Met up with Leopold Vasquez or Leo in midtown to talk about growing up in Washington Heights, being a wild curious kid, the cultural microscope, demystifying the facade of the art world, being a Social Scientist and empowering the disenfranchised.
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Show Notes
A Refined Tone – Mic Test
Talking to Bluster
Rain influencing Leo’s Mood
Growing up in Washington Heights
Mad Hills and Parks
A Nice Diverse Community
Being a Wild and Curious Kid
Playing with Fire and Getting Torched
Kids say the Wildest Shit
Biting Cousins
Drawing anything in Motion
Leo was the Weirdo of the Crew
Had a Producer Vibe to Him
Getting Lost in the Uptown Caves
Dark Days (Film)
Lenape Indigenous People
Finding Arrow Heads
Manhattan Center For Science and Mathematics
Dominican Republic
Super Curious and Embrace Diversity
Don’t Questions Yourself
Knowing the Difference
Utilizing your Cultural Microscope
A Child of Immigrants
That’s how New York is…
Fraunces Tavern
Long Before You Got Here
“You’re not going to Christopher Columbus this shit…”
Art is a Time Cheat and Cheat of Time
How do we preserve New York history?
Retna
BlusterOne
Shepard Fairey
The Peralta Project
Christies Auction House
“We can all enjoy colors…”
Whitney Museum
Andy Warhol
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jackson Pollock
Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo
Problems, Solutions and Lives
Demystify the facade of the art world
Spiderman
Marvel
DC Comics
Infinity Wars
Two Cents on Black Panther Movie
Soul II Soul
Marcus Garvey
Being a Social Scientist
Breaking Comfort Zones
Culture Shock
Knowledge of Self
Clark Atlanta University
Sullivan County Community College
University of Southern Mississippi
Full Sail University
Amon’s Story
OutKast
Creativity is Problem Solving
Seeing the Sight Unseen
No Point or Purpose to Life
Empowering the Disenfranchised
Meeting his Ego for the First Time
Jim Rohn – How To Handle Your Ego
Losing loved ones
“Having cried yet but I want too…”
Akeelah and the Bee
Creed
Ready to Cry
Terrible Memories
Real Life is Not Instagram
It Ain’t All Good
Get Flipd
Hard Dopamine Hits