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Video: Nimsins "Pray For Me"

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Video: Nimsins "Pray For Me"

Nimsins drops the first of a 5 video series from his latest release "It's Been a Long Time Since I cried" EP.  Produced by @J.Goldtomb and Directed by @ericBui. Listen to the EP in it's entirety HERE. Oakland art at it's finest. Tune in. 

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Video: Fantastic Negrito "A Boy Named Andrew" (Directed by Freddy Macdonald)

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Video: Fantastic Negrito "A Boy Named Andrew" (Directed by Freddy Macdonald)

Fantastic Negrito presents new visuals for his Grammy Award winning Best Contemporary Blues Album "Please Don't Be Dead" (his first Grammy for 2016's "The Last Days of Oakland"). "A Boy Named Andrew" takes the viewer through a series of Negrito's tour/concert performances as well as back stage footage, a day in the life of the artist bringing a different angle on contemporary Blues. Oakland represented to the fullest, tune in.  On the release, Negrito states, “I was ‘A Boy Named Andrew.’ I grew up in foster care feeling like an outsider, and I wanted to write a song about it –...

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Video: No I.D. on the Making of Jay-Z’s 4:44 Album | Red Bull Music Academy

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Video: No I.D. on the Making of Jay-Z’s 4:44 Album | Red Bull Music Academy

Chicago producer No I.D. recalls how Jay-Z’s 4:44 album came to be from conversations about work over art to flooding the rapper’s inbox with beats.

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