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I know this was said before, how Lupe is always light years ahead, but I just want to stress this. He not only covers history (e.g. transatlantic slave trade) and current events (e.g. Gaza War, 9/11), but also Afrofuturism in his work ("All Black Everything" reimagines the past, but it also sees a different future where there is no racism. We see this mainly in Drogas Wave with his themes of resurrection and reimagining life, the mythology of the LongChains who escape and resist their bonds.)
After reading , which mentions Lupe and Daydreamin' (page 146), I realize how much Lupe has done not only in his music but beyond that for his willingness to use technology and see other forms of multimedia that can enhance sensory experience.
For technology, we see this with the abstract audio ROTHKO (Yet for Computers), use of LFTs, his co-creation of TextFX and even using AI in his visualizer videos.
While I know a lot of people are weary about technology, especially artificial intelligence and individuals who use it for evil, I think something amazing is how Lupe embraces the positive aspects of it (using it for good), and how that reflects in his music. For example, Daydreamin' and the story of a robot made from the city, to Enemy of the State where the robot is reprogrammed to "fight evil," it's rooted in surrealism and science fiction, a future possibility. It allows us to imagine buildings becoming animated or robots allying with humans. And I know the latter especially is explored a lot (Will advanced technology destroy humankind? Does it make us more dependent and lose our skills for survival?)
We all know Lu and his relationship with science fiction, including references from The Matrix to Blade Runner in his music. He is interested in LLM models and .
I just think it would be so cool if Lupe was one of the rappers at the forefront to designing cool technology that changes not only the music game but history itself. We already have virtual concerts played inside video games (Duran Duran, 2006. Phil Collins in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories performing "In The Air Tonight", 2006.) NFTs to provide specialized tokens and exclusive content. What the Afrofuturism paper makes me think about, is looking at all the numerous possibilities we're presented with, how we collaborate with technology to make change happen. I just feel Lupe would totally be that guy to do that.
He's always been known as "the future" and seeing this become fully realized, it just makes sense.
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Looking for some good afrofuturism stuff. Right now I've only got the first Binti book by Nnedi Okorafor with plans to get the others, as well as some N.K. Jemisin. Recs?
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Any recommendations for good Afrofuturism or Afrofantasy audiodramas? By this I mean sci Fi or fantasy that is based on various African cultures and themes.
I'm not sure if they really even exist, but I'd like to give any a listen!
Thanks in advance :)
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Basically, I'm looking for inspiration to maybe expanding a fantasy project of mine. Maybe doing a cyberpunk/Sci fi spinoff of that story. The cultures in that world borrow a lot from real world Asian/Polynesian/African/Native American peoples, and I want to see futuristic/scifi stories that work with non- European/American cultures as a reference point.
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Afrofuturism is an emergent literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people of color, but also to revise, interrogate, and re-examine the historical events of the past.
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Swordsfall is a hybrid of fantasy, modern and Afrofuturism. The world of Tikor is one where the gods are alive and they live amongst the very humans they created. The Divine Age ends, however, when a deity is assassinated for the first time in recorded history. A rival nation is framed for the killing and a war of worldly proportions breaks out that ends the Era.
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