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It was great energy. Like by the time I was in, I did like an hour. Oh kay Afromance. That was dope. He was playing his guitar, did the hits. Um. It was a pretty big venue in big stage, so there's enough room that every it wasn't like all on top of each other and ship o cool. It's gonna ask, but it's like to uh perform. Now that Delta has

kind of got everybody spooked again. Yeah, I mean just after this weekend, a couple of spots of past you know, a mask mandate inside their U their places, which is it's a good thing, you know. I I it was my first time going out and like a month. So other than that same music stuff that I've been working on and trying to get this comic book done, you know, the same stuff, stuff like that, Are you are you doing? I'm good. I'm good. Um, we're getting close. Yeah, so

the babies do on Friday. Yeah, this is this is probably the last too we'll hear of me? Not we got I'll be around. I got some episodes and some great interviews lined up for while I'm gone. But this is the last little joint um joint joint that Mac and I will be doing for the next month or so while I, uh heal up and gets into the kiddo and whatnot. But yeah, I'm doing good, doing good. Um,

I was really enthused to here. Last night we had I guess it was two weeks ago we did that interview, but Jazz Maine about Cops City, and they voted on that last night and actually voted to UM table it. So they're gonna have a couple more weeks of discussion. And so it's a big victory for the organizers in Atlanta that you know, had been canvassing and holding rallies and phone banking and getting the word out about this crazy the cop mansion. So they're going to build in

the middle of like the last forest in Atlanta. Um And so that was some good news I got last night. Shoutouts to Dark and Sunrise Movement a t L and love them for pulling that off. Yeah, we got some good feedback for that episode to where Yeah, they're doing good work out there. It's great to talk to the talk to Jasmine. But yeah, things have been well. And speaking of saving the forest. Um, we had a episode today jam Packed with the environment. It's like open it.

It's like it's like fern gully in this bitch. What. So, So today we're gonna be taking a look at some eco rap. You might ask, what's eco rap? Well, I'm sure that there's like there's probably different names to what we're actually referring to. But for the purposes of this show, when we say eco wrap, what we mean is hip hop music that has like a focus on environmental advocacy or awareness. You know, you know what I'm talking about. But we're calling eco rap for all times purposes. Um,

we're gonna listen to a bunch of songs. We're gonna dive into some artists, but you know, a week ago when we started putting this together. Um, the u N came out with that devastating climate change report that has you know, pretty much most of the rational world on edge or yeah, or has seen a lot of people just cut their hands up, like, well, I wasn't gonna do ship anyway, and now I'm definitely not gonna do

ship because everything is a lot of dum happening. Yeah, we're talking about the IPCCS report on climate change a little bit. When he came out, and uh, it's spurned headlines like the u n's terrifying climate report. The u N Climate Change Report sounds code read for humanity. U N Climate Change Report predicts dire future for New York. A hotter future is certain, according to the New York To the New York u N Climate Report and the last one Climate change You run report is a frightening

wake up call. So before we get to the music, we're going to dive into a bit of the UN's report, discuss what, if any immediate action is being taken, how climate change disproportionately affects poor people, and we'll discuss whether or not, um, the individual actually has an effect on the outcome, or whether this is something that has to be dealt with by governments. We'll be back with that

after the jump, all right. So last Monday, the U n report came out learning the world the global warmings

on the verge of spiraling out of control. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or i p c C, which itself is the result of the World meteor Roger meteor or Logical Meteorological Organization teaming up with United Nations Environment Program back in Just to give you an idea of how thorough this panel is, any report that the group has issued had to be approved not just by the researchers who collaborated on it, but also the government of

the member countries, which as of today numbers at about a hundred. The IPCC report found that shocker humans are unequivably to blame um from for climate change, and that rapid action to cut greenhouse gas missions could limit some impacts, but others are now locked in so certain things that we can't really turn back the hands of time on sort.

