Policing the black imagination

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Today on Post Reports, Chris Richards on how rapper Drakeo the Ruler dropped an urgent and timely album from jail. And Fredrick Kunkle on the history of germs, and how the discovery of pathogens changed the way we live.

The most urgent rap album of 2020? Drakeo the Ruler just recorded it from jail.

The discovery of pathogens changed the way we function. Will covid-19 do the same?

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0:00.0	This Post Reports podcast is brought to you by Facebook.
0:07.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:10.0	Hey, it's Ross Helderman from the Post. How are you?
0:13.0	He there, it's Simon and the Post.
0:15.0	Hey, it's Dave Farron from the Post.
0:17.0	Have you got a seat?
0:18.0	This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers.
0:23.0	It's Friday, June 26th.
0:27.0	Today, the urgent message of a new rap album,
0:31.0	phoned in from jail, and a brief history of germ theory.
0:40.0	My name is Chris Richards. I'm the pop music critic here at the Washington Post.
0:44.0	Cheers! I've been wilding out chopsticks, mob sticks,
0:48.0	all of my mama cows, baby, they've stopped being strangling snakes.
0:51.0	I've got a bad mobile on both swan and some mazes all over them.
0:55.0	Jicco The Ruler is a rapper from South Central Los Angeles.
0:58.0	I'm a... they got a ruler.
1:01.0	I'm a real name, Darryl Kovler.
1:03.0	He is an incredible stylist who can rap in these highly calculated insults,
1:08.0	but he has a way of making them sound just whimsical and effortless.
1:12.0	Most rappers be yelling and doing all that.
1:14.0	I don't yell, I always have the same tone.
1:17.0	I try to be as calm as possible.
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