Episode 28 - Songs Make Jobs

Have You Heard George's Podcast?

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Drama, History, Fiction

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Over one billion Africans on the continent. 200 million in the diaspora. 18% of the world’s population. Thousands of artists with a gazillion listeners every day. What will it take for Black music to truly liberate Black people? Warning: This episode contains very strong language and language that may offend. Credits: Written by George the Poet Produced by Benbrick and George the Poet Mixing, recording and editing by Benbrick. Soundtrack: Mahalia Jackson - Summertime / Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 00:57 - 07:36 Dave & Stormzy - Clash 09:39 - 11:26 Nas - If I Ruled The World (Imagine That) ft. Lauryn Hill 12:34 - 13:04 Bobi Wine - Maama Mbile ft Juliana 14:17 - 14:46 Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock 19:01 - 20:20 Jazmine Sullivan - Pick Up Your Feelings 20:42 - 21:41 Solange - F.U.B.U (feat. The-Dream & BJ the Chicago Kid) 22:47 - 24:47 Benbrick - Falling Tide (performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra) 24:57 - 29:04 Thank you to: My team: Sandra, Vidhu, Birungi, Luke AG. BBC Sounds: Dylan and Jason. BBC Concert Orchestra. Evan Rogers, who worked with Benbrick on the orchestrations and prep for Abbey Road, Tom Kelly, our conductor, and Adam Miller, our engineer, for those Abbey Road sessions. The Common Ground team. Zeze Mills and Trend Centrl. My PHD team Mariana Mazzucato and Karen Edge. The Fisk Jubilee Singers. A very big thank you to Kasana and Jade for their contributions on Common Ground which we included in this episode used at 08:35 and 08:50. Want to contribute? www.GTPCG.com Archive: The clips of George chatting with Zeze Mills used first at 00:34 are taken from George’s appearance on The Zeze Mills show. The clips of George chatting with economist Mariana Mazzucato used first at 01:36 are recorded by George. The clip of Sam Cooke used at 05:28 is taken from his interview with Dick Clark on American Bandstand. The clip used at 06:29 is taken from the ABC News 20/20 Hip Hop special report from 1981. The clip used at 07:02 is taken from the BBC News documentary London’s Bleeding. We used various clips from different Chapter 3 episodes: The clip from Episode 20 used at 11:52 featured Benbrick’s remake of My First Song, originally by Jay-Z. The clip used at 12:34 is taken from Episode 21 . The clip from Episode 22 used at 19:01 features archive of Damian Marley from his interview with Seani B on 1Xtra, and a clip of Bob Marley taken from his interview with Gil Noble for WABC-TV’s “Like It Is”. The clip from Episode 23 used at 13:28 featured Dot Rotten’s BBC 1Xtra Westwood freestyle. The clip used at 14:17 is taken from Episode 23. The clip used at 20:42 is taken from Episode 25. The clip from Episode 26 used at 15:17 featured the music Sounds & Vibrations, and The State of the Ends both by Benbrick. The archive clip used is taken from the BBC documentary “Roots, Reggae, Rebellion”. Have You Heard George’s Podcast is a George the Poet production for BBC Sounds. Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland Commissioning Senior Producer: Alex Entwistle Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio and the Peabody Award winning, have you heard George's podcast?
0:09.0	Yo, before we get started, I wanted to tell you I've made some special music mixes to tie in with this series.
0:15.0	And if you're in the UK, you can listen to these exclusively on BBC Sounds.
0:20.0	This episode contains very strong language and language that may offend.
0:26.0	Hello and welcome to the chapter free for Nile Episode 28, Songs Make Jobs.
0:33.0	What do you think needs to be done for the relationship to be better between young black men or black men and the police?
0:41.0	If we can all get to the point where we can generate enough jobs around us to control the activities of our young people in the areas that we're from,
0:50.0	then the police relationship will improve.
0:53.0	I've never looked at it like that. It's doable, man.
0:55.0	Yeah. Do you know what? And I think that we're starting to even, like, made you think, I think it's sick.
1:01.0	I don't know if you've really liked it. Yeah, I don't know if you see that now that you've got a post job.
1:05.0	Just, you know, like, what kind of jobs have you got to say?
1:09.0	Some a tongue, and the living is easy.
1:25.0	Fish are jumping.
1:33.0	You also kept using some of the words. I'll tell you what I wrote down.
1:39.0	I was writing down stuff that was making me think.
1:43.0	When you say kids make songs and songs make jobs. How cool is that?
1:49.0	But the question is how to make songs make jobs, right?
1:55.0	That's why I think what you and I are speaking the same language.
1:59.0	We're both interested in change, but systemic change, as opposed to just cute little stories on the side that people can talk about.
2:05.0	What does it actually mean?
2:11.0	What are these mornings?
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