Speaker 1 00:00:10 Expressed in this program are the opinions of the people expressing them and are not necessarily those of fresh air incorporated its staff or its board of directors.
Speaker 3 00:00:30 You can burn a whole thing down. I don't care if you are uncomfortable, we can burn a whole thing down.
Speaker 2 00:00:39 Couldn't
Speaker 3 00:00:40 Care about a another zone. You can burn a whole thing down. Y'all don't really care about a brother till we burn a whole thing down.
Speaker 3 00:00:51 Yeah, we about to go to work. Yeah, we about to let it burn. Like send it quill. Yeah, I bet you will try to skip a They've been lynching us in till and that's freaking generous cuz honestly they have been killing us since we were property. No stopping me from saying how it is. Ain't the whizz, ain't no easing down the road where we live. That the bizz. We can't go out for a jog or a swim fucking a dog fall asleep and the guard fall asleep where we live. So we about to let it burn just like gusher. Say baby trying but do not care what gusher say. Put him back, screens up. Make a few bucks. My life isn't marketing who you think you trying to play. Um, I like it better when like nerdy was all fun and stuff. This is really angry. Like don't you think you said enough? Well that's freaking tough cuz I'm being loud and the people are not playing with you now. Yeah, you can burn a whole thing down. Y I don't care if y'all uncomfortable, we can burn our whole thing down. You can burn our whole thing down. Couldn't care about a another zone. You can burn a whole thing down. Burn down. Y'all don't really care about until we burn all thing down. Down, down. Yeah. We about to go to work. Yeah, we about to
Speaker 4 00:02:04 Come on the youngins. What I'm focused on. I'm so old then go then. I ain't know you was talking about Pokemon Ha. But I'm more like me and nerdy next to a burndown system with a candle of gas and a handful of matches and know we ain't miss some famous. Now my mission ladies be so here watching all the leaders leading bacon. No name minions, but we torture enough to take us and we give into survivors city. Your liars making black people compliant. Coon Rapids. Who are you asking? I'm proof. Survive the boomba trick bro. Ethics got me laughing at your message and Black Lives Matter. You would not get so defensive. We got cops and ths in robberies and gas light us. We are not the same. We on the scene we pass typing cuz y'all don't care about us and we ain't come ask. We just mind up businessing and people be so stuck and mad. So pass the gun and mask and pass the athe. Nu Y'all can really kill us for anything. Y'all just bend the laws the same performance art, the same performative saving the racist head of norm. It is.
Speaker 3 00:03:02 You can burn the whole thing down. You can burn it all. I don't care if y'all uncomfortable, we can burn the whole thing down. You can burn it, burn it, burn it down, couldn't care about it. Not zone. You can burn a whole thing down down. Y'all don't really care about a brother until we burn down. Yeah, we, yeah, we
Speaker 5 00:03:51 Views from the ground, views from the damn ground views from the ground views from the damn ground views from the ground views from the damn ground. And that's on that, on that, on that. Yo, well this is dj, you're agender host. I use they them pronouns.
Speaker 6 00:04:08 My name is Jalen and I use she her pronouns. And
Speaker 7 00:04:11 This is Brandon. I use he him pronouns.
Speaker 5 00:04:14 All right, and we're gonna jump right in. Um, so go ahead Jalen.
Speaker 6 00:04:20 Um, so I am going to continue, uh, talking about black August and highlighting some things. Um, as a reminder, black August is a month long dedication to focus study and honor black radical traditions in the ongoing fight against the prison industrial complex, uh, and the criminal injustice system. Uh, it's also a time for deliberate celebration, uh, and uplifting of black life, black art and the tenacity of our continued existence against white supremacy. Um, it's about learning, um, about structures of oppression so we are better able to fight them, but also working together to imagine a different kind of world altogether. Um, there's a lot of significant things that happened in August. Um, last week we talked about, um, Angela Davis and read one of her speech. And then, um, like this past week, it would be the 51st anniversary of, uh, the assassination of George Jackson on August 21st.
Speaker 6 00:05:19 Um, also Emmett Till was murdered August 28th, 1955. Um, so just to highlight those today, uh, we are going to be talking about the Attica Prison Rebellion or some called the Attica Prison Massacre. Um, which took place at the state prison in Attica, New York. It started September 9th, um, 1971. So this was two weeks after the, uh, assassination of George Jackson. And then it ended September 13th. Um, and of the in the massacre, uh, 43 men died total 33 of them were inmates and 10, uh, were correctional officers and employees. Uh, the prisoners revolted to seek better conditions in political rights, uh, claiming their treatment was inhumane. Um, on August, excuse me, on September 9th, um, over 1200 men, um, took control of the prison taking 42 staff members hostages. Uh, during the following four days, um, there were negotiations going back and forth, and today we are going to read, uh, those demands, um, all 27 of them.
