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Paxico Records Limited Edition Cassette Tapes

“Very refreshing, well thought out soulful production.”
–Karriem Riggins

“Exotic cuisines from distant lands. Raw foods for the soul.”
–Mndsgn

“Paxico has been doing great things for awhile now. Malik’s album is another example.”
–House Shoes

“This is the project I hoped he would bless us with.”
–Count Bass D

Kendrick Lamar - "Love + Me + You" [Malik flip]

it’s been some years since i made my last trip up to @massmoca and, once again, i was not disappointed. i took in a great deal to reflect on....but hats off to #tarynsimon for the most hard body installation that i’ve seen in a while. i did volunteer for the plunge, but open enrollment + selection for the 30 degree dip is only on weekends. i did get to see two of today’s performances, tho. 🏊🏼‍♀️❄️🥶

broke my IG fast to recap my favorite xmas tradition. 🎅🏾🎁🎄🍤🥟✨👌🏾 #merryxmas #shrimpdumplings

truly Blessed to have met and befriended a whole bunch of people who are amazing artists that inspire the hell outta me. @moma_ready is one such person. one of my favorite DJs, a damned good producer and a Taurus + Leo rising like me. what’s not love about him? he just dropped a new project (for free) on @bandcamp called Body 18. head to his bio for the link, grab your headphones and enjoy. riding this wave into the new year. oh....and keep your eye on this one. in 2019 he gonna blooooooowwwwww 🌋 ✨👌🏾🎧

take me baaaaaaaaack. #tbt to a much more agreeable climate.

reflection. life moves. literally. been through a lot. still here. so much more to come. 📷: @gaspar_muniz

history. his story. another 2019 goal that i am setting for myself is the study and reopening of a louisiana supreme court case that dates back well over a century. this is americus watson. he was my great grandfather’s grandfather. his step-father’s name was thomas barber and his mother’s name was dorcus barber. americus’ son’s name was woodley. several years ago my mother told me a story about our family and the area in northern louisiana that we come from. when woodley was around 14-years old a white mob attempted to lynch him and another cousin, who was around 12 to 13-years old. both are mentioned in this case. in order to stop this from happening, americus had to sign over nearly 500 acres of land belonging to him and thomas barber. on the spot. that same afternoon. no trial. no time to hire any kind of legal defense. no right to any kind of process that resembled any kind of ‘justice’. americus later attempted to get back some of the land by raising a legal challenge in court. the case eventually made its way to the state supreme court but the handover of the land was deemed lawful and, therefore, was upheld. that story stayed lodged in my mind for a few years and recently i became interested in it again. so, i did some digging online, found a book on louisiana court cases and - lo and behold - found this very case. it was real. it actually happened. i also learned about the equal justice initiative’s somewhat recent collaboration with google at brooklyn museum which focused on lynchings around america and how they were used to grab countless acres of land and, thus, disenfranchise generations of black folks while giving poor whites a massive leg up on the socio-economic ladder. this is real. and this is what the roots of inequality in america look like. i plan to reach out to the EJI in january. if any of you out there know of any resources (especially legal) that i can utilize, please let me know. i don’t speak legal-ese but the wording in these documents is......off. really off. and confusing as hell. this is something that i would really like to explore and hopefully, eventually take up for an appeal for my mother and the rest of my family.