tv AAPI Music Art Showcase SFGTV May 31, 2023 1:30am-2:01am PDT
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>> how is everyone doing? i go by the name of son of paper and i'm here at city hall ready to rock a set just for you guys. let's get! yeah! if you come to san francisco this one is for you. china town this one is for you. china town this one is for you. from a roof top in china town, going going taking buses just to get around ♪ when i was down, had to put you in a song, hope you play it loud. ♪ from a roof top in china town ♪♪ ♪ had to put you in a song just ho hope you play it loud ♪
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♪ when i'm on sward, they don't ask me where i wrap until i walk my last tepz, i'll be on the city like the one i got my trophy. ♪ i'm the house that the home he's tried to crash. ♪ like in the needle in the seattle of the heart i'm sf kid i got it from the start it is♪ ♪ from my roof top in china town ♪ ♪ taking buses just to get around ♪ ♪ had to put you in a song ♪ i♪ i hope you play it loud ♪ ♪ had to put you in a song hope you play it loud ♪ i can take you on a date, we take a trolley to your parents where we will not be late ♪ we may get a little line dance.
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♪ hold my camera i'm going to pose in the alley ways. ♪ i still want you by my side when i'm 85. ♪ i'm so glad that i can share my little neighborhood with you. ♪ i'm glad that i can share my little neighborhood with you, ooh whoa whoa ♪ ♪ we hear the sirens blaring. ♪ from my roof top in china town boom boom. ♪ taking buses just to get around ♪ ♪ had to but the you in my song hope you play it loud. ♪ had to put you in a song i hope i made you proud. ♪ made you proud, china town.
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♪ just say i made you proud. ♪ made you proud, china town. ♪ china town ♪ >> thank you, thank you. all right. all right, so that was from a roof top in china town. and yeah, i go by the name of son of paper. i chose this name to honor my great grandma who came as to this country. she came as a paper daughter. for those that don't know, chinese people were not allowed to emigrate here. so you had to buy a paper and say that you had a family here. so for me, i tree to carry along the wleg sees of all immigrants and represent from my home town of san francisco.
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this next song is called miss loved and from the son of paper. let's get it. ♪ yeah,♪ yeah♪ ♪ hey, yeah, i'm tired of running races ♪ unlace my spikes. ♪ i never outgrew that past life ♪ i did it now i'm haunted ♪ ♪ i'm smooth criminal i'm guilty as charged. ♪ yeah, at times i find myself frozen, women in motion, my flood, where we got to speak up. ♪ where this comes from aptitude, what you doing.
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♪ i just want to chill and fly with you, with you ♪ ♪ real love, you going to know it when you feel it, real love even if it's unforgiving ♪ ♪ just i know i got love for you, for you ♪ ♪ real love ♪ you going to know when you feel it, even if your grudges are unforgiven ♪ ♪ i still got love for you ♪ for you ♪ ♪ it's aapi heritage month, if you're feeling good, put a smile on your face, hey yeah. ♪ one day i'm a young prince so i must be humbled, the queen be twisted, not a quick fix is to
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look at thank you and all of our harbor resentment ♪ ♪ with no good cops it would be a first amendment ♪ ♪ you'll always be my north star ♪ ooh, but you were stuck on my heart, stuck in my heart ♪ ♪ what good comes from attitude, what you doing? ♪ i just want to chill and fly with you, with you. ♪ real love, you going to know it when you feel it ♪ that it's real love ♪ no it's still love ♪ just know i still got love for you ♪ ♪ for you. ♪ real love, you're going to know it when you feel it even if you grudge is unforgiven, you know it's still love ♪
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♪ just know i still got love for you. ♪ what you doing, doing boy in. ♪ what you have to do? ♪ ahhh ♪ ♪ i still got love for you. ♪ sing it. ♪ i still got love for you. ♪ i'm a failure, i'm a failure♪ >> this song is called soju over ice, it's called the song, yeah, they're going to know when you hear it, it's that party song. ♪ ma'am ma'am ma'am♪ ♪ i miss soju, but why is it 1399?
