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Speaker 1: my time. How are you doing today, man, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm a little bummed out. Just you know, we got
Speaker 1: the results of the Virginia gubernatorial election. Yo. I literally
Speaker 1: tweeted out. I tweeted out today the election day. It's
Speaker 1: like magic in the air. It feels like Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: only I also want to throw up and cry every
Speaker 1: time it's like, oh, maybe this is the time that
Speaker 1: like that, you know, we really take power. And then actually, no,
Speaker 1: it's the opposite person, the opposite Yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. At the time of recording,
Speaker 1: New Jersey governor is not looking well either. Oh, the
Speaker 1: New Jersey governor is not looking at What about New York?
Speaker 1: That's I mean, that's the governor of New York. Album
Speaker 1: that's up right now? Or may or whatever like that? Mayor? Oh, well,
Speaker 1: that was a foregone conclusion. Some what what's his name,
Speaker 1: Eric Adams? Well, the Democratic primary. I thought that there
Speaker 1: was some risk with all the anti vax protests stuff though, No,
Speaker 1: it's fucking overblown those anything. Yeah, I don't know, this
Speaker 1: is you know, I don't you know, I'm not like
Speaker 1: a political expert or anything, but this doesn't avode well
Speaker 1: for the Democrats come to mid terms. Um well, I
Speaker 1: mean not passing broadly popular policies. It's bad. Like they
Speaker 1: gotta they definitely got a succession or this is going
Speaker 1: to keep happening. I think I think it's like a
Speaker 1: cornucopia like bad situations, kind of like you know, leading
Speaker 1: into each other. I think on one hand, there is
Speaker 1: you know, the aspect that the Democrats can govern more
Speaker 1: effectively and show a little more backbone and again, like
Speaker 1: you said, like past these popular policies, but then you
Speaker 1: know we can't front. But like a lot of this
Speaker 1: is based on Republican stupid ship too, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like, at least in Virginia, a lot of
Speaker 1: people we're saying that they fell for the critical race
Speaker 1: theory ruse, and they're concerned about education. The Virginia race
Speaker 1: swung like thirty points in like in eight days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, yeah, shout out to our friends at the
Speaker 1: fucking Lincoln Projects getting it all involved for listeners that
Speaker 1: may not be aware. But again, project again, it's like
Speaker 1: a bunch of little things, you know what I'm saying, Like, man,
Speaker 1: I think that like what is going on with how
Speaker 1: effectively the right the Republicans are whipping up not just
Speaker 1: their base but beyond their base into a froth about
Speaker 1: these cultural issues. I don't know. I think I think
Speaker 1: it plays more of a bigger role than than people
Speaker 1: are given credit for, because like Republicans do not care
Speaker 1: about policy progressives do you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: like like progressives are sitting out here talking about policies
Speaker 1: and you know, I mean, what what tax bracket is
Speaker 1: this gonna be in? And where's this desk will gonna
Speaker 1: be and stuff like that. In Conservatives are not thinking
Speaker 1: about that ship at all. They're they're oh, Tony Morrison, Yes,
Speaker 1: I said, we gotta get to the polls right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, and then you know, centrist stay at home,
Speaker 1: the left stay at home either, you know, for there
Speaker 1: are separate reasons. Imaginably, Okay, I'm imagining that this is
Speaker 1: what happened. Liberals were like, well, we oh, Joe Biden's president.
Speaker 1: We wanted to send it hooray. We don't worry about ship,
Speaker 1: stay at home. The left just this, what's it disaffected by,
Speaker 1: like the lack of action by the bride An administration,
Speaker 1: the fact that he was even in our presidential candidate
Speaker 1: at all. Everybody say, so, they're so on both sides there,
Speaker 1: see the folks that gave up because I thought they
Speaker 1: we had one and everything was fine and they no
Speaker 1: longer needed. And then the other side that like stop
Speaker 1: stopped playing the game, like we don't want to play
Speaker 1: this gamemore, there's no way to actually win in the system.
Speaker 1: And here we are. So I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be tricky. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: tricky because I I just don't think I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just don't think that like as the Republicans start
Speaker 1: to take back power and stuff like that. I think
Speaker 1: that we're gonna like we're gonna experience ship that Texas
Speaker 1: is experiencing right now, Like they're gonna start doing stuff
Speaker 1: that's going to have like actual tangible like effect on
Speaker 1: all of our lives and stuff like that. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be down to what, you know, what
Speaker 1: people prioritize, you know, what I'm saying. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be sitting around in about a year when like they
Speaker 1: implement nationwide stopping frisk you know what I'm saying, and
Speaker 1: some cops pulling me over for some no reason asking
Speaker 1: me for my papers and ship like that. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be sitting there and being like, oh, man, if
Speaker 1: only the Democrats had run somebody that I like, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So it's like if people, I mean,
Speaker 1: hey again, I don't I hate doing like the disclaimers
Speaker 1: of other Democrats are trash, because we all know the
Speaker 1: Democrats are trash, but the other guys are clearly worse.
Speaker 1: And it's just like if it's not if the ship
Speaker 1: that they're doing without motivation enough to at least be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they can't get back in power, then I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know what I'm saying. I don't
Speaker 1: know where we're gonna I don't know where we're going
Speaker 1: to be in a year and a half. I'm like,
Speaker 1: legit worried in that stuff. Yeah, well, good news. What's
Speaker 1: good tonight? I just got off a commission meeting. We're
Speaker 1: recording this and like midnight because I just spent five
Speaker 1: and a half hours, UM, listen to public comment from
Speaker 1: the local gop and on one side and liberals and
Speaker 1: prograsses on the other with regards to a public safety
Speaker 1: Civilian overside board, which we eventually passed unanimously, which was great. UM,
Speaker 1: And so yeah, we'll have civilians weighing in on operations
Speaker 1: of and complaints against not only the police department, but
Speaker 1: the Sheriff's office, UM, the probation office. And so does
Speaker 1: broad civilian oversight into policing, which is not gonna like
Speaker 1: totally changed the game, but given the fact that like
Speaker 1: many cities, unfortunately too many cities, we had passed zero
Speaker 1: like meaningful criminal justice anything in the aftermath of the uprisings, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, yo, it's been a year and a half
Speaker 1: and we're finally doing the bare minimum. But finally we're
Speaker 1: doing something, you know, So that that was cool. We
Speaker 1: gotta take our victories a week, I take our do
Speaker 1: take our dubs where we can, Gotta take them where
Speaker 1: we can. So what are we getting into today? So
Speaker 1: today we're actually gonna just completely leave these terrible United
Speaker 1: States behind us and skip across the pond to Sudan,
Speaker 1: where last week there's a military coon, you know, part
Speaker 1: of a long history of UM military takeovers and popular
Speaker 1: uprisings in the country of Sudan. So we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about that UM when we come back.
