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Mengingat posisi yang relatif dominan, hip hop menempati puncak pusing

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Ketinggian kompleks hiburan-industri-global, mudah untuk melupakan kerendahan hatinya

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awal dan perannya yang abadi sebagai sumber politik revolusioner.

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Saya mendapat surat dari pemerintah tempo hari

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Saya membuka dan membacanya. Dikatakan mereka pengisap

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Saya tahu ini sebenarnya, Anda tidak suka bagaimana saya bertindak. Anda mengklaim saya sellin 'retak

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Tapi kau lakukan itu, aku lebih suka mengatakan "melihatmu" Karena aku tidak akan pernah menjadi ya

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Menjadi seorang perwira? Anda pengawas yang jahat!

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Panggil aku Little Bobby Hutton, karena aku yang pertama menekan tombolnya

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Rapper tidak mengatakan apa-apa ke sistem, kami mengatakan persetan

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Itu sebabnya kami mengatakan "fuck" Itu sebabnya kami membuat hip-hop

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We don't care about your badge, baton or Glock Your mind's in shock fucking cop stop

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Remember that time passes and never stops in the clock

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Though it didn’t really break out until the late 70s and early 80s, hip hop’s genesis

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story began in the summer of 1973, in the South Bronx.

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At the time, New York City’s northernmost borough was by all appearances a war zone.

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Decades of neglect, ill-thought out public infrastructure projects, white flight,

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racist redlining policies and urban decay had reduced entire city blocks to rubble.

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Rampant poverty and unemployment had created a vacuum that was filled by street gangs,

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with hundreds of small crews constantly battling over territory, and literally setting large

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sections of the city on fire.

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Out of this simmering cauldron of social and economic tension, hip hop emerged as a vibrant

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DIY subculture, spread through house parties thrown by working-class Black and Puerto Rican

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youth who were alienated and excluded from New York’s decadent disco scene.

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A catalyzing moment of the emerging hip hop scene was the formation of the

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Universal Zulu Nation, on November 12th, 1973.

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...cars continue to change, nothing stays the same, there were always renegades

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Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Payne

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Like Martin Luther King, Malcom X.

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They were renegades of the atomic age

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Founded by members of a gang called the Black Spades, the Zulu Nation built hip hop into

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a tool for community organizing – bringing members of different gangs together, settling

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street-level beefs and introducing codes of conduct, all while imbuing the scene with

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formative political values of street-based community solidarity

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and pan-Afrikan consciousness.

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The Zulu Nation is credited with constructing the foundation of hip hop culture, forged

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around five core elements:

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Mcs, Djs, Graffiti, B-boys & B-girls,

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and the fifth element: street knowledge.

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But then I got wise and I begin to listen

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To the whack teachers and the wick-wack system

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My mother put me in Weusi Shule

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Which means black school in Swahili

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And there is where I learned black history And how to be the best that I can be

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We don't talk to police, we don't make a peacebond

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We don't trust in the judicial system, we shoot guns

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We rely on the streets we do battle in the hood

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I was born in the G Code, embedded in my blood

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In the decades that have followed, hip hop has been transformed into a global phenomenon,

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and a multi-billion dollar industry in its own right.

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But the five foundational elements have survived and adapted over the years, providing a sustained

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authenticity that has allowed radical artists to continue to innovate, carve out space,

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and even fight back against the industry’s overall creep towards commercialization.

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Over the next thirty minutes, we will explore hip hop as a potent and persistent source

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of revolutionary culture rooted in the oppression, exploitation and criminalization faced by

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youth and particularly poor youth of colour.

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Along the way we’ll speak with a number of grassroots artists who are continuing to

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spit truth to power, all while organizing their communities, tearing up stages and making

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a whole lot of trouble.

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Hip hop stands for “His or Her Infinite Power Helping Oppressed People”.

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That comes from the temple of hip hop.

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Okay so that's from you know OGs like KRS-One and other people getting together and figuring

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how to effectively uplift the more positive elements of the culture that are based in

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community liberation and empowerment.

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Hip hop to me is a way to be able to spread a message of resistance to a large audience.

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Hip hop to me is a way to share my story before anybody else has a chance to twist up my words

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or to twist up my experiences.

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It is resistance and creativity, that's what hip hop is to me.

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Hip hop initially rose up speaking to injustices, eventually it rose into stories speaking to

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the issues of the oppressed.

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The early days was very humble, there wasn't a lot of money there wasn't a big budget.

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It was kind of put together by people with whatever they had.

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People had come up with this medium of going through the rubble and putting graffiti up

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dan break-dance, MC, DJ, dan Anda tahu itu cara perlawanan.

