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"It's not possible for YOU to live here": Gary Clark Jr. said a Texas neighbor wondered if he owned his 50-acre property – while the musician was speaking about racism he is facing in the United States.
- Gary Clark Jr. said he was approached by a neighbor in Austin, Texas last year
- The man asked if the 35-year-old owned his 50-acre property.
- Clark lives on the property with his Australian model wife Nicole Trunfio and their two children.
- This incident, along with many others growing up in the south of the country, inspired Clark's next album, "This Land".
- He said that when he was a child, people left dogs ** in the mailbox and wrote the word N on their fence.
- Clark also said that people would ride trucks and place Confederate flags on the fence of his parents' property.
Emily Crane For Dailymail.com
Gary Clark Jr. said he was approached by a neighbor last year near his 50-hectare Texas estate and being told "it's impossible to live here" while the musician is expressing himself on the racism he faces in America.
The award-winning Grammy artist recalled a neighbor who had approached him last year after buying the huge property near Austin, where he and his Australian model wife, Nicole Trunfio, are planning to raise their two young children.
"My neighbor comes to me and says," Who owns this house? You can not live here, who is the owner? Clark told Rolling Stone.
The 35-year-old has repeatedly insisted: "It's my home."
Gary Clark Jr. said he was approached by a neighbor last year near his 15 hectare property in Austin, Texas, and be told that it was impossible to live here. He lives on the property with his Australian model wife Nicole Trunfio and their two young children.
His three-year-old son, who witnessed the unfolding of the incident, then asked his father why the man was so angry.
"Maybe it was not racial … But in my mind, I was thinking about it and I'm tired of thinking that way."
This incident, along with many others growing up in the south of the country, inspired Clark's next album, "This Land".
He remembered child when he had 'caught a dog ** in the mailbox, people who wrote' n **** r & # 39; on my fence in front of my parents' house, driving in trucks (putting Confederate flags on my fence ").
"It was a regular event," Clark added.
Among the other cases that, according to him, inspired his latest album, are the election of Donald Trump and the murderous Charlottesville rally in 2017.
This incident, along with many others growing up in the south of the country, inspired Clark's next album, "This Land". He played one of his singles last week in Saturday Night Live
The award-winning Grammy artist recalled a neighbor who approached him last year after buying the large property near Austin, where he and his Australian model wife, Nicole Trunfio, are planning to raise their two young children. .
The lyrics of his song This Land describe the area where he lives outside of Austin as a "Trump Country".
& # 39; Paranoid and injured. Now that I have money. Fifty acres and a model. Right in the middle of the Trump country, "he writes in the lyrics.
I see you looking out the window. I can not wait to call the police on me.
I am the son of America. That's where I come from.
In writing the album, Clark said NPR that he usually does not like being angry, but he wanted to be honest.
"That's what came out of what you know, life being black in this country, in this world, unfortunately," he said.
"I sing as if I have never sung in my life before. I'll be exhausted after that, but it's time to put everything on the table. & # 39;
Clark is married to his Australian wife Nicole since 2016. The couple has two young children together.
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