cripchick's blog

API folks are doin’ their thing!

i first fell in love w/ senbei’s work when i stumbled upon Everything Is Illuminated, a song about love and a guy coming out to his best friend. having had that on repeat for MONTHS (itunes says i’ve played it 56 times…would you allow me to collapse my truths in your arms? embrace my liberation, cut my makings into your palms?… okay don’t get me started), i was super excited to see that he dropped a mixtape yesterday!

anyways, how many people do you know dedicate their work to queer women of color on the first track? yeah. click the pic and go download.

From his blog:
“I am a Japanese/Scottish/Native-Amerikan 80’s baby from Richmond, California. My loves/interests are Hip-Hop, Basketball, Books, Equity & Social Justice, Education, Community Activism/Organizing, Writing, Film, Music and all Women/GLBTQ/Non-Christians/Immigrants/People of Color/Poor & Working-Class people being free. Every act of love is a revolutionary act. Every revolutionary act is an act of love. Holla if ya hear me.”

From track 7, titled Mixed President:
“All my life people saying that I “wasn’t really Black” / I don’t fit into a box, now I fit in with Barack, Barack, Barack President Barackdaimean?! / I don’t fit into box, so I guess you can’t trap me, “so man, what are you?” that’s what everybody asked me / well actually I was never down with being fractionally divided, plus you don’t ever just see the half of me / half white, half Black, half that, it’s all crap. whole human being here to fill the gaps / now you can talk “this” and haters can talk “that” but my President is mixed and homie that is all fact…”> -senbei and slavename