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Pemuda yang sama yang melemparkan batu bata dan batu dan mendorong kembali polisi, mereka punya

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sesuatu untuk dikatakan.

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Bagi saya, hip-hop adalah alat untuk transformasi budaya yang memiliki beberapa prinsip kehidupan

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Dan beberapa di antaranya adalah persatuan, cinta, dan hormat. Tetapi secara khusus, bersenang-senang, untuk memenuhi kebutuhan

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untuk mempertahankan kebahagiaan Ada kutipan dari DJ Grandmaster Caz

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Dikatakan bahwa hip-hop tidak menciptakan apa-apa Hip-hop menciptakan kembali segalanya

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Kami mengintip alegori di api unggun mendengarkan ketika para tetua berbagi cerita tentang

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korban vampir.

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Bagaimana saya tidak melakukan kesalahan yang sama? Kebijaksanaan.

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Hasilkan penglihatan, lenyapkan penjara.

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Yang saya inginkan adalah kebebasan, tetapi saya tidak mampu membelinya,

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bayi saya punya semangat, hanya cemerlang dan cantik.

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Oh ya, dukungan pembelaan diri, selalu diam ketika dia akan memuatnya.

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Pegang, esa morra untuk memuatnya.

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Oh sial, dan seluruh barrio mendukungnya.

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Terlihat seluruh orang ingin teman.

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Terlihat seluruh orang ingin Benz.

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Terlihat orang lotta keseluruhan tidak bisa mendapatkan apa yang mereka inginkan sehingga orang lotta pop muncul secara keseluruhan.

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Mereka mengatakan itu berarti jangan membenarkan tujuannya.

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Apakah tujuannya pernah membenarkan cara?

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Dan apakah kita akan mengakhiri semua kesulitan ini jika kita menjadi kaya saja

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fanatik dalam guillotine?

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Karena saya tidak bisa melihat anak-anak ini mati dan kemudian berbaring seperti saya memberikan sesuatu dan tidak melakukan apa-apa

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tetapi berbaring seperti aku sudah menyerah.

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Jadi, dapatkan senjata jika Anda siap, kami memegang parang untuk siapa saja yang terlibat

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masalah lupa.

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Berpikir untuk diri sendiri adalah sebuah kemewahan yang mahal Bagi mereka, tidak nyaman jika Anda pergi

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the herd They win more if they keep us ignorant

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Keep the people poor, more power for the state

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Fuck the parliament, fuck the cops and fuck the robber baron bosses and fuck their offices,

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predominant model of economics and elephant cock in their ballot boxes.

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It came from the Bronx in the 70s in New York City and now it's world wide.

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Hip hop is like folk music, it's very much a historical record.

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These are stories that are telling of the American empire you know, looking from within.

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And I think that's why it's so compelling and that's why it resonated people may not

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know it but I think the reason that hip hop spread is because they're stories that everyone

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needs to hear and is interested in hearing.

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Hip-hop is a universal culture That starts from a context of marginalization

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poverty and criminalization That's a very specific context from 1970's

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New York City That starts from a context of marginalization

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poverty and criminalization That's a very specific context from 1970's

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New York City But that's similar to other problems in other

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places Like exploitation, lack of housing, the lack

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of opportunities

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It came from people who had been displaced historically from the continent of Africa

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to North America, to Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

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It also came from ethnicities that had been mixed in the process of the colonial subjugation

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and conquest of the so called new world.

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That was significant in drawing me in because we learned that we had a shared story.

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We had a story not only of oppression but of resistance.

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We can measure history in terms of what we know about our experience here in the United

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States as descendants of people who were stolen from the continent of Africa.

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But we also have to be able to measure our existence and our influence on what happened

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before that, what's currently happening in the African diaspora and on the African continent

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and struggles for liberation and self determination.

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The driving force is just the songs of my ancestors the songs that they sung to be able

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to speak to resistance to speak to fighting, to speak towards challenging and removing

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any and all people that wish to destroy our people.

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Some of the major influences that I've had musically have been folks who share their

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narratives in a really honest way in a really vulnerable way especially when they go to

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represent their anger and their rage with the way that these systems of oppression are

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set up around us.

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I recognize first and foremost that I am a guest in the house of hip hop.

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I don't take someone else's experience and try to whiteify it.

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I see things through the lens of white people and so I feel like it's my job to criticize

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white culture in the way that a white dude can.

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So I use my music to confront the shittiest parts about white culture: imperialism and

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colonialism and capitalism and authoritarianism.

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Although it has since spread all around the globe, hip hop first emerged from, and has

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always remained rooted in the lived experiences of Black and LatinX youth hustling to survive

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in America’s inner-city ghettos.

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And the so-called “Golden Age” of hip hop, spanning the late 80s to the mid 90s,

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were specially turbulent times.