It's just gonna happen. But there are some things, some steps we can take to mitigate the full scale disaster that it's possible if um if we don't you know, together. So how do you feel about this report? What did

you think when you first heard about it? I mean, I felt like drastic action on climate change was necessary long before this, But to learn that like certain things are going to happen now, like it's too late to stop certain stuff from transpiring, and sort of grappling with the both environmental and human toll of the that eventuality.

It's been, it's been, it's been heavy. But then I guess it's letting slitten slitten, it's a little flyer under maya to sort of think about, all right, like what we gotta do, what we gotta do to make sure it's not any worse than that. We're talking about just incredible amounts of devastation and loss of life then, I mean stuff that we haven't even fully like grasp. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah, I mean we were talking earlier about some of the dum ship that's going around.

I you know, I in a in a sense, it's like I don't want to be too judgmental of it, because you know, I kind of I get it in a way. I can remember when I was like in third grade and we used to in class would have like teachers like okay, kids, so the hole the ozone layer and everyone should recycle and you know, watch how you use energy. It's like these are things, these are things that we've been talking about, Yeah, since I was

a child, you know what I'm saying. So it's if you just if you go through the natural progression of the years, no drastic action has been taken since right because the industry cleverly put it on us, like through their marketing spend and like funding campaigns where we made it seem like recycling and the individual were um was

the was the one that could turn this ship around. Also, I think I think it's as a as a like uh component do you think that was like a strategy like absolutely yeah, Like the idea of a carbon footprint like was absolutely marketed by like fossil fuel industry is to get people to think about their what their fault is in in uh climate change and take the heat

off of people like BP and x ON. I think it's also to a degree also like cultural like neoliberalism tends to like oh individual responsibility da da daa Like I think you put those two things together, um, and then you get the mess that we have. The mess that we have when people like still like oh, if I use my usable toad or whatever, it's gonna be fine. Like nah, bro, that's interesting. Now that's interesting because like, I mean, neither one of us is like a climate

scientist or anything like that. But I mean, is at this point in the game, is the conclusion that individual action is this is that cap Like at the end of the day, I mean, I would say individual action is kind of cap Like if you're gonna take individual action, you might as well like take to the streets and demand that like Congress stop fossil fuel subsidious and start, you know, subsidizing solar and win to a higher degree. And like yeah, or does nationalize the I don't know,

an energy and economy. If we're really gonna if we're really gonna stop like mass devastation from happening. Um yeah, I mean like that, like what kind of individual action we're talking about? Really? And it thinks it's mass action, which is going to require just people like clamoring for like wide scale change at the systems level. I mean, at this point, the mere fact that this is even

up for debate, it's just wild. I mean, it's one of those things that again makes you throw your hands up, like, yeah, what the what the fun are we gonna do? Because I mean, we're literally talking about the survival of humanity, you know what I'm saying. And it's like if if the people who have the most resources and the most power can't can't be convinced to like look at look at ship in the long term like that, I don't I don't know what. I don't know what the hell

we're supposed to do with that um so. U UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres described the report as a code read for humanity. Like the headline um he said, the alarm bells are deafening. This report must sound a death kneel for coal and fossil fuels because they destroy our planet. In three months, the U N Corps Climate Conference in Glasgow, Scotland will try to ring much of the ambitious climate action out of the nations of the world and the

money to go with it. Drawing them more than scientific studies, the ABCC report gives the most comprehends them in detailed picture yet of how climate chance is altering the world. And here's some some alarming facts from the report. Per Global citizen UM two. It was a hot a decade on in reported history, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide every director levels in the atmosphere, and c I S has decreased for thirty two straight years, and ice melt

is accelerating. The ocean absorbs of the heat by global warming, and of the excess carbon emissions there are ninety There were tropical storms in god damn, six point seven million people were displaced from their homes by natural disaster in that's the one where it's like, that's where we're already at. Yeah,

that's where we're already at. I mean, if you if you think that the the right wingers across the world are causing ship in their countries about immigration, now wait until you have millions of people that are starving and scared and literally can't go physically, can't go back to where they came from. Exactly. Yeah, unless immediate, rapid, large

scale action is taken to reduce some emissions. The report says the average global temperature is likely to reach across the one point five degrees celsius two point seven degrees fahrenheit forming threshold within twenty years. At that point, we can expect to lose between seventy and our coral reefs. Mass extinctions will put many ecosystems across the world at risk of collapse. You've seen the movie, has seen the deal.

