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graydon squares in eighties rapper and founder of the creative science
collective grand unified his music deals with philosophical issues including a
season in science political issues the war in iraq and his experiences as a
soldier
so i want to get to know if this is great but first let's start with wid you
grow up and well would have bought with the situation which include
of more or safety for uninsured
appropriate
basically our growth as a war of the court
the in the system
or california
or as they are from
of
the los angeles area of prior to the resilient
that and
you know
opening all my life at had a lot to do with the program
programming with
then bring in progr coming with institutional
uh... uh...
ants
for leon
although i had an affinity for music and at a faster for music
in our los amo maker
i wasn't
you know run around trying to attach myself to something that
uh... to be
quite honest didn't really care about
army at all
and i didn't understand that
so when you're young and you want something to belong to
uh... you know you attach itself to going to try to sell hearing yourself to
two groups that uh...
that don't have your best interest of mine
well a bit older than you know i was a
al-mal exhorted early adulthood i'm a two-stage in
to go to the military
about papa once before nine a letter
and so i'll second like a lot of people have a stalker some palestinian home
changed my life around all of our
and mala happens
in early in that period so
my life changed forever
in the sense that anew
uh... that i was gonna be directly affected by these events
as they uh... twenty one-year-old
young army soldier
i was deported
tire acknowledge that's
to uh... for a senator boren pitcher division alsace g_-seven
uh...
europa while i can't you've been through the to but in the pacific my deployment
let's just say that it was a ally life-changing experience
i went to the military you know to have alleging changing spirits but income in
the form
the part where they came in from wound
other reform so
uh...
my childhood might have had a lot to do with programming and one of those
programming
uh... one of the program were with religion
and by
the programming
throughout my childhood and her going into my adulthood
edinburgh questioning it into a pool
you know i'd already come home
and and uh... up
basically down by the military started going to school
yes or no consider yourself what the religious person up until viewers still
feeling the military
proper you know i mean i i a question
are always grant repair within
the typical model
who who bopping required finger
on paper ok you know i mean like i i i i would black person that a lot
person anyway
however very analytical
uh... critical maraynes
growing up
what i've been applied to all affect of my life because i don't have the
period there
religion and i think that probing talk to me uh... ever para at religious
peeping
i do that
very heavily
and
you know when you're young republican *** you don't have the experience to
know that an adult telling you something that you think the print media
uh... this ship that that that
that hopefully you've had
uh... for good
foundation of being a work-based but you could come back that
type of uh...
pickup type of
believe banking
swinging is being an atheist a bigger deal any
the african-american community
are not being fair objective of the current
our community had been the more religious
uh... are a lot of our are
social
who it have been religion
throughout our history a lot of time and that's not the paper itni only implement
surveyor eventhough secular african and their important but not a lot we know
that it it then um... a primary
christian
uh... you know muslim-dominated coats
so i i think it kind of a big deal because
you know
g disappeared and an christianity a free paper in the black community any time he
questioned uh...
me your community
on something
uh... and and
closely held at the religious belief your victim mode
when we think about some of the issues that
disproportionately affect black americans although really the
socio-economic issues but particularly in this country their particular
interest fit for the african-american community incarceration
uh... child poverty a number of different things
do you think that the black community might be better off in advancing
politically and socially economically if religion were less of a factor
all right
yes benefit of a long long answer but i want a truck business quickly like and i
think
the reason why it passed through is because maybe if were focused on real
issues
community like that patient
army it kandahar
to teach they any kid
who's been trained to critically being about brings
that big guy is responsible or a slave trade abroad and u
it's hard
too
for ignore the real issues
we're not
worried about
fictional ish she's okay
because at the end the day
i mean you know people no matter
position i'd argue that is completely guessing you're wasting your time
all that time it energy hinkle towards
uh... uh...
you were community and and and beijing at the the agent and of with
education arm
you know uh...
the ability to sustain yourself
the ability to support for something really be support your family the
ability to make smart and informed decisions
and i'll by that
you know we're acting for woodward park how to make informed decisions
i mean even really learn how to
make decision making it but i wanted the barbie so
you know i a lot of us are are
we we have our own almost have
*** crimes overcome before we even get to the point where we address in the
religion because
of the way that our community
used for booking them
we've been speaking with graydon square a fee is rapper and founder of the
creative sides collective grand unified graydon working people look you up
online
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no spaces you can also find us on both a slew
uh... we will enter our brain unified
uh... you can just google me and i guarantee you that brady's for a
that's me so
all right thanks so much for being on the thread
thank you for having me
all right we'll take a break we'll be back with plenty more after this date in
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