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00:00:12:03 Wassup you all?
00:00:13:08 There's hip-hop and then there's revolutionary hip-hop.
00:00:16:06 This Cypher is going to feature Dead Prez.
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00:00:22:02 We get all dressed up, get Hollywood.
00:00:23:28 Plus, the legendary Immortal Techniques and the Rebel Army.
00:00:28:22 If I can get into Canada,
00:00:29:28 there are people that have turned me back from the border,
00:00:32:00 that have been like... look,
00:00:32:28 we don't you in here, we know what you do
00:00:34:08 and I am trying to change that.
00:00:37:02 We are also going to check out some movements with...
00:00:39:14 Marvin, aka B-boy, Armaghetto.
00:00:41:13 We are going to wrap it all up with a freestyle Cypher
00:00:44:14 at Shef's Kitchen.
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00:00:54:12 ♪ [Music]
00:01:11:10 Yo! what's up, this is I.E.
00:01:13:16 What up, what up, Peace world, better yet,
00:01:17:03 freedom world who wants it?
00:01:18:27 This is M-1, one half it is DPs collectives.
00:01:28:10 I am here with my people's army, you are all around.
00:01:30:13 Be careful don't make a move you might get some hurt,
00:01:33:08 and my partner is over...
00:01:33:28 What up, what else,
00:01:45:28 Right, first guys, I just got big you all for one,
00:01:49:28 taking the time, and two,
00:01:52:01 these two albums for me personally have done
00:01:56:05 just like... it just woke me up, man!
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00:02:06:26 They work in as they came into making this
00:02:08:04 nasty free album, where many years in advance
00:02:11:12 it came to a lot of political study,
00:02:13:13 it came to a lot of putting the theory to action,
00:02:16:15 and I mean in the hood where we were in Tallahassee Florida,
00:02:19:03 and it was a combination of our experiences
00:02:20:13 from the OGs, from people who have able to teach us
00:02:23:13 what it means to try to be a members of the movement,
00:02:25:28 and make a significant contribution to
00:02:28:15 this revolutionary process that's going to take for us
00:02:30:13 to get some freedom.
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00:02:40:17 And there's a lot of stuff that these brothers have done,
00:02:42:28 that goes beyond their musical works, man!
00:02:45:08 They reach into the community,
00:02:46:10 and not a lot of us knows about this.
00:02:48:03 So, we are going to find out about, right about now,
00:02:49:14 you know what I am saying.
00:02:50:10 I mean... we're in the community,
00:02:52:04 we live in the community,
00:02:53:04 we just participate into the art,
00:02:55:10 participate into the campaigns
00:02:57:13 for political prisoners, political education, man!
00:03:00:16 Everyday, all the day, you know.
00:03:01:20 I think that the strength of it is the fact that there's not a
00:03:04:28 real separation between what we are...
00:03:08:26 at least what appears to be on the CD,
00:03:11:28 and then what happens in real life.
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00:03:19:00 We just see that this world is fluked up,
00:03:21:22 -the way they got it -Right.
00:03:22:24 The way they run it, under their hands and their grip.
00:03:25:06 So I think, that what we have been really just
00:03:27:29 trying to confront and challenge,
00:03:29:28 is like how we change...
00:03:32:04 how people get into it, while all we see is
00:03:34:04 going nine to five are going to jail selling some dope,
00:03:36:20 versus it is really getting free.
00:03:38:12 And when that happens,
00:03:39:16 you got to group up,
00:03:40:18 you got to think -
00:03:41:14 you got to get with the people who think alike.
00:03:42:22 You know what I mean, you know
00:03:44:24 sometimes it may be... on popular opinion,
00:03:46:21 we group up, and we got to take actions,
00:03:49:06 we got to be able to defend ourselves,
00:03:50:13 we got to be able to do everything it takes
00:03:51:26 in order for us to build a strong movement.
00:03:53:08 And there's people who have done it
00:03:54:18 in a strong way that we can learn from,
00:03:57:00 and that's kind of the path that we come from.
00:03:58:26 We are doing a book publishing, we are doing our production,
00:04:02:13 we are doing all aspects that are just outreach,
00:04:05:06 you could definitely get out of this, man!
00:04:06:23 We need to get all dress up and get Hollywood.
00:04:10:10 So we are right here.
00:04:12:21 Alright, one thing I want to dig up by your side,
00:04:14:19 there's a spot on there,
00:04:15:27 where if you want to do a collab with you guys,
00:04:18:18 all you got to do is quick boom, boom!
00:04:21:00 Put in the information and it can happen,
00:04:22:29 is that for real somebody can just say, hey,
00:04:25:29 I want to do a track with Dead Prez.
