{"id":1974,"date":"2017-10-02T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arielsheen.com\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2019-04-03T18:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T18:29:34","slug":"1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Danielle Bregoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ioilEr3Apw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I first met Boynton Beaches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bhadbhabie\/\">Danielle Bregoli<\/a> outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CJs-Island-Grill-365222860200722\/\">CJ\u2019s Island Grill<\/a> in Lake Worth during their annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetpaintingfestivalinc.org\/\">Street Painting Festival<\/a>. This was before she was involved in some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/features\/fl-reg-cash-ousside-girl-caught-bar-fight-20170228-story.html\">fisticuffs<\/a> at the adjacent location. A friend of mine that was bartending, <a href=\"http:\/\/nicoleabelove.bigcartel.com\/\">Nicole<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/devilette_\/\">Abelove<\/a>, had just denied her request for service. I spoke to Danielle and her handler briefly about my project of interviewing. The former wasn&#8217;t interested, but the latter took down my contact info.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward seven months later and I get an unknown number calling me. I pick up and it\u2019s someone (named John, or James, Jared, or something else that was short and began with a J) introduced themselves as part of Danielle\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>I was rather surprised to be contacted by Danielle\u2019s handlers. After all, I\u2019m no major media outlet. I said as such to them, secretly wondering if this was a joke. But then he explained that he felt the interviews that she\u2019d done with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxim.com\/entertainment\/danielle-bregoli-interview-2017-4\">Maxim<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_au\/article\/pgvjq7\/how-interviewing-the-cash-me-ousside-girl-ruined-the-magic-of-memes\">Vice<\/a> were purposefully shortened and edited to make her look bad and after reading the interviews I\u2019d done with other South Florida musicians and artists (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/20\/interview-with-kimmy-drake-of-beach-day\/\">Kimmy Drake<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/09\/interview-with-adam-sheetz\/\">Adam Sheetz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/31\/interview-with-niina-pollari\/\">Niina Pollari<\/a>) they felt that I would be a good person to sit down with Danielle and help \u201cbring out a more thoughtful side\u201d and give some context to music she was soon going to be releasing. Hearing about this \u201cthoughtful side\u201d of Bregoli was intriguing, as I\u2019d honestly not seen anything that would make me think she had that, so I agreed to meet her to talk about her deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bet.com\/news\/national\/2017\/09\/22\/-cash-me-ousside--teen-calls-her-dad-a--piece-of-sh-t--after-he-.html\">Atlantic records<\/a> and the controversy surrounding her being made into a star.<\/p>\n<p>We met at one of my favorite coffee shops, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/subculturecoffeedelray\/\">SubCulture Delray Beach<\/a>, and spoke there. The following interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>Hello there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Sup?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So should I call you Danielle or Bhad Bhabie?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>You can call me Danielle. Bhad Bhabie\u2019s who I be when I\u2019m behind a microphone.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1975\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/1974\/bhad-bhabie\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bhad-Bhabie.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bhad Bhabie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bhad-Bhabie.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bhad-Bhabie.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1975\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bhad-Bhabie.jpg?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bhad-Bhabie.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bhad-Bhabie.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bhad-Bhabie.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>Got it, Danielle. So would you say that Bhad Bhabie is more of a stage persona then?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more like me being me but put to a beat. Ya know? It adds layers to me, like lasagna.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>Gotcha. So, you just dropped some music yesterday. This is your first time appearing as a rapper &#8211; you want to tell me a little bit about it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Well, after my appearance on Dr. Phil I had so many people trying to get a piece of me just because of who I am and how I am it was crazy. I\u2019m more than just a meme, and this is my chance to show that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>I bet you had a lot of people trying to get a piece of your shine! I saw quite a lot of memes related to you online after that show. People I knew that are nowhere near your normal demographic were quoting you and talking about you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Not surprised, I got a lot of haters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>Why do you think that you have so many haters?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle<\/p>\n<p>Culture wars, man. Old people think I should be acting some way and are pissed that I\u2019m not. Young people know that most of the old people telling them what to do and how to act are full of shit. They either relate or hate because I\u2019m doing better than them without following the high school, college, career path that they think will get them what they want.