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Coming back to this today and it’s still so good.

“Some of the older teenage Black guys in the community were Five Percenters—a Muslim offshoot—and for whatever reason, the ones we knew were big into rock. That’s how I first got exposed to Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. The Beatles were inescapable. ”

The brothers/the brotherhood was down with it from time. Diverse music exposure from childhood.

“My dad appreciated the quality of a Catholic education—at least compared to the public-school options in Bed-Stuy. But he was not feeling the religious part of it. So at school, I would hear about the Immaculate Conception; at the dinner table, I would hear about dialectical materialism. ”

So we had the same dad? Bet. 🤣

“One of the records I played so much I nearly wore it out was Max’s We Insist!, featuring his “Freedom Now Suite.” Every time I listened to that record, I would stare at the cover. …. The image didn’t look like any other album cover I’d seen. The vibe felt serious and unusual..”

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/we-i...