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Adrian Spinelli April 29, 2021Updated: April 29, 2021, 6:51 pm
Oakland musician Fantastic Negrito and his band pose before performing the score during the screening of “Lost Landscapes: Oakland” at Fort Mason Flix during the 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival. Photo: Pamela Gentile / SFFilm
This week’s Chronicle’s guide covers new music by notable Bay Area artists.
Zion I and Fantastic Negrito, “Try & Try” (Mind Over Matter)
Two pillars of the Oakland music scene have teamed up for this latest release amid the pandemic. As he has done for decades, Zion I’s Baba Zumbi opens with a dizzying, socially conscious flow, spitting, “Not concerned with celebrity/ I’d rather have liberty and justice in the city/ it’s a pity, they don’t trust us.” Three-time Grammy winner Fantastic Negrito adds a funky blues hook that highlights their take on community when we need it most.
Fantastic Negrito raps about Storefront Records, his new label and community space in West Oakland
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Freedom has come to Xavier Dphrepaulezz.
It has come not through his third Grammy, won last month for his third studio album as alter ego Fantastic Negrito; not from the key to the city of Oakland given to him by Mayor Libby Schaff in 2020. It s come not from the fame and recognition showered on Dphrepaulezz since erupting onto the music scene after winning NPR s Tiny Desk Concert in 2015 but from a former liquor store on a forgotten corner of West Oakland in a neighborhood the musician once called home.