American capitalism is exemplified in the ex-president.
Its free enterprise versus government. And we need more now.
We need more.
Hip hop artist and activist Yasiin Bey sees it far differently.
It's not about streaming. That's not the problem, right?
It's about you mean to tell me?
Did the source of labor at the center, at the center of this experience.
It's supposed to be satisfied and grateful.
With receiving a portion of a penny for their efforts in labor.
Now, whoever is else is happy with that. Then that's you.
You can take your labor to the market however you see fit.
But when it relates to something that I'm doing.
And then I been doing.
I don't have to ask you permission. And I had to get your understanding.
If I, and if I'm ambivalent or like I don't know something,
I just don't feel right and I'm, I'm searching for a better way to do it.
That's completely my volition.
I support our law enforcement by ensuring that they are fully funded.
A tale as old as time.
Keep writing blank checks to precincts across America, baby.
And while.
So I mentioned to the colonel there that this this German cell was broken
up this week and I read the story.
- What? - I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
Well, you have to admit that there are people who do want to kill Americans.
Yeah, some of them call the police. Yeah.
Okay. But but that's.
A good I mean, like, intertwines the war on terror many cling to.
And his real life experiences as a black man in this country.
America is not a racist country.
A laughable, idiotic thing, as Bay put in his rhymes.
Okay, the actions are real.
How the hearts really feel like late night.
I'm on a first class flight, the only brother in sight.
The flight attendants catch fright. I sit down in my seat.
Two seats here approach, officially talking about.
Excuse me.
Her lips curl up into a tight space because she don't believe
that I'm in the right place.
Show her my boarding pass. Then she saw the gasp, all embarrassed.
Put an extra lime on my water glass.
An hour later, here she come by, walking past.
I hate to be a pest, but my son will love your autograph.
Yeah, that's pretty funny.
It's based on actual experiences, but you know it.
It's really interesting.
It's a quote from a from a childhood friend of mine.
This is black. It's white, it's money.
It's all unequal. The adjectives can never be nouns.
We are the people.
If I know what your genealogy is or where you're from, I know something about you.
But I don't know you.
And I can't pretend to know a person just because I know something about them,
or reduce them to just like a set of like.
Scientific responses and it's ridiculous. I mean, you know, someone's skin color.
It's like people saying they know people with acne or bad people
or like, you know, or people, you know, it's just it's so bizarro.
But it predominates in the way that so many things are done.
There's endless reasons to play black on both sides.
Let this song be one of them tonight.
The big thing that was there was the weapon of mass destruction.
Who could forget this was the lie?
We were sold by the likes of Donald Rumsfeld when.
The Revolutionary War was going on.
George Washington and all them dudes was terrorists
as far as the Queen was concerned.
So it's like it's, you know, it's a different it's a fine line between what's
legal and what's fair and decent and, you know, just on the universal sense.
But you don't want to get blown up by a bomb.
- I don't think. - I'm going to get blown.
Listen, I'm black in America. I live under constant pressure.
I don't believe in that boogie man that they ain't doing shit.
I you know, I don't believe in that.
When somebody wants to do something to you, it ain't they doing it.
They ain't talking about it. Sending you tapes.
I'm gonna fuck you up when I see you.
Babe. Mark the Warhawks.
And rightfully so.
Jews will not replace us and even chided with these clowns.
We're human beings, you know?
I mean, it seems like being a racist is really, labor intensive and just
kind of draining, you know what I mean?
Draining? Yeah.
Not very rewarding.
I don't see a lot of joyous racists, you know what I'm saying?
Or, like, hey, let's go hate today. It's.
They're not afraid.
Even even when they have the tiki torches they don't see.
Yeah, they just.
Don't seem like they lifted a really good time.
Yeah.
Well, you know, they say that's the difference between if you're ever at the.
Like at the hardware store if someone's getting like.
Four tiki torches. That's a dinner party.
