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78452589 | Play | An Honest Man | 04:06 Tools | |
88444432 | Play | PLASTIC HAMBURGERS | 03:37 Tools | |
78452590 | Play | WORKING POOR | 04:00 Tools | |
78452597 | Play | HUMP THRU THE WINTER | 03:54 Tools | |
78452591 | Play | Lost in a Crowd | 05:00 Tools | |
88444438 | Play | BULLSHIT ANTHEM | 03:15 Tools | |
88444433 | Play | The Duffler | 03:39 Tools | |
78452592 | Play | Night Has Turned To Day | 02:40 Tools | |
78452593 | Play | ABOUT A BIRD | 03:39 Tools | |
88444435 | Play | BAD GUY NECESSITY | 03:58 Tools | |
78452610 | Play | In the Pines (Oakland) | 04:19 Tools | |
78452594 | Play | SCARY WOMAN | 03:10 Tools | |
88444436 | Play | A LETTER TO FEAR | 04:04 Tools | |
88444439 | Play | A BOY NAMED ANDREW | 04:22 Tools | |
78452601 | Play | Nothing Without You | 04:15 Tools | |
88444447 | Play | Bad Guy Necessity - Acoustic | 00:00 Tools | |
78452596 | Play | A New Beginning | 03:32 Tools | |
78452600 | Play | Rant Rushmore | 05:01 Tools | |
88444440 | Play | TRANSGENDER BISCUITS | 03:02 Tools | |
78452595 | Play | The Time Has Come | 03:29 Tools | |
78452599 | Play | The Nigga Song | 03:16 Tools | |
88444434 | Play | Plastic Hambugers | 03:37 Tools | |
78452598 | Play | THE WORST | 03:51 Tools | |
88444441 | Play | The Suit That Won't Come Off | 00:00 Tools | |
88444442 | Play | A Cold November Street | 00:00 Tools | |
88444443 | Play | DARK WINDOWS | 00:00 Tools | |
78452612 | Play | Push Back | 03:53 Tools | |
88444444 | Play | Never Give Up | 00:00 Tools | |
78452602 | Play | She Don't Cry No More | 04:00 Tools | |
78452607 | Play | Nobody Makes Money | 04:01 Tools | |
78452613 | Play | The Shadows | 00:00 Tools | |
88444437 | Play | In The Pines | 04:19 Tools | |
78452621 | Play | Intro - The Last Days of Oakland | 00:00 Tools | |
78452606 | Play | A Long Long Road | 03:36 Tools | |
78452624 | Play | Interlude - What Would You Do? | 00:00 Tools | |
90098116 | Play | The Duffler - Acoustic | 00:00 Tools | |
78452608 | Play | Fever | 04:27 Tools | |
78452626 | Play | Interlude 2 - El Chileno | 00:00 Tools | |
88444446 | Play | Dark Windows - Acoustic | 00:00 Tools | |
78452604 | Play | In the Pines - Oakland | 04:19 Tools | |
78452605 | Play | Last Days of Oakland - Intro | 00:35 Tools | |
78452609 | Play | What Do You Do - Interlude 1 | 01:19 Tools | |
78452611 | Play | El Chileno - Interlude 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
78452619 | Play | The Time Has Come (Unplugged) | 00:00 Tools | |
78452617 | Play | What Do You Do (Interlude 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
88444445 | Play | Last Days Of Oakland (Intro) | 00:00 Tools | |
90098117 | Play | The Suit That Won't Come Off - Acoustic | 00:00 Tools | |
78452614 | Play | It's A Long Long Road | 00:00 Tools | |
90098118 | Play | A Cold November Street - Acoustic | 00:00 Tools | |
78452620 | Play | El Chileno (Interlude 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
78452618 | Play | An Honest Man (Bonus Track) | 00:00 Tools | |
78452616 | Play | Last Days of Oakland | 00:00 Tools | |
78452630 | Play | Push Back - Oakland Resist-Mix | 00:00 Tools | |
78452622 | Play | The Na Song | 00:00 Tools | |
78452623 | Play | It's a Long, Long Road | 00:00 Tools | |
78452629 | Play | NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert | 00:00 Tools | |
78452625 | Play | What Do You Do | 00:00 Tools | |
78452627 | Play | The Time Has Come (Reprise) | 00:00 Tools | |
78452628 | Play | El Chileno | 00:00 Tools | |
88444452 | Play | Dark Windows (Acoustic) | 00:00 Tools | |
78452631 | Play | The Oakland Resist-Mix | 00:00 Tools | |
90098119 | Play | Bad Guy Necessity (Acoustic) | 00:00 Tools | |
78452632 | Play | The N***a Song | 00:00 Tools | |
90098120 | Play | Fantastic Negrito NPR Tiny Desk Concert | 00:00 Tools | |
