Born and raised in San Francisco’s Fillmore District, DaVinci represents a neighborhood long recognized as the city’s center of Black culture. As a product of his environment, DaVinci’s words paint vivid portraits of inner-city themes, gentrification, and life as a young Black male in an ever-declining American landscape.
DaVinci’s debut album, The Day The Turf Stood Still, has garnered him a great deal of buzz and praise locally and nationwide. Since the release of his album, he has been named HipHopDX’s DX Next emcee, was the first SF artist to ever appear on Shade45 (Soul Assassin’s The West Wing Radio) and has been on the national radar with features from premier outlets such as XLR8R, Wax Poetics, Fader, Pitchfork, URB, XXL, SF Weekly, The Smoking Section, 2dopeboyz, Nah Right, and AllHipHop, among many others.
See the full interview with DaVinci after the jump…
