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Boots Riley wants to 'compel' and 'repel' you with 'I Love Boosters'
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May 22, 2026
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51:28Now PlayingBoots Riley’s new film is called ‘I Love Boosters,’ and it stars Keke Palmer as the leader of a crew of women shoplifters in the Bay Area who steal from luxury stores and sell the goods cheap to people who can't afford retail. 20 years before the movie, 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. Riley talks with Tonya Mosley about why his music, shows, and films — including the 2018 movie ‘Sorry To Bother You’ — continue to explore the contradictions that capitalism produces. Riley was a labor organizer in his teens.
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