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soju bottles over price, no more looking at a price tag, hey ♪ ♪ for all the speakers, soju over ice, no more look at a price tag ♪ ♪ easy easy like a bike ♪ hey, i bought this speakers and a mic ♪ ♪ yeah, poor that milk and cereal, all my thoughts was in the clouds all my conscious not a pound, we eat and sweet ♪ ♪ benefits and jealous and with over competitive, me me me me ♪ sos, sops, have a greatful for the trails that were blazed by my mom and grandma we go back
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to where we came, paper, paper sogi ♪ if you have a problem over ice, give them good advise. ♪ flowing like the sited, when you know you nice ♪ ♪ get your money from these dummies, sell your bottles offer ice ♪ ♪ no more looking at the price tag. ♪ i bought some speakers and a mic, sold your bottles over ice. ♪ no more looking at a price tag. ♪ easy peacy like a bike. san francisco, you look beautiful. you looking so good. so good, so good, soju over ice. shout out to my korean americans one more time.
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what's good. okay for this last one, i'm going to take my jacket off, that party song got me all turned up. all right for this last song, it's called soul mates. but i wanted to tell you what it means to be asian-american singer producer songwriter, i'm just thankful that i don't have to be the first to be a pioneer. there is a lot of asian-american artist that i look up to, ruby ibarra, dumb founded mc jay just to name a few. i'm so glad that i get to walk in their trail blaze and doing this thing that i love. it's going pretty well. without further ado, this song is called soul mates. ♪ we got adam on the drums, yeah. ♪ and we at city hall for fun.
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♪ yeah, paper son. ♪ hey, show me, how many past of the heart breaks and disaster doing what i know even though it's so average ♪ want you for my my own even though we're both damaged. ♪ made an honest joke, but i'm on honor roll loved my mama like kanye. ♪ made a son soldier, soda pop like soda now i'm on yoda, on my motorolla, you kind of cute, show me ♪ ♪ how many heart breaks ♪
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♪ doing what i know even though it's so average, i want you for my own even though we're both damaged ♪ ♪ soul mates how many past heart breaks and disaster doing what i know even though we're so average ♪ ♪ want for my own even though we're both damaged. thank you so much. once again my name is son of paper. shout out to san francisco the place i love and call home. that was so amazing. i hope you guys have a wonderful day.
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early age. our community is the important way to look at things, even now. george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to
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have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents were brought up. that is the traditional foods or movies. they were able to celebrate the culture in that community. my family also had a
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dry-cleaning business. very hard work. the family grew up with apartments above the business. we have a built-in work force. 19 had 1 as -- 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. >> determined to do the job as democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. >> the decision to take every one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. my family went to the mountains and experienced winter and summer and springs. they tried to make their home a home. the community came together to share. they tried to infuse each home
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are little things. they created things. i remember my grand mother saying they were very scared. they were worried. they also felt the great sense of pride. >> japanese americans. >> my granduncle joined the 442nd. when the opportunity came when the time that was not right. they were in the campaign in italy. they were there every step of the way. >> president truman pays tribute. >> that was the most decorated unit in the history of the united states army. commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at
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that time. they chose to come back to san francisco even after all of that. my father was a civil servant as well and served the state of california workers' compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. my parents influenced me to look at civil service s.i applied to police, and sheriff's department at the same time. the sheriff's department grabbed me first. it was unique. it was not just me in that moment it was everyone. it wasn't me looking at the crowd. it was all of us being together. i was standing there alone. i felt everyone standing next to me. the only way to describe it. it is not about me. it is from my father. my father couldn't be there. he was sick. the first person i saw was him.
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i still sometimes am surprised by the fact i see my name as the sheriff. i am happy to be in the position i am in to honor their memory doing what i am doing now to help the larger comment. when i say that we want to be especially focused on marginalized communities that have been wronged. coming from my background and my family experienced what they did. that didn't happen in a vacuum. it was a decision made by the government. nobody raised their voice. now, i think we are in a better place as country and community. when we see something wrong we have change agents step up to help the community affected. that is a important thing to continue to do.
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you talk about change and being a leader in change and not knowing whether you have successes or results. the fact of the matter is by choosing to push for change you have already changed things. through inspiration for others, take up the matter or whether it is through actual functional change as a result of your voice being heard. i think you have already started on a path to change by choosing that path. in doing that in april of itself creates change. i continue in that type of service for my family. something i hope to see in my children. i have a pretty good chance with five children one will go into some sort of civil service. i hope that happens to continue that legacy.
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>> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich history. [♪♪♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to
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be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible
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relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a
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difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and
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corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from,
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how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit?
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retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something you're then yourself. follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way.
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