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Homeboy Sandman

Homeboy Sandman has a problem with hip hop. When he goes into the same high schools he used to teach before pursuing music full time and asks the question ‘What is hip hop?’ he could write the answers on the board before any of the students raise their hands: money, sex, drugs.

If you listen to heartfelt independent hip hop, you’ll know this narrow range of repeated iconography and clichéd stereotypes is far from the only game in town. Homeboy Sandman is just one (albeit one of the most lyrically talented) of a diverse community of underground rappers around the world taking on more complex issues and pushing hip hop’s lexicon forward. These guys just don’t get given their own reality shows or get invited on Larry King. Sandman’s beef isn’t really with hip hop, it’s with the media’s one dimensional portrayal of a highly commercial strand within a certain genre of music as a shorthand for black culture; belittling both entities in the process.

Born Angel Del Villar in Queens, New York, Homeboy Sandman isn’t so easily pigeonholed into simplistic narratives. For

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Artist Spotlight: Homeboy Sandman

Rapper Homeboy Sandman is never at a loss for inspiration, with rhymes and instrumentals flooding his cranium on a daily basis. At a recent show in Tampa, FL, he announced to the assembled that his music would go on forever. “I let it be known,” said the Sandman, “that I’m gonna drop new music every month for the rest of my life. Somebody was like ‘what if you live to be 99?’ I was thinking to myself, I could probably do it. I might not even have to write any new stuff, you know what I’m saying?”

NYC-based Homeboy Sandman has been cranking out the tunes since 2007, when he dropped his first EP (Nourishment). He’s been a nonstop music-making machine since, with help from beatmakers like Mono en Stereo. The man is so prolific that he recently released I Can’t Sell These and I Can’t Sell These Either, mixtapes of songs that included uncleared samples that couldn’t be released officially. His cadence flows like an instrumentalist taking a solo, which figures

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Peace. This is Homeboy Sandman. I do my own stunts and I write my own bios. I'M PROUD TO CALL THE CONCRETE JUNGLE MY HUMBLE ABODE DROPPED A COUPLE RECORDS, 'BOUT TO DROP A COUPLE A MO' I come from Queens, but I rep NYC as a whole as well as all humankind. I make rap records as my life's responsibility. I've got two dope albums out, my first, "Nourishment (Second Helpings)," which dropped fall '07 and my latest, "Actual Factual Pterodactyl," which dropped summer '08. In addition I have a 33...