Speaker 1: So we're back. Last week, Sudanese military officials started rounding
Speaker 1: up high ranking elected it's including the Prime Minister of Sudan.
Speaker 1: UM dissolved the joint Civilian military military like governing board
Speaker 1: at the top of the government. And we're pretty much like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the ships are us now, and the people weren't fucking
Speaker 1: stamped about it. For some reason, UM start taking to
Speaker 1: the streets, UH strikes and sid ins all across the country.
Speaker 1: But this is not the first time that this has
Speaker 1: happened Sudan. So let's take, oh, listener's a little bit
Speaker 1: back to what these struggles may have started. Sudan was
Speaker 1: colonized by the British from the eighteen nineties up until
Speaker 1: about midway through the twentieth century. After World War One,
Speaker 1: the Sudanese nationalism movement picked up, with the British finally
Speaker 1: granting autonomy to the Sudanese people in nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 1: The fairy tale ending the end all you need to know.
Speaker 1: Just kidding, UM, there's a civil war conflict from nine
Speaker 1: three to two thousand five in the country between the
Speaker 1: Central Studanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation I mean
Speaker 1: whis the guerilla movement. Um. It was largely a continuation
Speaker 1: of the First Sudanese Civil War from nineteen fifty five
Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy two. Because you have these conflict lasted
Speaker 1: about twenty two years. Is one of the longest civil
Speaker 1: wars on record. UM. SO. The are a resulted independence
Speaker 1: for salth Studan six years after the war ended. Um
Speaker 1: a social so a socialist by the name of Gafar Nimrim.
Speaker 1: I think, I think, I I feel really good about
Speaker 1: that now. But they were a socialist that served as
Speaker 1: president from nineteen sixty nine up until nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 1: during which time he eased factional tensions between northern and
Speaker 1: Central and Southern Sudan. But he was overthrown by his
Speaker 1: defense minister a while in the United States and five,
Speaker 1: giving room for al Bashar to take power, which he
Speaker 1: continued to hold on for thirty years. And are sorry
Speaker 1: every country I lived at Senegal, I believe, but when
Speaker 1: I lived there the president had been president for like
Speaker 1: twenty years. Cameroon was the same sort of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So albas here he was the dictator um Up Sudan
Speaker 1: up until about two years ago. So let's ask forward
Speaker 1: December ten. There's widespread protests against poverty, corruption and unemployment
Speaker 1: um first in the northeast region of that Bara and
Speaker 1: then within days spread to the capital of Khartoum. All
Speaker 1: across the country. People started calling for all the year
Speaker 1: who had led the nation's military leadership. Yeah, thirty years.
Speaker 1: He staped down because he had been wanted by the
Speaker 1: International Criminal Court over charges of jennificide, war crimes and
Speaker 1: crimes against humanity in the two thousand three Darfur conflict,
Speaker 1: which killed three hundred and three thousand, three d people.
Speaker 1: Thousand people. Yeah, that's like who got new numbers. Then
Speaker 1: in April nineteen, the military disposed of albus here Uh,
Speaker 1: suspended the country's constitution, They closed the borders and the airspace,
Speaker 1: and they imposed a three month state of emergency. So
Speaker 1: thousands of protesters occupied the front of the front of
Speaker 1: the army headquarters. After that, they demanded civilian rule in
Speaker 1: the military government brutally crackdown on all the protests that
Speaker 1: was in front of their headquarters in June and they
Speaker 1: killed dozens doing it. So since the overthrow of Omar
Speaker 1: al Bashir, the transitional government UM was composed of civilians
Speaker 1: and military are working together under the leadership of the
Speaker 1: new Prime Minister of dalahom Duck to move the country
Speaker 1: toward democratic elections. Three. There's been all you know, the
Speaker 1: fucking military to swoop it in like, oh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: put you in power, and now we're gonna take you out.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna put this guy and I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: him out. So trying to move towards actual democracy two
Speaker 1: thousands of three. What's the goal? Is the goal? We'll
Speaker 1: see power sharing between the military and civilians have been
Speaker 1: concreasingly strained because there was a lot of debate over
Speaker 1: whether to send al Bashir and others to the I C.
Speaker 1: C UM, you know, to be tried for their alleged
Speaker 1: atrocities and darfer so off the bat, what is what
Speaker 1: are your initial thoughts about all this so far? I
Speaker 1: mean I just from you know, from like a somewhat
Speaker 1: naive like American perspective, I'm just so fascinated by UM
Speaker 1: the role of the military in like sort of controlling
Speaker 1: the direction of the government and countries that aren't ours. Um,
Speaker 1: because like I guess when he were like our closest
Speaker 1: modern day brush with an attempt to cop you know,
Speaker 1: Genuoy said question to the election last year, people asking like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, people in military love Trump. You know, oh,
Speaker 1: the police of Trump. Whatever. What if they try to
Speaker 1: align with him and and Mike you know upholds or
Speaker 1: you know, try to throughout the election results whatever, and
Speaker 1: like said the country to sense into martial law or something. Um,
Speaker 1: they kind that wasn't the case. And so just contrasting
Speaker 1: that with our own circumstances and just like what makes
Speaker 1: what makes it different? What makes it different? Is the
Speaker 1: question that like really I don't know took up my
Speaker 1: brain as I learned more about I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: makes it different. Um. I know that this isn't necessarily
Speaker 1: the first time that the sort of template has gone
Speaker 1: down in Africa, just in the sense of like military
Speaker 1: or guerrilla factions kind of taking on that sort of
Speaker 1: role where it's like, oh, if the civilian government is
Speaker 1: either corrupt or doing something that we don't like, that
Speaker 1: we're going to swoop in and take them out of power,
Speaker 1: and then we'll give power back to the people after
Speaker 1: we're done. I mean, like that that concept, you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't even imagine that that's like something that's
Speaker 1: exclusive to Africa, but that's something that growing up, I've
Speaker 1: heard about that sort of thing happening all the time.
