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Speaker 1: reparations and literation of Palestine, talents flying. If you criticize,

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Speaker 1: We are waiting on reparations and freedom for palestime. Yeah, well, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: So this is one of those episodes where something's going

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Speaker 1: it just kind of makes me feel like we have

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Speaker 1: us feel like at least we should talk about something

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Speaker 1: with that, we're going to be discussing a little bit

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Speaker 1: about the situation going on in the Middle East with

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Speaker 1: Israel and Palestine. This past Saturday was Knock the day,

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Speaker 1: the annual commemoration of the destruction of Palistin villages and

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Speaker 1: mac you're talking about marches going down down in Savannah.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they were marching earlier today down by City Hall. UM.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've been seeing a lot of that in

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Speaker 1: the news, just like people all over the world arching

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Speaker 1: in solidary of Palestine. UM. All over the country. UM.

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Speaker 1: On Saturday, people marched in the streets to show their

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Speaker 1: But here in Atlanta, we had, you know, thousands of

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Speaker 1: people marching the streets for Palestinian Liberation, and interestingly, the

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Speaker 1: Knockba March in Atlanta ended up joining this Justice for

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Speaker 1: Jabell Robinson rally. Jabril Robinson in two thousand and sixty

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Speaker 1: its girlfriend's house. People are still calling for justice and

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Speaker 1: his name to this day. And so when the marches converge,

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Speaker 1: beautiful moment where these two movements came together to to

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Speaker 1: like reflect on the linkages between our struggles and how

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Speaker 1: our liberation is all sort of bound up together. And

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Speaker 1: the black liberation in Palestinian liberation movements actually have a

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Speaker 1: long history of going to connect a struggle um and

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Speaker 1: today we are going to explore some of those connections

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Speaker 1: between the fights for black and Palestinian lives, stretching back

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Speaker 1: seventy is all the way up to you what's been

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Speaker 1: going on today? So what is going on today over there?

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Speaker 1: I mean pretty much in a nutshell. The Israeli military

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Speaker 1: Times a week of fighting has left more than two

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Speaker 1: scaled up its bombing campaign against SAMAS. The war is

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Speaker 1: shooting rockets at each other. But you've got one side

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Speaker 1: asymmetricality in this struggle. Similar to when we are out

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Speaker 1: for decades for participation in an expression of freedom of speech.

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Speaker 1: And so this asymmetricality between like the powers of a

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Speaker 1: the the thing that I'm noticing this go around is

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Speaker 1: Um no, you were mentioning John Oliver had like a

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Speaker 1: freedom against imperialist domination. Now Historically, a bevy of thinkers

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Speaker 1: story of Jabrielle Robinson and the Atlanta Police. Here in

429
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Speaker 1: Georgia there exists a unique relationship between the military and

430
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Speaker 1: police oppression experienced by the Palestinians and the police violence

431
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 1: in which black Georgians are subjective. We returned to considering

432
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Speaker 1: the Gilley Program, the law enforcement exchange between police officers

433
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Speaker 1: in Georgia and law enforcement officials in Israel to like

434
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Speaker 1: learn tactics from n HL there. So it started in

435
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 1: preparations to secure UH the Olympic Games in Atlanta, go

436
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 1: to State University and the law enforcement community established the

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Speaker 1: Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange GILLY. The program UM was

438
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Speaker 1: given three objectives. To enhance inter agency cooperation between the

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Speaker 1: State of Georgia law enforcement agencies and the police for

440
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Speaker 1: the Force of Israel of the State of Israel. To

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Speaker 1: offer an educational professional programmed to senior is Really law

442
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: enforcement officials in Georgia. To offer an educational professional program

443
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: for senior Israeli law enforcement officials primarily in the areas

444
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: of counter terrorism and drug interdiction. So effectively, these motherfucker's

445
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: just learning fund up shop from each other. Going over

446
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: to Zerio, learn how to prut a lot of people,

447
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 1: fun people up bringing back to Georgia. Shoot Jibral Johnson

448
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: twice in the back as he is walking away. When

449
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: I lived in Africa, UM Cameroon specifically, there was definitely

450
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,719
Speaker 1: like a contingent of some Israeli military that we're trading

451
00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: the Cameroonian military. They exported their tactics and and when hardware,

452
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: you know, all of the world. So GILLY, with the

453
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: Israeli law enforcement as their primary exchange partners, teachers police

454
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: officials the tactics of military militarized police forces that treat

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00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: communities as enemies. For example, GILLY has thought that officers

456
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: should inspire fear by racking their firearms when they hosted them,

457
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 1: flash their vehicles blue lights when patrolling neighborhoods, and limit

458
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 1: free speech by targeting incitement to quote unquote. So in

459
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: addition to the abuses we've seen by global companies like GFRS,

460
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: there's programs like GILLY that like literally give opportunity for

461
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 1: these motherfucker's to like learn the worst of each other

462
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: ship and bring it back to wherever they live. But

463
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Speaker 1: in the spirit of Palestinians solidarity, this week we're gonna

464
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Speaker 1: be checking out some tracks by some Palestinian hip hop artists.

