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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.44,0:00:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Given the relatively dominant position that\Nhip hop occupies atop the dizzying
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.25,0:00:13.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heights of the global entertainment-industrial-complex, it can be easy to lose sight of its humble
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.59,0:00:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beginnings and its enduring role as a source\Nof revolutionary politics.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.20,0:00:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got a letter from the government\NThe other day
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.14,0:00:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I opened and read it\NIt said they were suckers
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.92,0:00:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know this for a fact, you don't like how\NI act. You claim I'm sellin' crack
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.88,0:00:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you be doin' that I'd rather say "see ya"\NCause I would never be ya
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.40,0:00:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be a officer? You wicked overseer!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.54,0:00:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Call me Little Bobby Hutton, cause I'm first\Nto push the button
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.40,0:00:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rappers don't be saying nothing to the system,\Nwe say fuck 'em
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.62,0:00:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why we say “fuck”\NThat's why we make hip-hop
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.40,0:00:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't care about your badge, baton or Glock\NYour mind's in shock fucking cop stop
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.40,0:00:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember that time passes and never stops\Nin the clock
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.58,0:00:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though it didn’t really break out until\Nthe late 70s and early 80s, hip hop’s genesis
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.80,0:00:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,story began in the summer of 1973, in the\NSouth Bronx.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.04,0:01:02.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the time, New York City’s northernmost\Nborough was by all appearances a war zone.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.78,0:01:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Decades of neglect, ill-thought out public\Ninfrastructure projects, white flight,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.62,0:01:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,racist redlining policies and urban decay\Nhad reduced entire city blocks to rubble.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.72,0:01:18.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rampant poverty and unemployment had created\Na vacuum that was filled by street gangs,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.46,0:01:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with hundreds of small crews constantly battling\Nover territory, and literally setting large
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.82,0:01:24.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sections of the city on fire.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.71,0:01:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out of this simmering cauldron of social and\Neconomic tension, hip hop emerged as a vibrant
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.75,0:01:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DIY subculture, spread through house parties\Nthrown by working-class Black and Puerto Rican
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.29,0:01:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,youth who were alienated and excluded from\NNew York’s decadent disco scene.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.87,0:01:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A catalyzing moment of the emerging hip hop\Nscene was the formation of the
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.46,0:01:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Universal Zulu Nation, on November 12th, 1973.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.52,0:01:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...cars continue to change, nothing\Nstays the same, there were always renegades
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.78,0:01:54.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Payne
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.24,0:01:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like Martin Luther King, Malcom X.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.99,0:02:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were renegades of the atomic age
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.00,0:02:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Founded by members of a gang called the Black\NSpades, the Zulu Nation built hip hop into
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.63,0:02:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tool for community organizing – bringing\Nmembers of different gangs together, settling
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.42,0:02:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,street-level beefs and introducing codes of\Nconduct, all while imbuing the scene with
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.37,0:02:16.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,formative political values of street-based\Ncommunity solidarity
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.29,0:02:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pan-Afrikan consciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.17,0:02:22.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Zulu Nation is credited with constructing\Nthe foundation of hip hop culture, forged
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.66,0:02:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around five core elements:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.28,0:02:28.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mcs, Djs, Graffiti,\NB-boys & B-girls,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.50,0:02:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fifth element: street knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.30,0:02:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then I got wise and I begin to listen
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.46,0:02:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the whack teachers and the wick-wack system
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.02,0:02:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother put me in Weusi Shule
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.26,0:02:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which means\Nblack school in Swahili
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.56,0:02:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there is where I learned black history\NAnd how to be the best that I can be
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.82,0:02:49.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't talk to police, we don't \Nmake a peacebond
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.68,0:02:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't trust in the judicial system,\Nwe shoot guns
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.76,0:02:54.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We rely on the streets we do \Nbattle in the hood
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.32,0:02:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born in the G Code, embedded in my blood
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.94,0:03:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the decades that have followed, hip hop\Nhas been transformed into a global phenomenon,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.18,0:03:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a multi-billion dollar industry in its\Nown right.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.36,0:03:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the five foundational elements have survived\Nand adapted over the years, providing a sustained
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.50,0:03:13.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,authenticity that has allowed radical artists\Nto continue to innovate, carve out space,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.62,0:03:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even fight back against the industry’s\Noverall creep towards commercialization.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.30,0:03:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the next thirty minutes, we will explore\Nhip hop as a potent and persistent source
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.26,0:03:26.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of revolutionary culture rooted in the oppression,\Nexploitation and criminalization faced by
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.82,0:03:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,youth and particularly poor youth of colour.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.77,0:03:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along the way we’ll speak with a number\Nof grassroots artists who are continuing to
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.54,0:03:38.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spit truth to power, all while organizing\Ntheir communities, tearing up stages and making
