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Speaker 1: thinking of of of these uh these remaining episodes, so
Speaker 1: we can go out with a bang. Speaking of episodes,
Speaker 1: this week, we're going to continue our globe trotting that
Speaker 1: we've been doing lately, take a brief trip to Uganda
Speaker 1: to discuss the rapper turned presidential hopeful Bobby Wine. He
Speaker 1: was arrested last week while protesting the detention of a
Speaker 1: lot of his supporters in the aftermath of the Ugandan
Speaker 1: presidential election. Election disputes are common in other parts of
Speaker 1: the world and seemed to be the exception years historically
Speaker 1: up until recent years. Hence how alarming the January six
Speaker 1: insurrection was to us. UM, we feel like we hadn't
Speaker 1: had something like that happened in this country in a
Speaker 1: long time, UM many hundreds of years, particularly pretending to
Speaker 1: like an attack on the United States capital. And so
Speaker 1: I think something of interest within this week's episode is
Speaker 1: just looking at election integrity is viewed and grappled with
Speaker 1: in other countries where issues are more common, more frequently
Speaker 1: part of their uh political milieu, and um, particularly in
Speaker 1: country who have had less continuity of government over the decades,
Speaker 1: in places like Uganda. But first we're going to talk
Speaker 1: all about Bobby in the events that surround him. Right
Speaker 1: after the joke, let's talk a little bit about who
Speaker 1: Bobby Wine is. I don't know why they Bobby Wine
Speaker 1: born Robert Kolani said Tamu again. His music career in
Speaker 1: the early two thousands. His first singles I Could Goma,
Speaker 1: Funtula and Sunda brought him success all across the East Africa.
Speaker 1: Has been characterized reggae, dance hall and afrobeat, often especially
Speaker 1: in the in the last and year six ago UM,
Speaker 1: but particularly within the last like three or four or
Speaker 1: five years, having a socially conscious message. He was a
Speaker 1: leader of the group Fire Based Crew until it's disbandman,
Speaker 1: after which she started a new group known as Ghetto
Speaker 1: Republic of Uganjo. In the past fifteen years, he's released
Speaker 1: more than seventy songs, mostly love ballads, ragadocious tracks, voting
Speaker 1: about his riches in the typical hip hop fair um.
Speaker 1: Early on, he rarely delve into serious topics, but by
Speaker 1: the late two thousands he began to make a big
Speaker 1: name for himself in another arena politics. In two thousand
Speaker 1: and eighteen, he was elected to the Ugandan Parliament as
Speaker 1: a representative of Yadondo County, East constituency in the Wikiso
Speaker 1: district in Uganda's Central Region. He also leads to the
Speaker 1: National Unity Platform political party. With his rise to prominence,
Speaker 1: his regular love ballads have been replaced with inflammatory raptus
Speaker 1: is of the Uganan establishment. Capitalizing on the growing discontent
Speaker 1: with a neglectful autocratic government winds populous pro democracy anti
Speaker 1: corruption movement People Power has gained a pretty big following,
Speaker 1: especially amongst young, urban and poor people. Bobby Wine, more
Speaker 1: than any other oppositional leader there, clearly articulated the people's frustration.
Speaker 1: Before he ran for parliament, Wine was known as the
Speaker 1: Ghetto President because of his song Ghetto. It was his
Speaker 1: first song that was really critical of the government. According
Speaker 1: to Rolling Stone, Wine said he was inspired to release
Speaker 1: the song after he saw the government sweep vendors and
Speaker 1: beggars off the streets of Compo to polish the city's
Speaker 1: image for a prepared host of the Commonwealth Heads of Government.
Speaker 1: Music video has a bunch of visuals of like of
Speaker 1: military in the streets, tanks rolling through the streets, UM
Speaker 1: people gathering like police presents UM as well as just
Speaker 1: like backdrop of like of of ghetto of people hanging
Speaker 1: out UM and what appears to be you know, the slums.
