{"id":34988,"date":"2013-12-10T03:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T03:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34988"},"modified":"2013-12-10T03:31:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T03:31:46","slug":"lenny-kravitz%e2%80%99s-halfway-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34988","title":{"rendered":"Lenny Kravitz\u2019s Halfway Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/08\/magazine\/lenny-kravitzs-halfway-mark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lenny Kravitz\u2019s Halfway Mark<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2013-12-06<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amychozick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Chozick<\/a><\/strong>, National Political Reporter<\/p>\n<p><strong>You grew up between the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upper_East_Side\" target=\"_blank\">Upper East Side<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bedford%E2%80%93Stuyvesant,_Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Bed-Stuy<\/a>. Which neighborhood did you feel more comfortable in?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, after I was in first grade, Monday through Friday was Upper East Side going to P.S. 6, and Friday night through Sunday night was Bed-Stuy. But I didn\u2019t like one more than the other. I had two different lives, and in fact two different names. My name in Bed-Stuy was Eddie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These people that lived next door to my grandmother\u2019s were from down South, and they had very thick Southern accents \u2014 they were extremely country. I remember being about 6 years old, and they said, \u201cWhat\u2019s your name, boy?\u201d I said, \u201cLenny.\u201d They said, \u201cEddie?\u201d I said, \u201cNo, Lenny.\u201d They said, \u201cEddie?\u201d I said, \u201cLenny,\u201d and they said, \u201cOh, Eddie.\u201d So that was it, I was Eddie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Do you think things have changed in terms of being biracial?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kids now and young adults, they don\u2019t even know about this. Say you were 10 years old when Obama first took office; your thing is: What are you talking about? All my friends are mixed, and the music I listen to is mixed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;I read that when you started out in the \u201980s, producers were telling you your music wasn\u2019t black enough or white enough.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They would always say, \u201cLook, we\u2019ll sign you, we\u2019d love to give you a deal, but you cannot do this, you have to make this kind of music.\u201d I always told them back off \u2014 and believe me, I needed the money. I was living in a car. I still don\u2019t know to this day what stopped me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/08\/magazine\/lenny-kravitzs-halfway-mark.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenny Kravitz\u2019s Halfway Mark The New York Times 2013-12-06 Amy Chozick, National Political Reporter You grew up between the Upper East Side and Bed-Stuy. Which neighborhood did you feel more comfortable in? Well, after I was in first grade, Monday through Friday was Upper East Side going to P.S. 6, and Friday night through Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13743,8,20],"tags":[16518,5467,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-34988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-amy-chozick","tag-lenny-kravitz","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}