Messing Up History with 'Jamel the Time Traveling B-Boy'

In the webseries The Adventures of Jamel: the Time-Traveling B-Boy, board members of the Illuminati accidentally send a modern-day, Wild Style–idolizing B-boy (Kangol hat, Adidas jumpsuit, and all) back in time, where he unwittingly changes the course of history again and again. In the intro montage alone, we see Jamel photobombing the moment Martin Luther King Jr. met Malcolm X, crashing the Last Supper, and dashing through tanks in Tiananmen Square.

Created by artist Jayson Musson, known for his Coogie sweater canvases, satirical paintings, and online alter ego Hennessy Youngman, the series is a hilarious and refreshing take on revisionist history, a genre that could use a break from Quentin Tarantino's death grip. In episode two, released this week, our B-boy hero (played by James III) ends up at Ford's Theater on the night of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Jamel, not realizing what year it is, befriends John Wilkes Booth after the President is a dick to him. When Booth pulls out a gun, Jamel convinces him that a dance-off is the best way to settle beef ("We put down the steel, and we keep it real"). Fingers crossed that in a future episode, he'll make a cameo at the moment Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, or prevent Hendrix from ODing.

Since this isn't a traditional time travel narrative, and Musson is a master at messing with images and re-appropriating pop culture (from the webseries' intro, to his Too Black for B.E.T. series, to his Instagram account), we thought it'd be fun to do an interview with him in which he could only answer using images found online. Here's what he sent us.

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