Rapper Le1f Finds Struggle And Moral Diversity In American Music

1:30pm November 25, 2015

Le1f is a hip-hop producer and rapper from New York. His latest album is "Riot Boi." (le1f.com)

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As we approach the quintessential American holiday of Thanksgiving, we want to explore this question: What is American music? That’s what we’ve been asking musicians as part of our occasional series exploring the great American soundscape.

Rapper and producer Le1f shares his list of what he thinks of when he thinks “American music.” Le1f grew up in Manhattan studying ballet, and while attending Wesleyan University in Connecticut, he began producing hip hop with the group Das Racist.

His most recent album called “Riot Boi” has been called “forward thinking” with wordplay and writing that explores what it means to be a rapper, a New Yorker and an African-American gay man.