In episode 66 we go over a few topics while doing calls out to Rock So Fresh's own Godoyski and Super B Beat Boys' own Sake. We discuss:
• How Saso was being recruited by Crazy Legs and a funny story from a San Francisco jam trip.
• How members of the hip hop community are calling out non blacks and calling them "guests" in hip hop culture. Most of the heads calling out non blacks aren't really big contributors to the hip hop culture. What we've experienced within hip hop culture and from teachings of our elders that are from all types of backgrounds is that it is all inclusive. We go over our ideas on why people have brought up the whole, "guest in hip hop" statements. I mean the best b boys to ever do it are of Puerto Rican descent, some of the best in the world come from all parts of this earth.
• How people are accusing Shia LeBouf of, "brownfacing" in his latest movie. We bring it up as a tangent but later on talk about this with Sake when we call him.
• Hip Hop History class? What makes you a certified teacher to instruct students on hip hop and its history?
• Why is it when someone from the hood tries to advance themselves like say attend a university for a degree, they get clowned for it? We discuss.
• Also, when POC do certain things why is it that someone will tell you, "oh that's some white people shit". For example, joining a wine club or doing yoga, playing corn hole, listening to country mus.... wait that music's white as hell.
• Claudia the Venezuelan Vixen got sick and cancelled the podcast for last week. We thought she was busted with the Covid, however she tested negative and it was just a bad cold. We go over how she did during that time.
• Shoutout to our own NSF Podcast co-host DJ Son of Jarel of the Super B Beat Boys, he achieved his doctorate recently. We bring him up as our main source of info for the fight against Covid.
• We call Godoyski out in Arizona and discuss what he's currently working on. He's currently working with a master's degree MFA and possibly towards a pHd in the near future. His recent projects have been posted on his instagram so check those out. Current projects have Godoyski working on the "inbetween space", specifically with letters and typefaces. He breaks down how he came upon the ideas of creating a project based on this space. Very inspiring to hear Godoyski break down his views on this project and how he draws design from breaking itself.
We also talk to Godoyski about his workout routine and what he's been doing to stay in shape.
• The importance of having friends post their workouts on social media. With a pandemic and quarantine causing everyone to do their workouts at home, we feel having friends post their workouts inspires others to get up and move. Claudia and Saso have been posting the stand up paddleboard workouts, I commented with, "that's some white shit".... Just playing, I did not.
• We finally get Sake back onto the podcast via telefono. Sake believes the 5th Element of hip hop is farting. We bring up the white people shit talk for Sake to discuss. Sake breaks down the whole Shia LeBouf topic of playing a white cholo and how it actually was in Spring Valley back in the day. It was a normal thing for white homies to be down. Sake talks about the whole "being a guest in this culture", topic. He breaks down how it was in early days of graffitti where most of the writers were white or part of the punk rock scene. Is hip hop more of a style now than a culture? It seems to be taking a different direction away from being a culture. Sake brings us on some crazy tangents during his talk so listen into this one.
What we've been listening to.....
Saso:
• Aloha Got Soul, some Hawaiian soul and funk brought to Saso's attention via DJ Son of Jarel.
• Modern Love on Amazon Prime
Claudia:
• Hip Hop BBQ playlist on Pandora. Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix, Umbrella Academy.
Art:
• 90's R&B, Chali 2na & Krafty Kuts. Stranger on Netflix, Kingdom (MMA show) on Netflix.