Steve Bannon, before becoming a controversial figure in the political world, wrote a rap musicalâyes, a rap musicalâcalled The Thing I Am, based on William Shakespeareâs Roman tragedy Coriolanus.
The screenplay was co-written by Julia Jones and used the 1992 Los Angeles riots as the backdropâan interesting choice for someone whoâs widely associated with white supremacy.
Bannon had come up with the plot that imagined the Romans and Volscians as Bloods and Crips, âfeuding on the South Central streets in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict.â
Check out a reading of the musical below.
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