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.56,0:03:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a whole lot of trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.78,0:04:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop stands for “His or Her Infinite\NPower Helping Oppressed People”.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.16,0:04:20.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That comes from the temple of hip hop.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.97,0:04:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay so that's from you know OGs like KRS-One\Nand other people getting together and figuring
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.88,0:04:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to effectively uplift the more positive\Nelements of the culture that are based in
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.10,0:04:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,community liberation and empowerment.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.43,0:04:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop to me is a way to be able to spread\Na message of resistance to a large audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.14,0:04:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop to me is a way to share my story before\Nanybody else has a chance to twist up my words
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.19,0:04:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to twist up my experiences.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.47,0:04:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is resistance and creativity, that's what\Nhip hop is to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.84,0:05:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop initially rose up speaking to injustices,\Neventually it rose into stories speaking to
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.16,0:05:06.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the issues of the oppressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.21,0:05:11.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The early days was very humble, there wasn't\Na lot of money there wasn't a big budget.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.43,0:05:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was kind of put together by people with\Nwhatever they had.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.58,0:05:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People had come up with this medium of going\Nthrough the rubble and putting graffiti up
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.18,0:05:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and break-dancing and MCing and DJing and\Nyou know it was a way of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.60,0:05:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same youth that were throwing bricks and\Nrocks and pushing back the police, they had
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.44,0:05:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.74,0:05:38.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, hip-hop is a tool for transformation\NA culture that has some life principles
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.70,0:05:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some these are unity, love and respect\NBut specially, having fun, to fill the need
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.17,0:05:50.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to defend happiness\NThere's a quote by DJ Grandmaster Caz
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.53,0:05:54.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It says that hip-hop did not invent anything\NThe hip-hop re-invented everything
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.68,0:06:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We peeped the allegory at the campfire listening\Nas elders shared the stories of the
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.72,0:06:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vampire's victims.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.98,0:06:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do I not make the same mistake? Wisdom.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.54,0:06:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Generate the vision, obliterate the prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.84,0:06:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freedom's all I wanted but I couldn't \Nafford it,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.46,0:06:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my baby's got the spirit, just brilliant and gorgeous.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.28,0:06:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh yes, the self defence endorsement, always\Nquiet when she about to load it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.60,0:06:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hold it, esa morra's bout to load it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.40,0:06:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh shit, and the whole barrio support it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.72,0:06:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seen a whole lotta people want friends.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.42,0:06:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seen a whole lotta people want Benz.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.34,0:06:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seen a whole lotta people can't get what they\Nwant so a whole lotta people pop zans.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.56,0:06:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say that means don't justify the ends.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.48,0:06:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do the ends ever justify the means?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.72,0:06:36.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And would we end all of this hardship if we\Njust put rich
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.90,0:06:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bigots in the guillotine?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.24,0:06:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cuz I can't watch these kids die and then\Nlie like I give a fuck and not do a fuckin
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.38,0:06:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing but lie down like I've given up.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.96,0:06:50.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So get a gun if you ready, we grippin' on\Nthe machete for anybody involved we got a
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.58,0:06:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,problem forgetting.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.58,0:06:57.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thinking for yourself is an expensive luxury\NFor them it's not convenient that you leave
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.30,0:07:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the herd\NThey win more if they keep us ignorant
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.60,0:07:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep the people poor,\Nmore power for the state
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.44,0:07:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fuck the parliament, fuck the cops and fuck\Nthe robber baron bosses and fuck their offices,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.64,0:07:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,predominant model of economics and elephant\Ncock in their ballot boxes.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.61,0:07:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It came from the Bronx in the 70s in New York\NCity and now it's world wide.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.05,0:07:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop is like folk music, it's very much\Na historical record.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.00,0:07:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are stories that are telling of the\NAmerican empire you know, looking from within.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.43,0:07:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that's why it's so compelling\Nand that's why it resonated people may not
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.01,0:07:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know it but I think the reason that hip hop\Nspread is because they're stories that everyone
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.92,0:07:40.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needs to hear and is interested in hearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.65,0:07:46.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip-hop is a universal culture\NThat starts from a context of marginalization
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.09,0:07:49.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poverty and criminalization\NThat's a very specific context from 1970's
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.86,0:07:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New York City\NThat starts from a context of marginalization
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.68,0:07:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poverty and criminalization\NThat's a very specific context from 1970's
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.18,0:07:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New York City\NBut that's similar to other problems in other
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.47,0:08:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,places\NLike exploitation, lack of housing, the lack
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.05,0:08:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of opportunities
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.52,0:08:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It came from people who had been displaced\Nhistorically from the continent of Africa
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.60,0:08:13.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to North America, to Central America, South\NAmerica and the Caribbean.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.05,0:08:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It also came from ethnicities that had been\Nmixed in the process of the colonial subjugation