But if you see them buying, like, 20 tiki torches, that's like an
anti-Semitic, anti-black hate rally.
They're sad. They're just sad.
- That's how you know, if it's. - Too many, it's too many torches.
What are you guys up to? What are you.
What are you doing? Later?
- Don't forget this dude's role either. - In my judgment.
President Bush is right to be concerned about Saddam Hussein's relentless pursuit
of weapons of mass destruction.
He is preaching at this point.
The way that this government has pursued its foreign interests has been meddlesome,
murderously meddlesome.
People's creeds.
It's up to people believe what the hell they want to believe.
That's up to them.
I believe it's I believe and it's my right as an American.
The same way that Paul Robeson, when he got brought up in front of the
Senate and they said, are you a communist?
He said, yes, I am, because it's my right as an American to be.
I can be whatever I want. I could be a girl if I wanted to.
I this, but I don't choose that. I'm just choosing to be me and it's okay.
The free market that I just described has never existed.
It is a figment of the imagination of people.
It is also a wildly utopian image. We don't have that.
Every market that I have ever studied, whether it's ancient Greece right
up to the present, is full of regulations.
The notion that we can have a market without regulations is refuted by the fact
that every time a market has been created as the way to distribute goods,
it has immediately had so many bad effects that regulations had
to be brought in to counter them.
Richard Wolff, my guy, has been blowing the whistle on this for decades.
Still, I don't like the way that the labor exchange is happening around it.
And why wouldn't I?
What type of Frankenstein Bugs Bunny motherfucking mad talk about?
I'm supposed to get part of a penny who looked at a penny and decided it could
be broken up into parts to be meted out to the people, essential to the labor.
Yeah.
- Yeah. - What the fuck are you talking about?
This is some continuation of the same type of shit
that you was talking about with the.
The part.
Yeah, the continuation of the of the continuation of Colonialization.
All of this, the colonial hangover, all of their mathematics is similar.
It's like you work for us. You don't work at all.
Yeah.
Seen by the artist and those who work that are not CEOs, executives and board members
are pawns in their game.
And on someone like this former presidential candidate.
But we also have to have an organized effort against gangs.
Just as in a previous generation, we had an organized effort against the mob.
We need to take these people on.
They are often connected to big drug cartels.
They are not just gangs of kids anymore.
They are often the kinds of kids that are called super predators.
No conscience, no empathy.
We can talk about why they ended up that way,
but first we have to bring them to heel.
And he sees it in his own hilarious way.
Hillary Clinton is just another form of dynasty to me.
They passing the presidency around like a party joint.
It goes from the bushes, the Clintons to the bushes to this stop.
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I have been listening to Yasiin Bey for what feels like almost 20 years
and to see a evolution, and yet staying on a consistent, albeit narrow plane
of things that should be broadened human rights, equality, equity,
seeing how we are all connected, seeing how we are all human, and these
different systems that are put in place to take advantage of, marginalize, oppress.
So some could be propped up and others could be bumped down further.
His message has remained the same throughout all this time,
and we should be applauding those people.
We should be applauding those who didn't sell out.
We should be applauding those who will stand up for the atrocities
that have taken place under this empire, that is the United States of America.
And to see this man get pushed out over and over again and be treated
as a kook has been troubling.
Are there things that he said that I disagree with?
Sure.
But the overall mantra, how he carries himself, what's he, what he puts?
Into his rhymes, what he puts into each album, what he's put into Blackstar.
The people that he has worked with, it has been consistent, and it has been for all
the right things that many who simply want
to dumb down the entire industry hates.
They hate him because of the way that he carries himself,
because of what he is saying, because of how he is shining the largest flashlight
on all of these propellers that are having one thing and one thing only,
and that is to make us lesser.
So I say this, and I doubt he's watching this.
I am a huge supporter of what you do, and I have been a fan for a long time,
and the only thing I would say is keep on doing your thing because we
will be watching and we will be listening.
Thank you for watching this clip and have a great day.