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Boots Riley Biography

Raymond Lawrence Riley (born April 1, 1971), better known by his stage name Boots Riley, is an American rapper, producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club.

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In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

High, High School, School, Table, Tables

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

Regular, Sexist, Song, Want, Way, Writing

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

Done, Feels, Like, Needs, Person, Things

What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.

Figuring, Hands, Idea, Media, People, Thinking

Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.

Father, Human, Ideas, Theories, Thinking

I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these clubs that let hip hop come in now, they would never have let hip hop come in.

Hip, Idea, Ideas, Oakland, People

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

People, Personal, Personal Life, Song, Songs, Thought

What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.

Connection, Ideas, People, Personal, Trying

People give out compliments because it's polite.

Compliment, Compliments, Giving, People, Polite

I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground rock tours. I've been on multimillion selling rock shows. I've been in the jam band thing, and both commercial and underground hip hop. Very few people listen to one kind of music.

Hip, Hip Hop, Kinds, People, Rocks, Thing

I always write knowing that people will hear it, but also hoping they'll see it. So a lot of times I make lyrical decisions based on what looks better. Also I write based on what I saw for a video. I obsess over lyrics in the hopes that they'll endure in different ways. I'm very precious about it.

Decision, Make, People, Times, Write, Writing

I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

Like, Listened, Listening, Living, Ohio, Player

I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.

Part, Stand, Want, Watches, World

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

Ideas, Important, Musician, Musicians, Times

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

Avowed, Professional, Revolutionary, Time

Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.

Gives, Ideas, Rap, Think, Thinking, World

I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

Change, Chemical, Chemicals, Think, Thinking, Way

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

Say, Saying, Saying And Doing, Supposed, Supposed To Be, Thinking

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

Hip, Hip Hop, Hop, Messages, Party, Putting

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

Community, Dogg, Music, People, Rap

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