Atlanta based musician Jessie Davis approached me a couple months back about doing art work that represented a song on her new album Him and I Gemini. Jessie expressed to me that she wanted to have a piece of art that represented each song that she would release online and I thought this was a pretty cool concept so I was down to do the work. Originally it was suppose to be four artists doing four different pieces of work for the songs but the way everything worked out I ended up becoming the leading artist for the project which was really exciting. Here are four illustrations that go along with the 4 released singles from Jessie Davis’s second album Him and I Gemini.
This street art piece was speaking to me directly.Its painted on the side of the Hardcore Art Contemporary Space.
Diary of a Mad Black Stevie is an audio diary of everything I’ve been thinking about listening to and experimenting with for the past couple months. This project gives you a look into the mind of a young black woman who has the ability to travel through other dimensions
I started working on this remix of Bilal’s song “Robots” earlier this year for a contest and then I decided to not enter it because I just wanted to do it for fun without the extra pressure. Working on this track really allowed me to brush up on my mixing and production skills.
I discovered Mati Klarwein’s work 3 years ago while I was surfin’ the interwebs lookin for visual inspiration.I felt like I struck gold when i discovered his beautiful paintings. I decided to finally make a post about him because I’ve been noticing a lot of people posting his images on tumblrs and fbook but i don’t think they have a clue as to who the artist is.
Recently I’ve completely slowed down on collaborating and this is the best thing i could ever do for myself .I have so much more time to focus on my personal evolution. A couple months ago though I sent Miami based digital composer Eden Grey an acapella of one of my tunes and she flipped it and created something new and interesting with the vocals and production.
Illustrator Rudy Gutierrez’s work has given me so much inspiration this week. I love how his work has such a cultural feel. The colors, the exaggeration of the figures and the tribal markings really brings out his unique style of illustrating. He also throws in the Basquiat crown every now and then and I love it. For more on Rudy Gutierrez google him or go look at some pics below.
When I was feeling anxious and pondering the true meaning of life, God told me to go outside sit by a tree and enjoy the breeze 
Two years ago GreatEclectic gave me Georgia Anne Muldrow’s album Umsindo” and I was immediately blown away by the music and the album cover. The album cover was painted by a Seattle based-artist by the name of Tokio Aoyama. Today I finally took some time out to discover more of his amazing paintings. I love music and art and I love the way Aoyama infuses both into his work. Tokio Aoyama’s ability to create unique portraits and his use of dramatic vibrate colors makes him one of my favorites for sure!
I love Illustrated album covers and it seems like this trend has been resurfacing lately check out a couple of covers I really love done by some amazing artists.
American Summer’s Nights hit the Internet on Valentine’s day as a gift of love. This album is a remix/mash up project produced by Urban Noize the twin producer duo from Miami.Urban Noize took their favorite jay-z acapella’s and mashed it up with Maxwell songs which created a grown and sexy vibe and plus each song is blended so well that it sounds like Jay-z and Maxwell really recorded these songs together. Take a listen and watch how the music inspires you to just sit back and take it easy.
