Denzel Curry and Dr. Mimi Ito on Anime Culture | LABS

[@FNoteTheVisionary]

As a fan of Denzel Curry, I gotta give you your props for actually having so much knowledge of him from other interviews, you really skipped straight over the general questions that everybody always ask, and had questions to further the knowledge for everybody else on topics he’s talked about before.

[@amesian]

This is such a good interview and as a minority growing up in the US, Denzel explained the experience very eloquently. Dr Mimi perspective as someone who is not familiar with hip hop as an outsider was also very insightful.

[@nolnolnolnolnol]

Thanks for this video as a denzel fan!

[@somekid7]

One thing I wish Dr. Mimi Ito would've touched on is the political soft power and major capital that Japan has had since colonizing over 20 countries in the early 1900s. The convo could've gone a lot deeper, but hey, I guess this platform's more surface level. There's a lot of Japanese culture today that was molded by the militarism and nationalism spurred up before and during WWII and that's why Japan's social culture tend to lean towards a contemporary understanding of stoicism (as opposed to classical Aurelian stoicism) but the political context of the last century has resulted in a strict discipline and intense emotional psyche that shows up in most anime protagonists to this day. There's also confucianism/collectivism from pre-colonial East-Asian culture that isn't exclusive to Japan but still in stark contrast to the more individualist cultures of the "West" - not including Indigenous and Black/African cultures which have been highly collectivistic for centuries in contrast to the cultures of European settlers.

[@archocystosyrinx]

wow

[@AvianIota]

amazing interview

[@oui5075]

I love Denzel🥰

[@Gya..]

Denzel a goat

[@chanakyaks3936]

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