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The flooding of poor, racialized neighbourhoods with crack in the mid-80s provided the spark

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for a rapid surge in street violence, waged between increasingly well-funded and heavily

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militarized gangs.

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This, in turn, provided the justification for the ramping up of Ronald Reagan’s

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War on Drugs, a policy framework for the wholesale criminalization of Black and brown communities

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that opened the door to enhanced police repression and mass incarceration, twin pillars of US

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domestic counter insurgency strategy that continue to this day.

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In 1986 a group formed in South Central, LA, that fed off this raw sense of desperation

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and rage, forever changing the face of hip hop in the process.

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That group was NWA, the first successful pioneers of a new subgenre of hip hop: gangsta rap.

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These days, it’s hard to appreciate the shock and terror that NWA provoked in America’s

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white supremacist power structure, and specially its front-line troops, the cops.

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Rap music promotes by its very language and by its very actions, promotes violence against

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authority and consequently violence against law enforcement.

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Songs like ‘Fuck Tha Police’ became rallying cries for a generation of Black and Brown

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youth whose rage would soon find popular expression in the LA Riots of ‘92.

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Fuck the police comin' straight from the underground.

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A young nigga got it bad cause I'm brown.

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And not the other color, so police think, they have the authority to kill a minority.

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But while NWA provided a megaphone to Black youth’s widespread hatred towards the police,

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they also injected mainstream hip hop with a violent strain of misogyny and homophobia

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that continues to fester to this day.

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They also provided the emerging hip hop industry, largely controlled by the white capitalist

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power structure that they were rebelling against, an opportunity to make millions of dollars

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selling records that glorify Black and Brown youth killing one another over nothing.

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A lot of the brothers that were my same age man, they were involved in the type of shit

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where they were killing each other.

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You know, they were killing cats that they grew up with, that they went to church with,

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that they went to school with, that they played ball with, trying to be part of the whole

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gang set culture you know what I mean?

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Or they were trying to get their money selling that dope and like that's cool, whatever...

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But really?

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I was living during the crack era and so the criminalization that began this whole mass

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incarceration that we have now, this new Jim Crow, it was heavily going on during that

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crack era all the way through the 90s.

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And so of course the theme in the music was about either fighting against this new drug

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that was dropped on to our community or else using it as a means to get out of the community.

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And so it's always been a part of the music from the very early days.

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Let's use the phrase "The Personal is Political" as a starting point

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Because even if we think our actions are personal They are going to affect our family and our

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close friends Because even if we think our actions are personal

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They are going to affect our family and our close friends

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And in the community and the society that we are part of

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There's a difference between telling your story and glorifying some of the things that

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you have to do to get by.

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So I appreciate you know, when artists can yeah maybe talk about the gang-banging past,

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talk about the past where you had to sell some shit, you had to do some shit that you're

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glad you don't have to do anymore.

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Government plans, fencin' us in, life in the pen'

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For sellin' shit you put in our hood, knowin' I'll do it

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We desperate, starvin' and dyin' to eat, die in the street

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For a fraction of what I get now for a soundin' fly on the beat

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I feel the weight of not glorifying some of the things I've done in my past because I

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see it happening with other artist with their songs.

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Cold gang with the cocaine.

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The more money make more rain.

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Pourin' up a pint while I'm baggin' propane.

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Point blank range give a nigga nose rings.

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Skip to my lou with a pack in the cat.

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Jiffy, Lube where the bricks where they at?

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In hip hop they might call it, bitches, hos, guns, money, sex, murder and all that but

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if you look at the army, navy, airforce, marines, and the US government, that's all it is.

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It's a reflection of the culture that we live in.

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It's the values that we've inherited as part of the conditions of survival in this country,

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to prioritize the things that are going to get us pussy, get us respect and get us paid

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and get another motha fucker to recognize us you know, and that is some bullshit.

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It's been really motivational to me when artists cast aside all of the parameters of respectability

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politics and are willing to speak their truths without coddling the feelings of

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those who are oppressing us.

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That's the job of my music, to challenge everything that has been imposed upon us to say no and

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go drastic with it.

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Again like, I don't follow the format, the status quo of hip hop.

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I'm also still unlearning a lot because it wasn't like I grew up in a Native community,

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I grew up in a city, because of the fact that people that came generations before me were

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removed from their homelands and placed into cities.

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What you won't find me doing in my music, lyrically, you won't find me killing niggas,

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you won't find me on some exploitative, downgrading shit about women, you won't find me talking

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about killing faggots and faggot this and faggot that.

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There's lots of people saying fucked up shit in the world of hip hop,

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to me I can't have that.

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You know I'm not going to throw a show where I book those guys or I can't do collabos with

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them, I can't work with them, I'm not going to taint the work that I'm doing with this

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hate right?

