts_13868502']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of “beating the odds” is a cliche that follows successful black men, but as we drive down Ashby Avenue to Sacramento Street to Raj’s childhood home, he tells me that he and his Berkeley High friends often reflect on how narrowly they escaped tragedy themselves. He mentions classmates who were never the same after popping the wrong pills when ecstasy was a staple of the hyphy movement, and others who were shot while minding their own business in their cars or at parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s weird, because it’s for sure a survivor’s guilt. But for me, at least, it gives me a sense of purpose,” he says. Sharing the pep talk he often repeats to himself, he continues: “Like, ‘Alright, you went through all these obstacles and you went through all this shit, so you have to be something. You had all the luck on your side, you had all the blessings on your side, you had all the opportunities on your side.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/916973848&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now signed to the San Francisco distribution label \u003ca href=\"https://www.empi.re/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empire\u003c/a>, which boasts a vast roster encompassing local artists like Rayana Jay and global superstars like Snoop Dogg, Raj is certainly making the most of the chances that’ve come his way. After years of building up his fan base through cult releases, he’s finally seeing his music career reach a level beyond that of an independent hometown artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj has had studio sessions with super-producer Scott Storch, whose decades-spanning career includes hits for Beyoncé and Trippie Redd alike. On \u003cem>Father Figure 3\u003c/em>, Kehlani makes an appearance on the charming, acoustic love song “Your Way,” and platinum-selling rapper Russ assists on the bass-heavy, uptempo R&B track “Falling.” Even with this greater access and bigger budget, Raj still enlisted some of the Bay Area’s most talented local producers for \u003cem>Father Figure 3\u003c/em>, including DTB, Wax Roof and Drew Banga, and made sure to bring them out on stage and thank them heartily at his packed listening party at Berkeley’s Cornerstone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869605\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Rexx Life Raj spent his formative years riding the 72 bus line from Berkeley to Richmond's Hilltop Mall. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rexx Life Raj spent his formative years riding the 72 bus line from Berkeley to Richmond’s Hilltop Mall. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even with numerous collaborators, \u003cem>Father Figure 3\u003c/em> has a cohesive feel that’s all Raj, underscored by the warm, from-the-diaphragm vocal quality born from years of singing gospel in church with his mom. (Even when he’s rapping, you can tell he can \u003cem>sing\u003c/em>-sing.) He sketched the skeletal framework of many of the album’s beats himself, and recorded the majority of his vocals alone—in hotels and AirBnBs—while on the road with Bas. “My whole studio is a laptop, an audio interface and a microphone,” he says, adding that he fit his equipment into a single suitcase. “I can record literally anywhere, as long as the sound isn’t that bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj’s slow-food approach to his music stands in stark contrast to other up-and-coming artists’ strategies for success in the streaming era, where it’s easier than ever to blow up from a fluke viral hit—and harder than ever to make a lasting impact. While many attempt to game this system by adopting easily meme-able gimmicks, Raj doesn’t brand himself as a conscious rapper, a street rapper, a party rapper or, really, any of the boxes typically seen in the mainstream. [aside postid='arts_13869125']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people are good at creating characters and packaging this whole image for Instagram that’s really marketable,” he says. “My biggest fear is turning into one of those things and having to be that all the time. … That’s why I appreciate the TDEs and Dreamvilles, because those are the people who have made it to this pinnacle without the gimmicks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can certainly describe Raj’s own approach. His lyrics reference the teachings of the Black Panthers and Nipsey Hussle, then jolt listeners with irreverent punchlines about sex and recreational drug use before swinging back to contemplative passages on his life’s direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003cem>Father Figure 3\u003c/em>, Raj’s heartfelt lyrical gems open pathways to emotional intimacy between artist and listener—in the same way those late-night conversations in the burgundy Regal must have felt among best friends.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On the self-reflective 'Father Figure 3,' Raj's slow-food approach to his music is his biggest strength.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021845,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":1285},"headData":{"title":"In the Algorithm Age, Rexx Life Raj Charts a Path Without Gimmicks | KQED","description":"On the self-reflective 'Father Figure 3,' Raj's slow-food approach to his music is his biggest strength.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13869513/rexx-life-raj-father-figure-3-empire","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rexxliferaj.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rexx Life Raj\u003c/a> spent the last year headlining shows in London, eating \u003cem>fromage\u003c/em> in Paris and touring the United States with Dreamville rapper Bas. A long way from his humble beginnings working at his parents’ package delivery business in Vallejo, the Berkeley-raised artist seems, by all counts, to be living the musician’s dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, on his new album \u003cem>Father Figure 3: Somewhere Out There\u003c/em>, there’s a sense of survivor’s guilt. On the track “Burgundy Regal,” Raj meditates on two of his childhood best friends, Devin and Ronnie. Over a warm guitar loop with a vintage feel, Raj reminisces about the trio taking the 72 bus line after school from Berkeley to Richmond’s Hilltop Mall. Later, once old enough to drive, they would cruise around in Raj’s Buick, spending hours videotaping each other freestyling, dancing and goofing around at the Berkeley Marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj went on to play Division 1 football at Boise State University. But his friends’ lives took completely different paths. Tragically, Devin was killed during Raj’s freshman year. (“Just being at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Raj says with a sigh.) Meanwhile, Ronnie is currently incarcerated at a facility near Fresno. In a tender falsetto on the track’s chorus, Raj reflects with gratitude on how these friends helped him visualize his dreams of a music career. “Head to the sky I push / Pushin’ for the ones who ain’t had a chance,” he sings. “Now I open my eyes and it looks / Just like the convos that we used to have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Rexx Life Raj in front of a mosaic at Willard Middle School, where he got his start in music in the early 2000s. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rexx Life Raj in front of a mosaic at Willard Middle School, where he got his start in music in the early 2000s. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of the main things I remember about Devin is that he was older and wiser than his age,” says Raj, as he leads me on a walk around Willard Middle School, where he met Devin in 6th grade, at the end of Berkeley’s Telegraph Avenue strip. At another friend’s house on the edge of the soccer field, where preteens run around for P.E. when we walk by, is where he recorded his first mixtape—an actual cassette—using a karaoke machine and a keyboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We then hop in the car to visit Raj’s childhood home in West Berkeley, driving away from Telegraph’s colorful hippie shops and record stores to a concrete landscape dotted with liquor stores and construction sites. “If [Ronnie] was out, he’d be here with me doing everything,” Raj says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a few days, Raj will head off on his first national headlining tour, with a San Francisco stop at \u003ca href=\"https://www.theindependentsf.com/event/9945715/rexx-life-raj/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Independent on Nov. 20\u003c/a>. “Whenever I talk to Ronnie, he’s always like, ‘Damn bro, we used to talk about this.’ I think that’s why even harder for him.