{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Gangstagrass","description":"This story starts at Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, Nebraska. At the HATCH Summit. A gathering about world-building and cultivating relationships\u2014set in a town with a long memory, including its role in the Underground Railroad. And from there, it moves to music. To Gangstagrass. They\u2019re Emmy-nominated. Billboard-charting. And they\u2019re also the soundtrack for Dispatch from the Heartland. Hip hop and bluegrass sit together here\u2014 banjo and bars, rhythm and rhyme\u2014 without explanation. Just present. Tate Chamberlin sat down with Gangstagrass\u2014 Dolio The Sleuth, B.E. Farrow, Rench, Sleevs, Danjo Whitener, and R-SON, the Voice of Rason. There\u2019s a quote they have that keeps coming back: We all do better when we all do better. Can\u2019t get better than that. That quote opens up a longer story. One that passes through blackface minstrelsy\u2014 an old form of Entertainment in the United States where white performers painted their faces black and acted out cruel, exaggerated versions of Black life, earning premium wages while doing it, taking work, money, and stages away from Black performers, turning real people into jokes and stereotypes. Those images didn\u2019t stay on the stage. They moved into songs. Movies. Cartoons. Into culture. This is a story about Music. About memory. About relationship. About Afrofuturism\u2014 not as escape, but as continuity. A future imagined with the past fully in frame. ","author_name":"I Am Interchange","author_url":"https:\/\/iaminterchange.com","html":"