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. i. i. i. i. see. it. in our food bank all flobots them are colorado and. alternative hip hop 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 go there. loving the eczema. loving g.i.

joe lots of nerdy 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 hallway as i was with my father and everybody told him my dad's arm is 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're going to be making comic books professionally. but the world that we crafted in comic books and becoming the worlds that we i started crafting and exploring with our wraps 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 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 families 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 extreme in. what you say 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 leave they reminds me a little of a. deep this couple of mission accomplished a lot of other. with the new album what do you want people to take away from it 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 and see what do you see going on in the in the political and social climate to day one what do you see are the biggest 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're just really going to write. to our stories and our experience and just they would with. 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're writing specifically to that we are 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 we're working on it so beleaguered with the us versus them and so then when the album was done. shortly thereafter trump was elected and we were releasing singles and now it was is negligible the things that happens with our late people like oh that song pray is about trump as 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 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 like oh dow is the time i need to get active and 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 octopus in the streets and hold 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's there's a difference between 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 the 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 be 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 shelves at our t.v. dot com coming up the no doesn't stop as the flobots return to the stage is watching the hawks strikes a chord. you

should. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to present. something. to the right. this is what the. people. interested in the. city will. chose seemed wrong. but old old just told. me to get to shape out just because the ticket and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground the.

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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 too high to even call them debates right i think which is that they're just roving castigation and but if we can. we can at least. like why are you like you're hurting you're

actually hurting so tell me about that. 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 like 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 like no 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 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 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 whatever 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'll 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 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 to 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 handlebars dove handlebars no way don't voters. be looking at me hands in the hammock it's good to be a law a bit of a famous rapper in the past was going to be i can show you how to dose you dobe i can show you how to scratch a record i'm going to bar the remote control and i can almost put it back together

inside on a chair we simply could tell you about the barracks and i do all the work to take a load 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 that i want because it's low flying 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 over the dream to make money on them and restore a living of a magazine design it's it falls on the counter in castle giving. them a computer soprano quite a bit since i'm not on the business i can make you want to modify or shakers and producers became our friends understand them to see the strings control the set of them i can do with it with was it gets.

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