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13868502","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of “beating the odds” is a cliche that follows successful black men, but as we drive down Ashby Avenue to Sacramento Street to Raj’s childhood home, he tells me that he and his Berkeley High friends often reflect on how narrowly they escaped tragedy themselves. He mentions classmates who were never the same after popping the wrong pills when ecstasy was a staple of the hyphy movement, and others who were shot while minding their own business in their cars or at parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s weird, because it’s for sure a survivor’s guilt. But for me, at least, it gives me a sense of purpose,” he says. Sharing the pep talk he often repeats to himself, he continues: “Like, ‘Alright, you went through all these obstacles and you went through all this shit, so you have to be something. You had all the luck on your side, you had all the blessings on your side, you had all the opportunities on your side.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/916973848&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now signed to the San Francisco distribution label \u003ca href=\"https://www.empi.re/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empire\u003c/a>, which boasts a vast roster encompassing local artists like Rayana Jay and global superstars like Snoop Dogg, Raj is certainly making the most of the chances that’ve come his way. After years of building up his fan base through cult releases, he’s finally seeing his music career reach a level beyond that of an independent hometown artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj has had studio sessions with super-producer Scott Storch, whose decades-spanning career includes hits for Beyoncé and Trippie Redd alike. On \u003cem>Father Figure 3\u003c/em>, Kehlani makes an appearance on the charming, acoustic love song “Your Way,” and platinum-selling rapper Russ assists on the bass-heavy, uptempo R&B track “Falling.” Even with this greater access and bigger budget, Raj still enlisted some of the Bay Area’s most talented local producers for \u003cem>Father Figure 3\u003c/em>, including DTB, Wax Roof and Drew Banga, and made sure to bring them out on stage and thank them heartily at his packed listening party at Berkeley’s Cornerstone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13869605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13869605\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Rexx Life Raj spent his formative years riding the 72 bus line from Berkeley to Richmond's Hilltop Mall. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/rexx-life-raj-4.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rexx Life Raj spent his formative years riding the 72 bus line from Berkeley to Richmond’s Hilltop Mall. \u003ccite>(Nastia Voynovskaya/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even with numerous collaborators, \u003cem>Father Figure 3\u003c/em> has a cohesive feel that’s all Raj, underscored by the warm, from-the-diaphragm vocal quality born from years of singing gospel in church with his mom. (Even when he’s rapping, you can tell he can \u003cem>sing\u003c/em>-sing.) He sketched the skeletal framework of many of the album’s beats himself, and recorded the majority of his vocals alone—in hotels and AirBnBs—while on the road with Bas. “My whole studio is a laptop, an audio interface and a microphone,” he says, adding that he fit his equipment into a single suitcase. “I can record literally anywhere, as long as the sound isn’t that bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj’s slow-food approach to his music stands in stark contrast to other up-and-coming artists’ strategies for success in the streaming era, where it’s easier than ever to blow up from a fluke viral hit—and harder than ever to make a lasting impact. While many attempt to game this system by adopting easily meme-able gimmicks, Raj doesn’t brand himself as a conscious rapper, a street rapper, a party rapper or, really, any of the boxes typically seen in the mainstream. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13869125","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people are good at creating characters and packaging this whole image for Instagram that’s really marketable,” he says. “My biggest fear is turning into one of those things and having to be that all the time. … That’s why I appreciate the TDEs and Dreamvilles, because those are the people who have made it to this pinnacle without the gimmicks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can certainly describe Raj’s own approach. His lyrics reference the teachings of the Black Panthers and Nipsey Hussle, then jolt listeners with irreverent punchlines about sex and recreational drug use before swinging back to contemplative passages on his life’s direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003cem>Father Figure 3\u003c/em>, Raj’s heartfelt lyrical gems open pathways to emotional intimacy between artist and listener—in the same way those late-night conversations in the burgundy Regal must have felt among best friends.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13869513/rexx-life-raj-father-figure-3-empire","authors":["11387"],"categories":["arts_69"],"tags":["arts_5397","arts_2457","arts_1118","arts_1983"],"featImg":"arts_13869603","label":"arts"},"arts_13853725":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13853725","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13853725","score":null,"sort":[1553628837000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"prosecutors-drop-all-charges-against-empire-actor-jussie-smollett","title":"Prosecutors Drop Smollett Charges In Move Decried As 'Whitewash Of Justice'","publishDate":1553628837,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Prosecutors Drop Smollett Charges In Move Decried As ‘Whitewash Of Justice’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 3:48 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors are dropping all charges against \u003cem>Empire\u003c/em> actor Jussie Smollett\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>in a surprising and controversial move that has exposed a stark fault line between Chicago’s local authorities and their county and state counterparts. The decision Tuesday appears to clear Smollett of allegations that he filed a false police report \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703325175/jussie-smollett-pleads-not-guilty-to-charges-he-faked-brutal-attack-against-hims\">earlier this year\u003c/a> when the actor, who is gay and black, claimed that he was attacked in Chicago in a possible hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors in Cook County, Ill., said they would not pursue \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/08/701751613/jussie-smollett-indicted-on-16-felony-counts-by-chicago-grand-jury\">the grand jury indictment\u003c/a> against Smollett, which returned 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct against him. Tuesday’s decision, according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, had to do, in part, with the actor’s community service and bond payment to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case, including Mr. Smollet[t]’s volunteer service in the community and agreement to forfeit his [$10,000] bond to the City of Chicago, we believe this outcome is a just disposition and appropriate resolution to this case,” the office led by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cookcountystatesattorney.org/about/kimberly-foxx\">State’s Attorney Kim Foxx\u003c/a> said in a statement emailed to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foxx \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/kim-foxx-jussie-smollett-recused-506070211.html\">recused herself\u003c/a> from the Smollett investigation last month to “address potential questions of impartiality based upon familiarity with potential witnesses in the case,” according to a statement released at the time. First Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Magats, who took over on her behalf, said the decision should not necessarily be viewed as an exoneration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact there was an alternative disposition in this case is not and should not be viewed as some kind of admission there was something wrong with the case or something wrong with the investigation that the Chicago police did,” Magats \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/empire-jussie-smollett-emergency-court-hearing/\">told the Chicago Sun-Times\u003c/a>, explaining: “It’s a nonviolent crime. He has no felony criminal background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s police and mayor vehemently disagree with the move, however. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a news conference called after the announcement, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, together with police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, railed against it as a “whitewash of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not on the level, from beginning to end,” a visibly angry Emanuel told reporters. “There needs to be a level of accountability throughout the system, and this sends an unambiguous message that there is no accountability. And that is wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696593870/chicago-police-empire-actor-jessie-smollett-faked-attack\">lengthy statement to the media\u003c/a>, Johnson explained the allegations: that Smollett paid two brothers to carry out a fake attack against him — involving racial and anti-gay slurs and a rope around his neck — and that Smollett filed a police report to that effect, all in an attempt to “further his own public profile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police superintendent still stands by those accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been a cop now for about 31 years, and when I came on this job, I came on with my honor, my integrity and my reputation,” Johnson said Tuesday. “If someone accused me of doing anything that would circumvent that, then I would want my day in court, period — to clear my name. