Mick Jenkins In SA
If you still don’t know who Mick Jenkins is then I hope 40 is treating you well (LOL) and if you’re not 40 yet you’re probably just stuck in the era of conformist traditional media platforms like the radio and television. Remember those?
Anyway, Mick is a Chicago rapper who blends an effortless flow with semi-conscious-90s-Rap beats that carry one message and goal: to spread love. That paired with the gospel of hydrating in these trying days of double cups, trap, drugs, and alcohol, makes his narrative one of a kind.
Jenkins came to fame as a member of a hip-hop group, called Free Nation. Other members include Prop, J-Stock, Burman, and Maine The Saint. Free Nation is a hip-hop group that promotes creative thought without accepting narrow views imposed by the powers that be and we’re definitely down with that.
Mick is eight mixtapes deep, with “Water(s)” as one of his best of the lot, or should I say the most circulated and most talked about of his recent work.
Alchemy SA and Kool-Out collaborated in a cool, near week-long festival of music that isn’t radio friendly or for sensitive viewers. Mick was returning to SA for the second time was meant to perform in Jozi and Cape town for only two shows but Jo’burg wanted so much more water that an additional show was added to quench the thirst of the hundreds who were also yearning to catch Mick Jenkins live.
I was fortunate enough to be snuck in backstage into the green room to kick it with the rapper before his live set in front of a hundred young Jozi hipsters itching to experience what would be one the dopest live shows I’ve seen in a minute.
Catch the podcast interview below: