I only discovered Eddie Huang, watching trailers of Fresh of the Boat. I am so thoroughly impresse by his knowledge. Eddie Huang, my new favorite cultural critics.
Never heard of Eddie Huang before I watched this, I gotta say he showed himself to be a very insightful, knowledgeable dude. Definitely gonna look at more of his stuff.
You have to check his series "Fresh of the boat" He reports on any topic but without any pretentious crap its a really refreshing way of reporting very natural and sincere.
Excellent interview, Eddie is the consummate professional, always dropping knowledge about Asian-American culture and it's relationship with the rest of American society. Keep up the good work.
This was an excellent interview. People don't like Eddie because of what they see on the surface like his speech and overall demeanor but he's a very intelligent individual with a great palette for food. In addition, people may dislike the fact that Eddie relates a lot of himself through the black community but as growing up as an Asian-American in a poor community or in American society in general, as children most of our interests (i.e.basketball, African American idols etc), being made fun of (whether we like it or not), and choice of musical preference (i.e hip hop) are all the result of African-American influence.
Tomy Nguyen What are you talking about? He did not grow up "as an Asian-American in a poor community." Try: grew up in wealthy Orlando suburb with a millionaire dad who paid for all of his private school education. So when he tries to explain his black culture disguise as "personal identity" or some such nonsense, then all we can do is say: fake.
+Train Monrovia why are you trying to take something away from someone? He did grow up poor, but his family made it big in Orlando; but why does that matter? Perhaps you should look into your identity and fine yourself rather than dismiss the identities of others
Gavin Terry Why was the first thing out of your mouth: "He did grow up poor"??? Obviously it DOES matter to you. The only reason I'm pushing back on the original post is that he stated something that is inaccurate.
One thing everyone can agree on is that Eddie is a hard worker. He works for what he wants, and he has worked for everything he has. This man has a successful restaurant, a law degree, AND ventured in business, but he still didn't go for money but for his passion. He embraces who he is and embraces the American spirit. Love this dude, I hope to see more from him.
Kelly yi Let's get real. He's the son of a millionaire. He calls himself a "common" person. But did he ever have to work at Starbucks or Walmart? If not, how did he make money? He sold pot, T-shirts, and sneakers. Did he have to work odd jobs to pay for college? Not with a millionaire dad. Do you think he's not interested in money? Are you kidding me? Do you think he went to work for a law firm to help the world? One problem: he got laid off. Ever see the cars he drives? How about the clothes he wears. How many pairs of Air Jordans do yo think he owns? I do agree that "he embraces who he is": a guy who acts black even though he grew up in a wealthy Orlando suburb attending private schools. Yeah, I guess that could be considered the "American spirit." Gotta "love this dude."
Immense sincere respect for this guy. Never be a role player. Don't kow down to butcher your life to fit within dominant culture. Live your life the way you want, and shine in the process.
Eddie makes me want to trace my roots and know where my ancestors are from. Hopefully, I'll travel to Africa one day and be able to connect with my brothers. He is an inspiration.
I wish I could go on a long-winded response about this... Eddie Huang is simply amazing. He's different, he's smart, he's entertaining... Wow. What a pleasure to watch.
Eddie Huang is so smart and inspiring. he is really doing big things for Asian-Americans and bringing a face to Asian-Americans that the American public doesn't necessarily get to see.
I love Eddie Huang! So smart, insightful, well-spoken and at the same time so funny and cool. Love how he isn't afraid to be himself and speak his mind! He is really breaking through for Asian-Americans in American media and pop culture. I am so proud and inspired by him! :')
What a fascinating man. Extremely intelligent with a healthy dose of humility and humour. I have nothing but respect for him. Hope he is successful, or more so, in every endeavour he chooses.
Loved this interview! Just wished the interviewer would've raised his mic closer to him, I could barely hear his questions half the time. Eddie Huang is one of the people I truly look up to, because I can relate and he really expresses himself in a way I'll never be able to but I aspire to be able to one day
Great interview! Eddie's an awesome guy and I'm glad he's speaking about these really important topics of representation especially in the Asian community. Now I have to buy his memoir and I can't wait to watch his new show, Fresh Off the Boat. It's about time TV had an Asian family to relate with.
Eddie Huang reaching for that same level of validation that Bruce Lee was... or rather, what every Asian struggling with racial identity is trying to achieve. Rock on. Rock on.
this was a great interview of eddie huang. one of the best. the questions were good, it was comfortable and understanding. it wasn't like he had to stand there defending himself he was able to just explain what he's talking about and wasn't always interrupted. the interviewer was good, huang was good. very good.
Eddie's mad funny in my opinion, Hes not trying to be black or trying to be anything but himself, He's just talking about how Ethnic culture/music and food has influenced his life/decisions and the way hes grown up, Hes cool as fuck imo has his own original style of clothing an just a down to earth guy. Dont hate just accept it.
anybody interested in seeing a real "down" asian american should watch the documentary on richard aoki called "aoki". a japanese-american who struggled alongside black folks in oakland as a black panther. aoki was somebody who understood that real solidarity meant fighting for equal rights and justice, not mimicry and dumbed-down, surface-level, superficial cooptation. LONG LIVE RICHARD AOKI. a true comrade in the struggle that continues to this day
+Detective Derpy (Chris Tun) that was a LIE ! it's horrible that the powers that be are still so butthurt over the panthers that they tried to smear this man even after death. goes to show how threatened 'they' are by black folks (and our true allies) taking our communities back. they dogged huey til the grave also.
The part about where he says taiwanese people still ask him if he still wants to be a lawyer says it all. Out whiting white people...that's become the modus operandum of asians who feel like their own identity, culture, persona is inferior and not good enough to the point where becoming white is a form of survival. What's sad is that this hasn't even been proven against other methods...and yet it is self-enforced within the asian community. Eddie is right, sometimes the only way to prove your love to your family, to your community, to yourself, is to be yourself unapologetically and audaciously, even with vindication.
The Roots is an all live hip hop band. Brand New Heavies were, as well. If you can't figure out a way to record and loop and multitrack live instruments, I don't know what to tell you.
I like Eddie, he's Chinese, but very different different Chinese than I am, but he's definitely cool, I could definitely hang out with him! I can relate to his mom beating him! My mom beat me too, she was like Jackie Chan-find a chair, a shoe, anything and beat me with it!
In my opinion, too many of the new discussions on race focus too much on race (the outward physical differences) and tend to gloss over the more important aspect - culture. Sadly, I think there is a lack of recognition that people - of all races - are now operating in a general (or at the least, nascent) monoculture.
Exactly. Eddie gets so much hate because he does not fit into the paradigm of a stereotypical Asian-american male: timid, book-smart dude who DOESNT do martial arts. Hip-hop culture no longer belongs exclusively to black people, especially in a capitalistic world where rap music is a commodity consumed overwhelmingly by white people. Black culture IS american culture. it has more to do with nationality than skin color. "Race" is just another distraction, an arbitary construct designed to divide us. Because of white guilt, people keep their anti-black racism suppressed until the 'black' culture manifests itself through a non-black person... it then flares up in a full pounce of ridicule and scorn. this usually happens with white folks 'acting' black, but has become somewhat accepted because of the advent of so many white rappers in american culture. nobody has seen an asian acting black before, so it's natural people will mock something they see as 'unacceptable', like klan members mocking an interracial couple in the 40s. its only a matter of time until the culture becomes fully assimilated. So much hypocrisy and blind double-standards on youtube.
Octavio hiphop like asian food will always be exclusively a piece of that origin culture. you as a white person are free to participate and enjoy rap culture you have free will but to ignore its origins or where its base was formed is ignorant. just because something has been commercialized doesn't separate it from its origins or make it all of sudden this universal culture, no hiphop is not american culture its black culture which makes up a "part" of american culture. you cant have a conversation about hiphop and not include black people. I hate how when something becomes popular whites all of sudden want to preach these notions of equality and integration as means to claim something as theirs. enjoy the culture but don't push this false ideology of it belonging to everyone i have never seen a black person listening to irish folk music or eating hagus and saying this all of our cultures, you know why because it sucks. and race is not a distraction its been built into our societal structure and has benefiting specific groups, its too late to just dispel it, its alive and breathing and its natural for people to connect with who they relate too. to discriminate because of race is wrong but to ignore it is even stupider, being divided is not humanities problem its forced inclusion and assimilation into dominant cultures that are the issue. Everyone should be free to do as they please as long as they dont harm anyone and unfortunately alot of people still use race as means to hurt others and buld themselves up.
First of all, I'm not white. Second of all, if we were to restrict particular cultures and social systems to their ethnicities of origin, Bruce Lee never would have come to America and taught martial arts to white and black Westerners.The art of Brazilian ji jitsu, based fundamentally on Japanese judo, never would have evolved. The electronic genre of House, originating in Detroit and Chicago, never would have branched out and influenced future genres such as eurotrance or Latin house. As to your asian food analogy, it is ironic how foods such as chop suey and fortune cookies were American inventions yet due to ignorance are associated with the Chinese. To assert that a genre "belongs" to a particular group of people based on the concentration of melanin in their skin is quite asinine upon closer scrutinization. Say a man with brown skin, neither black nor white, grows up on country music and decides to become a country singer. Should we automatically dismiss his endevaors because country music was developed and "belongs" to white people? No, that would be ridiculous. Your fears are based on false double standards and, ironically, the caveats of "dominant cultures" you preach against are the very ones you subscribe to.
Octavio There are Asians & Whites who like Hip Hop but would never accept a Black person into their life, and at that points where it becomes dishonest appropriation when its reconverted to fit the newcomer, used to make profit solely off of biased stereotypes or inaccurately and inappropriately represented by false examplified exaggerated caricatures. I don't see that in Eddie. Its why people like Katy Perry aren't respected when they make the culture they market through their own image overlapping it insulting. Or with people using Native American symbolism on White people who only see the dress as a halloween costume. Its like why people were angry that the Last Air Bender live action had no Asians despite being based on Asian Culture or when most of the new breakdancing movies have no Black people or push them in the background to market White people as the face of it. A culture isnt owned as a possession but it is an identity. You don't take the Chinese out of the Chinese food even if its just rice & dumplings. If you adopt hip hop while having no connection with Black people or any Black references that aren't tokenized stereotypes to support your interests, you do not respect the culture. You are appropriating an identity to bandwagon.
Quite a good discussion. As I read the last comment I began to wonder this: if Eddie adopted his "cultural leaning" or propensity to self-identify through hiphop culture at a young age (say, early teens) is it an insulting appropriation, versus say, strategically cherry picking an identity that is au courant in order to favorably market himself in a competative media market (and done so consciously as an adult)?
I miss New York so much. At least I can get Bao-ze here. It just sucks that most o the good Taiwanese stuff is in Westmont. Then again, in DC it was in Rockville and in New York almost all the good stuff (save for Eddie's Huangs's) were in Queens. I did not mind the haul out that way (I am from Chicago and do not have that anti-outer borough prejudice). Great vid though.
RZAs man with the iron fist hit me like red and meth on how high. a good story that had a lot taken away from it (distraction) with comedy. im glad he was able to project himself in a less misunderstood way through afro samuria. EVEN THOUGH SAMURIA ARE JAPANESE...... not to say any which WAY is better than the other. the longest road may be smooth and dry. but the short road may be just as treachorous. it could be muddy and rocky. every now and then its just how you want it, but you know how it is for the most part. this knowledge comes before the journey and is often daunting. using this knowledge only as a reference well take you anywhere you wanna go. TAO TE CHING
So when the moderator asked why Huang attached himself to black culture, Huang said because a black kid squeezed a grape at the supermarket and they bonded over that. LOL.. And the moderator accepted that answer. Rapper Eminem does the black thing because he grew up in a poor, heavily black community. Huang grew up in a wealthy white suburb of Orlando with a millionaire father and then attended private colleges. And now we're supposed to buy his explanation of why he acts black?
***** He's very slick, and he likes to intellectualize everything (he does have a law degree), and he seems to know gangsta rap, Air Jordans, the NBA, and how to make Chinese food.
Michael Smith Yes your re-phrasing of my comment does sound "ridiculous." If you can't understand what I wrote, I can explain it to you if you want. ;)
Michael Smith Give me a break - "solidarity in the violence." You actually believe that crap about squeezing fruits and getting smacked? Since when is seeing a financially-strapped parent smacking a black kid reason to appropriate that kid's black culture as much as Huang has done? That scene plays out all the time, and I bet Huang saw it on TV in the black sitcoms he watched. Why don't you walk around a Walmart and see how much smacking goes on there. If he were honest, he'd just say - I listened to a lot of rap. I liked the clothes. The bad-boy image. The weed. I got into a lot of fights myself. Me and my friends talked that way as kids. I don't work for anyone, so that's why, in my 30s, I still can dress and talk that way. And write a book using black slang. Cuz I'm da boss, son. Not some bullshit about personal identity. Thanks, Eddie. Oops, I mean "Michael Smith" ;)
Michael Smith "Load of nonsense"? After all that effort to unpack squeezing grapes, that's all you can say now? What REALLY is nonsense is your knee-jerk assumption that people who disagree with your hero on the Internet have an axe to grind. I'll tell ya other folks I have this so-called axe to grind: Britt McHenry (ESPN reporter) and Kristen Lindsey (cat killing vet). Yeah, axes to grind. Maybe if you could come at people in the future without all your snide commentary, you might actually have an intelligent conversation. But maybe that's not how you roll, huh.
Michael Smith Well there it is, the first one to drop the troll-bomb. LOL. Dude, you better look up the word "discourse" because I don't think you know what it means. So let's discourse about solidarity in violence, since you keep bringing it up. My initial comment was about the believability of Huang's answer to Coates' question of why he was drawn to "the culture." That's a pretty important question. I didn't buy Huang's answer. But you bought it. Why? Because you follow Huang so much that you're able to regurgitate his spiel and fill in all the holes. Hell, you even came up with a snappy expression for it: "Solidarity in violence"! Nice. So while you're self-satisfied that any answer from Huang is just dandy, the rest of us are like "What the fuck? He saw a black kid get smacked for squeezing grapes? And that explains why he dresses and talks like a black dude and wrote a book using black slang?" Sorry if we don't see things like you do, Michael Smith. BTW, do you know who else used "solidarity in violence"? The Nazis and the KKK. Where do you come up with this shit? Oh, my bad, I know where you get it. You must've been glued to Huang's TED talks.
Sure, I'm white. Big deal. You brought it up. I said "everyone's culture/opinion", and I even qualified it. Everyone means everyone. My comment is meant to express that I believe that as a species, we need to stop leaning on our differences and come together. No more party lines. We need an egalitarian monoculture on this planet. We fear togetherness, peace and love - irrationally and to our peril.
you never grew up with it so you many not understand. there is a significance in being represented, you may not understand because you never faced it but people are PROUD of their cultures. they dont want to be 'just like you'. they are proud of where they come from, what they've been through, what their families have been through. you may think 'why cant everyone just be the same and lets not think about this' but no that is just an easy way out for people who want everyone to be just like them. Thats not what we want, we want to be accepted but we also want to be ourselves and to be seen as ourselves. Imagine this if a girl plays basketball with you and you say 'hey you play so good i forgot you were a girl', thats not what she wants to hear, thats not a compliment. she wants people to understand that she is a girl who is good at basketball and being good at basketball doesn't mean she is less of a girl. this is the same for people of different races. we dont want you to say 'hey i forgot you were different' we want to be accepted for who we are and that means sharing cultures with people and talking about it and experiencing it. peace and love doesn't mean we should all be synonymous or that we should all be colorblind because we arent and we never will be. Peace and love means that we should accept everyones differences.
I guess you are missing the point of what he is trying to say. First of all, I know a lot of Asians who grew up in black and Latino neighborhoods, so it was natural for them to talk like the kids that they grew up with. We are all products of our environment. Like me, he cites many times that he grew up on hip hop, as I did too. I did not grow up in a black and Latino neighborhood, but hip hop became my escape, as I spent my years as someone low on the social ladder of the suburban high school and did not quite fit in with the other Asians either. Once I went to a very multicultural state university, I was able to appreciate the diversity of the Northeast and craft my own identity that incorporated my love for hip hop and other cultures, as well. Eddie's point is to be yourself and don't let anyone tell you how you should talk or act, just because you are identified with a certain group.
sbaker12, actually, I have a so-called "American" name, but I am using it less and less these days. There was a time when I was ashamed of my name, Ichiou, when I was trying to fit in to the dominant culture, but I really like it and love the meaning of my name.
***** I see what you are saying. I listened to a lot of hip hop, growing up as a kid, and I also have a diverse group of friends, but I never tried to "be down" because I can't deny growing up in the suburbs and living a fairly comfortable life as a kid. On the other hand, Eddie's story is pretty interesting. Also, based on what I am hearing right now, he doesn't sound like he is trying to "be down". I have heard suburban Asian and white kids trying to "front", but he does not sound like it. Not to mention that discussion of hip hop culture's fascination with martial arts flicks shows that it can go either way. When he first opened Baohaus, I thought it was another obnoxiously trendy restaurant in the Lower East Side, until he explained why he opened the restaurant. It is the only place I can get good Taiwanese beef noodle soup without having to go to Flushing. He was featured in a Gilt Taste blog not too long ago, where he talked about catching hell when he was a kid, and his parents made him bring "stinky" food from home to school. The main focus of the blog was about these food critics and restauranteurs who complained about Chinese restaurants for not being "authentic" enough, such as his parents, when they were actually modifying the Chinese food to please the older American generation who did not want authentic, and these restauranteurs would then open restaurants where they claim the food to be "authentic", such as people like Stupak who claim to be an expert on Mexican food because he has a Mexican wife, or the guy who opened Mission on Orchard Street. The irony of it all. I just purchased his book, and having to deal with sell-out opportunistic authors such as Amy Chua (Tiger Mom), this is a refreshing change for Asian-Americans.
I only discovered Eddie Huang, watching trailers of Fresh of the Boat. I am so thoroughly impresse by his knowledge. Eddie Huang, my new favorite cultural critics.
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his modern-day minstrel show IS for the white man's pleasure. why else do you think he got prime time...?
Never heard of Eddie Huang before I watched this, I gotta say he showed himself to be a very insightful, knowledgeable dude. Definitely gonna look at more of his stuff.
You have to check his series "Fresh of the boat" He reports on any topic but without any pretentious crap its a really refreshing way of reporting very natural and sincere.
Check out more of his videos in my channel!
+Li Ping Hsu thanks
Eddie is an inspiration to me. being a Filipino/Trini and from Ny i can relate alot
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thirdworld ass mix lol +respect mogolian and guyanese lol
Excellent interview, Eddie is the consummate professional, always dropping knowledge about Asian-American culture and it's relationship with the rest of American society. Keep up the good work.
"dropping knowledge" how fuckin stupid can one person get. You are a joke
dude chill out!
"Love is worth nothing to me if I have to change myself to get it from you." YES EDDIE
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This was an excellent interview. People don't like Eddie because of what they see on the surface like his speech and overall demeanor but he's a very intelligent individual with a great palette for food. In addition, people may dislike the fact that Eddie relates a lot of himself through the black community but as growing up as an Asian-American in a poor community or in American society in general, as children most of our interests (i.e.basketball, African American idols etc), being made fun of (whether we like it or not), and choice of musical preference (i.e hip hop) are all the result of African-American influence.
Tomy Nguyen What are you talking about? He did not grow up "as an Asian-American in a poor community." Try: grew up in wealthy Orlando suburb with a millionaire dad who paid for all of his private school education. So when he tries to explain his black culture disguise as "personal identity" or some such nonsense, then all we can do is say: fake.
+Train Monrovia why are you trying to take something away from someone? He did grow up poor, but his family made it big in Orlando; but why does that matter? Perhaps you should look into your identity and fine yourself rather than dismiss the identities of others
Gavin Terry Why was the first thing out of your mouth: "He did grow up poor"???
Obviously it DOES matter to you.
The only reason I'm pushing back on the original post is that he stated something that is inaccurate.
+Train Monrovia but it's not inaccurate. You are wrong.
Gavin Terry As I stated, and YOU stated. It doesn't matter.
Anyway, I wrote that over a year ago. I forgot everything.
