Anthem & Homeboy Sandman present the visual to track entitled “America the Beautiful” courtesy of Stones Throw and taken from the album HALLWAYS
Sandman has got to be one of the sharpest lyricist in Hip Hip at present, but seems to get really slept on, which is a damn shame if you ask me.
This is Homeboy Sandman we’re talking about right, so you better look a little deeper into his lyrics to capture the whole essence of his communication.
Or maybe I’m missing something. Whats your thoughts?
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Director, Photographer: Kiki Humanmonochrome
“The video was shot entirely within a 5 or 6 block radius of the building where I grew up in Queens NY, with the exception of Little India which is right up the street in Jackson Heights.
While we were there we stopped by 82nd and Roosevelt for a sec to capture some Mexican flavor too.
We went up Broadway and caught that Asian flavor and up 57th Ave and caught the wall of black heroes which is way smaller now than when Popeye’s bought that corner but still it was nice of them to preserve it.
My neighborhood serves as a metaphor for the United States, with all the different flavors all mixed up making it work. And all the beauty of that.”
– Homeboy Sandman.
Homeboy Sandman Bio
Homeboy Sandman is a musician. His genre is hip-hop. An emcee that prides himself on musical growth and evolution, he has adopted as his motto and creative mission statement, “Boy Sand like you’ve never seen him before. As usual.”
Raised in Queens NY. Academic stints in New Hampshire, Philadelphia, London and Long Island. One semester short on two different graduate degrees. A couple of years of NYC Public School teaching thrown in there in between. 9th and 10th grades. Some bartending too, at the legendary Lennox Lounge in Harlem. That’s where Shaft used to drink.
December 2006 he decides to cut all that miscellaneous nonsense and follow his passion. His first album came the following year.
Before signing to Stones Throw he’d already been chosen as a coach on MTV’s MADE, featured in preeminent print hip-hop rags XXL and The Source, and perpetually championed on foremost online hubs. And since the signing, his accolades have extended beyond the realm of the hip hop specific. Rolling Stone has noted his “skill for wordplay that keeps you hooked.” NPR has highlighted his “artful, hysterical, disobedient hip-hop that you can dance to.” Pitchfork has straightforwardly dubbed him “one of the best pure lyricists around.”
He writes regularly for The Huffington Post, some for Gawker. While most of his writing is music, it appears he’ll write wherever a lot of people are looking. If he had an opportunity to give a speech at a huge rally he’d take that too, so more than anything else he just wants to spread the word. Maybe he just wants attention. Attention for being himself though.
Courtesy of Stones Throw