I’m a young struggling man in high school and you and slug have both been a role model for me. Keep on doing what your doing. Best wishes from Colorado
For what it's worth I can almost guarantee that when you make it through your struggles and some time passes you'll be able to look back and see it all from a different angle and it won't be so bad. The fight is worth it. "One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain." Sorry to ramble
I too was a struggling young man in highschool who was helped through then, and too this day 20 years later by slug and ant, brother ali, eyedea, doseone, jel, rjd2, dj shadow, js one, krs, c rayz walz etc.
I’m mixed. My dad was mixed. When i was a teenager growing up in Dayton Ohio i was considered a light skint black kid. I had that “good hair.” I started going bald around 24 years old. When i shaved it all off, i looked more white. When i moved to Seattle my skin got even lighter. Now people perceived me as white. Being mixed for me meant being both races and neither race. Never black enough or white enough. But it gave me a thick skin and I’m at peace with my swirled origins.
Real talk. Rhymesayers is some of the dopest hip-hop ever and hearing slug acknowledging his roots is really heartwarming. It comes full circle too because my family is from Minneapolis (mom south side, dad northside) and i know there’s a lot of mix people up there. Shout out to this convo 🙌🏾
This was interesting to hear. I’m from Minneapolis too, and mixed in also a racially ambiguous way, but never knew slug I also mixed all these years. I deal with some of the same issues around my identity being a visual artist. Sometimes a grant or some other opportunity would come around for black artists or POC artist and my younger self was honestly terrified of the eventual moment where I would have to prove my blackness to the public. I’m 39 now and have mixed kids, so I’ve managed to work past that fear some. Cool to hear someone I grew up listening to actually relates in a deep way. Much love yall ✌🏽
I have been following Rhymesayers for over twenty years. Slug, you still manage to surprise me with how down for the culture you are. Brother Ali, I just found out you cast, I need to get into the back catalogue. Artists like you inspire artists like me to do the damn thing but to do it with decency and without exploiting the weak. You cast a BRIGHT light in obscenely dark times.
It’s so dope to see this! Even though I’m a mixed person as well, I STILL get looks for “acting” like one side of the spectrum more. The sooner you stop listening to comparisons, the more peace you can find ☮️
Same. Moms black, dad is white. Raised by my black family in a white suburb. I just began to realize my light privilege and be able to have a vocabulary around it. My kids are Sean’s mix now, but growing up in a very diverse area of NY so it’s normalized. They aren’t the odd kids out like I was.
So i got to meet Slug this summer. He could clearly see i was absolutely fuckin SHOOK, he reaches out, shakes my hand and says "You can call me Sean." Ill never forget that shit man. He couldnt have been more humble and respectful. Let us take pictures, bullshitted with us for a bit, and off he went. To put on one of the greatest performances ive ever seen in my whole fucking life.
Holy shit! What an experience!! I would be so damn star struck if Slug literally passed me by walking down the street...... Now if Kim K was passing me by in the street I wouldn't have even noticed her!!! I'm waiting for fucking slug??? Yeah I'm waiting for slug! And Yeah he is so fucking ugly it's so damn beautiful! ❤
Loved you guys since I was a teenager. It wasnt about black or white for me when i discovered yall. You just opened up my eyes to the fact that hiphop can be used as a freedom of expression, rather than the vent for testosterone that i was using it for up until that time.
Hit me in the soul when he said he thought he was black until the cops showed up. I've always told this same damn story as my sudden realization, but Puerto Rican instead. Born + raised there until coming to the US for middle school and there's a trauma with that realization; being denied legitimate by your own people, watching your friends treated as criminals while receiving a thumbs up for your whiteness - that identity crisis can certainly crush you. Realizing it's the outside world + what's vital is the focus inside is the elixir. Love is the healing balm. Great interview.
It’s so nuanced and deep. My wife is black and Puerto Rican and was seen as PR when she lived in NY. The minute she moved to Minneapolis she was seen as black only. And now in Istanbul she’s African.
