can you. please. my. children still please. it's an even bigger day she when you turn to a lot of mainstream hip hop. we're going to hear the music it will. like i'm going to feel my. job is to see. that it's not as i'm not just saying it. so let's introduce you to a british trafford that's reminding us that music has political power and resisting

rather than forming like this is a column so must keep in mind we're going to give the most sixes and beat my truck because there are so what this is good comes to life so put my book to the side too busy chasing the. now earlier i spoke to a call and i first asked me to tell us what his music is all about. i was a mom uses his social commentary you know he continues in the tradition isn't supposed to can all poets write for jazz and blues i think you also aaron true public enemy caribbean reggae music trying to do that though growing up listening to and being aware of over my role as an old poet as hopefully a historian to some degree so i would say certainly all social commentary. do you think that the rest of music or at least not the rest of the majority of music out there is no longer social commentary and i think that if you look back decades past

some of the most popular artists also were very political artists and they you know they did both they sent a message out there as well as ranking very high on the charts and these days i don't think you can say that the world has gotten any any easier that there are any fewer problems out there if not maybe got even more complex but good music change. yeah i would say music change but i would say music stuck in a political message i would just say that political message is change from being one that we view john lennon's and you can hendrix isn't it bob marley was question and a dominant agenda i would say music lay you know mainstream music is equally political is just that it's pushing a dominant agenda and that's what i think we never really make in this nation we say music lost its politics it has a music listening for example encouraging young african-american african caribbean males here to go to jail in a society where prison is probably a business as it is in the united states and as it is becoming increasingly here in a country that has the kind of history that the united states has and that britain

has in relation to those populations is obviously political and so that's what i think we lost track of is that music is still political it's just the agenda that we're hearing more generally is pushing is increasingly capitalist increasingly sexist increasingly muscled in a state increasingly racist essentially will fill in particular racial stereotypes that politics is still there it's just that there isn't an alternative to the dominant agenda the only politics we're now hearing for the most primates europe is the dominant chord and i definitely think i have a great point there maybe less than any of this specially the mainstream hip hop music that's out there they want to dance to if you're in the club it's about her and it's about what you're drinking what car you're driving and you know what heat are packing i guess you could say but do you think that artists are doing this on purpose or they realize it is a subconscious thing is it something that audiences want and therefore the artist delivery or the record companies push that just wondering where that comes from. i think it's a sri it's a three sixty think obviously there's

a bit on an agenda set and in the sense that once two or three r.'s become tremendously successful in a particular paradigm a whole group was pushing a particular parallel a whole generation of young people start to push someone but molly became a big i am in the seventies you know a whole generation of young people in britain turn off the ferry and you know you know why english kids that were asked to share and see it wasn't just the african caribbean fingo that's what was most strongly represented in his impact was across the board you know who are the superstar is of a particular time all whatever this it was doesn't represent is where people move towards all it takes is for two or three people to become superstars pushing a particular agenda talking about a particular thing and then a whole generation of young people think well the only way to be successful is to do that and so they push towards that and so because it becomes almost a self-fulfilling prophecy it was a political music doesn't sell within music question in the dominant politics doesn't sell but then it's not on the radio so how would you know whether it's

going to sell or not going to sell is public enemy so perfectly fine but molly sold hundreds of millions of records you know stevie wonder so you know the issue of music and sea ice that the question particularly since selling millions and millions of records so it's kind of a lame excuse when they say it wasn't so because it's not been pushed in so of course it's not going to sell the same numbers they used to but what does that say about the audience that say that you know the consumer of that means they doesn't really care what your message is as long as it's fulfilling i guess you could say that some prophecy where it sounds like every other music that's out there that's supposed to be popular you know as it's become this that's mind numbing experience rather than something the thought provoking that my perhaps uncomfortable truths. yeah i would say i would say that was a lot about our listeners and about our tastes and about all of the stereotypes we have you know the music being so overtly particular we current like even just mainstream hip hop actually does mainstream music been some a socialistic reflect in the soja near our psyches and over of course we do racial

