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Van Lathan's The Red Pill

073 – Hamtramck w/ Tiny Jag

Van Lathan's The Red Pill

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4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Van sits down with Detroit emcee, Tiny Jag, on her decision to drop out of the Afro Future Festival when she found out that white people were being charged double for the event. They also talk about ways to bridge the equity gap between Black America and white America.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Why people clap for Tiny Jack? I made the white people clap for Tiny Jack.

0:07.0

I made the white people clap.

0:10.0

Heard that. You heard that? So listen, you're one of the more fascinating

0:16.3

characters of 2019 so far. You are. Because it was because I was so like I'm on

0:26.0

I'm on vacation right I'm on the beautiful island of Anguilla and I read a headline the headline says not a flex yeah I go to Anguilla

0:31.8

we go to Anguilla we go to Anguilla and I read the headline the headline says

0:37.6

artist refuses to play festival where white people are charged double.

0:46.1

The first thing I thought was, wow,

0:48.7

how can I buy tickets to this festival,

0:51.4

where white people are charged double. Then I thought what an interesting

0:56.1

stand to take and I'm sure that it put you in the crosshairs and in the spotlight in a way that maybe you didn't think that it would.

1:05.1

First of all, tell us a little bit about yourself and then we'll get into that.

1:09.1

Like, how long have you been doing music? Like what's your music like before we get into what brought you to us? Let's talk about what brought you to you

1:20.1

So tell a little bit about yourself tell us a little about yourself.

1:23.4

So my name is Jillian, that's my first name.

1:26.7

I am multifaceted to be honest with you, but as far as music it is very passionate for me

1:34.8

because it's an outlet for me it wasn't always I used to be very heavily

1:41.3

influenced by my

1:42.5

by my environment when it came to music and I was unhappy when I was

1:45.0

doing music at that time until I realized that it was an outlet for me.

1:49.0

As far as my background, I grew up in Hamtramck and the east side of Detroit as well as the

1:54.7

suburbs so the hamtramck's a small town inside of Detroit it's completely

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