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Apr 28, 2021
DJ Cavem calls into Sway In the Morning to talk about his new album, "Pull Up on The Gate" on Earth Day.
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a lot of us really need to get back to
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the source and um
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we are all connected that's for real yo
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and knowledge is power uh i want to see
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you all
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educate yourselves on you know ethically
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sourcing everything
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you know don't just take my word for it
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you know um
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documentaries are powerful and a lot of
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us have
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you know normalized our consumption
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because of the
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you know what's going on in the world
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see spirit see just like cowspiracy
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what the health a lot of these other
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documentaries you know i mean if they're
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not impacted if they don't make you
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think
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maybe you're a little desensitized and
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just gotta like see and see the
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connection between what what else is
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going on
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that's the voice of dr etep dj kaveh
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veda the og the organic gardener
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the eco hip-hop artist the educator the
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doctor the vegan chef
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the bar spitter the truth seeker
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the genius himself all the way from
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denver
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the chef i call him the chef because the
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man invited me into his home tracy g
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and he made me some of the most enriched
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food in his
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and his queen made the best pancakes i
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ever tasted and you ate it all
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right al camilla earth salute to that
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queen
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and welcome him back to the show the one
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and only dj kayvon ladies and gentlemen
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cable
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hey
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[Applause]
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come on man me and this brother
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man we we got a chance to finally sit
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down when my daughter abandoned me in
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denver
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[Applause]
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[Laughter]
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bye daddy yo cable matter remember the
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brief moment you saw kiomi
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yeah man you know she definitely reminds
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me of my own
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you know when it comes down to the
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culture you know they they likes man
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they definitely independent these new
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indiegogo children you know
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yes indeed these indigo children they
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got something special they gifted that's
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what you're seeing in this generation
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coming up right now
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and we talked a whole lot man and one of
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the things that came them showed me
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on dj kavem is you know etf aka dj cave
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if you recall back in 2017
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um he came on the show when we
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broadcasted in denver
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and he did this demonstration of how
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electrical current can pass through
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produce and he was able what was that
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you were doing bro can you break that
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down
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yeah man it was called plant-based
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records basically you take copper wire
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with a homemade midi device and then you
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actually you drop beats with beats using
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all kinds of different styles but
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man we dropped a ted talk about it now
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you see this it's a vibe
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it's the thing that i think people are
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using to show how food is electric
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food is energy you know i mean and uh it
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depends on what you put in your body we
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was trying to show the whole concept
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around plant-based eating
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so shout out to the squad my man detour
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thomas evans
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you know i mean well let me design that
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whole piece for the whole performance so
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yeah my man yeah man it's earth day and
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we were talking about having you come on
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and talk about earth day
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um one of the things that you've done
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that's really incredible
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um using technology is your last project
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biomimics um you actually did something
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really interesting you provided an
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album and a project and you also provide
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a pack of seeds that people can grow
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tell us about that concept
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yeah thank you for the acknowledgement i
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mean you know the energy of it was
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really to
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talk about how we can flood our
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community for what we need we saw in the
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past that our community
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flooded with drugs so basically it's
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like we're going to flood the community
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with seeds and see how this works to
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create cooperative economics
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the concept was a trap album called
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biomimics you can get it you know pretty
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much wherever you can find and download
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music
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but the concept was to show people that
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you can like you know
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create a career and a lifestyle around
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urban agriculture
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and growing in the inner city it was the
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best thing to actually offset
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carbon in the the city at the same time
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it's the best thing that we can do
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to create those green jobs and be able
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to help
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for our whole health and our whole
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family and i'm saying
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so the concept of that was it was
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beautiful you know
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now that we release music videos like
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sprout that life
