WHEN I interview Fantastic Negrito it’s hard not to envy his free spirit as he sits in the middle of his farm in Oakland, literally surrounded by the fruits of his labour.
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Fantastic Negrito raps about Storefront Records, his new label and community space in West Oakland
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Freedom has come to Xavier Dphrepaulezz.
It has come not through his third Grammy, won last month for his third studio album as alter ego Fantastic Negrito; not from the key to the city of Oakland given to him by Mayor Libby Schaff in 2020. It s come not from the fame and recognition showered on Dphrepaulezz since erupting onto the music scene after winning NPR s Tiny Desk Concert in 2015 but from a former liquor store on a forgotten corner of West Oakland in a neighborhood the musician once called home.