#blck vnyl

THE MANY ALIASES AND FACES OF ANDRE 3000. 

I love my job but it is backbreaking (hurt my back today), redundant, dirty, dusty, filled with scary dark moldy places, spiders, cut up fingers, early mornings, late nights, long hours, psychological ups and downs scoring a collection or missing out on a collection, and lots of heavy lifting. Make sure to thank your local record store/dealer/online seller for all the hard work they put into finding, sorting, cleaning, and pricing records for everyone. Seeing people walk out the door stoked on the Records they got makes it all worthwhile! Thank you for all your support over the last 23 years of selling vinyl records! Wouldn’t trade my trade for the world, maybe a different planet ruled by cats but not the world!

The funk of the Afro Rock Funk band, the Funkees is on in my headphones, and I must say, this is some seriously heavy, groove shit if you fux with Fela. 

Drop a comment and let a brotha know if you jive with it. I love sharing this work, so thanks in advance for letting me know. 

Peace

Detroit’s #NewDanceShow was a public access television show that cast a spotlight on the Black and LGBTQ working class folk, as house music was still an underground phenomenon that the world had never seen or heard before.

Quite a fascinating documentary in retrospect, as it gave Black and non-binary folk a safe and social space to ‘lose’ themselves (the status quo) to the music, while reaching city-size scale in their own environment. An ode to Soul Train, indeed.

These are the historical reminders how we have always used music as a social, and in some ways, political outlet. Where we have been innovators in the midst of social inequity, and from it, creating social movements and international contagions.