NOTES FROM THE BUNKER: Black Spaces

Written By Buggy Jive

BUGGY WRITES:

Last year they briefly let me out of the hole to take the train down to New York City to see Ava DuVernay in conversation with Jelani Cobb as part of the New Yorker Festival.

“Black Spaces” – the opening track on the Buggy Jive Mixtape – was inspired by that conversation, in a happy mashup of references to Selma and Compton and Camazotz, and written on the train back upstate.

Shhhhh.

It’s also available on Spotify, if that’s your thang.

Here’s the Duvernay/Cobb convo.

And if this clip doesn’t make you cry, I don’t know what will.

Cheers to the heroes.

Buggy Jive http://www.buggyjive.com
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