We love the Freedom Hip-hop offers, but there's a lot less freedom inside the culture than you might think.

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The podcast where we explore who hip-hop marginalized is, and why it's embedded in the fabric of the culture we love.

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This is Ann Arwen, founder and director of Smart Justice, California.

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You know, I'm really paranoid.

And I want to know what I'm going into and how I get out of there.

I check out who's hanging on the yard.

Who's hanging in these areas right around this door?

So was you walking down here, what sort of stuff did you notice?

You ain't no trap.

I don't see, you know, like a gang of officers waiting around this corner to gaffle me up or a gang of inmates over here to get me or that.

You do that. I do that, naturally.

You got to realize that I'm conditioned a certain way to react.

My defenses go up soon as I come out myself.

I'm looking for a saber tooth cat.

Even though they've been extant all these years, I'm looking for that thing.

When a caveman came out of his cave, he's looking for that terror,

a doctor or he's looking for that saber tooth cat or he's looking for something to get in.

And nowadays you got people to walk out the door and get hit by a car.

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