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard that they wanted their day in court with TV cameras so America could know the truth,” he added, “and now they chose to hide behind secrecy and broker a deal, to circumvent the judicial system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi summed up the department’s position more succinctly: “In our experience,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1110600312887361536\">he tweeted\u003c/a>, “innocent individuals don’t forget bond & perform community service in exchange for dropped charges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smollett’s attorneys, for their part, celebrated the decision to drop the charges as a vindication. They say the actor’s record has been “wiped clean of the filing of this tragic complaint against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator as a result of false and inappropriate remarks made to the public causing an inappropriate rush to judgement,” attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes said in a statement released by a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jussie and many others were hurt by these unfair and unwarranted actions,” they continued. “This entire situation is a reminder that there should never be an attempt to prove a case in the court of public opinion. That is wrong. It is a reminder that a victim, in this case Jussie, deserves dignity and respect. Dismissal of charges against the victim in this case was the only just result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after his arrest in February, the actor was removed from the final episodes of \u003cem>Empire\u003c/em>‘s season — “to avoid further disruption on set,” the show’s producers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/697008758/jussie-smolletts-character-removed-from-final-episodes-of-empire-season\">said at the time\u003c/a>. 20th Century Fox Television, the company behind the show, issued a brief statement after Tuesday’s announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jussie Smollett has always maintained his innocence and we are gratified that all charges against him have been dismissed,” the company said in its statement to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smollett himself reasserted his innocence at a news conference after his hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. I would not be my mother’s son if I was capable of one drop of what I was being accused of,” he said, in his first public comments since \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXLx5OY21Bk\">an interview last month\u003c/a> with ABC News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been an incredibly difficult time — honestly, one of the worst of my entire life. But I’m a man of faith and I’m a man that has knowledge of my history, and I would not bring my family, our lives or the movement through a fire like this.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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The decision Tuesday appears to clear Smollett of allegations that he filed a false police report \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703325175/jussie-smollett-pleads-not-guilty-to-charges-he-faked-brutal-attack-against-hims\">earlier this year\u003c/a> when the actor, who is gay and black, claimed that he was attacked in Chicago in a possible hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors in Cook County, Ill., said they would not pursue \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/08/701751613/jussie-smollett-indicted-on-16-felony-counts-by-chicago-grand-jury\">the grand jury indictment\u003c/a> against Smollett, which returned 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct against him. Tuesday’s decision, according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, had to do, in part, with the actor’s community service and bond payment to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case, including Mr. Smollet[t]’s volunteer service in the community and agreement to forfeit his [$10,000] bond to the City of Chicago, we believe this outcome is a just disposition and appropriate resolution to this case,” the office led by \u003ca href=\"https://www.cookcountystatesattorney.org/about/kimberly-foxx\">State’s Attorney Kim Foxx\u003c/a> said in a statement emailed to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foxx \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/kim-foxx-jussie-smollett-recused-506070211.html\">recused herself\u003c/a> from the Smollett investigation last month to “address potential questions of impartiality based upon familiarity with potential witnesses in the case,” according to a statement released at the time. First Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Magats, who took over on her behalf, said the decision should not necessarily be viewed as an exoneration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact there was an alternative disposition in this case is not and should not be viewed as some kind of admission there was something wrong with the case or something wrong with the investigation that the Chicago police did,” Magats \u003ca href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/empire-jussie-smollett-emergency-court-hearing/\">told the Chicago Sun-Times\u003c/a>, explaining: “It’s a nonviolent crime. He has no felony criminal background.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s police and mayor vehemently disagree with the move, however. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a news conference called after the announcement, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, together with police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, railed against it as a “whitewash of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not on the level, from beginning to end,” a visibly angry Emanuel told reporters. “There needs to be a level of accountability throughout the system, and this sends an unambiguous message that there is no accountability. And that is wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, during a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696593870/chicago-police-empire-actor-jessie-smollett-faked-attack\">lengthy statement to the media\u003c/a>, Johnson explained the allegations: that Smollett paid two brothers to carry out a fake attack against him — involving racial and anti-gay slurs and a rope around his neck — and that Smollett filed a police report to that effect, all in an attempt to “further his own public profile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police superintendent still stands by those accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been a cop now for about 31 years, and when I came on this job, I came on with my honor, my integrity and my reputation,” Johnson said Tuesday. “If someone accused me of doing anything that would circumvent that, then I would want my day in court, period — to clear my name. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard that they wanted their day in court with TV cameras so America could know the truth,” he added, “and now they chose to hide behind secrecy and broker a deal, to circumvent the judicial system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi summed up the department’s position more succinctly: “In our experience,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1110600312887361536\">he tweeted\u003c/a>, “innocent individuals don’t forget bond & perform community service in exchange for dropped charges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smollett’s attorneys, for their part, celebrated the decision to drop the charges as a vindication. They say the actor’s record has been “wiped clean of the filing of this tragic complaint against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator as a result of false and inappropriate remarks made to the public causing an inappropriate rush to judgement,” attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes said in a statement released by a spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jussie and many others were hurt by these unfair and unwarranted actions,” they continued. “This entire situation is a reminder that there should never be an attempt to prove a case in the court of public opinion. That is wrong. It is a reminder that a victim, in this case Jussie, deserves dignity and respect. Dismissal of charges against the victim in this case was the only just result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after his arrest in February, the actor was removed from the final episodes of \u003cem>Empire\u003c/em>‘s season — “to avoid further disruption on set,” the show’s producers \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/697008758/jussie-smolletts-character-removed-from-final-episodes-of-empire-season\">said at the time\u003c/a>. 