Since the Great Migration, Black people have built a vibrant and thriving mecca in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, making it an icon of community, culture, and resistance.

But the neighborhood is changing.

Gentrification, racist housing policies, and systemic oppression have forced longtime Bed-Stuy residents and business owners out of the neighborhood, as a younger, predominately white, population moves in. Black residents must reconcile these changes with their sense of belonging on the blocks they built.

“We Are Here (Brooklyn)” is a celebration of Bedford-Stuyvesant’s rich cultural legacy—a testament to its past and present. The project, originally curated as part of Bailey’s Cafe’s As Quiet As It’s Kept, centers images and stories of long-time Bed-Stuy residents, cementing their place as neighborhood icons in the name of resilience and permanence.

Bailey’s Cafe with 651 ARTS presents “We Are Here (Brooklyn),” featuring photographs by Robyn Twomey with interviews by Monica L. Williams, artistic director of As Quiet As It’s Kept, and culturally produced by Pia Monique Murray.

Launching August 1, 2021 with a walking tour and live performances by featured participants, the 11-week public installation spans multiple sites in a five block radius of Bedford-Stuyvesant and is accompanied by a virtual gallery of participants’ recorded interviews accessible by QR code.

Learn more at AsQuietAsItsKept.space/we-are-here.

We Are Here (Brooklyn)

Gloria Baker

BEWARE OF DOG

Artists:
www.instagram.com/wholostaxrus/
www.instagram.com/negative.q/
www.instagram.com/ryan.gonsalves/
www.instagram.com/roseeeworld/
www.instagram.com/rhodesonroad/
www.instagram.com/royalt416/
www.instagram.com/ed.mikey/
www.instagram.com/777andamn/

Producer:
www.instagram.com/jaymxprod/

Engineer:
www.instagram.com/hibernationtherapper/

Demo 6: Pop Out [Prod. Jaymx] (AxR, Negative Q, Ryang, Roseee, Rhodes, Roseee,RoyalT,M!key,Mandamn)

Outro “ I Wonder Freestyle “

REALLY CHASE MILLS x Cali Kid x (prod. CorMill)

Elle Kaye - I Just Feel

0:00 New Road Flows
1:21 Calabasas
2:41 Every Move I Make
4:40 Outside
6:16 My Brothers (ft. Travis Scott AI & The Weeknd AI)
9:13 Closure
11:18 Summer Fifteen (ft. PartyNextDoor AI)
13:58 Saint Laurent (ft. Travis Scott AI)
16:28 More Than Friends

Like Never Before

Drake AI - Like Never Before (Full Album)

LITTLE WHITE CHAPEL:

Cinemax HD about you
The pale blue light
This soft core dreaming.
Touch me and I’m real around you
Those TV girls
You don’t fucking need them.
Is it safer just to call you mine around you?
Or keep you nameless like the velvet crush of lust?
I’m happier to fall asleep without you.
I know my body needs more than your body wants.

But in the little white chapel at the end of the world,
With blood on my dress and blood in my curls,
I’ve fallen asleep at the wheel of my heart,
I’m driving myself crazy,
Hold back both my arms and kiss me hard.

Full-time fantasy without you.
Bigger than God.
I’m barely sleeping.
What do all my dreams amount to?
Here in the dark,
There’s just no meaning.
In this graveyard of this hope I built around you,
I’m like a flower, wilting underneath your touch.
You kill me with the kindness of a half truth.
I know that selfishly I want you far too much.

But in the little white chapel at the end of the world,
This endless abyss,
This endless slow burn,
I’ve fallen asleep at the wheel of my heart,
I’m driving myself crazy.
Hold back both my arms,
Tear me apart.

Written by Cara Salimando and Jacob Munk (instagram: @makejunk)
Recorded and produced by Jacob Munk
Guitars: Jacob Munk, Paul Edelman (instagram: @pauledelmanmusic)
Drums: Jacob Munk, Joey Anderson (instagram: @speedogrigio)
Bass: Jacob Munk, Nicholas Morford (instagram: @surewhynotnick)
Auxiliary/ additional production: Jacob Munk, Cara Salimando
Live Session Engineer: Greg Cortez, New Monkey Studio (instagram: @killahcortez)

Mixed by Chris Coady (instagram: @chriscoady)

Mastered by Mike Bozzi (instagram: @masteredbymike)

Recorded at Palmquist Studios, Los Angeles CA 
(instagram: @palmquist_studios)

Recorded at New Monkey Studio, Los Angeles CA
(instagram: @newmonkeystudio)

Little White Chapel

Overdub instrument at Home Recording - 2/13/2024
Performed on Yamaha DTXtreme III Drum Kit with a Yamaha M12 Percussion Drum Pad

In A Different Time  -  Vocal n Drums.wav

SAVE YOURSELF Ft. Hibred (p. Sam Whitaker)

Bailey’s Cafe presents As Quiet As It's Kept (AQAIK), a multi-discipline performance installation based on the stories of veterans of color and their role in a changing community under the artistic direction of Monica L. Williams in collaboration with artists from various genres.

Gloria Baker

As Quiet As It's Kept

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