Found god loves ugly when i was drunk one day on pandora. Came up years later when i was down and around 2020 i found atmosphere. Ive loved every slug project since. Found brother ali from slug as well. glad to see you stories
Both of my parents are black, but my Dad looks more like Slug. I honestly never thought about it. My parents were both proud HBCU alum, etc. I hit middle school and people started teasing me for being mixed (I'm not) after they saw my dad. I'm sure it hits hard when you ARE mixed, and trying to navigate identity. I think it also effected my dad in many ways. He is very pro-Black, and made sure we were grounded in our Blackness. He won't talk about what he experienced, but I know people speak freely when they don't perceive a Black person to be around....
The obsession with race and the denial that almost all African Americans are mixed is a toxic problem that needs to change. The truth is there is a lot of racism in American culture that does not come from the pink people. I have been accused of being racist for not liking gangster rap. But by brain never thinks the N-word unless rap lyrics get stuck in my head. The N-word is always in the hook of gangster rap somewhere or another. The hook gets in your head like an ear worm and now millions of white kids that would never have the N-word in their head have it on repeat to a beat.
Bro, saying "things are raslst!!" is just what aging artists do in this day and age. Everyone applauds and there's zero risk in doing it. Easy way to act morlly and intellctually superior. Its not a vulnerable thing to bcause its a safe thing that everyone pats you on the sholder for
I ran into Atmosphere through Buck 65, Sixtoo, all the Anticon crew, and Eyedea/We Really Freestyle, etc, and bumped that stuff for yeears, never really thought about race, the vibe was a little different, but the soul was full send.
Bamboozled is Spike's best movie. Serch was "1/16th Blak". That Mau Maus joint was legit hot. It's also one of my ANGRY movies, with Mississippi Burning, Who Killed Atlanta's Children, and (less so now) Glory.
I saw you live at the Engine Room, 2003 Houston. Incredible show. Nothing but love. Ooooh shit, I met you backstage and you autographed my ticket stub. What a great memory.
Salam alaykum, Brother Ali- I've been thoroughly enjoying the pod lately, so thanks for that in addition to your powerful music. Absolutely incredible to hear about your journey to Islam and to learn more about the faith. You probably wouldn't be surprised to hear that your podcast is this midwest white boy's real first introduction to Islam. It's fascinating, humbling, and makes me feel some kind of way... Propaganda in this country seriously sucks, man. Glad to be walking the earth the same time as you, Brother. Hope the fam is well and best of luck on the tour! Stay safe!
I have to agree. It was cool to hear new styles coming from different areas like that. But Minneapolis can't touch areas like The Bay, LA, ATL, NYC, Detroit, Chicago, or Miami.
With a fraction of blackness. Slug and Ant are a gift. A gift that I embrace and love every single day. Slugs lyrics will make you laugh, smile, cry, think and reflect that no one else in hip-hop can do.
Slug name dropping Evidence, has me hoping we get an Evidence interview on the Travelers Podcast sometime soon. Thanks for what you Brother Ali and Slug both do at Rhymesayers and for who you are as people. Salute
I've listened to Slug for 20+ years and had no idea he was mixed until I saw this. I'm white and I rap, and have a mixed (and "ambiguous"-looking) stepdaughter who I'm getting into rap, and Slug's perspective in this clip was both interesting information-wise and uplifting on a personal level. Thanks for this.
I grew up off of 16th and 28th. I went to South High in Mpls. And I grew up having native, black and white friends. I was one of only a few Mexicans in that area back in those days. Some of the best memories I have are from being on bikes playing street ball with neighborhood friends. South Sider for life.
@entrepreneurism5243 There's so many now. Not just Mexico but all of South America. I've worked with people from Equador, Honduras, Columbia, Peru, Ricans. My dad's new wife is from El Salvador.
@entrepreneurism5243 We're all from TJ and Cali, but my mom moved up here back in 1981 when I was only 4 yrs old. I consider myself from here, but we still get family that visits from Cali.
These comments just prove most folks don't understand the mixed or multiracial experience. Race is deeper than skin colour, it is community and family ties it is your internal world as well. Not just how the outside world perceives you.
I never knew this about Slug. I always thought he was white. He has a song where he says a black woman tought him and his friend about music and I always thought he was a white kid growing up in the hood. I loved his music Smart went Crazy was around the time I found him and it was all love. This was interesting to listen to. Shout out Brother Ali for putting together this channel and content. I subbed for sure boss.
