My man Deka doing big things for Bed-Stuy! Follow HoodstoWoods on Twitter to stay in the loop.

When is the last time you heard of anyone giving a fluck about a Broadway play? For me I think it was when I was ten and peeped Phantom of the Opera, although I can’t front on the one man version of A Christmas Carol by Captian Jean Luc Picard aka Patrick Stewart that my moms brought me to one year. That was pretty dope. But the truth is, Broadway is a played out genre and when times is tough, dropping 80 bones for some singing and dancing ain’t really in people’s budgets outside of Chelsea, nah mean? That is until the Roc gets in the building. In a move that makes it impossible to deny that he is the Bo$$, Jay-Z swooped in as executive producer for the new musical Fela! and now it’s the hottest shit in the streets. Not that the heat is undeserved, the story of Fela is one of the best in modern times, and his music is time eternal, but throwing a 3 plus hour Afro-beat freakoff every day is not how the Eugene O’Neill theatre usually gets down. I haven’t seen it yet but everything I’ve heard is that it’s one of the dopest shows put together in any medium in a while. On top of that, my big homie and BLK OPS general Brian Deka PauPaw was commissioned to do handmade one-of-a-kind blazers for the show and was interviewed for a webisode about the experience. Big up my dude! To read his account of it, check Deka’s column on Rad Collector.

This one is straight from the heart. My big big homie Deka aka Dekatron Don aka BLK OPS General Salute! has just finished Cormega’s new video “Journey.” If you don’t know a) go read some other column, and b) Mega is the truth behind much of Nas’ early career. Do yourself a favor and get a hold of “The Realness,” or better yet, the original version of “Testament” and do the math on this much maligned, always under-appreciated, true QB MC. Respect.