20th Century Fox Television, the company behind the show, issued a brief statement after Tuesday’s announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jussie Smollett has always maintained his innocence and we are gratified that all charges against him have been dismissed,” the company said in its statement to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smollett himself reasserted his innocence at a news conference after his hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. I would not be my mother’s son if I was capable of one drop of what I was being accused of,” he said, in his first public comments since \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXLx5OY21Bk\">an interview last month\u003c/a> with ABC News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been an incredibly difficult time — honestly, one of the worst of my entire life. But I’m a man of faith and I’m a man that has knowledge of my history, and I would not bring my family, our lives or the movement through a fire like this.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Prosecutors+Drop+Smollett+Charges+In+Move+Decried+As+%27Whitewash+Of+Justice%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13853725/prosecutors-drop-all-charges-against-empire-actor-jussie-smollett","authors":["byline_arts_13853725"],"categories":["arts_71"],"tags":["arts_6475","arts_2457","arts_1118"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13853726","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13849669":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13849669","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13849669","score":null,"sort":[1548786898000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"jussie-smollett-beaten-in-apparent-hate-crime-chicago-pd-releases-statement","title":"'Hate Based Terrorism': NAACP Condemns Attack on Santa Rosa's Jussie Smollett","publishDate":1548786898,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Hate Based Terrorism’: NAACP Condemns Attack on Santa Rosa’s Jussie Smollett | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1272,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Update Jan. 30: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem>The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) \u003ca href=\"https://naacp.org/latest/naacp-statement-racist-homophobic-attack-jussie-smollett/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a statement\u003c/a> calling the attack on Smollett an act of “hate-based terrorism.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update Jan. 29: \u003c/strong>TMZ \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2019/01/29/empire-star-jussie-smollett-attacked-hospitalized-homophobic-hate-crime/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed\u003c/a> Smollett received treatment at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and has since been discharged. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update Feb. 20: \u003c/strong>Jussie Smollett \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/20/695974164/chicago-police-jussie-smollett-under-suspicion-of-filing-false-police-report\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been arrested\u003c/a> on charges of filing a false police report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Empire\u003c/em> cast member Jussie Smollett suffered injuries in Chicago around 2am Tuesday morning in a possible hate crime. The 35-year-old Santa Rosa-born actor and singer is best known for his role as Jamal Lyon in the hit Fox drama, and critics have hailed his performance as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/kelleylcarter/being-gay-and-black-on-tv-will-never-be-the-same\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">groundbreaking\u003c/a>” for his positive and nuanced depiction of a black gay man on television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chicago Police Department is calling the incident a possible “racially-charged assault and battery.” A statement released early Tuesday outlines the attack. The two perpetrators reportedly yelled racial and homophobic slurs at Smollett and wrapped a rope around his neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1090282533516906496\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2019/01/29/empire-star-jussie-smollett-attacked-hospitalized-homophobic-hate-crime/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ \u003c/a>reports that the attackers also yelled, “This is MAGA country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow celebrities and friends have shared their thoughts and wishes on social media for the Empire star’s recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/Zendaya/status/1090324824252133376\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/Devonte_Riley/status/1090305712864051200\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Kamala Harris shared her thoughts: “This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JussieSmollett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JussieSmollett\u003c/a> is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1090361495119187969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2019\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://twitter.com/shondarhimes/status/1090318501254840320\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Jan. 30, the NAACP \u003ca href=\"https://naacp.org/latest/naacp-statement-racist-homophobic-attack-jussie-smollett/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a statement\u003c/a> calling the attack on Smollett an act of “hate-based terrorism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The recent racist and homophobic attack on acclaimed actor and activist Jussie Smollett is troubling. The rise in hate crimes is directly linked to President Donald J. Trump’s racist and xenophobic rhetoric. It is dangerous for any society to allow a tone of divisiveness and hatred to dominate the political discourse. As this rhetoric continues to bleed into our everyday lives, dangerous behavior will continue to place many law-abiding individuals at risk. We pray for a full physical and mental recovery Jussie Smollett and many unnamed victims of this forum of hate based terrorism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Derrick Johnson, NAACP President and CEO\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While the Chicago police have confirmed the attack on an \u003cem>Empire\u003c/em> cast member, they have not yet released his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is developing and will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two perpetrators reportedly yelled racial and homophobic slurs and wrapped a rope around the victim's neck.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705026689,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":488},"headData":{"title":"'Hate Based Terrorism': NAACP Condemns Attack on Santa Rosa's Jussie Smollett | KQED","description":"Two perpetrators reportedly yelled racial and homophobic slurs and wrapped a rope around the victim's neck.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13849669/jussie-smollett-beaten-in-apparent-hate-crime-chicago-pd-releases-statement","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Update Jan. 30: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem>The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) \u003ca href=\"https://naacp.org/latest/naacp-statement-racist-homophobic-attack-jussie-smollett/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a statement\u003c/a> calling the attack on Smollett an act of “hate-based terrorism.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update Jan. 29: \u003c/strong>TMZ \u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2019/01/29/empire-star-jussie-smollett-attacked-hospitalized-homophobic-hate-crime/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed\u003c/a> Smollett received treatment at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and has since been discharged. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Update Feb. 20: \u003c/strong>Jussie Smollett \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/20/695974164/chicago-police-jussie-smollett-under-suspicion-of-filing-false-police-report\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been arrested\u003c/a> on charges of filing a false police report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Empire\u003c/em> cast member Jussie Smollett suffered injuries in Chicago around 2am Tuesday morning in a possible hate crime. The 35-year-old Santa Rosa-born actor and singer is best known for his role as Jamal Lyon in the hit Fox drama, and critics have hailed his performance as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/kelleylcarter/being-gay-and-black-on-tv-will-never-be-the-same\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">groundbreaking\u003c/a>” for his positive and nuanced depiction of a black gay man on television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chicago Police Department is calling the incident a possible “racially-charged assault and battery.” A statement released early Tuesday outlines the attack. The two perpetrators reportedly yelled racial and homophobic slurs at Smollett and wrapped a rope around his neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1090282533516906496"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2019/01/29/empire-star-jussie-smollett-attacked-hospitalized-homophobic-hate-crime/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ \u003c/a>reports that the attackers also yelled, “This is MAGA country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow celebrities and friends have shared their thoughts and wishes on social media for the Empire star’s recovery.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1090324824252133376"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1090305712864051200"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Even Kamala Harris shared her thoughts: “This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JussieSmollett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JussieSmollett\u003c/a> is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1090361495119187969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2019\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1090318501254840320"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Jan. 30, the NAACP \u003ca href=\"https://naacp.org/latest/naacp-statement-racist-homophobic-attack-jussie-smollett/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released a statement\u003c/a> calling the attack on Smollett an act of “hate-based terrorism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The recent racist and homophobic attack on acclaimed actor and activist Jussie Smollett is troubling. The rise in hate crimes is directly linked to President Donald J. Trump’s racist and xenophobic rhetoric. It is dangerous for any society to allow a tone of divisiveness and hatred to dominate the political discourse. As this rhetoric continues to bleed into our everyday lives, dangerous behavior will continue to place many law-abiding individuals at risk. We pray for a full physical and mental recovery Jussie Smollett and many unnamed victims of this forum of hate based terrorism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Derrick Johnson, NAACP President and CEO\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While the Chicago police have confirmed the attack on an \u003cem>Empire\u003c/em> cast member, they have not yet released his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is developing and will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13849669/jussie-smollett-beaten-in-apparent-hate-crime-chicago-pd-releases-statement","authors":["11357"],"programs":["arts_1272"],"categories":["arts_235","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_6475","arts_6535","arts_2457","arts_596"],"featImg":"arts_13849673","label":"arts_1272"},"arts_13830592":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13830592","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13830592","score":null,"sort":[1524791940000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-based-hip-hop-distributor-empire-inks-deal-with-universal-music","title":"SF-Based Hip-Hop Distributor Empire Inks Deal with Universal Music","publishDate":1524791940,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SF-Based Hip-Hop Distributor Empire Inks Deal with Universal Music | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1272,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://empi.re/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EMPIRE\u003c/a>, the San Francisco-based independent record distributor that’s worked with artists like Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q, has signed a deal with major label Universal Music Group (UMG), according to an announcement made Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The multi-year deal has EMPIRE providing “strategic distribution services to UMG’s labels and artists,” according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.universalmusic.com/universal-music-group-empire-form-strategic-distribution-agreement/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UMG press release\u003c/a>. The two companies plan to work together provide select UMG artists with EMPIRE’s distinct brand of promotion and delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unique blend of size and strength (Universal Music Group) combined with speed and ingenuity (EMPIRE) will be a force in the industry,” EMPIRE CEO Ghazi Shami told \u003ca href=\"https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.46618/title.universal-music-group-empire-enter-new-distribution-deal#\">HipHopDX\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Francisco University graduate, Shami founded EMPIRE in 2010 after working at INgrooves Music Group for four years and learning the business side of the music industry. Within two years, EMPIRE released recordings from Lamar, Snoop Dogg and Trinidad James, all of which charted on the Billboard US 200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, EMPIRE has supported the careers of artists like Philthy Rich, Berner, Rayana Jay, ALLBLACK and Rexx Life Raj, and Bay Area labels like Text Me Records. Last year, the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13808533\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">came under fire\u003c/a> for working with XXXtentacion, a rapper charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman and domestic battery by strangulation, whose album \u003cem>17\u003c/em> nonetheless charted at No. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 profile \u003ca href=\"https://hiphopdx.com/editorials/id.3180/title.empire-the-music-industrys-quiet-giant\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on HipHopDX\u003c/a>, Shami credits EMPIRE’s success to its digital distribution and royalty system, as well as their use of non-exclusive deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ghazi always said ‘If you take someone into your home and tie them to the couch and say you have to sit here, he’s gonna wanna get up. But if you welcome him and say have a seat, stay as long as you want and do right by him, chances are he’s not going to want to leave,'” Nima Etminan, EMPIRE’s vice president of operations, told HipHopDX.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, EMPIRE announced it had expanded its staff. Among the recent hires was EMPIRE’s new vice president of A&R, Tina Davis, who spent a decade Def Jam records and is Chris Brown’s former manager. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/empire-strikes-global-distribution-services-deal-with-universal-music-group-1202786604/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety also reports\u003c/a> that EMPIRE signed a deal with Hitco Entertainment, the new record label founded by ex-Epic Records head L.A. Reid. The first release EMPIRE will help Hitco distribute is the new album from Big Boi of Outkast. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The multi-year deal has the San Francisco company providing 'strategic distribution services to [Universal's] labels and artists.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705027990,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":414},"headData":{"title":"SF-Based Hip-Hop Distributor Empire Inks Deal with Universal Music | KQED","description":"The multi-year deal has the San Francisco company providing 'strategic distribution services to labels and artists.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13830592/sf-based-hip-hop-distributor-empire-inks-deal-with-universal-music","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://empi.re/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EMPIRE\u003c/a>, the San Francisco-based independent record distributor that’s worked with artists like Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q, has signed a deal with major label Universal Music Group (UMG), according to an announcement made Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The multi-year deal has EMPIRE providing “strategic distribution services to UMG’s labels and artists,” according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.universalmusic.com/universal-music-group-empire-form-strategic-distribution-agreement/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UMG press release\u003c/a>. The two companies plan to work together provide select UMG artists with EMPIRE’s distinct brand of promotion and delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The unique blend of size and strength (Universal Music Group) combined with speed and ingenuity (EMPIRE) will be a force in the industry,” EMPIRE CEO Ghazi Shami told \u003ca href=\"https://hiphopdx.com/news/id.46618/title.universal-music-group-empire-enter-new-distribution-deal#\">HipHopDX\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A San Francisco University graduate, Shami founded EMPIRE in 2010 after working at INgrooves Music Group for four years and learning the business side of the music industry. Within two years, EMPIRE released recordings from Lamar, Snoop Dogg and Trinidad James, all of which charted on the Billboard US 200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, EMPIRE has supported the careers of artists like Philthy Rich, Berner, Rayana Jay, ALLBLACK and Rexx Life Raj, and Bay Area labels like Text Me Records. Last year, the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13808533\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">came under fire\u003c/a> for working with XXXtentacion, a rapper charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman and domestic battery by strangulation, whose album \u003cem>17\u003c/em> nonetheless charted at No. