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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 careful it could have you hating the people being oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing but what does that distinction me in today's usa the. last things became the place where my dream that i felt like when dream could be
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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 who is paying to have to live 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 it course she needs you don't want to get on a liver transplant so. she died from cirrhosis of the liver at the time. i write songs is deucedly based on some that are experienced or something that's
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happened to me that's where the blues you know maybe comes from within i mean gospel. army blue country. they all have. they all tell stories. when they're in here but i mean. that. 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 read 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
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a broken cop and you have. basically 3 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 star now not to get a loan or write a you have to see on the west side of compton and this is track meet clark which is the park i'm standing there right now and the t p c c s group are counting for. us it's never right and that's where bam in ca and my rapper dog man in the still. always some type of dig 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. back to some great to have some to study and some obvious to tell it got dropped the talent over him and let it come out polies was kicking my dang it was basically kicking against as. we needed to
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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 he's gone all in. all. this is one of the steve. i cannot talk to right now i'm on i'm on camera i would speak to you about 1015 minutes ok in the head with that. ok. a business call. more work. more gigs more excitement. this is how i live.
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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. . or rock n roll or. this is what i have but i. borrow one. day. i perform. winner of the work is i enjoy performing with the people or
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a lot of the start of what the spirituals because the spirituals do in 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. god
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. 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 be given and church music to me does the same when you don't have hope you know the song this is you
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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. 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 a new song feel the same. it
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had to happen. had to happen there was it was inevitable we call against right now but it was actually started call reality rare perfect example so easy lyrics he said woke quick about knowing just had to be done so gotta get drunk before my day begins before my mama start bitching about my friend 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 momma was a crack in a 4 minute we all have our stories i had to earn my respect in
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a street 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 batterer you know sam i don't mean you know sam 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. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. we're told the civil unrest in the united states and beyond is about systemic
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racism we're told western institutions are values are inherently flawed and rather neither really explain the real evidence of social breakdown what is really in play here is an ideology and ideology that demands an absolute submission. lot of people don't always go i know they don't know what it's like for us over here they don't know. how horrid it is just told me.
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we're african music is coming from the soul. african-american struggle from the beginning that's not a gimmick it's like only hard you know if feel what they feel. my people who struggle with. 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 with a woman. 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.
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turn. to plan and so i would buy. 3 years of a 2013 fortune francis who's right a 5 year plan in the south way. every day. monday through saturday am i take all one day play in the south way. every day. so there's a base near. where i destroyed lives. thank all the. men just like people working every day i don't feel paid them
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feel beals meals meals. a day every read. this and keep you on a very good jim said keep from being homeless. also coming from being homeless you know. the sofa goes for me you are green which is like no other rain anywhere else in the world. like a movie. like the cleansings the baptism the rebirth. the. big.
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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 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. dollar dollar is what i had in the one though this might be the turn this.
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was due end of i guess outs are and then. since when is and then. told him aren't. right god bless. 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. here that. give that noise to the music itself. that's the heartbeat of our student. us. that the politicians. the rich real the hard. we do is the truth. it's not about money. it's the color of nature not the color of money.
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already here so cause you mess with my mates. like i was all some lady in a trance i wasn't even the claim in her was she was the one trade but you won't gossip girl that's why you got a case just to cheat but try to play the telephone game always get it back with the with the african bam not to be a serious problem to kill wrestle the guy from the plate you say it is the all point the bullets up off you such great kick it is snake speaks perfect form rest mass you want to create work off we got to meet you so i will pee now mona lisa i'm cool just bought some state senate 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
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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 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 tie or 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 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 an old action. likely part of a list tasteful plus when you see this puts these 2 stroke was taken at long last the result. oh gosh that's just so they got to number in the series and then they got the heat so if i need to get crow in
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a box that's the big one that's the sequel. don't put the biggest thing on the city slicker i'll put a nickel down and up listen they can have him 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 to see how we play and. the rapping will 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 former real is a you know. you know why people form they gather no form goes right. down.
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a low end welcome to crossfire after all things are considered on peter limbo we're told the civil unrest in the united states and beyond is about systemic racism we're told western institutions and values are inherently flawed and corrupt though neither really explain the real evidence of social breakdown or what is really in play here is an ideology an ideology that demands absolute submission and.
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