Boots Riley

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401 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 May

Boots Riley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Fresh Air · Boots Riley wants to 'compel and repel' you · 13 May 2026 podcast

There's a rest of development compared to the rest of whoever I knew, right?

And so I was like, I definitely don't want to be a musician.

Yeah, I felt like it was just...

And it was maybe the particular people she was around, right?

But my point is, is that she wanted to be around the excitement of creating things.

And so it took, you know, all of these things about art and music that she was exposing me to.

And so there was definitely a huge artistic influence from that and from her her whole side of things.

But it was, yeah, very much.

I could see like she wasn't.

Making things in the way that she wanted.

Yeah.

And I mean, that story is just so prevalent around these people I know.

You're right.

You're pointing out some connection that I didn't think about.

But I think for the same reason that I wrote the song, I Love Boosters, I wanted to spend time with those characters and they seem interesting.

The real version of those characters, they still do exist today.

They'd be like, are you kidding me?

You're making Star Wars for radical politics.

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