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.75,0:08:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and conquest of the so called new world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.92,0:08:27.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was significant in drawing me in because\Nwe learned that we had a shared story.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.33,0:08:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had a story not only of oppression but\Nof resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.62,0:08:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can measure history in terms of what we\Nknow about our experience here in the United
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.54,0:08:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,States as descendants of people who were stolen\Nfrom the continent of Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.92,0:08:50.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we also have to be able to measure our\Nexistence and our influence on what happened
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.57,0:08:56.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before that, what's currently happening in\Nthe African diaspora and on the African continent
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.19,0:08:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and struggles for liberation and self determination.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.84,0:09:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The driving force is just the songs of my\Nancestors the songs that they sung to be able
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.73,0:09:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to speak to resistance to speak to fighting,\Nto speak towards challenging and removing
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.40,0:09:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any and all people that wish to destroy our\Npeople.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.35,0:09:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of the major influences that I've had\Nmusically have been folks who share their
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.61,0:09:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,narratives in a really honest way in a really\Nvulnerable way especially when they go to
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.60,0:09:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,represent their anger and their rage with\Nthe way that these systems of oppression are
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.58,0:09:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,set up around us.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.18,0:09:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I recognize first and foremost that I am a\Nguest in the house of hip hop.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.12,0:09:42.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't take someone else's experience and\Ntry to whiteify it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.45,0:09:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see things through the lens of white people\Nand so I feel like it's my job to criticize
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.74,0:09:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white culture in the way that a white dude\Ncan.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.96,0:09:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I use my music to confront the shittiest\Nparts about white culture: imperialism and
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.64,0:10:03.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,colonialism and capitalism and authoritarianism.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.33,0:10:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although it has since spread all around the\Nglobe, hip hop first emerged from, and has
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.00,0:10:21.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always remained rooted in the lived experiences\Nof Black and LatinX youth hustling to survive
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.58,0:10:23.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in America’s inner-city ghettos.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.97,0:10:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the so-called “Golden Age” of hip\Nhop, spanning the late 80s to the mid 90s,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.57,0:10:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were specially turbulent times.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.70,0:10:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The flooding of poor, racialized neighbourhoods\Nwith crack in the mid-80s provided the spark
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.82,0:10:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a rapid surge in street violence, waged\Nbetween increasingly well-funded and heavily
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.70,0:10:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,militarized gangs.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.83,0:10:39.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.83,0:10:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This, in turn, provided the justification\Nfor the ramping up of Ronald Reagan’s
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.73,0:10:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,War on Drugs, a policy framework for the wholesale\Ncriminalization of Black and brown communities
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.07,0:10:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that opened the door to enhanced police repression\Nand mass incarceration, twin pillars of US
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.10,0:10:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,domestic counter insurgency strategy that\Ncontinue to this day.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.00,0:11:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1986 a group formed in South Central, LA,\Nthat fed off this raw sense of desperation
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.42,0:11:07.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rage, forever changing the face of hip\Nhop in the process.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.31,0:11:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That group was NWA, the first successful pioneers\Nof a new subgenre of hip hop: gangsta rap.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.43,0:11:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These days, it’s hard to appreciate the\Nshock and terror that NWA provoked in America’s
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.86,0:11:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,white supremacist power structure, and specially\Nits front-line troops, the cops.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.33,0:11:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rap music promotes by its very language and\Nby its very actions, promotes violence against
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.08,0:11:33.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,authority and consequently violence against\Nlaw enforcement.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.83,0:11:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Songs like ‘Fuck Tha Police’ became rallying\Ncries for a generation of Black and Brown
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.04,0:11:42.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,youth whose rage would soon find popular expression\Nin the LA Riots of ‘92.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.14,0:11:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fuck the police comin' straight from the underground.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.70,0:11:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A young nigga got it bad cause I'm brown.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.92,0:11:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And not the other color, so police think,\Nthey have the authority to kill a minority.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.60,0:12:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But while NWA provided a megaphone to Black\Nyouth’s widespread hatred towards the police,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.27,0:12:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they also injected mainstream hip hop with\Na violent strain of misogyny and homophobia
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.56,0:12:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that continues to fester to this day.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.17,0:12:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They also provided the emerging hip hop industry,\Nlargely controlled by the white capitalist
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.67,0:12:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,power structure that they were rebelling against,\Nan opportunity to make millions of dollars
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.27,0:12:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,selling records that glorify Black and Brown\Nyouth killing one another over nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.94,0:12:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of the brothers that were my same age\Nman, they were involved in the type of shit
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.39,0:12:34.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they were killing each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.70,0:12:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, they were killing cats that they\Ngrew up with, that they went to church with,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.24,0:12:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they went to school with, that they played\Nball with, trying to be part of the whole
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.67,0:12:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gang set culture you know what I mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.02,0:12:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or they were trying to get their money selling that dope and like that's cool, whatever...
