{"id":143,"date":"2005-12-13T01:40:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T01:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/will_someone_ch\/"},"modified":"2005-12-13T01:40:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T01:40:19","slug":"will_someone_ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/music\/will_someone_ch\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Someone Change God’s Diaper Already?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Saul_williams\"<\/a>On November 20 I saw Saul Williams<\/a> in concert. He’s an impressive poet and an energetic performer. The only problem is, his work is very political and racially charged, and he was opening for Nine Inch Nails, a band largely followed by white, apolitical gothtards. I saw approximately (no wait, exactly) one black person in the audience.<\/p>\n

So, early in the set, Saul was all, "Where my niggas at?!"<\/p>\n

And we were all, "…"<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Again, he was all, "Where my niggas at?!"<\/p>\n

And we were all, "Um, he’s over there. By the fat goth chick. … No, the other fat goth chick. … No, the other fat goth chick."<\/p>\n

And he was all, "Wassup, my nigga? How are you enjoying the show so far? Everything to your liking?"<\/p>\n

And his nigga was all, "Can’t complain, Saul."<\/p>\n

No, but seriously, Saul went through some explanation as to how we were all niggas. (Apparently he’d taken a page from Kenneth "We All Have AIDS<\/a>" Cole’s playbook.) Once he called us niggas, the crowd was much more comfortable responding vocally to his solicitations.<\/p>\n

So he said "Where my niggas at?!" again and finally got a decent response. Was way awkward and turned to being way unifying, at least in the moment.<\/p>\n

By the way, the lyric that stuck in my mind most from the set was: "God’s just a baby. And her diaper is wet." Check out the video for that song ("List of Demands") here<\/a>. And then watch the video for "Black Stacey" on his website<\/a>. And then buy the album.<\/p>\n

PS. Wordemup to his stage posse, which consisted of DJ CX Kidtronik<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously:<\/span> Knocking White Boyz Out<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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