Boots Riley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And that was a unifying rallying cry.
So I started seeing what music and now art in general, how it could have that place.
So I started doing that.
Now started doing music, taught myself, blah, blah, blah.
What I learned from music.
Is what I learned from music is that it doesn't matter because I got known as a lyricist.
So it didn't matter how great someone's lyrics were, like except to a couple like rap lyric nerds or whatever.
People like, what does the beat sound like?
What does that, how does that beat make me feel?
And a lot of that for me,
In a particular way, it was a visceral thing.
Like that 808, you feel it.
The way the music might drop out or something come in, it makes you...
it makes your heart pump in a certain way.
It makes you feel connected.
And so my whole style, even when it's not sticking to the body, is about creating a viscerality through cinema, right?