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Speaker 1: The reality for real celebrity Join the Breakfast Morning. Everybody
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Speaker 1: is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Scheloman, the Guy. We are
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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club, special guests in the building, Friend to
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Speaker 1: the room, the legendary bun b and Professor Anthony pen
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Speaker 1: Thank you for having us. This seems like a natural
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Speaker 1: transition for the og Bunby there launching a Religion and
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Speaker 1: the Hip Hop Culture online course. Yeah, we actually teach
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Speaker 1: the course presently at Rice University UM, but this is
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to take the conversation that we have in
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Speaker 1: the classroom outside of the classroom, which was always the
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Speaker 1: intention that Doc and I had for this version of
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Speaker 1: the course. Doc has actually been teaching a version of
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Speaker 1: this for over twenty years, Okay, and I came into
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Speaker 1: the mix of about four years ago. Explain the course, Doc,
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Speaker 1: what it looks at the intersections between religion and hip hop.
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Speaker 1: We believe that there's lots of commonalities that we really
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Speaker 1: need to explore. That both of these cultural developments have
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Speaker 1: had huge impact over the course of human history, and
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Speaker 1: if we don't wrestle with them, we do ourselves a disservice.
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Speaker 1: So we look at the links between hip hop and Christianity,
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Speaker 1: the links between hip hop and Islam, and then we
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Speaker 1: look at the ways in which hip hop in certain
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Speaker 1: circles has actually replaced these religious traditions. Religious folks mad
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Speaker 1: thing that Islam ain't got nothna do it no hip hop.
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Speaker 1: My Christianity ain't gonna do it no hip hop. Meek
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Speaker 1: Mills ain't men. Well, if you take Black churches, for example,
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Speaker 1: there's always been a love hate relationship between Black churches
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Speaker 1: and musical production begins with the blues. They have a
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Speaker 1: hard time with gospel, so of course they're gonna have
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Speaker 1: a hard time with hip hop. But as soon as
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Speaker 1: jay Z says you're in the presence of a King,
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Speaker 1: scratched that you're in the presence of God, it's a
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Speaker 1: religious conversation that you gotta have. All When jay Z said,
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Speaker 1: Jesus can't save you life thoughts when the church ends again,
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Speaker 1: you got to have a conversation about that. Now, folks
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Speaker 1: and churches may not like that, but you gotta have
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Speaker 1: a conversation about it. So for me, this is long term.
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Speaker 1: I've spent a good number of years as a Christian
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Speaker 1: minister in the Methodist Church, but a hip hop fan
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Speaker 1: so trying to bring these two together in the context
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Speaker 1: of the pulpit was part of my life and it's
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Speaker 1: not always pleasant, but in part church folks and Muslims
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Speaker 1: have to recognize that their traditions have not always been
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Speaker 1: at the best. So rather than just pointing fingers, it's
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Speaker 1: time to have a conversation. So do you break down
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Speaker 1: rap lyrics? Like if I said that line, y'all would
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Speaker 1: break down what that means? Yeah, that's what we do.
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Speaker 1: That's that's that's where I come in at. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And then I have my interpretation of
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Speaker 1: what different artists or different you know people mean by
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Speaker 1: when they say certain things. And then Doc has his
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Speaker 1: interpretation and we put it out for the class, and
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Speaker 1: we have different students that have different interpretations of these things.
