About the imagery, Jermaine comments:

'I was asked by Saul Williams and Matt Morgan of Afro-Punk to come up with a design for the 2009 Saul Williams / Afro-Punk tour posters, merch and advertising. The design I came up with taps into many of the themes that Saul talks about on his awesome records...the idea that social patterns of thinking which become very ingrained & almost sacred are enforced by manufactured 'popular culture' that permeates every aspect of our society. I wanted to take 2 big socially-relevant trademarks of culture that were decades removed from each other & have absolutely no relation to one another. I wanted to mix these two together and see what would happen.

The 'Golliwog' character sprang out of Western pop-culture in the 19th century as a commercial and advertising subject... first in England, then migrating over to the USA. Used to sell everything from bottles of jelly, to cigars, to bicycle tires, black-face 'Golliwog' imagery was profitable. Dolls were made. There was power in the imagery. What now depicts supreme ignorance and prejudice was once a mainstream 'cash-cow'.

I did an art print a couple of years ago which was also used by The Foo Fighters for a show poster. It depicted a little bunny rabbit decorated in the 'lightning-bolt' face-paint made famous by David Bowie on the cover of his 1970's album, 'Aladdin Sane'. Of course, I knew the image would trigger immediate connotations to Bowie and all that he represented during that era, and yet Im still amazed by the process. The power of a single, simple image or icon can dredge up immense feeling! I decided to put this same symbol from modern pop culture onto that startled black-face of the 19th century 'Golliwog'. Two pieces of pop-culture separated by a century... joined. I'm sure if the creators of each design were magically brought together in the same room, each would be SURE that the other was a freak. Popular culture is a beautifully divine, perfect, sick and twisted thing. Sometimes it's difficult to even visually 'sip' on an image that once was heartily gulped down by the masses, guilt-free.'