What Slug said about the box being around the audience, made me think of an MC Lyte song Lyte As A Rock( 2:50), where she says "theres bars around the stage they assume i'm in prison when in reality they're locked in." You aint white boy music, you ARE music. Great music. Music i connect to as a sad clown 😏
I went thru this alot. I'm half white and half Mexican. All my "cousins" were of not Caucasian decent. I'm super light skinned so you can not even tell I am Mexican. I didn't know there was a difference till middle school either. Eastside for life
I am white. I like mayonnaise and raisin salad. I grew up in a neighborhood where no one could correctly read anyone else’s cousin’s names, multiple friends earned DOC(CDC) #s. I went a different route and never “came off the porch.” I went to work, went back to school, got a better job and moved to Caucasian Acres. I don’t fit in with these people. I am playing a part with them, and I am white as hell. 90% of my neighbors never experienced an afterschool special lesson, even if they are black. The one group I can relate to are the naturalized immigrants who came from places they don’t want to go back to. Everyone else seems odd.
I was a street kid. If you looked at me you'd assume I was high and going to jack your shit. So the cops always harassed the shit out of me. They knew me by name. They would drive by and scream it on their loudspeakers just to let me know they were watching. Always patting me down at school. I would fuck with them too. It was crazy shit in the Bay Area back then. But no doubt. For real. It was different for me because of my race. Anytime I would go to court the judge would look at my grandma and be super lenient. I had a warrant for 18 months straight. The judge sent me back to drug court instead of putting me in jail. Because the courts only saw a lost little white boy being raised by his Grandma. I always got one more chance. Many black kids never did. So even if you grew up on section 8 and life was rugged AF it is way different. That's a privilege despite the fact I suffered from bad circumstances.
No better advocate than my grandma. RIP. Doing really well now. Raising a family. Making sure they're in a better spot than I was. Thank you Brother Ali. It was the music that got me through that. @@BrotherAli_Travelers
I'm white (dad from Greece, mom 100% Italian) and look white, but my brother is dark skinned and everyone thinks he's Arab or Persian. Meanwhile his daughter is also dark skinned with really curly dark hair, and everyone thinks she's non-white Hispanic. Race and racial perception is a funny thing. Same family, same genetics, but we're perceived much differently.
Look at these legends, and then compare them to mainstream awkward soulless so called rap artists.. Only the real speak about the real, good luck with the POD, been a long time I seen you guys, but never stopped listening, hence why I landed here
I was a full 2 minutes away before i realized this isnt a Logic interview. i thought "Wait, Logics from MN?" Had Ali not said "Atmosphere" i would have never known.
I viewed myself as myself before a cop once called to his croney as a "white Caucasian male." I'm half white... Whatever that may mean and half Mexican, if you will. 1/4 native American and 1/4 Spanish and other blood. To me, view points are view points, doesn't make you what you are. Heart is heart. All these descriptions are bs to me. Love is love, hate is hate. Be respectful of everyone I say. But, idk... Cheers
So what is 'Whiteness' and what does it mean to be White? as dude looks white to me and if I didn't know his story I'd assume he was White . I guess that ultimately we need to judge people on their character rather than their Race as it really doesn't matter
TBH, I didn't know this about Atmosphere. Let's all stop judging people based upon the way they look. You can guess but you have no idea where someone came from or what influenced them based in what they look like. "Blackness", "Whiteness", "Appropriation". All a bunch of BS. That isn't to say we should ignore racism or the past, but we should try to understand who someone is and where they came from. Generalizations always lead to hate, war, etc. We are all people.
Slug was always a little smoother and had a little more rhythm than your underground white rappers. Check out is verse on Embarassed with Eyedea and Sage Francis as an example. He wasn't with that shameful attitude lol
I wanna love slug like i used to, but they did prof real REAL dirty. For reasons that a younger sluggo would stand up for. Breaks my heart. National disgrace 😭
I’m a young struggling man in high school and you and slug have both been a role model for me. Keep on doing what your doing. Best wishes from Colorado
For what it's worth I can almost guarantee that when you make it through your struggles and some time passes you'll be able to look back and see it all from a different angle and it won't be so bad. The fight is worth it. "One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain." Sorry to ramble
Much love my friend. High school can suuuuuuck!!!!! Praying for you and pulling for you.
