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Hakim Green Talks 24HRSOFPEACE & Freestyles on Sway In The Morning | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Sep 8, 2023
Hip Hop culture has always been a voice of the people. Its influence on society is undeniable, and its ability to unite people from all walks of life is something to be celebrated. Hakim Green is one of the many Hip Hop artists who use their platform to inspire and educate their community. Hakim is the Co-Founder of “24HRSOFPEACE” hosted by Mayor Ras Baraka. This event, designed to promote nonviolence and conflict resolution, is one of the many ways Hakim continues to use Hip Hop culture to make a difference in society.
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Hakim Green Talks 24HRSOFPEACE & Freestyles on Sway In The Morning | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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right there [ __ ] you better know who
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that is right there that's my brother my
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brother been around me for we came up
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together 30 years 30 years 30 years 30
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years 30 years and you know 30 years ago
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you were providing platforms for people
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like myself trying to make it in the
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game and I salute you for always keeping
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it one thousand one thousand I can't
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come on man this brother we played the
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song that is almost a classic legendary
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hip-hop song should go into the I don't
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know what all these little dysfunctional
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lists they make you know but
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little play cake little Play-Doh lists
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they be making but mad is them if it
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ain't on that list then your list ain't
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really a list it's the anthem okay the
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anthem and here's the thing man when
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that what year did that come out 94
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1994. big shout out to Malik Levy l07
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self Matt Robinson the capital record
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staff back in the day well the leak Levy
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that was my brother right there matters
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or it's interesting because that song
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was such a great song
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um it it forced a lot of great
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conversations oh yes responsible for a
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lot a lot of things happening right now
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let's talk about that oh yeah so you
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know Madison is Hip-Hops represents
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representation of cannabis it's that
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space where hip-hop and cannabis lives
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and uh 20 excuse me 30 years ago we
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never thought that it would have a legal
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space in the 50 states of the United
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States you know but you know right now
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it's all good it's not all 50 but you
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know probably most of the states is
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realizing the benefits of cannabis and
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how it could not just benefit finances
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but health and wellness and all the
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other things so Health and Wellness
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Health and Wellness wake up in the
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morning got me you're herb right and so
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some people wake up in the morning and
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they have a little plastic a cup a
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device with columns in it and then those
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columns they got individual pills that
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they take every single day all types of
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side effects and you know addict
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addictive properties and you know
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cannabis not not so and it's been
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stigmatized wrongly so for decades but
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you know we're seeing the the positive
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benefits of the plant not just for
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smoking it though when you look at the
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hemp plant on the different uh
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manufacturing utilities that we can use
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with hemp um it could really
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revolutionize the American economy and
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uh you are folks who are into the
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smoking side of it need to do some
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research on the other things that you
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can uh get out of this plant to benefit
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yourself financially because there's
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some room to make some money you had a
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madism dot info at one point you still
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have that
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goalism and look out for Madison Inc the
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entertainment company what is um
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madism.info what is this purpose again
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you know the space where hip-hop and
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cannabis meets yeah you know I mean it's
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it's a way for you know you come into
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our world and beat hip-hop and learn
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about this wonderful thing we call the
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cannabis plant the madism
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um that's what madism info is and it was
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you know me rebranding madism as more
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than just the song Cara said to me he
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was like yo Hakeem This was um I had
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gone back home krs1 from boogie down
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Productions by the way in case you
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didn't know who he meant all right kkrs
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one so I I had gone back home to Newark
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New Jersey East Orange Newark to do some
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work in the community and I got my suit
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and tie on and I caught up with KRS in