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Speaker 1: Can you give us an example of like a song
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Speaker 1: or a lyric that you guys would breakdown the jay
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Speaker 1: Z line. I would love to hear that, like Jesus
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Speaker 1: can't save you life starts from the church. Well, I
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Speaker 1: mean that's basically his outlook on basically the neglect that
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Speaker 1: the church has had for a lot of people. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying when we say the church. We
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Speaker 1: don't necessarily mean Christianity. We talk about the churches, you know,
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Speaker 1: idea and the concept of church, which a lot of
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Speaker 1: people have issues with in Mountain times, especially when we
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Speaker 1: look at the millennials. The millennials, they're not running away
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Speaker 1: from the church, you know, they're they're they're running to Christ.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of people now a moundern times don't
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Speaker 1: really believe that they need to go to a church
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Speaker 1: to get closer to Christ or God. Got you. That's
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Speaker 1: that's how I took the line that it was more
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Speaker 1: like a you don't have to be religious to be spiritual. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: and that's definitely you know, topics of conversation that we
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Speaker 1: have during the basically the context of this course. So
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Speaker 1: you're like a gospel rap genius kind of. I mean, look,
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Speaker 1: the sole purpose of this course is not to sit
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Speaker 1: around and break down rap lyrics. It's a divine define
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Speaker 1: religion as a culture, to find hip hop as a culture,
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Speaker 1: show the similarities between the two, and show the times
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Speaker 1: where maybe they don't necessarily coaligned and coexist with each
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Speaker 1: other in the way that we would all like them too.
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Speaker 1: You got a degree or something like that. I don't
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Speaker 1: have one day of college. Y, wow, somebody gave you
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Speaker 1: like an honorary doctorate or something. No, no, they gave
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Speaker 1: me a day, but ain't give me a Well, I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I need to talk to rights about that.
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Speaker 1: We'll had that conversation. Why didn't something you wanted to
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Speaker 1: do that? Well, I've been teaching religion for twenty one years,
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Speaker 1: but I've been a fan of hip hop for much
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Speaker 1: longer than that, and so when I'm talking about God
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Speaker 1: and a cret So when I moved to Houston, had
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Speaker 1: only made sense to try to be in touch with
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Speaker 1: some of the artists that have influenced me over the years.
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Speaker 1: So I had one of my students, Andrea Matthews, reach
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Speaker 1: out to Bunn. We had a phone conversation. I asked
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Speaker 1: him to come in and lecture, and it benefited me.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to hear what he had to say, but
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Speaker 1: my students definitely needed to hear what he had to say.
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Speaker 1: We had a conversation in my office and it was
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Speaker 1: clear to us over a short period of time that
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Speaker 1: he needed to have a more sustained presence on campus.
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Speaker 1: So I asked if he'd be willing to co teach
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Speaker 1: the course For me, I thought that would be unique
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Speaker 1: that you'd have an academic who knows religion and there's
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Speaker 1: a hip hop plan partnered with an artist who also
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Speaker 1: knows religion, as a conversation that wasn't taking place anywhere else.
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Speaker 1: How do y'all feel about Kanye calling himself Jesus? I'm
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Speaker 1: sure that don't come up. Well, I mean that has
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Speaker 1: come up, and it contacts of class. I mean again,
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Speaker 1: it's just you know, this is not the first time
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Speaker 1: that people within hip hop have identified themselves with diddies.
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Speaker 1: You know, we talk about Hove, we talk about the
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Speaker 1: concept of two podcasts of black Jesus. You know, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know what, we may have to have that conversation now,
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Speaker 1: I'm calling confused with the similarity because a lot of
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Speaker 1: people would be upset with this. Course, a lot of
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Speaker 1: people feel that hip hop is not all positive. It
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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the church. It has nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with Christianity or or God or anything. But
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Speaker 1: unless you're talking about a Lacreze, well no, not necessarily,
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Speaker 1: because I think what a lot of people identify as
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Speaker 1: hip hop culture is really just rap music. Rap music
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Speaker 1: is a part of hip hop, but it's not all
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Speaker 1: of what hip hop encompasses. It is not always what
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Speaker 1: hip hop was started. You know, what hip hop was
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Speaker 1: created to represent? What hip hop was created to do,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But there are a lot
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Speaker 1: of great examples of great you know, words and lyrics
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Speaker 1: and me something, this is what, this is what I
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Speaker 1: want to hear now and then And here's the thing. See,
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Speaker 1: you think that you're thinking that because I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: a crazy subject matter, that it can't be spiritual. And
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Speaker 1: I understand that, you know, drawing that connotation, but you
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Speaker 1: have to understand. People are speaking to their struggles, you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. People are speaking to the truths
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Speaker 1: and the life and the environment in which they live in.