100% true but so hard to see when you’re “in it”.
I too was a struggling young man in highschool who was helped through then, and too this day 20 years later by slug and ant, brother ali, eyedea, doseone, jel, rjd2, dj shadow, js one, krs, c rayz walz etc.
Thanks for the support it nice to know I’m not the only one.
I’m mixed. My dad was mixed. When i was a teenager growing up in Dayton Ohio i was considered a light skint black kid. I had that “good hair.” I started going bald around 24 years old. When i shaved it all off, i looked more white. When i moved to Seattle my skin got even lighter. Now people perceived me as white. Being mixed for me meant being both races and neither race. Never black enough or white enough. But it gave me a thick skin and I’m at peace with my swirled origins.
Real talk. Rhymesayers is some of the dopest hip-hop ever and hearing slug acknowledging his roots is really heartwarming. It comes full circle too because my family is from Minneapolis (mom south side, dad northside) and i know there’s a lot of mix people up there. Shout out to this convo 🙌🏾
This was interesting to hear. I’m from Minneapolis too, and mixed in also a racially ambiguous way, but never knew slug I also mixed all these years. I deal with some of the same issues around my identity being a visual artist. Sometimes a grant or some other opportunity would come around for black artists or POC artist and my younger self was honestly terrified of the eventual moment where I would have to prove my blackness to the public. I’m 39 now and have mixed kids, so I’ve managed to work past that fear some. Cool to hear someone I grew up listening to actually relates in a deep way. Much love yall ✌🏽
Being native mixed, this really hit home.
🌹💚🙏
I have been following Rhymesayers for over twenty years. Slug, you still manage to surprise me with how down for the culture you are. Brother Ali, I just found out you cast, I need to get into the back catalogue. Artists like you inspire artists like me to do the damn thing but to do it with decency and without exploiting the weak. You cast a BRIGHT light in obscenely dark times.
It’s so dope to see this! Even though I’m a mixed person as well, I STILL get looks for “acting” like one side of the spectrum more. The sooner you stop listening to comparisons, the more peace you can find ☮️
So many layers. Much love
Yeap. Growing up mixed and light is a real struggle. Internally.
Same. Moms black, dad is white. Raised by my black family in a white suburb. I just began to realize my light privilege and be able to have a vocabulary around it. My kids are Sean’s mix now, but growing up in a very diverse area of NY so it’s normalized. They aren’t the odd kids out like I was.
@@meganhanrahan7783 ye. So much more normal to be quad racial now!!
I had no idea about slugs personal life. Very glad I listened to this.
So i got to meet Slug this summer. He could clearly see i was absolutely fuckin SHOOK, he reaches out, shakes my hand and says "You can call me Sean." Ill never forget that shit man. He couldnt have been more humble and respectful. Let us take pictures, bullshitted with us for a bit, and off he went. To put on one of the greatest performances ive ever seen in my whole fucking life.
Holy shit! What an experience!! I would be so damn star struck if Slug literally passed me by walking down the street...... Now if Kim K was passing me by in the street I wouldn't have even noticed her!!! I'm waiting for fucking slug??? Yeah I'm waiting for slug! And Yeah he is so fucking ugly it's so damn beautiful! ❤
Loved you guys since I was a teenager. It wasnt about black or white for me when i discovered yall. You just opened up my eyes to the fact that hiphop can be used as a freedom of expression, rather than the vent for testosterone that i was using it for up until that time.
Hit me in the soul when he said he thought he was black until the cops showed up. I've always told this same damn story as my sudden realization, but Puerto Rican instead. Born + raised there until coming to the US for middle school and there's a trauma with that realization; being denied legitimate by your own people, watching your friends treated as criminals while receiving a thumbs up for your whiteness - that identity crisis can certainly crush you. Realizing it's the outside world + what's vital is the focus inside is the elixir. Love is the healing balm. Great interview.
It’s so nuanced and deep. My wife is black and Puerto Rican and was seen as PR when she lived in NY. The minute she moved to Minneapolis she was seen as black only. And now in Istanbul she’s African.
