I first met Steph Alexander on the Ricky Fitts tour when we did an Afropunk screening in Minneapolis. He told me about his hardcore band Building Better Bombs. I had no idea who he was yet.
A couple years later he was in the basement of the Delancey playing a Liberation Sessions show. Double duty — a full Building Better Bombs set, then straight into a solo POS set. Same night. Same room.
What a dude.
For anyone who doesn't know the full picture, this is Stef Alexander. Founding member of @doomtree . One of the most distinctive voices in independent hip hop. A man who survived a kidney transplant and came back making some of the best music of his career. And Building Better Bombs are on the Afro-Punk soundtrack.
This is what the early Afropunk scene actually was, a room in lower Manhattan where a hardcore kid from Minneapolis could play two sets in one night for a crowd of Black punk fans who got every single reference.
This entire set, both the Building Better Bombs set and the POS solo set , will be released on YouTube, free, for everyone, when we hit the next stretch goal on the Restore Afropunk Kickstarter.
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tinyurl.com/restoreafropunk
@yeahrightpos and @dwynellroland are a match made in heaven and seeing that live last night at @finelinempls was amazing
Full review and more photos at GIRLATTHEROCKSHOWS.COM
