All day all I’ve been thinking about is getting home and listening to some Saul Williams interviews and poems. Aside from Coded Language and Amethyst Rock I stumbled across this interview with 247HH and I really enjoyed his perspective on where music is, and where artists should be trying to take it to. I agree wholeheartedly with his assertion that in America everything is -to a substantial degree -driven by our own aesthetic, which isn’t necessarily terrible, it just isn’t conducive to the growth of any of our genres. Like most of his work, this was truly eye-opening.

What is wealth? This documentary is apart of a Netflix original titled: Explained. It seeks to explain what the racial wealth gap is… what it consists of… and what it means to African Americans. As I watched some of the usual glaring threats to the creation of black wealth: generational wealth inequality, misunderstanding of housing power, red lining, subprime loans (loans that start small but balloon towards the end), targeting black churches, Senator Cory Bookers family sets up a sting operation, in an effort to cash-in on that power and the story was transformative for him and his family. Fox news and Cnn both chime in briefly with their takes…