“In 2023, hip-hop is presented as an umbrella term that’s getting watered down and too commercialized,” Erizku says. “I’m after the things that are actually still about, and from, the streets.”He’s also melding references from across the African diaspora, to capture what “makes us unique,” he says. “I want to connect on things that people despise us for so that we can make that our universal language.”

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Persons: Erizku, “ I’m, He’s, “, ”