Adrian Spinelli March 14, 2021Updated: March 15, 2021, 10:50 pm
Fantastic Negrito talks with friends and family after learning of his Grammy win during a watch party for the 63rd Grammy Awards outside Store Front Records in Oakland. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle
On the corner of 32nd Street and San Pablo Avenue in West Oakland, a small homeless encampment stretches along the edge of a parking lot of a building that used to be a seedy liquor store in the neighborhood where blues musician Xavier Dphrepaulezz, best known as Fantastic Negrito, grew up.
Today, that building now houses a recording studio and Dphrepaulezz’s new label, Storefront Records. And by noon Sunday, March 14, the parking lot was staged for a community-driven event with about 75 of the artist’s friends, family and industry colleagues plus Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf watching the 63rd Grammy Awards telecast with bated breath as the album, “Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?” earned D