Found god loves ugly when i was drunk one day on pandora. Came up years later when i was down and around 2020 i found atmosphere. Ive loved every slug project since. Found brother ali from slug as well. glad to see you stories
Both of my parents are black, but my Dad looks more like Slug. I honestly never thought about it. My parents were both proud HBCU alum, etc. I hit middle school and people started teasing me for being mixed (I'm not) after they saw my dad. I'm sure it hits hard when you ARE mixed, and trying to navigate identity. I think it also effected my dad in many ways. He is very pro-Black, and made sure we were grounded in our Blackness. He won't talk about what he experienced, but I know people speak freely when they don't perceive a Black person to be around....
Yeah man.. These are the nuanced conversations I’m here for. Really appreciate you listening and taking the time to reflect and share. Much love
If your dad looks like Slug, then you're mixed.
The obsession with race and the denial that almost all African Americans are mixed is a toxic problem that needs to change.
The truth is there is a lot of racism in American culture that does not come from the pink people.
I have been accused of being racist for not liking gangster rap. But by brain never thinks the N-word unless rap lyrics get stuck in my head.
The N-word is always in the hook of gangster rap somewhere or another.
The hook gets in your head like an ear worm and now millions of white kids that would never have the N-word in their head have it on repeat to a beat.
Fellas thanks for being so open, showing us how your vulnerability makes you grow and strengthen. Your music inspires just the same for so many.
Bro, saying "things are raslst!!" is just what aging artists do in this day and age. Everyone applauds and there's zero risk in doing it. Easy way to act morlly and intellctually superior. Its not a vulnerable thing to bcause its a safe thing that everyone pats you on the sholder for
@@valuedCustomer2929Who said something was racist?
I ran into Atmosphere through Buck 65, Sixtoo, all the Anticon crew, and Eyedea/We Really Freestyle, etc, and bumped that stuff for yeears, never really thought about race, the vibe was a little different, but the soul was full send.
Bamboozled is Spike's best movie. Serch was "1/16th Blak". That Mau Maus joint was legit hot.
It's also one of my ANGRY movies, with Mississippi Burning, Who Killed Atlanta's Children, and (less so now) Glory.
I hear you. My personal fav is either Do The Right Thing or X, but I’ll take any of em from that time period.
I can relate to this. Similar background, similar experiences. Similar realization.
Like Lauryn says “I get out of all ya boxes”
Much love
Definitely appreciate that part of the interview, I fell like I the box and labels have had me messed up.
Damn this was a great interview. "love language"...... So gonna need an album titled this!
beautiful.
I resonate with this so much.
I saw you live at the Engine Room, 2003 Houston. Incredible show. Nothing but love. Ooooh shit, I met you backstage and you autographed my ticket stub. What a great memory.
Not sure if you mean me or Slug, but much love either way and thanks for watching!
It was Slug, but you also performed at the show. Super dope as well Ali
Salam alaykum, Brother Ali- I've been thoroughly enjoying the pod lately, so thanks for that in addition to your powerful music. Absolutely incredible to hear about your journey to Islam and to learn more about the faith. You probably wouldn't be surprised to hear that your podcast is this midwest white boy's real first introduction to Islam. It's fascinating, humbling, and makes me feel some kind of way... Propaganda in this country seriously sucks, man. Glad to be walking the earth the same time as you, Brother. Hope the fam is well and best of luck on the tour! Stay safe!
This is dope Ali keep this up brotha, mad entertaining
Damn Ali, i wish you came back uo with Slug when he played uo here in Alaska this summer. I miss y'all
Great clip. Peace to Bro Ali and Slug.
Much love fam
Eyedea brother Ali Atmsophere Minneapolis has a legendary hip hop scene
Only people in Minnesota think so. Atlanta wouldn’t agree
I have to agree. It was cool to hear new styles coming from different areas like that. But Minneapolis can't touch areas like The Bay, LA, ATL, NYC, Detroit, Chicago, or Miami.
Right on ❤
With a fraction of blackness. Slug and Ant are a gift. A gift that I embrace and love every single day. Slugs lyrics will make you laugh, smile, cry, think and reflect that no one else in hip-hop can do.
Slug lovin, I gotchu with that love language, deeds speak.
