Chuck D & BLM Grassroots: The Fight for Authenticity 🎤 | SWAY'S UNIVERSE

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Who that? That sound like a voice of
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power.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I can't tell you
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how I please I am every single time I
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get a chance to sit with my brother and
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just hold court.
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Yeah. Hold conversation. We have to
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recognize this for what it is. We just
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catch up better than Heinz. That's all
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we
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That's that's all we do, man. We catch
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up better than Heinz, man. Bars, I like
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that, Chuck. Yo, throw a beat on. IC
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Ice, throw a beat on.
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Yo, they come they they come slower but
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sure shot, you know, post-60, man.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, like
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I'm here with sister Melina, you know
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what I'm saying? And and this is this is
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what it's all about because when we say
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black lives matter, you got to cover the
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spectrum from zero to 100.
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Mhm. And I know going around now
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everybody is funny. It's not really the
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sad funny.
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Yeah. When people start paying attention
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to like saying what matters but within
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their context.
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Mhm. Give me an example. Example?
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Yeah. Does somebody 40 really give a
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damn about somebody under 40 if it ain't
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their kids?
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Good point.
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care give a [ __ ] damn about somebody
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over 70 if it ain't their people?
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Mhm. All you got to do is look about
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look at the general health of black
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lives past 60.
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Yeah.
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And yo, you could shake your head and
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walk away. But if you open your eyes and
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really take note Mhm. especially past 40
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Yeah.
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you you come up with a consensus that
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says, you know, like
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damn, I got to do something and just not
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say something. So, you know, like
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whenever you hear like somebody talking
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to a group of people, the biggest
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question is like well, who are you
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talking to? Mhm. You talking to you
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based on your personal needs or the
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lives around you?
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And so, I mean, you know, being like 60
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in my 64th year, right?
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You know, even we go further, one thing
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I noticed I noticed is some [ __ ]
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ageism as hell out there. Ageism is is
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real [ __ ] thing out there. Not
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so towards me, but like my peers and
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people like in my category is like they
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going down and and and the lifestyle
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that we celebrated, I know this is a
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whole 'nother subject and I'mma shut up.
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But the lifestyle that that that we
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think the music celebrated is [ __ ] us
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up.
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Cuz the end the results is right here in
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2024.
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Mentally, physically, spiritually,
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collectively
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and uh and and it it all seems to pour
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out on social media with a sickness. So
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anyway, that's enough for me. No, that's
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never enough. No, you never enough, but
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you know, it ain't just me. So we here
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with with you know, we here with
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movement.
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Professor Melina Abdullah is here from
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Black Lives Matter Grassroots here in
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LA.
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And I want to welcome her to this show.
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This sister This sister Tracy G, we both
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grew up in the same neighborhood. We
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grew up knowing the same people.
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But we never met in person. I don't
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think we did. But you know, I was in the
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streets a lot. We might HAVE MET. WE
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MIGHT HAVE MET. WE MIGHT HAVE MET IN
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PASSING. RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. We didn't
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know each other. But but we knew each
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other. We knew each other. Because we
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know each other now. So when I walk in
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the room and you told me you dropped
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them seeds where you was from, Funkytown
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Chuck. I don't know if you know Chuck
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know about Funkytown. He been in and out
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Oakland, California. I don't At at
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25, 30, 40 miles per hour.
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Listen. I don't drove every road and
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been in every hood in this country. Yes.
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And and and I've been fortunate to have
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a car that never been revoked. Wow. And
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a lot of times when you go to places,
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you try to give them a little
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perspective like there's other places
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that's feeling it other than just you.
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But of course you going to speak out
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what hit you. You know, like they they
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used to say throw you know
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a a rock at a pack and the one that
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howls the one that's hit.
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But what we were able to do and and and
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in this is the thing is like, you know,
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Sister Melina Cole, you know, boom, I'm
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there. I I
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I move to movements.
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You know, we come out of a music that
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had movement. You know, we danced to it.
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We danced and skated, right? But, we
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also stood. Yes, that's true. And and
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and we held conversation. And I I want
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to talk about this movement, how you the
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two of you got together, and then we
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also have the group Gumbo here from LA.
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They've been on the show before by way
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of Adrian Miller. But, before we do
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that, Professor Melina, B BLM
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Grassroots, it's important that we say
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grassroots.
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That's right. Why is that?
