FWMJ

A little over 10 years ago, Slum was working on Villa Manifesto. Baatin (pbuh) had just transitioned and T3 was only the remaining member of the original trio carrying the banner. Young RJ had joined the group as an official member and Elzhi hadnt left the group yet.

I was connected with them to do the album art via & for what I wrongly assumed might be their final album as a group. I met up with T3 and Young RJ in in Ann Abor while in town for my homie’s biz school graduation and discussed ideas for what to do. I wanted to get like a Frank 151 style mini book talking about the group’s legacy and influence with interviews and vignettes from as many of the collaborators and peers as we could manage in place of traditional liner notes. We didn’t have enough time to execute all the grand plans in time for the album release, which ended up being an EP because the group hit some internal strife.

The only reflections on Slum I got were from Questlove before we realised the scope was too big for the time we had.

Anyway, here was my version of the Villa Manifesto cover which got refashioned as the EP cover (which I didnt like as much) and ultimately ended up a release party flyer.
@ Conant Gardens