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.82,0:12:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But really?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.66,0:13:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was living during the crack era and so the\Ncriminalization that began this whole mass
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.93,0:13:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,incarceration that we have now, this new Jim\NCrow, it was heavily going on during that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.05,0:13:09.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crack era all the way through the 90s.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.13,0:13:15.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so of course the theme in the music was\Nabout either fighting against this new drug
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.59,0:13:19.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was dropped on to our community or else\Nusing it as a means to get out of the community.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.87,0:13:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so it's always been a part of the music\Nfrom the very early days.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.50,0:13:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's use the phrase "The Personal is Political"\Nas a starting point
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.12,0:13:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because even if we think our actions are personal\NThey are going to affect our family and our
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.29,0:13:36.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,close friends\NBecause even if we think our actions are personal
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.37,0:13:40.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are going to affect our family and our\Nclose friends
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.81,0:13:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the community and the society that\Nwe are part of
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.02,0:13:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a difference between telling your\Nstory and glorifying some of the things that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.92,0:13:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to do to get by.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.68,0:13:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I appreciate you know, when artists can\Nyeah maybe talk about the gang-banging past,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.05,0:14:02.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talk about the past where you had to sell\Nsome shit, you had to do some shit that you're
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.73,0:14:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,glad you don't have to do anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.73,0:14:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Government plans, fencin' us in,\Nlife in the pen'
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.86,0:14:09.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For sellin' shit you put in our hood, knowin'\NI'll do it
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.80,0:14:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We desperate, starvin' and dyin' to eat, die\Nin the street
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.82,0:14:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a fraction of what I get now for a soundin'\Nfly on the beat
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.68,0:14:21.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel the weight of not glorifying some of\Nthe things I've done in my past because I
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.37,0:14:25.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see it happening with other artist with their\Nsongs.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.39,0:14:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cold gang with the cocaine.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.39,0:14:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The more money make more rain.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.91,0:14:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pourin' up a pint while I'm baggin' propane.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.07,0:14:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Point blank range give a nigga nose rings.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.69,0:14:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Skip to my lou with a pack in the cat.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.80,0:14:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jiffy, Lube where the bricks where they at?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.32,0:14:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In hip hop they might call it, bitches, hos,\Nguns, money, sex, murder and all that but
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.48,0:14:46.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you look at the army, navy, airforce, marines,\Nand the US government, that's all it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.77,0:14:49.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a reflection of the culture\Nthat we live in.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.82,0:14:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the values that we've inherited as part\Nof the conditions of survival in this country,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.52,0:15:00.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to prioritize the things that are going to\Nget us pussy, get us respect and get us paid
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.22,0:15:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and get another motha fucker to recognize\Nus you know, and that is some bullshit.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.24,0:15:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's been really motivational to me when artists\Ncast aside all of the parameters of respectability
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.64,0:15:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,politics and are willing to speak their truths\Nwithout coddling the feelings of
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.13,0:15:24.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who are oppressing us.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.84,0:15:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the job of my music, to challenge everything\Nthat has been imposed upon us to say no and
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.16,0:15:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go drastic with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.46,0:15:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again like, I don't follow the format, the\Nstatus quo of hip hop.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.00,0:15:40.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm also still unlearning a lot because it\Nwasn't like I grew up in a Native community,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.88,0:15:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew up in a city, because of the fact that\Npeople that came generations before me were
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.28,0:15:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,removed from their homelands and placed into\Ncities.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.85,0:15:55.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you won't find me doing in my music,\Nlyrically, you won't find me killing niggas,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.20,0:16:01.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you won't find me on some exploitative, downgrading\Nshit about women, you won't find me talking
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.99,0:16:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about killing faggots and faggot this and\Nfaggot that.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.57,0:16:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's lots of people saying fucked up shit\Nin the world of hip hop,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.28,0:16:11.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to me I can't have that.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.27,0:16:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know I'm not going to throw a show where\NI book those guys or I can't do collabos with
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.12,0:16:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them, I can't work with them, I'm not going\Nto taint the work that I'm doing with this
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.71,0:16:22.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hate right?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.71,0:16:26.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I try to promote the kind of hip hop that\NI like to see, I work with people that are
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.46,0:16:29.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing the kind of hip hop that I like to see.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.13,0:16:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No matter what the content\Nthere's a political context from where it
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.20,0:16:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,comes from\NBecuase there's a need to reclaim our history
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.82,0:16:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even though it may not seem like "real"\Nactivism
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.16,0:16:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is an intention to survive a reality\Nof violence
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.74,0:16:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like it's extremely important that\Nyou are responsible and disciplined and mature
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.52,0:16:53.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enough to not abuse that platform.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.85,0:17:00.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be predatorial, to escape any accountability\Nfor patriarchal tendencies.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.17,0:17:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned early that I had to be three times\Nbetter than the guys to even remotely get
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.84,0:17:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even recognized and it made me already come\Nout swinging and I never stopped swinging
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.33,0:17:15.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I already recognized that I had a\Ndisadvantage or I was already seeing patriarchy
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.81,0:17:18.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sexism.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.49,0:17:23.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whenever I do a show and I'm the only woman\Non the lineup, we have to call it out, we
