© Mustafa Davis
he sits with the silence, like an old friend
shadows holding the pieces, he forgot to name
There’s something about the way stillness tells stories louder than sound. I didn’t ask him pose for this image; the moment found itself—tired, unfiltered, and full of things we didn’t want to say. The shadows moved like memory, persistent, echoing things we wanted to forget. The photograph, though simple, is a conversation between grief and grace.
Read MoreDid you have dreams as a child that you gave up on? We all had goals in our younger years that didn’t end up working out for us. At some point on our journey we decided it wasn’t going to be and moved on with our lives. I’m not referring to changing life goals; I’m talking about the dreams we never stopped wanting but for some reason or another we gave up.
Read MoreSecrets & Escapes is a compendium of Brother Ali's time with Evidence over the course of three trips to California, recording in a Venice garage with no regard for pleasing the internet or competing with the music industry. Ev chopped up records on old-school samplers and ran them through a compressor (2 track) so they couldn’t be re-arranged or mixed. Brother Ali sat with the mic and spit rhymes as they came to him, without writing or organizing them into songs.
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