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Prosecutor an informant told him there was a 20 thousand dollar contract on his life. >> mark: they had people following me over a period of time, some law enforcement officers and so on. so my company put me on a plane, i stayed under an assumed name for about three months in a location outside of trinidad. >> anthony: generally speaking when people want you dead, they get you. why are you back? >> mark: i guess to quote great us journalist walter cronkite "its not what you want people to know,...

Cooked on a massive tawah and slathered in gee. but here, just as its reaching peak flakiness, it gets a beatin. >> keshav: here they call it buss up shut which means burst out of shirt. >> anthony: burst up shirt. >> man in white shirt: yeah because they take two huge parotta and then they whack it with two sticks. >> anthony: oh, okay. i thought you were talking about whats going to happen to my shirt. what about skin color? you look at jamaica, you look at haiti. i dont get what they say, but...

Because that is --. >> keshav: when we have it like this when were drinking before the actual meal, its like an appetizer but we call it cutters because it cuts the alcohol. >> anthony: right, im sobering up as we speak. >> anthony: so look youre all trinidadian, trinidad first, indian second. >> man wearing blue shirt: i mean when the indians came 160 something years ago there was a disconnect with the motherland. >> chan: most of these indians were promised that they were going for a short ten...

♪ anthony: thanks so much. holy crap, okay. this is a challenge. people keep coming up to me in the street first thing they say is "have you had double yet?" so im eating [ bleep ] doubles alright. >> anthony: doubles are a caribbean take on the indian channa bhatura. two floppy, tender pieces of soft indian style bread, loaded with a wet heap of curried chickpeas, pepper sauce and mango. >> anthony: structurally i have questions. i dont want seepage, seepage is never good. if someone uses s...

Somebody nearby is making this, corn soup. split pea broth, dumplings and of course corn. kim johnson is a local journalist and historian who knows about this stuff. its far more complex than you think. >> anthony: wow ive got to tell you that was incredible. i heard a lot of little steel drum bands around the caribbean but nothing like that. all percussion right? 100 percent. >> boogsie: yes. >> anthony: how did your interest in this develop? >> kim: i grew up here, later i became a writer. i d...

>> anthony: now whats legal? >> rondel: whats not legal. >> anthony: or lets say whats not legal? >> keegan: you cant hit to the legs. >> anthony: you cant? oh damn, cause that would be the first thing i think of. im thinking, oh ive got to get that knee in particular. >> keegan: now to be honest in stick fighting, legal and illegal is a concept, but it doesnt stop that kind of stuff from happening. >> anthony: but i mean lets face it, this is a pretty heavy object. if i get a good swing, if i t...

Caribbean buin trinid an tobago its like deep in their blood. >> anthony: this martial art was illegal for many, many years yes? >> keegan: yeah. >> anthony: i mean certainly during slavery times it was illegal. >> rondel: to this date i believe there are still laws on our books that ban this stick and if youre caught with it you can go to jail. >> anthony: the laws of slavery times forced this sport underground. like capoeira, it often has to be disguised as a dance, but this aint no dance. >> ...

I mean how long can people put up with something before they decide this is enough. you know what i mean? >> anthony: would you say carnival and that carnival attitude, the liming culture, might as well be a brilliant strategy to narcotize the people into being satisfied with the status quo? >> muhammed: everything here is somehow designed to pacify it without us really realizing. so our music which is supposed to give us adrenaline as well as sleeping pills sometimes just throwing out sleeping ...

I just got fascinated by tracking down all of these pioneers and getting their stories of how they got involved. >> boogsie: ill be 64 years this year. i playing music since i was a little kid. >> kim: yeah theres stories that he grew up with them in one of his backyard so when he was about three years old he was going out playing with them. >> anthony: boogsie composes his pieces layering different types of drums on top of each other. the engine room made of unpitched percussion, lays down the ...

Muhammed muwakils father took part in the attempted coup. he grew up in fact in the jamaat al-muslimeen compound, but hes chosen to take a different path, music. hes the leader of freetown collective, a band named after a port-of-spain neighborhood that was once a settlement for freed slaves. >> muhammed: they say we cant make no love song, live fast and we die young, they say were doomed to fail. they say were prone to violence, and i sink in silence. dont know what theyre saying. >> anthony: m...