00:04:27:21 Bossupbu.com is that realistic, that will tell you exactly
00:04:31:00 how it goes on, because that's that real, yes...
00:04:32:28 For sure, for sure, man.
00:04:34:07 You know how else can we build a network of alikes
00:04:38:08 of like-minded people,
00:04:40:22 and build on bridges in different places.
00:04:43:08 So, we definitely want to work with,
00:04:46:00 what people might call our fans,
00:04:47:25 by just people who got the same,
00:04:50:17 coming from the same place,
00:04:52:07 that's looking for some solidarity,
00:04:54:21 that's what we are here for.
00:04:56:08 So, boosupbu.com, and look up for the new deadprez.com,
00:04:59:28 not the sony plantation, we liberated it back.
00:05:03:21 deadprez.com, deadprez.com, deadprez.com, deadprez.com.
00:05:08:13 Are we looking at a whole new album, what's going on?
00:05:13:13 It's all the promotion,
00:05:14:05 that's the reason why you see deadprez.com,
00:05:15:23 that's the reason why you see Politrikkks,
00:05:18:05 that's with a triple K.
00:05:19:04 Politrikkks, which is a street leak
00:05:22:13 that's going to come from the album.
00:05:23:16 You will see a single push coming there after very soon,
00:05:26:28 and it's all leading up to like Stick say, information age.
00:05:29:28 I am looking forward to that.
00:05:32:03 Now, one thing I am almost looking forward to.
00:05:34:06 I have never your guys live show yet.
00:05:36:06 Alright, what can I expect to see
00:05:37:28 when I see you guys on stage?
00:05:39:03 We like to do, you know a lot of Waltz music,
00:05:42:28 a lot of country and Western tunes and stuff,
00:05:45:08 you know real mellow.
00:05:46:13 That's why I saw you guys talk to, with some bands...
00:05:49:08 A little river dancing, you know what I am saying,...
00:05:51:18 keep it real ever rigid.
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00:06:06:00 It's really the energy,
00:06:07:18 it's the energy, we feel out the energy from the crowd.
00:06:09:29 The songs, what they are
00:06:11:08 tonight you are going to see our performance with a band.
00:06:12:13 There's a group of musicians under Ghetto Metal,
00:06:15:05 this is a band actually that helped to form with my dude,
00:06:18:10 Bazaar Royal, who is a fantastic artist as well.
00:06:20:20 But their's this band in Brooklyn,
00:06:22:19 one day he just gave us an opportunity and say,
00:06:24:28 how much more music is out,
00:06:26:20 and was that they would give us.
00:06:27:26 They give us hip-hop, and then they molded
00:06:29:28 how they want to do it.
00:06:30:20 So we have this time Ghetto Metal,
00:06:33:03 and brought it to the hood,
00:06:34:08 and so that's what you are going to hear on some lives,
00:06:35:13 but mostly you are just going to hear us free from the energy.
00:06:38:22 See, who is really ready,
00:06:40:01 who is ready to cut through the bullshit.
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00:06:55:02 [Music]
00:06:57:06 Up next Immortal Techniques and the Rebel Army.
00:06:59:28 A record deal is nothing
00:07:01:18 but a loan with horrible interest rates,
00:07:03:18 that's what I have always said.
00:07:05:28 Plus
00:07:06:20 Up, down, twist,
00:07:12:08 What's going on Yo?
00:07:14:08 You chill in with the mighty major wind,
00:07:16:07 and we are chilling with Cypher for 2009, one love
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00:00:04:04 Yo, wassup? This is IE, chilling here with.
00:00:07:11 Immortal Technique.
00:00:17:10 Rebellions.
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00:00:30:12 First thing man,
00:00:31:10 a lot of artists come up the ladder
00:00:33:28 and their goal is to become signed by major label.
00:00:36:18 You can get signed at any time you want,
00:00:37:28 but you choose to do it on your own man.
00:00:40:14 Why do you go down that route?
00:00:42:11 I think it's because a lot of people don't understand
00:00:44:18 what it means to technically be signed.
00:00:46:28 It means that your intellectual property
00:00:50:05 is the property of somebody else,
00:00:52:18 it means that you belong in a sense
00:00:55:18 to another individual.
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00:01:03:08 A record deal is nothing but
00:01:05:12 a loan with horrible interest rates.
00:01:06:28 That's what I've always said.
00:01:08:09 And even when you have a loan with horrible interest rates
00:01:10:23 and you pay back the loan, you get to keep the property.
00:01:13:18 In hip-hop, you don't get to keep the property.
00:01:15:14 We've always been the property of other people.