Speaker 1: It gives a very you know it Scott is very
Speaker 1: like crew vibe. And then the shots where it's like
Speaker 1: Bobby Wine and like as people like chilling on the block,
Speaker 1: intermingled with you know, pictures of folks are presumably shot
Speaker 1: by the police getting carded away, um, you know, people
Speaker 1: in crowds yelling, and so I think it reflects like
Speaker 1: iconography that's becoming common uh these days, particularly where people
Speaker 1: are sort of like UM harnessing the imagery of collective
Speaker 1: mass action to sort of UM to like set the
Speaker 1: stage for UM counter or anti establishment messages in their music.
Speaker 1: Since then, he's repeatedly used his music as a political
Speaker 1: tool to rally his supporters and spread his message. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, his use of rap has made
Speaker 1: him more successful than past opposition leaders. In June two,
Speaker 1: he announced his candidacy One You've Gone in presidential election,
Speaker 1: where he sought to take on five term incumbent Worri Museveni.
Speaker 1: He ultimately captured about three point four eight million votes
Speaker 1: in the election of the vote, falling short of Museveni's
Speaker 1: five point eight five million votes or fifty eight percent.
Speaker 1: Wine in a large section of the public strongly refute
Speaker 1: the results of the election, claiming fraud an intimidation carried
Speaker 1: disappointed to victory. Wine and supporters have cited cases of
Speaker 1: soldiers allegedly stuffing ballot boxes, casting ballots for people, and
Speaker 1: chasing voters away from polling stations, and accused of Musavenia
Speaker 1: stage coup in the election. Incertns about elections integrity have
Speaker 1: spark protests all across Uganda and seen hundreds of wine
Speaker 1: supporters cut Hundreds of wine supporters cut it off to
Speaker 1: jail in the months surrounding the final election tally. Bobby
Speaker 1: Wine himself was arrested last Monday while leading a protest
Speaker 1: against the detention of many of his supporters. Wine is
Speaker 1: called on authorities to free his supporters arrested before, during,
Speaker 1: and after last January presidential election. Gunded authorities have put
Speaker 1: Wine on house arrest and stated that he can only
Speaker 1: leave his house under military escort because they fear his
Speaker 1: presence in public. Can site right in, well, Dann, that's
Speaker 1: some fucking Malcolm X levels of of being able to
Speaker 1: rally people behind you if you got them scared of
Speaker 1: that ship. Um, it's he's thirty nine, So it's like
Speaker 1: the era of hip hop that I would imagine he's
Speaker 1: he came up in. You know, the things that were
Speaker 1: insinuated and that are exactly the sort of things that
Speaker 1: would help somebody like rise to political um, you know,
Speaker 1: just political ascension. You by using their oratory and ability
Speaker 1: to communicate with people publicly. Um, you know, the crowd control,
Speaker 1: being able to rock a mic. Really you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And it's like if people like the politics
Speaker 1: that you're that you're saying and you're utilizing your music
Speaker 1: to get that point across, and people are legit fucking
Speaker 1: with the music, yeah, yoh, like you can. You can
Speaker 1: move mountains with hip hop. Um. On March fifteen, Bobby
Speaker 1: Wine took to Twitter um to think the fellow leaders
Speaker 1: who joined him in peaceful protests in Kampala, which is
Speaker 1: the capital and largest city in Uganda. He said, thankful
Speaker 1: to those follow leaders who joined me in peaceful protests
Speaker 1: in Kampala. Is always the cab really regime arrested us
Speaker 1: all and released us without charge. The police continues to
Speaker 1: rount my home, which I'll stop at nothing until General
Speaker 1: Musavini stops humiliating their people. Now let's go a little
Speaker 1: bit into just with some of the political dynamic or
Speaker 1: situation is in Uganda. So the current president, the man
Speaker 1: who won obviously is Yoweri Mussovini. He's a seventy six
Speaker 1: year old former guerrilla leader who took power by force
Speaker 1: in nine six and he's popular amongst many Ugandans because
Speaker 1: you know, he he led. He he rose to power
Speaker 1: in the aftermath of e d I mean and through
Speaker 1: like a pretty turbulent time in the eighties, and so
Speaker 1: he's popular with with a lot of the country for
Speaker 1: bringing that stability and that security. In two thousand's ten,
Speaker 1: he actually, while running for re election, Mussavini dipped his
Speaker 1: you know toes in the music game and dropped a
Speaker 1: rap track of his own entitled you want another Rap?