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 profile \u003ca href=\"https://hiphopdx.com/editorials/id.3180/title.empire-the-music-industrys-quiet-giant\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on HipHopDX\u003c/a>, Shami credits EMPIRE’s success to its digital distribution and royalty system, as well as their use of non-exclusive deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ghazi always said ‘If you take someone into your home and tie them to the couch and say you have to sit here, he’s gonna wanna get up. But if you welcome him and say have a seat, stay as long as you want and do right by him, chances are he’s not going to want to leave,'” Nima Etminan, EMPIRE’s vice president of operations, told HipHopDX.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, EMPIRE announced it had expanded its staff. Among the recent hires was EMPIRE’s new vice president of A&R, Tina Davis, who spent a decade Def Jam records and is Chris Brown’s former manager. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/empire-strikes-global-distribution-services-deal-with-universal-music-group-1202786604/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety also reports\u003c/a> that EMPIRE signed a deal with Hitco Entertainment, the new record label founded by ex-Epic Records head L.A. Reid. The first release EMPIRE will help Hitco distribute is the new album from Big Boi of Outkast. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13830592/sf-based-hip-hop-distributor-empire-inks-deal-with-universal-music","authors":["93"],"programs":["arts_1272"],"categories":["arts_69","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_2457","arts_4648","arts_746"],"featImg":"arts_13830607","label":"arts_1272"},"arts_13808533":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13808533","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13808533","score":null,"sort":[1505433957000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-music-industry-needs-to-hold-alleged-abusers-like-xxxtentacion-accountable","title":"The Music Industry Needs to Hold Alleged Abusers Like XXXTentacion Accountable","publishDate":1505433957,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Music Industry Needs to Hold Alleged Abusers Like XXXTentacion Accountable | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Prior to Pitchfork publishing gruesome details from \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/xxxtentacions-reported-victim-details-grim-pattern-of-abuse-in-testimony/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XXXtentacion’s accuser’s deposition\u003c/a> last Friday, many in the music industry regarded allegations of domestic violence against the rapper as an inconvenient detail that, while unsettling, was easy to ignore. After all, his album, \u003cem>17\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/on-the-charts-lil-uzi-vert-xxxtentacion-take-top-two-spots-w501076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart\u003c/a>; the rapper (whose real name is Jahseh Onfroy) was also featured on \u003ca href=\"http://freshman.xxlmag.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>XXL’s\u003c/em> Freshman 15 list\u003c/a>, positioning him as a rising star. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pitchfork’s extensive report cast a shadow on XXXTentacion’s successful year: The deposition spelled out an alleged pattern of violence and torture, details of which culminate with XXXTentacion kidnapping his then-girlfriend and holding her prisoner in a North Miami Beach apartment. He now faces charges for aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness-tampering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These gruesome details should be a wake-up call for industry gatekeepers, whose continued silence on the matter is deafening. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13808602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"XXXTentacion's latest album, '17,' was released by San Francisco-based Empire. \" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13808602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-800x516.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-768x495.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-240x155.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-375x242.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-520x335.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">XXXTentacion’s latest album, ’17,’ was released by San Francisco-based Empire. \u003ccite>(@EMPIRE / IG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The debate of whether we should separate art from artist is a long and sticky one: How many of us are disturbed by the accusations of sexual abuse against R. Kelly but still can’t help but “Step in the Name of Love”? And how many of us forget Rihanna’s bruised face when we hum along to Chris Brown’s “Loyal”? For many, it’s difficult to sever allegiance to an artist after years or even decades of fandom. Our love of these artists’ work, coupled with implicit gender bias, often prevents us from holding them accountable. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Right now, the wheels of the music industry are turning to make viral upstarts like XXXTentacion into idols through record deals, PR campaigns, and prominent bookings.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But this pattern of normalizing domestic violence and sexual abuse in the entertainment industry has to end somewhere. Perhaps the generations of people raised on R. Kelly will never fully turn their backs on his music. But people in powerful positions in today’s industry also have a responsibility not to make icons out of a new generation of abusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well before his accuser’s deposition was published on Pitchfork, it was known that XXXTentacion faced an October trial for allegedly beating a pregnant woman. And yet the San Francisco record label \u003ca href=\"https://www.empi.re/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empire\u003c/a> — whose roster includes progressive, feminist singer Goapele — still put out \u003cem>17\u003c/em>. (Empire did not respond to KQED’s request for comment about the future of its relationship with XXXTentacion.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, the rap tour \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolling Loud\u003c/a>, which makes its Bay Area stop at Shoreline Pavilion on Oct. 21–22, features XXXTentacion and two other accused abusers: Famous Dex and Kodak Black. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.complex.com/music/2016/09/shocking-footage-shows-famous-dex-assaulting-woman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveillance video\u003c/a> circulated last year of Famous Dex chasing and beating a woman in a hallway; and there’s an \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefader.com/2016/11/30/kodak-blacks-sexual-battery-accusation-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ongoing sexual battery case\u003c/a> against Kodak Black along with \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefader.com/2017/04/05/kodak-black-assault-miami-strip-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new allegations of him assaulting a female bartender\u003c/a> at a Miami strip club. (The organizers of Rolling Loud also did not comment on the matter when contacted by KQED.