#3 Call me by my name
Guest: Bizzy Amor
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Bizzy Amor joins Meg and Bill for a discussion of censorship, police violence, and current events. A filmmaker, rapper, photographer, and creative producer working across digital media, Bizzy brings a background spanning several forms of creative work. The episode frames difficult conversations as part of making progress, placing those public issues at the center of the exchange rather than presenting the appearance solely as a discussion of his artistic output.
Born Jaquan Williams in Brooklyn, Bizzy was raised between Bedford-Stuyvesant and South Jamaica in Brooklyn and Queens. The notes describe him as a public-school student who stood out academically and athletically. Basketball, followed by interests in music, film, and photography, figures in the account of how he navigated his surroundings while many friends became involved in gangs and drug culture. That background accompanies the episode’s discussion of public events and police violence. His introduction connects a New York upbringing and a varied creative identity with the serious subjects he addresses alongside Meg and Bill.
Show Notes
- 01Meg & Bill welcome Bizzy Amor as they discuss censorship, police violence and current events.
- 02Difficult conversations pave the way for progress.
- 03Bizzy Amor is a filmmaker, rapper, photographer and creative producer of content across all forms of digital media. Biz was born and raised in New York City. More specifically he was born in Brooklyn and raised between the Bedford-Stuyvesant and South Jamaica neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens respectively. A product of public school, it became clear quite early that Biz, born Jaquan Williams, was a stand out student and athlete. Like most kids around he was left to his own devices to navigate the streets and luckily his early interest in basketball and eventual music, film and photo interest kept him from following most of his friends into the street gang and drug culture that ultimately and so viciously narrowed the path of many young black men around him.
- 04follow him on insta @bizzyamor