The Santos Says Podcast

Santos takes on Balenciaga amidst their recent advertising campaign blunder where they featured children in bandage and other inappropriate poses. Santos discusses why it may be time to cancel Balenciaga, discusses how other high fashion clothing brands have tried to insult the consumer's intelligence either through exploiting children or through blatantly racist imagery, advertising, or designs. Santos also talks about the importance of holding these companies accountable and more.

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References:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/05/prada-blackface-settlement/

https://www.collectiveshout.org/caroline_bosmans_sexualises_kids_for_profit

https://www.africanews.com/amp/2018/01/08/fashion-brand-hm-apologizes-for-ad-of-black-boy-in-coolest-monkey-hoodie/

https://amp.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/feb/07/gucci-withdraws-jumper-blackface-balaclava

Santos gives a state of his podcast address to the audience and talks about why he just hasn't felt like podcasting lately. Plus Santos gives an album review of Nas' latest release "King's Disease 3", and reveals why he believes it isn't the best among the 4 albums released with Hit Boy, he also ranks his least favorite songs as well as his favorite songs, and ranks all 4 Nas+ Hitboy albums.

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Santos talks about the recent issues revolving around basketball star Kyrie Irving and Ye (Kanye West) including their  antisemitic statements,  and co-signing of antisemitic viewpoints made in Amazon documentary. Santos gives his takes on the holding public figures accountable, how the NBA dropped the ball when it came to the Kyrie situation, how Ye's behavior and reteric led to these events, the Black Israelites, and more.

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Santos speaks with Long Island based MC of the Goat Squad Tony Dimes about his origins as an artist, his opinion of the current state of Hip-Hop, his top 5 most underrated MCS, what has happened to Ye (Kanye West)? Being an Italian American MC, the Long Island impact on Hip-Hop, why were there so many great MCs who came from L.I. but didn't rep it? The importance of making albums, and more!

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Santos gives his 10 Ways to Not be a Hypebeast. Santos goes off on people wearing "band tees", goes to war once again on "socks with Crocs", why you shouldn't be wearing Gucci, Balenciaga, and others brands, why in fashion you shouldn't trend hop, the importance of incorporating classic clothing staples into your wardrobe, why you should support independent clothing brands, and more!

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Santos speaks with Sneaker YouTuber streetwear enthusiast entrepreneur @guynkicks Guy N Kicks about all things sneaker industry from the rise of New Balance, Kanye West possibly leaving Adidas to join Nike, how the pandemic inspired Guy to create a YouTube channel, the decline of Nike's sneaker quality, admiring Teddy Santis and Aime Leon Dore, why Adidas is currently in major trouble, and more!

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Santos speaks with Arizona based MC and music entrepreneur Dan Nicholson about everything from his new album entitled "96 and Forever", how New York Hip-Hop became his biggest influence, do Latinos get the proper respect when it comes to their place in Hip-Hop? The decline of the "real Hip-Hop".The Tyga "Ay Caramba" music video controversy, why Latinos should hold him accountable, and more.

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Santos reunites with members of The Goat Squad (Tru Werdz and King Vir2ue to discuss their new EP entitled "Looking Back".

Tru Werdz and King Vir2ue discuss their creative process, the inspiration for this project, why it's important for artists to be able to allow room for growth, dealing with constructive criticism, the importance of the MC and producer to work together in accord when creating music, this current era of instant gratification and quickly produced music, and more.

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On this episode Santos catches up with former Miami based Cuban American Hip-Hop artist turned successful film/documentary/music video director Garcia (Michael Garcia). Garcia talks about why he decided to stop making music in favor for a career as a film director, his close friendship with DJ EFN and affiliation with Crazy Hood, giving his music to Big Pun, falling out of love with making music, creating music videos for Thalia, Becky G, Busta Rhymes, winning an MTV Video Music award, and more!

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Santos speaks with actor, writer, producer, and filmmaker Elaine del Valle, about everything from parts of her childhood, her life's work including the writing of her autobiography "Brownsville Bred", it's adaptation to a stage play, and her inspiration to continue to tell her story by turning it into a full length movie. Elaine talks about creating new opportunities through creating her own works, inspiring under served youth in communities of color, and more.

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