tv Documentary RT November 22, 2018 7:30pm-8:01pm EST
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lessons became the place where my dream felt like my dream could be realized and i would like to stay here. i was twenty seven when i came here. i was inside me and my girlfriend we had a we had a place together so i was paying half the reigning she was paying him to live so we were inside for three years. i met on the street she was using i got off the drugs and got it down to drinking beer but her liver had already ran its course she needs she didn't want to get on the liver transplant so. she died from so most of the liver.
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on my songs is stu's me based on something that i'm experienced oh and something that's happened to me that's what the blues is you know and then it comes from within i mean gospel. army blues country. they all have. they all tell stories. when they're in here but. as far as the streets ready you never know what's going to happen in the day and a week things go you know it's not just here is it it's everywhere it's like wow far you know los angeles and. you just look right across the street a couple of blocks one that was a whole nother game it does not get along with decide over here.
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now we have real history right here is how to gangs are broken down and kept and you have. basically three different types of gangs actively going on and you had to create. most of them don't get along you have the power with which they're starting now not to get alone right here you have less oxygen on the west side of compton and it's a straggly park which is the park i'm standing there right now and the t.p.c. see if you are contemplating. that's what you have right and that's where bull bam in ca and my rapper dog man in the seal. always some type of wood dig me going to want to kind of to keep everything it up that was never like peace even with pulling businesses and the neighborhoods in the neighborhoods in the schools in the budgets in the polies department everything's sour out back to some we're going to have some to say and some august attack it. god drop the talent already i mean let it come out polies was kicking my gang it was basically kicking
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against my cloak and we needed and i had to speak out aggressive. gangsta rap for me you know i'm saying. was a cry for attention like you know this is what's going on over here we don't bring lights it is we don't make make sure that you guys know who's going. to make us the . whole. second this is part of the steve. i cannot talk to you right now i'm on i'm on camera i would speak to you about ten fifteen minutes agape in the head with that. ok. a business call. more work. more gigs more excitement. this is how i live.
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i'm in a motion. that i feel for the city is constant motion constant velocity everything moves all at once and. sometimes it works sometimes we get in each of those way but there are like over like eight million of us in this city so we get along as best we can sometimes we don't but this is the excitement of the chaos that i live in this is what fuels by music this is what fuels me i like the noise don't ask me why i was born here i like the noise with us j.s. of all rock n roll or. this is what i have just what i. want.
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a lot of it started with the spirituals because the spirituals during the days of slavery were means of communication for. the slaves to communicate to each other about what was getting ready to happen like steal away steal away steal away to jesus they were getting ready to use the songs doing the underground railroad to to communicate with each other they were singing they were not allowed to read the bibles. and they were fleeing from from the south to the north and spirituals choir sing them but there they really have a message if you listen to. the
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. odds. was. the minister gets up to preach there should be nothing for him to do but to give the word and as the levites used to prepare the music and with the harps and the flute they prepared the way for for them for the message to. given and church music to me does the same when you don't have hope you know the song this is you know i
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need the every hour. and it's kind of like a prayer because it just helps you remember all the things that he's brought you through. because especially during times of sadness people are they don't have money. and sometimes you just need that song and sometimes it's not a docile song though it just may be a song just hearing joy to the world the lord has come and then now and then there's another version of there is joy to the world. the gospel just takes a different different twist to a song that we all know but it gives people hope i think that gospel music gives you hope it gives you peace and it gives you joy you know the young people they have a different beat you know. but they have a different b. and so that when they come out with
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a new song still the same. opportunity. to. bring. it with. me. every day. from grace to read. it had to happen. had to happen there was it was inevitable we call it thanks right now it was actually story corps reality read perfect example so easy lyrics you say whoa. about knowing just had to be. a gotta get drunk before my day begins before my mama start bitching about my friends basic you understand everything i'm saying right here my reality is simple captive born and raised. father. father died when i was a baby mama was
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a cracking a four minute we all have our stories i had to earn my respect in the streets in order to just survive and. it was it was more of a necessity to say what you had to say like. you know say i like the battery you know sam i mean you know saying these are words that people understand we come from it so when you put that in a song that's what everybody will gravitate to. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that in this population of. any interrogation out there what you'll see is promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of
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mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said to forward cooperate say on a statement that i will be all about that the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with. the british government and the british establishment and mrs bush and mrs mrs may have looks themselves up into his studio about so-called new deal just so incredibly misleading as i just said in so doing they've allowed the european union to impose completely draco union service on the u.k. which we lost anyway.
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lot of people don't know what's go i know they don't know what it's like for us over here you don't know what how hard it is just told me. we're african music is coming from the soul. african-americans have struggled from the beginning that's not a gimmick it's like only you know they feel what they feel. my people who struggle with. you know blues came from the cotton fields i mean so those people had a lot of. what i say. you know
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a lot of grievances you know not be in. people to do with a woman. and not being free new york does sound like different from texas different from chicago new york has this stuff i try to make mine stand out different from all you know still have the blues feel but different. style of playing in the subways by. three years of a two thousand there was a fortune francis who's right a five year plan in the south way. every
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day. monday through saturday i might take our one day play in the south way. every day. so as base near. i knew this was a woman. and thank all the. random men just like people working with a man i don't feel paid them feel feels beals meals on wheels. in everett read. this and keep you there get him say keep from band on which also can be made at home that you know. something a little new york ring which is like no other rain anywhere else in the world. like
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go on our own. some people you know that's. called they feel like this. and you saying it and doing what you loathe to do. and they. don't care how good you are in the subway it's not about how good she was it's just a lot of people just. so you get. what you will not if you think you going to be without the.
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we carried the music with us. the real hard because the bomb goes was we don't have a lot of money. you know that. good that noise good that music sounding. that's the heartbeat of our system. that the politicians are not the rich real the heart of what we do is the truth. it's not about money. it's the color of nature not the color of money. you want to really yorker you got you want a real musician you got your real human being.
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already. sold cause my next big. night i was going to leave. i was even the claim in her was she was the one trade but you won't gossip girl when you get a case just to cheat or try to play the telephone game always get it back with the with this. african band thought to be a serious problem with cable wrestling and the guy from the place you say it is the
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r. point the bullets i'm talking such great kick it is snakes face perfect form rest mass you want to work off the golf clean towel piece so now mona lisa i'm sure this box i'm in pain you need to say. people just got a lot aggression up in here because you know the system is always on these people his you know came through to. form a commission into slavery to be squashed inside of an area. like get you dad was a lot of gunshots so i missed it going on people like to put in their artwork you know the best writer where you know that's what's go to the competition out here now to see who comes up with the best on board as far as music there is a lot of things happening you know to where these guys like to get it off their chest bharati is all cultures be in. africa you know people from africa
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african-americans however you want to call it black you want to call that we always have we're with people and the artist to be you know one of the english culture we have to die broaden their view sometime of how we use our words and how they use their words of the system that we live in now you know this is all wordplay and old action is likely part of a list tasteful plus one the safest place to throw boston at long last that was all the great. assets just so they got to number in the series and then they got me he did so by need to get crowe in a box that's a given that's the sequence. don't put the people on the city slicker have to put in make it their own and not listen they can have him but then something got trying to point the shots having to make a difference you get a rap sheet on a conference up and say you know we planned this free world.
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interacting with over half a car bomb is hardly a pill by what you see in a round is not enough not if it seems to be a negative thing for you this morning. they're going to just be yo yo yo form a real ism you know. you know why people form that they get no form of life and are mired down. here we were dragged here. by you not going to get rid of us. who will not go away you will not die quietly you brought us here just stuck with us. let me live. alone not gonna.
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tracking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people who rushed to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore slow down too much they lost jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. amazon already has a significant portion of all u.s.
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commerce something approaching twenty percent i guess our goal is to get fifty percent of all commerce in america it would be amazon commerce and they need artificial intelligence to do that an artificial intelligence needs data to run effectively so jeff bezos but they call out all the cities and they said we may come to your town just give us all the data on all the people living in your town. and will dump it into our computers and our ai systems and by the way you don't get anything. negative please go camp sundown camp for people that can't decide on their legs so the empire camp is like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand her daughter katie was diagnosed with a very rare sun sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she doesn't feel patients are going to have problems with the walk the talk to your son the brains that are actually shrinking inside the skull get sleeker in the brain still small.
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the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscles all the way down to the bone. there is no relief. so we're just not sure this is going to stop. david on this is to use the words of the cards for differently then there's a chance they may have been prevented and we we agree with that. thing disappointed at the end my five in u.k. hamal face softer a government report details security failures they could have prevented
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