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Mahawam (Guerrilla Davis)
Mahawam‘s Is an Island EP (out March 29 on Molly House Records) emerged from a period when the artist wanted to disappear.
“I had just received my [HIV] positive diagnosis, and I wasn’t really sure how to talk about it with my friends,” the rapper and multi-instrumentalist, whose real name is Malik Mays, recalls stoically over coffee on a sunny morning in Oakland. “I started to withdraw into myself. I stopped going to parties. I stopped DJing for a bit. People didn’t see me, and nobody really asked.” Read More