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 rainy she was paying to have 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 at the title.

and write songs is juiced me based on something that i'm experienced or and something that's happened to me that's when the blues you know when it comes from within i mean gospel. army blue country. they all have. they all tell stories. when i do yeah but i mean you go. as far as the streets ready you never know what's going to happen in a day and a week things go you know it's not just here is it's everywhere it's like wildfire you know los angeles county. you just look right across the street a couple of blocks where that was

a whole nother game it does not get along with decide over here. and we have real history right here is out of gangs a broken economy and you have. basically three different types of gangs actively going on now you have a crips was most of them don't get along you have the list there start now not to get a loner right here you have to see on the west side of compton and this is track new clark which is the park i'm standing there right now and the t p c c s group or conficker. with us it's never right and that's where bam in ca and my weapon dog man in the seal. is always some type of big me going i want to kind of keep everything that i was never like peace between businesses and the neighbors and the neighborhoods and the schools and the budgets and the whole east department everything was going to go back to some great to have some to study and some

obvious to tell it got dropped the talent it would have been let it come out polies was kicking my gang it was basically kicking against as. we needed to speak out against the. gangsta rap for me you know i'm saying. it 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 he's gone if you make us the. whole. 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 a day in the head with that. ok. a business call. more work. more gigs more excitement.

this is how i live. harlem someplace for you where you go to find jazz and blues and r. and b. . you find that you also upon the punk energy.

you can live your life very safely and. or you can be loud. very very. uneven by other people who enjoy that same quality.

the main the motion. that i feel from 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. . or rock n roll or. this is what i have but i do. watch.

i perform. where of the work is i enjoy performing with the people or sometimes you get lucky sometimes you don't miss it. on wall street this is rotten . luck.

for. the system it's great. for your prayers for you to see a public service i'm sorry to hear i'm just hearing from voters care about a lot of us all is. going to. sleep sleep sleep sleep. sleep sleep sleep sleep. sleep. sleep sleep

sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep. sleep. sleep sleep. a lot of us started what the spirituals because the spirituals during the days of slavery. work 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 during the underground railroad 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

. law. 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 the for the for the message to be given and church

music to me does the same when you don't have hope you know the song this is you know i need the every hour. and it's kind of like a prayer because you 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. 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 be and so that then they come out with a new song still the same. with . everything. from grace to read. it had to happen. had to happen there was it was inevitable we call against right now but it was actually story corps reality read perfect example so easy lyrics you say whoa. known just had to be compton so i 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. fatherless child and also my father died when i was a baby mama was a cracking a four minute we all have our stories i had to earn my respect in a street in order to just survive in kind 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 don't mean you know saying these are words that people understand where we come from so when you put that in a song that's what everybody will gravitate to. on the sea on the line circumstances. allowed for these emergence of this very very long form once. i think that we may get the sons and even grandsons of dies at some point in the future it's primarily a political issue in iraq that has taken on minutes we. promise for cations.

negative please god can start now and again for people that can't live. and they're like so tired can't. see how sick they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand our daughter katie was diagnosed with a very rare sun sensitive condition if i get sunburned i think she doesn't feel patients are going to have problems with the walk to talk to some of the brains that are actually shrinking inside their skull gets taken in the brain still small . the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin into your muscle all the way down to the ball and there's no really cool we're not sure.

says but just. 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 hot you know if feel what they feel. to.

my people who struggled and you know blues came from the cotton fields i mean so those people had a lot of. what i say. you know a lot of grievances you know not be in. people to do what they want to. and not being free new york does sound like different from texas different from chicago new york has its own style i try to make mine stand out but different from all you know still have the blues feel but different. style of playing in the subways by. three years of in two thousand there was a fortune francis who's right

a five year plan in the south way. every day. monday through saturday i might take our one day play in the south way. every day. so as base mayor. i knew this was a woman. here and thank all the. ranchman just like people working with a freedom feel paid them feel real beals meals meals. made every read. this to keep you on the air get him say keep from band on which nonsense can be from being homeless you know.

the sofa goes to new york ring which is like no other rain anywhere else in the world. like a movie. like the cleansings the fact is of the rebirth. it was such. a big engine out. many. of them with the. one.

some way. it. was go on our own. some people i know who you know that's. called they feel like this. you saying it and doing what you lowered to do. and they. don't care how good you are in the subway it's not about how good she was just a lot of people just. so you get. what you will not if you think you're going to be well.

number one and number was. it was. all those. dollars. i needed. the dolly is what i had in the one though this might be the turn this. was due and of i guess i turned then. since when is and then. told him aren't. god bless.

american music is largely african. we got carried away. 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 music sounding. that's the heartbeat of our student. 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. one of the real new yorker we've got you want a real musician you've got your real human being.

already. sold cause my next big. night i was still sleeping in a trance 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 telephone games always get it back with ever

can. i am thought to be a serious problem the cable rest and the guy from the place you say it is the on point the bullets i'm talking such great kick it is snakes face perfect form rest mass you want to work off the golf towel pete nah mona lisa i'm sure this box i'm saying it's going to save. people just got a lot aggression up in here because you know the system is always on these people heads you know came through to. form a commission into slavery to be squashed inside of an area. life gets you down was a lot of gunshots so i missed it going on people like to put in their artwork you know the best rider wins 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 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 a no one in the english culture we have to die broaden their view sometimes how we use our words and how they use their words of the system that we live in now you know this is all word play and old action. likely force you to lift takes full plus when the shape is pushed he has to throw more stick and at long last that result. oh gosh that just sort of got to number in the series and then he got me he did so by need to get crowe in the box that's the good and that's you see what. i'm going to be different i'm a city slicker i can put in the can down and up listening to the hot tempered you know that got trying to point the shots having to make a difference to get around to a point tell to see how we play in this free world. interacting

with the over after car bomb is hard to build by what you seen around is not enough not if it seems to be a negative thing for you this morning. and they're going to just be you know your former will is a you know. you know why people form they get your form and they go as far as the down. here we were dragged here. by you're not going to get rid of us. who will not go away you will not die quietly you brought us here just duck with us . let me live. alone

ah. ah truong. in the united states by the look of phone there with that man on control that we all get it back one day we all that we know will control that. move.

people want to control this god. control them and they. are. i think that i would want to. but inside i'm i'm dockside i think. only your backside that you can even cool yourself. but it's all so bloody untrue but i really believe this the bottle that we show up side is story and the

band. can be shown what a lot of. new chikor sounding. i'm a little but i think. they will when the news we're buddies. put them down i don't want or i can't listen to me as a nation to know that looking at the yam question. he could feel that he had

a chicken does. he may have to move a little the one that you know enough to build why don't. you know world of big. law and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the. that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. if they really want to see.

three days or so days a week them not know said the reason she. was . really. the. u.k. prime minister says had. a bright future after. the deal but to resume a faces an uphill battle to get a hostile polman on his side. in the stories that shaped the week file and spills into the streets of frances. cannon used against the best protest is can be.