Her pink nails matched her eyeshadow and the roses on her flowered shirt, which she wore with cleanish white Converses, Levi’s, and a fifteen-ninety-nine black wig that she didn’t buy on Amazon. In public, Leezy and her bandmate Mark Speer always wear black wigs to keep their private lives private; their third bandmate, DJ, who is bald, wears a big hat and sunglasses. (The trio’s latest album, a collaboration with the Malian singer Vieux Farka Touré, dropped last month.) “You can’t be Beyoncé and go to a festival and watch a show. I can!” she said triumphantly. “I am a completely anonymous human. They’ll hit me, ask me for cigarettes, step on my toes.” She laughed. “Leezy only exists onstage.”
Leezy was headed to the Brooklyn Museum to check out “Figures of Speech,” a retrospective of the work of her friend, the designer Virgil Abloh, who died last year from a rare cardiac cancer while working on the exhibition. “Everything he made was so inspiring,” Leezy said. “I feel like what he’s managed to do is some of the greatest art of my time.”
Bu hikaye The New Yorker dergisinin October 10, 2022 sayısından alınmıştır.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Giriş Yap
Bu hikaye The New Yorker dergisinin October 10, 2022 sayısından alınmıştır.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 8,500+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Giriş Yap
A Campus in Crisis
Dissent and defiance at Columbia's pro-Palestine protests.
Consolation
Five years before my mother died, we had a violent argument—a thing that had never happened before.
THE INSTIGATOR
How Miranda July starts again.
A CRITIC AT LARGE - OFF THE LEASH
The wacky and wonderful world of the Westminster Dog Show.
LOADED
We used to think the rich had a social function. What are they good for now?
BLAME GAME
“Baby Reindeer” and Under the Bridge.”
OUT OF THE DARKNESS
Zemlinsky, Schulhoff; and other neglected Jewish composers of Central Europe.
BOOKS - FORGET IT
A neuropsychologist says that we're thinking about memory all wrong.
A REPORTER AT LARGE - CONVICTION
Lucy Letby, the most notorious nurse in Britain, was found guilty of killing seven babies. Did she do it?
PERSONAL HISTORY - TABULA RASA
THE WORDLE PHILOSOPHY