Extra: Xavier Dphrepaulezz, aka Fantastic Negrito

The Gist

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A past Gist guest was recently named the winner of the NPR's Tiny Desk Concert Contest. We spoke with Xavier Dphrepaulezz, aka Fantastic Negrito last September, and heard his journey from 1980s Oakland gutters to black roots music. In our interview, hear how he finally found his voice as Fantastic Negrito, and a few tracks from his EP. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Car! What are you doing?
0:03.3	What's that, sir, gay?
0:04.8	What are you doing?
0:06.3	Just following the lawn.
0:07.8	I'm already going to rid of those hideous weaves!
0:10.0	Oh, they don't wait! They're flowers!
0:12.7	I can't hear you, bro, but watch out!
0:14.7	I'm just getting the rest of them!
0:16.5	But they're philly-ems!
0:18.0	I wrote it dangerous!
0:20.7	You let away!
0:23.2	My award-reading guide, Trangers!
0:25.6	Oh!
0:26.8	Don't warm-bat it.
0:28.1	Meer-hat it!
0:29.2	Simple!
0:30.4	So listen to this song.
0:34.8	This is how this story goes with me.
0:37.5	My friend, Dave, said, you got to listen to this.
0:39.8	Like, this is amazing!
0:41.6	Of course, you're hearing it.
0:43.6	And he said, you won't believe the story of the guy who did it.
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