Producer and singer-songwriter Bartees Strange considers what it means to write music for the people who are not seen, heard, or cared about.
Like these are black artists who are pushing the envelope in this, in our space. Um, but for some reason, sometimes I feel like. The music is just marketed in a way that isn't showing black people, that it's for them.
And that line, you know, I'm just saying like, you can't hurt me. I've, I've seen way worse than what you could throw at me. So, what do you wanna do? You gonna let me in or not? That's kind of what it is. Yeah. You're listening to Helga we will rejoin the conversation in just a moment. Thanks for being here.And now let's rejoin my conversation with Bartees Strange.
The people on my block would say that to me and I would say it back to them. It was like, welcome home, get off the train, been around white people all day, and I'd take a right onto my block. And so I was like, my nigga was good. That became like, welcome home bro. You know, like that became this thing that made me feel really comfortable.
It didn't feel like it felt coming from a white person. I don't know how to explain that. Uh, I mean, I wanted to be a part of this community um, that was using it. And these were broke people, rich black people, people that worked at the MoMA, people that worked at the Whitney, people that played in cool bands.
Yeah. It's just like, oh, this is that, this, okay, I get it, you know that's kind of how I, I learned that through, through those experiences and with other black people that I've run with and this world I'm in now making music or making art or whatever among my age range, my group, we use it all the time with each other and it's almost like, Like a secret that weIt's almost like, ha ha.
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