Speaker 6 00:06:28 There are a couple different drafts, um, that were exchanged, but we're going to read the 27 demands that, uh, was sent to the governor, uh, at the time, who was, uh, Nelson Rockefeller. Um, and just read it in full. Um, this document is called the Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands. Um, and it was sent, um, before the uprising. So it was sent sometime in July. And the, um, uprising happened in September, like I just said. Um, and so this is the document. It starts, um, we, the men of Attica Prison have been committed to the u to the New York State Department of Corrections by the people of society for the purpose of correcting what has been deemed as social errors in behavior errors, which have classified us as socially unacceptable until reprogrammed with new values and more thorough understanding as to our values and responsibilities as members of the outside community.
Speaker 6 00:07:30 The Attica Prison program in its structure in conditions, has been enslaved on the pages of this man manifesto with the blood, sweat, and tears of the inmates of this prison. The program which we submitted to under the facade of Rehabilitation, are relative to the ancient stupidity of pouring water on a drown, drowning man. In as much as we are treated for our host hostilities by our program administrators, with their hostility as medication in our efforts to comprehend a freeing a feeling level in existence contrary to violence, we are confronted by our captors with what is fair and just we are victimized by the exploitation in the denial of the celebrated due process of law. In our peaceful efforts to assemble in dissent as provided under the nation's US Constitution, we are interned, murdered, brutalized, and framed on various criminal charges because we seek the rights and privileges of all American people in our effort to intellectually expand in keeping with the outside world through all categories of news media.
Speaker 6 00:08:41 We are systematically restricted and punitively reprimanded to isolation status when we insist on our human rights to the wisdom of awareness. And so the manifesto of demands starts with number one, we demand the constitutional rights of legal representation at the time of all parole board hearings and the protection of from the procedures of the parole authorities whereby they permit no procedural safeguards such as an attorney for cross-examination of witnesses. Um, number two, we demand a change in medical staff and medical policy and procedure. The Attica Prison is, the Attica Prison Hospital is totally inadequate, understaffed, and prejudiced in the treatment of inmates. There are numerous mistakes made, many times improper and erroneous, uh, medication is given by untrained personnel. We also demand periodical ch checkups on all prisoners, insufficient licensed practitioners 24 hours a day instead of inmates help that is used now. Uh, the third demand is to, uh, is for adequate visiting conditions in facilities for the inmates and families of adequate prisoners.
Speaker 6 00:09:52 Uh, the visiting facilities at the prisons are such to preclude adequate visiting for inmates and their families. They demanded an end, uh, to the segregation of prisoners from the mainline population because of their political beliefs. Uh, they also demanded an end to the prosecution and punishment, um, of, of prisoners who practiced the constitutional right of peaceful dissent. Um, prisoners at Attica and other New York prisons, um, cannot be compelled to work as these prisons. Uh, were not built for the purpose of housing prisoners. And there's no mention to the prisoners being required to work on prison jobs in order to remain in the mainline population, um, and slash or be considered for release. Uh, many prisoners believe their labor power is being exploited in order for the state to increase its economic power and to continue to expand its correctional industries, uh, yet yet do not develop working skills acceptable for employment in the outside world, and which do not pay the prisoners more than an average of 40 cents a day.
Speaker 6 00:11:03 Uh, most prisoners never make more than 50 cents a day. Prisoners who refuse to work for out for the outrageous scale or who strike, are punished and segregated without the access to the privileges shared by those who work. Uh, this is class legislation class division and creates hostility within the prison. Uh, there's also a demand to end political prosecution, racial prosecution, and the denial of prisoners' rights to subscribe, to subscribe to political papers, books, and any other educational and current media. Chronic Chronicles. Um, they also demanded that industries be allowed to enter the institutions and employ inmates to work eight hours a day and fit into the category of workers for scale. Um, wages. The working conditions in the prisons, uh, do not develop working incentives parallel to the many jobs in the outside society. And a parole prisoner faces many contradictions of the job that add to his difficulty in adjusting those industries outside who desire to enter prisons should be allowed to enter for the purpose of employment placement.
Speaker 6 00:12:13 Uh, there's also a demand, uh, that inmates be granted the right to join or form, uh, labor unions. Uh, there was also a demand that inmates be granted the right to support their families, um, and also, um, a demand that correctional officers be persecuted, um, as a matter of law for any act of cruel and unusual punishment where it is not a matter of life and death. Uh, also a demand that all institutions using inmate labor be made to conform with the state in federal minimum wages. Um, and then, uh, there was a demand to end the escalating practice of physical brutality being perpetrated, um, among the inmates in the New York State prisons. Um, and then there was a demand for, uh, the appointment of three lawyers from the New York State Bar Association to full-time positions for the provision of legal assistances to inmates seeking post-conviction relief and to act as liaison between the administration and inmates, uh, for bringing inmates complaints to the attention of the administration.