Speaker 1: Let's let check that out real quick like a savan
Speaker 1: Yes dictatorship bars. I was waiting for that one. It's
Speaker 1: clearly catchy song that mixes an African tune in local
Speaker 1: language with English and you know, decidedly clubbyb to it.
Speaker 1: I think the lyrics of a song highlight must have
Speaker 1: any's personal story and stress, hard work to get ahead
Speaker 1: and there they go. He was given a knife, gave
Speaker 1: it to the people who harvested millet, gave it the
Speaker 1: millet to the cattle keepers, gave the millet to the call,
Speaker 1: gave the millet to the cattle keepers, who gave him
Speaker 1: a cow, which he took to the king. You can't
Speaker 1: gave him a life. You wrap so like putting in,
Speaker 1: putting in work, moving, moving up. I'm in the world.
Speaker 1: The song starts out with mussavinni, Um, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I think I can give you some rap
Speaker 1: myself now, before beginning to wrap and Runya coore, a
Speaker 1: tribal language in Uganda. It's got this distinctive kind of
Speaker 1: gruff voice that flows with the music, sounding like a
Speaker 1: bit like an older or in buster rhymes. Um you
Speaker 1: want another rap, Bi shouts to the beating English, and
Speaker 1: a crowd enthusiasticly responds yes Sambo mean yes. So that
Speaker 1: was a cute little club bang your he dropped in
Speaker 1: You know it was a two thousand and ten. But
Speaker 1: Rary's attempts to curry favor with a gun and you
Speaker 1: threw hip hop hasn't entirely covered up as administrations ills
Speaker 1: Marius served as president since his military forces toppled the
Speaker 1: regime of former General Idi amin In X, who was
Speaker 1: who himself had used power through a military coup eight
Speaker 1: years earlier. UM. Since then, since Uary took power, and
Speaker 1: in an effort to reduce sectarian violence, political parties have
Speaker 1: been restricted in their activities. Until a constitution referendum overturned
Speaker 1: the rule in two thousand five, only one political organization,
Speaker 1: in the National Resistance Movement, was allowed to operate in
Speaker 1: the country, known as the Movement. It is still the
Speaker 1: ruling party in Uganda today. It's interesting to me that
Speaker 1: UM and all had efforts to bring stability to stop
Speaker 1: the violence. We're gonna restrict people's ability to organize politically
Speaker 1: within groups of that are I'd be luctically aligned. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess a certain point if you just want stability,
Speaker 1: if you want know which feels like freedom, like you're
Speaker 1: willing to give up freedom to have that sense of
Speaker 1: being a settled society. Over the decades, Mussavini's forces of
Speaker 1: more from welcome liberators into state police, marred by accusations
Speaker 1: of extra judicial killings, unfair rest, use of child soldiers,
Speaker 1: just general corruption. Even in nine, Amnesty International published a
Speaker 1: human rights report on Uganda entitled Uganda the Human Rights
Speaker 1: Record nineteen eighty six to nineteen eighty nine, and that
Speaker 1: ship had mad accusations of human rights violations committed by
Speaker 1: Musavini's troops. More recently, Musavini's former Inspector General of Police
Speaker 1: was placed on the United States Treasury Department sanctions list
Speaker 1: for alleged torture, corruption, and all sorts of wild ship
Speaker 1: that took place under his watch while he was in
Speaker 1: charge for thirteen years. I'm gonna speak to the fact
Speaker 1: that like police and military or a problem in every
Speaker 1: single country. Um, if we look at the ways that
Speaker 1: you know, in recent episodes, we talked about the backlash
Speaker 1: to the arrest of pablost Cell in Spain and the
Speaker 1: way that the police violence um met the demonstrations that
Speaker 1: rose up in response there. Um we think about the
Speaker 1: um when you think about the huge uprising against stars
Speaker 1: in Nigeria, like anywhere where the state has a monopoly
Speaker 1: on violence, which is most places. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: the definition of way, what is what? What differentiates a
Speaker 1: state from you know, other forms of community organization. We see,
Speaker 1: you know, these issues of corruption, these issues of suppression
Speaker 1: of uh intimidation, um, and you see a lot of
Speaker 1: human rights abuses. Oh yeah, No, it's it's definitely issue.
