I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical … - Boots Riley

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The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

Boots Riley

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

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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.

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When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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