465
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what we what you guy for us this week? Mac? Alright?

466
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Speaker 1: So first up, we got the group Damn or e

467
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: a M. They are founded in by brothers Tamer and

468
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: Chanel Nafar and their friend Ma Dudjeri. I think that

469
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 1: that's not how you pronounce it, I assure you. Um.

470
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: Their songs are largely about racism and poverty. It's protests

471
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: driven stuff um, centering around the fight against depression, Israeli occupation, drugs,

472
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: and the fight for women's rights. So let's check out there.

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Speaker 1: What was their first breakthrough single almost fifteen years ago.

474
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: It's a song called min Ira mean Irabi or who is?

475
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: Who's the terrorists? Me it happy? I'm not happy happy

476
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: one blady me it happy and happy bl So they

477
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: talk about how like, oh, you're the witness, you're the

478
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 1: lawyer and the judge, like you control every arm of

479
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,719
Speaker 1: the of the judicial system. So of course you're like,

480
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: you know what what justice can't exist for me if

481
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: like the folks that have already decided on the terrorists,

482
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,959
Speaker 1: the one controlling every aspect of my judgment in sentencing.

483
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, there, it's it's it's it's an exclamation

484
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: of the underlying sources of aggression, of housing aggression, like well,

485
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: of course I ended up quote unquote terrorists, like you

486
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: buried my parents under rubble. Uh, you know, like what,

487
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: I don't know what else do you think I'm supposed

488
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: to do? I like that hooked the reframe who's the

489
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: terrorists and my terrorists? Who's the terrist? That's actually pretty yeah,

490
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: it is. It is fine. It definitely like the instrumental

491
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: it's got that um like it's either like a single

492
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, single individual key sort of piano riff sample,

493
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: which is like really reminiscent of like that early Immortal

494
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: technique or of Jedi mind tricks sort of style where

495
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: it's like it's like that early two thousand's political rap beat.

496
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: Like pretty much, you know, it's pretty understand it and

497
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: it just lets the lyrics do all the talking. Yeah beautiful,

498
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Now that was flying um And now we're

499
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: gonna switch it up because you know, Damn is probably

500
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: uh the premier Palestinian rap groups. So they've been around

501
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: for a while now. So you know, we're going back

502
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: to the early two thousands, so we're gonna flash forward

503
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: in time and check out something that's a bit new

504
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: from them. Um this song I could not this O.

505
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: This doesnt have the translation in it. This is their

506
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: song the Milder at looking and it sounds like some

507
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: missy ellie. It like I just noticed a parallel, so

508
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: we said, should I pay off my debts or fight

509
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: the system? Reminds me of that line from the Vince

510
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: Staples song. Um, it's caught between my conscious and the

511
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: skin that's on my body. Man, I need to fight

512
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: the power, but I need that new Ferrari like like

513
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: same ship, the same ship. We also want the same thing,

514
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: all right, I just stopped it. Okay. Yeah. So it's

515
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: like it's sort of like a I don't even want

516
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: to say it's like a clubby Joint, but it's definitely

517
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: like a lot more accessible, like if the first Joint

518
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: was kind of like their underground early two thousand's sort

519
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: of beggar. This is a very very modern but still

520
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: in keeping with what they do, but it's very like

521
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: made for for mainstream consumption. Yeah, this if this ship

522
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: is what's this If you're gonna go throw rocks at

523
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: the I d F. This is this is the ship

524
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: you put on to get hyped up exactly. Um, It's

525
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: it's like, uh, you know, they're they're talking about the

526
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: powers that be trying to keep us separated and not

527
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: have us unify, you know, unify like we're talking about

528
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: in this episode. But there's a one line that stood out.

529
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: I like that. It was, you know, they spend billions

530
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: of dollars to keep us separated. That the thing. Yeah,

531
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: that's a direct indictment of the infusion of of dollars,

532
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: billions of dollars a military aid to uphold this our

533
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: part apartheid regime. When we were listening to it, I

534
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: was mentioning that it gave me Missy Elliott vibes. The

535
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: instrumental was very The instrumental sounded like if you went

536
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: on YouTube and found like Timberland type beat. Yeah, one

537
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: of those you know, not the disrespect. It just sounded

538
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: very Timberland influence, but that that era of Timberland, you

539
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And and they were rocking at

540
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: The video also is dope, but it starts off with

541
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: all three of the members heads on the ground. Yeah yeah, yeah,

542
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: with boots on top of it, sort of like they're

543
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: in an interrogation rooms fresh moves with some strobe lights

544
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: going on. Later on in this yeah yeah, they had

545
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: that b boy be girl vibe with the dancers. Yeah, no,

546
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: it was that was really fresh and that was nineteen too,

547
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, like you just you just heard Mariah

548
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: since she's putting that in her Spotify playlist, so that

549
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 1: ship is certain. We don't we don't normally do it,

550
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: but that should have certified waiting on reparations fresh. So

551
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: for this last track, we're gonna go to a English

552
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: speaking rapper, Palestinian Canadian rapper who I first heard of

553
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,959
Speaker 1: him from a pretty popping freestyle that he did on

554
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: some radio thing that was a YouTube clip for a while.