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and trying to show people the concept
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around what it is
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earth day was a beautiful time to do to
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basically bring this to the community
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you already know
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listening party happened at the at the
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giant stadium and dugout garden
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you know i mean with the all the youth
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coming in from the hood you know i
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wanted to make sure that they heard it
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first
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and then you know the way that we broke
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it down my man brian terry chopped up
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the food you know he just dropped that
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new book called uh the vegetable kingdom
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so we've been celebrating
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you know the music and the seeds and the
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books all this together as a community
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but it wasn't just about just bringing
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the seeds we had to like reprogram and
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show how we can decolonize the kitchen
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we went directly into the community and
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started doing workshops
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and this is showing people how to grow
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food but not just that
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how to harvest the food go to the
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farmer's market and then literally
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prepare a traceable source locally grown
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because we needed to show how we can
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support each other and what that looks
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like
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so this is a this is a full-on community
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of biomimicry
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mimicking the earth and going back to
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that it's kind of like an
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ancient wisdom for present problems and
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so the album
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is the first certified usda organic
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hip-hop album
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ever we dropped it in packets of seeds
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literally packets of seeds were growing
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instructions on the inside
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but the whole thing has the concepts and
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the qr code on the back for people to
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download it
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you know it's incredible yo tracy the qr
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code hp
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i just pointed my phone at it and i
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started listening to his album
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i was like oh my gosh this is genius
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this is
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different both innovative and ancient at
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the same time i love that
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intersection um i'm interested in
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knowing
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how because you know um
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myself hb sway we live in the tri-state
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area and we
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live in especially me being in brooklyn
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i think to myself this doesn't feel like
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a
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nice harvest land you know what i mean
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for me to be growing
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how easy is it to do this when you're in
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very populated cities
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you know that's exactly why this next
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album has the same concept around that
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it's called concrete garden i felt that
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it was a beautiful opportunity to talk
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to people about how to grow in the inner
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cities i live in colorado
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you know we've been growing a lot people
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grow indoors people grow in their closet
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out here
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you know but the whole thing is just
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like kind of transforming this
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conversation into like not just
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plant-based medicines but also using
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food as medicine right
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so you know i've seen people growing a
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windowsill definitely the microbiotic
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greens
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people are growing sprouts literally
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small sprout kits on top of the
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refrigerator
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it only takes like maybe about two and a
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half weeks to be able to get you some
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sunflower sprouts
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that's high nutrient dense if it's
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strong enough to push through concrete
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it's definitely strong enough you know
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me to be able to give that
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that nutrients and everything that it
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actually comes with
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so you know i'm all about inner city
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foraging and uh
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making sure that the things are
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happening and i mean like a lot of the
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stuff that is available is right here on
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the ground
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in nature permaculturally provided you
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know what i mean
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um for instance like last year pandemic
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hit
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i was like yo i was literally supposed
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to go on tour and distribute over 42 000
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packets of seeds
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i realized that i needed to actually
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communicate and connect with friends
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and family who were urban farmers in
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need i was like all right you know so i
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just i started distributing packets
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you know i realized that people just
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needed the food regardless
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even if they needed the music you know
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people are growing outside
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of their homes because they don't want
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to grow grass anymore
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you know and things like mullen were
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naturally pulling up through the ground
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and dandelions were pulling up and
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that's that's
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that's the real nutrients right there so
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we basically trying to encourage
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you know the the local and the native
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plants in our community to propagate
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those at the same time
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influence each other to use plant-based
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medicines with the music with the style
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i love it because what he's naming what
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he's talking about citizens