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Well, we know So, I was part of the
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birth of Black Lives Matter. July 13th,
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2013, many of us just rose up and
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intuitively stood in the name of Trayvon
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Martin, right? Said we have to get
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justice for our people. We remember then
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President Barack Obama said, "If I had a
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son, he'd look like Trayvon." Well, I
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have a son, and he actually looks like
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Trayvon, right? Same shiny brown skin,
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dancing eyes, and I saw my son's face in
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Trayvon's face. And so,
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a bunch of us, many of us who were
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mamas, right? Said, "We can't let them
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steal our child, and it goes
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unanswered." And so, we birthed Black
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Lives Matter intuitively. These were
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just regular people in the streets. And
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over the course of the last 10 years,
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especially in 2020, when resources
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finally started pouring into the
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movement, there was a fight for those
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resources, and there's always been, as
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we study history, there's always been an
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effort by the right and by white
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supremacy to derail movements that are
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real movements that seek to really
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liberate and empower black people. And
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so, what starts to happen is other
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interests get involved, and ultimately,
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what we have is the theft of Black Lives
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Matter, our good name,
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Yeah. our resources and our platforms
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from the people who birthed, built, and
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fueled the movement. So, Black Lives
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Matter grassroots is saying, "We're not
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giving it to you.
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Mhm. There's still boots on the ground.
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They're still doing work. If we think
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about what just happened last week in
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Mississippi Mhm. with the goon squad,
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Yeah. um the the white cops who've been
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torturing black people for decades being
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convicted and sentenced from anywhere
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between 10 and 40 years per cop, and
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that's just the federal charges, right?
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That didn't just happen. That was the
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work of Black Lives Matter Mississippi.
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Mhm.
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And people who are on the ground not for
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a check, but because our people deserve
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to be free. So, Black Lives Matter
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grassroots um is about making sure that
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we do the work whether we have
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resources, whether we have big
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followings, or not, and the thieves will
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suffer. But, those of us who were meant
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to do this work and who are called by
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ancestors and by our community to do the
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work are going to continue to do the
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work regardless. My mantra is just do
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the work and live righteously.
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Just do the work and live righteously,
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Professor Melina Abdullah. Give her a
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big round of applause. How How do you um
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How do you
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fight against the propaganda that's
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constantly being put out there about the
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Black Lives Matter movement, grassroots
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movement, to to to to discredit it and
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some of the players that's involved?
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Well, so that's the mantra, right? Just
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do the work and live righteously because
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the work will speak for itself, right?
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People will know your character
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themselves, and then we are very
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fortunate and blessed to have people
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like Chuck
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be there and use culture and say, "Look,
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you know, hip-hop was really developed
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and birthed to be a voice for our
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people, to move us forward." And so, for
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him and for artists like Gumbo to come
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and say, "We're going to use culture to
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push the movement forward. We're not
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just saying words to say words. We're
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saying words that have meaning and then
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speak what I love." I'm not an artist,
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right? Nobody ever wants me to be,
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right?
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I beg to differ.
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But what I love is the way in which
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music and we were talking about how your
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music was so influential, is so
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influential, is music and culture has
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ability to speak directly to our souls
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and move us off of the stoops that
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Heather was talking about and say, "You
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know what? We got to get up. We got to
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do work. We got to make sure that we
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move ourselves." And so grateful to have
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cultural workers who are using it for
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the the power of our people. Absolutely,
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man. Big round of applause to get that
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bring
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What's the Bring the Noise app?
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Yeah, it's the cultural app, you know,
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the world's first cultural app. You go
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to Bring the Noise app uh dot com. It's
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a platform in itself. Um
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it's for fams, filmmakers, artists,
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musicians, sports heads, and we keep it
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to the culture. But the the Professor
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Molina, you know, just to build on what
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she was saying, you know, I'm a
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culturalist and I'm a earthacist. I
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don't believe in, you know,
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borders and orders and none of that.
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Although I come out of outside of myself
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and I, you know, you got to be real and
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you got to sound very real to real
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people, but you should point the real
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people doing movement in real things.
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Mhm. And and that's very important. If
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you're in culture, you're artist, you
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feel that, you know,
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I got to do that. No, if you don't got
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to do it, point in the right direction
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of people who are really, you know,
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their boots to the ground and moving on
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movement.
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Mhm. Then you lend yourself to that. I'm
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here also being able to say I'm passing
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the time with Gumbo doing their thing.