Absolutely love the podcast Brother. Keep on keeping on. Best wishes from Scotland ❤️👊🏴
Wassup from a fellow Scot.
Do you listen to Scottish hip hop?
@@aqeelbutt9395 I listen to anything, link me up 💪👊
Much appreciated
What are some dope Scottish hip hop artists??
@@esoligh Young Fathers are amazing ✊🏴
This was a super good conversation
Much love
Slug name dropping Evidence, has me hoping we get an Evidence interview on the Travelers Podcast sometime soon. Thanks for what you Brother Ali and Slug both do at Rhymesayers and for who you are as people. Salute
Much love
As long as we focus on the lines they will continue to exist 🌎 The truth is 🚀 we are all Love 🌴
I remember getting into atmosphere through MySpace in early 2000s.
Now it all makes sense
I've listened to Slug for 20+ years and had no idea he was mixed until I saw this. I'm white and I rap, and have a mixed (and "ambiguous"-looking) stepdaughter who I'm getting into rap, and Slug's perspective in this clip was both interesting information-wise and uplifting on a personal level. Thanks for this.
I grew up off of 16th and 28th. I went to South High in Mpls. And I grew up having native, black and white friends. I was one of only a few Mexicans in that area back in those days. Some of the best memories I have are from being on bikes playing street ball with neighborhood friends. South Sider for life.
as a Mexican from LA I'm always shocked when I hear about a Mexican in Minneapolis
@entrepreneurism5243 There's so many now. Not just Mexico but all of South America. I've worked with people from Equador, Honduras, Columbia, Peru, Ricans. My dad's new wife is from El Salvador.
@entrepreneurism5243 We're all from TJ and Cali, but my mom moved up here back in 1981 when I was only 4 yrs old. I consider myself from here, but we still get family that visits from Cali.
These comments just prove most folks don't understand the mixed or multiracial experience. Race is deeper than skin colour, it is community and family ties it is your internal world as well. Not just how the outside world perceives you.
I feel you
Shared
Respect to Brother Ali. Stayed true to the craft and community.
Much love
I never knew this. Respect Slug 🙏
I never knew this about Slug. I always thought he was white. He has a song where he says a black woman tought him and his friend about music and I always thought he was a white kid growing up in the hood. I loved his music Smart went Crazy was around the time I found him and it was all love. This was interesting to listen to. Shout out Brother Ali for putting together this channel and content. I subbed for sure boss.
sounds like hes 75% white
Dude, he is white haha. Do the math. Ever see Michael Jordan, that guys black.
💙💙💙
Double Virgo=Acts of Service
cool
What Slug said about the box being around the audience, made me think of an MC Lyte song Lyte As A Rock( 2:50), where she says "theres bars around the stage they assume i'm in prison when in reality they're locked in." You aint white boy music, you ARE music. Great music. Music i connect to as a sad clown 😏
I went thru this alot. I'm half white and half Mexican. All my "cousins" were of not Caucasian decent. I'm super light skinned so you can not even tell I am Mexican. I didn't know there was a difference till middle school either. Eastside for life
I am white. I like mayonnaise and raisin salad. I grew up in a neighborhood where no one could correctly read anyone else’s cousin’s names, multiple friends earned DOC(CDC) #s. I went a different route and never “came off the porch.” I went to work, went back to school, got a better job and moved to Caucasian Acres. I don’t fit in with these people. I am playing a part with them, and I am white as hell. 90% of my neighbors never experienced an afterschool special lesson, even if they are black. The one group I can relate to are the naturalized immigrants who came from places they don’t want to go back to. Everyone else seems odd.
That’s why we’re all here today.
I was a street kid. If you looked at me you'd assume I was high and going to jack your shit. So the cops always harassed the shit out of me. They knew me by name. They would drive by and scream it on their loudspeakers just to let me know they were watching. Always patting me down at school. I would fuck with them too. It was crazy shit in the Bay Area back then.
But no doubt. For real. It was different for me because of my race. Anytime I would go to court the judge would look at my grandma and be super lenient. I had a warrant for 18 months straight. The judge sent me back to drug court instead of putting me in jail. Because the courts only saw a lost little white boy being raised by his Grandma. I always got one more chance. Many black kids never did. So even if you grew up on section 8 and life was rugged AF it is way different. That's a privilege despite the fact I suffered from bad circumstances.