So far, the pledges to cut emissions have been made, but they ain't even close enough to what we need to start reducing the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Um, So let's talk about how this impacts people. I mean, like, if I think the struggle that many have faced with embrace of environmentalism, and like, oh, I don't give a shit about the whales and the fucking polar parsonship, but the human cost of that is very easy to kind

of shake someone with. And then particularly thinking about frontline communities, to people, the poor and people, you know, the people that are going to be really impacted by this most So let's turn to kind of consider some of that. So we know the ways that it affects just you know, everybody. You know, the if if it's if force are catching on fire, that's affecting everybody's heir, is affecting homes of you know, thousands of people. If the sea levels are rising,

if you live on a coast, you're in danger. We know how climate change can you know, affect just general famine and cause droughts and things of that nature. But you have to you have to remember that everything that happens to two let's put it this way, everything that happens to people who have money, that's bad, It's happening like ten times, whereas people who don't have money, that

goes for the count tree that you're in. And then when you look at ship on a global picture or a global scale, so um with that, the increased frequency of intend, the increased the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts threatened the lives of the front line communities, driving people from their homes and jeopardizing food sources and livelihoods. All these effect

increased the likelihoods of more conflict, hunger, and poverty. People living in poverty rely on agriculture and natural resources to survive. For these people, the effects of climate change shifting weather, limited water resources, and the increased competition for resources. Remember your increased competition for resources are all real matters of life and death. So climate changes turned their lives into a desperate guessing game. This is per the Mercy Corps.

According to the World Health Organization, as of the year, climate change is expected to contribute to approximately two hifty thousand additional deaths per year from all nutrition, malaria, diarrhea, heat stress, other you know, secondary impacts of what mac has described in the Mercy Corps um kind of breakdown of how this is all, how does all them go?

How it feels like, you know, almost like yelling into the wind because it's like, what again, we're not we this is waiting on reparations, you know what I'm saying. And we we definitely support taking action and stuff like that. So we definitely don't want to have an episode where we're kind of like, yeah, man, this ship sucks. This

is bad, and that's it. So, um, I guess if individual action isn't necessarily the what should be the focus, then what do you think are some things that we the people can actually do to like convince their governments, whether it's local or a national at all, so like take more action than they are. I mean, yeah, earlier this summer, dozens of youth activists with the Sunrise Movement

we're arrested by Secret Service more blockading. Was it like all ten interesces to the White House like like taking I mean non violent direct action like that to be like, yo, this is not a fucking game. Um, it's really critical. And then you know they got backed up by um um U Alexander Crossinger Cortez is there, Jamal Bowman, Krey bush Um and so like, you know, sort of helping give strength to the voices of these this minority we have in Congress that are calling for things like a

green New Deal, like without a strong public mandate. Like yo, the people are like really fucking serious about this. There's not a lot of room for them to like even introduce us into the conversation around things like the infrastructure bill, um et cetera. What do you think about like maybe possibly like organizing a new voter block, because the way that I see it is this Trump's every other policy

concerned or issue, you know what I mean? So what if what if there is like some sort of mobilization behind a voter block that is like yo, anybody talking any goofy the climate change isn't real ship, you know what I mean, It's like ensure that that person cannot be elected to office because I don't know this this ship seems like a code read all hands on deck, and it's gonna be really if if you if people are feeling that doomer ship now, it's gonna be really

hard for them to snap out of it in fifteen years if something serious isn't that Yeah, I mean, I think part of that is is um is popular political edification around the intersectionality of the issue of this issue, that that that disproportionately low income and black and brown communities are going to be impacted by displacement by even today you know, things like our currently current energy system and how it's set up, like uh, crazy energy bills