Speaker 6 00:13:24 Um, and there was a demand, uh, for annual accounting, uh, for the bro, for the parole board appointed by the governor, uh, to be eradicated and replaced with a parole board elected by the popular vote of the people. Um, so instead of, you know, government appointee, it would be the people electing the parole board. Um, and so they, I I don't know, I found that interesting. So like community control of the prisons? Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. They, I mean, during that time there was, um, a push for community control of a lot of different institutions of schools, hospitals, prisons, police, um, so it is definitely speaking to that part of it. Okay. Um, let's see. And Lamar, you know, <laugh> absolutely like reading all of these and why I wanted to read it and kind of, it's full. Um, there's, well, we're halfway through, but I just thought it was, um, really interesting because these aren't like, like some of them, like for sure community control of the prisons are, that's pretty, that's a reach a bit, but a lot of these demands are not like they're asking for, uh, just to be treated as humans and, uh, to, for these places to call themselves rehabil rehabilitation, uh, to actually reflect that, um, sentiment and it not just be a place of punishment.
Speaker 6 00:14:50 Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, to continue. Uh, there was a demand to, in the discrimination in judgment and quota of parole for black and brown folks, um, they also demanded that prisoners be present at the time, um, in their cells and property is being well during, when there are property searches that all prisoners be present in their sale cell. So it's not like where was so-and-so when that went missing. And of course he wasn't in his cell, so there's nothing to say and all those coverups. Um, and then there was a demand that better food be served to the inmates. Um, it was a de uh, one of the demands was that drinking water be put on each table, um, in that the prisoners were allowed to drink as much water as they wanted, um, and also food. So to hear that that was something to have to demand, um, just, it doesn't blow my mind because, you know, the United States sucks in that way, but like <laugh>, it definitely is just like, what?
Speaker 6 00:15:51 Like again, and they sent this before anything happened and it's like they couldn't, they decided instead to kill these men because they asked for things like water at each table. And I just, I just think that I blows my mind and upsets me in all the ways that this country does upset, upsetting things. Um, and then there was also a demand to end the unsanitary conditions that exist in the mess hall and talking more about how they had to use dirty trays and utensils and stain cups from prior. Um, and there was no one to clean them. And some of that was done in retaliation. Um, and then also a demand that there be one set of rules governing all prisons in this state instead of the present, uh, where each warden was able to make different rules for each institution. And so if a prisoner was transferred, they couldn't, you know, if they bought some things on commissary like a jacket or certain shoes, it couldn't go from one prison to the other.
Speaker 6 00:16:52 So it's like a waste of money and their resources are already limited. Um, and so that was, um, I believe, like I said, there was a couple different drafts. Uh, so some drafts had, uh, like the amnesty for the prisons, uh, for the rebellion was included in that. Um, and also asking for that, um, for the current warden to step down. Um, but in conclusion, it reads, we are firm in our, in our resolve and we demand as human beings the dignity and justice that is due to us by our right of birth. We do not know how the present system of brutality, inhuman, dehumanization and injustice has been allowed to be perpetrated in this day of enlightenment. But we are living proof of his existence and we cannot allow it to continue. The taxpayers who just happen to be our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters and sons should be made aware of how their tax dollars are being spent to deny their sons, brothers, fathers and uncles of justice, equality indignity.
Speaker 6 00:17:54 Um, so that is some of the lists of demands. What did our, uh, dear friend Frank Chapman say about demands? I'm forgetting you're forgetting too. Uh, okay, let me think. Um, demands are important because a protest without demands, it's just a party. Oh, yes. Um, and I think that, um, I, I just value the organization like as I was learning more about this time of how there was a whole summer of different prison strikes and organized, um, events happening around the country. Uh, and without those very clear demands, it kind of gets like, well, what are we doing this for? And these demands were created, um, with black, brown, white, Puerto Rican, like all different folks under the same conditions. And they were able to, in those four days come together and, um, organizing understand that they were fighting for something that, and not just fighting to get outta jail.
Speaker 6 00:18:53 It wasn't like, let's take the prison over so we can, you know, go somewhere and act like none of this happened. They were, um, you know, protesting for better conditions and, you know, okay, if they are labeled other and should be, you know, put away to this place, it should be a place of rehabilitation and not, um, a place of punishment because that, that doesn't help anyone in society. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, but also reading this, it, uh, reminded me of how relevant the demands are still. Um, it makes me think of Hardell Shell, um, who was murdered in while in jail. Um, there is an action coming up, I believe this Friday. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, where the community is gathering, um, to demand, um, I'm hope I'm pronouncing this right. Tremi is Tremi County. Yeah. County. Um, to hand the case over to Keith Ellison, um, so they can be properly. So all everyone involved in his murder, um, it was, I believe, at the jail he was complaining of some pain and different things and it was just ignored and there was multiple doctors that ignored it. And, um, then he, uh, was found, uh, in his cell, uh, unresponsive. And there was one nurse that came forward, um, that spoke to, uh, his mistreatment, um, and that his, uh, death was due to negligence. And so, uh, we are still gathering and fighting for folks inside to just be treated as humans. Yeah.