I respect your balance self awareness and situational awareness. Assuming you’re okay now? And love to your grandma!
No better advocate than my grandma. RIP. Doing really well now. Raising a family. Making sure they're in a better spot than I was. Thank you Brother Ali. It was the music that got me through that. @@BrotherAli_Travelers
Much love my friend.
Damn haven’t hear suggles in years cool this popped up. Hope everyone is well.
I'm white (dad from Greece, mom 100% Italian) and look white, but my brother is dark skinned and everyone thinks he's Arab or Persian. Meanwhile his daughter is also dark skinned with really curly dark hair, and everyone thinks she's non-white Hispanic. Race and racial perception is a funny thing. Same family, same genetics, but we're perceived much differently.
Dope and interesting. I'm black and racially ambiguous cuz of my light skin and family ancestry.
Thanks for listening and checking in
Look at these legends, and then compare them to mainstream awkward soulless so called rap artists.. Only the real speak about the real, good luck with the POD, been a long time I seen you guys, but never stopped listening, hence why I landed here
Damn, I never knew Slug was mixed.
I was a full 2 minutes away before i realized this isnt a Logic interview. i thought "Wait, Logics from MN?" Had Ali not said "Atmosphere" i would have never known.
Slug dropped references to The Dynospectrum, and Kanye West.
As a white dude that grew up in the hood, my experience with Cops was totally different
Because you didn’t have a gun and weren’t in a gang?
@@BlackJacketJones I got beat up by the cops all the time
Evidence has fans?
SLUG IS BLACK ?! 🤯
Black, white and native just like Ant
Get over it.
Take a teaspoon of cement and harden up, he says he is black and you say yes to it.
I viewed myself as myself before a cop once called to his croney as a "white Caucasian male." I'm half white... Whatever that may mean and half Mexican, if you will. 1/4 native American and 1/4 Spanish and other blood. To me, view points are view points, doesn't make you what you are. Heart is heart. All these descriptions are bs to me. Love is love, hate is hate. Be respectful of everyone I say. But, idk... Cheers
So what is 'Whiteness' and what does it mean to be White? as dude looks white to me and if I didn't know his story I'd assume he was White . I guess that ultimately we need to judge people on their character rather than their Race as it really doesn't matter
Your initial question is a good one, and there’s plenty of information out there if you care enough to look into it.
When I think about Brooklyn I think Biggie 😅
Me too.
*YGM* by A-PHERE is a BANGER!
Black peoples colored people do the same thing . Almost like the movie t” The Butler “
Are you South African?
TBH, I didn't know this about Atmosphere. Let's all stop judging people based upon the way they look. You can guess but you have no idea where someone came from or what influenced them based in what they look like. "Blackness", "Whiteness", "Appropriation". All a bunch of BS. That isn't to say we should ignore racism or the past, but we should try to understand who someone is and where they came from. Generalizations always lead to hate, war, etc. We are all people.
Slug was always a little smoother and had a little more rhythm than your underground white rappers. Check out is verse on Embarassed with Eyedea and Sage Francis as an example. He wasn't with that shameful attitude lol
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Im embarrassed by my past actions and even more ashamed...
“I was offended” that sounds like something a white person would say.
I thought he was logic for a second. Lol. Just because of the subject.
Just 2 white fellas talking about rap.
Just a couple of white dudes shooting the breeze
😂 These fools weak af fr
I wanna love slug like i used to, but they did prof real REAL dirty. For reasons that a younger sluggo would stand up for. Breaks my heart. National disgrace 😭
I literally never listened to Slug because I thought he was just another white rapper...
I feel like anyone who makes music as constantly for this long has to have something special about em.
Why wouldn’t you want to listen to a white rapper? I’m asking for real I won’t be offended or argue I’m genuinely curious about your position.
His dad was around, yep he's white
This is embarrassing.
Sorry you’re embarrassed.
@@BrotherAli_Travelers You're sorry alright.
As black as a 3 dollar bill, would of been so much cooler if he was just a white kid.
How do u figure please explain
Well how literal is that statement?