Questions from discussion between Thebe Kgositsile and Cheryl Harris: Question 3
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024
- This was a discussion between Thebe Kgositsile(aka Earl Sweatshirt) and his mother Professor Cheryl Harris held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles California. The topics discussed were random really, from earls new album, his mom getting social media, and life in general.
guy: so Phyllis Jackson at Pomona college was the first one to introduce me to your work
cheryl: I love Phyllis
guy: and now I study with the afro pessimists(?) At Irvine frank Wilkerson jerry sexton and all them so these are, I have a question for both of you all
cheryl: is it a frank Wilkerson jerry sexton question? uhhhh I don't wanna lose everybody
earl: DO PULL UPS
cheryl: I don't wanna lose everybody, so just bare that in mind, and I don't really care about either of em.
guy: so I wanted to ask, when thinking about whiteness as property, what is the tension between thinking about whiteness as property and black bodies as property, but not necessarily blackness does have something to do with what sadiyah Hartman and frank Wilkerson say is the nature of accumulation of manageability that's always already in tune to blackness?
cheryl: yes
guy: for earl I wanna ask how much do you care for your work to be understood uhm because I do research into black radical music aesthetics and the one thing I see from artists like you, and others, is a sense of the black collective unconscious, realizing that because blackness is always already illegible then there's less of a struggle to try to be legible to try to have these long drawn out song and verses that are super descriptive and try to paint the narrative more, so does that resonate with you?
earl: rap is the slaveries of what is just the modern day information. so slavery in case you didn't know had to be encrypted, you got a code, y'know what I'm sayin so... and then uh, really if I understand it then its like teaching if I understand the subject , even if you don't know off the bat, I could teach it to you because I could paint this picture very clearly, I know what I'm saying. y'know what I'm saying, like all the way, yeah writing is a very meticulous process for me, cracking my own code, how it come out garbled y'know, it take time.
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App bro
Youre a G for writing up all the dialog too man! Thanks again
“dude, pull up”
LMFAO EARL💀
that was me who asked the question. top 5 moment in life foreal. two incredible black thinkers here
Shorty in the pink hat 🤤
The shit earl said at the end was beautiful. It’s real and many people who go to the rap concerts (white suburban kids), don’t understand that. It’s coded language that speaks to real struggles and ideas. Not all rap music but most.
Is it me or is this shit almost inaudible
yeah man, one of those things where it only sounds good when you there lol
wow this guy doesnt have a question. He just wants to espouse jargon heavy phrases he heard in his useless arts class. a bit painful. he needs to do more pull ups.
Maybe you need to do more reading, your mind is clearly untrained. There’s nothing wrong with a well-prefaced question, especially in a situation with someone well acquainted to the topic that interests you. It’s not jargon, it’s specificity which better indicates what response or answer is necessary.