Blackball Universe strives to create “New Age Motown” in Downtown Oakland

By Max Levenson

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Xavier Dphrepaulezz can’t sit still. He strums a cherry-red Telecaster guitar. He pounds on a drum, leaning over it and crooning. He poses dramatically for a photo in a doorway, walking and talking, barking orders down the hall at two young men in his cluttered recording studio. He’s frenetic and irrepressible, always producing, always creating. Thirteen years ago Xavier, now in his mid-forties, founded Blackball Universe. Originally a record label,… …read more

Source: Oakland North Blog News

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