BOOTS RILEY (Sorry To Bother You / I Love Boosters / rap legends The Coup) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Boots Riley, originally episode 243 from 2018-12-05.
Original writeup below:
“…as I went on I realised the main thing that I needed to give people was passion…”
Pip’s been lining this one up for a GOOD long while, before the hype was bubbling in the UK for Boot’s debut film as director, and the wonderful news is that it will be in the UK very soon! I for one am sick of reading tweets about how good it is from US people. So it’s great news that us UK folk get a piece… This is a perfect if slightly condensed connection with Pip and Boots, as they get into his desire to be Prince early on, theatre, film school, wanting to sound like Ice Cube, the mainstream-ness of documentaries, having faith in a great cast, his diverse cinematic influences, importance of wardrobe and “beautiful clutter”. Oh, and that whole Spike Lee thing too... Wonderful - enjoy, investigate the film ‘SORRY TO BOTHER YOU’ and go through the back catalogue of THE COUP at your nearest convenience!!!
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| 0:00.0 | Emmo clue, emmo clue, immoclue, it's Friday, it's time for another rewind. |
| 0:04.8 | And this is one of the conversations. |
| 0:06.9 | I think I've referenced this conversation a lot in other episodes. |
| 0:10.3 | This was my chat with Boots Riley back in 2018. |
| 0:14.4 | Now, at this point, Boots had just made, sorry to bother you, which made it into my films of the year. |
| 0:20.0 | It was amazing. And then his new film, I Love it into my films of the year. It was amazing. |
| 0:21.1 | And then his new film, I Love Boosters, is just astounding. |
| 0:25.3 | A huge... |
| 0:26.0 | I mean, the cast is ridiculous. |
| 0:28.1 | Kiki Palmer, Lekeith Stanfield, Naomi, Aki Demi Moore, |
| 0:32.2 | Isaac Gonzalez, Will Porter, so many good people, Don Cheadle. |
| 0:36.6 | It's a hell of a line-up. And a fair few of them, |
| 0:40.2 | previous distraction pieces podcast. No, actually one of them is a previous distraction pieces |
| 0:44.7 | podcast guest, but Boots Riley is a previous distraction pieces podcast guest. So now felt like a |
| 0:51.5 | good time to rewind to this chat in 2018. |
| 0:54.5 | We talk about getting, you know, your debut film off the ground. |
| 0:58.9 | I won't wang on too much about my own experiences there, but you've heard. |
| 1:03.3 | So yeah, this was a really inspirational one. |
| 1:05.7 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:06.7 | This is my chat from November 2018 with Boots Riley. |
| 1:10.5 | This piece of fiction is the intro to destruction. this is my chat from November 2018 with Boots Riley. |
| 1:28.3 | Just chat and catch up as we go. |
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