PIZZA MAN
THE RUNNER
THE TIME TRAVEL
MODERN GOON TRIBE
SAN JOSE SHOW!
For the rising artist navigating art culture is analogous to trapping. The customer is interchangeable with the collector, and “connects” with curators. Every artist is a “trapstar” cooking in his metaphorical kitchen, whipping up the most powerful dope attainable. In the words of Kreyola himself, “it’s for the realest-realest.”
Kreyola Kid’s newest video painting, “Dope Boys” explores these similarities by employing Chicago’s latest musical phenomenon- Drill Music, a subgenre of Trap. The apocalyptic beat was created by Shad G. with Kevin Mitchell on production. Directed by Spencer Keeton Cunningham with footage shot by Saddiq Abubakar, “Dope Boys” features Kreyola mobbing out with his homies surrounded by sculptures, paintings, and other mixed media pieces created by various bay area artists.
By using trap music as a vehicle to deliver high art, Kreyola has become a radical icon of hip hop and art culture. The intersection of music, celebrity pop culture, and high art is exploited and turned on its head with “Dope Boys,” a sort of quasi-revolutionary song reminding the art world, “any minute, any hour, any second, you can come get it.”
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