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the in the city and he looked at me and
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I got my suit he was like what are you
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doing you need to be out in La selling
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weed you know how much money you could
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be making right now what do you do
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what are you doing and I'm like well you
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know I don't know because I'm doing the
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education I'm doing the activism it's
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gonna mess up my brand he was like nah
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man that is your brand
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so you know he told me he actually
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that's a whole how the song Madison came
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into being was us listening to KRS one
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and following his lead and that's how I
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wake up in the morning became what it
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was so since he was right about that I
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was like you know what let me take that
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into consideration created madism the
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brand the company madism Inc
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madison.info as a more of a journalist
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uh platform for the Cannabis thing I
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have Madison Sports Madison TV the
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madism cipher which I just did in Newark
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New Jersey big shout out to everybody
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that came out to the Madison's life at
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it like 30 40 MCS doing a thing and just
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stamping mad ISM as what it is hip-hop
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cannabis
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there you go Hakeem green is here from
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Channel live citizens there's a big
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concert talk taking place I want to
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mention this before we go back into this
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conversation 24 we talked about it
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earlier today would have to be 24 hours
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a piece he's the co-founder of this
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movement it's been happening for years
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24 hours of entertainment community
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outreach yes uh giveaways give back
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partying Fellowship coming together in
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harmony dancing eating all of these
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things new if you're in New Jersey or
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the surrounding states you know
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Pennsylvania here in New York 24 hours a
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piece is hosted by mayor Ross Baraka and
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my man Hakeem green and others are going
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to be there and the great Amiri Baraka
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Jr who's right over yeah there America
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that's where the name comes from 24
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hours a piece
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you already know okay
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good to see you brother all right
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um this is an amazing event is it free
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it's free free for the community free
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for the community
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um real hip-hop for the people which is
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on the Aubrey project
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um born out of the spirit of 24 hours a
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piece um represents that it's hip-hop is
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freely given real hip-hop is freely
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giving yeah we can make money off it
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yeah get that coin no doubt get that
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coin but we have to set aside time where
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we honor the true intent of hip-hop
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peace love unity safely having fun doing
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it for free in the park jams doing it
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for free on in the community centers so
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that's what it's about the the the
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environment to freely express yourself
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peace loving
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community and safely having fun all
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right this is taking place tomorrow at 6
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p.m all the way till Saturday 6 p.m 6
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p.m on Springfield Avenue uh who are
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some of the yes invited guest Lord have
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mercy first of all we in Newark so Red
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Man's gonna come out wreck that shop man
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coming out Friday
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man we got a nonchalant wow five in the
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morning that's five in the morning you
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know I mean we got Lil Mo we got milk
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dude
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it's chilling what more can I say stop
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billing we got the god AZ AZ wow
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you mean AZ official spitter you know
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what that is uh Mr C's gonna come out
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for a half hour and give him man he's a
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regular man
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um
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Ghost Face Ghost Face
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Wu-Tang in the building
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Ghostface coming tomorrow tomorrow okay
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and we got Jim Jones
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[Applause]
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this set big shout out to DJ qua who
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handles the house responses baby from 12
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to 4. okay no doubt no doubt we come
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back with health and wellness with the
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bartenders Nikki D Nikki D Nikki D we
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got yoga meditation with Jen and Ty day
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we got gospel with law Levar uh yeah
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yeah we got um we got uh we feeding
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seniors uh Saturday morning feeding the