and like the way that's that impacts like poor folks. Thinking about how intersects with the interests of people in the labor movement. If we need to transition all these jobs, we gotta get labor people on board. So they're like, Yo, we're down. Do you mean to tell me they don't butt me up to you know, an hour if I'm building solar panels instead of I don't know, like cracking

or whatever, Like Yo, let's get this. Yeah, And then but then organized people into that voting box that you're describing, where like people are like yo, yeah. But ultimately, I mean, like I the question then becomes do we even have time to vote in change? I think it's like, whoever we got, we gotta put all the pressure on them. It doesn't we cannot wait until Oh we have another press that that's gonna are better. Oh we take over one more seat in the Senate. Like, it's not we

don't have time. I mean, there really isn't that. This is like, uh, it's like you know the action movie when the heroes like, we can't wait for back up, we gotta go. You know. This is one of those sort of moments where it's like there's there's no one coming to help if we don't if we don't do this ship right now, you know what I'm saying. So it's definitely that sort of situation. In the meantime, we've experienced, you know, these record breaking heats. Uh, five hundred thousand

acres of forests are burning in California. Last month, the European Weather Agency issued extreme flood warning. German meteorologists said that they hadn't seen anything like this in five hundred or even a thousand years, and the result was flooding that left more than a hundred people dead and thirteen hundred unaccounted for. It's already killing people, or it's like literally literally people already dying and stuff. Yeah, by it's twenty one hundred if we have failed to put up

defenses or do nothing to curb our global emissions. New research has found that coastal flooding could increase by nearly with six million people living on the coastlines less than ten meters or three or two feet above sea level. Even the steady rise in sea levels means leaving whole populations, homes, and infrastructure to the whims of the sea. UM. Under the worst case scenario examined in the study, some seven million people, four percent of the world's population, could be

impacted by coastal flooding. So where they moving. They're moving inland, they're moving, you know, to the Midwest, they're moving to America from other countries, um, And so thinking about the economic impacts, the social impacts, UM, and then the physical impacts of just like, yeah, competing for resources to make that happen, uh, price gouging on necessities as people, as migrations, as populations migrate, and just fuck, there's a lot so

couldn't re emphasizes report not just about what's coming, it's about what's already here and to I guess, break out of because this is heavy. This is a lot of heavy ship. Right, Let's talk a little bit about what is already in what are we already doing. So you know, UM Infrastructure Bill just passed in the Senate going over to the House, and it does have some it's not super ambitious, but it does have some stuff in there

to mitigate the impacts of climate change. I say mitigate the impacts because a lot of it is stuff like dealing with um, like like creating more more resilient communities to withstand the impact of climate change rather than reverse the trend that is bringing the s long. But you know, it's got eleven point six billion dollars in there for

construction funds for projects like blood control for example. UM, the Forest Service could get billions of dollars to remove flammable vegetation from the lands it manages, so make wildfires

so damaging. So it's like not making sure we don't have more wildfires or more floods, it's just making sure we can control the floods and making sure that the wildfires when they raised they damage less stuff like, um let the uh let's see, it's yeah, and so it's not inmitious enough to like actually stop the trajectory that work currently on it and it's under it's not understandable, but it's just like to stop the trajectory that we're on,

like the world has to pause. Yeah, similarly to how how they how the world did for two weeks during the global pandemic when it's just like everything needs to stop and we need to reconsider how we're doing all this ship and not even the whole world, just like us in Europe, Yeah, exactly, you know, because us in Europe just need a fucking ship two weeks just yeah,

or not chill. We didn't do a general strike, frankly, shut down the entire the people need to shut down the entire economy until we're like yo, like climate change or or the will just keep the economy close until y'all do some ship. Well, this goes out to our especially young listeners if they're any out there. You know, it's by the time this hits and Maria are gonna be like sixty, you know what I'm saying. So this,

this is this is this is y'all's fight. Y'all need not not that, not that y'all aren't doing it already, but you know what I mean. We joke a lot about with the with the kid, like like why would you do that? Why would you have a kid right now? But it's like, somebody's gotta lead. So I'll be I'm gonna teach this a little bitsh how to grow corn and shoot guns. He's gonna be leading people into the mountains to their bunker where they'll have little aggro tunnels

