Paid in Poverty

“being paid in poverty”: sustaining the lifestyle of the employee without providing the means of transcending that lifestyle.

‘White Privilege’ is a good idea

I too want to live in a world where my race and gender are irrelevant enough as to render them insignificant in the way I pursue my life. But I believe that the only reason that I can conceive of such a reality is because I have been allowed to live in closest proximity to […]

Scoring Walls #1: the album

SCORING WALLS is an album type collection of new Hip Hop. It’s my freshest work. I’ve been making this kind of noise professionally for fifteen or so years and this year marks 10 since I released my first full length album: Higher Flyer For Hire. The fabric of that project has so many threads it’s […]

I’ve had enough

I am struck by how I live in a world where those with the least do the most with what little they have and yet somehow they still seem to have very little. Those with the most seem to do the least and still they have the most. Those with the least inevitably end up […]

Le Pont (The Bridge)

INTRO Outpourings of all sorts of emotions y’know? Till you catch yourself feeling too much and scold yourself silently, softly, and proceed to “get real”. Whatever. That’s why I listen to bagpipes a lot, coz I like my sentimentality and I like it with some steel in it y’know? That’s twice I’ve asked if “y’know”. […]

Fresh Rap Lyrics: Hused Whut (Who said what?)

[Listen to the track] Be the strange man maintain a main plan / to put the can in the hands of the kids and / let them loose on Babylon’s buildings / I fill them with fire / Learn to burn up the Evil Empire / from the spire to the steeple / Conspire with […]

I to I: no pats on the back from blacks.

I shouldn’t expect any kind of thanks (props) for rationalizing the obvious: I am a white-skinned man that is part of a global society that privileges me. I am a product of a history. I cannot escape my skin. Any discomfort I feel with any of this cannot be blamed on anyone else. I cannot […]

I to I: how the hell to tackle yourself.

In October of last year I asked Kat Francois if she would be keen to come out to Durban (South Africa), to create a theatre piece with me, to “butt poetic-heads together” live on stage. Our topic would be race-relations between a Black European African Woman and a White African European Man. Neither of us […]

The YOBO Report Part 1: White back at you

It’s 5am and I’ve been up since 3 because I can’t stop thinking about being white. I’m not trying to BE white. I am white. I’m trying to figure out what that means, or what it means to me anyway. I have been trying to figure it out for the last year, ever since my […]

Dealing with some New Brand Of Dad

“Aight listen! Ye inna position te make a difference if you stop look an listen an make it ye main mission…” The New Brand Of Dad project is all about how having kids makes us want to be better. Better artists, better humans, just better overall. Better at life really, while still working on […]