One thing everyone can agree on is that Eddie is a hard worker. He works for what he wants, and he has worked for everything he has. This man has a successful restaurant, a law degree, AND ventured in business, but he still didn't go for money but for his passion. He embraces who he is and embraces the American spirit. Love this dude, I hope to see more from him.
Kelly yi Let's get real. He's the son of a millionaire. He calls himself a "common" person. But did he ever have to work at Starbucks or Walmart? If not, how did he make money? He sold pot, T-shirts, and sneakers. Did he have to work odd jobs to pay for college? Not with a millionaire dad. Do you think he's not interested in money? Are you kidding me? Do you think he went to work for a law firm to help the world? One problem: he got laid off. Ever see the cars he drives? How about the clothes he wears. How many pairs of Air Jordans do yo think he owns? I do agree that "he embraces who he is": a guy who acts black even though he grew up in a wealthy Orlando suburb attending private schools. Yeah, I guess that could be considered the "American spirit." Gotta "love this dude."
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Immense sincere respect for this guy. Never be a role player. Don't kow down to butcher your life to fit within dominant culture. Live your life the way you want, and shine in the process.
David Lin Yeah. And use black slang non-stop as if you grew up in the hood. Huang IS "dominant culture." The Mitt Romney type 1%.
Ella Dafella haha u serious?
Huy Dao haha u dao?
Eddie makes me want to trace my roots and know where my ancestors are from. Hopefully, I'll travel to Africa one day and be able to connect with my brothers. He is an inspiration.
I wish I could go on a long-winded response about this... Eddie Huang is simply amazing. He's different, he's smart, he's entertaining... Wow. What a pleasure to watch.
Eddie Huang is so smart and inspiring. he is really doing big things for Asian-Americans and bringing a face to Asian-Americans that the American public doesn't necessarily get to see.
I love Eddie Huang! So smart, insightful, well-spoken and at the same time so funny and cool. Love how he isn't afraid to be himself and speak his mind! He is really breaking through for Asian-Americans in American media and pop culture. I am so proud and inspired by him! :')
What a fascinating man. Extremely intelligent with a healthy dose of humility and humour. I have nothing but respect for him. Hope he is successful, or more so, in every endeavour he chooses.
Loved this interview! Just wished the interviewer would've raised his mic closer to him, I could barely hear his questions half the time. Eddie Huang is one of the people I truly look up to, because I can relate and he really expresses himself in a way I'll never be able to but I aspire to be able to one day
Great interview! Eddie's an awesome guy and I'm glad he's speaking about these really important topics of representation especially in the Asian community. Now I have to buy his memoir and I can't wait to watch his new show, Fresh Off the Boat. It's about time TV had an Asian family to relate with.
Awesome interview. Ta Nehisi did an excellent job interviewing Eddie.
Eddie huang you are my new favorite person! Keep doing your thing
And representing for the asian community
Wow I have never seen this show but this interviewer is very intelligent about cultural issues and did a great dialogue with huang.
Thank you to Eddie Huang to change my thinking of my homeland. I guess I felt little bit as a Panda when I was in school.
Eddie Huang reaching for that same level of validation that Bruce Lee was... or rather, what every Asian struggling with racial identity is trying to achieve. Rock on. Rock on.
this was a great interview of eddie huang. one of the best. the questions were good, it was comfortable and understanding. it wasn't like he had to stand there defending himself he was able to just explain what he's talking about and wasn't always interrupted. the interviewer was good, huang was good. very good.
I like both of these guys immensely.
What a well spoken man. Thoroughly impressed
Eddie Huang is so inspiring and funny and amazing!!!
Eddie's mad funny in my opinion, Hes not trying to be black or trying to be anything but himself, He's just talking about how Ethnic culture/music and food has influenced his life/decisions and the way hes grown up, Hes cool as fuck imo has his own original style of clothing an just a down to earth guy. Dont hate just accept it.
Eddie is the best!
Great guest. I was getting so annoyed that the host wasn't speaking in the mic... "You have ONE Job"!! Haha
God I relate to him in numerous ways. Fresh Off the Boat was like my life on screen finally
"If I'm faking the funk, I'm not getting your love, I'm getting the vapors." Awesome Eddie!
Great interview
16:00 str8 dope message thanks!!!
Great interview.
This is a beautiful conversation.
eddie is truly an inspiration.
eddie huang...yo you a wise dude and inspire me...
people said the same thing about me identifying with hip hop culture
anybody interested in seeing a real "down" asian american should watch the documentary on richard aoki called "aoki". a japanese-american who struggled alongside black folks in oakland as a black panther. aoki was somebody who understood that real solidarity meant fighting for equal rights and justice, not mimicry and dumbed-down, surface-level, superficial cooptation. LONG LIVE RICHARD AOKI. a true comrade in the struggle that continues to this day
+exene c He was also (supposedly) a FBI informant, but I still agree with you.
+Detective Derpy (Chris Tun) that was a LIE ! it's horrible that the powers that be are still so butthurt over the panthers that they tried to smear this man even after death. goes to show how threatened 'they' are by black folks (and our true allies) taking our communities back. they dogged huey til the grave also.
exene c That is why i said
supposedly
OH LOL all good, yah I went to fora,tv too and its not in HD there so all good!