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I try to promote the kind of hip hop that I like to see, I work with people that are

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doing the kind of hip hop that I like to see.

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No matter what the content there's a political context from where it

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comes from Becuase there's a need to reclaim our history

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And even though it may not seem like "real" activism

0:16:42.160,0:16:45.740
There is an intention to survive a reality of violence

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I feel like it's extremely important that you are responsible and disciplined and mature

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enough to not abuse that platform.

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To be predatorial, to escape any accountability for patriarchal tendencies.

0:17:00.170,0:17:05.839
I learned early that I had to be three times better than the guys to even remotely get

0:17:05.839,0:17:11.329
even recognized and it made me already come out swinging and I never stopped swinging

0:17:11.329,0:17:15.809
because I already recognized that I had a disadvantage or I was already seeing patriarchy

0:17:15.809,0:17:18.489
and sexism.

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Whenever I do a show and I'm the only woman on the lineup, we have to call it out, we

0:17:23.509,0:17:28.720
have to address the fact that I'm not the only woman there because I'm the only woman

0:17:28.720,0:17:33.129
with something worth saying with something worth listening to, I'm the only woman there

0:17:33.129,0:17:38.430
because we don't listen enough to the women around us and we don't give up the mic, men

0:17:38.430,0:17:40.620
don't give up the mic enough.

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I put my face in a book ‘cause my people are profiled

0:17:43.052,0:17:45.300
erased from the books and my people are told lies

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Sky’s the limit? Go fly! Cali green? We go high

0:17:48.140,0:17:49.900
I mean back in ‘05, already knew I'd grow wise

0:17:58.200,0:18:03.380
Queen and Master of the chaos I inhabit Sometimes a tyrant, sometimes outlaw

0:18:03.380,0:18:08.800
The best battle, is with myself I'm self government, my flag is anarchist

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When I wake up, no makeup, half naked, I feel like I’m the shit

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Pardon my language, but hang ups do not define the kid

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No, I’m not flawless, I’m scarred up and I’m fine with it

0:18:17.600,0:18:21.000
My body art a laundry list of all of life’s unkindnesses

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A lot has changed in the 45 years since hip hop’s founding.

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For one thing, many of the iconic inner-city neighbourhoods where hip hop first flourished

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have been redeveloped, their former communities scattered to the winds of gentrification.

0:18:36.769,0:18:41.029
Far from the dilapidated pressure cookers of revolt and subversive urban decay that

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they were in the 70s, these neighbourhoods have become homogeneous sites of high-rise

0:18:45.029,0:18:48.859
condos, hipster indie venues and Starbucks franchises.

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Which is not to say that this process is a done deal... and even less so that the social

0:18:52.720,0:18:55.399
contradictions that birthed hip hop have disappeared.

0:18:55.399,0:18:59.690
The South Bronx is still a largely working-class area plagued by racist police violence, and

0:18:59.690,0:19:03.720
there is tons of vibrant hip hop coming out of America’s traditional urban centers,

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from Baltimore to Oakland.

0:19:05.600,0:19:06.100
Bam!

0:19:06.100,0:19:11.920
The target of poverty by the white devil Because I wasn't testing at my reading level

0:19:11.920,0:19:15.739
I was testing any of these busters Yo, where you from? Pare?!

0:19:15.739,0:19:18.600
Lola’s like, “Bakit ka nag tatambay dun sa calle parate?!”

0:19:18.600,0:19:23.710
But as urban demographics have shifted, so too has hip hop’s centre of gravity.

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In the United States, this shift has been most notable with the rise of Southern Rap,

0:19:27.700,0:19:32.220
beginning in the early 2000’s, and the emergence of Atlanta as a new hip hop epicentre.

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Similarly, as it has spread to countries all around the world, hip hop has been transformed

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and enriched by countless local culture and traditions, each of which has added their

0:19:41.729,0:19:46.929
own mark, while generally honouring the spirit of youthful defiance and resistance to authority

0:19:46.929,0:19:50.300
that’s been so key to hip hop’s global appeal.

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Hip hop culture is an expression of oppressed people's reality.

0:20:11.990,0:20:16.570
Hip hop is so global now that literally every neighbourhood, every community is representing.

0:20:16.570,0:20:20.700
I see people doing hip hop in Palestine.

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Native artists are just really standing up globally and representing and telling a story

0:20:31.980,0:20:36.119
that really needs to be heard and it reminds me of the early days of hip hop.

0:20:36.119,0:20:39.010
It's not like packaged and pretty and fake.

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Just raw truth and raw facts so big ups to all my native comrades out there holdin' it

0:20:44.669,0:20:45.779
down with hip hop.