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13808601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kodak Black attends the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 27, 2017 in Inglewood, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13808601\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kodak Black attends the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 27, 2017 in Inglewood, California. \u003ccite>(Rich Fury/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These artists have faced some backlash — most notably from comedian \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7934250/eric-andre-comedian-twitter-rant-kodak-black-xxxtentacion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Andre\u003c/a> — but their careers have continued almost undisturbed. Part of the reason is that XXXTentacion, Kodak Black, and Famous Dex’s followings skew largely young and male. And in a country \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/us/california-high-schools-sexual-consent-classes.html?mcubz=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that lacks progressive, consent-based sex education\u003c/a>, those fans might not fully comprehend the gravity of the allegations. But the onus is not solely on the fans: right now, the wheels of the music industry are turning to make viral upstarts like XXXTentacion into idols through record deals, PR campaigns, and prominent bookings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one thing for a viral Soundcloud hit like “Look At Me” to propel XXXTentacion into the public eye. But festival curators, record executives, and editors at tastemaking publications like \u003cem>XXL\u003c/em> have the power to turn a fleeting 15 minutes of viral fame into a long-term, mainstream career, and they need to wield that power wisely. There are plenty of other buzzed-about, up-and-coming artists who haven’t been accused of domestic violence or sexual assault who industry gatekeepers can choose for these lucrative, career-defining opportunities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13808618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/xxxtentacion.gif\" alt=\"XXXTentacion during his XXL Freshman Freestyle.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13808618\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">XXXTentacion during his XXL Freshman Freestyle.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Booking a show or running a music label is an imperfect science, but it involves a lot of really deliberate decisions,” said Will Bundy, the co-founder of culture blog \u003ca href=\"http://wineandbowties.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wine & Bowties\u003c/a> and its popular Oakland festival, Feels. “When you see XXX on a bill — or you see Famous Dex, or you see R. Kelly on a bill — someone is writing a check. You’re making the conscious decision to put money in that person’s pocket. If you have the luxury of choice and a big budget, I can’t imagine why you’d feel like you can’t avoid people who do these disgusting things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hip-hop is a notoriously male-dominated industry, so male artists who use their platforms to speak out against gender-based violence can have a powerful impact. For instance, rape accusations against A$AP Mob-adjacent fashion stylist Ian Connor went largely ignored — despite the fact that several alleged victims came forward — \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefader.com/2016/06/23/theophilus-london-calls-ian-connor-rapist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">until rapper Theophilus London called him out\u003c/a> on Twitter last year. The beef with London — and the press it generated — made Connor’s name synonymous with sexual assault, and Connor has since receded from the public eye. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the release of his accuser’s deposition on Pitchfork, public condemnation of XXXTentacion has become louder. Stefan Aguilar, a.k.a. DJ Aux Cord of the popular Bay Area DJ collective \u003ca href=\"http://anotherpartyfam.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another Party Fam\u003c/a>, tweeted that he will personally unplug the laptop of any DJ who plays XXXTentacion or Kodak Black at his parties, which draw thousands of attendees every first Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AYE \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/xxxtentacion\">@XXXTENTACION\u003c/a> AND \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KodakBlack1k\">@KODAKBLACK1K\u003c/a> CAN NO LONGER BE PLAYED AT \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AnotherPartyFam\">@ANOTHERPARTYFAM\u003c/a> PARTIES – I WILL PERSONALLY UNPLUG YOUR LAPTOP IF YOU TRY!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— DJ AUX CORD (@heyauxcord) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/heyauxcord/status/906353381802782720\">September 9, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Aguilar had known about the domestic abuse allegations, but “I didn’t know how heavy it was ’til I read the article that just came out,” he said when reached by phone. “The biggest thing is that the majority of our guests are women. And we have girls in our collective, so we have to make sure that everyone is comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Abuse is so ‘normal’ in the music industry,” tweeted Richmond singer Rayana Jay the day the deposition was published on Pitchfork, adding that “It’s a cycle that’s been going on forever. [It] has to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Abuse is so \"normal\" in the music industry and it's fucking sickening. It's a cycle that's been going on forever. Has to stop\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— BAD MOM (@RayanaJay) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RayanaJay/status/906268315491852288\">September 8, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As for XXXTentacion, he still hasn’t shown remorse — or indicated in any way that he takes domestic violence seriously. He responded to the allegations with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vibe.com/2017/09/xxxtentacion-disturbing-response-domestic-abuse/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an explicit Instagram video\u003c/a> where he threatened his accusers with more sexual violence. “I’ma f–k y’all little sisters in they throats, I swear to God. I swear to God, everybody that called me a domestic abuser, I’m finna domestically abuse y’all little sister p—y from the back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His response speaks for itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/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\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Florida rapper faces charges for aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation and more. He also has industry support and the No. 2 album in the country.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705029532,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1305},"headData":{"title":"The Music Industry Needs to Hold Alleged Abusers Like XXXTentacion Accountable | KQED","description":"The Florida rapper faces charges for aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation and more. He also has industry support and the No. 2 album in the country.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"path":"/arts/13808533/the-music-industry-needs-to-hold-alleged-abusers-like-xxxtentacion-accountable","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Prior to Pitchfork publishing gruesome details from \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/xxxtentacions-reported-victim-details-grim-pattern-of-abuse-in-testimony/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XXXtentacion’s accuser’s deposition\u003c/a> last Friday, many in the music industry regarded allegations of domestic violence against the rapper as an inconvenient detail that, while unsettling, was easy to ignore. After all, his album, \u003cem>17\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/on-the-charts-lil-uzi-vert-xxxtentacion-take-top-two-spots-w501076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart\u003c/a>; the rapper (whose real name is Jahseh Onfroy) was also featured on \u003ca href=\"http://freshman.xxlmag.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>XXL’s\u003c/em> Freshman 15 list\u003c/a>, positioning him as a rising star. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pitchfork’s extensive report cast a shadow on XXXTentacion’s successful year: The deposition spelled out an alleged pattern of violence and torture, details of which culminate with XXXTentacion kidnapping his then-girlfriend and holding her prisoner in a North Miami Beach apartment. He now faces charges for aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness-tampering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These gruesome details should be a wake-up call for industry gatekeepers, whose continued silence on the matter is deafening. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13808602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"XXXTentacion's latest album, '17,' was released by San Francisco-based Empire. \" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13808602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-800x516.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-768x495.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-240x155.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-375x242.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion-520x335.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/Empire.XXXtentacion.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">XXXTentacion’s latest album, ’17,’ was released by San Francisco-based Empire. \u003ccite>(@EMPIRE / IG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The debate of whether we should separate art from artist is a long and sticky one: How many of us are disturbed by the accusations of sexual abuse against R. Kelly but still can’t help but “Step in the Name of Love”? And how many of us forget Rihanna’s bruised face when we hum along to Chris Brown’s “Loyal”? For many, it’s difficult to sever allegiance to an artist after years or even decades of fandom. Our love of these artists’ work, coupled with implicit gender bias, often prevents us from holding them accountable. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Right now, the wheels of the music industry are turning to make viral upstarts like XXXTentacion into idols through record deals, PR campaigns, and prominent bookings.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But this pattern of normalizing domestic violence and sexual abuse in the entertainment industry has to end somewhere. Perhaps the generations of people raised on R. Kelly will never fully turn their backs on his music. But people in powerful positions in today’s industry also have a responsibility not to make icons out of a new generation of abusers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well before his accuser’s deposition was published on Pitchfork, it was known that XXXTentacion faced an October trial for allegedly beating a pregnant woman. And yet the San Francisco record label \u003ca href=\"https://www.empi.re/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empire\u003c/a> — whose roster includes progressive, feminist singer Goapele — still put out \u003cem>17\u003c/em>. (Empire did not respond to KQED’s request for comment about the future of its relationship with XXXTentacion.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, the rap tour \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolling Loud\u003c/a>, which makes its Bay Area stop at Shoreline Pavilion on Oct. 21–22, features XXXTentacion and two other accused abusers: Famous Dex and Kodak Black. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.complex.com/music/2016/09/shocking-footage-shows-famous-dex-assaulting-woman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surveillance video\u003c/a> circulated last year of Famous Dex chasing and beating a woman in a hallway; and there’s an \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefader.com/2016/11/30/kodak-blacks-sexual-battery-accusation-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ongoing sexual battery case\u003c/a> against Kodak Black along with \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefader.com/2017/04/05/kodak-black-assault-miami-strip-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new allegations of him assaulting a female bartender\u003c/a> at a Miami strip club. (The organizers of Rolling Loud also did not comment on the matter when contacted by KQED.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13808601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kodak Black attends the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 27, 2017 in Inglewood, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13808601\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/KodakBlack.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kodak Black attends the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 27, 2017 in Inglewood, California. \u003ccite>(Rich Fury/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These artists have faced some backlash — most notably from comedian \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7934250/eric-andre-comedian-twitter-rant-kodak-black-xxxtentacion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eric Andre\u003c/a> — but their careers have continued almost undisturbed. Part of the reason is that XXXTentacion, Kodak Black, and Famous Dex’s followings skew largely young and male. And in a country \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/us/california-high-schools-sexual-consent-classes.html?mcubz=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that lacks progressive, consent-based sex education\u003c/a>, those fans might not fully comprehend the gravity of the allegations. But the onus is not solely on the fans: right now, the wheels of the music industry are turning to make viral upstarts like XXXTentacion into idols through record deals, PR campaigns, and prominent bookings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one thing for a viral Soundcloud hit like “Look At Me” to propel XXXTentacion into the public eye. But festival curators, record executives, and editors at tastemaking publications like \u003cem>XXL\u003c/em> have the power to turn a fleeting 15 minutes of viral fame into a long-term, mainstream career, and they need to wield that power wisely. There are plenty of other buzzed-about, up-and-coming artists who haven’t been accused of domestic violence or sexual assault who industry gatekeepers can choose for these lucrative, career-defining opportunities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13808618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/09/xxxtentacion.gif\" alt=\"XXXTentacion during his XXL Freshman Freestyle.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13808618\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">XXXTentacion during his XXL Freshman Freestyle.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Booking a show or running a music label is an imperfect science, but it involves a lot of really deliberate decisions,” said Will Bundy, the co-founder of culture blog \u003ca href=\"http://wineandbowties.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wine & Bowties\u003c/a> and its popular Oakland festival, Feels. “When you see XXX on a bill — or you see Famous Dex, or you see R. Kelly on a bill — someone is writing a check. You’re making the conscious decision to put money in that person’s pocket. If you have the luxury of choice and a big budget, I can’t imagine why you’d feel like you can’t avoid people who do these disgusting things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hip-hop is a notoriously male-dominated industry, so male artists who use their platforms to speak out against gender-based violence can have a powerful impact. For instance, rape accusations against A$AP Mob-adjacent fashion stylist Ian Connor went largely ignored — despite the fact that several alleged victims came forward — \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefader.com/2016/06/23/theophilus-london-calls-ian-connor-rapist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">until rapper Theophilus London called him out\u003c/a> on Twitter last year. The beef with London — and the press it generated — made Connor’s name synonymous with sexual assault, and Connor has since receded from the public eye. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the release of his accuser’s deposition on Pitchfork, public condemnation of XXXTentacion has become louder. Stefan Aguilar, a.k.a. DJ Aux Cord of the popular Bay Area DJ collective \u003ca href=\"http://anotherpartyfam.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another Party Fam\u003c/a>, tweeted that he will personally unplug the laptop of any DJ who plays XXXTentacion or Kodak Black at his parties, which draw thousands of attendees every first Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AYE \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/xxxtentacion\">@XXXTENTACION\u003c/a> AND \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KodakBlack1k\">@KODAKBLACK1K\u003c/a> CAN NO LONGER BE PLAYED AT \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AnotherPartyFam\">@ANOTHERPARTYFAM\u003c/a> PARTIES – I WILL PERSONALLY UNPLUG YOUR LAPTOP IF YOU TRY!!!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— DJ AUX CORD (@heyauxcord) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/heyauxcord/status/906353381802782720\">September 9, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Aguilar had known about the domestic abuse allegations, but “I didn’t know how heavy it was ’til I read the article that just came out,” he said when reached by phone. “The biggest thing is that the majority of our guests are women. And we have girls in our collective, so we have to make sure that everyone is comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Abuse is so ‘normal’ in the music industry,” tweeted Richmond singer Rayana Jay the day the deposition was published on Pitchfork, adding that “It’s a cycle that’s been going on forever. [It] has to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Abuse is so \"normal\" in the music industry and it's fucking sickening. It's a cycle that's been going on forever. Has to stop\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— BAD MOM (@RayanaJay) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RayanaJay/status/906268315491852288\">September 8, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As for XXXTentacion, he still hasn’t shown remorse — or indicated in any way that he takes domestic violence seriously. He responded to the allegations with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vibe.com/2017/09/xxxtentacion-disturbing-response-domestic-abuse/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an explicit Instagram video\u003c/a> where he threatened his accusers with more sexual violence. “I’ma f–k y’all little sisters in they throats, I swear to God. 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