Speaker 5 00:20:24 And that, um, that event that you referenced was, um, the, the man, um, prosecution for the death of Sherell, which is gonna be Friday at 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM and it's gonna be at 4 45 Minnesota Street in St. Paul, Minneapolis. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So once again, that's 1230 to two o'clock on Friday at 4 45 Minnesota Street in St. Paul.
Speaker 6 00:20:52 Exactly. And I would just like to end on a society is not successful if its largest form of public housing is a prison. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> <laugh>. Ooh. Um, so is it,
Speaker 7 00:21:03 Is it is original park?
Speaker 6 00:21:05 No, I don't know. Shout out to the internet <laugh>. It was on, it was on Twitter and it was a great scroll. And I was like, I liked that. I liked that a lot. You
Speaker 7 00:21:14 About to be featured in the next segment. Pretty,
Speaker 6 00:21:15 It's too funny. Not at all. <laugh>, thank you guys for rocking with me this week.
Speaker 5 00:21:21 Yeah, well thank you so much for Yeah. That, that's just so much amazement. Like one, those working conditions are terrible. And, and I think that's really important that they remind people that they're using these private prisons as like, you know, slave labor. And it's crazy because we still have those demands or them not to do that all these years later, <laugh>
Speaker 6 00:21:44 Still,
Speaker 5 00:21:44 And this is way back in the day.
Speaker 6 00:21:46 Yep, yep. 51 years ago.
Speaker 5 00:21:48 51 years ago. Wow. And, you know, and that makes you a radical too.
Speaker 6 00:21:54 <laugh> <laugh>,
Speaker 5 00:21:55 You don't wanna to work under slave conditions for pennies.
Speaker 6 00:21:59 How dare you.
Speaker 5 00:21:59 How dare you. Who do you think you are? I feel like you want to die
Speaker 6 00:22:03 <laugh>. And you know, unfortunately, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 5 00:22:06 Yep. So with that going on, we're gonna move on to our next segment.
Speaker 7 00:22:13 All right. So the next segment here is Words of Freedom, which is a segment here on views from the ground, views
Speaker 5 00:22:19 From the damn Ground,
Speaker 7 00:22:20 Where we give local poets a chance to free their minds, free their hearts, and liberate their souls with their words of freedom. And again, this week we have Ms. Ma, who, you know, who you love, who you're going to hear. And when you do hear her, you definitely feel her. Okay. And if you don't believe me, we're gonna listen to a couple poems again this week. The first one we are going to listen to is titled Everything slash Every Thing.
Speaker 8 00:23:01 When people ask me what my zodiac sign is, I tell them the whole entire universe, I am everything and everything is me. And there a living soul on this planet who can set limitations I myself have not conceived. It is not enough to just be human. I am a human being. Meaning my evolution is everlasting. And my process proceeds by my very nature, I encompass all that exists because all that exists requires my recognition. First, tell me what is fire without my skin to feel its burn? And what is water without my thirst as I walk this earth, my feet firmly planted on its soil. I acknowledge that this giant dirt rock needs my particular weight and mass to keep itself in orbit. No, the sun may not revolve around me, but shit, I'm the reason we revolve around it. Understand,
Speaker 8 00:23:54 There was a time when I convinced myself that I was as aimless as the wind with certain that accidents had more purpose than my own presence at wasted miles trying to run away from myself and was grateful to be out of breath because it meant I had fewer breaths to breathe. That wasn't simply my own worst enemy. I was the assassin to every version of myself that dared to hope for the better enough. Dark nights suffered through will convince you that a sunset is all that there ever will be and all that there ever is. Nevermind that the sun could only rise by the command of your witness. Nevermind that you once cried so much, your tears became endless. And abundant. Do you forget, we worship oceans for the same reason how water in all forms is coveted. So now when people ask me what it costs to get here, I tell them I no longer treat a good life like it's a luxury. It's not expensive to me, but rather regular and plain, an evergreen filled with routine and monotony. I now spend those dark nights already predicting the next day. And with each passing day, I now have this resolve walking alongside me like an old lazy dog. I don't even bother looking back to see if it's still following me with prayers mumbled under my breath, wishing myself godspeed, hoping to run away from steadfast demons faster than they'll ever catch me.
Speaker 8 00:25:18 That's how I've been everywhere cuz I am everything.
Speaker 7 00:25:37 So that was everything slash Ever thing by Ms. Murray. This next piece is titled Troubled Waters.
Speaker 8 00:25:51 What's it like to forget a language every time you speak it? Every awkward verb, every clumsy syllable, murky accent, troubled vocabulary, this damn tongue, this damn of a tongue blocking an ocean of emotions, a sea of thoughts, rivers of consciousness. It's no wonder my mouth gets dry every time I'm compelled to speak.
