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I just make music based on what I believe.
Boots Riley Quotes: I just make music based
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.
Boots Riley Quotes: I've been involved in a
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.
Boots Riley Quotes: Rappers are usually rapping about
Death to the pigs is my basic statement.
Boots Riley Quotes: Death to the pigs is
When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.
Boots Riley Quotes: When my daughter was born,
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.
Boots Riley Quotes: I wanted to write a
In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.
Boots Riley Quotes: In reality, I know I'm
It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.
Boots Riley Quotes: It's usually important to me
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.
Boots Riley Quotes: Becoming a father made me
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.
Boots Riley Quotes: I had no idea how
A lot of us don't get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.
Boots Riley Quotes: A lot of us don't
Sometimes it takes time to get into what ideas actually mean to you. Even when you're not writing a song, it's like that.
Boots Riley Quotes: Sometimes it takes time to
In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.
Boots Riley Quotes: In high school, everybody rapped.
If you press your ear to the turf that is stolen
You can hear the sound of limitations exploding
Please sir, may we have another portion?
We're children of the beast that dodged the abortion
Neck placed firm 'tween the floor and the Florsheim
We'll shut your shit down, don't call it extortion
Caution -- we're coming for your head
So call the Feds and get files to shred
Every textbook read said bring you the bread
But guess what we got you instead?

We got the guillotine, we got the guillotine
Boots Riley Quotes: If you press your ear
I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.
Boots Riley Quotes: I was an avowed professional
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.
Boots Riley Quotes: What I'm trying to do
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.
Boots Riley Quotes: A lot of what we
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.
Boots Riley Quotes: I lived in Detroit until
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