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• My own personal sound is really progressive. It's like a mixture of gospel, pop, neo-soul, R&B. It's like a huge gumbo. If you're eating gumbo you grab a whole like cup full of whatever. You're getting a whole bunch of stuff that makes this amazing food in your mouth. So that's essentially kind of like what my sound is.

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  Soul, Cups, Sound

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• In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.

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  Reality, Color, White

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• When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor.

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  Color, People, Understanding

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• I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town, that wanted to play guitar and just liked playing. I want to encourage people.

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  Dream, Inspiration, Guitar

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• A lot of stuff that I dealt with - music was my serenity, like kind of my safe place, my haven that I would just use in order to really just get away from the things that I saw every day. To kind of erase the things that I saw. So I stayed playing.

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  Order, Serenity, Saws

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• Simplemente pensé que alguien tenía que averiguar cómo romper esa barrera y crear una narrativa para que la historia de un superhéroe negro se desarrollara a la misma escala que algo como Star Wars. Rythm Mastr trata de producir una narrativa de un héroe inmerso en una lucha tan complicada como esas otras historias. El catalizador fue el comienzo de la demolición de las viviendas sociales en Chicago.

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  Stars, War, Hero

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• The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

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  Facts, Appearance, Aspect

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• I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am working with black figures and black pigment, it's even harder because I have to be more responsible for the image. I try to be really careful about the presence the figure projects.

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  Black, Trying, Succeed

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• Al igual que en el museo de arte, y las nociones de belleza y placer, si el héroe es siempre un tipo blanco con mandíbula cuadrada o una mujer guapa con grandes pechos, entonces los niños empiezan a pensar que así es como se supone que tiene que ser. Parte del problema era que los dibujantes de cómics negros creaban superhéroes con el mismo patrón que los superhéroes blancos. Cuando lees muchos de esos cómics, los superhéroes negros no parecen tener nada que hacer.

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  Art, Book, Hero

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• Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

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  Two, Different, Path

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• In [Ralph] Ellison's case, it's more psychological than it is phenomenal, and it's conditioned by anger, animosity, and lack of desire to engage with the black body. There was always simultaneity that had nothing to do with visuality. You can be there and not be there at the same time and be fully visible all the time. That's what really struck me about Ellison .

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  Black, Desire, Body

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• I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ], where point by point, very little is left to chance.

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  Artist, Self, People

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• In some ways you still have to buy your freedom, but that's because you live in a social structure that's organized around capital, and capital does equate with a certain kind of freedom, especially if you can start to generate capital on your own.

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  Amable

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• I want to create music that you can just vibe to. Put in your car and just you know like you roll all the windows up and you're like dancing and you just don't know why you're dancing but the music just makes you move.

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  Moving, Dancing, Car

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• Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and we may not speak the same language, but that song or that melody can make us feel the same thing. And we can look at each other and agree and be like, "that did something for us". It makes us feel unified and connected.

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  Song, May, Looks

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• I try to tell a story when I'm playing. I try to make an emotional connection when I'm playing versus before I played just to play. Now there's a sense of purpose of why I play, of how I play. So people can actually feel what I'm saying to them.

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  Emotional, Play, People

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• Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as dark as the description of a young black boy that Solomon Northup gives in 12 Years A Slave?" He describes the young black 14-year-old boy as "blacker than any crow." You have to question if he is using that metaphorically or as a descriptive?

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  Oscuro, Chicos, Años

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• What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

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  Trying, Shapes, Consideration

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• The condition of visibility as it relates to black people was crucial. Connected to that, I've always been interested in science fiction and horror films and was acutely aware of the political and social implications of Ralph Ellison's description of invisibility as it relates to black people, as opposed to the kind of retinal invisibility that H.G. Wells described in his novel Invisible Man.

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  Men, People, Political

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• When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative.

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  Hero, Home, Garden

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• [My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fairly unlimited utility for a black figure that didn't have to comprise its blackness in order to preserve a place in the field of representation.

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  Artist, Self, Order

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• You can describe [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a manifesto of sorts. I saw it as a pivotal turn, a work that really led me down the avenues that brought me to where I am. That picture was the vehicle that helped me clarify a lot of things and I began to understand that I wanted to do.

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  Artist, Self, Shadow

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• Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

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  People, Fiction, Science Fiction

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