Speaker 8 00:26:17 When you grow up as a second generation immigrant, you can't help but feel like a second rate native to more than one country. The chasm that lies between me and my people is deeper than the ocean that separates us. And every attempt to connect feels like I'm trying to sail across that ocean on a rowboat, rugged and adamant. You see, at least with broken English, there's a home to come back to a comfort of its familiarity, the familiarity of community. But I have shards of glass cutting up my mouth with broken, um, hark, slicing me up so thoroughly that every time I try to speak it sounds like I'm spitting something out. Language being the only physical evidence of my lineage. It's getting harder to prove that I'm my ancestors' child. When my mother tongue isn't of my mother's. It's getting harder to feel seen when every conversation makes me want to run for cover. This fluency is anything but fluid. Common threads, anything but congruence. But the humility in my own ignorance means there is honor for me as a student, though we call water by other names and I ignore how different it all tastes.
Speaker 8 00:27:28 The same blood that alarmed my ascendance into action now keeps me awake. The same marrow that kept them upright now keeps me steady. The same skin that healed from every wound now cloaks me in protection. A family sealed, verified by the seal of fate, I am of them. And there is no amount of water that will wash that away from me.
Speaker 7 00:27:59 So that was troubled waters by Miss Ma. And uh, we got one more piece coming to you from her. Um, and that last piece is titled Bed Peace,
Speaker 8 00:28:25 Half Asleep. You press up against my ear, wrapping me with your cocoon of arms and legs, chest and groin and whisper. We'll get out of bed if we hear another gunshot and giggle at the implied wish that's woven into the ultimatum and burrow myself deeper into this bundle of lush, drowsy affection. Hoping silence will revisit our morning again
Speaker 8 00:28:50 For the sake of whoever's on the other side of that barrel. For the sake of this sensuous dawn, there's a war going on outside. We're not safe from but me and you. We find bad peace to the tune of construction and police dogs quarreling with every direction. The wind blows neighbors barking at their mailbox, the squawking of drunks and crows all while the stench of sewage and apathy permeates through the air. I breathe you in a little deeper this time, my face finding its favorite resting place in the hollow of your neck and jawline. I somehow find myself empathizing for the fiends as they start their day off with a fresh line. I too would go back for it every time. If it felt anything like the bliss of your hands grazing down my spine, me and them share that same sleepy smile right about now. And while the world is up in arms, I'm in yours temporarily fluent in all the languages spoken on this block. Our names ringing through the streets, making our introductions for us. What doesn't matter to us if the world is on fire, when there's enough love and water on this bed to soften concrete enough flower and seed to heat an entire jungle. Yes, roses may never blossom from these sidewalks with broken needles replacing the stem stock. But with a morning glow like this, even sunrises believed in, in the darkest corners of Stevens,
Speaker 8 00:30:15 We hear that faithful pop like we knew we would
Speaker 2 00:30:19 And
Speaker 8 00:30:19 Decide to stay in bed
Speaker 2 00:30:21 Like
Speaker 8 00:30:21 We always do.
Speaker 2 00:30:36 Come
Speaker 7 00:30:36 On y'all, can I get some snaps? Please? Snaps, snaps, snaps. I mean, you hear it, you you hear it and you feel it. And shout out to Ms. Ma. She just does what she does so well. Um, and if you tune in next week, we are going to, uh, uh, pick the brain of Ms. Murray in a little interview so you can see like the behind the scenes, we'll ask a little bit about a creative process and just how she got into what she's doing. Um, and before that, if you can't wait until next week, Ms. Ma will be on stage tomorrow performing some poetry. So that is Thursday, August 25th at 8:00 PM There was an acting up, uh, comedy show, uh, that'll have different, uh, artists doing different things. And she will be a featured poet. And, uh, it's the Lady's Comedy Night, um, hosted by Acting Up.
Speaker 7 00:31:27 Um, and that will be at 8:00 PM at The Poor House, uh, which is at 10 South fifth Street in Minneapolis. And again, that is Thursday night. Tomorrow night, August 25th at 8:00 PM You can go to at a t ccp, the number one up on Instagram, that's at a t ccp one up, uh, on Instagram to find the ticket information and, uh, go support, uh, uh, our local artists, our local comedians, our local organizers. And, uh, go catch Ms. Murray on stage. So shout out to Miss Ma. Good luck tomorrow night and we will see you next week in the studio.
Speaker 5 00:32:08 All right, coming up next is the DJ Spotlight. You know, um, I took it over this this month. You know, nerdy had this album release. We'll talk a little bit more about that later, um, in his concert. But before that, the DJ Spotlight, which is featuring, uh, my friend Kenny Gray. And so this week we are actually going to be listening to Meant To Be
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Speaker 12 00:36:03 Friday, August 26th. K F A I hits the streets. Are
Speaker 11 00:36:07 You ready for this?