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if you do your research and peace thank
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you so much for being with us again i
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appreciate you this is heather
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what he's talking about citizens the
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mullen and the dandelion
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they make for great teas man i mean you
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just sip on those teas
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and and your whole life you just watch
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your body feel different
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your energy changes your digestive
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system everything like
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they make for great great teas and those
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are something that the
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dandelion i knew about for years because
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my great-grandmother
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um always told us about that but the
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mullein i found out about
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uh early last year through um g herbals
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shout out to g herbal love you nephew
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for real
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word yeah you know the things like that
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and all the way down from like
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toasty you know to you know a lot of
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people are growing basil nowadays but
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like you know toasty originally
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you know started in india and it was
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used for so many different
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you know elements around the board like
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a lot of these herbs and tea these
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ancient medicines is the reason why
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we're here
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you know shout out to all the shamans
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shout out to all the tartar
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saw the healers uh from back in the day
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because i feel like you know
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that's um that's gonna lead us in this
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next future of like how to like
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you know go back to the roots of our of
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our teas and our juices and really
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taking this to a whole nother level but
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yo i'm excited with y'all it's earth day
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you know what i'm saying yeah
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absolutely so can i ask you because i
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don't want to get into your medic
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your own personal medical business but
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with you being so
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you know pro herbs and being a herbalist
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and growing a natural oh have you had to
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have a lot of debate and fights with
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people
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uh even within your family in terms of
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getting a vaccine or receiving a vaccine
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and yeah i mean i'm vegan i've been
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vegan for over
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23 years yeah and so it's not happening
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i mean most vaccines aren't vegan so
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i mean that's just me you know i'm
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saying like y'all do you but i'm gonna
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be real like you know i just don't take
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it because it's not i know i got all
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kind of other stuff in it too but we
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ain't gotta have that conversation
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you know what i'm saying i think like
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the com i think what's really going on
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in the world
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um about like taking responsibility for
10:40
our health doesn't just start with
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you know the lab coats i think it starts
10:44
with just you know people know small
10:46
things you know that runny nose you know
10:47
that bad breath or
10:49
you know i mean that that that pain in
10:51
the in the lower back you know sometimes
10:53
we might just need more water
10:54
sometimes we might just need more
10:56
sunlight you know you might just need to
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just go ahead and just like slide
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into the produce section real quick and
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that's kind of like the whole
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conversation about
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kind of reintroducing and remembering a
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lot of us especially when it comes to
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being in the hood we know how to
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be green we know how to recycle reduce
11:12
reuse
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you know i mean and go to the thrift
11:15
store and that stuff wasn't new for us
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and that was definitely a
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cultural phenomenon for people who are
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like learning about how to be
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sustainable but what that looks like for
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us sometimes
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left out of our food culture you know i
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mean and that's what we're here
11:31
to basically reclaim reclaiming the land
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and reclaiming this whole identity of
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like you know putting activism towards
11:38
water conservation not only in flint
11:40
michigan but in the navajo
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reservation all the way down to like so
11:44
many other things to fight for
11:46
it's not just our health you know and i
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feel like that camaraderie
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is really where like the heart of
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activism is and you know the whole
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reason that i'm compassionate with my
11:55
plate
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is because i just it's unnecessary and
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plus we know the trauma
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i know i can't walk into a school right
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now
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and show somebody how to skin a chicken
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but i can definitely chop up a cabbage
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five ways
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and probably stood in front of them in
12:10
the next 20 minutes and so thinking
12:12
about that conversation knows that
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people are desensitized from the things
12:16
that they feel that they need
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but without them even doing the
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knowledge so you know i'm here to just
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bring knowledge to them you know
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the conversation of what we're doing
12:24
with plant-based records the squad we're
12:26
dropping it through
12:27
all different things you know there's
12:29
there's so many different projects you
12:30
know we can heal climate change
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there's so many different ideas i'm
12:34
featured in the new um leonardo dicaprio
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documentary called ice on fire
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that's what we said you know who's
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online or not and i mean but the
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conversation was about
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how to kill you know the planet in the
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whole issue you know i mean with
12:47
solutions facing climate change you know
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what i mean like there's so many things
12:51
right now we're doing it and i mean and
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then the queen and i have uh
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our non-profit organization that's
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continuing to donate seeds to urban
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farmers in need
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and we just been raising funds off our
13:02
