AfroPunk Festival 2013 Highlights

Questlove spins during a DJ set at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn

Willow Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith and Queen Latifah catch up backstage at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.   

U.K. indie-soul band the Heavy perform at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Trash Talk, a hardcore band from Sacramento, California, pose at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Chuck D performs at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Bobby Hackney, bassist and singer for Detroit proto-punk Death, performs at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Danny Brown backstage at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Trash Talk singer Lee Spielman crowd-surfs at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Singer and poet Saul Williams backstage at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Theophilus London, left, greets Saul Williams backstage during Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Rapper Mykki Blanco performs at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Canadian rapper K-os performs at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Jada Pinkett Smith whips her hair during Wicked Wisdom's performance at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Danny Brown performs at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

New Orleans bounce artist Big Freedia backstage at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

New York rapper Le1f hangs at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Jean Grae offers a one-finger salute at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

K-os plays a classical guitar backstage at Afropunk Fest in Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn, New York.

The Skins backstage at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Big Freedia performs at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

White Mandingos perform at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Pre-teen metal band Unlocking the Truth perform at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Teenage arts collective MeatLoaf Muzik perform at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

New Jersey's Sunny Gang lives up to their name at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Audience members make themselves heard at Afropunk Fest Brooklyn.

Unlocking the Truth backstage at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.

Sunny Gang in mid-swing at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn.