Pitchfork: Who do you think is doing a good job of bringing politics into music at the moment?
Le1f: Mostly XL artists, and that’s why it was a big deal for me [to sign with them]. Also, Mykki Blanco operates in a similar mode. I guess Rihanna’s trying it. And there’s Kanye West’s Yeezus—I mean, the fact that he figured out how to complain on a beat and make it, like, poppin’. There’s definitely an element of that on my album. The worlds of Arular and Yeezus very much influenced Riot Boi.