gofundme at uh vita earth
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and that's how people find us you know
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what i'm saying veda
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earth foundation um uh
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alchemia earth that's his queen um she
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made some pancakes for us this weekend
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i don't know what those things well i
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think they sent them from the pearly
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gates
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i'm not sure what it was made out of yo
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pavon was making juices
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uh man my skin has been
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my skin been glowing ever since i left
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the house and you you're releasing the
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project today what you're releasing
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today
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and i want folks to follow you too what
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are you releasing today
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man brand new music uh just released a
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song called
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pull up on the gate check out the video
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definitely it's on youtube you know what
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it is follow me on instagram
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at etf that's spelled i e
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t e f etf and uh you can find me
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instagram twitter i'm you know i'm gonna
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be shouting out you know people all day
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you know i mean celebrating this concept
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of what it looks like pull up on the
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gate is a music video that talks about
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social justice and the urban agriculture
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perspective right
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so you know i grew up landscaping that
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was some of my first green jobs was
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cutting grass like i had to get the
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money
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and i thought about it from a
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perspective of like what we can do
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to also see this as like you know
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stewards of the land so
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i went back to the days you know when i
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was on the corner
14:28
hustling greens right literally you know
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and put that back into
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you know to perspectives for people to
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see what it was like for me
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so check out the new video pull up on
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the gate
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coming off of the concrete garden album
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you know and if you if you're a fan and
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already loving it
14:45
check out the last album biomimics
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dedicated to biomimicry that's spelled
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bio
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m-i-m-i-c-z and you know how to find it
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online you know anywhere where they
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streaming music but you know
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like i said you know this is this is
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deeper than that you know we bringing
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food to the people
15:02
you already know we got the distribution
15:04
in in the bronx
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we got it in queens and we also got it
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in in brooklyn
15:08
bringing vegan food to new york city if
15:11
you out there
15:12
check out plant taga and follow my man
15:14
how to be vegan in the hood
15:16
eric cause you know he's been basically
15:18
bringing that vegan chopped cheese to
15:19
the blocks
15:20
and that's the real energy is like how
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we can transform and bring
15:24
access to our community more than just
15:26
seeds we bring in food
15:28
we bring the culture you know i mean and
15:30
we're showing how we redefine the image
15:32
of wealth
15:32
because sustainability you know maybe
15:35
looks like bringing that back you know
15:37
what i'm saying
15:38
maybe it looks like go ahead and keeping
15:40
that reusable straw and
15:42
you know recycling and composting the
15:44
best that you can
15:45
you know and paying attention and that's
15:47
what it's all about we really
15:49
we taking time with this and this music
15:51
is a way so
15:52
you know how to get it they all go he
15:54
taffeta man i actually got man my
15:56
brother on the line because
15:58
he's up next but i thought he might
16:00
enjoy this conversation because he's a
16:02
global man he's a worldly man
16:04
and we've seen him redefine who we are
16:06
and taught us how to evolve
16:08
as people and individuals i got the one
16:10
and only iced tea online right now
16:11
ladies and gentlemen hey what's up
16:13
family okay okay
16:16
what up people what up what what up
16:17
neighborhood where how y'all doing
16:19
good family we good brother come on man
16:22
i
16:22
iced tea i know we had you on hold but
16:24
this is my brother uh
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dr e teff aka dj kavem and man i was
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with him in denver this weekend ice
16:31
and he was telling me a way that we
16:34
could start selling
16:36
produce and make as much money if not
16:38
more than people
16:39
on the streets hustling or selling drugs
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absolutely absolutely
16:43
absolutely i always tell people most
16:45
drugs are just a 50
16:47
mark up you know what i'm saying you got
16:48
gotta cut it and then flip it it only
16:50
only makes fifty percent
16:58
there's a lot of other hustles than than
16:59
just drugs man trust me so
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yeah i could sell tomato i might have a
17:03
bigger margin honestly
17:05
there you go okay that's what we were
17:08
talking about right
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exactly you know i just was just saying
17:12
the five with it like you know i'm
17:13
looking at how much the price of vinyl
17:15
was i'm like all right look i can get a
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petroleum-based product
17:18
that literally is going to be obsolete
17:20
in the future
17:21
especially when i'm looking at my ride
17:23
i'm thinking about the culture that i
17:24
was able to take the same profit margin
17:27
that i would have put towards investing
17:28
in vinyl putting in that into
17:30
packaging and relabeling organic locally
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grown
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at the same time heirloom organic seeds
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and packaging that to be able to like
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put a qr code on the back to teach
17:41
people how to grow food family come on
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like i was like
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this is way better than way better than
17:46
the hustle you know i mean
17:47
i thought about it like i'm getting like
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forty two thousand packages to seize
17:50
what i would've got like a hundred
17:52
pieces of vinyl work
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there you go hey dj cable man um
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congratulations
17:57
once again tell people how they can
17:59
reach you and we're going to play the
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new music and how they can reach to get
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to the new music
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definitely yo find me on instagram
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at i e t e f find me right there
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you know what it is shout out to my
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little brother tesco
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shout out to the squad dmd you know what
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i mean but the real thing is you need
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that organic food go to plant sega
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eat clintega.com so you can find a
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location for the bodegas that's flipping
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organic
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food and if you need one of these you
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know what it is
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one love video love it happy earth day
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bro happy
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earth day brother tell her the name of
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the song is pull up to the gate
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pull up on the gate come on the concrete
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guard now
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one love y'all
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