0:20:45.779,0:20:50.330
We never even knew what it was like to be poor until money was shown to us in the first

0:20:50.330,0:20:53.809
place, we didn't know what poverty was and so we're always trying to catch up to something

0:20:53.809,0:20:59.110
that really we don't belong to, that in fact, our culture is at odds with, our traditions

0:20:59.110,0:21:00.639
are at odds with.

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Let's remember that a lot of art is elitist That it sometimes comes and it's valued in

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certain places But hip-hop allows that from from the streets

0:21:14.269,0:21:18.070
from the ghettoes, from marginality These voices can be created

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I feel like music is, specially important in sharing political ideals with youth, taking

0:21:26.970,0:21:31.080
care of our people, to maintaining our identities.

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So it's absolutely like, foundational.

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What is black?

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Black is a response to white supremacist categorization of human beings.

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Something that doesn't even begin to encompass the vastness of history and cultural reality.

0:21:47.559,0:21:53.869
When I'm in Zimbabwe as an 'ambassador' if you will for hip hop, I encounter people that

0:21:53.869,0:21:58.720
are Shona, people that are into balée, people that are of these different cultural realities

0:21:58.720,0:21:59.960
doing hip hop.

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South Africa is big right now with the resistance music.

0:22:03.360,0:22:07.780
Y'all we've been colonized, it's not a lie, working class let's start to organize.

0:22:07.780,0:22:12.539
I believe the masses will arrive, revolution will rise and decolonize.

0:22:12.539,0:22:15.789
It is time to mobilize...

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For people all over the continent to have taken hip hop, not in an exploitative, oppressive

0:22:21.440,0:22:23.570
way, but in an empowering way.

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Taken Black culture born in the united states, created as a result of the separation from

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the continent of Africa, taking that back, reinterpreting it and it being a bridge for

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Black people all over the fucking planet Earth, that's a powerful thing man!

0:22:41.920,0:22:45.340
Anti-establishment feelings that I have, it could have been harnessed by a million things

0:22:45.340,0:22:49.989
but it was harnessed by good, radical, politics, through music.

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Music has an opportunity to word things that are hard to say, music has a way of cutting

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through to the heart of something it has the power to give voice to a situation or to paint

0:23:02.979,0:23:07.289
gambar tentang situasi dengan cara yang tidak ditulis.

0:23:07.289,0:23:11.700
Setiap kali Anda melakukan pertunjukan, Anda harus membawa pesan itu, apa pun itu

0:23:11.700,0:23:15.600
orang, atau dua ratus orang atau seribu orang di kerumunan.

0:23:15.720,0:23:20.299
Saya pikir acara yang lebih kecil menjadi lebih intim sehingga Anda memiliki kemampuan untuk dapat berinteraksi

0:23:20.299,0:23:25.359
dengan orang-orang di sana dan juga untuk tidak hanya dapat melakukan pertunjukan dan tidak hanya menjadi hiburan

0:23:25.359,0:23:29.769
tetapi juga untuk melakukan percakapan dengan orang-orang dan berbicara lebih banyak tentang perlawanan sesudahnya.

0:23:29.769,0:23:33.920
Saya ingin terhubung dengan orang-orang yang melakukan pekerjaan nyata dan melakukan pekerjaan radikal dan melakukan

0:23:33.920,0:23:38.100
pekerjaan revolusioner dan saya ingin mendukung gerakan mereka dan saya ingin menggunakan musik

0:23:38.100,0:23:39.080
untuk terlibat dalam hal itu.

0:23:39.080,0:23:44.639
Itulah yang paling saya sukai, Anda tahu, ketika saya bisa bermain di situs perlawanan yang sebenarnya.

0:23:44.639,0:23:49.499
Ini seperti membawanya kembali ke akar untuk apa musik itu diciptakan.

0:23:49.499,0:23:54.529
Pertunjukan gratis yang kami lakukan untuk para pemuda, para pemuda ghetto, selalu merupakan pertunjukan yang paling kuat

0:23:54.529,0:23:58.789
karena mereka tidak memiliki kendala yang dilakukan oleh pertunjukan komersial.

0:23:58.789,0:24:04.680
Kebenaran terletak pada kebohongan, orang-orang kami trauma, jadi donald truf bukan

0:24:04.860,0:24:07.380
berbeda dari obama barak di mata kita.

0:24:07.380,0:24:13.160
Mereka adalah bagian dari sistem yang berharap kita pergi dan pembicaraan sejarah dengan lidah bercabang dua

0:24:13.169,0:24:17.409
jadi kesengsaraan terus berlanjut di wilayah kematian yang diduduki secara ilegal ini.