Speaker 1: I mean, I lived in Africa for you know, the
Speaker 1: half of my life, so especially when I've got into
Speaker 1: my teen years, I've definitely been arrested for no reason
Speaker 1: and I've definitely had to pay off cops to not
Speaker 1: have to go to jail for the night and show
Speaker 1: like that. That's that's some common ship. But it's it's
Speaker 1: one of those sort of things where it's, you know,
Speaker 1: hearing about this, it's like it's like you kind of
Speaker 1: you kind of saying, at least to me, I'm saying
Speaker 1: to myself, like, damn, you know, it would have been
Speaker 1: better if you'll just had the regular corruption where you
Speaker 1: got to pay them off because they're fucking with you,
Speaker 1: and not extra judicial killings and taking people out back
Speaker 1: and trying to suppress the sentence ship. Earlier that same year,
Speaker 1: Mussovini dropped a single that Hot Fire Human Rights Watch
Speaker 1: issue to report, highlighting cases involving journalists who had reported
Speaker 1: critical stories about the government being threatened, intimidated, arrassed, and
Speaker 1: in some cases fraudulently charged with crimes. For example, the
Speaker 1: Ugandan radio journalists Eric fat Nizo, who worked for a
Speaker 1: popular radio station and was known for his political talk shows.
Speaker 1: He had been actually covering uh Musaveni's main opposition, and
Speaker 1: he was kidnapped from the radio station and held in
Speaker 1: detention for eight days until legal pressure against the government
Speaker 1: from the Human Rights Network for Journalists saw Nitze freed.
Speaker 1: Bobby Wine himself has been the target of Musaveni's government
Speaker 1: for oppression. Musavenia has tried to deal with Wines fire
Speaker 1: and intimidation, but has yet to try to kill him well,
Speaker 1: arguably in furious sparking a popular uprising. Wine has been
Speaker 1: arrested many, many times, often on dubious charges um and
Speaker 1: as well as beaten, been beaten and torturing. His driver
Speaker 1: was found shot dead at one point, but Wine claims
Speaker 1: the boy was for him. Multiple members of his party
Speaker 1: have also been arrested, beaten, kidnapped, or tortured. Even the
Speaker 1: cult of personality around Bobby Wine and his immense popular larity,
Speaker 1: it's pretty sure that his death would send shock waves
Speaker 1: sparked the kind of mass operising the government fears. Musivini
Speaker 1: has multiple opportunities, has had multiple opportunities to permanently deal
Speaker 1: with Bobby Wine um, but his relucttion to do so
Speaker 1: suggest that for the time being, Bobby Wine is still
Speaker 1: alive because of his popularity. When the multiparty presidential elections
Speaker 1: were reinstated back in February o six, Mussavini, who was
Speaker 1: the one who instituted the whole no party system thing,
Speaker 1: he ran against several candidates this time, and the most
Speaker 1: prominent of those was the exiled doctor Kisa bess and
Speaker 1: Jay Now Mussovinni was declared the winner, but bess and
Speaker 1: j alleged fraud and rejected the results. The Supreme Court
Speaker 1: of Uganda even ruled that the election was marred by intimidation, violence,
Speaker 1: voter disenfranchisement in all kinds of regularities. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day they voted for three and upheld
Speaker 1: the election results. So January's election and the ensuing concern
Speaker 1: about its integrity all seemed well founded given Yawori's track
Speaker 1: record with this ship. And it's like you were saying earlier,
Speaker 1: I mean, everywhere has got elections being disputed. Is not
Speaker 1: anything that's like uncommon in the world. It's uncommon here.
Speaker 1: So like you're saying, that's why people should be alarmed
Speaker 1: about it, but it's it's it's different from what happened
Speaker 1: here on January six, And even that is different from
Speaker 1: Russia Gate, because Russia Gate was like, as somebody who
Speaker 1: I guess is a quote unquote, I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: inclined to look at the Russia situation and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's nothing to see here. It's all fine. That's just me.
Speaker 1: If other motherfuckers want to be that, they can beyond that,
Speaker 1: that's cool. But for me, it's like if it looks
Speaker 1: like a duck and it quacks like a duck, that
Speaker 1: it's a damn duck. And to me it looks like
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of fishy ship. But I digress.