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.51,0:17:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to address the fact that I'm not the\Nonly woman there because I'm the only woman
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.72,0:17:33.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with something worth saying with something\Nworth listening to, I'm the only woman there
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.13,0:17:38.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we don't listen enough to the women\Naround us and we don't give up the mic, men
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.43,0:17:40.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't give up the mic enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.62,0:17:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I put my face in a book ‘cause my people\Nare profiled
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.05,0:17:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,erased from the books and my people are\Ntold lies
Dialogue: 0,0:17:45.30,0:17:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sky’s the limit? Go fly! Cali green? We go high
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.14,0:17:49.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean back in ‘05, already knew I'd grow wise
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.44,0:17:57.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.20,0:18:03.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Queen and Master of the chaos I inhabit\NSometimes a tyrant, sometimes outlaw
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.38,0:18:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The best battle, is with myself\NI'm self government, my flag is anarchist
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.80,0:18:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I wake up, no makeup, half naked, I feel\Nlike I’m the shit
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.20,0:18:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pardon my language, but hang ups do not define\Nthe kid
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.90,0:18:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, I’m not flawless, I’m scarred up and\NI’m fine with it
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.60,0:18:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My body art a laundry list of all of life’s\Nunkindnesses
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.93,0:18:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot has changed in the 45 years since hip\Nhop’s founding.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.27,0:18:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For one thing, many of the iconic inner-city\Nneighbourhoods where hip hop first flourished
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.71,0:18:36.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been redeveloped, their former communities\Nscattered to the winds of gentrification.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.77,0:18:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Far from the dilapidated pressure cookers\Nof revolt and subversive urban decay that
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.03,0:18:45.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were in the 70s, these neighbourhoods\Nhave become homogeneous sites of high-rise
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.03,0:18:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,condos, hipster indie venues and Starbucks\Nfranchises.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.86,0:18:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is not to say that this process is a\Ndone deal... and even less so that the social
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.72,0:18:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contradictions that birthed hip hop have disappeared.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.40,0:18:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The South Bronx is still a largely working-class\Narea plagued by racist police violence, and
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.69,0:19:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is tons of vibrant hip hop coming out\Nof America’s traditional urban centers,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.72,0:19:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Baltimore to Oakland.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.60,0:19:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bam!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:06.10,0:19:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The target of poverty by the white devil\NBecause I wasn't testing at my reading level
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.92,0:19:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was testing any of these busters\NYo, where you from? Pare?!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.74,0:19:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lola’s like, “Bakit ka nag tatambay dun\Nsa calle parate?!”
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.60,0:19:23.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as urban demographics have shifted, so\Ntoo has hip hop’s centre of gravity.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.71,0:19:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the United States, this shift has been\Nmost notable with the rise of Southern Rap,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.70,0:19:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beginning in the early 2000’s, and the emergence\Nof Atlanta as a new hip hop epicentre.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.22,0:19:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Similarly, as it has spread to countries all\Naround the world, hip hop has been transformed
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.78,0:19:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and enriched by countless local culture and\Ntraditions, each of which has added their
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.73,0:19:46.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,own mark, while generally honouring the spirit\Nof youthful defiance and resistance to authority
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.93,0:19:50.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that’s been so key to hip hop’s global\Nappeal.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.37,0:20:11.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop culture is an expression of oppressed\Npeople's reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.99,0:20:16.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hip hop is so global now that literally every\Nneighbourhood, every community is representing.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.57,0:20:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see people doing hip hop in Palestine.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.30,0:20:31.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Native artists are just really standing up\Nglobally and representing and telling a story
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.98,0:20:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that really needs to be heard and it reminds\Nme of the early days of hip hop.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:36.12,0:20:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not like packaged and pretty and fake.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.01,0:20:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just raw truth and raw facts so big ups to\Nall my native comrades out there holdin' it
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.67,0:20:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down with hip hop.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.78,0:20:50.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We never even knew what it was like to be\Npoor until money was shown to us in the first
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.33,0:20:53.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,place, we didn't know what poverty was and\Nso we're always trying to catch up to something
Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.81,0:20:59.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that really we don't belong to, that in fact,\Nour culture is at odds with, our traditions
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.11,0:21:00.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are at odds with.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.64,0:21:08.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's remember that a lot of art is elitist\NThat it sometimes comes and it's valued in
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.35,0:21:14.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certain places\NBut hip-hop allows that from from the streets
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.27,0:21:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the ghettoes, from marginality\NThese voices can be created
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.07,0:21:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like music is, specially important\Nin sharing political ideals with youth, taking
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.97,0:21:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,care of our people, to maintaining our identities.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.08,0:21:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's absolutely like, foundational.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.70,0:21:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is black?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.56,0:21:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black is a response to white supremacist categorization\Nof human beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.05,0:21:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something that doesn't even begin to encompass\Nthe vastness of history and cultural reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.56,0:21:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I'm in Zimbabwe as an 'ambassador' if\Nyou will for hip hop, I encounter people that
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.87,0:21:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are Shona, people that are into balée, people\Nthat are of these different cultural realities
Dialogue: 0,0:21:58.72,0:21:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing hip hop.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.96,0:22:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,South Africa is big right now with the resistance\Nmusic.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:03.36,0:22:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y'all we've been colonized, it's not a lie,\Nworking class let's start to organize.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:07.78,0:22:12.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe the masses will arrive, revolution\Nwill rise and decolonize.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:12.54,0:22:15.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is time to mobilize...