As a fellow Eddie fan keep these vids going!
@EddieHuang what is this jacket? Super dope.
IKR ! I wanna know too.Its probably something expensive. Look at the detailing on the hood, very unique.
i love how eddie always laughths and then is completely serious again half a second later :'D
he's got a great authentic laugh
"if i'm fakin the funk, i'm not gettin your love, i'm gettin the vapors" quotables galore
Eddie for president.
More eddie pls
I like ED, his show on VICE is dope. Those hating on him are prolly white and Asians who hate people that 'act black'. ED's got a black pass.
boy14395 Exactly. Huang is like the Iggy Azalea of pork buns. LOL
The part about where he says taiwanese people still ask him if he still wants to be a lawyer says it all. Out whiting white people...that's become the modus operandum of asians who feel like their own identity, culture, persona is inferior and not good enough to the point where becoming white is a form of survival. What's sad is that this hasn't even been proven against other methods...and yet it is self-enforced within the asian community. Eddie is right, sometimes the only way to prove your love to your family, to your community, to yourself, is to be yourself unapologetically and audaciously, even with vindication.
good man
The Roots is an all live hip hop band. Brand New Heavies were, as well. If you can't figure out a way to record and loop and multitrack live instruments, I don't know what to tell you.
With all this production value, why not HD video?
Getting smacked upside the head in public or private as a child in the 80s was not a group subset, but... okay.
Damn! Two of my favorite people
I fucks with you Eddie. You're the man.
I like Eddie, he's Chinese, but very different different Chinese than I am, but he's definitely cool, I could definitely hang out with him! I can relate to his mom beating him! My mom beat me too, she was like Jackie Chan-find a chair, a shoe, anything and beat me with it!
eddie is my hero
That's the kind of Asian man I like to date....
The man with an iron fist is a good representation of the Asian culture
didnt know eddie was this deep into stuff like this hes like a #MODELMINORITY type of shyt
In my opinion, too many of the new discussions on race focus too much on race (the outward physical differences) and tend to gloss over the more important aspect - culture. Sadly, I think there is a lack of recognition that people - of all races - are now operating in a general (or at the least, nascent) monoculture.
Exactly. Eddie gets so much hate because he does not fit into the paradigm of a stereotypical Asian-american male: timid, book-smart dude who DOESNT do martial arts.
Hip-hop culture no longer belongs exclusively to black people, especially in a capitalistic world where rap music is a commodity consumed overwhelmingly by white people. Black culture IS american culture. it has more to do with nationality than skin color. "Race" is just another distraction, an arbitary construct designed to divide us. Because of white guilt, people keep their anti-black racism suppressed until the 'black' culture manifests itself through a non-black person... it then flares up in a full pounce of ridicule and scorn.
this usually happens with white folks 'acting' black, but has become somewhat accepted because of the advent of so many white rappers in american culture. nobody has seen an asian acting black before, so it's natural people will mock something they see as 'unacceptable', like klan members mocking an interracial couple in the 40s. its only a matter of time until the culture becomes fully assimilated.
So much hypocrisy and blind double-standards on youtube.
Octavio hiphop like asian food will always be exclusively a piece of that origin culture. you as a white person are free to participate and enjoy rap culture you have free will but to ignore its origins or where its base was formed is ignorant. just because something has been commercialized doesn't separate it from its origins or make it all of sudden this universal culture, no hiphop is not american culture its black culture which makes up a "part" of american culture. you cant have a conversation about hiphop and not include black people. I hate how when something becomes popular whites all of sudden want to preach these notions of equality and integration as means to claim something as theirs. enjoy the culture but don't push this false ideology of it belonging to everyone i have never seen a black person listening to irish folk music or eating hagus and saying this all of our cultures, you know why because it sucks. and race is not a distraction its been built into our societal structure and has benefiting specific groups, its too late to just dispel it, its alive and breathing and its natural for people to connect with who they relate too. to discriminate because of race is wrong but to ignore it is even stupider, being divided is not humanities problem its forced inclusion and assimilation into dominant cultures that are the issue. Everyone should be free to do as they please as long as they dont harm anyone and unfortunately alot of people still use race as means to hurt others and buld themselves up.
First of all, I'm not white.
Second of all, if we were to restrict particular cultures and social systems to their ethnicities of origin, Bruce Lee never would have come to America and taught martial arts to white and black Westerners.The art of Brazilian ji jitsu, based fundamentally on Japanese judo, never would have evolved. The electronic genre of House, originating in Detroit and Chicago, never would have branched out and influenced future genres such as eurotrance or Latin house.
As to your asian food analogy, it is ironic how foods such as chop suey and fortune cookies were American inventions yet due to ignorance are associated with the Chinese.
To assert that a genre "belongs" to a particular group of people based on the concentration of melanin in their skin is quite asinine upon closer scrutinization. Say a man with brown skin, neither black nor white, grows up on country music and decides to become a country singer.
Should we automatically dismiss his endevaors because country music was developed and "belongs" to white people? No, that would be ridiculous.
Your fears are based on false double standards and, ironically, the caveats of "dominant cultures" you preach against are the very ones you subscribe to.