Speaker 1: There was never any part of that that was like yo,
Speaker 1: overturned the election or Donald Trump isn't the legitimate president,
Speaker 1: like like no one should listen to what he says,
Speaker 1: like like that that was never really the call. Like
Speaker 1: at at best, it was some smoke that needed investigation
Speaker 1: and it works. It was like some ship that fucking
Speaker 1: soccer moms were following on CNN and MSNBC, Like it
Speaker 1: was a fucking their stories and ship, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like is relatively harmless ship. One thing we
Speaker 1: do know with hindsight is it didn't lead to motherfucker's
Speaker 1: storm in the Capitol or try to up the vote count.
Speaker 1: That that never happened. You know what I'm saying. Motherfucker's
Speaker 1: did go to jail and have to get presidential pardons
Speaker 1: to get out dubious presidential pardons with that, So you know,
Speaker 1: I I mean, I'm obviously not in Uganda, so I
Speaker 1: can't And it's it's hard to really know the intricacies
Speaker 1: of how Uganda elections work and whether or not Bobby
Speaker 1: Wines or the opposition leaders of the past have been
Speaker 1: valid in their claims of fraud and voter disenfranchiseman in etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: I'm more geared to not believe the dictators who have
Speaker 1: been in power for like thirty years, so I'm I'm
Speaker 1: more prone to go on the side of the opposition
Speaker 1: in that one and to think that they're probably onto
Speaker 1: something like you guys, yeah, you guys, you guys, you
Speaker 1: guys probably got a good idea going there. You know
Speaker 1: that something fishery is going on. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I'm preparing myself to be in that mindset too, because
Speaker 1: I don't think that in this country that the Republicans
Speaker 1: have any sort of intention of winning elections fairly anymore.
Speaker 1: So I think people here need to get themselves in
Speaker 1: the mindset of, like, okay, be prepared to be so
Speaker 1: uncomfortable and unnerved by the results of an election that
Speaker 1: you know to be wrong, that you feel you can't
Speaker 1: just stand and let it slide. The difference is they
Speaker 1: were doing all their storm in the Capitol bullshit on
Speaker 1: some ship that most of them know is a lie.
Speaker 1: Most of them know it's a lie, Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: if you want to do a poll, it says seventy
Speaker 1: million Americans think that there was election for I'm telling
Speaker 1: you set sixty million of them relying their fucking ass off.
Speaker 1: They don't believe that ship. They're just they're being fu controls.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think this this tells us
Speaker 1: interesting things about the way that a history, or like
Speaker 1: a growing prominence rather of of discourse around discourse undermining
Speaker 1: elections integrity can kind of like really root itself into
Speaker 1: the public's consciousness. I think back to how, like you know,
Speaker 1: in two thousand sixteen, liberals would not stop talking about
Speaker 1: Russia Gate, Russia Gate, Russia Gate, how the you know
Speaker 1: Russia stole the election from Hillary Clinton? But in certain
Speaker 1: ways set the stage for January six, this narrative that
Speaker 1: elections can be stolen when your team doesn't win, it
Speaker 1: must be because there was some kind of trickery UM
Speaker 1: that prevented one's favorite party from being successful. Not to
Speaker 1: say that this is necessarily the case in Ughana's recent elections,
Speaker 1: since they're UM since not to say that that was
Speaker 1: the case in Ghana's recent election, but I think there
Speaker 1: are some parallels between the popular movements UM that we're
Speaker 1: seeing in both countries with regards to Nathan democracy, faithan electoralism,
Speaker 1: and people taking to the streets in order to UM
Speaker 1: to demonstrate for the cause that they care about when
Speaker 1: their party isn't not successful and right now, I mean
Speaker 1: here in Georgia were seeing a number of omnibus voter
Speaker 1: suppression laws going to the Georgia State legislature UM, which
Speaker 1: I wonder if it will have a similar impact UM
Speaker 1: with regards to like liberals, faith and electoralism and democracy
Speaker 1: like oh well, let's say in two thousand twenty two,
Speaker 1: you know, stay see from Stunsford governor here and she
Speaker 1: loses again and then last tame there was some you know,
Speaker 1: there was talker on oh her election was stolen from
Speaker 1: her by brand Kemp and if these laws passed like
Speaker 1: those doubts will only be more firmly held. I fear
Speaker 1: UM and so I just another out of us. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of problems. There's a lot of problems,
Speaker 1: like representative democracy on the scale this large, when you
Speaker 1: have an entire nation, UM, a national government trying to
Speaker 1: manage the logistics of counting ballots and the lack of
Speaker 1: transparency that then comes with that. UM. I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it serves arguments that I have been hearing
Speaker 1: increasingly about the need for us to organize in our communities,
Speaker 1: in our neighborhoods, for us to have UM more, a
Speaker 1: community sovereignty around UM decision making in our in our neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: where we have direct cult control, where we can know
Speaker 1: our neighbors and you know, discuss things one on one UM,
Speaker 1: you know, and in groups to collectively decide like what
Speaker 1: we want for ourselves, as opposed to putting power in
Speaker 1: the hands of people that fly thousands of miles away
Speaker 1: to d C too pass bills that may not even
Speaker 1: uh end up impacting the lives of people in the
Speaker 1: communities are said to represent, etcetera. Today, the movement still
Speaker 1: holds the majority in parliament, though other major parties include
Speaker 1: Forum for Democratic Change, which is the main opposition party.
