Genius B-Boy Cynics Getting Weeded in the Garden of Delights

“Adam Mansbach is our generation’s literary ambassador to jazz . . .”-William “Upiski” Wimsatt. Adam Mansbach is the founding editor of the award-winning hip hop journal Elementary and currently performs with both jazz and hip musicians. He is also the author of Shackling Water, a novel called “reminiscent of Baldwin’s, Ellison’s and Baraka’s ways of creating new rhythms with new ways of dancing words and attitudes”-Robert G. O’Meally. “. . . still undeciphered by/ codecracking specialists// & that dusty pile of bam’s/ party vinyl with the labels/ all steamed off// it’s all in aisle seven/ of the same government warehouse// where Indiana jones/ dropped off the ark . . .”-from “notes from under sound.”