Octavio There are Asians & Whites who like Hip Hop but would never accept a Black person into their life, and at that points where it becomes dishonest appropriation when its reconverted to fit the newcomer, used to make profit solely off of biased stereotypes or inaccurately and inappropriately represented by false examplified exaggerated caricatures. I don't see that in Eddie.
Its why people like Katy Perry aren't respected when they make the culture they market through their own image overlapping it insulting. Or with people using Native American symbolism on White people who only see the dress as a halloween costume. Its like why people were angry that the Last Air Bender live action had no Asians despite being based on Asian Culture or when most of the new breakdancing movies have no Black people or push them in the background to market White people as the face of it.
A culture isnt owned as a possession but it is an identity. You don't take the Chinese out of the Chinese food even if its just rice & dumplings. If you adopt hip hop while having no connection with Black people or any Black references that aren't tokenized stereotypes to support your interests, you do not respect the culture. You are appropriating an identity to bandwagon.
Quite a good discussion. As I read the last comment I began to wonder this: if Eddie adopted his "cultural leaning" or propensity to self-identify through hiphop culture at a young age (say, early teens) is it an insulting appropriation, versus say, strategically cherry picking an identity that is au courant in order to favorably market himself in a competative media market (and done so consciously as an adult)?
Wow.. i did not know Eddie was an attorney...
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I miss New York so much. At least I can get Bao-ze here. It just sucks that most o the good Taiwanese stuff is in Westmont. Then again, in DC it was in Rockville and in New York almost all the good stuff (save for Eddie's Huangs's) were in Queens. I did not mind the haul out that way (I am from Chicago and do not have that anti-outer borough prejudice). Great vid though.
RZAs man with the iron fist hit me like red and meth on how high. a good story that had a lot taken away from it (distraction) with comedy. im glad he was able to project himself in a less misunderstood way through afro samuria. EVEN THOUGH SAMURIA ARE JAPANESE...... not to say any which WAY is better than the other. the longest road may be smooth and dry. but the short road may be just as treachorous. it could be muddy and rocky. every now and then its just how you want it, but you know how it is for the most part. this knowledge comes before the journey and is often daunting. using this knowledge only as a reference well take you anywhere you wanna go. TAO TE CHING
the host hasn't fully grasped the idea of the mic.
it's eddie HUANG. not wong, lady
Oh! weird, what are you shooting with? You've got a multicam set up and everything. T_T
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yes! you're right! it's always black and white.
why?
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The guy interviewing Eddie is not a very good interviewer, seems like a nice guy but doesn't know interviewing ethics
And the fact he needs to hold the mic closer to himself.
He also doesn't challenge him on some of hypocritical BS
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we tackled race relations with a $4 sandwich, lol.
So when the moderator asked why Huang attached himself to black culture, Huang said because a black kid squeezed a grape at the supermarket and they bonded over that. LOL.. And the moderator accepted that answer.
Rapper Eminem does the black thing because he grew up in a poor, heavily black community. Huang grew up in a wealthy white suburb of Orlando with a millionaire father and then attended private colleges. And now we're supposed to buy his explanation of why he acts black?
***** He's very slick, and he likes to intellectualize everything (he does have a law degree), and he seems to know gangsta rap, Air Jordans, the NBA, and how to make Chinese food.
Michael Smith Yes your re-phrasing of my comment does sound "ridiculous." If you can't understand what I wrote, I can explain it to you if you want. ;)
Michael Smith Give me a break - "solidarity in the violence." You actually believe that crap about squeezing fruits and getting smacked? Since when is seeing a financially-strapped parent smacking a black kid reason to appropriate that kid's black culture as much as Huang has done? That scene plays out all the time, and I bet Huang saw it on TV in the black sitcoms he watched. Why don't you walk around a Walmart and see how much smacking goes on there. If he were honest, he'd just say - I listened to a lot of rap. I liked the clothes. The bad-boy image. The weed. I got into a lot of fights myself. Me and my friends talked that way as kids. I don't work for anyone, so that's why, in my 30s, I still can dress and talk that way. And write a book using black slang. Cuz I'm da boss, son.
Not some bullshit about personal identity.
Thanks, Eddie. Oops, I mean "Michael Smith" ;)
Michael Smith "Load of nonsense"? After all that effort to unpack squeezing grapes, that's all you can say now? What REALLY is nonsense is your knee-jerk assumption that people who disagree with your hero on the Internet have an axe to grind. I'll tell ya other folks I have this so-called axe to grind: Britt McHenry (ESPN reporter) and Kristen Lindsey (cat killing vet). Yeah, axes to grind.
Maybe if you could come at people in the future without all your snide commentary, you might actually have an intelligent conversation. But maybe that's not how you roll, huh.
Michael Smith Well there it is, the first one to drop the troll-bomb. LOL.
Dude, you better look up the word "discourse" because I don't think you know what it means. So let's discourse about solidarity in violence, since you keep bringing it up.
My initial comment was about the believability of Huang's answer to Coates' question of why he was drawn to "the culture." That's a pretty important question. I didn't buy Huang's answer. But you bought it. Why? Because you follow Huang so much that you're able to regurgitate his spiel and fill in all the holes. Hell, you even came up with a snappy expression for it: "Solidarity in violence"! Nice.