Dialogue: 0,0:22:15.79,0:22:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For people all over the continent to have\Ntaken hip hop, not in an exploitative, oppressive
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.44,0:22:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way, but in an empowering way.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:23.57,0:22:29.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Taken Black culture born in the united states,\Ncreated as a result of the separation from
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.81,0:22:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the continent of Africa, taking that back,\Nreinterpreting it and it being a bridge for
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.02,0:22:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black people all over the fucking planet Earth,\Nthat's a powerful thing man!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.92,0:22:45.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anti-establishment feelings that I have, it\Ncould have been harnessed by a million things
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.34,0:22:49.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it was harnessed by good, radical, politics,\Nthrough music.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:49.99,0:22:55.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Music has an opportunity to word things that\Nare hard to say, music has a way of cutting
Dialogue: 0,0:22:55.41,0:23:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through to the heart of something it has the\Npower to give voice to a situation or to paint
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.98,0:23:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a picture about a situation in a way that\Nwriting doesn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.29,0:23:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every time that you're doing a show you have\Nto carry that message regardless if it's two
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.70,0:23:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people, or two hundred people or a thousand\Npeople in the crowd.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.72,0:23:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think smaller shows become more intimate\Nso you have the ability to be able to interact
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.30,0:23:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with people there and also to be able to not\Njust do the show and not just be the entertainment
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.36,0:23:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also to have the conversation with people\Nand talk more about resistance afterwards.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.77,0:23:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to connect with people that are doing\Nreal work and doing radical work and doing
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.92,0:23:38.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revolutionary work and I want to bolster their\Nmovements and I want to use music
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.10,0:23:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be involved in that.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:39.08,0:23:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I love most you know, when I get\Nto play at an actual site of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.64,0:23:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like taking it back to the roots of what\Nthe music was created for.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.50,0:23:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The free shows we do for the youth, the ghetto\Nyouth, are always the most powerful shows
Dialogue: 0,0:23:54.53,0:23:58.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they don't have the constraints that\Nthe commercial shows do.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.79,0:24:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth rests upon the lies, our people\Nbeen traumatized, so donald trump ain't no
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.86,0:24:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different than barrack obama in our eyes.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.38,0:24:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are part of the system that wishes we\Nwas gone and history talks with forked tongues
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.17,0:24:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the misery goes on in this illegally occupied\Nterritory of death.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:17.41,0:24:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A number of shows that I ended up doing outdoors\Nat standing rock had the same kind of energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.22,0:24:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was powerful in what that was coming together\Nand the spirit of resistance and then we've
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.53,0:24:36.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a number of shows with just a bunch of\Nkids on the res, the same kind of energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:36.71,0:24:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We the survivors, we the up-risers, yea we\Nthem savages banging on the colonizers, yea
Dialogue: 0,0:24:43.30,0:24:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we them savages banging on the colonizers\Nwe are finally facing the end of the cycle
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.50,0:24:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an end of the terror fueled by the bible...
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.02,0:24:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,join the struggle, or live in denial.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:08.44,0:25:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a bunch of indigenous communities\Nthat are rapping in their language
Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.40,0:25:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's mural art that's intersecting with\Ngraffiti
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.00,0:25:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the old scriptures\NNow we see a meeting between past cultures
Dialogue: 0,0:25:24.48,0:25:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And newer cultures\NBut what hip-hop allows
Dialogue: 0,0:25:28.46,0:25:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's that you can incorporate into the current\Nreality
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.93,0:25:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something that was being lost
Dialogue: 0,0:25:32.69,0:25:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a difference when I'm on a reservation\Nor when I'm at like an inner-city program,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.95,0:25:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing a show for kids who might also be undocumented\Nyou know, doing a show for young women that
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.77,0:25:50.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have never been on stage but would like to\Nbe or have poems that they wanna write or
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.83,0:25:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.83,0:25:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's so much more of a reciprocal occasion\Nwhen it's folks who share identities.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.32,0:26:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like one of the last things that we have\Nis our ability to speak out.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.88,0:26:05.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if we feel powerlessness, hip hop makes\Nus feel powerful.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.19,0:26:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Island woman rise, walang, makakatigil\NBrown, brown woman, rise, alamin ang yung
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.02,0:26:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ugat\NThey got nothin’ on us
Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.64,0:26:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothin’ on us\NNothin’ on us
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.02,0:26:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothin’ on us
Dialogue: 0,0:26:24.30,0:26:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within revolutionary circles, often times\Nwe can get bogged down in abstract theoretical
Dialogue: 0,0:26:28.96,0:26:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,debates, and lost in what can seem like an\Nendless cycle of protests,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.82,0:26:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actions and organizing campaigns.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:34.62,0:26:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while these engagements are essential\Nand should not be dismissed, it’s also important
Dialogue: 0,0:26:39.00,0:26:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to keep in mind the vital role that culture\Nplays in building effective movements of resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:43.42,0:26:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end of the day, capitalism and the\Nstate are not just material forces, but ideological
