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through the us will. be across time for base formation routes yeah i mean some routes i do think there's a problem and. should . be sunday simply on the. street. so based on this route is the name under which i record and play regularly going into the regular news it is really kind of shaped my life from a very young age and you know it it may come from jamaica but i feel that. it talks about justice equality and talks about colonialism reggae music has a message that that's deeply relevant in today's world and especially for india i think and there's this kind of all out right wing assault on our freedom to oss

questions and generally all freedom of expression and people you know are being saw gets in their students teachers activists cynical that's right since. i've been targeted most all of them have been intimidated that's on the arrest and people on the streets you know the protest in this regard or study sort of in whichever way you know i'd like i'd like to all attempts to contribute something to this. thing. that eight thousand people that. i teach this is ending thank you needed to speak. to. me because. if you can be a part of the struggles that are happening in the country what the meaning of culture and artistic production meaning is to. kind of bring people together to be

a voice or getting off of to people. but. if you're playing the people's music you have to fight to the people and it's been so much what i dreamt of but i was frustrated with what i'm doing always i dreamt of it i know what a song to sneak into the room i don't want to dance and i know it can energize people that make you feel and powered you know these are things that should not only happen if you need to use a venue right that's sort of i would in my views this is something which i want to be able to contribute to a you know a gathering protest space that i think is a space for this can be of value. for our store addressed and frustrations

was to go back to the heart already know the system called. and sultana some time not just the stack of speaking of sound systems traditionally have been a way to take things in your own hands and to find ways to take music straight to people i mean literally i mean one thing to build a sound system ever since i started playing records like it was most of my life. sound systems i expensive and you can buy them ready made you have to build it yourself so with the mix of crowdfunding and i was born money me and my partner some of us started building own system and it takes a lot of knowledge and experience to build its own system they're lucky to find sound engineer. and see what it's like. and i said to. me. this is a this is the real deal and i'm getting a big vinyl so we can get across. country you know. it's

well it's happened somewhere to play it that's the biggest that's the biggest thing is finding somewhere to actually turn it down. because it's loud. one hundred forty five is pretty easy i say this example and then the other one coming out is yeah. well chosen the other channels running but why do you feel the need to stay home with something as important to someone because if you string out wrong things will come back. keep in mind. of course man you can kill somebody with this monster what kind of music doesn't come up nobody rides. and it's so real and so it suddenly

you're something that starts as an idea suddenly becomes a reality and it's a damn physical system that you're on top of imagine this the green set up in different places so i think it all people coming out you know it's this you know men think she was from. them and budget is exactly where it was the sensitivity is not number of course in any of them because she is full it's and right this is the same lives with the fourth and then after the game share knowledge of the people who like the music they get to lead the most because they would sing the phone and i would simply mean it's i'm not even sure i want it to be a success because if it does then back to me more in terms of stephen. because they convicted it just as a mother and as a human being. well those are the consumer. confidence

and apologies to everyone trying to sleep and that kind of seems address this is the final four minutes are you is it right about now because like this. adrien revolutionary from the out to offer top revolutionary i don't know where. my. mates are going to shock i mean china is now that lies before us is where are we going to then all people are going to react you know how are people going to react if i take the system to a protest space or to a street corner and now people are going to let loose and dance with us and get it or people going to be that you know you know be dismissive and like who's this

privileged guy playing this foreign sounding music i mean of course that's a feeling you want people to connect with for doing all right buddy. so we continue to trust that i don't operate the system i mean. to launch a. loft i want to call it from my old university and. bring the system then to support their comrades were on hunger strike.

i just kind of want to. listen if you know it's a mismatch if you listen. and so it doesn't look like it's if. you get it you don't get your letter. i thought i. know you're nervous man i mean don't you always nervous because you want to be relevant and you want to be able to communicate and create meaning you know. you never know you know and i sometimes do wonder like you know can you believe that things are making music here and i can't i've been doing this my life i love it but you said i hope i don't you know. this is really the bit of anything if there's no music in the can of it was in effect. and for business. people so it's important for these kind of things these kind of mediums he's going about business going to music. and they think that

. going up up that . the. that. was. and he. said. this is where he was. on time that those. finally we're here. this is a we've all done it was almost one year we finished last month. the lights on we're paper you revolutionary songs on the fall asleep shot coming from. on

a hunger strike against this i'm just. going to. continue in the in the beginning when i started playing that actually off everyone to sit down because i didn't want but like so i'm playing records and i have a sea of people like sitting on the ground looking at the expectancy which made me very uncomfortable nine hours into it wasn't working in quite the way that i want because when i'm dancing and people don't look at me look at each other enjoying something not so long. to this murder even though i hear this. bridget the night of the real

healer torture they are not here with the man i wanted reasons other than his again not really. jumping on this list again. saying he. didn't come about that all. i mean. i've just been. dismissed from usa. we have three american papers you are nice. around and i. know that.

