greetings and salutations you cannot have a revolution without dancing and you cannot have dancing without music revolution will always and forever be intertwined with music because most often it's the musician the poet who channels the rhymes and heart beats of change that often starts as a soft a logic whisper creeping out from the underground and then christian knows into a grand opera of cultural change and up people and that intertwined history is why

the musician will always be an agent or instrument if you will of change their lyrics and melodies can shine a light on the injustices and bring attention to the under-represented and even helped bring down the giants themselves. today let's find out what comes first the revolution or the music as watching the hawks strikes a chord if you want to know what gold would know that you see the history of the back rail that you basically to analyze it to gauge where the plot of the city if you speak your mind let's go for the day like it or not i got to visit with it we feel. very good and it is still going on the business world open. and open. with open. to start of course.

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and now we're for being called flobots from denver colorado and we're alternative hip hop and we play music for the last ten years plus together and you know for us music is about engaging the crowd but it's also about kind of engaging people with the message so what brought you guys to get there. loving the x. men. loving g.i. joe lots of dirty things we were too nerdy boys who were placed in a highly gifted and talented program he was in the fifth grade i was in the fourth grade. and it's a memory that i remember very clearly i saw him down the hall with i was with my father and everybody told him my dad's army was like that boy the blue hat he's going to be my friend and here we are how many years later the twenty it would be eight years later we thought we were going to be making comic books professionally . but the world that we crafted in comic books and becoming the worlds that we started crafting and exploring with our raps and we fell in love with hip hop

together and we both came from families that were pretty social justice activist oriented so and hip hop especially like when we were falling in love with it also was just very much telling the story of the people who were experiencing like people from the south bronx experiencing problems like poverty and using their art to experience power and so for us that lined up with our family's values lined up with our values and then also brought in that creative aspect of being able to like talk about the world and also imagine a world that is better than that and so for us that's always been like where we've been so you mix in some x. min. or you say x. and digable planets. hieroglyphics and. you know some siphon all that stuff and you get flow as always and they might be giants that would be remiss that i was going to live there reminds me a little a they might be. this competition accomplished

a lot of other. with the new album what do you want people to take away from so i mean we've always tried to make music that helps people feel empowered and feel like they're part of a story that's just larger than whatever they're doing with this album we want people really to to hear their own voice. as part of a collective voice and to see that there's power in raising your voice with others and it's also that we want people to think more three dimensionally about what it means to get engaged because a lot of people are you can listen to one song and just feel like i want to put my fist in the air i want to hold a sign but really stepping into the streets and being part of a social movement means you're going to go through a lot of different emotional experiences you're going to go through the feeling of triumph you're going to go through feelings of heartbreak feelings of failure and so this album is really supposed to be a way to say to people like look if you're part of this these efforts to make the world a better place you're going to be on

a journey and you're not alone whatever emotion you're feeling right now you're not alone that's part of the journey and don't leave but find ways to be compassionate for yourself compassion for people around you and to stay in the struggle. so let's see what do you see going on in the in the political whim and social climate today what do you see are the biggest or the biggest most important issue is kind of fascinating we've been working on the album that we started almost three years ago . and we decided that we were just really going to write. to our stories and our experience and just they went on with what johnny five was saying. as activists we had experienced the roller coaster of like we are going to topple patriarchy tomorrow and the next day it doesn't happen and everybody starts stabbing each other in the back and everybody starts blaming each other for all the different failures and that movement i was going to conquer the world yesterday now

you have a group of enemies who used to be allies the next and we've seen that happen so many different times so we decided to as activists like why are people talking about the rest of the story. and so we were writing specifically to that we were writing to our heritage is our dynamic. and. we called it no enemies because we found that we were just so as a country even at that time and working on it so beleaguered with the us versus them and so then when the album was done. shortly there after trump was elected and we were releasing singles and now it was one of things that happened with people like oh that song pray is about trump well not specific no that's specific. but it is the type of thing where you see that with every new movement there's waves of people so occupy happens and waves of people step into the streets and then likewise matter happens and waves of people step

into the streets and then you know the climate change that people keep step new people keep entering and you know it's from selection suddenly you have tons of new people that say look old now is the time i need to get active in there's always dynamics that happen when a new group of people step into something. and there's been people there many many years before but it's important to find ways not to make enemies of those people but to be inviting and to be welcoming and to to use it to kind of refresh and renew and strengthen the movement. so it's great to see the activists in the streets and home the signs but what happens after the streets where you know where does the activism go you know after after the protest. yeah i mean i think there is this difference of sort of. generating power and then wielding that power and i think. for people who are brand new often there can be some conflict confusion and dissonance and you think well if we start to engage in the political process then we must be selling out or we must be somehow if all you have is