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scene Saturday morning we got spoken
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word with uh Queen more we got a a
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beautiful Town Hall that's shaping up
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that's being moderated by Tisha Campbell
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oh my God cause she's from Jersey she's
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from Jersey the bricks Teresa's from
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Jersey that's right that's right our
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time right
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Dixon big shout out uh the Great Richard
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Williams is going to be on our town hall
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Williams the uh the father of Serena and
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Venus yeah greatness so the name of the
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town hall panel is Mama I made it right
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so because it's a peace activation you
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know usually not usually but too many
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times it's all about Doom and Gloom
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negativity
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we want to give people a blueprint of
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how to get out of a situation and no
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better way to do it but give them Role
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Models people who have so when we say
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Richard Williams and you know the story
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of the Venus and Serena getting out of a
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situation yeah having an idea creating a
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blueprint following a plan to the
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highest of heights the highest so he's
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gonna come and share some of these
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Jewels with us along with all the panels
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great movies too Mama I made it Town
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Hall don't ask them about the movie but
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it was a great movie a great movie yeah
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because they told a great story but I
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wouldn't ask him about it okay okay okay
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thank you
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duly noted okay good luck with 20 three
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hours of hip-hop
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[Laughter]
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people been at like 3 45 a.m where does
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mine word is mine it's all night
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straight through 24 hours all right all
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right oh
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full transparency we do a four hour
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break between four and seven we catch a
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couple Z's three hours yeah three hour
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break but seven we back out there yeah
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and we've been doing it since 2010 yeah
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and that's the routine every year y'all
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about it and that's the horrible to
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sleep three hours at four a.m but we
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want to shout out the the younger
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generation the you know the next
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generation of hip hopers that's carrying
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the torch so DD Osama 2K baby too rare
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little Papa uh who else we got I don't
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miss nobody
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that's too rare and I went to Ghana
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together wow that's big I was in Ghana
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were too rare yeah he's good too he came
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out last year killed it yeah yeah Tracy
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be like yo that's why is the center of
10:08
everyone's life you are the one degree
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of separation yes
10:15
[Laughter]
10:18
Hakeem yes sir your entry into boogie
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down Productions yeah
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was Matt lying there at that time oh
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yeah Madeline was a part of the family
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at that time who were the newer art
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groups that were starting to be around
10:30
boogie down at that time uh we organized
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confusion was around at that time so
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organized confusion was amazed by front
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page I think briefly you know that you
10:39
know we had the front page management
10:41
company and then it was boogie down
10:43
Productions of course this is the
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production side and of course Simone is
10:46
the you know the management side big out
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ship to my family Simone and Chris
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absolutely KRS one yeah uh Supernatural
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was boogie down production organized
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confusion was boogie down production for
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a hot second yeah yeah I I I met well
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actually I met them in Dallas like years
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before that but I you know there was
11:03
some time when they were up in the
11:04
office and you know Simone was handling
11:06
some things for them yeah okay yeah all
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right who else was at that time oh yeah
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Shelly Thunder all right man we had a
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wow uh uh I'm slipping now that's okay
11:17
that's all right you name the ones I was
11:18
actually okay okay actually I'm asking
11:21
you later not the heart exactly that's
11:24
it the whole hip-hop 50 celebration how
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do you feel about it it's a beautiful
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thing it's a beautiful thing we know
11:30
that the spirit of hip-hop is older than
11:32
50 years yeah we don't that's that's a
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given all right but in terms of
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celebrating August 11 1973 as the
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official birthplace right uh Cedric
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Avenue big shout out just that whole
11:43
Community
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um it's just the Bronx Queens Brooklyn
11:45
that to hand the world a culture that
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has helped to transform the world it's
11:51
something to be extremely proud of in 50
11:52
years and I'm extremely proud of my
11:55
contribution and what hip-hop has become
11:58
larger than Hakeem green and channel
11:59
live of course that's amazing man listen
12:01
High King Green is here
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um we talked about this 30 years ago