88444464 | Play | The Suit That Won't Come Off (Acoustic) | 00:00 Tools | |
90098121 | Play | Hump Through The Winter | 00:00 Tools | |
90098122 | Play | The Duffler (Acoustic) | 00:00 Tools | |
78452635 | Play | The Last Days of Oakland (Intro) | 00:00 Tools | |
88444449 | Play | B******t Anthem | 00:00 Tools | |
78452633 | Play | A Long, Long Road | 00:00 Tools | |
90098123 | Play | A Cold November Street (Acoustic) | 00:00 Tools | |
88444450 | Play | Intro - Last Days Of Oakland | 00:00 Tools | |
78452637 | Play | Interlude 1 - What Do You Do? | 00:00 Tools | |
78452641 | Play | Scary Women | 00:00 Tools | |
90098124 | Play | Cold November Street (Acoustic) | 00:00 Tools | |
88444451 | Play | The Duffer | 00:00 Tools | |
90098125 | Play | Bad Guy Necessary | 00:00 Tools | |
78452647 | Play | Working Poor [Explicit] | 00:00 Tools | |
78452640 | Play | An Honest Man [Bonus Track] | 00:00 Tools | |
78452636 | Play | The N**a Song | 00:00 Tools | |
88444454 | Play | An Honest Man (Hand Of God Theme Song) | 00:00 Tools | |
78452639 | Play | An Honest Man (OST Десница Божья/Hand of God) 1.01 | 00:00 Tools | |
78452648 | Play | The Nigga Song [Explicit] | 00:00 Tools | |
78452645 | Play | What Would You Do? (Interlude 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
90098126 | Play | Lost In The Crowd | 00:00 Tools | |
88444455 | Play | Plastic Hamburgers (Official Video) | 00:00 Tools | |
90098127 | Play | Plastic Hamburgers [Explicit] | 00:00 Tools | |
88444459 | Play | Interlude 1 - What Do You Do | 00:00 Tools | |
90098128 | Play | Cold November Street - Acoustic | 00:00 Tools | |
78452643 | Play | Tiny Desk Concert | 00:00 Tools | |
90098129 | Play | Bullshit Anthem [Explicit] | 00:00 Tools | |
78452644 | Play | Long, Long Road | 00:00 Tools | |
90098130 | Play | Working Poor (Explicit) | 00:00 Tools | |
88444456 | Play | Scary Woman (Live from Viaduct) | 00:00 Tools | |
88444460 | Play | 02 Working Poor (Explicit) | 00:00 Tools | |
88444462 | Play | 07 In The Pines | 00:00 Tools | |
88444458 | Play | 06 The Nigga Song | 00:00 Tools | |
90098131 | Play | Transgender Biscuits [Explicit] | 00:00 Tools | |
78452650 | Play | The n*gg* Song | 00:00 Tools | |
78452646 | Play | Welcome to Daytrotter | 00:00 Tools | |
88444463 | Play | The Last Days Of Oakland | 00:00 Tools | |
88444461 | Play | Push Back (Oakland Resist-Mix) (feat. Mistah Fab & Zion I) | 00:00 Tools | |
90098132 | Play | PLASTIC HAMBURGER | 00:00 Tools | |
88444465 | Play | Honest Man | 00:00 Tools | |
78452649 | Play | A New Beginning .RA | 00:00 Tools | |
78452651 | Play | 1. Lost in a Crowd | 00:00 Tools | |
90098133 | Play | Push Back (Bonus Track) | 00:00 Tools |
Fantastic Negrito is the stage name of Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz (born 1968), an African-American singer-songwriter whose music has spanned blues, R&B, and roots music. “Fuck a popstar. Fuck pandering. Fuck fakeness. Fuck fear.” Fantastic Negrito is the incarnation of a musician who is reborn after going through a lot of awful shit. In fact, the name Fantastic Negrito represents his third rebirth, literally coming back from death this time. The narrative on this man is as important as the sound, because the narrative is the sound. Songs born from a long hard life channeled through black roots music. Slide guitar, drums, piano. Urgent, desperate, edgy. Fantastic Negrito is the story of a man who struggled to “make it”, who “got it”, and who lost it all. For anyone who ever felt like it was over yet hoped it wasn’t, this is your music; blues harnessed, forged in realness. For anyone who ever considered getting their old high-school band back together, this is your inspiration. These are singular songs by a true musician who writes and produces. They are his fuel as he embarks on the third comeback of his life. The first life (‘who am I and where am I