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That's my uncle, my dad's brother.
Hold on, I'll make him pull over.
Hey. Check it out, they're making a documentary. - About who ?
About me! How are you ? - I'm well, I'm well.
I was planning to come over at some point. - You're just saying that because you saw me.
No, I'd planned it before. - Come over any time.
Is that okay ? Okay, bye. - Bye.
People say my rap sounds like I'm frustrated. That's because it's therapy for me.
I'm not a pessimist,
or someone with emotional *** on his mind all the time.
It's just a way for me to vent. That's why it sounds that way.
To put it in my own words, you know ?
Problems that are on my mind.
Things that happen to me, or to those around me.
I'm happy when I can help people.
Of course I'd like to
This is sketchy.
There's a Turkish marriage going on. It's a tradition, like after a soccer match.
When a team has won the championship or something, they do the same thing.
They drive around.
For a wedding they tie a white scarf around the mirror.
And then they honk their horns. Can you hear it ?
It's awesome.
Officially, there are one million foreigners in a population of ten million.
If you broaden that statistic to people from foreign descent, it's about 2.5 million.
That's one in four Belgians. That's a lot.
I don't think we'll ever be truly multicultural. It'll never happen.
Everybody has roots. You can't ever take those away or forget about them.
You're always afraid they'll shout insults at your kid like dirty n*****.
There's all this talk about integration, but when are you truly integrated ?
When are you a Fleming ? What is a Fleming ?
We probably think: They're foreigners, they must be dangerous.
When something happens, in the news, they immediately say it was an immigrant.
The papers never write that the culprits were three white Belgians.
I've worked with several young people and their parents, to translate.
About school and the problems in schools. So I know some of the problems.
The question on everybody's mind is: Why ?
Why ? As far as I know, or what I've experienced or noticed,
the problem is clear. They're living in this country as Belgians.
That's easy, it means freedom.
They can easily go out, they're not oppressed.
They're going to school from eight till four.
Everything is in Dutch. There, the Belgian laws and standards apply.
But as soon as they're home, they enter another culture, another world.
The parents immediately switch to their mother tongue.
I speak Kurdish, so my parents spoke Kurdish to me.
Problems in school or notes from teachers, I could very easily hide,
because my parents didn't understand.
Youth Talks, Youth at Change is an organization I'm a member of.
The idea is to try and get rid of certain clichés.
We try to bring together people from different cultures.
There are people from Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Africa, Turkey, Belgium.
From all over. That's what we want to achieve. The more color, the better.
Personally, I'm not materialistic at all. I prefer less luxury.
On holiday, I'd rather be in the desert or out in the wild, living on bread and water
than on a luxury vacation in a five-star hotel, lying on the beach.
That's not my thing.
I never enjoyed that much, Same with my clothes...
I'll spare you my biography.
Each nation, each culture thinks it is superior.
It's only natural. Ask a Hindu who's superior, and they'll say they are.
Ask a Muslim, and he'll say the same.
But ever since the Second World War,
we're the only ones who say that all cultures are equal and welcome and so on...
So it's not surprising that we don't have a culture left.
We've renounced everything we stood for, a sign of weakness.
Islam still believes in itself, which is perfectly normal.
So it's only logical that they're steamrolling us.
Muslims are more religious than we are. But how will this develop ?
Will they reject their faith more and more, like we did ?
Or will they, because they're having an identity crisis
and don't know whether they are a Moroccan, Turk, Belgian or Fleming,
look for their own identity, often in religion ?
Then they'll study Islam more fervently,
and the difference will become even greater.
And then there really will be two worlds.
Because there already are two worlds. There really are.
In any case, it's the people themselves who cause the problem.
If a Muslim practices his religion correctly,
he is obliged to embrace every person,
and to be good to them, whether they be Muslim or not.
To me, religion is the one thing that gives me the courage to get out of bed.
If I didn't have my faith, I don't know what I would do. I might...
I've been religious since childhood. I was raised a Catholic.
But I didn't understand it, it didn't feel right.
During puberty, I was looking for my identity, what it means to be a Turk.
Then I met some people who taught me to pray.
So I kind of got into it by chance.
It made me feel that that was it, you know ?
First of all, religion makes me a better person.
It gives meaning to my actions and to my death as well, you know.
Will a multicultural society ever work ?
It will never work. You have to strive for it, I'm not saying otherwise, but...
It'll always exist, racism, foreigners are this or that...
You'll never root it out.
Belgium is a strange society anyway, with Flanders and Wallonia.
Even our prejudices against each other are being fed.
I'd never call a Walloon a foreigner because he speaks another language.
The multicultural society is a reality.
But does it work ? Of course not.
Is there a way we can make things better ?
Or, how do we go on from here ?
Right.
We are well into a phase where the solution is getting more difficult.
We are heading toward two worlds that will eventually clash.
How do you solve that ?
I think, firstly, by not leaving the gates wide open, as is still the case.
The gates of the country, I mean.
Take in the people you really need, or who really do need help.
Who seek asylum.
And secondly,
we have to invest massively with all the means in integration,
Invest massively in training, education, instruction,
so those people don't sink any deeper.
Someone who asks for asylum in this country, or who wants to live here,
must first decide: I am going to feel like a Belgian.
He needs supervision for the duration of his stay.
He has to learn the language.
There has to be some sort of required integration program.
Once they've done that and if they can stay afterwards,
the children's education must be monitored well.
If you see what people are willing to do for their religion or their goal,
or whatever...
it's almost incomprehensible. It's incredible the lengths you will go to
for a book or a...
In the name of that God...
In my old neighborhood, there were 30 or 40 people in front of the church.
Young guys of 16, 17 or 18. Some even younger.
All of a sudden one of them yelled: What are you looking at ?
And then in Turkish. That's when it got rough. They walked up to me.
He threatened me with a knife,
just because I looked at him funny, in his mind at least.
Sometimes, I really get why people become racists after such an experience.
It was just one kid, one rotten apple, but he influenced the whole group.
He dragged them all along. It's those rotten apples who spoil it for everyone.
But those rotten apples... I make music for them. I'd do anything for them.
I've studied sociology to understand and help them.
Because I saw myself as one of them.
Do they deserve it ? I've had to do it all on my own.
Shouldn't they solve their own *** ? Why should I represent them ?
Why should I...
Why should I speak for them, you know what I mean ?
I can't...
I just can't do it, you know ?
It's just so...