WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.770 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.770 --> 00:00:07.630 align:middle line:84% And so the last poem is a love poem to the streets. 00:00:07.630 --> 00:00:12.370 align:middle line:84% Last poem is a love poem to the east side of Las Vegas. 00:00:12.370 --> 00:00:14.770 align:middle line:90% And I just leave it there, man. 00:00:14.770 --> 00:00:17.350 align:middle line:90% "The Streets Is Watching." 00:00:17.350 --> 00:00:21.280 align:middle line:84% Street's still watching, still looking out, still checking 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:25.660 align:middle line:84% for you, still stooping right there, and nobody knows how. 00:00:25.660 --> 00:00:28.510 align:middle line:84% Nobody whispers to their hands at night anymore. 00:00:28.510 --> 00:00:29.920 align:middle line:90% Shit, it's just the times-- 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:31.120 align:middle line:90% just not the time. 00:00:31.120 --> 00:00:32.848 align:middle line:84% Street's probably tired, probably 00:00:32.848 --> 00:00:35.140 align:middle line:84% been swelling up at the corners with ghosts and reasons 00:00:35.140 --> 00:00:36.100 align:middle line:90% to keep hustling. 00:00:36.100 --> 00:00:37.570 align:middle line:90% Street's probably hungry. 00:00:37.570 --> 00:00:39.460 align:middle line:84% Shit, everybody hungry these days-- 00:00:39.460 --> 00:00:42.640 align:middle line:84% even the landlord, even the tamales lady, even the city. 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:44.740 align:middle line:84% Every stranger wants me to sing to them-- 00:00:44.740 --> 00:00:47.140 align:middle line:84% tell them they special, and they just like me-- 00:00:47.140 --> 00:00:49.150 align:middle line:90% just hungry like me and my dogs. 00:00:49.150 --> 00:00:52.840 align:middle line:84% And, yeah, I feed my dogs, but they ribs just like mine-- 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.030 align:middle line:84% spent their whole life biting and wishing they 00:00:55.030 --> 00:00:57.520 align:middle line:84% were teeth, bending themselves to the heart, 00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:59.380 align:middle line:84% caving toward what keeps them bleeding. 00:00:59.380 --> 00:01:00.010 align:middle line:90% 00:01:00.010 --> 00:01:03.400 align:middle line:84% How you ain't notice streets is just like poetry-- 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:06.820 align:middle line:84% just like history-- always in the shadows at sunset. 00:01:06.820 --> 00:01:09.100 align:middle line:84% Streets be lurking in cemeteries. 00:01:09.100 --> 00:01:11.590 align:middle line:84% Streets be full of opal and ocher spirits, 00:01:11.590 --> 00:01:13.840 align:middle line:90% praying you make it home full. 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.750 align:middle line:84% Streets really just want you to dance a step. 00:01:16.750 --> 00:01:18.820 align:middle line:90% Let them lead you for a turn-- 00:01:18.820 --> 00:01:22.670 align:middle line:84% lift you in a moment busy with magic like you. 00:01:22.670 --> 00:01:24.920 align:middle line:90% Streets know you passing by-- 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:26.900 align:middle line:90% see you coming for a season. 00:01:26.900 --> 00:01:28.910 align:middle line:90% Streets love you anyway-- 00:01:28.910 --> 00:01:31.040 align:middle line:84% like anything that has thoughtlessly 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:34.820 align:middle line:84% kissed your palms, and your shoes, and never claimed you-- 00:01:34.820 --> 00:01:36.110 align:middle line:90% just watched for your return. 00:01:36.110 --> 00:01:39.800 align:middle line:90% 00:01:39.800 --> 00:01:40.660 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:01:40.660 --> 00:01:42.790 align:middle line:84% Thank you so much for allowing me to share 00:01:42.790 --> 00:01:45.560 align:middle line:90% these poems with you all. 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:47.190 align:middle line:90% It really means a lot for a-- 00:01:47.190 --> 00:01:49.376 align:middle line:90% 00:01:49.376 --> 00:01:51.360 align:middle line:90% That was fantastic. 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:54.900 align:middle line:90% That was amazing. 