Speaker 1: The only problem is that the military usually doesn't it
Speaker 1: doesn't end up giving power to the power back. And
Speaker 1: that's that's I guess where the true danger of it
Speaker 1: comes in, you know, So like like from one and
Speaker 1: from one end, it is kind of like fascinating because
Speaker 1: it's like, damn, you know, it was cool that they
Speaker 1: they looked at the situation and they were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we don't think that this is working out. There's this
Speaker 1: dictator in power, or this guy has been in power
Speaker 1: too long, or whatever the reason is. It's fascinating that
Speaker 1: they the military is like a completely separate entity and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But in most cases there's usually somebody
Speaker 1: who's behind there who's looking at it as a power
Speaker 1: vacuum grab, you know. Yeah, I mean the only other
Speaker 1: thing I can think of is that like the concentration
Speaker 1: of capital in the United States and that like really,
Speaker 1: you know, it's an oligarchy in the sense of like
Speaker 1: you know, billionaires own congress, on all the means of production,
Speaker 1: own everything, and so there's like that there's like greater
Speaker 1: stability that comes with that. Not in a good way.
Speaker 1: It's like it's so um the power is so entrenched
Speaker 1: of like people trying to uphold this order so that
Speaker 1: folks can so the billionaires can continue to get richer.
Speaker 1: Is perhaps a key difference that I could identify. But um,
Speaker 1: let's see, so where we where where do we? So? Okay,
Speaker 1: we're caught up a present day. Yeah, so then just
Speaker 1: a week ago, we're getting back to Sudan. Now, just
Speaker 1: a week ago, the Sudanese military dissolve the transitional government
Speaker 1: and started rounding up and detaining high ranking government officials,
Speaker 1: including the Prime Minister. Now, in the wake of this
Speaker 1: latest coups, strikes and civil disobedience broken out again, particularly
Speaker 1: heavily concentrated in the capital of cartoon workers at state
Speaker 1: oil company uh Suda pet joined pilots from Sudan Airways
Speaker 1: Badar and Tarco Airlines, doctors across the country and striking
Speaker 1: until the government is back in civilian hands. The military
Speaker 1: leaders are still saying they planned to hold elections in
Speaker 1: as previously promised, But just heard us go on about that.
Speaker 1: Very that's a very very shaky ground to stand on,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, I mean, in this day and age,
Speaker 1: just like I don't necessarily know, if let's not even
Speaker 1: un necessarily know, I don't believe that the military has
Speaker 1: any intention of actually holding that election because this isn't
Speaker 1: I mean, because it's now you know what, who's gonna
Speaker 1: do anything? If they don't, what's the next excuse going
Speaker 1: to be? Like, oh, well there's inflation and um, food
Speaker 1: prices skyrocketed, so we took control and we'll we'll do election.
Speaker 1: Three rolls around like, well, oh, man, really sucks that
Speaker 1: there's another pandemic or whatever the funk happens, and well,
Speaker 1: I guess the whole elections, but we promise, and if
Speaker 1: they I mean, if they don't, what is going to happen? Well,
Speaker 1: the international community is already starting to freak out a
Speaker 1: little bit. And this as we'll discuss them, you know soon.
Speaker 1: UM might be a part of the conditions underlying previous
Speaker 1: successful attempts ye successful attempts UM for the public to
Speaker 1: mobilize to depose leaders they didn't approve of. So the
Speaker 1: World Bank called the disbursements for operations since to day
Speaker 1: and last Wednesday in response to the military seazar of power,
Speaker 1: and the Biden administration to suspended seven hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: in aid to Sedan in refeliation for the coup, which
Speaker 1: brings us up to now at the time of recording,
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister still a detention is staying he'll never
Speaker 1: will really step down. But you've got cap you've got
Speaker 1: a you know, labor strikes, you've got capital strikes, and
Speaker 1: the part of international uh, the you know, world governments, etcetera. Um,
Speaker 1: so the amounting pressure against the military leaders that are
Speaker 1: taken over. But what to me it's really interesting about
Speaker 1: this is that the toppling of regime after regime to
Speaker 1: Mary and then Alba Shir, not possibly the military that
Speaker 1: has taken over. Um all of these regime changes have
Speaker 1: come about through mass, non violent demonstrations by the people. Sure,
Speaker 1: they've been violent revolutionary struggles in Pseudanese history. You know,
Speaker 1: in nineteen three an armed guerrilla movement operating out of
Speaker 1: bases in Eritrea was launch but failed to provoke a
Speaker 1: more widespread popular uprising, and it was suspended two thousand
Speaker 1: and six, and then later in two thirteen, protesters turned
Speaker 1: violent during um civilis direction during that year, but they
Speaker 1: got crushed within days and scores of civilians died. And
Speaker 1: then in two thousand nineteen the people rose up peacefully
Speaker 1: and power transfer. So just like that isn't other thing
Speaker 1: that It's baffling to me having just lived through the
Speaker 1: biggest um uprising in American history last summer and having
Speaker 1: seen nothing change as a result. Effectively, how the fuck
Speaker 1: is this possible? And it's something like that possible here,
Speaker 1: like could like if we had if we had like
Speaker 1: mass mobilization density enough such that we could change things
Speaker 1: in a large scale for real. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that we could if we had large enough. But I
Speaker 1: think in the case of Sudan, you know, there's there's
Speaker 1: just a number of factors, Like for one, you can't
Speaker 1: underestimate the motherfucker's just tired of war, man, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like the two thousand and six is
Speaker 1: two thousand six seems like a long time ago. There
Speaker 1: was a long time ago, but it really isn't that
Speaker 1: long ago. And when you've got like serious, like national
Speaker 1: traumas that are going on a show like that. So
Speaker 1: from that perspective, they just had genocide going on like
Speaker 1: just the other day, you know what I mean, like
Speaker 1: her relative standpoint of like two thousand six. So from that,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that that weighed. However, these things are calculated,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that weighs heavily on people in terms
Speaker 1: of like, hey, we're gonna get out in the street,
Speaker 1: We're gonna it to us. We don't like this government.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, ain't nobody's trying to go
Speaker 1: through another like ten years of your bloody civil wards.
