The Zero Suits Podcast Situation

The Zero Suits Podcast Situation

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  • Episode 2 - "Kanye West & Imitation"
    This month's episode of the Zero Suits Podcast Situation focuses on themes from Sammus' song "Kanye West featuring Chance Fischer" (M'other Brain, 2012). Join the hosts as they discuss everything from Cardi B to Alice Walker in order to figure out the role of imitation in the art of rap and fiction writing.
    This podcast is supported by our amazing Patreon contributors -- click to join them: patreon.com/sammusmusic
    LINKS~~~~~~~~~~~
    The Breakdown (1:02 - 16:23):
    Album version of "Kanye West feat. Chance Fischer" (M'other Brain, 2012): https://soundcloud.com/sammusmusic/untitled
    Video for "Kanye West" instrumental: https://youtu.be/-26-QwpUhaI
    Koop - "Baby": https://youtu.be/5_FBQ1sZpiI
    Commercial:
    zenizenzenizen.com
    This Reminds Me (16:50 - 35:19):
    Kanye West "story" from M'other Brain: https://motherbrainmusic.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/kanye-west-feat-chance-fischer/
    Alice Walker - Saving the Life That is Your Own: The Importance of Models in the Artists Life - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiRnrmLxtPWAhUCSyYKHX_wCZYQFggmMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hornellcityschools.com%2Fteachers%2Fdemarco%2Fsummer_work%2FWalker.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3Yhl8MHsXoJluW3z1S3blZ
    Adam Ruins Everything on "Copying:" https://youtu.be/_ioCYKZn6fo
    Commercial:
    megaranmusic.com/album/extra-credit
    Listener Question: (36:00 - 41:28)
    Inspiration/Affirmation: (41:32 - 45:48):
    Junot Diaz Interview: https://onbeing.org/programs/junot-diaz-radical-hope-is-our-best-weapon-sep2017/
    Xenia Rubinos: https://xeniarubinos.bandcamp.com
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    Other tracks used:
    Usher - U Remind Me
    UGK - Int'l Players Anthem
    Kanye West - I Am a God
    Cardi B. - Bodak Yellow
    Black Milk - Hell Below ft. Gene Obey
    46 min
  • Episode 1 (Relaunch) - "Look Ma, No Hands"
    This month's episode of the Zero Suits Podcast Situation focuses on the theme from Sammus' song "No Hands" (M'other Brain, 2012). Join the hosts as they talk about everything from French Jazz violinists to Audre Lorde to discuss their crises and moments of clarity in regards to becoming artists.
    This podcast is supported by our amazing Patreon contributors -- click to join them: http://patreon.com/sammusmusic
    LINKS~~~~~~~~~~~
    The Breakdown (1:39 - 14:17):
    Jean Luc-Ponty: http://ponty.com/
    Album version of "No Hands (M'other Brain, 2012): https://soundcloud.com/sammusmusic/kanye-west-feat-chance-fischer
    Live version of "No Hands (with different beat): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVHJHnhjaLE
    First draft of "No Hands" (2010): https://youtu.be/QpTgsAQOPYg
    Commercial:
    http://megaranmusic.com/album/extra-credit
    This Reminds Me (14:58 - 30:07):
    Shatara Ford: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5722027/
    Black Milk (song: ": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Milk
    Beat battle footage: https://youtu.be/N4ZRBdVL9_c?t=1m42s
    Audre Lorde: https://www.csusm.edu/sjs/documents/silenceintoaction.pdf
    Commercial:
    http://zenizenzenizen.com
    Inspiration/Affirmation: (30:34 - 35:38):
    Danez Smith // Dinosaurs in the Hood: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57585/dinosaurs-in-the-hood
    Danez Smith // Don't Call Us Dead: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/dont-call-us-dead
    RyNea Soul: https://soundcloud.com/ryneasoul
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    Other tracks used:
    Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
    Usher - U Remind Me
    Jean Luc-Ponty - Good Guys, Bad Guys
    Kanye West - Get 'Em High
    Black Milk - Hell Below ft. Gene Obey
    36 min

About The Zero Suits Podcast Situation

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The term "Zero Suit" refers to a mode from the popular Metroid video game franchise, in which the main character Samus is not wearing her famous full-body armor. By extension the "Zero Suits Podcast Situation" is a patreon-funded podcast in which two black creatives—PhD candidate and Afrofuturist producer & rapper Sammus as well as YA author Lanre Akinsiku—remove their armor to discuss the highs and lows of their new journey as full-time artists in Philly, as well as their relationships with music, writing, and each other.