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Speaker 1: And you have to really think about the fact that
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Speaker 1: I mean, you think if Jesus was here today, where
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Speaker 1: would Jesus be. Jesus would be trying to save these
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Speaker 1: people that we think Jesus would condemn. And when you
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Speaker 1: talk about that, you know a lot of people look
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Speaker 1: at the industry as it's the devil's land. You know,
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Speaker 1: it gives you a lot of money, it gives you fame,
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Speaker 1: it gives you all of the things you necessarily want,
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Speaker 1: but a lot of times you sell your soul. You're
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Speaker 1: talking about the fame and women, and but that's always
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Speaker 1: been an issue that the church has had with music
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Speaker 1: in general. It didn't start with hip hop, you know,
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Speaker 1: the churches had The church had issues with gospel music
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Speaker 1: in general, which is all about, you know, proclaiming your
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Speaker 1: faith and your love for Christ in a higher power.
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Speaker 1: The church couldn't accept that in its early days, so
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Speaker 1: of course they wouldn't necessarily accept hip hop, you know.
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Speaker 1: But we have to look at, you know, the questions
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Speaker 1: and the way of life that hip hop tackles. And
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Speaker 1: you know, hip hop is a culture that for me,
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Speaker 1: it helps me become a better person. It helps me
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Speaker 1: answer a lot of the heavy questions about life. Who
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Speaker 1: am I? Why am I here? It helps me to
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Speaker 1: struggle with the choices that I have to make in life.
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Speaker 1: So tell me what's the different between that and religion.
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Speaker 1: You also can't let churches off the hook, right. The
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Speaker 1: whole lot of ministers don't say it explicitly, but their
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Speaker 1: actions prove it. Pimpad ain't easy, right, They're doing the
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Speaker 1: same sort of thing. And if you think in terms
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Speaker 1: of new developments and church, it's the prosperity gospel. That's
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Speaker 1: all about getting yours right. So Crafflo Dollar, td Jakes,
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Speaker 1: Eddie Longs, you know, so that that similarity exists, we're
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Speaker 1: too quick to assume that what churches say about themselves
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Speaker 1: is accurate, right right, No, No, I agree. I think
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Speaker 1: I think church a lot of churches are big pimp game.
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Speaker 1: And then it feels like a lot of people do
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Speaker 1: it for the money, not necessarily for the reason that
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Speaker 1: they should be doing it. In the music industry the same.
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Speaker 1: But I just it's kind of like, you know, some
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Speaker 1: people don't drink this with this. It's kind of like
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Speaker 1: I don't have my hip hop with my church. It
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Speaker 1: seems too totally different reasons. I think that means it's
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Speaker 1: a problem with your Churchcuse I don't think it's a problem.
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Speaker 1: I don't think you have a problem with your hip hop.
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Speaker 1: But you said earlier about a lot of millennials stay
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Speaker 1: away from church. I feel the same way, like I
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Speaker 1: have a relationship with God, I pray, I read the Bible,
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Speaker 1: and because church is square, but church church feel like
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Speaker 1: a way like it feels like it's it's a business.
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Speaker 1: Well that's where we go to more and more churches.
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Speaker 1: No matter what church, every one too. It always feels
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Speaker 1: like a business is opposed to really getting closer to
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Speaker 1: God and trying to get yourself better and be a
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Speaker 1: better man and be a better father than be a
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Speaker 1: better husband and be a better person in your community.