Speaker 1: You're like that, But you know, it's like knock on
Speaker 1: wood that that was able to happen if it but
Speaker 1: those revolutions were able to happen peacefully, I don't know
Speaker 1: exactly how they did it. Well, let's look at a
Speaker 1: few major forces that were going to find at least
Speaker 1: in the two thousand nineteen overthrow of all this year,
Speaker 1: so international state chanction, international sanctions, further crippling and already
Speaker 1: precarious economy. You've got disaffected you who feel they have
Speaker 1: nothing to lose, So take into the streets and mass
Speaker 1: like suck it. Um. You have protests all over the
Speaker 1: country with diverse class and ethnic participation. UM. Because there's
Speaker 1: a long history of civil disobedience and violent classes of
Speaker 1: the military. People have also learned new tactics as a
Speaker 1: result of their mistakes. So when one's protesters would build
Speaker 1: barricades and face off with soldiers from behind them, um,
Speaker 1: and to that's nine. And they learned to build barricade
Speaker 1: and run, um to frustrate the military's efforts navigating around
Speaker 1: the city while also reducing some civilian casualties. And they
Speaker 1: build these barricades in the middle of the street or
Speaker 1: something like that, and then take off running. So they're
Speaker 1: like when the tanks roll up or whatever, people standing
Speaker 1: in front of it, Yeah, to just get sucking annihilated
Speaker 1: by the Yeah. Who else we got. We got the
Speaker 1: Studentese Professional Association, which is an alliance of trade unions
Speaker 1: leading the calls for general strikes and mass civil disobedience,
Speaker 1: which I think is something that we definitely could build upon. Here.
Speaker 1: I think there, well, you know we just exited where
Speaker 1: they were calling strictobers your workers on strike. Uh A
Speaker 1: was a do a w um I A c with
Speaker 1: the you know, for the what you call Hollywood motherfucker's
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, what you know what? What's
Speaker 1: the formal start? People who work on sets, etcetera. Almost
Speaker 1: went on strike. Kellogg's all these people going on strike.
Speaker 1: And so this recently in a resurgence and interest in
Speaker 1: labor organizing as like a locust of power for the
Speaker 1: working class. But it's still not enough for us to
Speaker 1: have the same impact as something like the student needs
Speaker 1: a professional association, I would say. And that like they
Speaker 1: were like, yo, what's going down? And like the doctors
Speaker 1: were striking, and the pilots were striking, and the shops
Speaker 1: were all closed. Everyone's like, I am be doing this
Speaker 1: because someone with that sort of credibility and um connection
Speaker 1: to people's lives like called upon you know, let's do this,
Speaker 1: and people you know he did the call, so you
Speaker 1: got that um. Yet people coming together to swerve on
Speaker 1: attempts to divide and conquer along regional lines, which getting
Speaker 1: back to the United States, like I tried to think
Speaker 1: of an of a scenario in which the left and
Speaker 1: right would be united. It's because like you know, the
Speaker 1: same way the North and South and Sudan not the
Speaker 1: same way, but parallels to there's tensions along like religious
Speaker 1: and regional lines, but they all were like they all
Speaker 1: dropped the beats to be like nah, fuck alba shere
Speaker 1: we're taking this the same with bublic out um and
Speaker 1: so trying to imagine scenario which here people put aside
Speaker 1: those differences to be like you know what, nah, we
Speaker 1: are we are standing up against Well, I think it
Speaker 1: has to. I think in order for something like that
Speaker 1: to go down here, everybody would like a lot of
Speaker 1: people at the same time would have to realize that
Speaker 1: they have like a vested interest in getting out in
Speaker 1: the street like that. You know. It's just like I
Speaker 1: don't think we have that yet, even with what we
Speaker 1: experienced last was last summer summer, Even with what we
Speaker 1: experienced last summer, I don't think that Americans have viewed
Speaker 1: their situation in that prison yet, you know, now, like
Speaker 1: a hypothetical situation that I think could have caused something
Speaker 1: like that. And this is something that I don't think
Speaker 1: that like right wingers and g O peers are really
Speaker 1: considering themselves. But like if if the election had gone
Speaker 1: down last time, right, let's say the election gone like
Speaker 1: went down and all the stuff that we're finding out
Speaker 1: in the aftermath of Trump being out of office about oh,
Speaker 1: he tried to do this, and he tried to do that,
Speaker 1: and they tried to steal it this way, and he
Speaker 1: tried to stay in that way. Like what if that
Speaker 1: stuff had happened and that like now we're sitting here,
Speaker 1: That's what I mean, Like all this like right wing
Speaker 1: should is all projection. Everything that they say, they say
Speaker 1: because that's like actually what they want to do, you know.
Speaker 1: So like we've been spending the last year, they've been
Speaker 1: talking about, oh, the election was stolen. The election was stolen.
Speaker 1: The election was stolen. That's because that's the ship that
Speaker 1: they want to do. They want to like steal an election.
Speaker 1: Because I guarantee you, if like I mean whatever polls say,
Speaker 1: if a majority of these Republicans really, really, truly, truly
Speaker 1: in their heart of hearts, I thought that Donald Trump won,
Speaker 1: they would be that like January six would be every
Speaker 1: day everywhere nationwide. They would not stop they like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, there there would be no there
Speaker 1: would be no like wishy washenis that they're having and
Speaker 1: could the convenience of when they want to be outraged
Speaker 1: and mad about it, and when they don't want to
Speaker 1: be outor so just have hypothetical situation. The election goes down,
Speaker 1: Trump is like, I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying in office.