stereotypes overwhelmingly the audience all the people by there are those you know african caribbean or african-american again reflects kind of or. a legacy we have and there was a bit of a need to kind of stereotype the other because only myself and some of the cover is jamaican he's morris question if i spoke about one side of my ancestry i human rights watch said with a level of disrespect there's become normalized for people to speak it well the other side of my ancestry i'm pretty sure everyone even young black kids would say because going crazy yeah i mean i want to tell you are just as a running out of time i want to question i want to ask you do you think i mean you are being quite successful for yourself i guess you could say in a british rap scene especially is that you think that maybe more of the political rap scene has moved to england we interview loci all the time on the shell and here you are i've heard great things about you and your music and your message or what else does england have up its sleeve. i would simply it is it was seen on the ground in the u.s. and even as i myself and loki and others like there's

a young michael judge a judge a sow's swiss logic there's a whole scene here of young politically junior wise and this certainly to have families and old korean christmas ok and same time we're on daytime radio ten times a day so there is still that being had versus the amount of popularity are so not according to the amount of representation they get on radio and in media article i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight hopefully we can speak to you again. thank you very much. the sky. and the mind will come down. celestial choirs will be singing. ladies and gentlemen today we really do have a glimmer of hope see the house of representatives the branch of government who just can't seem to agree on much of anything or at least pretends not to has voted to cut the t.s.a. budget by two hundred seventy million dollars these cuts would directly affect

officers who actually perform the screenings at the airports and as much as i don't want anybody to lose their job i really do think that there needs to be an allocation of resources a different one new jobs created somewhere else other than the groping counter at the airport after all i think it's fair to say that these people have done more harm than good any case you don't agree just give me a minute here to prove my case because there are just so many examples of the t.s.a. violating your rights and your privacy and your freedoms says you know the t.s.a. has two options at some airports for screening you have the body scanners which take pictures of of you and of your private parts and of course they had a lot of people upset over having their picture taken naked but if you refuse to walk through that scanner then there was the other option the pat down you know where they touch your junk. your. standard memories are very similar to what. we're going to do with your true abuse of your face here

under the your group the words we do stories very good can turn to look for a. very. very good group. we can do they're here to test what you're going to hear if. you out that video which popped up on you tube last november's further entire don't touch my junk movement amongst disgruntled flyers and not only was there an entire day dedicated to it there are also t. shirts and other gear telling those who agree to the body scanners or left out of the fun they even had underwear made with little fig leaves on it to cover up you're not a part but that's just the tip of the iceberg to the t.s.a. as a policy where they have to check everyone and that even includes six year old children . and we. get. to hear. you only

a. couple. of it's enough to make you sick right i mean why would a six year old be suspicious but wait a minute it actually gets even worse to see an airport in kansas city missouri a man cop to say doing a pat down on a baby ugh baby and the t.s.a. actually trying to explain why in this and d.c. report after the child stroller along and during explosive screening officers followed protocol to conduct additional screening on members of the family who were very cooperative. and so i guess the scene of all the t.s.a. makes a no bones about it they will fulfill their duties even if that means checking a baby's diaper to make sure there are any explosives inside just to seal the deal and it's pretty fair to say that there's a problem with the t.s.a. when somebody goes as far as making

a song about it. things inside you. that you can trust to say. to me can you. all right so that's it that is a my argument for why the t.s.a. is one government funded organization that really needs to get tossed out so i think it's safe to say that cutting almost three hundred million dollars from that is a true glimmer of hope. now coming up next we had our fireside friday and then stick around for happy hour again in china for the kidney for an i pad and feeding the homeless will get no rest they want to dress it up. into little where the military mechanisms do don't work up to bring justice or accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want

to know why i pay taxes. but i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you did something else here's some other part of it and realize that everything is ok if you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here in the us.

i think the beautiful and funny well. we never government says live or keep you safe get ready because you give them their freedom. for. fear. it's just. i asked.

