fuck. life things became the place where my dream that i felt like my dream could be realized and i would like to stay here. i was 27 when i came here. i was inside me and my girlfriend we had a we had

a place together so i was ok and have to really see it was pay and have to have it so we were inside for 3 years. i met on the street here using i got off the. gallery down to drinking beer but her liver had already ran as course she needs she didn't want to get on a liver transplant so. she died from cirrhosis of the liver and the title. and write songs is stu's me based on some that are we experience or it's something that's happened to me that's when the blues you know when it comes from within i mean gospel. army booze country. they all have.

they all tell stories. well known here but they're. not really that course if partner. is for the streets well you never know what's going to happen in the day of the week just how things go you know there's not just. seriously it's everywhere like wildfire in a los angeles county. you just look right across the street a couple of blocks read that way as a whole nother gang that does not get along with decide oh here. we have real history right here is how to gangs a broken down top then you have. basically 3 different types of gangs activity 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 a loan right here you have less oxygen on the west side of compton and it's

a tragedy clark which is the park i'm standing there right now in 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 cell i'll. always be some type of addict me going to want to kind of to keep everything it up it was never like peace with. the neighbors in the neighborhoods in the school budgets in the polies department everything's sour out back to some we're going to have some to say and some august attack. god drop the tylenol but haven't let it come out police was kicking the gangbangers it was basically kicked in against my cloak and we needed to speak out against. 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 in 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 1015 minutes in the head with that. ok. a business call. more work. more gigs more excitement. this is how i live.

harlem some place 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 line of the people who enjoy that same.

the main the 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 8000000 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 'd 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. i perform. where of the work is i've enjoyed performing with the people or sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you don't this is. on wall street this is rotten.

luck. for our. system straightened out. from our friends for a jury to see a public service up inside to hear the truth for those who choose to work with us

all to. sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep. sleep sleep. sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep. sleep sleep. sleep. a lot of it started with 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 they they used 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. god.

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 in the flute they prepared the way for for them 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. 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 be and so that then they come out with a new song still the same. opportunity. to.

hear. from grace to read. it had to happen. had to happen it was it was inevitable we call it thanks right now it was actually story corps reality read perfect example so easy lyrics he said woke. about knowing just had to be kept and so got to get drunk before my day begins before my mama start bitching about my friends basic you understand everything i'm saying right dear my reality is simple compton born and raised. you know also my father died when i was a baby my momma was a crack you know for many we all have our stories i had to earn my respect in the streets in order to just survive and kind of it was it was more of a necessity to say which you had to say like. you know i'm saying like the bad you know sam i 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. protest across america right now. the workers uprising. in. russia. got a new imperium here in america. and the workers suddenly realize that wait a minute we don't want to live under a dictatorship we don't want to live under a monarchy. because. according to several sources the least new united states 2 to 4 people. and.

one of my being arrested for. their little. us against. someone holding. ah no team no crowd. no shots. back she

felt. the wells dry no thirst. points your thirst for action. out of people don't know what's going on oh no 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 it's not a gimmick it's like only you know if we'll wait till.

my people you struggled with. you know blues came from the cotton fields i mean so those people had a lot of. why what i say. you know a lot of grievances you know not me 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 different from all you know still have the blues feel but different. the plan in some ways by a. 3 year 201314 fixes it was. a

5 year plan in the south where. every day. monday through saturday i might take our one day play in the south way. every day. so that's basically it. i knew this was live on. everything old. ranchman just like people work it with a. meal paid them deal beals meals meals. paid every rent. this keep you there get him say van owned that. nonsense he would be home this you know.

the sofa goes for me you are green which is like no other rain anywhere else in the world. it's like a movie. but the cleansing is the baptism the rebirth. it was such. a big. part of the treatment. and the will and the love. does.

come somewhere and soul. if it. was around her was going on around her. some people will get you nuts and. they feel like this. you saying it and doing what you loathe to do. and they. don't care how good you are in the subway is not about how good she was just a lot of people just. so you get you know you will not if you think you're going to be well.

number one and number was. it was all those. dollars. i needed. dollars. the dolly is what i wouldn't be one though this might be to turn the. whole was do end of i guess that's on that's a cool name aren't. govern this. american music this is largely africa. we got carried away here

we care the music with us. the real heart because those was who don't have a lot of money. give that. give that lauri's give the music itself. that's the heartbeat of our system. us. that the politicians. the rich real the heart 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 york or the guy you want a real musician you've got your real human being god damn god.

already. so cause my next big. like i was all some lady in a trance i wasn't even the claim in her was she was the one traced but you won't gossip girl that's why you gotta catch this accident scene but try to play the telephone game always get it back with with this african bam not to be

a serious problem to kill wrestle the guy from the plate you say it is go all point the bullets up off you so it's great kick you just make space perfect form rest mass you want to crane work off we've got a clean towel pete now mona lisa i'm cool just bought some state senate to the states. people just got a lot of greg. and up in here because you know the system is always on these people heads you know that came through to. form a commission into slavery to be squashed inside of an area. life gets you down with a lot of gunshots or a misstep going on people like to put in their artwork and you know the best writer 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 and lyrics a lot of things happen you know to where these guys like to get it off their chest bharati is all cultures being in. africa. you know people from africa

african-americans however you want to call it black you want to call it we always have we're with people in the arts is to be you know one in the english culture we have to die broaden their view sometimes how we use our wars 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 when you see this punch he has to throw bars to connect one last that result in any oh gosh that's just so they got to number in the series and then he got me he did so by need to get crowe in a box that's the good but not the sequel. don't put the bigotry on the city slicker have to put in make it their own and up listen they come out some but then don't jump the gun trying to point the shots having to make a difference you get a rap sheet on a conference up and say no we planned this we will.

get the rap to be over after. talking about how you see a bill by our what you seen around there is nothing about not. taking seems to be negative thing anybody that markets. are negative or just be you know you're form a realist you know. you know why people form. they get no harm by the farmers down. here we were dragged here. by you know going to get rid of us. who will not go away who will not die quietly you brought us here just duck with us . let me live.

audio. strong. in the united states here by 1 o'clock phone there with that control. we all decided that one day we all that we know will control that. 'd people want control this gun. control if they.

you know we're number one movie capital in united states we all slow 'd number one. production. i mean also so like you shop before. i suppose for most. people are you selling crack rock or you got

a wicked jump shot in order to excuse. the joke you got to act like a lying in a month's other one. piece of abuse so this is somebody who it is at the root for. malcolm x. is that you know many protesters on the streets of america speaking about the media he once said that if you're not careful it could have you hating the people being oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing but what does that distinction mean in today's u.s. city.

hello welcome to redacted tonight this is the show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents good. good folks i know you were worried that everyone is suffering during this and. dammit we're lonely we're scared and if i have to teach my mother how to use zoom one more time i'm going to throw her out a window not the real her but the laptop with her on it so she sees it as it goes down and smashes into the ground and maybe that will stick with her for a bit but no it's not true not everybody is having a rough time some people are doing room only well america's billionaires have seen their wealth increase by 12.5.