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Speaker 1: It seems like it's always a business first, and that's
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Speaker 1: always my problem with most churches. Yeah, well that's the thing,
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Speaker 1: we know. You know, religion in church are two separate things,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, you know, going to
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Speaker 1: church is really just about the practices of being in
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Speaker 1: the church and being in that church flog. It really
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Speaker 1: doesn't Going to church doesn't mean you're getting any closer
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Speaker 1: to God, you know what I'm saying. In some instances,
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Speaker 1: it maybe you're following somebody that that's pulling you away, right,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you have to come
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Speaker 1: to terms with your own personal struggle, your own personal
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Speaker 1: choices as to who you want to be. And in
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Speaker 1: a lot of cases, hip hop make you helps you
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Speaker 1: to make these choices and helps you to make them
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Speaker 1: in a better way. Now, when we talk about this,
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Speaker 1: like I said, you know, people confuse rap songs with
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Speaker 1: hip hop culture, all right. That's rap music is a
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Speaker 1: very very small part of hip hop culture. It's just
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Speaker 1: the most dominant factor of it. It's the one that
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Speaker 1: we see all the time, absolutely, you know. But we
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Speaker 1: have to learn to navigate this language in the same
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Speaker 1: way that we have to learn to navigate the language
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Speaker 1: of religion and find our way to you know, better ourselves. Now,
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Speaker 1: do you guys touch on somebody like Mace who people
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Speaker 1: were up in arms when he was still rapping, but
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Speaker 1: he was being a passage and they were saying, they
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Speaker 1: were saying, there's a difference. He was saying, there's a
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Speaker 1: difference between him as an artist's completely separate as him
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Speaker 1: as a passa. Can you separate those two? Doctor? That's
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Speaker 1: a rough question. Yeah, that's a hard one. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we don't know. We don't talk about artists and that
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Speaker 1: like amazed like because that would be more about to
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Speaker 1: you know, really just personal. Yeah. Yeah's you know, we're
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Speaker 1: trying to get I was trying to get make up
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Speaker 1: here because I mean, you know, I think we all
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Speaker 1: were confused with Mace, you know, and what Mace did
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Speaker 1: was when he gave up hip hop and he gave
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Speaker 1: his life to God. I thought it was amazing, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I thought that if he speaks well, you thought
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Speaker 1: it was Sincere. I thought I thought it was Sincere.
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Speaker 1: I thought it would be great because Mace was somebody
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Speaker 1: that the kids looked up to. It if he could
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Speaker 1: preach the good word, that's always great. It's always great
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Speaker 1: on somebody from my community can do something good and
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Speaker 1: help somebody else, no matter what it, whether it's church,
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Speaker 1: build communities, whatever it is. And then when he came
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Speaker 1: back talking about ping ping shooting guns here like whoa
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Speaker 1: Like this isn't from pastor mids to murder mass. That's
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Speaker 1: where it gets confusing. Yeah, of course, I mean, and
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Speaker 1: that's a struggle that he's going to have to learn
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Speaker 1: to deal with, you know what I'm saying. And that's
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Speaker 1: his personal struggle. But I don't think it's reflective of
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Speaker 1: either hip hop or religion nowadays. I think that that
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Speaker 1: the pastor Mason Betha is an anomaly into itself and
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Speaker 1: life is a struggle, right, You're constantly moving between this
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Speaker 1: life is a struggle. The difficulty for me is why
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Speaker 1: do you have to give up hip hop to be
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Speaker 1: a part of the church. Right that if the church
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Speaker 1: is really about the business of making life whole right
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Speaker 1: kind of addressing the spiritual issues that you have. Then
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't have to give this up. Becomes you don't,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe it a reverend and talk about shooting
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Speaker 1: and selling. See, but you're making the assumption that that's