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They're in the mix, you know what I'm
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saying? I I'm, you know, I've been to
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116 countries. You know, I I did a
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lecture in Lebanon, you know, what I'm
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saying? And I got a whole bunch of
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people in Lebanon, Beirut looking at me,
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and they got a hip-hop community. You
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better talk something to that audience
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on on not basically what they, you know,
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need to know, but you you got to be able
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to pass the baton cuz they already know
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what they got to deal with.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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You're passing the baton of culture and
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also knowledge and awareness,
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understanding, and all those things cuz
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there's real people doing real things in
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their community, too. And they therefore
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you you forward the bond. But you got to
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know your place or who you are, know who
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you are, know who you are not.
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Mhm. I definitely know who I ain't. I
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know who I am. I know I definitely have
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known for a long time where I am and
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what I'm about to do. Chuck D, all
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right. And you mentioned Gumbo, we got
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them here right now, man. Step up to the
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mic,
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fellas. Peace. All right. Peace. Peace.
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What's up, man? Say your name, man.
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What's the deal? This is Ro from Gumbo.
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What up, Sway?
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Okay, what up? Good to see you, Ro.
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What's up? What's up? My name is Danger
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from Gumbo. Thanks for having us. We
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appreciate it.
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Danger, you know you don't spit bars up
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here before, too. Adrian Miller is here,
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too. What is the you Adrian has told me
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about this this galvanizing of BLM
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grassroots, Chuck D, and Gumbo to come
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together for this initiative. Talk to us
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about that.
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Look, man, this is the first of its
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kind. This is how we do it in the order
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of culture in the order of
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revolutionists everywhere. This is this
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for the artists, you know, Sway. Thank
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you for having us up there. Absolutely.
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I'm introducing this as the artist merch
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initiative. And uh you're always here to
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break it, you and Heather and Tracy G,
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y'all always help us out. Like I said, I
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just want to be a citizen. So, what is
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that? That's an opportunity That That's
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an opportunity for
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the fans. That's an opportunity for the
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community to give back and harbor their
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interest into causes with the artists
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they support and the artists that they
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want to, you know, guide behind. So, for
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me, this was a opportunity to create a
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simple t-shirt
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for Black Lives Matter grassroots and
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bring Gumbo on board and just mesh it
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all together. For me, having someone
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like Chuck and Chuck's reps and the
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whole nine yard of bringing it all full
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circle,
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I don't know that it gets better than
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this. So, this is just pushing the
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directive. Okay, so with this directive,
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and we got a we got listeners all over
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the world. How where do they go? What
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platform do they go to if they want to
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support by, you know, buying a t-shirt,
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but not only that, how to find out more
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information? So, soon come uh xylon.com,
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xylon.com.
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Black Lives Matter grassroots.
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On the socials, Chuck D
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on the socials, Gumbo official. Okay.
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So, they can reach it. It's going to be
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launched on the 5th, but right now, you
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can pre-save links for their stuff as
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much as you can buy t-shirts today. So,
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the links are available everywhere.
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People just dial in and use them. Okay,
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Professor Melina,
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uh in what campuses are do you profess?
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I'm a professor of Pan African Studies
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at Cal State LA's College of Ethnic
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Studies, which is the second College of
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Ethnic Studies in the whole world. So,
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I'm very proud of that. Come on, get a
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round of applause, man. You got to know
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Come on. I would love for you to do
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maybe a
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I'll carve out some time. You could do a
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20-minute lecture hall on live on the
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air.
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Ooh, I'd love that.
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Would you do that? Would you do
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me a topic. Look, that's how I spit
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bars, right?
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topic?
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Give me a topic, you know?
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bring the noise, for sure.
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Yeah. Uh Uh No, NOT NOW. OKAY. OKAY.
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OKAY.
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LOOK, I DON'T FREESTYLE, RIGHT?
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OH, THAT'S YOU KNOW WHAT YOU
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PROFESSOR
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I THOUGHT WE HAD A HYENA UP IN HERE.
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OKAY, well we'll we'll talk about it,
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all right? But uh but but for now people
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could go to what platform again if they
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want to find out more about your
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movement.
