PAVEMENT: The Black Thing

The Black Thing is the second in my new LA Weekly series, PAVEMENT.
It’s a print story, video and photo gallery.

I met Jay Rock a few years back from Watts rapper Choc Nitty. I caught up with him and Punch in the Nickerson Gardens Projects on MLK day.

excerpt: Papa Dad didn’t make the big Martin Luther King Jr. Parade on MLK Boulevard. He was shot dead on Jan. 3 at 103rd and Crenshaw. Jay Rock and Punch didn’t attend, either. It’s a turf thing. They want to stay alive. So on the day of the parade, they hung out in Nickerson Gardens, outside Jay Rock’s mom’s place, where they grew up. His new CD drops in March in Top Dawg Ent / Strange Music.

read the entire story in print in the LA Weekly, or online here; LA Weekly

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