Speaker 12 00:36:09 They're bringing the
Speaker 11 00:36:11 Goods. Let's roll
Speaker 12 00:36:13 Down to the ground at the K ffa. I sidewalk Sale Making
Speaker 11 00:36:17 Action. I'm looking for CD's, tapes and records at Kfa i's library. And you're gonna tell me where they are.
Speaker 12 00:36:24 Drama
Speaker 11 00:36:25 These CD's. Tapes and records are a steal.
Speaker 12 00:36:28 And music.
Speaker 11 00:36:29 I have too many records. No one ever.
Speaker 2 00:36:33 Yeah.
Speaker 12 00:36:34 The K ffa I sidewalk sale August 26th from 10 to sixth outside the station at 1808 Riverside Avenue in Minneapolis. It'd be a crime to miss it.
Speaker 5 00:36:50 All right, welcome back to Views From the Ground.
Speaker 11 00:36:53 Views from the Damn Ground.
Speaker 5 00:36:55 So yeah, that was, um, my friend Kenny Gray. Super wonderful, amazing person. And you'll get to meet him and learn more about him next week, um, during the interview. Uh, so this week, um, uh, yeah, so going back to Nerdy, nerdy, had a album release. It was, um, the album's called Heaven. Uh, he had a album release party at First Ave last Friday. Headlining. Headlining. Yeah. It was, it was great. It was amazing. It and uh, I really enjoyed it. So, uh, yeah. So we're gonna actually play, you know, a couple of, a couple of songs off this new album here. Uh, cuz you know, I just wanna share it with people so people can also hear it. So the first um, song is gonna be heaven. And then with that we're gonna go straight into another song by nerdy, which is the storm. So here we go.
Speaker 3 00:38:36 My hands are up and my arms tied, but I still sing these praises bathed in these street lights of this city. I was blind, was lost. But now I'm coming through. Can you see me? Now you reach for me and Na will reach for you. We can't get through. It's okay. But mama taught me to pray. My father taught me to duck. My grandad taught me to make the best of all. I've done good with every breath of my lungs. Yeah, I know you knew me then. Light way back when. But if you dinged it out, hold my tongue. Well you don't know me anymore. I am. I am. I am rage. I go higher. I go higher. I'm James. I'm a way, I'm a fighter. I go writer. I that's a, I'm still. Are you cool with do you have my bag?
Speaker 13 00:39:42 Can you be the one to call when I am lonely? Can you be the one to call when I am Lonely
Speaker 3 00:40:16 Ground. I got so now still alive. Why you be looking surprised?
Speaker 2 00:40:31 Why
Speaker 3 00:40:31 Looking surprised. Yeah. Y'all aint know They be trying best. Trying
Speaker 13 00:40:36 Best
Speaker 3 00:40:36 Next time. They probably should go for the head. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:40:39 Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:40:40 Cause I'm still still snapping on soldiers and dusting my shoulders off. I'm saving my trip up to heaven for later in life when I feel like I've done enough. I walk through the valley. The light of the shadow with death. Shadow with death. But I want to know who will rally with love and respect. Nothing is left. Like really? Who's sticking the necks out?
Speaker 13 00:41:01 Can you be the one to call when I am lone?
Speaker 2 00:41:08 Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:41:09 Can you
Speaker 13 00:41:09 Be the one to call when
Speaker 3 00:41:12 I Are you here or not? Are you here or not? Are you here or Hi John. Hi John. Hi John. Have a Yeah, I'm still blows out bad. I'm still freaking mad. This for all my people. Linda High. We be Iron Man. Even when we die we Yeah his church is black. He can come and take your flipping cab. We ain't having that done with Triple the Rock DC but last won't my bags.
Speaker 3 00:43:47 People love to talk. They let 'em run their mouth and they think that nobody can hear them. But lemme tell you, you don't whisper nearly as soft as you think you do. But that's all right though. I don't got time for you. We got racist cops out here. We got KKK politicians trying to hold us down. I'm not fighting you over some rap nonsense. If you wanna be the best, just be the best. Don't talk to me about it. Be about it. I'll see you out there. Thanks. I'm just ignoring the juggers. It ain't worth the time of the smoke to get rid of you and not flowing straight through the game. I could just ate a bucket of cherry activity. Uh, so I think you know what that makes me, you wake gonna to break me if I never heard of you. How wizard it?
