Big K.R.I.T. Is Not a Fan of Plantation Weddings

Big K.R.I.T. joined Larry Wilmore, writer Robin Thede and actor Ed Helms for a roundtable discussion about plantation weddings on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. Couples in the south have been ignoring (or perhaps embracing) the racial undertones of getting married on a plantation for years and Wilmore brought the subject to the forefront. The host asked Krizzle about growing up in Meridian, Mississippi and the rapper discussed the older generation being openly racist but people of his generation starting to overcome the decades of hate. "Growing up you see people wearing things and you know where they're coming from...They have the old time Dixie Land shirts, and it's like, I know how you feel about me. I have no idea why they hold on to it. Nowadays you can't avoid meeting people and they're good people regardless of how their grandparents might have treated you, this is a good person so you kinda start to overcome that hate. But this wedding shit? No."

K.R.I.T.'s most recent release, Cadillactica, is one of his most creative projects and, as he describes it, a concept album. "It’s a concept in the sense of me continuing the story from the beginning of K.R.I.T. up until now," the rapper told XXL. "I really wanted to explain to people where the Cadillac came from that crash landed on the Live From The Underground cover, which was, basically, underground music crash landing into mainstream America. And then telling the story in reverse. Where the ideas come from, just creatively creating a planet to explain it all. And on this planet I can sonically go anywhere I want to go, and the content can be what I want it to be."