a stylistic sort of activism like wait we went from the streets and now we're you know sitting down across from someone who could actually make this policy a reality but we're inside be outside we must be traitors really selling out but really if you care about the transformation that you want to see happen you can't be focused on us then you can't be focused on well you know we're now sitting down across from a police officer we're sitting down across from you know an elected official or somebody who works for oil company that that can't if you if you say that that's off limits then you're not actually serious about implementing the change you want to see eventually enough people come to this place and there's active popular support for any cause you're going to have the opportunity to wield the power and make the change that you've so desperately been fighting for as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered and to learn more about today's featured artist check us out on facebook twitter and you tube and see our full shows that are dot com coming up the no doesn't stop as

the flobots return to the stage is watching the hawks strikes a chord. every the world. and you'll get it on the old world. according to jess. i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not

provided credible to support his claims. i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied the deep n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo chamber for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. please hold. on. welcome back.

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if those of us who are truly seeking connection can just be curious about somebody else's pain as opposed to denying it. it will go a long way as right now we have very much gotten in the habit of those debates that we're having i think it's does them a great i think it holds them to how to even call debates right i think which is that they're just roving castigation us and but if we can if we

can at least least. like why are you like you're hurting you're actually hurting so tell me about it. when i used to teach elementary school like a kid came up to me crying. the first thing i don't say is i don't say. that doesn't hurt if i were to do that i would redouble the damage of what that child is feeling and that's what i think we're doing as adults is like right off the bat we're denying the pain and specifically with certain backgrounds and certain groups which is i know you don't have access to pain i think the left does that very well . and i think as a strategy it's flawed. and if some of us can at least be curious i think there's a lot of information if we treat pain as information we're going to learn something as opposed to denying the entire reality of existence of somebody by saying that they don't have access to it one of the songs on our album rattle the cage is

trying to speak to the fact that when we get so caught up in being right and making sure that our narrative is dominant we can become utterly dehumanized so that when you'll have a terrorist attack for example you know you have you have something an act of violence that happens this act of violence happens and all we know is that there's been real people who lost their lives and without knowing anything else you go to social media and the first battle you see is who's narrative does this fit like i guarantee you this is going to be a x. y. z. which will fit my narrative and all of you guys are going to see that you were wrong this whole time and you get permutations of that from every direction and it's really grotesque that we get to the point where we're so excited that we might be proven correct by an act of violence that it's going to fit our narrative that we don't even bother to say whatever just happened this was tragic people lost their lives we just jump straight to this you guys are going to finally understand i'm right and that's really grotesque. one thing that's exciting for me to think

about is what we really mean when we say we. you know in the united states there's a tendency to say well. you know x. y. z. is happening we have to do something and there's it's very easy to just say we think that we means you know the military of our of our particular state but there's a different we there's women all over the world who are dealing with patchy arche wherever they are and these women can work in solidarity with one another as women and be transformative in every single country that they're in it will be a different fight it will be a different front but it's the same battle and i think that on an even more human level just. you know the world is so. disproportionately filled with young people in any country where there's an oppressive regime or just oppressive laws or you know unsustainable practices there are young people that are looking around at everything and saying they're synthesizing and saying how can i transform this and

at times i'm sure that feels like a very lonely operation and people feel like they're the only one but i guarantee you you're not the only one there's people in every single country with very similar aspirations and dreams and people who are deeply loved the community that they're from people who are deeply don't want to see tradition just like set aside but want to also carve a new path forward and so you know for those people that we've met that we've had the privilege of meeting when we're touring and traveling we know that to be true but we also know there's just countless people that we've never met or never heard from and it's those voices those on heard voices that as they start to lift and rise and be more and more heard that's what's going to transform the planet in this day and age where even the word fact the so hotly debated i don't think beauty is so i would say if we can pair any of our outrage any of our anger our fear with beauty where possible because it's a medium that will transmit. i think if you if you shout at someone they

are conditioned to not listen to you if you shout beautifully which we call singing you're making an emotional argument that is much harder to deny so i think in some ways i know it's easy to say but i think seeking beauty is revolutionary right now . i can ride my bike with no handlebars goal head to bars head to the bar i get my bike with no handle bars no handlebars no way i don't bars in the give me hands of the hammock it's good to be a law a bit of a famous rap in the past was going to be if i could show you how to dose you dobe i

can show you how to scratch a record i'm going to bar the remote control what i can almost put it back together inside on a chair beside him i can tell you about the barracks in the i don't know all the words to take a lot is that i'm proud to be an american be a mom friend from platypus be a mom friend made a comic book to get sound long until god can't do anything but i won't because look fine with the window manager and go go go go go. get senior based on that salad cold call that some of the phone call that sell the phone. to me just call to say that it's good to be a law in such a small world all told of the dream to make money with her story i could make a living on a magazine design it's sixty votes counted in cast giving. them a computer soprano quite a bit since i'm not on a business i can make you want to modify or shakers and producers became our friends understand them to see the strings of control this in them i can do with it

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