S E1119: In Class with Carr, Ep. 134: Pastime/Gangsta Paradise, Kwame Alexander and "Why Is We Americans"?

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 132 minutes

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In Class with Carr, Ep. 134: Pastime/Gangsta Paradise, Kwame Alexander and "Why Is We Americans"?

Dr. Greg Carr tells the story of the making of #GangstaParadise on the heels of the death of #Coolio. He and Karen also celebrate E. Curtis Alexander and his son, Kwame Alexander. At the end, there is a discussion of "Why We Is Americans!"

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Good everything new being time's high that got me really uh you know when I got excited? You know when I got excited?
0:23.8	I'm not gonna guess, I want you to tell us.
0:25.6	I think we may have got excited, same place
0:27.6	we all got excited.
0:28.8	When the original came through,
0:32.2	something went through my spirit. It was okay, but when Stevie came and hit that
0:37.6	note that magic. And first of all, hi, we are for some reason when we didn't plan it.
0:45.0	Did we plan it?
0:46.5	I got the I got the urea three pack in narrative newbie and new movie and refill.
0:52.3	We are rolling with force.
0:55.8	I love that green.
0:56.8	Good morning.
0:57.5	Yeah, I love it too.
0:58.4	I love it too.
0:58.9	So a couple of things, you know,
1:01.6	we titled this movement in memory.
1:04.4	You know, Koolio died Wednesday and 59 years old, young, older than both of us but young you know no question and I think about he didn't know he didn't know
1:19.3	about Stevie Wonder song did you know he didn't he wasn't aware of Pastime Paradise? Well yeah he
1:25.8	said his mom had the record but what was the I forget the first one he said he
1:29.2	has Stevie Wonder record but it wasn't that one. Yeah. Right. That that song passed on Paradise was on
1:36.2	songs in the Key of Life which I think it definitely won a Grammy it was I think the
1:40.7	album of the year but that song itself didn't sell a lot of copies, right?
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