that you know, grow the wheats and stuff. Yeah, old John Connor, Yeah, somebody, somebody's gotta be. Someone's gotta raise that child into the world that's coming. You know, the rest of these kids ain't gonna be ready. So yeah, speaking again, people ready for the world that's coming. We're gonna take a quick break and then we're gonna come back and check out some environmentally aware rap and then also check out some bona fide, you know, self identified

eco rap and check out what that's about. We'll be back with that after the jump, all right. So you know, for a long time, you know, there've been rappers who have been aware, conscious of the environment around them that haven't necessarily fallen into the eco wraps of genre like our last guests on this show before or we've mentioned the most stuff song New World water cats have been on that tip for a while. But I'm sorry we're using no not nothing. Started talking before I had a

thing to say. Yeah, um, but you know, just as far as a couple modern cats who are pretty popular who have got their mind on the environment. Uh, the son of Hall of Fame rapper Will Smith, Jaden Smith, is well, I would say that of fame. Yeah, fresh Prince is in the dope knife metaphorical rap Hall of Fame. He yeah, he's in there. He's he's the first ballot, no question. But um, so, Jaden Smith said, I saw what happens plastic goes to waste and how it affects us.

Will Smith has been involved with something it's called just Water, and this stemmed from the years to improve infrastructures and communities by giving them economic opportunity while also using STEM to solve environmental problems using his connections and expertise. He's responded to the ongoing Flint water crisis by teaming up again with the partner Drew Fitzgerald to bring the water box to the community through the nonprofit five oh one C three. Water is life and when people are denied

access to clean water, that is the ultimate sin. Smith said, So, I guess this is like a water access purifying system that this company is doing. This is admirables fun. This is in another example of how like individual actions cap no offense to no offense to him whatsoever. But it's like Jaden Smith can't rebuild the water infrastructure under Flint. No, like an individual just can't do that, and that's what

needs to happen. And so what we end up doing is man aid solutions like okay, getting box with the water to them, which it's great. I'm so glad that's happening. But that's exactly why we have to put pressure on governments because, like I literally, even if I wanted to, like if I had a billion dollars, like what would I do to build rebuild the water infrastructure under Flint? Right? But I can't. You need the government has to do that. But what makes it, I think, I guess just to

be Devil's advocate. What makes those gestures like that important is that that brings awareness, you know, absolutely No, this is a great use of one's platform and capital. You might have like a thirteen year old kid asking themselves the same question that you just asked, Like quite a minute, what is Jaden Smith the one who has to do this ship? You know what I mean? And then that inspires them to like get out there and take some actions.

Other notable ones who've got Scissa from the Top Dog crew In the R and B song, Striss made a statement in support of sustainability by teasing fans with plans on a new collection of sustainable merchandise. So you've got to get that doal with Doleville, and I guess you might as well have a message behind her, right um. She mentioned that the clothes were recycled and that some of them had the phrase puck flastic and Sustainability Gang

explicit messages and support of a healthier planet. Now see this justice like this are to be are fall a bit more in the line of like the performative doesn't really do ship, doesn't really help anybody out sort of thing. Nope, And I don't even blame us if for thinking it could help, because that's how we even socialized growing up,

you know. Oh, recycle bring a redusable water bottle, bring your toe bag, you know, drive a hybrid where like we think that and like that, yeah that it doesn't like at least Jaden is like actually doing some like giving people some like MATERI AREO, here's some actual water to the amount of people that I can get it to.