00:01:54.900 --> 00:01:59.280 align:middle line:84% I especially love some of the comments that you made about-- 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:03.990 align:middle line:84% that there's joy, and there's a sensory dance, 00:02:03.990 --> 00:02:06.300 align:middle line:84% and there was an omniscience to your work. 00:02:06.300 --> 00:02:08.088 align:middle line:84% And I loved-- I'm going to misquote it, 00:02:08.088 --> 00:02:09.630 align:middle line:84% and I'm going to ask you to make sure 00:02:09.630 --> 00:02:10.830 align:middle line:90% that you tell me what it is. 00:02:10.830 --> 00:02:14.460 align:middle line:84% It's like you even might become you, or you might even-- 00:02:14.460 --> 00:02:16.315 align:middle line:84% Yeah, if you're adult-- if you're lucky, 00:02:16.315 --> 00:02:17.190 align:middle line:90% you might become you. 00:02:17.190 --> 00:02:19.710 align:middle line:90% You know what I mean? 00:02:19.710 --> 00:02:21.960 align:middle line:84% I think that's what the process-- the thing is-- 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:24.210 align:middle line:84% I mean-- so dope about dope to me 00:02:24.210 --> 00:02:27.570 align:middle line:84% is that it's a thing that we understand. 00:02:27.570 --> 00:02:30.330 align:middle line:84% I mean, take it to the literal sense like cocaine. 00:02:30.330 --> 00:02:34.305 align:middle line:84% You take a leaf, and you extract from it, and you've changed it, 00:02:34.305 --> 00:02:36.180 align:middle line:84% and you've altered it, and you've refined it, 00:02:36.180 --> 00:02:40.860 align:middle line:84% but what you get at the end is what you call pure, raw, uncut. 00:02:40.860 --> 00:02:44.940 align:middle line:84% There's something about the essence of a thing that once 00:02:44.940 --> 00:02:47.070 align:middle line:84% you distill it-- once a person becomes dope-- 00:02:47.070 --> 00:02:48.480 align:middle line:90% we see stuff in the world-- 00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:49.410 align:middle line:90% that's dope. 00:02:49.410 --> 00:02:50.310 align:middle line:90% What that means is-- 00:02:50.310 --> 00:02:52.950 align:middle line:90% 00:02:52.950 --> 00:02:54.690 align:middle line:90% that is undeniable greatness. 00:02:54.690 --> 00:02:58.245 align:middle line:84% That is like objective excellence, 00:02:58.245 --> 00:02:59.370 align:middle line:90% and that's something that-- 00:02:59.370 --> 00:03:01.350 align:middle line:84% I think, when you find that in yourself, it's 00:03:01.350 --> 00:03:04.270 align:middle line:90% because you found you. 00:03:04.270 --> 00:03:06.060 align:middle line:90% We celebrate folks for real-- 00:03:06.060 --> 00:03:09.423 align:middle line:84% not like the people we celebrate for petty, stupid reasons. 00:03:09.423 --> 00:03:11.340 align:middle line:84% But when we really find people that are great, 00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:13.230 align:middle line:84% and we know greatness, is because we 00:03:13.230 --> 00:03:15.120 align:middle line:90% see what we call authenticity. 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:18.780 align:middle line:84% We see them being themselves in a way that all of us 00:03:18.780 --> 00:03:23.580 align:middle line:84% want to be individuals who can be part of a community, 00:03:23.580 --> 00:03:25.690 align:middle line:90% because we know who we are. 00:03:25.690 --> 00:03:27.450 align:middle line:84% And I think that part of being dope 00:03:27.450 --> 00:03:30.930 align:middle line:84% means that you have to embrace the process. 00:03:30.930 --> 00:03:32.490 align:middle line:90% I was like-- 00:03:32.490 --> 00:03:34.710 align:middle line:84% I mean, literally there's gasoline. 00:03:34.710 --> 00:03:35.740 align:middle line:90% You know what I mean? 00:03:35.740 --> 00:03:38.460 align:middle line:84% It's basically-- sometimes getting 00:03:38.460 --> 00:03:40.950 align:middle line:84% to that part is like dumping yourself in gasoline 00:03:40.950 --> 00:03:43.230 align:middle line:84% and going through a process of refinement, 00:03:43.230 --> 00:03:45.840 align:middle line:90% and then seeing what's left. 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:49.140 align:middle line:84% I love that, and I want to hear more about it-- 00:03:49.140 --> 00:03:52.410 align:middle line:84% hoping at the end because, I think, 00:03:52.410 --> 00:03:55.440 align:middle line:84% it's been interesting to talk to each artist a little bit 00:03:55.440 --> 00:03:58.590 align:middle line:84% about what the process was, and how it changed them, 00:03:58.590 --> 00:04:00.690 align:middle line:84% or how, in some way or another, it 00:04:00.690 --> 00:04:03.540 align:middle line:84% just became something different than you had originally 00:04:03.540 --> 00:04:04.210 align:middle line:90% imagined. 00:04:04.210 --> 00:04:06.790 align:middle line:84% So thank you so much-- beautiful work. 00:04:06.790 --> 00:04:07.680 align:middle line:90% Beautiful work. 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:09.530 align:middle line:90% Thank you.