What's up, everybody? Today, I'm so excited. We have a very special guest on the podcast, Mr. Kababi Bayak.

Kababi is an amazing artist, a father, a husband, an entrepreneur, a muralist, and our neighbor right here across the street from Open Studio. His amazing studio is right there, so he's an inspiration

visually for the neighborhood. He's the soul of the fine arts, the visual artistic

community of St. Louis. And I think you're really going to enjoy our conversation. We talk

about improvising as an artist visually and in music. We talk about his dedication, his artistic fortitude coming out of

his project 365 days with dad, where he created a original piece of art every day for 365

days. And so I think you're going to get a lot out of this, a lot of tips on how you can further

advance your commitment to the artistic vision that you're looking for. So lot out of this, a lot of tips on how you can further advance your

commitment to the artistic vision that you're looking for. So let's get right into our conversation

with Kababi Bayak.

What's going on? Kababi, thank you so much for being here.

Thanks for having me. It's really a pleasure and an honor to have a great artist in the house and also in the neighborhood.

One of the joys of us being here in the Grand Center, neighborhood is getting to interface with other artists to draw on the inspiration. I walk by and see you

doing your thing and just having your energy in the neighborhood is really an amazing thing. And,

you know, I know that over the years you've had a lot of cross-pollinization with music. You're a, you know,

a visual artist, a painter, a muralist, and many other things, but you've

collaborated with different musicians. I don't want to drop any names, but Prince comes to mind,

and we'll probably talk about that. But I'd love to hear your take, you know, kind of being

fresh in the neighborhood, but being really a, you know, kind of like the soul of the artistic community, the visual artistic, the fine arts community of St. Louis at this point for your long association here. Your art is all over the city. It's in our schools. It's in our neighborhood. It's in your studio. It's in people's homes around. It's on our building here. It's on our building. Yeah, exactly. We park.

Right.

And just like, how does that feel at this point, mid-career, as we all are?

Yeah, I like the mid-career part.

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