J.I.D Just Made A Track That Only Five People Will Hear
We talked to the Atlanta rapper about his custom track for 5 Gum's Hip-Hop 50 celebration
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We talked to the Atlanta rapper about his custom track for 5 Gum's Hip-Hop 50 celebration
The role of the artists is not to leave you clues that lead you to what they intend to convey with art
Black Thought. Photo: Erica Génécé. In 2016, wearing a white shirt with tiny embroidered roses, Black Thought centered himself in front of a whispering audience at the Harvard Innovation Labs. He had just finished a conversation with host Michael Keohane about the hand-painted clothing he’d made as a young artist, his rise within rap music, and his eventual aspirations as an actor. To the delight of the campus crowd, he asked, “I can kick a rhyme?” Nudging up his glasses, he then unleashed five minutes of complex stanzas, double entendres, and expository verses. Somewhere within t...