Speaker 3 00:44:26 You're real then Real getting embodied on track by some nerve from some buro. Yo. Why? I'm as good as it. Guess what? I'm still bad at my neighbors Obama. And now I'm in the eye of the storms with my beauty ist shape like the king of Wakanda. I'm still freaking nerdy. That's just how they made me. I'm still going crazy. Go. Hey if you won but they're still gonna pay me, they're still gonna play me. You'll never re station. You cannot escape me. I got the green light. Like I'm how Jay stay on my way and I won't stop till the fans pay till we on top. That's on fair play And that's facts dude. V one with my Latitude 12 tried to go and take me out but I'm still hearing that's gratitude. But I ain't done yet. If you've gonna show God better in a goddamn, if you've gonna show I ain't going nowhere to
Speaker 2 00:45:12 If you show
Speaker 3 00:45:13 More, if you gonna show y'all let
Speaker 3 00:46:15 I got Angels around me. I got Angels round me. I got Angels on my side. I don't care who you be. I got Angels round me. I got Angels round me. I got Angels on my side now. That's right. I got Angels on. Hi. We been doing nicely. You got my FEMA Ram shouting brightly trying to fight me. Do it if you want but know that you'll regretted I got Angels, Ram baby Joseph, Gordon, Levi. Yeah. And we out here in the field. Tell 'em give a shout if they rock with us. For real. Yo, I never need a feel halo ram in the gang and we changing up the scene like bang bang, bang, bang. Hold up. Yes. Know that they watching. I'm feeling so blessed on my job. My power level is rising. We fighting with Koo cans. Oh my God no I don't need no facade.
Speaker 3 00:46:59 I got the gry that rings across every stage that replace that that greets with my people that got your boy covered and rings. I got angels around me. I got angels around me. I got angels on my side. I don't care who you'll be. I got angels around me. I got angels round me. I got angels on my side running. Tell them now that right I got Angels round me. I got Angels round me. I got angels on my side. I don't care for you. I got Angels Roundwood. I got Angels. Roundwood, I got angels on my side. But tell them now that's right. I got angels
Speaker 15 00:47:38 On my angels around me like a ringing. I'm Rosie no matter the sit you. I'm peaceful, I'm cozy covered. The blood is sufficient, efficiently eradicate what they meant for me. I hear am talking. It sound like a symphony. I keep the hatred but they cannot penetrate chickens. Won't be Fay worthy of my dinner place. Name Lincoln against me unfortunately. Syndicate, I am the mother of Cairo, the sister of Essence on Earth of experienced heavenly lessons. What is an L when you learn in your lessons, my lyrics are diary full of confessions, ancestors with me in studio sessions. Angels on my side like my Smith and Wesson. Even with Solo, they with me. No questions. So before you try me please just the
Speaker 3 00:48:11 Expression. I got Angels around me. I got angels around me. I got Angels on my side. I don't care who you'll be. I got angels around me. I got angels around me. I got Angels on my side running and tell them now that ride I got Angels round man. I got Angels round me. I got Angels on my side. I don't care who you play. I got Angels Round. I got Angels Round. I got Angels on my side running. Tell them now that ride I got angels on.
Speaker 5 00:48:46 All right, so that song was Angels Round Me. Before that was the storm. And before that one the start off the set we had heaven, H v n. So coming up with our next set, these are all songs, um, selected by uh, nerdy, um, from his album. Um, but this next song is actually gonna be my favorite of the album. Um, it's called Revolution. You know, you know, of course representing. And um, and we're gonna start that set off. So here we go.
Speaker 3 00:49:21 Preach, preach, preach, preach. Fight the bower.
Speaker 2 00:49:34 Fight the bower.
Speaker 3 00:49:36 This is how the revolution
Speaker 2 00:49:38 Sound.
Speaker 3 00:49:41 And you know, we say fight the bower.
Speaker 2 00:49:43 Fight the bower.
Speaker 3 00:49:45 This is how the revolution sound.
Speaker 2 00:49:50 And
Speaker 3 00:49:50 You know I'm going full Magni. I don't really care if haters really don't agree out in the streets. And they weapon this police claiming they ain't got no beef or steady. You only eating keto. But we about to change that today. Your Klans with guns and badges, they won't be safe. Your pipes to poison land. So they won't be safe. It's time to fight with back away because revolution steady right under the itinerary number. My people in obituaries say Mad Karen, we don't give enough by. I'm blow it up by any means necessary. Captain said that I could feel a revolutionary. I believe it. I could feel it in my capillaries. Be out here Rome. We showing no fear. Revolutions
Speaker 13 00:50:27 Coming near you. You don't want us as a navary.
Speaker 3 00:50:29 Fight the bower,
Speaker 2 00:50:30 Fight the bowers.
Speaker 3 00:50:32 This is how the revolution sound. And you know, we say fight the bower.
Speaker 2 00:50:39 Fight the bower.
Speaker 3 00:50:41 This is how the revolution sound.