Speaker 1: They do a bunch of smoke and mirrors legallys to
Speaker 1: like try to pass it off as like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is what this is what's going on now. I think
Speaker 1: that would be a situation where you create it and
Speaker 1: you look and you're you're like, oh my goodness, Americans
Speaker 1: are just out in the street. There's there you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. There's there's monerance, There's there's conservatives who
Speaker 1: don't like this, There's liberals don't like this, there's progressives
Speaker 1: don't like this. This is just people will not stand
Speaker 1: for this. The you know, I think something like that
Speaker 1: is what could bring bring about that sort of thing
Speaker 1: in the US. Barring that, barring us getting to the
Speaker 1: brink of like democracy not working. We've talked about this
Speaker 1: millions of times. There's just there's just too much comfort
Speaker 1: in America to like elicit that sort of reaction out
Speaker 1: of the populace. I think, unless like the situation is
Speaker 1: obviously dire. Yeah, Well, there's a couple of other notable.
Speaker 1: I think conditions in these in these uprisings that um
Speaker 1: are worth discussing briefly. You've got strong female leadership in
Speaker 1: the streets. What's sad? I think that also somewhat mirrors
Speaker 1: what we saw here last summer of like black women
Speaker 1: kind of like leading the thing. So how do you
Speaker 1: think that affects it? Um? I just feel like there's
Speaker 1: something I don't I don't not to be biased, but
Speaker 1: like nurturing about like female leadership of just like's not
Speaker 1: a bear on the streets get fired up, like oh honey,
Speaker 1: do you need a t shoot or whatever? Women just
Speaker 1: care about stuff more and when you're when you whatever,
Speaker 1: you're like working in like any sort of like a
Speaker 1: I don't want to say like a creative endeavor, but
Speaker 1: like just like any sort of like task sort of endeavor.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's like like women care
Speaker 1: more about the tasks that they do than men. Do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? To feel like that, it's
Speaker 1: like I don't like the way this is going. Fuck it,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. Women runsh it around here.
Speaker 1: I mean like in my political organizing, I was always
Speaker 1: found that like ladies, kids, should done. You do. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. It's a beautiful thing. But
Speaker 1: one of the last um I think pieces of you know,
Speaker 1: layers to the success of these popular uprising since then
Speaker 1: is that it is the choice of peaceful protests and
Speaker 1: ins and strikes which makes it difficult for the regime
Speaker 1: to depict the movement in a negative light and non
Speaker 1: violence when met with say violence, drumming up sympathy for
Speaker 1: the cause that brought more and more people into the streets.
Speaker 1: They see images of like innocent people getting gunned down
Speaker 1: by military forces and they're like, you know, let's fark that, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: look how peaceful they are. They have a little dance
Speaker 1: party because I heard, you know, reading reports of the
Speaker 1: atmosphere at some of these protests. You know, they got DJs,
Speaker 1: they got people on the Street's kind of like I've
Speaker 1: been having a good time, you know, seeing that spirit
Speaker 1: not even you know, stay violence aside and being like,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to be a part of that,
Speaker 1: as opposed to I mean, this is this is just
Speaker 1: a neutral just reporting, not taking aside on it here,
Speaker 1: but as opposed to like here where like there was
Speaker 1: you know, Antifa fucking bashing in the windows of the
Speaker 1: Chase Bank or whatever, you know, being people like, oh
Speaker 1: how dare they they're you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be a part of that mess, and uh not, it
Speaker 1: is somewhat diluting the message that they're they're in, the message,
Speaker 1: in the power, the draw of the movement itself. So
Speaker 1: you also got a factor in how restraint the forces
Speaker 1: that you're going against our you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I don't I don't know if it's has the
Speaker 1: Internet or like the boddered times that we're in or
Speaker 1: because like some of these regimes are like getting softer
Speaker 1: and their old day just some ship like that. But
Speaker 1: I've personally been kind of surprised at some of the
Speaker 1: rest you know what I'm saying, Like for all the
Speaker 1: cracking down that they did on the on the uprising
Speaker 1: quote unquote here, it could have been worse, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And like like the protests and like
Speaker 1: the protests in Taiwan, Like I just feel like if
Speaker 1: this was like the eighties, I really don't think China
Speaker 1: will be sucking around with these kids, like like I
Speaker 1: think they would really be going to like coming down
Speaker 1: to them, like real soup, like harder than they're coming
Speaker 1: down on them now, like the protests in Haiti and
Speaker 1: stuff that that's going on, Like when we're talking about
Speaker 1: that same sort of things, like I feel like, damn,
Speaker 1: if this was like the early nineties and the eighties,
Speaker 1: would they really be letting these well, you know, would
Speaker 1: they be really letting the protests go on like this?
Speaker 1: Like like would they, you know, with the student with
Speaker 1: the military, the Sudanese military, if this was two thousand two,
Speaker 1: be like as restrained as they are right now. And
Speaker 1: I wonder what I wonder if there is that because
Speaker 1: of internet and social media or is that another factor
Speaker 1: that's that's a bluff with that mm hmm, Like are they,
Speaker 1: like our regimes more concerned in the in modern times
Speaker 1: about how they look and how things like that like
Speaker 1: cracking down and just emptying machine guns into a crowd
Speaker 1: of protesters. Are they more concerned with like, hey, that's
Speaker 1: not a good look, don't know? Yeah, Actually, the more
Speaker 1: the more I think on it, definitely that they can't
Speaker 1: do as I community because people everyone's watching, you know,
Speaker 1: through their camera phones, and then whoever it's watching on
Speaker 1: the other side start like a multi country second protests.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a little break anyway. Anyway, I mean
Speaker 1: the way these lecture results are going. Man, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else I'm supposed to do. Bro,
Speaker 1: I don't want Granny to have to be able to
Speaker 1: afford dentures and ship, Bro, I didn't ask for all this.
Speaker 1: I don't know. What do you what do you think
Speaker 1: it's gonna What do you think? What do you think
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen? In two thousand two? Two thousand two?
