AG Club stormed the stage at Coachella, starting an afternoon mosh pit with thousands of fans.
, Antioch rappers Baby Boy and Jody Fontaine are in the green room trailer. Baby Boy has his body to the ground, doing an allotment of push-ups that will get him to 500 by the end of the day. Jody is just sitting drinking water, mentally preparing himself. As time ticks faster and faster, the two grab each other by the shoulders. They whisper a prayer at a low enough volume that it becomes their little secret, just before they leave to take the Mojave Stage.
Baby Boy, left, and Jody Fontaine of Antioch's AG Club, photographed in Santa Cruz, on Saturday, April 8, 2023.Hailing from Oakley and Antioch respectively, Jody Fontaine and Baby Boy grew up on the east outskirts of the Bay Area, far enough away from its cultural epicenters. “We’re in the east east East Bay, we’re at the edge of the BART map,” Jody explains. “Growing up, for everybody out there, all you get is the trickle-down, the trickle-down culture.
“Those days in that house were so special because it was just music every day, all the time,” Jody reminisces. “The boys would spend the night a lot, so we’d fall asleep and wake up to a beat being made. You’d run down, go to the garage, do a verse on it.”
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