going?’). Fantastic Negrito was raised in an orthodox Muslim household. His father was a Somali-Caribbean immigrant who mostly played traditional African music. When, at the age of 12, Negrito’s family moved from Massachusetts to Oakland, he was hit with an intense culture shock. Oakland in 1970s was a million miles from Negrito’s conservative childhood. He went from Arab chants to Funkadelic in one day, living in the heart of one of the wildest, most infamous, most vibrant black communities in the nation. Shit was extra real in Oakland. By the time he was 20, Negrito had taught himself to play every instrument he could get his hands on. He was recording music, but he was also caught up in street shit. This went on for several years until a near death encounter with masked gunmen. After that Negrito packed his bags and headed to LA, armed with a demo on cassette. The second life (‘I want to be a star…I think’). It didn’t take long for Negrito to find himself entrenched in the ‘Hollywood’ lifestyle; “clubs and bitches and bullshit politics that have nothing to do with great music.” Negrito signed with a big time manager and soon after that, a million dollar deal at Interscope …and soon after that, creative death. The record deal was a disaster. Gangsta rap was ruling the airwaves and Negrito was in the wrong place at the wrong era. Negrito came out of the deal with a failed album and his confidence gutted. He was infected by the constant emphasis on ‘what would sell’; which looks, hooks and gimmicks would attract an audience. He lost all sense of himself. The songs stopped coming to him, so he quit. He sold all of his shit and he quit. In 2000, Negrito was in a near fatal car accident that put him in a coma. For four weeks it was touch and go. Because his muscles atrophied while bedridden, he had to go through months of frustrating physical therapy to regain use of his legs. Rods were placed throughout his body. And worst of all, his playing hand was mutilated. Though he rehabbed intensely for several years, the damage was permanent. In 2008, he returned home to Oakland. The third life (the birth of Negrito). Back in Oakland, Negrito forgot about life as a musician. He got married, he planted vegetables, raised his own chickens, and made money growing weed. He also settled into being a man, on his own, clear of the distractions of wanting to be a star. This is when his specific POV of the world came into focus. His conservative Muslim values melded with the liberal, multi-cultural world of Oakland. The cynicism that comes from struggle made room for the hope that comes from cheating death. He truly knew who he was. He was confident about his place in the world because he understood it as much as any man can. And then his son Kyu was born. With Kyu’s entrance into the world, all the creative energy Negrito bottled for years came rushing. His musical choices were sharp and without doubt. He began recording without the hindrances that come with chasing trends. “Fuck what’s hot now, what moves me?” Negrito turned to the original DNA of all American music, the Blues. The beating life had given him primed him to channel his literal and musical forefathers: the Blues musicians of the Delta. For Fantastic Negrito, “derivative” is the devil so to ensure his sound is his own, every chord comes from a place of immediacy. Immediacy opens the door for instinct. Instinct is God’s tool that makes an artist into an individual. Negrito leaves the original sounds of Lead Belly and Skip Woods intact and builds bridges to modernity by looping and sampling his own live instruments. When you listen to Negrito, you’re invited to hear the story of life after destruction. Your dream can die. You probably will give up. But from there, you can start everything over. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.