"“The system is the way that we relate to each other, right? It's the way one group the working class gets exploited by another group the ruling class,” he says. “There's no getting out of it until we overturn this, until we have a movement that creates a whole different system.”"
"The movie centers on a crew of women shoplifters or boosters in the Bay Area who steal from luxury fashion stores and sell the goods at lower prices to people who can't afford retail. The film takes its name from the song Riley wrote with his hip-hop group The Coup."
"“What I want to do is compel people and repel people at the same time,” he says. “I want that push and pull. ... I want people to think about, engage with this work in a different way.”"
"“Having to stay fly is just a job requirement. So I've definitely had to deal with a lot of boosters.” Riley says if some of his art makes people feel uncomfortable, well, that's the point. “What I want to do is compel people and repel people at the same time,” he says."
The work focuses on instigating class struggle by framing the system as the way groups relate through exploitation of the working class by the ruling class. It argues that escape is impossible without overturning the system and building a movement that creates a different one. A new film centers on a Bay Area crew of women who shoplift luxury fashion items and resell them at lower prices to people who cannot afford retail. The film’s title connects to a song written by the filmmaker’s hip-hop group. The creator links personal experience as a broke rapper to dealing with boosters and uses discomfort as a deliberate tool to compel and repel audiences. Labor organizing began in the teen years through involvement in support for a cannery worker strike.
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