Speaker 2 00:50:46 Hey,
Speaker 4 00:50:47 How the Richards on the earth got so many knees. I'm a giant. So they looking like my mini mes never been the killer. But the word is tempted me steady killing me but would never put her into me. Fight the power song in public. I'm the enemy. I league contended winning intentions of my energy. This ka like K Nick winning in the league overcome haters like John Taylor. We in the lead. I deserve this gold medal. It's from the soil where we once settled. They wanna spoil everyone's ghetto. My future son is about to know the level of expectation to be a black man in this generation. Black. Because this time o revolution will be televised bringing the evolution of mankind. When you hear me speak, you can tell 'em Wise troop set us free. That's why they tell us lies question and everything. I recognize the
Speaker 3 00:51:25 Bow. This is how the revolution sound. And you know, we say fight the power.
Speaker 2 00:51:35 Fight the power.
Speaker 3 00:51:37 This is how the revolution sound. And you know, we say you
Speaker 16 00:51:44 Can run. You can't murder liberation. You can murder the revolutionary but you freedom.
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Speaker 13 00:52:59 Yo, we got plans tonight so I'm gonna need to breathe. It's gonna be hard to dance with all your weight on me. Can we lie, wait and see just like a day or two. And I'm reaches slow for my calendar on my cell phone. Now what works best for you? Cause I plan on getting married and I know I'm really scary, but if you put me in the ground, I'm gonna miss that pretty gown. So how about we just wait just a little bit, circle back, put the p let's just not get too hasty. Tonight is so nice and today would be all such ay, Hey Mr. Officer, could you kill me on a Monday? I don't wanna have to call in sick. And my weekends looking way too lit. Hands off. Hey Mr. Officer, could we pencil this for next week? Because tonight, you know, I just got paid. Plus we haven't got the t-shirt made yet. Hands up saying, Hey Mr. Officer, could you kill me on a Monday? I don't wanna have to call in sick. And my weekend's looking way too late. Hey and hey Mr. Officer, uh, could we pencil this for next week? Cause tonight, you know, I just got paid. Plus we haven't got the t-shirts made yet. Cannot die another day.
Speaker 17 00:54:29 Say cannot die another day. I got baby daughters and they need me every day. Can we pencil them my murder for like 20, 30? Yay. That way I can get enough time just to see them graduate. But does the work for you? I know you have to check your busy schedule. I don't want to inconvenience you with now works even better. Can at least call my wife so she can let our babies know They won't see the dad tomorrow. Say, Hey
Speaker 13 00:54:55 Mr. Mr. Officer, could you kill me on a Monday? I don't wanna have to call in sick. And my weekends way too. Hey Mr. Officer, could we pencil this for next week? Pencil this for next week? Because tonight, you know, I just got plus we haven't got the t-shirts and made saying, Hey Mr. Officer, Hey Mr. Officer, could you kill me on Monday, Tuesday if it's better, I don't wanna have to call in sick and my weekends looking way too late. Hey Mr. Officer, could we pencil this form next week? Cuz tonight, you know, I just got paid. Plus we haven't got the t-shirts made yet. Can I die another?
Speaker 5 00:55:53 All right, so we just got done listening to Mr. Officer by Nerdy in Tuva in the world. Um, before that was Revolution by Nerdy and Louie Blaze and DJ Hayes. And coming up, it's gonna be our last song of the hour, which is gonna be, um, black Sheep.
Speaker 18 00:56:47 Every time I talk to you, it should be now too.
Speaker 3 00:56:55 I just want to go until the lights on I bird on a show until my night's gone. I'll keep flying through another weekend. Find my way to heaven when my life ends. I just want to go until the light's on. I'll put on a show until my night's gone. I'll keep flying through another weekend. Find my way to heaven when my life mans. I ain't given nothing and I ain't done enough yet. No, I've never been anyone but myself. And I ain't stopping for them. No, they not important. Even when I'm low, I can hear, I can hear it one voice at the star with the black white horses. But I, one voice says the curtain star goes in screams on black white horse. But I'm,
Speaker 3 00:58:01 I just want to go until the light's on. I'll put it on a show until my night's going, I'll keep flying through another weekend. I don't find my way to heaven when my life wins. Hey, tos, we like money watch. So watch Throw Path when they say space cam so high above your boy, moving fast on that way. Heaven, Sam, my friends won for Rob being just so they made us dirty. Know why ain't stopping to lu. My peoples is famous. Yeah, I think I'm gonna leave this what I breathe. This what I bleed here. I'm going beat who I be. Yes, I proceed. They say I'm with the show. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna flow. I'm going high. I'm gonna float. I'm gonna shine. I'm gonna Gloria and I'm gonna hide it up in no bush. Or you're gonna see my face. I ain't playing no push over this my stage. This is my and it's not too late. Not so late. Y'all found my place, found my, and I won't go away. Don't go stay. I just go show until I'll be flying through my way to heaven my life.
Speaker 13 00:59:07 One voice at the curtain stars closing screams on me with the sh uhoh black sheep and a million white
Speaker 3 00:59:16 Horns. But I still gonna go, go. One voice at the starts goes and screams on with the shut back shape. And a million white at the at screams on with the.
