What would you ask Boots Riley?
May 14, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Music News
At From The Crowd, we have a set of questions we like to ask the band we interview, as we think its interesting to compare answers from different bands and their members. We also like to ask two or three questions from fans of the group or band member.
This Saturday, we will be interviewing Boots Riley, of Street Sweeper Social Club.
Boots Riley is best known as the leader of The Coup, the seminal Hip-Hop group from Oakland, CA. As a producer and lyricist, Riley has crafted critically acclaimed albums for The Coup that have graced the year-end Top 10 lists of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and more. They have also received Album of the Year honors from The Washington Post, Time Out New York, while Billboard Magazine declared the group ‘The best hip-hop act of the past decade.’ Born in Chicago and raised in East Oakland’s Funktown neighborhood, Boots became a teenage community organizer. From his history of student organizing in Oakland’s public schools, serving on the central committee for the Progressive Labor Party, being the President of Youth InCar (Youth International Committee Against Racism), organizing to build California’s Anti-Racist Farm Workers’ Union, to developing ‘guerrilla hip hop concerts’ (mobile concerts on flatbed trucks), Boots Riley has been an integral part of the progressive struggle for radical change through culture.
Here is your chance. What should we ask him? Post your questions in the comments section below or email contribute (at) fromthecrowd (dot) com
We will reference your name when we ask the question! We will close submissions at 10am PST Saturday May 16