i was getting i'd like to be kind of you know i don't know could you be good you know i have all the right words you can see what's the you think is overdue but i don't believe the robot. in one movie and i think that it is a movie that i like and it's not that i think it's something like star but the country people talking for because. i think. the jews should give us confidence that our idea could grow and after that we were invited to play at other protests and other venues and that really would it's going to take the system and then finally go dutch on spend students from the cia which is india's leading since it was austin on the campus and point. f.b.i. has also seen major pushes against the time limits and hoping to learn from the strongest and hopefully also be able to contribute some energy to that. when for

that do it supposed to do a show at f.b.i. asked. well that's their actual to institutional. consular officials you know two days before on some bureaucratic kind of pretext but i have a feeling you just didn't really want us to play that so you went to a meeting by this organization called. from what i gather the first time i met them once a well it's a people's organization they very much kind of pushing for change is exactly the kind of people that i want to work for. they've never really heard greg. is it before the never really experienced based on sound system before so you're don't know if this thing is going to go kind of. are you. going to stick is the music to. go to you because you don't. get it to what you

want me. to want to meet you but you're going to live in a walkway and i think we're i saw music you need to. give you can be. elite lazy. we know that modicum music. you don't on our medical community or yet reggae music was being missional todd is a colleague of the. you know nice of you to make it as it was saying you know i'm just. going to keep on. going to going to be i. want to give i just wish i'd lose much of my disability. i'm going to going to be. hard to hold off. the rim definitively believe. me i'm not going to be on the. top of the headline news again.

and so sometimes it could be good for. to. ruin the. good little. bit with. yourself. i am here. i am. very proud i see a dog about here i am going to go on.

the run but i realize that the combination of jamaican music with lyrics what sort of a dual purpose and not only would it make the show more dynamic it would also head post communicate the music's message to the audience and with that in mind i suggested to look at you all to get these rappers don't call this by d.c. they they rap in hindi and might not be they have revolutionary songs and we felt that this would help the audience to connect to the show. q but. there's a lot and that's not jumped up there's not. much of a source of that except you but. it's. man this is rough. work the son of tough tough tough dealing man i think it's empowering on it's empowering for the mc and it's empowering poing for the people who hear it because look i mean a lot of the times that's important from abroad is english called in there

sometimes associated with the need you know but this is not what this music is this is going to music you know so i think. for people to hear things from from here it's like it makes it makes everything out. everything more meaningful and i want to be in a dance where ok you play or shop around simply or you know stephen marley and what i want to be like you know this is a door for you know and neither and smash the place apart man people feel that the people in their bodies i mean you know i'm saying. jack. that i'm close enough to be. a guy any. bets foundation it's not seventy like you said. i'm a not to do traditional definitely it's kind of a test for us to see how far things can cross over how far people would go back to

what we're doing and i hope that the singers will look at them and the rappers is the one to kind of element that people relate to and connect to. such a deep desire. its foundation. and then i. love. woman or when i am black is i mean those women i was obsessed with eliminating or. spend my. time on stuff you do stuff. with in the new.

tunnel and i. will. get into. it now. because he is. naima so let's go for it or not you were no expect from me for how many was a. former. you can come look signals you can make of it i'm a stone more technical then will deduct their course now that they're open about soft stuff that they give to money sky so i've got a good policy because. political groups get that the program would develop as citizens get to politics will little post been as of a case that the. son is sick which allows them. to ask him how mom got me but see if we are down a little over some of the committee. on the outlets. can we think of but even i don't believe i think. that it isn't made yet so i mean

latest that it was neat little bit that a big. thank you very much. uses the reasoning behind if there are any kind of one of the uk even in one hundred two the cancer got here. oh man i thought he was done this is a possible she couldn't talk he was. leading us on something concrete i see he's he was. holding his take was he. and so. ah oh. different from. revolution to work on the. unify and

thought this thing at one call. this on the plate delays a toll with. the love respect to all the worry and not the forest no a public enemy number one. down here his riches on this planet from. the neighborhood. people i don't know will look at a photograph because we've maybe well you know we don't want to put a particular. office on a motor car. and . like to. be. a commotion.

some people came to look at. the young in the. media big. screen. nothing like our. ha ha. ha ha ha ha ha. ha ha ha ha ha and i have kept on to not laugh reading to listen to how i thought. i'd not be in a movie i've not looked up and i thought the company in dallas it. was.

no no no. to see everybody energized in this way and dancing in this way with so much freedom gives me a lot of joy it also gives me a lot of hope that for me this is just the beginning that that shows the potential the knowledge task is to find ways to build on this find ways to make it more

poignant more important. there's a journey ahead for us that much is clear to me. that . comes a jeffrey. rashi's musical pioneer. refuses to be silent in spite of the endless cycles of violence. through his school for young girls craft of music and the monks of emancipation. niecy. a witness documentary this time on al-jazeera.

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