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>I agree with you to an extent, but as someone who\u2019s worked for several years a teacher I know how detrimental such an attitude can be to oneself and others when at your age when your primary responsibility is schooling. I think of the beginning of XXXtentacion\u2019s song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qku2WZ7aRYw\">Look At Me<\/a> as a prime example of such irresponsible thinking and behavior. I\u2019ve seen enough kids that went through my classroom to know that those that idolize such anti-social behavior don\u2019t make it to where they think they will in life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>You honestly going to sit here and tell me that learning about the technological developments around the Fertile Crescent are going to be useful to any part of my life?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, I agree with you to an extent. That\u2019s a good example you gave and a point I am sympathetic to. Can you give me a little more detail about what you mean? This sounds like something you\u2019ve thought a lot about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, sure. Well, I\u2019m home-schooled. Since I\u2019ve been doing that I\u2019ve been able to learn a lot more. The way I see it the one-size fits all approach to education is bullshit. I know that\u2019s not how things are supposed to be, and yet I\u2019ve seen how this imperative to differentiate curriculum for students wears out teachers. Look at Florida\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/local\/palm-beach\/fl-florida-teacher-shortage-20160915-story.html\">retention rates<\/a>, it\u2019s ridiculous!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Well you\u2019re told that if you do good in school you\u2019ll go to a good college, but that\u2019s not always true either. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townandcountrymag.com\/society\/money-and-power\/news\/a8718\/daniel-golden-college-admission\/\">Legacies have a much better chance of getting into the colleges<\/a> that will give you the connections you need to really succeed. Plus those who come from wealthier families can help their kids out by supporting them through an unpaid internship and can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/07\/millennials-with-rich-parents\/398501\/\">help them buy houses<\/a> \u2013 a foundational requirement for growing personal wealth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>I think you\u2019re making a fair point there \u2013 but I\u2019m not sure that alone merits the kind of wholescale rejection of the system that you seem to now be proposing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Well the same goes for a lot of other things. Journalists are supposed to tell the truth about things, but you can\u2019t trust them because they\u2019re either owned by big corporations or are dependent upon them for advertising or need to follow the government line lest they lose the ability to get information and quotes. Look at the contrasting coverage on what\u2019s going on in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Maduro-to-Spanish-President-Rajoy-Whos-the-Dictaror-Now-20171001-0015.html\">Catalonia now<\/a> compared to Venezuela?! Or compare how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentencingproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Race-and-Punishment.pdf\">media covers black compared to white crime<\/a> and how that affects sentencing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like you have a lot to say about things that upset you about America, why aren\u2019t you using the following you\u2019ve created on social media to bring awareness to these things?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Cause I don\u2019t want to deal with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2013\/06\/16-songs-that-warned-us-about-the-surveillance-state\/mac-10-handle\">FBI or CIA watching over me<\/a> like they have so many other rappers. We know cause of Edward Snowden that they already have operations designed to surveil kids going on and thanks to some good reporting we know that local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/layer8\/geofeedia-surveillance-software-high-school-chicago-social-media-monitoring\/\">police departments<\/a> would like to do the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I get that, but do you really think they\u2019d target you specifically?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1987\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/1974\/22137172_691690911040747_2619841559499613497_o\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22137172_691690911040747_2619841559499613497_o.jpg?fit=1363%2C1914&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1363,1914\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"money ariel sheen\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22137172_691690911040747_2619841559499613497_o.jpg?fit=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22137172_691690911040747_2619841559499613497_o.jpg?fit=729%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22137172_691690911040747_2619841559499613497_o.jpg?resize=729%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"729\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22137172_691690911040747_2619841559499613497_o.jpg?resize=729%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 729w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22137172_691690911040747_2619841559499613497_o.jpg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22137172_691690911040747_2619841559499613497_o.jpg?resize=768%2C1078&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22137172_691690911040747_2619841559499613497_o.jpg?resize=1200%2C1685&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22137172_691690911040747_2619841559499613497_o.jpg?w=1363&amp;ssl=1 1363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>The FBI and the CIA? Yeah, of course! They\u2019re like the sheep dogs of American culture. They work to ensure that no author, artist or musician develops values outside the narrative that they\u2019ve established \u2013 a narrative that perpetuates elite cultural values that helps engender antipathy towards lower class people in general and African Americans in particular \u2013 and if they do that they&#8217;re not commercially successful. If some artist does step outside those lines, well, they either allow the wolves to get them, put them down themselves or get involved in their life to somehow harm them from continuing to produce such music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a perspective that has been voiced by other rappers in the past. Do you have any evidence to back that up, or have you been approached by people?