feature: jpegmafia sends warning shots to offenders in his banging track ‘you think you know’

If Straight Outta Compton has taught you anything, it’s that the distrust of police and/or all those who seek not to help but to hurt the POC has always been there. That distrust runs deep into the sound of Baltimore producer/rapper JPEGMAFIA, including his epic first album Communist Slow Jams and Darkskin Manson tape. He also produced ‘I’m Alive (Humanized)’ the latest track by queer rapper Abdu Ali. But JPEGMAFIA’s new track from his upcoming mixtape Black Ben Carson is a warning in of itself. Where others once heard a gangsta track aimed at anyone, JPEGMAFIA himself draws ire from hipsters, trust fund kids and house or modern-day field slaves. All of this over hard hitting drums and psychedelic, noisy backgrounds that will loosely remind people of a certain band whose initials surround E and F. (“hint”: Death Grips)

By Lightning Pill, AFROPUNK Contributor

* Lightning Pill is a blogger, poet, singer-songwriter, composer, Aspie, etc. from Dorchester, MA. You can reach him at www.twitter.com/LightningPill or visit his Afropunk website. His Soundcloud can be found here and his main Bandcamp found here. Also here for the new agers.