Right now it’s a gorgeous day in San Francisco — mid-80’s, hands down the nicest day to date this year — so really, there’s no way I can not blog about Kero One‘s Welcome to the Bay, the rapper’s homage to San Francisco (and let’s be honest – I live there too, so I’m completely, shamelessly biased.) Never has 16th & Mission and the inside of a MUNI train look so glamorous.
Visuals from director Phil Velasco aside, take a close listen to the second verse where he talks about his parents journey from Asia to the United States and talks about a time “when words like ‘chink’ were teachable.” Kero One isn’t doing so bad nowadays; he quit his day job as a web designer in 2006 and now does everything from producing tracks for Talib Kweli to collaborating with Epik High to touring Europe, Japan and Korea.
(Hat tip: cbs5.com’s Eye on Blogs)
