According to Fantastic Negrito, “Oakland is changing,” from ‘diverse and often unsafe’ to ‘white and safe.’ To him, “now Oakland is ground zero for the national discussion on gentrification.”With The Last Days Of Oakland, he’s set out to bring some of Oakland’s blues past into its future, through music. We...
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Come down to the Bush Hall on the 15th of September and you’ll hear a revealing story, sung by Xavier Dphrepaulezz, better known as Fantastic Negrito. The singer/songwriter, like the city where he lives (Oakland), has gone through an intense and eventful life, fully exemplified in his music. If you...