How rapper LB199X builds a wide-angle view of black life in America.
“I see myself as a real person, and when it comes to making music, the music that I make is intentional,” he says. “Black men are killing Black men, and that’s the image they want us to perpetuate, but nobody wants to continue that cycle.” He describes his latest project,as a personal testimony of his experience as a Black man in America experiencing life and love.
Growing up in Prince George’s County, one of the wealthiest Black communities in America, he explains, he’s been made aware of the pernicious nature of racism; the ways in which cultural stigmas remain ingrained in our culture. “I’m showing people that I’m defining these stigmas,” he says. “So if I have to speak to you in a manner of me being ‘gangsta’, then that’s me doing it. If I got to speak to you in a manner of showing love, that’s [also] me speaking to you.
As a youth, LB199X was known to be active within his community. He played football and ran track as a teenager. By the time he started high school, LB199X decided that he wanted to pursue music and didn’t question the instinct. “I started recording myself in the ninth grade. I downloaded Mixcraft off of the internet and I just went crazy, learning how to record myself and learning what recording was,” he explains. “I was just putting myself in the mode of recording music.
His songs arrive like photos taken through a wide-angle lens, expanding the range of perception in pursuit of a fuller picture.outline a worldview dedicated to resisting cycles of oppression. With more than a million streams on Spotify, his song “To Live and Die in Amerikkka,” onfinds him rapping over a sultry guitar, laying bare the vulnerabilities that come with navigating a country that is in many ways still bound to deep-seated racist beliefs.
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