00:01:17:18 In fact, you look at Black and Latino people here in America,
00:01:19:18 we're the down payment for America,
00:01:21:28 we're the capital that built capitalism,
00:01:23:28 that gave the money for the Industrial Revolution.
00:01:25:28 It became cheaper to have a machine
00:01:28:03 and a free man do the job of a slave,
00:01:30:28 and that's why they decided,
00:01:32:12 let's let these motherfuckers free,
00:01:33:28 not because they had a crisis of conscience.
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00:01:42:18 This is real man, because like I hear your works,
00:01:45:08 I heard your lyrics on the album,
00:01:46:23 any album man, doesn't matter which one,
00:01:48:18 and now I mean you're in prison for the first time,
00:01:50:19 and I can tell man,
00:01:52:04 it's you man, you are the real deal.
00:01:55:00 Canada needs you to come across the border,
00:01:58:05 all you guys need to come across the border.
00:02:00:19 Why the hell can't it happen,
00:02:02:13 and yeah, why, why, why?
00:02:03:28 I think you brought up an interesting point right now.
00:02:06:07 When a brother creates an album,
00:02:07:24 essentially all he's created is a mythology,
00:02:09:28 right, a story, and people come to the show,
00:02:12:18 they bought the album, they want to see the artist,
00:02:14:08 because they want to know if the story is true.
00:02:16:28 If you write about being a gangster, whether you are artist
00:02:19:28 in New York or in Tidike,
00:02:22:28 right, people want to find out how much of a gangster you are.
00:02:26:06 And I know people go,
00:02:27:27 oh, it's Canada, they think there's hurts out there,
00:02:29:18 and motherfuckers are going to kill you any city,
00:02:31:27 that's why I show humility and respect where I go
00:02:34:14 and I get that in return.
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00:02:40:28 I feel like, if I can get into Canada,
00:02:44:26 I would
00:02:46:15 but right now there's been powers
00:02:47:28 that have consistently prevented me from being in there.
00:02:50:22 There are people that have turned me back from the border
00:02:52:29 on a consistent level, that have been like,
00:02:55:08 look, we don't want you in here, we know what you do,
00:02:57:04 and I'm trying to change that.
00:02:59:29 I want to talk a little bit about
00:03:01:18 some of the interludes on the album,
00:03:03:18 where you'd even go into prison,
00:03:05:28 broadcast a prison radio.
00:03:07:28 What's so significant?
00:03:09:02 Why do you always, on every album,
00:03:10:18 always put something about prison radio on there?
00:03:13:06 I feel like hip-hop in itself comes from a prison culture,
00:03:17:12 you know what I mean,
00:03:18:12 like not from a prison culture in a sense that
00:03:20:28 it was born in Attica or born in Sing Sing,
00:03:23:16 although it developed there as a fashion and as a style,
00:03:26:08 you know, because that's why people wear baggy clothes.
00:03:29:16 That's why when you see youngsters in Harlem,
00:03:31:10 who got a hat that don't fit them, that's the prison style,
00:03:33:18 because brother, if you're wearing a hat
00:03:35:08 that don't fit you,
00:03:36:13 it mean you took it from somebody that's larger than you.
00:03:39:08 It mean that you might look like you are small,
00:03:42:11 but you can handle your own.
00:03:43:20 If you step to this nigger the wrong way,
00:03:45:03 you'll get knocked the fuck out, you'll get your throat cut.
00:03:47:08 Now, that's a subliminal thing, but in other words,
00:03:50:20 a prison culture is what we were given
00:03:53:28 when we were brought here as slaves.
00:03:56:18 What we were forced to come here as,
00:03:58:22 you know, and a lot of us still live in a mental prison,
00:04:01:13 and when we could recognize that,
00:04:03:08 we gain the ability to leave such a place,
00:04:06:08 but only by acknowledging the fact that we're there
00:04:08:18 can we possibly escape from that.
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00:04:17:28 And I feel like even though I come off very aggressive
00:04:20:13 and very forceful in my way of speaking,
00:04:22:28 if you approach me with respect,
00:04:25:13 and that's to anybody out there, in any country,
00:04:27:18 if you approach me with respect, with a honest question,
00:04:29:28 I'm not going to blow you off,
00:04:31:19 I'm not going to treat you like a sucker,
00:04:33:25 I'm going to treat you with the same respect you showed me,
00:04:36:11 and if I have time I'll cordially
00:04:37:18 go to the process of answering your question
00:04:40:08 in a most thorough manner that I possibly can.
00:04:42:28 [Music]
00:04:44:23 Next up.
00:04:45:28 I like working with kids that don't really have time
00:04:47:29 to do stuff.
00:04:49:00 I just try to like give them the dance form in its like
00:04:51:27 purest, naturalest, easiest forms.
