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So there's an
artist from the West

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Coast, someone you might
heard of, Kendrick Lamar.

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And then there's
another artist who's

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actually been making art, gosh,
since the late '90s, Beyonce.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Right?

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And following the uptick
in media attention,

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I guess in some ways, it
was like media sweep season.

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So during sweeps,
they oftentimes

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will play a lot of reruns.

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So they started playing
a lot more reruns

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of like people of color getting
shot by police officers.

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I say "reruns" because
it's always interesting

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when there's a spike in
that kind of attention,

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there are people who think that
means it hasn't been happening.

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And your panel earlier--

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was it during, I can't
remember who was--

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talked about how-- no,
it's been, it's been.

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But you got to get
those ratings up,

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right, your TV ratings,
your neighborhood ratings.

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I think it would be really
useful if when a new community,

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or I should say an old community
is being nude up, as in nude,

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N-U-D-E, like stripped,
but also newed and renewed.

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It would be super
helpful if they just

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had a car, one of those cars
that shoot water on the side,

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but replace it with
bright green paint

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because then the neighborhood
would be totally ready

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for green screening later
so that when somebody

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shot in that neighborhood,
and caught on camera,

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the special effects people would
have a much easier time making

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them shoot themselves by just
doing some CG replacement.

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So when we think about
"greening" of a neighborhood

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or, say, greenwashing a
neighborhood, which is usually

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about ecological sense, I
think that we should greenwash

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more literally, and it'll just
help everybody feel better

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on the inside.

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Anyway, so Kendrick
Lamar, Beyonce,

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I was talking about them.

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So they were making music,
and they were making music

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during this time.

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And people, the same media,
were like, oh my gosh--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--a return to conscious
Black popular music.

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Where has it been
all this time if not

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on albums, and CDs, and mp3s?

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I haven't heard any.

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So thinking about this,
Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar

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were anointed as
torchbearers for this.

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And I'm not taking
anything away from them,

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as long as they don't say,
yeah, we brought that shit back,

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right?

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But-- so I started
writing these pieces that

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are ekphrastic recordings of
me watching their music videos,

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specifically "All Right" by
Kendrick Lamar, "Formation--"

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[WOMAN SNEEZES]

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--Gesundheit.

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Thank you.

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You're very welcome.

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Damn.

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Now you're like a co-performer.

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You're like Diddy, like--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--yeah, all the tracks.

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[? Tisa Bryant ?] just--
Achoo bombing the sets.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Damn.

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But I said, yes, madam director.

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She's the program
director of my job.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So-- so Kendrick Lamar's "All
Right," Beyonce's "Formation,"

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and their live performance at
the BET Awards of "Freedom."

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I'm going to do two
of those tonight

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with you, "All Right" right now.

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And the piece is called
"All Right, All Right, Huh?"

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[LAUGHTER]

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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(SINGING) Daaa Daa Daa
Daa Daa Like a bridge

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over troubled water.

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[INAUDIBLE] Daaa Daa Daa
Daa Daa Oakland on site,

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site as Black political
capital, capital.

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[SCREECHING NOISE] Blacks
left on the asphalt. (SINGING)

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Money, money, money, money.

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[LAUGHTER]

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You don't own nothing.

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The world, a hotel room.

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[SCREAMING]

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The first two women he see,
one, Brooke Struck, two,

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[? Headwood. ?] Exhibit A, me?

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[SCREAMING]

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Urban state's pried over
with a crowbar stays fit

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with the inner acting out.

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One time carries the top dogs,
howling he bears, a paw bears.

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[SHOUTING]

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For the path out of the bullet
throughout the whole video.

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Hang time on that levitate,
levitate, levitate, levitate,

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oh.

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Hashtag lactates
[INAUDIBLE] milk.

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The kids taking up room on
the last BMW, a claim of turf.

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Hang time on that levitate,
levitate, levitate.

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Can I kick above street level?

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If it is a dare?

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Check, he's angelic.

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A guardian?

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A super hero?

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He did?

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All of the above?

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All my life I had
to fight, nigga!

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Now, what was it uncles, daddy,
and brothers turned hard times?

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The Color Purple, the
color of bruises, kings.

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But hey, Dr. Walker, he
floats like a butterfly.

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Or like bugs out a window.

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(SINGING) Money,
money, money, money.

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But if god got busted,
is god got busted.

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What if god got busted.

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But if god got busted.

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But who are we going
to be all right, nigga?

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What you want?

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Is we all going to
be all right, nigga?

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What you want?

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If the highlight is pretty
pussy and Benjamins,

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who got to get low?

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Who comes up short?

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(SINGING) Levitate,
levitate, levitate, levitate,

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loving you is complicated.

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Loving you is complicated.

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Sorry's for the record.

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Hashtag attack rims, level.

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Hashtag attacks slims rebel.

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[? Canines' ?] chest
don't say scared.

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They say T-squared.

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[INAUDIBLE] get loose
in front of courthouses.

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It's complicated.

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Fingers bent in and
out of shape all up

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in front of the wolf of
wall, his eyes, his mouth.

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You see something, say
something on that terror made

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in the US of A.

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Duh, duh, duh, duh.

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Split in half, he falls down.

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He gets up with the song.

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The big Black brother
punched a lot to this crowd.

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Temp 100, 400 plus later
as the roof [INAUDIBLE]

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On the black field, death is.

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(SINGING) Duh, duh, duh, duh.

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The street lamps under his
boots, shoes not slung over.

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A low riding sun hung
over them, straight.

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He balanced on that light like
god got him by the collar,

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till death dragged him
by heart to the dirt.

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Hashtag set back lit horrible.

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But if god got busted,
but if god got busted.

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But if god got busted.

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But are we going to to
be-- this video is a say

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something in black and white.

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Serious sculpture
of being in relief.

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Bodies of the not dumping.

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Bodies, a gallery of installed
[? bees. ?] Objects, subjects.

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But better to be dead and alive.

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Because it god got us, then
we're going to be all right.

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But maybe not alive?

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I say if I god got us, then
we are going to be all right.

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But maybe not alive?

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(SINGING) Duh, duh, duh, duh.

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Death points that.

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Death points at.

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[GUNSHOT SOUND]

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Is he dead?

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Is he dead?

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Is he head?

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Is he?

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Is he?

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Is he head?

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Well, that's fine.

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OK, dot, dot, dot.

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It was complicated.

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