You know what I'm saying, She's ultimately profiting off of this for one and second of all, like it does nothing to draw attention to the fact that like the ghouls that acts on like are purposefully poisoning the planet for profit and that they have to be taken out winning it's necessary, Like that's that's the ship man, Like, that's the ship. Yeah, I mean sustainability gang. Whatever. Let's

let's listen to some raps. Guy, Well, I am s os uh mother nature up first, the environment is stragle and we've been on the gradual declining in a lifetime and lose the battle, get burned by bolcanoes, get bloom by tornado. What's interesting about the song, It's like, actually why I like like struggle with religion at times is like, oh, all these things are happening. I guess we pray to the Lord to come help us out. It's like oh yes,

and also don't stop there. Also you can do something about it by do yeah, just taking action and they're waiting around for um Jehovah to do something. Maybe Jehovah, what Jeoba wants you to do is you do something

that is the answer to your prayers. And sometimes but sometimes it stops there where it's like I guess I was proby about it and then just like let it be like nas on, like you have the power to do something about this, you're not even like just don't just you know all I have a pray and that's all I got, Like, nah, do something about you pray when like there's been nothing else that you can do.

How about like as the last resort or like or you see like you're like ignoring the answer to your prayers and like not and and just like ignoring operating needs to take action. I just like this song. Um it's it's it's a cool song. It's it's you know,

one of those like inspernationally asked sounding songs. It does to me, you bring up the issue and attacking you know, subject matter like this where it's like I think it just it would be a lot more interesting and a lot more effective if you if you're gonna make something about like climate change, to make it about some real world individual experience that relates to climate change, as opposed to like attacking things from the broad the environment's gonna

kill us. We all gotta get together because it's tornadoes over there, hurricanes over here, floods over there, instead of talking about like, yo, my neighborhood, you know what I mean, my town. I don't know that that makes sense. It does.

I mean, I think that while it's kind of a it's like a different thematics been on the conscious hip hop genre, if we could call such um it does have that in common lot of other conscious hip hop, where it is diagnosing the issue without getting into the specifics. I mean, like some songs might be like oh over on Crunchhaw this of that, and like get into the

specifics of one's neighborhood. All the times it's just impressionistic, like this is ship that happens in the hood that like I see around me, and like I'm diagnosing the ills and in a generic community. And that's the same kind of thing here where um he talks about you know, Miami and a tsunami and Rossa's in Jamaica get hit by an earthquake. Other than that, it's just like a general diagnosis of like, oh funk. It's pretty much like

it's the musical equivalent of scissors merchandise line. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean not maybe not as shallow, but in its effectiveness I think i'd say, because it is and what it accomplishes. Yeah, it's just it's just like, you know, it's like you that that's the if you're if you were going to parody like conscious rap or if you're gonna parody environmentalist wrap, it would kind of sound like this, you know what I mean, We've gotta work together for

a brighter future. Hurricanes. You know. It's just I don't know, it's it just doesn't it doesn't have enough of a personal touch for me to feel that it's effective. And I feel like it's also a matter of, uh of locating it temporally, because like, if this had come out in like it would have been mind blowing. Oh yeah, you know, oh my god. But this came out I think in like two So okay, so let's we're a

little we're a little past this. At the point in last let's check out one that does definitely have a personal touch to it. Now, this is like an actual eco rapper. This is a DJ cava with the tracks Sprout that Life. When I say like an actual go rapper, like he identifies as an eco rapper. Um, we've got this quote from he says, my work is all about changing the mindset. It's gotten to the point that the

practice of environmental sustainability is associated almost exclusively with white people. Um. His mission is to wrap about climate change, food justice, and plant based foods spread far beyond his Denver hometown. So let's check out this joint. Sprout that Life. Pull up on your block in that veggie fair. Keep my broccoln local. Like I always did to watch my compan the street. In the music video, he's got like a little puppet version of himself dancing in the greenhouse. It's adorable.

Advocating the farmer's market. I feel that. Okay, see, now this is what I'm talking about, because it's like all of the everything that we've been talking about in this episode, all these concerns about the environment and how people are living and what direction we're heading. All of those concerns that we talked about comes across into the song that's

very specifically about out like eating Russell's rocks. You know what I mean, Like you you you, you get, you get, you get all of that in something that's personal and I don't know, it's like I take more from that than if it was just like like to me, that's a good representation of eco hip hop as opposed to just putting on a track with a guy listing what what natural disasters there are that exists, you know, like like where thank you? I know that they're hurricanes and

floods and fires. Yeah, what's not beating this one? Hell goddamn all right, I'm mess. We gotta deal Ted's cattle. With the track Broken, I have talked about him before. I've talked about him before. Yeah, the episode talking about indigenous hip hop. Let's check out this track Broken as a generation that humanity that determines what kind of will people passed down to. I'm on something that's that's a beautiful. Man.