Speaker 1: Space is gonna be? That's going to happen? Oh no, man,
Speaker 1: we can do a whole separate episode on that show.
Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see. I like to have hope, you know,
Speaker 1: optimism of the pastimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like hopefully this will be
Speaker 1: a wake up call, that's what That's what you know.
Speaker 1: People would be like, oh, ship chocked out of there,
Speaker 1: you know, complacency on one side, or like to making
Speaker 1: up more of your stance and the other I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I guess the best we can do is defeat fascism
Speaker 1: and like, you know, get back involved. If they had
Speaker 1: fallen out because they were not blues with the way
Speaker 1: things are going. M well, well let's I'll just if
Speaker 1: Democrats want to win, they just need to parade Texas,
Speaker 1: like keep that in the forefront of everybody who had that. Look.
Speaker 1: You need to not to turn the country into Texas.
Speaker 1: And then you need a little bit of this stick,
Speaker 1: a little bit of the carrot. You gotta give the
Speaker 1: people some material, you know, uplift, pass some bold you know,
Speaker 1: social spending that will make people's last material be better. Um,
Speaker 1: because if they're already living in misery, threatening them with
Speaker 1: more misery, they might just be like fucking brand On,
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care about anything. Everything is
Speaker 1: terrible as it is. Make it, make Georgia Texas for
Speaker 1: all I fucking care. You know, you can't. You can't
Speaker 1: threaten people if they're already at what they perceived to
Speaker 1: be their lowest. Give him something good. You're not robbed,
Speaker 1: you're you're not wronged, you're not wrong at all. Like
Speaker 1: thinking about this like for like uh, like young working class,
Speaker 1: like you know, work sixty hours a week, Like I
Speaker 1: don't know, grocery bagger here in Georgia that like six
Speaker 1: roommates to pay the rent, you know, maybe got they
Speaker 1: got kids, they got student loans whatever, like to them,
Speaker 1: abortion is already like functionally illegal, and that like they
Speaker 1: can't afford it, They can't get off work to go,
Speaker 1: they can't afford child care to go and get the procedure.
Speaker 1: They you know, might go to a crisis pregnancy center
Speaker 1: and get told misinformation about it, and then I got
Speaker 1: the adiyada, Like it's already functionally inaccessible to that person.
Speaker 1: So to tell them that, oh now we're gonna make
Speaker 1: it like really illegal, it's like fucking what was I
Speaker 1: going to do in the first place. I can't I
Speaker 1: can't afford five hundred dollars at abortion. I can't like
Speaker 1: I can't get time off work. I don't have a car.
Speaker 1: I can't drive three hours to the next the nearest
Speaker 1: abortion clinic. So that's what I mean by like you
Speaker 1: can't scare people with how much worse things could get.
Speaker 1: Things are already so fucking dad for so many people.
Speaker 1: And to illustrate with an endcode and as always like
Speaker 1: you're absolutely not wrong, I mean I I don't. It's
Speaker 1: not so much as like, oh man, how come people
Speaker 1: don't aren't looking at it? In this big picture, macro way,
Speaker 1: because of course it's hard for people to look at
Speaker 1: things and these like long scale like views when everybody's
Speaker 1: like worried about the immediacy of their own lives. And
Speaker 1: that's totally understandable. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: for two cats like us who are talking about it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and like, you know from
Speaker 1: somewhat of a you know, we're having a political conversation
Speaker 1: about it, and one that's like encompassing the long term
Speaker 1: of how the thing goes in I'm I'm thinking about,
Speaker 1: you know, like environmental policy going forward if the wrong
Speaker 1: people are in power. I'm thinking about like just like
Speaker 1: ten fifteen years from now with like the civil rights
Speaker 1: movement and slavery being taught less in school than it is. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about like the most powerful, one of the
Speaker 1: most powerful cultural voices in the country being like, hey,
Speaker 1: trans people are weird, and everyone like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and having millions and millions of people Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: trus people are weird, are you know. I'm it's like
Speaker 1: I think about how these things like are affecting, like
Speaker 1: the long term effect that it's going to have, and
Speaker 1: it's just like from that, you know, it's like I
Speaker 1: understand why nobody is concerned or why people are more
Speaker 1: concerned about what's gonna happened next week than they are
Speaker 1: concerned about what's gonna happen in ten years. I get it.
Speaker 1: But also looking at ten years, it's like, shit, man,
Speaker 1: this is it's not good. It's not good. It's not good.
Speaker 1: You know what is good? Rap music, rap music, musical
Speaker 1: about let's talk about it, all right, let's we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into a music discussion right after the jump. All right,
Speaker 1: part of people, we are back Dope, knife Linger Franco
Speaker 1: waiting our reparations, music discussion time, mother, Yes, and up.
Speaker 1: First we have omarm majeed Um it was the theme
Speaker 1: is almost theme the theme? Okay. So we got a
Speaker 1: mixture of Sudanese hip hop artists and UM and folks
Speaker 1: with the d spora who either draw influence from UM
Speaker 1: you know, the sounds of Africa or who themselves are
Speaker 1: UM you know, the Sudanese American, Sudanese Canadian. I think
Speaker 1: one of these cats is so Proba and some surprising
Speaker 1: names you might not you might not have realized had
Speaker 1: Studentese heritage. Um. But first we're gonna get into, you know,
Speaker 1: some political raps which are our favorites with Omamajied and
Speaker 1: his song with Sudania Sudania I don't know, uh, featuring
Speaker 1: um Gee, Sally at a Proof and a k A Keys.
Speaker 1: So this song it's going in on. He's calling that
Speaker 1: the corruption of the Basher administration. Um that goes on
Speaker 1: while people starve and go without medicine. Um, it's just
Speaker 1: as a scathing indictment of the previous regime. So let's
Speaker 1: get a little listen. You've been eating off of Plato,
Speaker 1: you well, fare when they're struggling for prey, putting pullings
Speaker 1: and they're handing it int really matter. They won't say, homie,
Speaker 1: you don't gotta be Yeah. So the music video has
Speaker 1: really graphic depictions of violence against what I presume our
Speaker 1: protesters by the military. Um morning if you look it up. Um,
Speaker 1: but the good hard they just really to call out
Speaker 1: the economic inequality, the people who are hoarding on the goal,
Speaker 1: eating off the platter, you know, sitting pretty um ordering
Speaker 1: the military to go crack down on folks who have nothing.