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a small question with a big answer. I think it best to approach it not necessarily by looking at history.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s well documented that <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2xJ5W8K\">the CIA was formed by anti-communists who held white supremacist views<\/a>. Their bloody, sordid history in other countries is well known but people often forget they\u2019ve operated domestically, contrary to legality, in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<p>During the Cold War, for instance, they sought to <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2yKSMXt\">enlist American students in the crusade against communism<\/a>. This, however, was just <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2yvJIoq\">one of many intellectual and cultural fronts for the CIA<\/a>. They <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2xOqxZy\">actively engaged in the world of arts and letters<\/a>, as well <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2008\/nov\/14\/thriller-ridley-scott\">collaborating, funding and even help distributing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/insurge-intelligence\/exclusive-documents-expose-direct-us-military-intelligence-influence-on-1-800-movies-and-tv-shows-36433107c307\">television series and films<\/a> that aligned with the world view that they wanted to be hegemonic.<\/p>\n<p>Given their history of significant assistance to artists, intellectuals, and musicians in the past and the lack of government transparency in domestic affairs and its history I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that far-fetched. Now is it just them? No, I don\u2019t think so.-There\u2019s lots of political and economic affinities that draw people together to the message the government seeks to amplify about parts of the populace and profit off it.<\/p>\n<p>I think this in part explains why myself, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KodakBlack1k?lang=en\">Kodak Black<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xxxtentacion?lang=en\">XXXTentaction<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereaIstitches?lang=en\">Stitches<\/a> and a number of others have been able to achieve a modicum of success despite having negligible talent and personal lives that leads people with positive social values to be repulsed by us. They ain\u2019t the sole supporters, but they help behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miaminewtimes.com\/news\/jfk-docs-cia-plotted-to-bomb-miami-kill-refugees-and-blame-castro-9782696\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2223\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/1974\/22792474_701907383352433_8780287737729392150_o\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22792474_701907383352433_8780287737729392150_o.jpg?fit=1365%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1365,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CIA in Miami\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22792474_701907383352433_8780287737729392150_o.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22792474_701907383352433_8780287737729392150_o.jpg?fit=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2223\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22792474_701907383352433_8780287737729392150_o.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22792474_701907383352433_8780287737729392150_o.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22792474_701907383352433_8780287737729392150_o.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22792474_701907383352433_8780287737729392150_o.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22792474_701907383352433_8780287737729392150_o.jpg?resize=1200%2C1800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22792474_701907383352433_8780287737729392150_o.jpg?w=1365&amp;ssl=1 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>Wait, are you admitting that you, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KodakBlack1k?lang=en\">Kodak Black<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xxxtentacion?lang=en\">XXXTentaction<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thereaIstitches?lang=en\">Stitches<\/a> are all supported, in part, by the FBI and CIA?!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I don\u2019t have any definitive proof to provide, but I\u2019d wager that in the future after certain documents are made public we\u2019ll see that was the case. It is unusual, don\u2019t you think, that my dad\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/news\/exclusive-cash-outside-teen-father-breaks-silence\/EgSHJhh35HZfXQXBtp18NM\/\">police officer<\/a> and so is Stitches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browardpalmbeach.com\/music\/viral-rapper-stitches-some-truth-many-questions-6413913\">step-father<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>It is, but I don\u2019t know\u2026 It still seems a bit far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough, let me give you an example. Have you seen Cardi B\u2019s video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PEGccV-NOm8\">Bodak Yellow<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t say that I have.