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Speaker 1: what hip hop culture is. No, you are, because you're
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Speaker 1: saying that you're saying that gun culture and hip hop
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Speaker 1: are synonymous and that you can't say paradom. No, I'm not.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I'm saying in Macy's situation. Oh okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm Are you specific to me talk about shooting guns
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Speaker 1: and continue to talk about threesomes and continue to talk
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Speaker 1: about a lot of those things when you say you
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Speaker 1: gave it up, that's what confused me. But then church
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Speaker 1: are just doing it, not talking about it. Right, So
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Speaker 1: there are ways in which churches kill people. Right, if
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Speaker 1: you think about it, Black churches are composed of at
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Speaker 1: least seventy percent black women. But if you think in
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Speaker 1: terms of leadership opportunities, how black women are discussed within
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Speaker 1: context of churches, there's silence in a certain way. They're
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Speaker 1: killed and don't be gay or less being in a
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Speaker 1: black church. Right. The only way you can survive in
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Speaker 1: that is if you're a musician, or you sit and
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Speaker 1: you eat the disrespect. Right, So churches, churches are doing
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Speaker 1: something that is deeply harmful, but simply just pointing a
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Speaker 1: finger when it comes to vulgarity, because I think that's
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Speaker 1: the main thing with hip hop that would probably turn
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Speaker 1: off from religious folks. I call Jeezy past the young
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Speaker 1: because I feel like he'd be spitting ghetto gospel. But
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Speaker 1: I mean, I use vulgarity, but I think some people
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Speaker 1: just cuss too much for the sake of cousin. How
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Speaker 1: do you get religious folks to look past the vulgarity
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Speaker 1: to actually no, listen to what he's saying. It's a
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Speaker 1: message in it that could be used for spiritual purposes. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think we have to give a deeper understanding of
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Speaker 1: what hip hop culture is, and we have to do
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Speaker 1: a better job of explaining ourselves to the world and
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Speaker 1: our struggles to the world. And you know, if people
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Speaker 1: can't take the time to sit and dissect through it,
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Speaker 1: then maybe it's not just not for them. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not here to sell religious people on hip hop,
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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't buy into any religion and that somebody
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Speaker 1: was trying to sell me. You know, I just speak
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Speaker 1: to my personal struggle, and I make my choices, and
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Speaker 1: you know, what happens happens, and I'm I'm aware of
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Speaker 1: it and I'm ready to deal with it, you know.
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Speaker 1: But I'm not here to sell hip And what we
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Speaker 1: do in this class is not selling hip hop to religion,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because I don't think we
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Speaker 1: should have to. I think there's I think we're brothers
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Speaker 1: in the struggle, you know. And if you look at
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Speaker 1: our Black communities, that's you know, it's it's really divided
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Speaker 1: between that hip hop culture and the religion. But we're
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Speaker 1: all growing growing up and we're all living in the
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Speaker 1: same conditions in the same community. So we have to
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Speaker 1: find similarities because when we go into these inner cities
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Speaker 1: of America, the only people that care about those people
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Speaker 1: are the hip hop people in the church. How many
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Speaker 1: times have you had to explain and like what you
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Speaker 1: said just now with envy, that hip hop culture is
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Speaker 1: not gun culture, it's not drug culture. I mean, because
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Speaker 1: the problem is is that the perception of hip hop
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Speaker 1: right is a lot more than what hip hop is
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Speaker 1: right so you know, everybody assumes that hip hop is
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Speaker 1: much worse than it actually is. Everybody believes that these
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Speaker 1: guys are bigger criminals and that we're bigger threats to
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Speaker 1: society than we really are. And the problem is that
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Speaker 1: we've we've sold that through rap music for a while,
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Speaker 1: you know, through these major labels. That's what they've done.
