Getting Your Shit Together

Leon Uris (via street-sense)

Not every rapper is an MC, and not every MC is a lyricist. There are great songs with stupid lyrics, and lyricists who have never made great songs. It’s usually the beat that grabs you first. Sometimes it’s the hook. But for the true hip hop fan, it’s the verses that bring it home. A verse could...

Happy National Coffee Day!

On this day in 1991, legendary jazz musician Miles Davis died. Remember his life, career and music with this set of rare photographs

The collection of 10 illustrations cover a wide-spectrum of the little moments – the struggles, the simple pleasures, the risks, the irony, the humor, the hopes, and the realities of the American life that maybe isn’t quite so cookie cutter. For me, this was a rare privilege to both work with an insanely talented person as well as learn an IMMENSE amount in the process of creating scenes completely outside of my bubble. All of these are available as extremely limited edition, signed, numbered, archival art prints at royalty.samspratt.com and a video interview on the project with Complex/Masked Gorilla is here.  A huge thanks to Funfere Koroye, who assisted and modelled for me on “Summer” and “Royalty”