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BLM Grassroots on all social media. BLM
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Grassroots is the movement on the ground
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for Black Lives Matter. Chuck, we all
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have a responsibility. Do you feel we
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all have a responsibility to do what
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you're doing past that baton? Well, you
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you especially you know like if if you
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of age
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and what's of age, right? Like a lot of
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times people will say, you know, like
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yeah, it's for the for the youth and the
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kids. I mean, how young is young? I look
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at a 18-year-old and say, damn, you
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ain't six, dog.
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You know what I'm saying? Every
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14-year-old want to get older. Yeah. So
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once you say, yeah, you want to get
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older, so you know, this is the burden
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that's going to start, you know,
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flipping on your lap, you know?
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Um
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so how young is young? Young, I mean,
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that's just, you know, it's just it's
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relative and it within context of
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wherever you might be in the situation
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ahead. You want to grow up and age you
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know, you you know, every gift every
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year that you get is a present.
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Yes, it is.
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It's called the present.
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Mhm. So um my conversations, if I'm
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having a conversation with uh the great
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Harry Belafonte, who transitioned last
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year, right?
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power. Yeah. And he's having a
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conversation with me about the
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conversation he had with Paul Robeson,
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right? And these are artists, right?
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Mhm. Culturalists.
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And he's having a conversation with me.
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I got to have the same conversation with
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whoever, you know, uh whatever circle I
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step into. That's our role as a
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culturalist to pass the It's it's really
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our code, you know? And people like uh
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you know,
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social media is everybody got a camera,
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everybody got a mic, and you know, at
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the same time they're talking at the
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same time. Um so but therefore you got
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to take that with a grain of salt. Um
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you have to turn into people who really
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do it professionally like yourself, mhm,
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who been doing it for years.
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Um there's there's a method of getting
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things across. There's a method of
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giving everybody their time to get
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something across. And you got to deal
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with real people that do real things and
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the best professionals at all times,
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especially when it comes down to
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communication to us. Right. And this is
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why, you know, Professor Medina is here.
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She's uh she's a professional of what
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she does.
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She's a master at what she does.
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Mhm. She she's not going to freestyle.
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She's going to plan and map it out.
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She's going to architect She's going to
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strategize. Gumbo has been you know,
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they've been in the workshop for so
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long, you know, and a lot of people when
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people first hear about like, "I didn't
15:57
know about them." This is why discovery
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is a great thing with social media and
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technology. You didn't know? Now you
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know. So here you go. And then you know,
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and and also coming down and and hearing
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Ice T Ice played music.
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Yeah. That, you know, like yeah, it's
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music from years ago, but it speaks to
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the context of now. The bars
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they never decay. They never decay.
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Chuck D is here. I'm going to test that
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theory out about bars never decaying.
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Since we got Gumbo here, we might And
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art never decays, too. I'm going to give
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you I'm going to give you all my art
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books cuz I kind of, you know, like
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reduce my words down to illustrations
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now.
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That's right.
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to just drop drop it off. And I got a
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box set coming for you, too, Heather.
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Okay.
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And uh yeah, so that's that.
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we're going to we're going to pass them
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out. Fellas, step to the mic.
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All right. We got DJ Ice T Ice. I don't
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know what BD going to play. Professor,
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you mind letting them have the use those
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headphones on your ear? All right. Y'all
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can talk.
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Yeah. Okay, there you go. They got They
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got it, Chuck. They got it. They got it.
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Yeah. All right. We going Hey, fellas,
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one verse a piece. Let's go.
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One verse a piece.
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Can you hear that?
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Hey, yeah, I hear that. So you can turn
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it up right there in the headphones
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right there.
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I'm good right here.
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Yeah. Turn him up a little, John, the
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volume on the music. Hey.
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What's up? This is Ralph from Gumbo.
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Brey. Turn that mic down a little.
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Uh-huh.
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Look.
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I get this bag, flip your motor and go
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to jail. White gold grill. Eat what you
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kill. See little boys with all this
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noise, get you vacuumed sealed. It must
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be crack fumes that got you tripping
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like King Kong. Try to show off to the
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man how bad that you can't comb. I see
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your masquerades. Say you running [ __ ]
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that away and this away, but couldn't
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give an order at a Chick-fil-A.
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Different days when we was tucking
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slingshots, candy bracelets with the
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ring pops. New flavors now getting
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everything that the Cane's got. Hitting
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sweet spots till our teeth rot and my
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teacher stopped. It's mission
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impossible. Was just ahead of my time,
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cruising and the vision's unstoppable.
