Woke Bros: The Economics Behind Black Pop Culture

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Sports, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.6 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Big Wos and Nando Vila are joined by writer Bertrand Cooper to discuss his new piece "Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture" for Current Affairs magazine. People always say “black people aren’t a monolith” but Bertrand goes DEEP with research and breaks down who specifically gets an opportunity for these jobs and the background they come from. "Black pop culture reveals that most Black creators (outside of music) come from middle-to-upper middle class backgrounds, while the Black the poor are written about but rarely get the chance to speak for themselves" - Bertrand Cooper Article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/who-actually-gets-to-create-black-pop-culture Bertrand Cooper Twitter: https://twitter.com/BL4CK_TR4SH WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE: Youtube.com/countthedings1 Produced by Sean Little - https://twitter.com/ChicagoFlow Sign up for The Athletic: TheAthletic.com/dings Support us on www.patreon.com/countthedings Find us: www.countthedings.com Social: @countthedings @bommpodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/countthedings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, what's good? It's Black Trey and I got a show called Growing Up the Same with Jason Madison,
0:08.0	where we talked to guests about their childhood memories that I'm sure everyone could relate to.
0:12.0	You even get some life advice at the end.
0:14.0	Our show has featured guests like Dom Kennedy, J.J. Reddick, Maren Davis, Brian Topalman,
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0:31.0	And also subscribe, rate, and review to the separate growing up the same feed. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to the the latest edition of the Woop Bros.
0:57.0	Of course, I'm Big Wasa, aka Wazzy Lambray, and we got a very, very, very special show in line for you, in line for you guys today.
1:06.0	Not just because Nando is fresh off the boat in Ibiza and Barcelona.
1:12.9	He even hit Madrid.
1:14.5	He's sun-kissed.
1:16.3	He's looking amazing.
1:17.2	Not just because Nando is back from vacation, but we got a very special guest in the building today.
1:24.0	Bertrand Cooper, who's a freelance writer, it just put out a magnificent piece in current
1:30.5	affairs. It's so damn good. It's titled, Who Actually Gets to Create Black Culture? Excuse me,
1:35.9	who actually gets to create black pop culture? A closer look at the economics of black pop
1:41.1	culture reveals that most creators come from middle to upper class backgrounds
1:45.6	while the black poor are written about but rarely get a chance to speak for themselves.
1:51.3	Birchen, Nando, welcome back and welcome for the first time.
1:56.6	Yeah, I appreciate you all.
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