0:24:17.409,0:24:24.220
Sejumlah pertunjukan yang akhirnya saya lakukan di luar ruangan di batu berdiri memiliki energi yang sama.

0:24:24.220,0:24:31.529
Itu sangat kuat dalam apa yang datang bersama dan semangat perlawanan dan kemudian kita

0:24:31.529,0:24:36.710
memiliki sejumlah acara dengan hanya sekelompok anak-anak di res, jenis energi yang sama.

0:24:36.710,0:24:43.300
Kami yang selamat, kami yang naik, ya kami mereka biadab menggedor penjajah, ya

0:24:43.300,0:24:49.500
we them savages banging on the colonizers we are finally facing the end of the cycle

0:24:49.500,0:24:51.720
an end of the terror fueled by the bible...

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join the struggle, or live in denial.

0:25:08.440,0:25:13.400
There's a bunch of indigenous communities that are rapping in their language

0:25:13.400,0:25:16.000
There's mural art that's intersecting with graffiti

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and the old scriptures Now we see a meeting between past cultures

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And newer cultures But what hip-hop allows

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It's that you can incorporate into the current reality

0:25:30.929,0:25:32.690
Something that was being lost

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There's a difference when I'm on a reservation or when I'm at like an inner-city program,

0:25:38.950,0:25:45.769
doing a show for kids who might also be undocumented you know, doing a show for young women that

0:25:45.769,0:25:50.830
have never been on stage but would like to be or have poems that they wanna write or

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whatever.

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It's so much more of a reciprocal occasion when it's folks who share identities.

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It's like one of the last things that we have is our ability to speak out.

0:26:00.880,0:26:05.190
Even if we feel powerlessness, hip hop makes us feel powerful.

0:26:05.190,0:26:11.019
Island woman rise, walang, makakatigil Brown, brown woman, rise, alamin ang yung

0:26:11.019,0:26:13.520
ugat They got nothin’ on us

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Nothin’ on us Nothin’ on us

0:26:17.020,0:26:18.800
Nothin’ on us

0:26:24.300,0:26:28.960
Within revolutionary circles, often times we can get bogged down in abstract theoretical

0:26:28.960,0:26:32.820
debates, and lost in what can seem like an endless cycle of protests,

0:26:32.820,0:26:34.619
actions and organizing campaigns.

0:26:34.620,0:26:38.920
And while these engagements are essential and should not be dismissed, it’s also important

0:26:39.000,0:26:43.420
to keep in mind the vital role that culture plays in building effective movements of resistance.

0:26:43.420,0:26:48.940
At the end of the day, capitalism and the state are not just material forces, but ideological

0:26:48.950,0:26:49.950
systems as well.

0:26:49.950,0:26:54.299
This is something our enemies are well aware of, which is why they devote so much time,

0:26:54.299,0:26:58.609
energy and resources towards creating propaganda – much of it masquerading as entertainment.

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From the countless high budget TV shows and Hollywood movies glorifying police and the

0:27:03.029,0:27:08.349
military, to music promoting frivolous consumerism, a look at the dominant forms of cultural production

0:27:08.349,0:27:12.300
can tell you a lot about the values being promoted by the powers-that-be.

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But thankfully, we have the ability to fight back, by producing and promoting subversive

0:27:16.990,0:27:21.769
countercultures that promote our own values of solidarity, mutual aid, direct action,

0:27:21.769,0:27:25.239
and antagonism to capitalism and the forces of the state.

0:27:25.240,0:27:28.240
Let’s not squander the opportunity.

0:27:28.240,0:27:32.859
Here we go yo, here we go yo, so what's the, what's the, what's the scenario?

0:27:33.180,0:27:38.660
Here we go yo, here we go yo, so what's the, what's the, what's the scenario?

0:27:38.669,0:27:43.919
Just don't sell the fuck out man, it's simple, just stay true to what the fuck you represent

0:27:43.919,0:27:45.129
and don't change up

0:27:45.129,0:27:49.509
Haters are always going to exist But the need to do it

0:27:49.509,0:27:53.520
It's what's going to motivate us

0:27:53.520,0:28:01.040
Be ready to do it against all odds, be ready to do it by yourself, but also be very intentional

0:28:01.040,0:28:03.840
about building community with others.

0:28:04.520,0:28:09.379
Don't be afraid to link a network with people that aren't in your neighbourhood, you gotta

0:28:09.379,0:28:14.249
connect and you can't just preach to yourself, you can't just talk to yourself you have to

0:28:14.249,0:28:15.249
connect with people.

0:28:15.249,0:28:19.700
If you want to make it, yeah you can upload something to soundcloud, but to get

0:28:19.700,0:28:23.779
the full experience of the art and for people to hear you, to get exposure, you're gonna

0:28:23.779,0:28:26.330
have to go out there and perform, and you're gonna have to go out there and link up with

0:28:26.330,0:28:27.330
other people.