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2028\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/1974\/bodak-yellow-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bodak-Yellow.png?fit=1276%2C802&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1276,802\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bodak Yellow\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;bodak yellow ariel sheen danielle bregoli bhad bhabie&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bodak-Yellow.png?fit=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bodak-Yellow.png?fit=840%2C528&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2028\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bodak-Yellow.png?resize=840%2C528&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bodak-Yellow.png?resize=1024%2C644&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bodak-Yellow.png?resize=300%2C189&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bodak-Yellow.png?resize=768%2C483&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bodak-Yellow.png?resize=1200%2C754&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bodak-Yellow.png?w=1276&amp;ssl=1 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Well first of all let me just say this. Cardi B looks like trash and raps like trash. Trust me, you know how people say real recognizes real? Well trash recognizes trash when they see it. I can\u2019t imagine all the dicks she had to take in order to make it to where she at right now.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, putting aside that <a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/lists\/culture\/cardi-b-bodak-yellow-memes\/?rfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her lyrics<\/a> are either banal or senseless, in the video Cardi B is, like, wearing this anarchist symbol along with all these punk rock symbols in one part of the video. Yet at the same time singing in the song: \u201cI\u2019m a boss, you a worker, bitch, I make bloody moves.\u201d Like, think about that. Despite the fact that a lot of people were involved in her becoming famous she disregards their contribution and claims all fame for herself.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HL1UzIK-flA\">Rihanna\u2019s song Work<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pt8VYOfr8To\">Brittney Spears song Work Bitch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_zR6ROjoOX0\">Iggy Azelea\u2019s song Work<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5GL9JoH4Sws\">Fifth Harmony\u2019s song Work from Home<\/a>\u2026 Compare all these songs that normalize work, praise the power of the lone individual over the collective and help perpetuate the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/22\/news\/economy\/stiglitz-american-dream\/index.html\">American Dream myth<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yfQNdwgvJMw\">Nina Simone\u2019s Work Song<\/a>, and it\u2019s world apart. Work there isn\u2019t just some means to obtaining status symbols but a dreary enterprise force by economic necessity that has a social dimension, which if realized by the workers can be changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>Well I\u2019ll be damned! So there\u2019s a purposeful encouragement of an individualistic mindset whose hegemony benefits the ownership class because people see their struggles as personal rather than collective and their deprivation as a cause of insufficient energy exertion in the right manner rather than a symptom of American capitalism\u2019s formation of economic and social institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Precisely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>I can understand now why your team wanted to have this interview with me \u2013 you have a much greater grasp of the relationships between music and society than I thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>YUP! I might not be the best spokesperson for the undirected resentment for the establishment that most of the today\u2019s youth feels \u2013 but\u00a0that\u2019s the point. Like Killer Mike says, you have to look at the man behind the man behind the man behind the throne\u2026 Once you\u2019ve recognized that then you can see how everything else falls in to place. So long as what I say in one way or another helps prop up that order, I know I\u2019m going to bank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>Knowing all this, why do you still want to contribute through your behavior to the alienation of people that follow you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Yo, the whole point is I\u2019m getting fucking paid! I don\u2019t give a fuck about anybody unless they giving me money \u2013 and even then I only care about them cause they giving me money. I don\u2019t care how I gets it so long as how I gets it. My possibilities for upward mobility in this country outside of what I\u2019m doing now are incredibly limited, so I want to sell out and make as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ariel Sheen<\/p>\n<p>Is that why you are looking to get a reality T.V. show?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Danielle Bregoli<\/p>\n<p>Yup! It\u2019s something that people without talent, like me, can do to make money. It\u2019s cultural schadenfreude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1NyMSWqIJDQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed this entirely fictional interview,\u00a0check out my equally insightful 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/20\/interview-with-stitches\/\">interview with Stitches<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first met Boynton Beaches Danielle Bregoli outside of CJ\u2019s Island Grill in Lake Worth during their annual Street Painting Festival. This was before she was involved in some fisticuffs at the adjacent location. A friend of mine that was bartending, Nicole Abelove, had just denied her request for service. I spoke to Danielle and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/02\/1974\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview with Danielle Bregoli&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95,24,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-florida","category-interview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8e7kf-1974","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}