African Identity| You Won’t Come To My Funeral (feat. Screwface) | 1995
On September 15th, 2015, died Irvin Jones aka Hunafa, aka African Identity, a veteran Bay Area rapper who rose fame in the early nineties with his firebrand mic skills and hardcore political hybrid style. The Fillmore, San Francisco emcee became a respected mainstay on the Bay Area hip-hop scene with his acclaimed single “Let’s Get It On (Pullin That Trigger)” in 1992, but it wasn’t until 1995 when his debut album “You Won’t Come To My Funeral” was released. The album was a largely slept-on hip-hop gem. It featured an impressive roster of his peers as guests that included The Coup, Del tha Funkee Homosapien (who also did some production), JT Tha Bigga Figga, and Shock G of Digital Underground, among others, and defined both the Bay Area sound at the time, as well as that of the artist himself. In words of African identity himself, the album was “enlightening, tantalizing, sensational, provocative, political, Afro-centric, Euro-centric, it’s everything that we are....”. Rest In Power African Identity.
