Tales of The Town EP 7: Gentrification in Oakland

Hella Black Podcast

Hella Black Podcast by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham

Society & Culture

5 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Gentrification in Oakland has been a focal point of local organizers, publications, and creatives for the last decade. As rising rent prices continues to displace families that for generations have called Oakland “home”, and forced others out onto the streets, Episode 7 of Tales Of The Town highlights oakland community members who are trying to find their way through a city that prioritizes profit over people Guests: Mistah Fab: rapper, producer, songwriter. Owner of Dope Era Clothing store. Uncle Freddie: Abbas’ Uncle. Artist and Fabricator. Oakland Native. Ronnie Stewart: executive director of west coast blues society. Historian of 7th street in West Oakland. Brandi Summers: professor and author of Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City.

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0:00.0	We're in downtown Oakland right now in Broadway. This is a gentrified
0:06.9	ass place. The block that I'm on right now I would not be called dead down here
0:11.0	when I was a youth. is hell of cafes, cannabis clubs.
0:16.7	Next to a bike shop where you could park your bike and leave your bike and then go back
0:21.1	to your gentrified neighborhood.
0:22.9	It's wild to see a development damn near in the middle of a fucking depression.
0:29.8	I'm Delency Parham and I'm a boss of Dekeem and this is Tales of the town a podcast about Black Oakland. One Love, one Love Everybody. My name is Mr. Fab, local music artist, philanthropists, father, sports endless, commentator, clothing owner, fashion designer.
0:56.0	I got a lot of titles, man, but a native Oakland kid, man, that just, you know, that loves the city and represents for sure.
1:03.2	Yeah yeah yeah look
1:06.8	a man's your boy fabby Davis Jr the Mac pack man
1:10.1	he's saying that's mr fad he mentioned, he's many things.
1:15.0	For those from here, he brought us classics like Ghost Ride it and New Welcome. I got the west with me so I suggest you niggas don't mess with me niggas
1:24.9	be cool because you don't want a squab because we can do the food but you don't
1:28.6	want a problem put that on something I put that on fall put that on something I put that on mama
1:34.0	that on something
1:35.0	put that on grand seat dust
1:37.0	not only is he a rapper from North Oakland
1:40.0	but he owns his own clothing line
1:41.0	dope era which he started about 10 years ago.
1:44.5	We was cracking jokes one day, just playing around.
1:46.7	A few guys and fellas, we were sitting up talking
1:48.8	and we was like, yo, what if we had a shirt
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