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People's Party with Talib Kweli

FULL: Yusef Salaam Of The Exonerated Five On Being Threatened By Trump, Being At Rikers With NORE And More

People's Party with Talib Kweli

UPROXX

Music

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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0:00.0

We're here outside outside, we're in the Bronx for real, we're at 1520,

0:04.4

Sedgewick Avenue, where hip-hop was invented, one of the first homes of hip-hop,

0:10.4

shout out to Grandmaster K.

0:12.9

One, two, three in the place to be party people is the VKMC telepquality.

0:17.2

We out here outside, outside, we in the Bronx for real.

0:21.0

We at 1520, Sedgewick Avenue, where hip-hop was invented, one of the first homes of hip-hop

0:28.2

shout out to Grandmaster K.

0:30.5

Shout out to DJ Kuhirk, shout out to my man, Crazy Legs.

0:34.1

Right now, this DJ's on stage, the music is going right now.

0:38.6

We are really, really in New York City, and because we're really in New York City,

0:43.2

we had to have a very New York City guest on the people's party right now.

0:47.1

We have an American politician, a motivational speaker, an activist,

0:52.3

a nominee who's actually the winner for the Knife City Council District of New York City.

0:57.8

When he was just a teenager, him and his four friends were wrongly convicted of the rape

1:03.2

and assault of a jogger in such a park.

1:05.1

They were then known as the such park five.

1:07.3

These days, we know them as the exonerated five.

1:10.1

Since his release, he has served on the board of the Innocent Project,

1:13.7

I rock with the Innocent Project.

1:15.4

He writes books, he's a poet, he's an artist, he come from this hip-hop culture.

1:19.8

There have been movies made about his play.

1:22.5

There have been documentaries made about his play.

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