you you. if . to tonight's. you're. you know thinking about the fourteen or fifteen million people in this country who don't have a job the millions that are losing their homes and the biggest corporations in the

world which are based in this country which have negative tax rates and the fact that this great recession is probably double dipping that kind of stuff can really wear on you can make you angry can make you bitter it can make you want to tear your hair out most of all make you want some revenge and i don't mean to hurt somebody's kind of and i just mean some feeling of satisfaction that comes with justice good making the people who are responsible for everyone else's misery pay for it and wall street i'm talking about you yeah you guys the ones who decided to bet against people's livelihoods their mortgages their investments all to make profit money money money money and the expense of everyone else they're also the ones who have gotten away with all of it scot free thanks to the government that not only bailed you out with taxpayer money but also refuses to bring any investigations it only took a good q. and a half years but finally earlier this year a senate panel concluded that goldman sachs misled the american people don't lie it's a congress upon testimony and they referred lloyd blankfein as well as

a few other goldman executives to the justice department and to as you see so far nothing has happened in fact the only glimmer of hope in this entire situation is that we found out this week at the manhattan district attorney's office has subpoenaed goldman sachs and it really is exciting on the surface you start feeling the blood running through your veins you start thinking that maybe something's going to happen but the reality here is a subpoena that's just a request for information it doesn't mean a criminal case is actually being built and any analyst out there is already predicting that there won't be one at the end of the day it's just one bank to you know i would love it to be wrong on this one i'd love to see a criminal case actually pop up. new york or hell anywhere for that matter but it won't our government has decided that the largest corporations the largest banks are all above the law they're too big and q. rich to deal with those petty rules like the rest of us that's just a little something for you to think about if you look at the jobs numbers this friday.

ok it's all right a by the way and joining me for happy hour on this friday evening is archie correspondent lauren lyster and catherine c. on a worn brooks journalism fellow at the competitive enterprise institute thank you so much for joining me a ladies man first starters we have i don't even know what to say about this story i think that's just kind of tells you that it's a screwed up messed up world that we're living in there was a kid who actually sold his kidney for an i pad and here's here's a news story on it take a look. he allegedly sold one of his kidneys to purchase the device but boy he's not being identified his mother reportedly became suspicious after the seventeen year old turned up at home with a new i pad and a large scar on his right side that's now i think suspicious that my son just came

home with a giant scar on his side the way we're now there is but it's funny watching a segment of this bad news because it looks like the onion news network it's like unbelievable what they actually buy is so out of this world and it's really sad too because you know you know all of our i pads all of our apple excess reason are made in china with cheap labor and then you have people selling their kidneys to purchase them but you can get the kind of a price for it because the price one kidney is a price cuppa zero and so you can get enough money to earn yourself and i'm well and i mean i don't know if i say i was thinking maybe it's worth it because you can like advances life yes i can work so you know social mobility has all of these tools but then i was like well i can really use the internet yeah you don't want to pay if you want to see the next you know not to mention it's you know they don't have as much of a free reign on the internet. yes it's also censored so maybe it's not going to help them as much one of the other things today is that. that jack kevorkian known

as dr death he passed away today and i think that you know this is something that it's really interesting because the whole idea of assisted suicide it still hasn't been addressed we haven't gone anywhere since the days since when jack working was was convicted of course there was even a movie this year with alpha cino in it and i think that what we've always seen for especially coming from the media is kind of the negative angle of what this mandate you can take a click. kevorkian was arrested several dozen times but for years prosecutors were not able to get a conviction in court not guilty. you want to go here. then in one nine hundred ninety eight sixty minutes aired a videotape of kevorkian actually administering a lethal injection to a michigan man. he was arrested again. how do you feel about

assisted suicide i mean i think honestly there are people that should you should be able to choose of course it's really hard to say whether somebody can be taken advantage of you know if you're not in the proper state of mind anymore but if you have a terminal illness and your life is miserable i think you should absolutely have the right to choose to end it and i feel like that's something that you know doesn't get that doesn't get portrayed in the media well i think one thing that's interesting looking through this kind of photo montage they did of him is you know you do hear you know the idea the concept of assisted suicide but then kind of the reality the dirty reality you know they would like to find his van that had a woman's body in a bag like you know it's like there's a body to dispose of then there's getting our legal and i want to do that and she anyway and he just makes this thing that is really what he wanted to do was have the right to die with dignity and the whole point was that if somebody contracted to die with his assistance he would give them the mixture they would inject themselves he was in murdering people he was helping them to die with dignity and

