During one particularly striking moment in New Jersey musician Topaz Jones’s stunning short film Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma, Jones’s grandmother, Emma Janice Jones, reveals the riches that evaded their family. Jones’s great great grandfather, Marshall Jones, was a cotton farmer who saw an entire season’s yield destroyed by the rain. The interview comes towards the end of the film, part of a constellation of vignettes and interviews that serve to place the 27-year-old musician in a context both familial and historic. The Roots’ Black Thought muses on intellectual property,...
- 4/23/2021
- by Mankaprr Conteh
- Rollingstone.com
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