Words Paint Pictures

Rapper Big Pooh & Apollo Brown

2015

Words Paint Pictures has a cover with an drawn still of a black man lying face down, handcuffed and riddled with bullet holes – makes his concerns about police brutality more than plain. And he only draws more unsettling imagery from there.

Over seven songs and two remixes, the North Carolina MC captures the complex agonies of the human condition-specifically the black experience in America over the last several centuries. These are tales of racial profiling and corrupt politicians, reality TV distractions, thieving preachers and rapacious exploitation-all offset by tremendous strength.

They are uniquely American stories, chronicling both the damned and hopeful. From bleak circumstances, a profoundly durable human spirit emerges.