Best Of: Boots Riley / Will Sharpe

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Today, Boots Riley. His new film is called I Love Boosters, and it stars Kiki Palmer as the leader of a crew of women shoplifters who steal from luxury stores and sell the goods cheap to people who can't afford retail. Twenty years before the film, Riley wrote a song by the same name with his hip-hop group The Coup. The song is a love letter to shoplifters or boosters as they're called, which he says he knows a thing or two about. Well, I have been a broke rapper for a long time, having to stay fly, you know, just a job requirement.

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