00:04:54:24 We're going take you to Shef's Kitchen
00:04:55:28 for another live Freestyle Cypher.
00:04:58:28 Hey! Yo, what's up? This is Notes to Self,
00:05:00:28 DJ Dopey.
00:05:01:28 Swamp Donkey.
00:05:03:09 Roshin
00:05:04:11 Bronze One
00:05:05:24 Chilling with my man IE and you're watching Cypher.
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00:00:09:06 Wassup, my name is Marvin, aka B-Boy Armaghetto.
00:00:21:03 I have been breaking for say roughly nine years.
00:00:24:06 I would say five years properly.
00:00:26:00 Spread out, some people move in front of me a bit.
00:00:30:10 Four count.
00:00:31:18 A friend from high school asked me if I wanted to teach kids,
00:00:34:23 and about 2000, I was like sure,
00:00:37:21 like a new experience for me.
00:00:39:18 I know me and kids connect really well for some reason.
00:00:42:22 Maybe it's because, you know, I am a kid at heart still,
00:00:45:16 or maybe it's because I think kids
00:00:48:04 should have something that they can connect with.
00:00:50:10 I think dancing is something that they can like
00:00:52:12 be a part of, because its something they can relate to.
00:00:54:12 Because music is like for everyone, you know.
00:00:59:08 My class is basically the foundation of B-boying.
00:01:02:08 I do a lot of footwork.
00:01:03:29 I do a lot of toprock.
00:01:05:20 I do a lot of basic stuff.
00:01:07:01 Just making sure they get the foundation of the dance.
00:01:09:13 You can be so creative, because you have the major steps
00:01:12:08 that are going to allow you to express yourself.
00:01:14:04 Stop watching and practice.
00:01:15:05 I have been working with kids that don't
00:01:17:16 really have chance to do stuff,
00:01:18:25 and they will be looking for something...
00:01:20:14 somewhere to put their energy that's always
00:01:21:05 bottled up and like put aside.
00:01:23:21 So with me, yeah, I just try to like give them
00:01:27:10 basically a new way of thinking and the basic...
00:01:31:13 the dance form in it's like purest,
00:01:32:24 naturalist, easiest form.
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00:01:38:06 B-boying consists of footwork,
00:01:41:17 which is like six-step, four-step, CCs.
00:01:44:18 You've got your toprock, which is a broken rock,
00:01:47:07 your regular, your battle rocks.
00:01:49:20 You've got your power moves, your windmills,
00:01:52:17 your head spins, your swipes, your turtles.
00:01:56:16 Popping and locking.
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00:02:05:18 Popping is like mostly like moving your joints.
00:02:08:28 Locking is like a crazy up movements and the gestures.
00:02:14:03 Popping and Locking are totally different,
00:02:15:21 they're not the same.
00:02:17:01 I don't think it's that popular,
00:02:18:20 because it's really hard to do, and it's like,
00:02:20:26 you can think like you're doing popping, but moving your body,
00:02:23:02 but it's like the actual,
00:02:24:08 like movements that are considered popping,
00:02:26:04 the actual steps are considered locking.
00:02:29:10 I am a big Wu Tang Clan fan.
00:02:33:00 I like music that's, you know, move me.
00:02:36:18 Like I would dance like Bob Marley, Peter Tosh,
00:02:39:05 whatever moves my body.
00:02:40:25 You know what I mean?
00:02:42:08 With breaking, it's like all the old crunk, James Brown.
00:02:44:28 You know, a typical old school beats.
00:02:47:11 Right now I am listening to a lot of TI,
00:02:49:16 he is doing all the type that I listen to.
00:02:51:28 It might not be the proper hip hop in a sense,
00:02:53:28 but I've danced for Neil Young,
00:02:55:11 you know what I mean, and he ain't hip hop.
00:02:57:08 So it's whatever moves my body,
00:02:59:02 whatever, there is a connection with it.
00:03:02:03 For me top things that have been slept on.
00:03:05:20 Okay, Major 1, Unity,
00:03:10:08 and then the last one I would have to say
00:03:13:18 Treisman,
00:03:15:08 Unknown Mizery,
00:03:17:28 Logikal Ethix,
00:03:19:12 Decisive.
00:03:20:18 Damn, man, I did a lot of artists in Toronto
00:03:22:22 I have slept on, I like a lot of hip hop artist.
00:03:25:10 So to the artist that I slept on, keep coming up,
00:03:28:01 there's a lot of kids that need to get inspired,
00:03:29:10 so we've got to keep doing it, you know.
00:03:31:00 For the kids, for the kids.
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00:03:35:17 And of course we wrap it all up
00:03:37:28 with the freestyle Cypher over at Shef's Kitchen.
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