Speaker 1: They have thirty four seats in parliament. And then there's
Speaker 1: the National Unity Platform, the opposition party of which Bobby
Speaker 1: Wine is the president, and they hold twenty one seats.
Speaker 1: Then there's the Democratic Party which is moderate conservative. They've
Speaker 1: got twelve seats in parliament. And then there's the Uganda
Speaker 1: People's part People's Congress with ten seats in parliament. It
Speaker 1: looks like folks are making some progress kinda you know,
Speaker 1: but uh, you can only take these things one step
Speaker 1: by the time. It's democracy after all. And while we
Speaker 1: were talking about democracy, I wanted to give a quick
Speaker 1: plug for UM, an event I'm taking part in on
Speaker 1: April eight. Uh. There's going to be a screening of
Speaker 1: the Asher Taylor is what is Democracy UM and holding
Speaker 1: a panel with ASTRA as well as Jin Jerry uh
Speaker 1: Komanica and holding a panel with Astra as well as
Speaker 1: Jin Jerry uh Komanica, UM and some other community storytellers,
Speaker 1: organize your students and educators um to speak about the
Speaker 1: you know, like, what is democracy? What is the best
Speaker 1: way for us to collectively decide thanks for our community?
Speaker 1: If when you take it to this national scale people,
Speaker 1: you know, their faith in the process becomes eroded, um bite,
Speaker 1: either corruption or just by the lack of transparency in
Speaker 1: the process. You know what. Just reaching the end of this,
Speaker 1: I think I have reached my Eureka epiphany. I got
Speaker 1: the end for that vaccination episode. Idea you wishould do
Speaker 1: that ship next week? I think a Oh, can you
Speaker 1: please drop one of those funky fresh hip hop instrumentals
Speaker 1: that we may wrap it over. Oh, it's the music
Speaker 1: discussion be where yeah yeah, he yo. They called me
Speaker 1: dope because I smoke a bunch of marijuana. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take it up from Athens to the ghettos that you
Speaker 1: ganda Bobby Wanbi on his grind trying to do this
Speaker 1: ship with Donna, and they'd be running campaigns dropping tunes
Speaker 1: as a reminder. Now, I won't play it against six
Speaker 1: stative events. When even the motherfucking dictated a spit. It's
Speaker 1: only a power play in the way to persist That's
Speaker 1: why the people on the street can't wait to resist.
Speaker 1: I rap with a heavy heart that's got the mass
Speaker 1: of the motherland with niggers that disagree, and they clash
Speaker 1: for the government. They do in the revolution while doing
Speaker 1: the running man. We need that restitution. I knew you
Speaker 1: would understand. I'm gonna be quiet when they throw me
Speaker 1: the rope. You can try to deny it, but you
Speaker 1: know this, dope, I'll be sun and wrappers and sit
Speaker 1: them down, teach them like a son. Just give me
Speaker 1: my reparations, or I'll beat you like a drum Mom. Dope, dope, dope.
Speaker 1: I'm dope knife, I'm le franca and we are waiting
Speaker 1: on reparations. See you next week, see y'all Waiting on
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