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Class, which was sort of a security in terms of any possible conflict between the haves and have nots. but now thats eroding and theyre getting poorer. so theyre starting to get angry. >> anthony: what do you think the biggest danger is right now? >> man in black shirt: civil commotion. >> anthony: civil commotion. >> man in black shirt: yeah, we have a crime problem, related only to gangs. >> mario: its a gang related warfare. >> anthony: it aint all good for everybody here, by a long shot. tri...

Trinidad is nice, trinidad is a paradise. why trinidad is nice, trinidad is a paradise. >> anthony: now my theory was that the whole world was going to look like trinidad in a 100 years. >> man wearing white shirt: that would be a great world. >> anthony: cheers to that. >> man wearing tan shirt: trinidad is nice, trinidad is a paradise. why trinidad is nice. trinidad is a para -- thank you. hi, im paul

I call a demon to walk with me. >> anthony: king david is one of the old school street fighter who has kept his form from fading over the years. >> anthony: as in brazil, the deep south, african slaves were given little to work with when it came time for the meal. more often than not, if they wanted meat, they had to make do with what the slave masters did not want: a tongue here, a cow foot there. here, as elsewhere, they figured out how to make something delicious and tender from whatever ther...

And the frontline pans play a melody. ♪ the result a symphonic wall of sound. >> boogsie: i would like someday to marriage this with a big orchestra, symphony orchestra. yeah anthony, thats my dream. >> kim: its because of the music africans survived slavery, but not just survived physically, survived psychically. its a question of just improvising instruments. ♪ ♪

The official count is 140. i would say its more. >> anthony: youd say its more? >> muhammed: id say its more. >> anthony: and why do you think people would go? >> muhammed: i would have to go back into my childhood to explain that. the coupe that happened here happened when i was six years old. they had all these young people in there who had this idea, you know, were they were going to build this thing. theres this community thats going to stand up to whats going on in trinidad, thats going to ...

>> anthony: much like a lot of reggae his songs call out the socials ills that have been disproportionally visited on the afro-caribbean population. >> muhammed: i see bodies lying in the streets nations collapse in the midday lord i need to cool my head. theyre calling it a brave new world, freedom for brave new boys and girls. what good is freedom if youre dead. >> muhammed: if you look around my city right now a lot of people are choosing death over life because the life that they look at doe...

♪ ♪ >> anthony: rondel benjamin and keegan taylor studied fighting styles from around the world before coming around to their own, homegrown martial art. >> 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 co...

♪ >> man wearing black shirt: it started in 1898 more than 100 years ago, most of the christians were being persecuted by the tuts, so there was an exodus of christians leaving syria. they boarded their ships from beirut, and as long as it was heading west they thought they were going to america. many of our parents landed in trinidad and thats when we started. thats the first generation. >> anthony: just outside port of spain, bay shore is one of the priciest neighborhoods in the country. im ...

♪ the rehearsal space is called a pan yard and if youre lucky 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.

His son, keshav, is a music producer. uncle charlie is in charge of the cooking. >> anthony: how far back does the family go? >> chan: this family has gone back to 1845. >> anthony: 1845, those were hard times. life was not good for the family in india. >> chan: there was poverty, there were wars and all sorts of things, and yes they came into really hard times here because the indians emigrated from india, replaced the liberated slaves and the conditions were not very different. >> keshav: diff...