The Block is Hot (the resurrection) speaks to a culture of gender performativity often associated with Black men from working-class families while thinking about the relationship of bodies to architecture and class. The title "The Block is Hot" is sourced from the New Orleans-born rapper Lil Wayne's 1999 studio debut album of the eponymous name. Rap music was a dominant form of culture in Meris's youth, even though he grew up in the Bahamas, where he often found himself at odds with the world around him. This work points toward other possibilities for race, gender, and sexuality yet to be defined. Through kinetic movement, The Block is Hot is slowly emancipating itself. This work is about rebuking racist mythologies around Black masculinities.