12:05
when he and I first met and King Tech
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and I had this platform still have it
12:11
the world famous wake up so longest
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running show of its kind
12:15
hmm most expensive syndicated hip-hop
12:18
radio show that ever come out of hip-hop
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ever ever and ever yeah in the words of
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KRS one ever ever
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ever and ever and ever big shout out to
12:29
the West Coast which gave birth to the
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wake-up show yes yes okay so big shout
12:34
out to the West Coast just to show you
12:35
how transformative hip-hop culture is
12:38
that you know we say the first yes
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starts on the west
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speak on it yeah nah man you gotta give
12:44
Prosper problems
12:46
a lot of my peers don't tell the story
12:48
right that's okay y'all like going to
12:52
the wake-up show and and being able to
12:54
Freestyle on your show uh-huh you know
12:57
what I'm saying like that was something
12:58
that put like you look forward to that
12:59
as an up-and-coming artist making your
13:01
bones in hip-hop
13:03
just I remember like it was yesterday
13:05
back in 1994 when Channel live came up
13:09
to the world famous wake up show back
13:11
then it was DJ Revolution I would say yo
13:13
rev throw on the beat but now we got DB
13:16
yo DB
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[Music]
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[Music]
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um
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yeah y'all [ __ ] suck I'll be like what
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the [ __ ] old MacDonald had a farm is all
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I hear when y'all cluck I Mack like a
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truck like freeway on the clutch on I-95
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rolling Phillies like a Dutch is Hakeem
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green got no problems just solution
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Pharaoh hit a bill organized confusion
13:43
in the poetry and song can we just get
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along [ __ ] be assed out like Prince in
13:48
the thong some [ __ ] hit the Bing but
13:50
Hawk hits the bong got more pull in the
13:52
strings on this song Jokers think they
13:54
King till I ping him like they pong they
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never disrespect me gorillas came in
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like I'm Kong smoking trees make me
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right that's why I'm never wrong fly
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like Swan when I spit that John with the
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daylight I got potholes in my lawn
14:06
rolling up a j no disrespect to Sean
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like that
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that's a professional MC
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salute salute salute Kalani
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his father is Commissioner Gordon one of
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my best friends
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[Applause]
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I mean when it's time to tap in for the
14:30
realness I call up the commissioner
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that's that's his dad oh yeah for sure I
14:38
know I've been watching him grow up oh
14:40
y'all know each other oh yeah I know
14:41
he's here for years for years for years
14:43
all right picture out to Rich nice so
14:45
yes so so I also got a shout out family
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uh big French Big Bad Bull Productions
14:51
you know I mean that's rich nice brother
14:53
that's right that's right I did uh put
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out a project last year called Namine
14:56
five joints produced by a big French I
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gotta shout that out I also have a
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project called Aubry entirely produced
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by Ron Lawrence of the Hitman got Carl
15:05
Thomas KRS one CeeLo Green freeway Amiri
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Baraka Jr do it all Kelly who is
15:11
Westward councilman for the city of
15:12
North New Jersey gotta shout that out
15:13
hip-hop is not what you do is how you do
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it you could be an MC you could be city
15:18
councilman you could be the mayor you
15:19
could be the president hip-hop don't
15:21
think just rap we got to get out of we
15:24
say hip-hop Jokers be talking about rap
15:25
no we talking about the culture and with
15:28
that said I got something I really want
15:30
to spit acapella if I can absolutely
15:32
uh
15:37
something out of nothing the culture
15:38
Grew From breaks B boys with fat laces
15:40
helping DJs carry crates 12 inches with
15:42
the name covered up 45 black with tape
15:44
needle dropping on the get down part on
15:46
the one never late the moonwalk looked
15:48
like skates Thomas infinite like the
15:49
eight Builder destroyed the devil's
15:51
World God body at the gate and God We
15:53
Trust in dollars we lost catching crumbs
15:54
off the cake now we Bop to a beetle
15:56
walls of concrete in Northern State it
15:58
was 88 we was victims of a scheme it was
16:01
all just a dream now my homie is a fiend
16:03
we live for the culture but we kill for
16:05
the cream trying to make the street
16:06
light up stay on your toes Billie Jean
16:08
it's like hip to the Hibbett flow liquid
16:10
like exhibit create the culture with
16:13
every breath as I live it they try to
16:15
prohibit but I'm the master the pivot no
16:16
gimmicks on point like a digit I'm like
16:19
Malcolm ready to rock it get your hand
16:20
out my pocket everybody the gatekeeper
16:22
but y'all forgot to lock it swear by
16:24
culture Freedom got more Vice than tubs
16:26
and Crockett now my boy Elroy out the
16:28
space like spacely sprockets truth be
16:30
told we was crushed from Nicole [ __ ]
16:33
getting high off the dust from Sugar
16:34
Hill now the truth gets sold with
16:36
strippers on hold the light just with
16:38
rappers for the thrill getting a rush
16:40
from off one pill when flash is on the
16:42
wheels singing White Lines with my
16:44
brothers and folding bills slinging
16:46
white dimes when Uncle Joe wrote that
16:48
bill around the same time [ __ ] around
16:49
with Hillary and Bill
16:51
it was cointel now y'all go and tell hop
16:55
on the gram look Show and Tell No ethics
16:58
and no codes just just cut the pie out
17:00
of mode spinning red writes now like the
17:03
block like a strobe Behold The Pale
17:05
Horse says he rolled here to bring death
17:07
with guns to unload conspiracy to
17:10
conspire it as a theory on The Wire when
17:12
Cohen is a priest whose Doctrine is the
17:13
liar here to rob the hood I'll keep it
17:16
tuck like the friar grew into a man
17:18
following rapper's I admire no more
17:20
b-boys and decipher no more DJs catching
17:23
breaks and everybody in the Trap with
17:24
45s wrapped in tape the culture has been
17:27
raped pimped out and straight slutted
17:28
just like the Bronx in the 70s
17:30
everything gutted crusted rusted busted
17:34
and disgusted we should have shut it
17:35
down when Chuck said not to trust it
17:38
that's stolen art wow
17:42
[Applause]
17:44
thank you Hakeem green for all that you
17:46
do and continue to do for this culture
17:48
for this community as my friend that's
17:50
my brother proud of you and happy for
17:53
you and I'm glad we still here 30 plus
17:55
years 30 plus years later we don't go
17:57
get old we get better we get better man
17:59
there you go man you looking awesome
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tomorrow 24 hours a piece make sure
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y'all come out where is it Newark New
18:05
Jersey Springfield Avenue in Bergen yo
18:07
come check us out we out there big shout
18:10
out to this great city of Newark New
18:12
Jersey team Baraka all day every day
18:15
every day yes yes
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