Sydney, has that even come across your radar?

Absolutely.

I mean, when you think of American music, you have to go back to the soil.

I love and appreciate how Ted gave us that timeline and started with the indigenous people because Every genre that we know and love that came out of America is either Black birthed or Indigenous birthed in that way.

Even with the nation of immigrants that have come in and added to the melting pot every decade and every generation, it was always built on bringing the music with them because it's one of the only things you don't need anything.

You don't need any tangible elements other than your memory and maybe the gumption to raise your voice and sing.

in order to carry your culture.

Are you as down on where we're heading or seem to be heading as Ted is?

Sydney, um, it, has that even come across your radar? [laughs]

Absolutely.

I mean, when you think of American music, you have to go back to the soil.

I love and appreciate how Ted gave us that timeline, and started with the Indigenous people, because every genre that we know and love that came out of America is either Black-birthed or Indigenous-birthed in that way.

Um, even with the nation of immigrants that have come in and added to the melting pot every decade and every generation, it was always built on bringing the music with them, because it's one of the only things you don't-- You don't need anything.

You don't need any tangible elements other than your memory, and maybe the gumption to raise your voice and sing in order to carry your culture.

So when I think about even Toni Morrison's concept of re-memory, and the idea of inherited trauma and inherited joy, and that mixture that imbues all of the music in any cultural output that we have, it always comes back to the origin, to the soil, to the Indigenous and Black people who built this country.

Are you as, as down on, uh, where we're heading, uh, or seem to be heading, uh, as Ted is?

Sydney, has that even come across your radar?

Absolutely.

I mean, when you think of American music, you have to go back to the soil.

I love and appreciate how Ted gave us that timeline and started with the indigenous people because Every genre that we know and love that came out of America is either Black birthed or Indigenous birthed in that way.

Even with the nation of immigrants that have come in and added to the melting pot every decade and every generation, it was always built on bringing the music with them because it's one of the only things you don't need anything.

You don't need any tangible elements other than your memory and maybe the gumption to raise your voice and sing.

in order to carry your culture.

Are you as down on where we're heading or seem to be heading as Ted is?

Sydney, um, it, has that even come across your radar? [laughs]

Absolutely.

I mean, when you think of American music, you have to go back to the soil.

I love and appreciate how Ted gave us that timeline, and started with the indigenous people, because every genre that we know and love that came out of America is either Black-birthed or indigenous-birthed in that way.

Um, even with the nation of immigrants that have come in and added to the melting pot every decade and every generation, it was always built on bringing the music with them, because it's one of the only things you don't-- You don't need anything.

You don't need any tangible elements other than your memory, and maybe the gumption to raise your voice and sing in order to carry your culture.

So when I think about even Toni Morrison's concept of rememory, and the idea of inherited trauma and inherited joy, and that mixture that imbues all of the music and any cultural output that we have, it always comes back to the origin, to the soil, to the indigenous and Black people who built this country.

... as Ted is? [laughs]