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what happened to rap music which was
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originally created to protest and to
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uplift our community has it been
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colonized has it been diverted from its
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primary Mission all of the above uh the
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original hip-hop culture was colonized
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co-opted diverted polluted every
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possible word that you could use the
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mistake that I believe was made with hip
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hop is the same mistake that was made
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with African territory in resources what
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do you mean once you bring in an
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outsider a European to help you process
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promote to help you perfect and
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African cultural product mineral
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resource they're going to exploit it for
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personal game because
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Europeans are spiritually unable able to
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practice equality and justice with
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African people so whenever you bring
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them to the table you're going to end up
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on the short hand of the stick because
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it's not within their psychological
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realm of possibilities to treat you as
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an equal and so a gangster rap excuse me
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hip hop got polluted into gangster rat
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because the corporate Giants that
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control black music in America decided
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that the time had come for gangster rap
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to take over hip-hop culture in order to
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breed mass incarceration of young black
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rat in many respects is
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the marketing scheme for mass
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incarceration everything that gets you
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arrested is popularized in glamorized in
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ganger rap music so in in this case is
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there a way for us to claim our hip hop
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culture and how we can reclaim hip-hop
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culture just as we can reclaim African
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soil African resource Caribbean soil
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Caribbean resource the question is is
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the commitment and conviction there to
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take it back because what we see with
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our gangster rappers they're more in
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love with the money yep than the control
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of this traditional African cultural
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product they're more in love with the
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popularity that the major white
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companies can give them than they are in
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being able to control the content of
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their genre so it doesn't negatively
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destroy the African Community it's just
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like African heads of state they're more
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comfortable with the under the table
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payments they're more comfortable with
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the lavish lifestyle that the Chinese
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and the French and the Portuguese and
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the British and the Americans and the
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Dutch can give them so at the end of the
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day can we take it back of course the
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white man has two eyes like us two ears
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like us two hands like US 24 hours in a
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day like us the issue is not so much can
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we overcome it the issue is whether or
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not we have become so drunk with the
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life of luxury that the European has
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provided us with that we're no longer
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interested in the sacrifice necessary to
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take back what is ours so that's why I'm
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telling you are we ready to
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forget about the kind of Life promoted
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and given to us by the Europeans and
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start a new way of life is it possible
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to you Frederick Douglas said it's
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better to raise strong children than
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repair broken men I'm saying that to say
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that I don't think we're ready as a
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group I think we're starting to think
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about getting ready it's no need to talk
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about Revolution with African people if
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we're not ready to change I believe
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we're starting to think about
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mhm thinking about making a change are
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we there absolutely not you cannot go
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from a social intellectual political and
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literal diet of white supremacy to
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African revolution overnight uhuh
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there's stages to get ready so how long
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will would it take according to you
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generations the distractions are so
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great mhm the distractions I believe the
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European has mastered the the
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distractions more than he has mastered
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the oppression the oppression isn't even
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that important anymore because you got
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the distractions social media this that
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exactly and those distractions have
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given African people so much comfort
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that I think a lot of us are okay under
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oppression as long as we have the