Speaker 1: Who are you know, going going without basic necessities and
Speaker 1: you know, filling the streets with nothing to lose um
Speaker 1: in you know, in retaliation in response to the deprivation
Speaker 1: that they're living through. So I'm not sure if this
Speaker 1: song came out in twenty nineteen, but it's got it.
Speaker 1: The YouTube video that we're watching from it's it definitely
Speaker 1: has um the same sort of energy and some that
Speaker 1: some of the music that was being made in the
Speaker 1: wake of the George Floyd you know, like that that's
Speaker 1: sort of you know, I'm on the I'm on the
Speaker 1: ground in the thick of the ship, and I'm observing it,
Speaker 1: so I'm writing about it. It has that sort of
Speaker 1: vibe to it, but obviously feels a lot more pressing
Speaker 1: because the stakes in the situation feel a lot more
Speaker 1: are a lot more dire, I would say in the
Speaker 1: video accompanied with it too, like brings that all to home.
Speaker 1: Like Mariah said, it's it's really graphic. It's it's showing,
Speaker 1: you know, the same sort of scenes of protests that
Speaker 1: you would see on the issue if you're watching the news,
Speaker 1: but because it's you know, music video, they're afforded the
Speaker 1: ability to show you like the real effects of the violence.
Speaker 1: So instead of you just hearing oh, some the police
Speaker 1: cracked down and some protesters and twelve of them died.
Speaker 1: The video is actually showing you dead protesters and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, so you could put faces to it. And yeah,
Speaker 1: also on like an aesthetic note with regards to the rhemen,
Speaker 1: the bars the bars are good. Oh yeah, first verse,
Speaker 1: the first verse, No that stays stays, yeah, stays clean
Speaker 1: throughout the big shout out to Omama GI. Up. Next,
Speaker 1: we've got Sudanese American rapper Odyssey. Did you know honestly
Speaker 1: what Sudanese? Yes, I did, honestly, not always honestly Sudanese.
Speaker 1: But he's also from DC too, so it's like apparently, yeah,
Speaker 1: apparently a lot of Sudanese and other African communities up there. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's with Melo Music Group. And in this
Speaker 1: song You Grew Up off of his album The Iceberg,
Speaker 1: he tackles the experiences of being you know, in Africa,
Speaker 1: sport in America. Um. His born name is Amir Muhammad
Speaker 1: al Khalifa. He's the son of a Sudanese father an
Speaker 1: African American mother. Grew up like I said in selfistream
Speaker 1: Maryland um. And in the song he discusses growing up,
Speaker 1: growing apart from a white childhood friend who blames his
Speaker 1: father for sealing his job. Let's listen to this song
Speaker 1: by Odyssey. You grew up the mob was aless what
Speaker 1: in the mid western tent wouldn't were a many brown people.
Speaker 1: You can see reflection get picked going. I mean, I
Speaker 1: really like, I feel like it's a it's a unique
Speaker 1: like it's not unique but underutilized UM format, like the
Speaker 1: narrative structure and a rap song. And I think here
Speaker 1: is a great example. He tells a really interesting story,
Speaker 1: you know, painting a picture of his um working class childhood,
Speaker 1: going to six Flags and hanging out UM with his
Speaker 1: little best friend. And then it's interesting like class wise,
Speaker 1: I think this is like a much interesting, very interesting,
Speaker 1: broader commentary. So class wise he identified that he was
Speaker 1: both working class trying to make it out of hood UM,
Speaker 1: and they talked about being best friends despite they were
Speaker 1: different colors. UM. But then his like the influence of
Speaker 1: his parents. He played my father for the loss of
Speaker 1: his job. He said, immigrants robs and this his jobs
Speaker 1: and I better never set foot again in his yard. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, let's this is this is essentially what happens
Speaker 1: if we're just to add like some poetic license. Essentially,
Speaker 1: he's telling the story of this childhood friend who he had,
Speaker 1: who was a white dude, and as they grew older,
Speaker 1: pretty much his friend kind of falls down the maga
Speaker 1: maga or something. Yeah. Yeah, it's like he's got this
Speaker 1: part where he says, uh, have you ever had a
Speaker 1: friend become a fanatic? Most of y'all haven't, but if
Speaker 1: you ever did, you'd understand the one thing that they
Speaker 1: have in common that somebody took advantage of their damage
Speaker 1: as a kid, Like you know, yeah, I didn't think
Speaker 1: about that part. I was looking at like, oh, this
Speaker 1: divine conquer thing of Like they're both working class, but oh,
Speaker 1: I gotta blame someone for the loss of my job,
Speaker 1: so I'll blame the African immigrant rather than blame like
Speaker 1: the CEO of that shipped that job overseas actually, or
Speaker 1: is you know, undercutting wages to pay immigrants last to
Speaker 1: exploit them and they're both actually getting fucked. Yeah. He
Speaker 1: goes on to say, got picked on in school during lectures,
Speaker 1: graduated hating everybody in his class. Picked on because uh
Speaker 1: now he's talking about himself, and picked on because he
Speaker 1: prayed to because he prayed it five to the east
Speaker 1: and he didn't get didn't eat meat. That all I said,
Speaker 1: it was bad. One day a man approached them in
Speaker 1: a mosque changed his life when he asked him a question,
Speaker 1: do you ever feel your life is? Your life was
Speaker 1: a loss? And what if I could teach you that
Speaker 1: life is a weapon, that's fine? Oh yeah, no, don't
Speaker 1: sleep people. People sleep on Odyssey easily is one of
Speaker 1: the like if I if somebody, you know, put the
Speaker 1: put the pistol to my head and say, hey, you
Speaker 1: gotta come up with a top fifty. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Odnestly is gonna be on my list, Like,
Speaker 1: and not only as an MC, but Odessly as a
Speaker 1: producer to mother would be making his beats Like Obnestly
Speaker 1: is the real deal. And you were saying you were
Speaker 1: talking about how the narratives underutilized um delivery too. I
Speaker 1: think it's because it's it's one of those aspects of
Speaker 1: hip hop that just like whenever you're wrapping about like
Speaker 1: an issue or something like that, it's one of those
Speaker 1: things that it's very easy to make it sound corny.