0:28:27.330,0:28:32.540
Backpack smacker, testament dropper, Amaru respecter, been to the hotter, kin to Assata,

0:28:32.540,0:28:35.880
studied it all, past to the present, resurrected

0:28:35.880,0:28:40.220
You have a duty if you're making radical music, you need to help build the foundation in your

0:28:40.229,0:28:41.820
community for radical music to come in.

0:28:41.820,0:28:46.179
So you have to help book the shows, you have to help find the spaces, you have to get the

0:28:46.179,0:28:47.739
sound systems, you have to help facilitate that.

0:28:47.740,0:28:52.320
You're not just making music and radical music, you need to help with fostering

0:28:52.320,0:28:54.720
radical music community.

0:28:54.730,0:29:00.109
The term is 'many hands make light work', we can get more done together than we can

0:29:00.109,0:29:01.960
by ourselves in certain formats.

0:29:01.960,0:29:07.149
And then sometimes, less is more, sometimes you have to cut dead weight and you have to

0:29:07.149,0:29:12.450
step away from people who don't have the same priorities as you and you have to be okay

0:29:12.450,0:29:13.600
with doing that.

0:29:13.600,0:29:16.039
You also have to be very observant of your reality

0:29:16.039,0:29:20.960
Stop and look at what's going on Listen and open your ears to hear

0:29:20.960,0:29:24.739
what's going on around you Becuase using words comes with responsibility

0:29:24.739,0:29:29.019
And if you are going to use them you have to be honest

0:29:29.019,0:29:32.869
as to who you are and where you are coming from

0:29:32.869,0:29:37.640
And it adds value to your community

0:29:38.580,0:29:42.899
nobody's gonna do this for you you know, look at the D.I.Y ethic of punk music, it needs

0:29:42.899,0:29:48.389
to be applied to hip hop more, and we need to do for ourselves, and we need to build

0:29:48.389,0:29:53.549
up our own spaces, our own community, our own networks and we need to share that amongst

0:29:53.549,0:29:58.240
each other and everybody can rise together.

0:29:58.640,0:30:03.780
The goal of my making music isn't to explain myself to someone who

0:30:03.780,0:30:05.780
doesn't understand my background.

0:30:05.789,0:30:11.759
The goal is to connect with the folks who share that same path and who find strength

0:30:11.760,0:30:19.470
and healing in hearing their story being told, who may otherwise feel very much alone.

0:30:20.940,0:30:25.680
It's cold because I can probably only speak to indigenous MCs based on an indigenous message

0:30:25.690,0:30:30.639
because for me I understand that talking about resistance, talking about decolonization,

0:30:30.639,0:30:37.419
talking about revolution, whatever it may be, the average person does not like to hear

0:30:37.419,0:30:42.730
the indigenous perspective, the true indigenous perspective of resistance because it challenges

0:30:42.730,0:30:44.300
even their existence.

0:30:45.560,0:30:49.620
Don't be afraid, don't cut yourself off, and don't listen to people who say

0:30:49.620,0:30:53.389
“this hasn't been done so you can't do it” or “it's weird and it's different”.

0:30:53.389,0:30:57.880
Some of our best artists were doing something that nobody else was doing before and it's

0:30:57.880,0:31:02.570
okay, it's alright to not rap in the same cadence that everyone else is rhyming in,

0:31:02.570,0:31:08.159
it's okay to mix your music with other genres, it's okay to be different and to not sound

0:31:08.159,0:31:09.479
like everyone else.

0:31:09.479,0:31:13.320
Sometimes people aren't going to want to fuck with you you know, but stick with it because

0:31:13.320,0:31:18.669
eventually what happens is, after years and years, you get better about what you're doing,

0:31:18.669,0:31:25.489
you get clearer about what you're doing, you learn from your mistakes, and when that is

0:31:25.489,0:31:34.740
combined with a sustained sense of joy in relation to why and how you work, you're unstoppable.

0:31:35.289,0:31:41.600
If you're going to try and build a radical current towards indigenous resistance, you

0:31:41.609,0:31:46.549
can't waiver, you can't switch up based on the fact that you're not getting support.

0:31:46.549,0:31:48.830
You're not going to get support.

0:31:48.830,0:31:54.909
There's going to be so much stacked up against you, you have to be uncompromising because

0:31:54.909,0:32:00.059
everything that you represent is problematic to the average person, even those people that

0:32:00.060,0:32:04.089
suggest they support indigenous resistance.

0:32:04.780,0:32:07.300
Stop inviting women to just the 'all-women events'.

