Scott Boehmer

Tag: Minneapolis

  • 20 Cha & The Epilogue

    After the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, one of the news tidbits that I saw was about the arrest of a musician while he was protesting against ICE: Minneapolis Rapper Violently Detained by ICE: “I assumed I was going to die.” (Rolling Stone). I had never heard of Nur-D before, so I took a look at his music. On Bandcamp, the cover art for Songs About Stuff caught my eye. Listening through it, I liked two of the songs enough to buy the album.

    20 Cha is a D&D-inspired love song, and The Epilogue is a sequel to The Devil Went Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniels Band. Both of these are now on my big list of favorites.

  • Believe Your Eyes

    Minneapolis residents are risking their lives to document what is happening to their city. In Pretti’s case, doing so cost him everything. We should believe what we can see with our own eyes. One can only imagine what Miller and the administration might have said about the shooting and Pretti if there weren’t an abundance of footage. Thankfully, because of the observers, the world can see for itself.

    Charlie Warzel

    Believe Your Eyes (The Atlantic)