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Speaker 1: So the main music that's promoted and marketed as hip
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Speaker 1: hop culture is not what anybody would really want to
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Speaker 1: represent them, you know. You know, when we go to
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Speaker 1: the club on Saturday night and we dance in the club,
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Speaker 1: that's a good thing, there's nothing wrong with that, but
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Speaker 1: that's not who we are. That's really just a break
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Speaker 1: and a release to get away from who we have
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Speaker 1: to be usually five days a week from nine to five. Right,
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Speaker 1: So there's no reason for us to start trying to
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Speaker 1: throw rocks at the other side, because you know, we're
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Speaker 1: coupable for some things in hip hop, the same way
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Speaker 1: that religion is culpable for some things. But if we're
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Speaker 1: just going to sit across from each other and think
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Speaker 1: about the negative things, that we're not going to get anywhere,
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Speaker 1: you know, So we have to start looking at the
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Speaker 1: similarities and the different ways in which we can work
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Speaker 1: together to get to the same place, because I truly
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Speaker 1: believe hip hop culture and religion culture is trying to
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Speaker 1: do the same thing help people deal with life. Now,
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Speaker 1: you guys addressed marriage in this course because one thing
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Speaker 1: I've always admired about you. You have such a strong
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Speaker 1: union with your wife, and you've always been proud to
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Speaker 1: be married and brought your wife with you everywhere. It's
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Speaker 1: not something you try to hide, right, you know, so, um,
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Speaker 1: it's that's something that you guys addressed as well. Marriage. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't know you really talk. That hasn't been part
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Speaker 1: of the conversation. That's just stuff I'd be doing on
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Speaker 1: the side. Online course. How can people get involved with
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Speaker 1: the online course? How can they get in part of
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Speaker 1: it if they're not from Houston or you know, from Idaho. No, No,
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Speaker 1: that's the beautiful thing about this course. It's available free
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Speaker 1: online to anyone in the world. Basically, all you need
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Speaker 1: is an Internet connection and you know, a laptop or
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Speaker 1: an iPad is some kind of tablet, and you should
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Speaker 1: be able to take this course in full. It's going
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Speaker 1: to be available on March twenty fourth, twenty fourth excuse me.
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Speaker 1: So you go to www dot edX dot org you
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Speaker 1: look up religion and hip hop. The actual title of
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Speaker 1: the course is really one fifty seven X R E
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Speaker 1: l I one fifty seven X and you can take
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Speaker 1: it for free. Now there's a certificate, a certification that
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Speaker 1: you can get if you want for a small fee
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Speaker 1: to show that you actually did everything you needed to
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Speaker 1: do in the course. You completed the full six weeks
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Speaker 1: of work, and that's signed by Docking myself. And it's
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Speaker 1: something that it's not accredited yet, but hopefully as we
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Speaker 1: get further and further than this thing, it would be
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Speaker 1: something that you could actually be accredited for that. I
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Speaker 1: want to ask both of you, because you know, this
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Speaker 1: course is a lot is helping people grow. Do you
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Speaker 1: think you're allowed to grow in hip hop? I think
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to grow in you know. I think that's
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Speaker 1: the problem is that, you know, for one, the perception
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Speaker 1: within the cultures that as a young man's game, you know,
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Speaker 1: But I don't think anything could be further from the truth.
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Speaker 1: I've been listening to hip hop, you know, for you know,
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Speaker 1: for thirty five years now, y'all been listening to since
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Speaker 1: I was a kid, and I've been practitioning hip hop
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Speaker 1: over twenty years now. So the people that started with
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Speaker 1: me when I was eighteen was somewhere between sixteen and
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Speaker 1: twenty five. Well, those people now are somewhere between thirty
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Speaker 1: seven and forty five, you know what I'm saying. So
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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I'm still relatable to
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Speaker 1: them in a real way. Like the way that they
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Speaker 1: choose to have fun in the confines of where they
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Speaker 1: construct their family is kind of the same way that
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Speaker 1: I do. Like I'm gonna go out and have a
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Speaker 1: good time and do what I want to do in
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Speaker 1: terms of having fun or whatever. But after I made
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Speaker 1: sure home is good, the wife is good, the kids
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Speaker 1: is good at the responsibilities that did that, and I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of people do that. You know, we're
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Speaker 1: not just because we're getting older doesn't mean we're getting old,
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Speaker 1: you know. And I'm trying to make that relatable. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I'm a fifty year old fan appreciate but growth as
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Speaker 1: part of the process. It seems to me it has
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Speaker 1: to happen. And that's part of the issue with churches
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Speaker 1: that they can say all of this, they can resist it,
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Speaker 1: try to act holier than thou. But the bottom line
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Speaker 1: is they change or they die. And if they're gonna
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Speaker 1: reach young people, they have to answer the questions young
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Speaker 1: people are asking in a language that makes sense to them,
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Speaker 1: and hip hop, it seems to me, is the way. Listen,
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Speaker 1: don't ask them just regular hip hop questions the bun
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Speaker 1: be because you know, here we go, you are the
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Speaker 1: og and it's been a lot of things going on,
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Speaker 1: you know, saying Diddy and Drake got into it, and
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Speaker 1: Jai Prince did his courtesy call, like have you made
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Speaker 1: any calls to try to send all that down? I
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Speaker 1: don't have to make no calls or whatever's going on
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Speaker 1: with that ain't gohing to do with me. I'm a
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Speaker 1: free agent. I'm not I'm down with rapple out for life,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not signing to rapp a lot. So it's
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Speaker 1: like Jay Prince's own man. He's a big boy. I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty sure he don't need my help with none of this.
