i was 27 when i came here. i was inside me and my girlfriend we had a real had a place together so i was paying half the rainey she was paying to have to live so we were inside for 3 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 it ever transplant so. she died from so most of the liver at the time. on my songs is stu's me based on something that i we experience oh and something that's happened to me that's when the booze you know and then it comes from within

i mean gospel. army blue country. they all have. they all tell stories. when they're in here but i mean. as far as the streets ready you never know what's going to happen any day in 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 that does not get along with decide over here. and we have real history right here is how the gangs are broken then. you have. basically 3 different types of gangs activity going on i you had a crips was most of them don't get along you have the power as was their star now

not to get a loan or write a 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 group or conficker. with us it's never right and that's where bam in ca and my weapon dog man in the cinema. is always some type of big me going i want to kind of to keep everything out of course it was never like peace between businesses and the neighbors and the neighborhoods and the schools and the budgets and the polies department everything was to just go back to some great to have some to study and some obvious the town it got dropped the talent would have been let it come out polies was kicking my gang it was basically kicked 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 who's ball if you make us a. 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 a day in the head with that. ok. a business call. more work. more gigs more excitement. this is how i live.

in. harlem some place for you where you go to find jazz and blues and r. and b. . you find that you also find 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 volume.

i'm in a motion. that i feel for this 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 a rock n roll or. this is what i have but i do. watch. 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. in wall street this is

rotten. luck. for her because. the system is great and our. prayers for you to see

a public service i'm sorry to hear i'm just here for those who just came out of one of those films and. 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.

the it. 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 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. 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 it is come. 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 for. everything

. from grace to rap. it had to happen. had to happen there was it was inevitable we call against right now but it was actually story corps reality rare perfect example so easy lyrics he said woke. about knowing just had to be kept and so i got to 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 compton born and raised. fatherless child and also my father died when i was a baby momma was a crack in a 4 minute we all have our stories i had to earn my respect in the streets in order to just survive and count 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 sand 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. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. high salacious community. are you going the right way or are you being. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the

depths. or a mate in the shallowest. according to several sources felice in the united states from 2 to 4 people simply day. and. one of my being arrested for a response from me and. it's just they're a little old established they developed just us against them it's. a long history of 2520. as. i read this from someone calling it. there is a clock sitting inside of this lease while the culture is. the a. no

no crowd. it's no shots. catch. stress no arrests. points your thirst for action. people don't always 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 tell me.

where alchemy is coming from the soul. african-americans have struggled from the beginning that's it's not a gimmick it's like on the heart you know they feel what they feel. my people who struggled and you know who's coming 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 now different from all you know still have the blues feel but different.

from. the plan and so i would buy a. 3 year 2000. and 14 fixes it was. a 5 year plan in the south way. every day. monday through saturday am i take all one day i play in the south way. every day. so there's a base near. where i do this road live on.

everything old. man just like people work it with a pay don't feel paid them feel beals meals meals. a day write. this to keep you on the air get him say van on which also can be a home that you know. something a little 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. dylan.

and many. of them will be. coming some way and some. if it. was our very own words go on our own heard. around our right. some people saying oh you know that's. all they feel like this. you saying them and

doing what you log into. and they hang on me now i don't care how good you are in the cell way it's not about how good she was in just a lot of people this i. so you get you know i mean what you were not a good thing going we were out there. the. number ones number was dollars. those. dollars. i mean. dollars. i mean a dollar a doll is what i've been doing. this i might be in the.

hole was due end of i guess outs are and then. since when is and then. will be margaret. got this. american music is largely african. we got carried away here we care the music with. the real heart because those was who don't have a lot of money. get it. good that lauri's music and saudi. that's the heartbeat of our student. 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 rule the yorker you got you want a real musician you got what you want a real human being.

yes so cause. like i was the same lady in a trance i wasn't even the claim in her was she was the one traced but she won't gossip girl that's why i can't just didn't seem to try to play the telephone game always get it back with african name got to be a serious problem kate arrests the guy from the place you say it is go on point put some thought you such great can't you just make space perfect foam rest mass you want to work off we got me you know how it will be now mona lisa i'm sure just bought some fame and sent it to the states. 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. like get you dad was a lot of gunshots so i missed it 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 there's 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 in the artist to be a no one in the english culture we have to die broaden their view sometimes how we use our words. how babies their words of the system ed miliband now you know this is our wordplay you know what actually sets likely force you to lift takes full plus when you see this punch he has to throw bars to connect one last that result in any. aspect just circling the guy that's

a number in the series and then he got me keyed so if i need to get curled in a box that's the but not the sequence. i don't put the bigotry on the city slicker after putting it at their own end up listening to my friend but then don't jump the gun trying to point the shots that i know make a difference to get a rabs into a conference office you know we quit. in the wrapping we do go over after our part of the bar are you there bill by our what you seen around this not just by not. taking seems to be negative thing anybody. mark. or negative or just be you know you're former real is a you know. you know why people form because they have a real farm and it's so hard right now. with

a dry jeer. line you're not going to get rid of those. who will not go away you will not die quietly you but is here just stuck with us. let me. thrown. in the united states there by 1 o'clock phone there with the man on control that we all decided that one day we all that we know will control that.

one controlled as god. told them and they.

we go to work see you straight home. malcolm x. is a hero for many protesters on the streets of america speaking about the media he once said that if you're not skillful it could have you hating the people being oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing but what does that distinction me into daisy who is it the.

very building never grateful founded on the right in the murder. of nothing changed so we said all response to these situations that we did the ways. people get sad every other day she is this sad people kill each other blood for killing each other. there was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we got to deal with lives is a reason i have to rat like this. reason.

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