Black people have always been a part of punk music. Harper’s Bazaar gathers a multigenerational group of artists to talk about the endless creativity of the Black punk scene.
Certainly, punk was a reaction when we started off. It was a liberation. You would see people like Jimmy Page and certainly Jimi Hendrix, who had passed on, but these great players. So you thought that you could never do anything like that. You could never play because you couldn’t play like them. But [with punk], you saw people who maybe didn’t have all the dexterity musically but still had something to say and were not afraid to say it. And it was very valid.
I’m also thinking about my own nostalgia because I’ve been listening to punk music for about 30 years now. So I’ve got my own nostalgia, and I want to fight that away so that I don’t become closed-minded. I want to keep growing with the world as an artist and as a person. Patti Smith...we all understand what you are trying to say, what kind of transgressive conversation or dialogue you’re trying to have, using the N-word. So we know what you’re trying to do. Also, don’t do that. Also, it hurts. Also, it is painful to watch. None of us, I think, are over here saying Patti Smith is doing the biggest disservice to us as Black people. But it is also way more personal than most of the extreme racism that I’ve encountered.
I will always love Patti Smith. When I think about her, I don’t think about that song. She inspired me to go to Paris in 1979 and see the world as a much broader place than what I see in the United States. I will always respect her.
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