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Now y'all Cinderellas calling saying
17:54
that they got that shoe. I shoe them off
17:56
of it after we kick it. Like what you
17:57
about to do? Let's spit them details,
17:59
y'all. You know what we got into. Swae,
18:01
what's up? What's up? What's up? What's
18:03
up, man?
18:03
Hey, listen. Yeah. Yeah.
18:05
By by each of us in the prophesies, I'll
18:07
increase my profit size. You'll be
18:09
flipping words like they birds and get
18:10
them ostracized. Despite of being
18:12
ostracized, don't compromise. I walk it
18:13
bright. This is the algorithm listed I'm
18:15
supposed to die before I'm 25.
18:18
But if it's not a law, it's not a loss.
18:20
And a lesson is not a loss not at all.
18:21
Walk it off, right?
18:23
And if you get involved, you evolve.
18:25
Growing pains, but on the other side is
18:26
gain. The show called life. Drive-by 17,
18:30
I got hit up. Started coming out my
18:32
shell, tore this [ __ ] up. Hell Roman, my
18:34
known aroma was having scent. But now
18:36
y'all marked from the beast. Now y'all
18:38
all getting chipped. No more waiting in
18:39
the water. Now y'all all getting rinsed.
18:41
Says our boss you on my neck, I gave a
18:43
damn about y'all repent.
18:44
Pardon? Still ain't said [ __ ] But the
18:46
real interest is, you never did what you
18:48
said. I never said what I did now. Look,
18:51
we made it out then made it in. Cats who
18:53
had to go and slide, it was that or go
18:55
get slid. New leaf.
18:57
Okay, listen, listen. Pardon me for this
18:58
musical concussion.
19:00
We in the kitchen and Gumbo cooking. My
19:03
[ __ ] is seasoned, no mic with waving.
19:06
Your [ __ ] be tasting like white people
19:08
made it. It's danger, danger, greatest
19:10
entertainer since the Doug E. Fresh and
19:12
Slick Rick was banging. Don't be at the
19:15
club unless the club is paying. I be in
19:17
the mountains, [ __ ] training,
19:19
training. Listen, I'm not a rapper, I'm
19:21
the rapper. Out of any freaking he or
19:24
she rapper. Yo, speaking of she, I want
19:27
to make beautiful music with her. I can
19:30
rap and she can play the guitar. Play
19:33
the guitar. But anyway, back to the
19:35
kitchen and back to the cooking and back
19:37
to the gumbo and back to the
19:39
[ __ ] world, dog. Wake up. There
19:42
it is, man. Gumbo in the building. They
19:44
just wanted to give you a taste of what
19:45
it is. Come on, man. They want to follow
19:47
Gumbo, how can they follow Gumbo, man?
19:49
What y'all got coming next? Oh, man, we
19:51
got All True out now. Go ahead and tap
19:53
in on Instagram, Gumbo official. Okay.
19:57
in, everything else is there. Thanks,
19:58
man.
19:58
There it is, man. Come on. Every time,
20:00
man, y'all family and keep Hey, listen.
20:02
Chuck D said he's handing you the baton.
20:04
No question. That's a lot of legacy, a
20:06
lot of responsibility. No, they they
20:09
they they handling it and you can see it
20:11
in their eyes. They mean it and they nod
20:14
to it and and that's what it's all
20:16
about. That's what it's all about. It's
20:17
it's all about. I mean, how how many
20:19
people have you ushered through your
20:20
doors, Sway? I lost count, Chuck D.
20:24
And everybody and the peoples and their
20:26
families is gracious for that. Yes, I
20:28
appreciate that.
20:29
Gracious for that.
20:29
Thank you, brother.
20:30
and uh I am most especially.
20:33
Yo, man. Hey, listen, this Chuck D,
20:34
right here. It's my brother, man. We've
20:36
been doing this for decades. Professor
20:38
Melina Abdullah from Funk Town is in the
20:41
building.
20:43
Uh Black Lives Matter's grassroots.
20:46
You know, you know, I look at Gumbo in
20:49
in in the in this the vibe and the seeds
20:51
out of Project Blowed Yes. Yeah. They
20:54
come out of that. They come out of that
20:56
legacy. And also putting, you know,
20:58
truth to power and meaning with that. I
20:59
love it, man. Thank you all for coming
21:01
by and blessing these airwaves. All
21:03
right. All right. Appreciate you all.

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