0:32:07.309,0:32:11.759
Don't be embarrased when we grab the microphone and rock it in your circle full of guys.

0:32:11.759,0:32:15.289
When people start to look at diversity in that way of inviting people to the table so

0:32:15.289,0:32:20.400
that we all can break bread and do this thing that we call our culture, it'll change.

0:32:20.400,0:32:25.440
And if they don't open the door, break the fucking door down, kick it open, fuck asking.

0:32:26.080,0:32:29.400
These record labels slang our tapes like dope You can be next in line and signed and still

0:32:29.400,0:32:32.320
be writing rhymes and broke You would rather have a Lexus or justice,

0:32:32.400,0:32:34.220
a dream or some substance?

0:32:34.220,0:32:36.160
A Beamer, a necklace, or freedom?

0:32:36.280,0:32:37.740
Still a nigga like me don't playa-hate,

0:32:37.740,0:32:41.080
I just stay awake, this real hip-hop and it don't stop

0:32:41.080,0:32:43.740
'Til we get the po-po off the block, they call it

0:32:43.740,0:32:54.299
hip hop, hip hop, hip hop, hip It's bigger than hip hop, hip hop, hip hop

0:32:54.299,0:32:59.070
As we continue to resist the resurgence of far-right reaction, further entrenched inequality,

0:32:59.070,0:33:03.499
gentrification and an increasingly repressive state apparatus, it is very important that

0:33:03.499,0:33:08.549
anarchists build and strengthen connections with those outside our immediate circles.

0:33:08.549,0:33:12.169
Part of this requires that we actively spread our politics through popular subcultures like

0:33:12.169,0:33:15.960
hip hop, that resonate with millions of people who share our hatred of police and capitalist

0:33:15.960,0:33:19.980
society, but won’t necessarily be inclined to come out to all our meetings, rallies or

0:33:19.980,0:33:21.330
reading circles.

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And the other part involves listening and learning from established histories of resistance

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dan berjuang, untuk lebih memahami dan mengidentifikasi poin-poin kedekatan dan kemungkinan

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kolaborasi.

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Untungnya, ada banyak orang luar biasa yang sudah melakukan pekerjaan penting ini ...

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tetapi kita membutuhkan lebih banyak dari mereka.

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Jadi pada titik ini, kami ingin mengingatkan Anda bahwa Trouble dimaksudkan untuk ditonton

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kelompok, dan untuk digunakan sebagai sumber daya untuk mempromosikan diskusi dan pengorganisasian kolektif.

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Apakah Anda seorang hip hop head tertarik untuk membantu berkontribusi pada adegan radikal lokal Anda?

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atau ingin membangunnya di kota yang tidak ada?

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Pertimbangkan untuk berkumpul dengan beberapa kawan, mengatur pemutaran film ini, dan berdiskusi

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di mana untuk memulai.

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Tertarik menjalankan pemutaran Masalah secara rutin di kampus, infoshop, komunitas Anda

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pusat, atau bahkan hanya di rumah dengan teman?

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Menjadi Pembuat Masalah!

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Untuk 10 dolar sebulan, kami akan menghubungkan Anda dengan salinan acara yang canggih, dan pemutaran film

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kit yang menampilkan sumber daya tambahan dan beberapa pertanyaan yang dapat Anda gunakan untuk

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dapatkan diskusi.

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Jika Anda tidak mampu mendukung kami secara finansial, jangan khawatir!

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Anda dapat melakukan streaming dan / atau mengunduh semua konten kami secara gratis dari situs web kami:

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sub.media/trouble

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Jika Anda punya saran untuk topik acara, atau hanya ingin menghubungi kami, hubungi kami

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di trouble@sub.media.

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Jika Anda ingin mendengar beberapa lagu dari artis-artis yang ditampilkan dalam episode ini, lihat yang terbaru

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Burning Cop Car, podcast hip hop radikal kami, di sub.Media/bcc.

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Hanya perlu diingat bahwa karena SubMedia sepenuhnya

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proyek yang didanai kerumunan orang, akan segera kami lakukan penggalangan dana tahunan kami

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yakin kami dapat terus membuat video sepanjang tahun.

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Episode ini tidak akan mungkin terjadi tanpa dukungan dermawan dari Todd, Marius

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dan AvispaMidia.

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Nantikan bulan depan untuk Masalah # 16, karena kita melihat lebih dekat pada uji coba

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yang disebut terdakwa J20, yang ditangkap secara massal di jalan-jalan DC, pada protes bersejarah

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menentang pelantikan presiden Pidana Perang AS, Donald J Trump.

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Tidak ada yang ingin hanya muncul dan muncul, seperti ada pesan pasti tentang

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mengganggu pelantikan.

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Sekarang pergilah ke sana .... dan buat masalah!