In November 2017, rapper Joyner Lucas released a song called “I’m Not A Racist”. Many people were praising it as a meeting of the minds or a walk in my shoes (see things from the other side’s perspective) regarding Donald Trump supporters and from what I could see just an average African American youth. Reflecting on it in 2023 as we approach the 2024 United States presidential election and taking a look at the global landscape on this 50th anniversary of hip hop, this is undoubtedly one of the most vapidly shortsighted and utterly gross records in rap.
Balconies as design components
I was in Tel Aviv earlier this year and took the Bauhaus tour around the ‘White City’. A UNESCO heritage site of over 4,000…