So while you're self-satisfied that any answer from Huang is just dandy, the rest of us are like "What the fuck? He saw a black kid get smacked for squeezing grapes? And that explains why he dresses and talks like a black dude and wrote a book using black slang?" Sorry if we don't see things like you do, Michael Smith.
BTW, do you know who else used "solidarity in violence"? The Nazis and the KKK.
Where do you come up with this shit? Oh, my bad, I know where you get it. You must've been glued to Huang's TED talks.
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Also, not to be too crass, but am I alone in finding everyone ('s culture/opinion) just annoying as hell?
You must be white. Or whitewashed/americanized as fuck. shut up.
Sure, I'm white. Big deal. You brought it up. I said "everyone's culture/opinion", and I even qualified it. Everyone means everyone. My comment is meant to express that I believe that as a species, we need to stop leaning on our differences and come together. No more party lines. We need an egalitarian monoculture on this planet. We fear togetherness, peace and love - irrationally and to our peril.
Let me also say, as a species, we need to do away with money and the phoney reality it superimposes over everything and everyone.
you never grew up with it so you many not understand. there is a significance in being represented, you may not understand because you never faced it but people are PROUD of their cultures. they dont want to be 'just like you'. they are proud of where they come from, what they've been through, what their families have been through. you may think 'why cant everyone just be the same and lets not think about this' but no that is just an easy way out for people who want everyone to be just like them. Thats not what we want, we want to be accepted but we also want to be ourselves and to be seen as ourselves. Imagine this if a girl plays basketball with you and you say 'hey you play so good i forgot you were a girl', thats not what she wants to hear, thats not a compliment. she wants people to understand that she is a girl who is good at basketball and being good at basketball doesn't mean she is less of a girl. this is the same for people of different races. we dont want you to say 'hey i forgot you were different' we want to be accepted for who we are and that means sharing cultures with people and talking about it and experiencing it. peace and love doesn't mean we should all be synonymous or that we should all be colorblind because we arent and we never will be. Peace and love means that we should accept everyones differences.
This guy drives me nuts I can't even watch this entire video. I bet he uses "nigga" amongst his friends..
I guess you are missing the point of what he is trying to say. First of all, I know a lot of Asians who grew up in black and Latino neighborhoods, so it was natural for them to talk like the kids that they grew up with. We are all products of our environment. Like me, he cites many times that he grew up on hip hop, as I did too. I did not grow up in a black and Latino neighborhood, but hip hop became my escape, as I spent my years as someone low on the social ladder of the suburban high school and did not quite fit in with the other Asians either. Once I went to a very multicultural state university, I was able to appreciate the diversity of the Northeast and craft my own identity that incorporated my love for hip hop and other cultures, as well. Eddie's point is to be yourself and don't let anyone tell you how you should talk or act, just because you are identified with a certain group.
Also, there is not relation between me and Eddie. I am sure many of you know that Huang is a common name.
sbaker12, actually, I have a so-called "American" name, but I am using it less and less these days. There was a time when I was ashamed of my name, Ichiou, when I was trying to fit in to the dominant culture, but I really like it and love the meaning of my name.
***** I see what you are saying. I listened to a lot of hip hop, growing up as a kid, and I also have a diverse group of friends, but I never tried to "be down" because I can't deny growing up in the suburbs and living a fairly comfortable life as a kid. On the other hand, Eddie's story is pretty interesting. Also, based on what I am hearing right now, he doesn't sound like he is trying to "be down". I have heard suburban Asian and white kids trying to "front", but he does not sound like it. Not to mention that discussion of hip hop culture's fascination with martial arts flicks shows that it can go either way.
When he first opened Baohaus, I thought it was another obnoxiously trendy restaurant in the Lower East Side, until he explained why he opened the restaurant. It is the only place I can get good Taiwanese beef noodle soup without having to go to Flushing. He was featured in a Gilt Taste blog not too long ago, where he talked about catching hell when he was a kid, and his parents made him bring "stinky" food from home to school. The main focus of the blog was about these food critics and restauranteurs who complained about Chinese restaurants for not being "authentic" enough, such as his parents, when they were actually modifying the Chinese food to please the older American generation who did not want authentic, and these restauranteurs would then open restaurants where they claim the food to be "authentic", such as people like Stupak who claim to be an expert on Mexican food because he has a Mexican wife, or the guy who opened Mission on Orchard Street. The irony of it all. I just purchased his book, and having to deal with sell-out opportunistic authors such as Amy Chua (Tiger Mom), this is a refreshing change for Asian-Americans.
Why do you find this guy so annoying. Eddie is actually a really smart guy. He speaks the truth about identity and racial issues.
hes cool but sum of the hip hop threads he wears you can only pull off if your a bruvver...that jacket hes got on his not gor him at all
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you saying this is completely ignorant.
white Brooklyn lol
Eddie seems more black than the interviewer
'Street' you mean.
Bobolon1219 please tell us what's black.
samuel hawthorne Sorry Samuel I meant to say what the other Samuel said. Didn't mean to offend
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Eddie cuh, what the fucc are u wearing cuh???