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Speaker 1: But it couldn't It could get nasty, and before it
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Speaker 1: gets down that lane, you you might want to make
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Speaker 1: a courtesy call because remember how when Rajai only Clue
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Speaker 1: coun fix this, maybe only bumby could fix it. Non
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Speaker 1: I think other people need to make curtesy calls. I
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Speaker 1: don't need to make a courtesy call to anybody. These
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Speaker 1: are all grown men, and you know they've been down
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Speaker 1: this road before. I believe everybody involved in this situation
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Speaker 1: has been down this road before. So except for Drake,
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Speaker 1: well he's down this road now. So as nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with you. Yeah, I ain't got nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with me, so I but I honestly feel that, you know,
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Speaker 1: wiser minds will prevail. I don't expect this to get
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Speaker 1: physical or ugly anything. I think everybody involved in this
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Speaker 1: situation is going to do what they need to do
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Speaker 1: to rectify the situation, and life and music will go on.
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Speaker 1: Do you sit back sometimes like look at did the book?
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Speaker 1: This is why I'll be home. No, No, I'll be
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Speaker 1: home because I had grandkids. Now that you know, there
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Speaker 1: are a lot of days that I missed with my kids,
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Speaker 1: going out on a road making money during my career.
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Speaker 1: So these are the things that I'm trying to You know,
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Speaker 1: I can't necessarily make up for him, but I want
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Speaker 1: to make sure that I don't miss these moments. You know,
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, three people and I'm a free agent.
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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm not I'm not involved in all of
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Speaker 1: that right now. A major, no independent all the way
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Speaker 1: I think. So I think that's the way for me
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Speaker 1: because it's the system. The system can't benefit me in
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Speaker 1: any way. Who can end are Bumby record batter when
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Speaker 1: he can, but you can use their money and I
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Speaker 1: say that it ain't got no money now. But Bump
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Speaker 1: put out a record that I love right a couple
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Speaker 1: months ago, Triller and I felt like if it was
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Speaker 1: on a major, it would have reached to where it
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Speaker 1: needed to reach. Well, obviously major is going to have
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Speaker 1: more resources than the independent, but that doesn't mean that
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Speaker 1: that's all defined by expectations like how far do I
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Speaker 1: expect this record to go? What do I expect this
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Speaker 1: record to do? As long as I have realistic expectations,
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Speaker 1: I'll be all right. And you got a fan base,
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Speaker 1: like if you were signed to a label, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: nine times out of ten I would click on a
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Speaker 1: link that you tweeted off from your personal sound class
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Speaker 1: and I would a blast from a record label email. Well,
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Speaker 1: at this point, I'm just I'm not really feeling like
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Speaker 1: I need to work for people. If anything, I'm willing
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Speaker 1: to work with people. Gotcha, gotch. Well there you have it,
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Speaker 1: bun b Professor Anthony Pin. Now tell them are getting
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Speaker 1: the website so they could all live going for this
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Speaker 1: online course. It's www dot ed X, dot org o RG.
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Speaker 1: Look up a religion in hip hop or specifically really
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Speaker 1: one fifty seven X shouldn't be hard to find. That's
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Speaker 1: the starting right. Do we gotta pay? Yeah? I said.
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Speaker 1: I thought to myself, I'm gonna take this course, and
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Speaker 1: I was like, hold it free. If you want a certificate,
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Speaker 1: there is a small fee, Yeah, to prove that you
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Speaker 1: completed the course. Not Could you just be telling me
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