From W.HYYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, Boots Riley. His new film is called I Love Boosters, and it stars Kiki Palmer as the leader of a crew of women's shoplifters who steal from luxury stores and sell the goods cheap to people who can't afford retail.

Twenty years before the film, Riley wrote a song by the same name with his hip-hop group The Coup.

The song is a love letter to shoplifters or boosters, as they're called, which he says he knows a thing or two about.

Well, I have been a broke rapper for a long time having to stay fly, you know, just a job requirement.

Also, we'll hear from actor Will Sharp. He starred in Lena Dunham's series too much,

and the film A Real Pain. And now he stars as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a new adaptation

of Amadeus. And David B. and Cooley reviews a new special by David Attenborough.

That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.

This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. My guest today is filmmaker, rapper, and community

organizer, Boots Riley. His work for the last few decades has circled the same argument. That capitalism produces the contradictions we live with and that art can make them visible. He made that argument as the frontman of the Oakland-based hip-hop group The Coup, and in his screenwork,

with his 2018 film, Sorry to Bother You, a surreal satire about a black telemarketer who finds

success after he learns to use his white voice. And he's making the argument again in his

latest film, I Love Boosters, which was first a love song he wrote 20 years ago about shoplifters, or Boosters, as they're called. A booster is a person who jacks from the retail and sells it in the hood for dirt cheap resell. In these hard times, they press on like lean nails, and all of my experience, their sex has been beam up. Back in elementary, my shoes used to rap. Every time my sobs hit the street there would flap. Then in high school, Lexon Anderson, a cap, cause my jacket didn't have a brand name on the back. Later, this lady took me to her apartment. It looked like the Macy's sportswear department. Clothes on the chairs on the couch in the carpet. A 20 had me icy like a. If it wasn't for the hard work of a booster

Most couldn't go to the gloves that were used to

If you don't fit the dress code

They'll boot you like people who get dressed up won't shoot

I love boosters the film

stars Kiki Palmer as the leader of a crew

of women shoplifters in the Bay Area

Who steal from luxury fashion stores

And sell the goods cheap to people

who can't afford retail. Demi Moore plays the fashion designer who stores their robbing from,

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