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In only their fourth year of putting shit down as a festival the AfroPunk movement has emerged as the premier Brooklyn based music, films and arts festival. This is prA’li due to the AfroPunk organizers being part of the community they promote themselves to. Other music festivals in Brooklyn seem to just appear when it is convenient for them instead of maintaining their community ties all year around.

Let’s be clear, the Afro Punk festival doesn’t get as crowded as say, the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, but the Afro Punk festival is over a week long of events featuring cutting edge bands and filmmakers that are up and coming, as opposed to a single day event featuring dinosaur boom bap rappers that you saw perform for free last summer. Suffice to say it, I am fucking with the Afro Punk festival this summer. Hardbody.

When I fell through the festival yesterday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music they had the skate ramps on and popping. I couldn’t get too close to the stage so my pics of JANELLE MONAE are more artsy than accurate. What they do describe is the energy that homegirl brought to the stage. She was dope.

Go to AfroPunk dot com to peep the calendar of performances scheduled for this week. My pick hits are the main stage on Wednesday and the Afro Punk Block Party on Sunday 7/13.

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