He's like giving shouts out to the you know, the ecosystems that have been devastated, the lives that have been lost, the folks that you know, got arrested at Sandy Rock and stuff has kind of got like a it's like very much in the vein of like you know, poor went out for your homies, um that you might find and and I want to say more traditional hip hop and more mainstream hip hop, but like very very massively adapted here. It's kind of cool. Alright see that again.

That's that's that's the sort of ship that I like to hear. Yeah, he's bringing it back to the systemic level. He's talking about that how colonization has brought us here, like you know, thinking about us in the larger pictures like its hip hop tropes that you know about. It's just replacing the subject matter, which is all it is

all it's about anyway, you know what I mean? Like that that that song, uh easily sounds like you're not not typical, but it's like it's of the mold of like the serious, reflective, reminiscent rap song, you know what

I mean. So you could have a song that's like that with the same exact beat where the m C is rapping about yo, my homies that died, you know what I'm saying, or you or you can have somebody rapping about yo, the girl that got away Yo, that relationship that that ended, and he chose to use that and rap about Yo, my fear of what the environment

is gonna be like in the future. Would yeah, shout out to the yeah, shout out to the water protectors that got hosed down defending the land against the Dakota Access pipeline, like that's that's that's that's heavy and our last track for the day. It is not a typical rap song, and also it's one that I personally, as long as the song has been out, I did not

really realize what the actual content of it was. I thought it was just like a fun whatever whatever song, but it was the childish Gambino song feels like summer. Let's check this out before we talk about a little bit. So yeah. So it's one of those deceptive songs with the deceptive meaning, where you know, it just sounds like

a feel good summer anthem. But the more you listen to it, it's clear that the song it's it's about a bunch of different things, but climate change in the need to immediately shift our behavior is definitely one of the things that's a raised in the song. Um the first verse, he says seven billions or seven billion souls that move around the sun, rolling faster and not a chance to slow down, slow down. Men who made machines

that want what they decide. Second verse, he makes it clear that the song is about the ways that we're destroying everything. Um. He touches on global warming, the lack of why are in many parts of the world. Yeah, killing the beast we depend on. Birds are made for singing with that waking up, making no sounds, such destruction of ecosystems, habitats where you know, flora and fauna flourish, that every day gets hotter than the one before, running

out of water. It's about to go down. Yeah, it's like the deceptively poetic and prescient song like under like the nice little the beat and like the the like the summary vibe. There's actually like a very ominous note

of yo, feels like summer. It's kind of not I wish that he likes rap more, because if he had inserted like a rap verse in the middle of that, just it's still still still the singing with just like him spitting like just you know, just to kind of just to re restate the thesis statement, but just like with like maybe twelve ours that would have been. That would have been I think I might have had to, like, you know, take a knee a little bit for a second. There. No,

it's really that's pretty yeah, definitely, yeah for sure. Speaking of fire. Uh, if you don't want your house to be on fire, or your you know lands, or your you know dog, or your forests that you like to hike in, Uh, get out here in these streets, bro get involved in an organization that's you know, agitating for bold climate action because we ain't got much time. It's already going to be pretty bad. You can get your government to prevent forest fires. Yeah, only you can get

your government to prevent forest fires. Yeah. And check out some more of this music um by d J. Caven and others that are using their platform to spread awareness and catalyze people take action. Now, I think we're going to talk do some wraps about the environment ourselves. So Joel my good man, can we gonna be oh h, fasten your belt, water, ride caps and the melt. Put the gap back on the shelf for you. Clap at yourself. Gap in the wealth came to frame before you paint

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