Speaker 1: And yeah, you get that kind of slick rick like yeah,
Speaker 1: once up at a time, No exactly, Like if you're
Speaker 1: if you're if you're in the like a casual headspace
Speaker 1: where you kind of like just want to wrap or
Speaker 1: you just you know, you don't necessarily want to sit
Speaker 1: down and think too hard about what you're wrapping. Then
Speaker 1: don't try to write like a story or a narrative
Speaker 1: because it's just gonna come out sounding like the fresh
Speaker 1: Prince of bal ar Ti. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like you really you really got to sit down and
Speaker 1: really think about you know, how am I going to
Speaker 1: convey this information but not be so you know, nail
Speaker 1: on the head with it, you know, and like best
Speaker 1: reserved for masters of the craft, like honesty, let's being
Speaker 1: a master of the craft honestly being one touch master
Speaker 1: with regards to beats as well. Our next artist is
Speaker 1: also a very talented beat smith um and it's kind
Speaker 1: of an R and B singer. But this song that
Speaker 1: I picked out by Sitting Archives not for sale um
Speaker 1: kind of has like a bit of a flow to it,
Speaker 1: like sort of like maybe she got a little empty
Speaker 1: in her two Well, let's listen to the song or
Speaker 1: quick not for sale my strings propagate space attack here
Speaker 1: and there at the same time. Really, Viggo's funk gorgeous
Speaker 1: for this ship. I think it's safe to say that
Speaker 1: she reps. I think it's safe to say she wraps.
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a it's a trend increasingly
Speaker 1: in like R and B singer. I mean we should
Speaker 1: hear that with Beyonce hold out a whole lot of
Speaker 1: ladies out here that are sort of blurring this line
Speaker 1: between R and B or like they are adopting like
Speaker 1: a cadence that's so stiffato that it feels like you're
Speaker 1: singing but you're rapping. And she does it really well.
Speaker 1: I think I think that r V has been getting
Speaker 1: away with a lot of rapping for the last like
Speaker 1: ten and fifteen years. There's been a lot of rapping
Speaker 1: with a singing voice going on. Not no hey, no
Speaker 1: shade at all. Let's wrapping raps when I hear raps,
Speaker 1: but I'm not this ship is this is dope? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so rapping uh Stone Star Records in archives. It's a
Speaker 1: self taught violinist and beat baker. We're have actually in
Speaker 1: since Hattie Ohio. But her work, um, she says draws
Speaker 1: on the violence side of Northeast Africa, UM and musicians
Speaker 1: including Camerooney and electronic musician for instance Baby and Sudanese
Speaker 1: violinist GARAGEI mhm, this is this is dope. I'm actually
Speaker 1: really interested in hearing some more for them. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: she got a little breakdown wrapping this too. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta hear some more of her stuff, definitely. But
Speaker 1: I don't even know what context I heard the song before,
Speaker 1: but this is dope. I heard it like a goddamn
Speaker 1: cole is commercialists. I mean that, I mean that it's
Speaker 1: high price. Yeah, I don't know where she's actually, I
Speaker 1: mean other than she grew up in Cincinnati. If anybody
Speaker 1: finds out, what does that let me know? Yeah? Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what. As a matter of fact, I know
Speaker 1: that we have been talking about this pretty much from
Speaker 1: the show's inception, but I am going to take the
Speaker 1: time to actually start setting up some of these playlists
Speaker 1: that we were telling you guys about. So if you guys, um,
Speaker 1: I think we'll spread it out between my uh maybe
Speaker 1: my Spotify page or something in yours or something like guys,
Speaker 1: go follow follow me on Spotify. I'm going to start
Speaker 1: putting up exclusive waiting on reparations playlists, So we will
Speaker 1: actually start one like right now, the African Dysphoria yeahes
Speaker 1: or something like that, and start putting a lot of
Speaker 1: the stuff in. We'll make one with Brazilian hip hop,
Speaker 1: will make one with where else, the where else? What
Speaker 1: have we globe trotted to? Maybe but anywhere in pain.
Speaker 1: We've been all over this bitch, all of the music
Speaker 1: discussion themes that we've been going on. We'll just have
Speaker 1: some ongoing playlists. Well, we'll just continually add songs to
Speaker 1: those playlists that fit those themes, stuff that we didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily get to mention in the songs and whatnot. So
Speaker 1: from this point going forward, if we do an episode
Speaker 1: where we're like, I don't know, talking about vegan rap
Speaker 1: or something like that, we will get a vegan rap
Speaker 1: playlists going so that you guys can go check those out. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that's all we got for today. We got
Speaker 1: for this week. We'll see you next week. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: do get into the election results a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Who knows, we could do anything, fucking do whatever we want.
Speaker 1: Free negroes. But if you know what's really free until
Speaker 1: we have the economic freedom to fully self determine our destinies.
Speaker 1: So we are waiting on reparations, and I think maybe
Speaker 1: time we should have a little bit. Yeah, let's let's
Speaker 1: get into some rhyme. Give us, give free a Joel.
Speaker 1: Let's bust it Joel. Oh blue collar on the beat? Yo,
Speaker 1: what's happening blessing the beat on West Africa? Your hood
Speaker 1: looked like Sesame Street. So when the military wanted to
Speaker 1: take executive reach, then we're really here to go ahead
Speaker 1: and get on our feet. But you know they're really
Speaker 1: trying to overthrow the government. This is how we do
Speaker 1: it in the Motherland. Get up on the street and
Speaker 1: then go match without a gun in hand. Strong man
Speaker 1: stretched like a rubber band. Now give a hug to
Speaker 1: your brother man. It's a freestyle. Hey, my name's Dope Knife.
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