The Lost Tapes
“The Lost Tapes” represents Justin’s full-length feature debut; it is a visual account on the current state of hip hop: in its community, in its industry, and in its overall culture. Justin follows practitioners of hip hop’s founding elements-MC’ing, DJ’ing, break-dancing, graffiti, and knowledge, wisdom and understanding-to get an accurate assessment on where these elements [...]
The Grey Movie
“The Grey Movie” was conceived as an chronological account of The Organization, a loosely knit student-based activist movement in the early-to-mid 2000’s that formed as a reaction to the policies of the American establishment under the Bush Administration, from the violation of free speech and pervasive illegal surveillance under the Patriot Act, to the widely [...]
Men Always Leave
Justin had met the spoken word poet and actress Naima Yetunde Ince while the two were both attending SUNY Purchase. In 2008, Naima reached out to Justin to make a documentary on her first one-act play, “Men Always Leave”, which she wrote and directed. Essentially what she asked of Justin was to document the process [...]
Baeble Music
Baeble Music is an online destination for free live music. Founded in 2006, Baeble lays claim to an ever growing library of full-length concerts from today’s up and coming artists, enabling those from outside the largest markets to share in a unique live music experience of their favorite emerging bands. Justin was brought on as [...]
About Justin Thomas
As a teenager, Justin displayed promise in the medium of oil paints and charcoal illustrations, his portfolio enabled him to be accepted into the School of Visual Arts at SUNY Purchase College as a graphic design major.
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NYC Hip Hop Live!
On July 24th, 2010, Justin filmed a host of performances at the Public Assembly Venue in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg district. Taking to the stage were some of the New York underground’s most revered hip hop artists, including M.D.-E, Final Outlaw, and Hasan Salaam & Rugged ‘N’ Raw (under the moniker of Mohammad Dangerfield). The event was [...]
The 2010 Black August Hip Hop Project
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) will be holding their 13th annual Black August Hip Hop Project Benefit Fundraiser. The Black August Project was started 13 years ago to raise awareness to issues that the African-American community faces locally and globally; unjust incarceration, high rates of HIV/AIDS, poverty, homelessness, poor educational resources, and police brutality in [...]