Come down here in West Oakland
32nd and San Pablo Avenue
Things are just the same
As they were 30 years ago today
Gospel. Blues. Country. Rock & roll. Punk. And a hell of a story to tell—as personal as your heart, as massive as America, as bloody and passionate as both. White Jesus, Black Problems is the fourth full-length album by Oakland blues rocker Fantastic Negrito (aka Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz), and it’s likely his most ambitious work to date. Dphrepaulezz based the work on his seventh-generation grandparents (an African-American grandfather who was a slave and a white Scottish grandmother who was an indentured servant), their illegal common law marriage, and the love and politics that flow from that deep, winding history. And it’s the biggest, best thing from the Bay this week. A full film accompanying the album premieres tomorrow at noon.