555
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: But this is the rapper Belly. He's also a singer

556
00:33:55,560 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: and songwriter as well. But this is his track history

557
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: of Violence. Let what has been to Palestinaian right? Flipping

558
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: these freedom of all aimed just to religion life, just

559
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: shut them. I like that. He's like, I'm not trying

560
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: to say that we're perfect, you know, like he had

561
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: you know, amidst that, like, yo, yeah, we kind of

562
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: you know, there's been some fun up ship, but there's

563
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: a history of violence. You gotta understand the whole like

564
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: where all of this began, like who did what, to

565
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: whom win and to what degree? Which again coming back

566
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,439
Speaker 1: to that asymmetricality I was talking about at the top,

567
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: um in order to like understand how things became the

568
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: way that they are. That was fresh. You know, it

569
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: started off kind of wobbly for me personally as far

570
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: as like the styles I like, but he picked it up,

571
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: especially with that second verse. He um. One of the

572
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: things that I really appreciated him mentioning was the second

573
00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: or third class apartheid level living conditions the Palestinians have

574
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: to live in, not not having the proper municipalities and

575
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: running water or you know what I mean, and and

576
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Um. Yeah, now that was I'm still

577
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: kind of taken aback. That was. I'd recommend y'all go

578
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: listen to that full song that was and it's like

579
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: it's like couching a bit of like direct material historical context,

580
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: but like if you strip that out. It sounds like

581
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: it could have been written in Compton. It sounds like

582
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,439
Speaker 1: it could have been written in It sounds I could

583
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 1: have been written in Chicago, given that he's like an

584
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: actual songwriter, like he he writes for other people and

585
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: stuff too. I kind of the sense that I got

586
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: from it. I have no idea because I'm not in

587
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: his head, but the sense that I got from it

588
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: is that was the intent of that song was to

589
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: wrap about it in a way that it could just

590
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: be like he was rapping about Compton or rapping about

591
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 1: any hood that we you know what I mean that

592
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,720
Speaker 1: that the people could recognize here in the US, but rapping,

593
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: but what like the he's actually talking about his Palestine,

594
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: And I think that is a cool concept to the instrumental.

595
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: The instrumental was it it left some to be desired. Um,

596
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: not that it was bad, but you know, it's just

597
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: kind of like you know, yes, I mean yeah. But

598
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 1: then again, it's a testament to Belly because his lyrics,

599
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: like his his pen game was so strong. As with

600
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: um the first Damn song we listened to, like the

601
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: Beata's understated in order for the songwriting to shine. I

602
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: felt like you're listening very intently to the words, because

603
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: you're not like bopping your head that hard to the

604
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 1: eight O waits there anything? And I dig how like

605
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: his uh. I felt like the more that the song

606
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:55,280
Speaker 1: went on, the more complex I guess he started to rhyme,

607
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It started off very basic,

608
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: which for me was like, okay, so that's that's the

609
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: sort of rapper that he does, you know what I mean.

610
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: And it's like as you got into the middle of

611
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: the first verse, he started picking it up. In the

612
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: second verse, he just started going in like oh, oh okay,

613
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: Like yeah, so if the song covers a lot of fronts,

614
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: it's it's got really good rapping, and you know, the

615
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: subject matter and how he's going about discussing it is

616
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: a pretty fresh take. Yeah. Well that's all we got

617
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: for this week. Please go check out these artists and

618
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: support UM as well as you know, advocate for the

619
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: dismantling of the military industrial complex in the person industrial

620
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: complex worldwide. Preach Preach my name is Dope Knife. Wait

621
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.

622
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: How the hell am I like trying to close the

623
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: shift off, Like I'm just trying to like end ship

624
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: like niggas ain't wrapped. I'm just trying to like like,

625
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, we can't even do it like that.

626
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, y'all, Like, how could I forget a my

627
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: homie Joel? Can we can we get an instrumental? Please? Uh?

628
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: I was gonna start, yo, yo, yo yo. I don't

629
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 1: gotta truly to spit when it comes to written versus.

630
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: I am truly legit on another different curve in school

631
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: with you, Brick, because when I dropped, give the urge,

632
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: kick a dude, and the ship proven it this bit

633
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: of scene words, and then I did. I stacked my

634
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: brain and that means work, and I persist. I mixed

635
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: the red and the green herb, and I quit, come

636
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: off the head with a mean verse and let it rip.

637
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: I can't rip because I lost my place, danger, danger

638
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: of loss of space, and I've lost some pace. I

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