An Interview With 1100 Himself, the Oakland Rapper With Stories for Days

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse hops on FaceTime with 1100 Himself to get into it about the storytelling on his new mixtape, Janky K, his Ka remix, and how gentrification has affected the sound of Bay Area rap.