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Video Premiere: Aja Monet x I Don't Camouflage Interview

Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

OkayPoetess Aja Monet sits down with I Don't Camouflage on a brief stay in NYC, to un-camouflage her experience in her current homebase of Paris. Following in the footsteps of James Baldwin (not to mention a who's who of other black american artists and intellectuals from Josephine Baker to Melvin Van Peebles--look it up) Monet showed up on Saul Williams doorstep as an unemployed college grad and found a place for herself and her writing--as well as an 'altered experience' which inspired her to start on a science fiction novel, among other projects. Watch below to ge the full story.