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English musician, Singer-Songwriter King Krule feature on the cover of Fader magazine for the Issue #90, read more Here and check out the behind the scenes of the cover shoot in New York City with photographer Geordie Wood and stylist Mobalaji Dawodu.
The life of Solomon Northup—the free, black, middle-class, violin-playing New Yorker who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841—lives on in his memoir, 12 Years a Slave, one of the most vivid accounts of human bondage in American history. He is passed from one plantation to the next as property. He is whipped after underperforming in the cotton fields. And he is forced to lash the plantation owner’s slave-mistress nearly to death under the psychotic gaze of Master Epps. But with the film-adaptation by director Steve McQueen, Northrup’s legacy has inherited a new memorial vessel: Chiwetel Ejiofor, the film’s Nigerian-English breakout star (seen previously on the cover of FADER’s 2006 film issue, and in smaller roles in Amistad and Children of Men). Even when it’s painful, it’s impossible not to watch the way Ejiofor’s Northup tells the story with his eyes: moist, heavy-lidded, and focused on survival. It’s the gaze of a man whose mind is drifting away from the hell he’s been banished to, toward somewhere more pleasant. It’s the perspective of someone who knows he should not be in the place where he is, and that the system of dehumanization, perpetuated with an indignant logic everywhere he looks, should never have existed in the first place.
McQueen’s visually stunning treatment of a historic moment is generating Oscar buzz, and will surely propel Ejiofor to more leading roles. The London-based actor spoke with The FADER about his process, the legacy of slavery in today’s society and happy endings.
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Solange Knowlwes usually rocks festival stages, however recently Solange headlined an intimate gig at a laundrette as part of vitaminwater collaboration with The FADER’s #uncapped series. New York’s Atlantis Super Wash Center in Brooklyn became a neon-lit venue complete with pop up stage as the “TONY.” singer performed a set which included cuts lifted from the EP True as well as a few of tracks lifted from her soulful back catalogue and included a fitting cover of Nivea’s Laundromat thrown in for good measure. Watch Solange work the stage for her audience below.
Check out the directors sample of the 3-D video for A$AP Rocky x Jim-E Stack Purple Swag directed buy Jason Ano. Swag in slow motion, this remix of the original Purple Swag is an alternative version to that which appears on the Live Love A$AP mixtape, adding that all important ready for radio appeal with mixed down vocals and added extras. Watch the visuals below.
NY’s Rocky been busy in the city, so The Fader met him downtown in a secret blunt-safe basement beneath a clothing store. He told The Fader why he’s not selling drugs anymore (“It’s corny”), what ASAP stands for (everything) and what kinds of girls he likes to fuck (weird ones). Taking them around and to their favorite Pizza Spot
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