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.95,0:26:49.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,systems as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:49.95,0:26:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is something our enemies are well aware\Nof, which is why they devote so much time,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.30,0:26:58.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,energy and resources towards creating propaganda\N– much of it masquerading as entertainment.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:58.61,0:27:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the countless high budget TV shows and\NHollywood movies glorifying police and the
Dialogue: 0,0:27:03.03,0:27:08.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,military, to music promoting frivolous consumerism,\Na look at the dominant forms of cultural production
Dialogue: 0,0:27:08.35,0:27:12.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can tell you a lot about the values being\Npromoted by the powers-that-be.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:12.30,0:27:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But thankfully, we have the ability to fight\Nback, by producing and promoting subversive
Dialogue: 0,0:27:16.99,0:27:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,countercultures that promote our own values\Nof solidarity, mutual aid, direct action,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.77,0:27:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and antagonism to capitalism and the forces\Nof the state.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.24,0:27:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s not squander the opportunity.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.24,0:27:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here we go yo, here we go yo, so what's the,\Nwhat's the, what's the scenario?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.18,0:27:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here we go yo, here we go yo, so what's the,\Nwhat's the, what's the scenario?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:38.67,0:27:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just don't sell the fuck out man, it's simple,\Njust stay true to what the fuck you represent
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.92,0:27:45.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and don't change up
Dialogue: 0,0:27:45.13,0:27:49.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Haters are always going to exist\NBut the need to do it
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.51,0:27:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's what's going to motivate us
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.52,0:28:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be ready to do it against all odds, be ready\Nto do it by yourself, but also be very intentional
Dialogue: 0,0:28:01.04,0:28:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about building community with others.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.52,0:28:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't be afraid to link a network with people\Nthat aren't in your neighbourhood, you gotta
Dialogue: 0,0:28:09.38,0:28:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,connect and you can't just preach to yourself,\Nyou can't just talk to yourself you have to
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.25,0:28:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,connect with people.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.25,0:28:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to make it, yeah you can\Nupload something to soundcloud, but to get
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.70,0:28:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the full experience of the art and for people\Nto hear you, to get exposure, you're gonna
Dialogue: 0,0:28:23.78,0:28:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to go out there and perform, and you're\Ngonna have to go out there and link up with
Dialogue: 0,0:28:26.33,0:28:27.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.33,0:28:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Backpack smacker, testament dropper, Amaru\Nrespecter, been to the hotter, kin to Assata,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.54,0:28:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,studied it all, past to the present, resurrected
Dialogue: 0,0:28:35.88,0:28:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have a duty if you're making radical music,\Nyou need to help build the foundation in your
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.23,0:28:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,community for radical music to come in.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:41.82,0:28:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have to help book the shows, you have\Nto help find the spaces, you have to get the
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.18,0:28:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sound systems, you have to help facilitate\Nthat.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.74,0:28:52.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not just making music and radical music,\Nyou need to help with fostering
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.32,0:28:54.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,radical music community.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:54.73,0:29:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The term is 'many hands make light work',\Nwe can get more done together than we can
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.11,0:29:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by ourselves in certain formats.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:01.96,0:29:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then sometimes, less is more, sometimes\Nyou have to cut dead weight and you have to
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.15,0:29:12.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,step away from people who don't have the same\Npriorities as you and you have to be okay
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.45,0:29:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with doing that.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.60,0:29:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You also have to be very observant of your\Nreality
Dialogue: 0,0:29:16.04,0:29:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop and look at what's going on\NListen and open your ears to hear
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.96,0:29:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's going on around you\NBecuase using words comes with responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.74,0:29:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you are going to use them you have\Nto be honest
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.02,0:29:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as to who you are and where you are coming\Nfrom
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.87,0:29:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it adds value to your community
Dialogue: 0,0:29:38.58,0:29:42.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nobody's gonna do this for you you know, look\Nat the D.I.Y ethic of punk music, it needs
Dialogue: 0,0:29:42.90,0:29:48.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be applied to hip hop more, and we need\Nto do for ourselves, and we need to build
Dialogue: 0,0:29:48.39,0:29:53.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up our own spaces, our own community, our\Nown networks and we need to share that amongst
Dialogue: 0,0:29:53.55,0:29:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each other and everybody can rise together.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.64,0:30:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The goal of my making music isn't to explain\Nmyself to someone who
Dialogue: 0,0:30:03.78,0:30:05.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't understand my background.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:05.79,0:30:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The goal is to connect with the folks who\Nshare that same path and who find strength
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.76,0:30:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and healing in hearing their story being told,\Nwho may otherwise feel very much alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.94,0:30:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's cold because I can probably only speak\Nto indigenous MCs based on an indigenous message
Dialogue: 0,0:30:25.69,0:30:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because for me I understand that talking about\Nresistance, talking about decolonization,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.64,0:30:37.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talking about revolution, whatever it may\Nbe, the average person does not like to hear
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.42,0:30:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the indigenous perspective, the true indigenous\Nperspective of resistance because it challenges
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.73,0:30:44.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even their existence.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:45.56,0:30:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't be afraid, don't cut yourself off, and\Ndon't listen to people who say
Dialogue: 0,0:30:49.62,0:30:53.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“this hasn't been done so you can't do it” or \N“it's weird and it's different”.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:53.39,0:30:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of our best artists were doing something\Nthat nobody else was doing before and it's
