In this episode of "People's Party With Talib Kweli," Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with multi-platinum, multiple Grammy Award-winning rapper-songwriter:
MACKLEMORE
Here are just a few of the compelling topics that we'll be covering with this one:
• Growing up in Seattle, getting into graffiti as a kid, and when he decided to pick up a mic. • Digging into his 2005 debut album 'The Language Of My World.' • Working with 'Gateways for Incarcerated Youth.' • How Mack and Ryan Lewis met each other. • The journey to sobriety and others drawing strength from his lyrics. • What it takes for underground artists seeking to land deals with major labels. • 'Thrift Shop' and it's calling out of materialism in consumer culture. • 'Same Love' and society's evolution of thought on same-sex marriage since the song dropped. • Feeling conflicted with the immense success of 'The Heist' album. • The most effective ways to combat systemic racism and white supremacy. • What the next few years look like for Macklemore in music as well as other endeavors.
The 45 King stops by Unique Access Ent to discuss producing Gang Starr before DJ Premier. The platinum producer also tells #SorenBaker about the work of Hank Shocklee showing him that horns work in rap production.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Police in Rochester released two body-camera videos Sunday of officers restraining a distraught 9-year-old girl who was handcuffed and sprayed with what police called a chemical “irritant.”
The Democrat and Chronicle reported that prior to the release of the videos, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren expressed her concern for the “child that was harmed during this incident that happened on Friday.”
“I have a 10-year-old child, so she’s a child, she’s a baby. This video, as a mother, is not anything you want to see,” Warren went on to say.
A total of nine officers and supervisors responded to the report of “family trouble” on Friday. The girl can be heard in the body-camera videos from officers at the scene screaming frantically for her father as the officers try to restrain her.
At a news conference Sunday, Deputy Police Chief Andre Anderson described the girl as suicidal.
“She indicated she wanted to kill herself and she wanted to kill her mom,” he said.
Officers tried to force the girl into a patrol car but she pulled away and kicked at them. In a statement Saturday, the police department said this action “required” an officer to take the girl down to the ground. Then, the department said, “for the minor’s safety and at the request of the custodial parent on scene,” the child was handcuffed and put in the back of a police car as they waited for an ambulance to arrive.
Police said the girl disobeyed commands to put her feet in the car. An officer was then “required” to spray an “irritant” in the handcuffed girl’s face, the department said Saturday.
At Sunday’s news conference, Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan described the irritant as pepper spray. She declined to defend the officers’ actions.
“I’m not going to stand here and tell you that for a 9-year-old to have to be pepper-sprayed is OK. It’s not,” Herriott-Sullivan said. “I don’t see that as who we are as a department, and we’re going to do the work we have to do to ensure that these kinds of things don’t happen.”
Police said the girl was eventually taken to Rochester General Hospital, “where she received the services and care that she needed,” and was later released to her family.
The Rochester Police Department has faced scrutiny since the death of Daniel Prude last year after officers from the department put a hood over his head and pressed his face into the pavement.
Rio Leyva is a 18 year old producer from Portland, Oregon. He has been signed to Internet Money and has produced for Lil Mosey, The Kid LAROI, Gucci Mane, Lil Baby, Future, Lil Tecca and plenty of others. He was one of the producers on "F*CK LOVE" by THE KID LAROI and the album has accumulated at total of 49.39 million on-demand streams of the albums songs that week of July 24th, 2020. Keep up with Rio on Instagram.
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