you know once the person is going then they have contracted how they want to deal with the body and how they want their family to receive it so all of this has to do with the idea that people can choose to do what they want and you know to be ok. i don't know how to have had a friend whose mom had to garrett's and they would literally go into her nursing home and find her with a gun trying to kill herself it's just i don't know there's something to it right there should be some method to have been to. ok our next story is sleep when you're younger you are next story is so trivial compared to that it's. there was a hero playing in scotland or in ireland i certainly just forgot where they accidently parked it down under sail a little bit too much to where you get three of these bags for just eleven cows that apparently there was a stampede. just cracked so you know i feel like i would totally have been here it was really happy for them on their go or go on. over there than we do what do you think more americans would stand for and go for beer or like free fried chicken for

b.s. seven thousand dollars for forty five year this was like wait did you go oh yeah absolutely i think isn't funny the little anecdotes like someone like told their dad already put on his head if you are reading this in your. i would do i would say i don't blame these people at all this next story is just kind of screwed up because there are some people out there that i know have good hearts they want to help people but thanks to permit zoning requirements a little bit of bureaucracy that always happens to get in the way some people actually got arrested for feeding the homeless take a look at this clip. of the police move quickly and will will not orchestrate a caravan of four squad cars looks like the last until one of our cops exceeded their cruisers marched right up to the golf balls for ever serving the holders. because they didn't have a purpose to feel but. apparently because actually waited until they fed everybody but i like the way this news story acted like they rolled up and got there soon as

they possibly could in the broom down on the ground as if there were there was a hurry here but i mean it's that right you want to do a good thing and you can't. write it looking the stuff but just looking a little bit into the look like there's only one part that has this restriction on it and central and oh and there are sixty six parts were going to church and that all and this group has been provoking police into arresting them to have this kind of a new stir in this kind of coverage so last year there was our computers where there was a drum circle and they refused to stop drumming while they were eating and so this is a group that wants some publicity and that's had a lot of other admittedly goes obedience but it's also the only part that's right downtown that's right next to the government building maybe it's most easily accessible one but i have to travel everywhere else maybe but also you don't have to give them credit if their goal was publicity i'm glad that they got probably seen orange county florida at a time when casey anthony is dominating so much publicity that she's probably. i like i said i second that statement variable to get some. airtime during that whole you know i mean all of the twenty four hour cable networks are covering not nonstop

but they're able to get some air time i had to tell him why i just think you know sometimes you can't force people to do nice things for anybody else or to feed the homeless and then you have organizations that do ensure it's a stupid stupid law i guess that you need a permit to do so that's free speech and like the name is. there something you. know grown ladies thank you very much for joining me out of his it's a very nice show thanks for coming in and make sure the back on monday i will take on a roid and hollander he's the guy that sued bars and nightclubs over discrimination and now he's suing the government for giving his wife who used a green card so me time to get her from a fan to be low show on facebook and follow us on twitter and miss any of the nights or any other nights you can always catch all the you tube splashed a lot of show where we post the interviews as well as the show in this entirety we have next is adam vs the man.

into that only a military mechanisms if you don't work to bring justice or accountability. i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes that's. why i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then a glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok if you don't i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here in the us.

i think iraq is one well. we're never going to shows they're going to keep him safe get ready because you give them your freedom. for. fear. for.

well on target in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture it's friday which means it's time for our conversations with great minds this evening i'm joined by scholar and author chuck discussed the country's growing problem of wealth inequality increasing unemployment plus our city budget cuts to blame for the recent drowning of a california man will debate that issue and more in our weekly rumble and finally this isn't the first time there's been a showdown in congress over raising the debt limit in today's daily take i know what happened back in one nine hundred eighty five if you give president obama a secret weapon in the debate today. are you ready to rumble it's time for the big picture our goal when i sit down with three expert political commentators to break down the week's biggest stories on our panel tonight and your help or that video online editor the weekly standard erica

kennedy democratic strategist and jamie line steam deputy editor at the daily caller dot com ok let's get started. so. it's a good hour for a man to drown himself in the san francisco bay on wednesday i guess that's a little more serious isn't and the entire time that he was in the water firefighters looked on from the shore and did nothing to stop them and why is it in their cold water here or training why because of budget cuts so despite the fact the budget cuts could have tragic real life consequences republicans in the house are pushing for guess what more budget cuts even cuss directed at first responders cutting one billion out of the federal first responders program so the republicans think we can cut our way to prosperity can you name one nation in the history of the world that cut spending cut taxes and actually achieved prosperity just one this is actually a great microscope is in california because california has the highest sales tax in the country won the heisman come sachin the top.