Dialogue: 0,0:30:57.88,0:31:02.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,okay, it's alright to not rap in the same\Ncadence that everyone else is rhyming in,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.57,0:31:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's okay to mix your music with other genres,\Nit's okay to be different and to not sound
Dialogue: 0,0:31:08.16,0:31:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like everyone else.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.48,0:31:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes people aren't going to want to fuck\Nwith you you know, but stick with it because
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.32,0:31:18.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eventually what happens is, after years and\Nyears, you get better about what you're doing,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:18.67,0:31:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you get clearer about what you're doing, you\Nlearn from your mistakes, and when that is
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.49,0:31:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,combined with a sustained sense of joy in\Nrelation to why and how you work, you're unstoppable.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.29,0:31:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're going to try and build a radical\Ncurrent towards indigenous resistance, you
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.61,0:31:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can't waiver, you can't switch up based on\Nthe fact that you're not getting support.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.55,0:31:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're not going to get support.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.83,0:31:54.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's going to be so much stacked up against\Nyou, you have to be uncompromising because
Dialogue: 0,0:31:54.91,0:32:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything that you represent is problematic\Nto the average person, even those people that
Dialogue: 0,0:32:00.06,0:32:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suggest they support indigenous resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:04.78,0:32:07.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stop inviting women to just the \N'all-women events'.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:07.31,0:32:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't be embarrased when we grab the microphone\Nand rock it in your circle full of guys.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:11.76,0:32:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people start to look at diversity in\Nthat way of inviting people to the table so
Dialogue: 0,0:32:15.29,0:32:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we all can break bread and do this thing\Nthat we call our culture, it'll change.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.40,0:32:25.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if they don't open the door, break the\Nfucking door down, kick it open, fuck asking.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.08,0:32:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These record labels slang our tapes like dope\NYou can be next in line and signed and still
Dialogue: 0,0:32:29.40,0:32:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be writing rhymes and broke\NYou would rather have a Lexus or justice,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:32.40,0:32:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a dream or some substance?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:34.22,0:32:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Beamer, a necklace, or freedom?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:36.28,0:32:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still a nigga like me don't playa-hate,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.74,0:32:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just stay awake,\Nthis real hip-hop and it don't stop
Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.08,0:32:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Til we get the po-po off the block, they\Ncall it
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.74,0:32:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hip hop, hip hop, hip hop, hip\NIt's bigger than hip hop, hip hop, hip hop
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.30,0:32:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we continue to resist the resurgence of\Nfar-right reaction, further entrenched inequality,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:59.07,0:33:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gentrification and an increasingly repressive\Nstate apparatus, it is very important that
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.50,0:33:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anarchists build and strengthen connections\Nwith those outside our immediate circles.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.55,0:33:12.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of this requires that we actively spread\Nour politics through popular subcultures like
Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.17,0:33:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hip hop, that resonate with millions of people\Nwho share our hatred of police and capitalist
Dialogue: 0,0:33:15.96,0:33:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,society, but won’t necessarily be inclined\Nto come out to all our meetings, rallies or
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.98,0:33:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reading circles.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:21.33,0:33:25.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the other part involves listening and\Nlearning from established histories of resistance
Dialogue: 0,0:33:25.26,0:33:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and struggle, in order to better understand\Nand identify points of affinity and possible
Dialogue: 0,0:33:29.76,0:33:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collaboration.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.76,0:33:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thankfully, there are lots of amazing individuals\Nalready doing this important work...
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.58,0:33:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we need more of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:36.20,0:33:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So at this point, we’d like to remind you\Nthat Trouble is intended to be watched in
Dialogue: 0,0:33:39.50,0:33:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,groups, and to be used as a resource to promote\Ndiscussion and collective organizing.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:43.44,0:33:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you a hip hop head interested in helping\Nto contribute to your local radical scene?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.70,0:33:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or looking to build one in a town where it\Ndoesn’t exist?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:51.12,0:33:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consider getting together with some comrades,\Norganizing a screening of this film, and discussing
Dialogue: 0,0:33:55.02,0:33:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where to get started.
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Dialogue: 0,0:34:11.20,0:34:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get a discussion going.
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Dialogue: 0,0:34:27.71,0:34:30.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to hear some tracks from the artists\Nfeatured on this episode, check out the latest
Dialogue: 0,0:34:30.62,0:34:36.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Burning Cop Car, our radical hip hop podcast,\Nat sub.Media/bcc.
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Dialogue: 0,0:34:38.09,0:34:41.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crowd-funded project, we’ll be starting\Nour annual fundraiser drive soon, to make
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Dialogue: 0,0:34:44.34,0:34:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This episode would not have been possible\Nwithout the generous support of Todd, Marius
Dialogue: 0,0:34:49.16,0:34:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and AvispaMidia.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.16,0:34:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stay tuned next month for Trouble # 16, as\Nwe take a closer look at the trial of the
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.03,0:34:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so-called J20 defendants, who were mass arrested\Nin the streets of DC, at the historic protests
Dialogue: 0,0:34:57.92,0:35:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against the presidential inauguration of US\NWar Criminal in Chief, Donald J Trump.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:02.72,0:35:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one wanted to just show up and just show\Nout, like there was a definite message about
Dialogue: 0,0:35:07.66,0:35:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disrupting the inauguration.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:10.18,0:35:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now get out there…. and make some trouble!