We had the good fortune of connecting with MinisterKingXPyeface and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi MinisterKingXPyeface, what is the most important factor behind your success?
Darealprisonart merely functions as a news source. Its current reach and influence is highly unsatisfying. But when you are publishing content on prisons and the politics of prisons, that’s not cool. Many times it’s political prisoners, both abroad or domestically, or some tragic incident involving crime victims. There’s no sunny side there. But we also publish under different subsidiaries, the poetry of the incarcerated at Mprisond Poetz, or what prisoners are thinking at Mprisond Thotz. Darealprisonart has over 10,000 Prisoner art prints for sale. We are especially proud of our 2020 blog posts, “How Covid Impacts Prison Art Exhibits,” and “’Spoken Floz, ‘Prisoners Retake Over of Hip Hop,” especially on this 50th anniversary of Hip Hop’s birth.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
Darealprisonart is the flagship subsidiary to Artist Social Network (ASN). ASN is a digital conglomerate of Street cultural brands, or giving voice to the voiceless. Darealprisonart has been featured in the California Herald, and received a shout-out in Dr. Nicole Fleetwood’s 2020 book, “MARKING TIME: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.”

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I would argue digitally, it’s about checking out our brand. There is a lot going on in within this ecosystem. There is a lot of hurt, there is a lot of pain there, but there is a lot of hope and Humanity there as well.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
Kim Pollak, Director of California Prison Focus; Willie and Mary Ratcliff the 40+ year owners and editor’s of the San Francisco Bay View; California prison artist C-Note; Todd Ashker, Arturo Castellanos, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa (Dewberry), and Antonio Guillen, the signatories to The Agreement To End Hostilities, within the California prison system, which also led to us celebrating in 2023, the 10 year anniversary of the largest US prisoner hunger strike of 33,000 prisoners, which led to the dismantling of long term solitary confinement in California; and finally KAGE Universal.

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