Trae Tha Truth on the Plight of the Streets; Houston Car and Rap culture; Breonna Taylor, and His Long History With Activism

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Talib Kweli is joined by rapper, record executive, and fixture of the Houston rap scene, Trae the Truth. The pair talk about the responsibility to the streets that their platform has given them. Trae brings us into the world of Houston rap and car culture, talks about the influence of UGK, and touches on his strong creative relationship with Bun B, which extends past music and into the community. Trae also breaks down why Breonna Taylor’s story inspired him to get involved on the ground level.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented
0:08.0	co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our
0:12.8	episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Hattish,
0:18.5	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts. I was listening to you on the mic
0:23.8	Tyson hotboxing shout out to my bro shout out to Mike Tyson Brooklyn's own you said so many
0:30.2	so many jewels and gems but you told a story about you speaking to a cat or getting in his ear
0:36.1	a street dude and how he was like man if I didn't have his conversation with y'all so I'm
0:39.1	going to rob a bank or something. I never forget that I could we was in Greens Point. I remember
0:43.0	vividly it's good and bad right when things happen they call me before they call and the city
0:50.8	before they call and the mayor before they call and help when I say bad it's just a lot of pressure
0:56.8	if I'm not if I feel like I'm not able to help that way down on me you know what I'm saying but
1:02.7	in these situations you know like they get frustrated even if you reach out say if you reach out
1:07.1	to somebody for help only for you to know that they're going to tell you they ain't nothing we can do
1:11.6	or they're going to make you jump through 15 hurdles only the tear you know but they knew they
1:17.6	was going to tell you know from the jump but still made you go do that it makes you feel like
1:22.2	I don't like at this point it's just me against the world need that so help so when you have
1:27.2	people like me and my team you know relief game the angel by nature and all that when we pull up
1:34.4	they know we come in the help they know we ain't coming to be just men don't they know we ain't
1:37.8	even making you I don't care for you to feel I know that's one thing other politicians and other people
1:43.4	as far as organizations that help people they get frustrated because they like he coming here like
1:50.1	a rebel and unorthodox and he just do this when it's ways it's supposed to be done but it's like
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