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>> rondel: who draws blood first wins, all it requires is the end result. all you have to do is cut the guy. >> king david: blood is blood. >> anthony: whats the worst injury youve ever had in a fight?injury youve had in a fi? >> rondel: this one. >> anthony: whats the worst injury youve seen in a fight? >> rondel: seen a man lose his eye. i saw a man die. you have to be a real warrior, born fighter, to stop the demon, which is like walking like a ma man. i dont keep track of regrets. and i dont...

You, ive got to take you out. the demon in me is going to come out. 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 figur...

>> rondel: this martial art based on our research is maybe 500, 600 years old. >> keegan: stick fighting variations occur throughout the caribbean but in trinidad and 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...

I love the food. >> woman in blue shirt: this is rokubi. >> women #3: best rokubi youll ever eat in your life. >> woman in blue shirt: this is the fried version which is stuffed with the lime stuffing and then we have the typical hummus. this is muhammara, which made from chili paste and ground nuts. the best muhammara in trinidad. >> mario: muhammara makes the best. >> woman in blue shirt: then we have falafel patties, we have grilled wings with garlic which is every arab loves. fish in tahini ...

Else that one percent, like everywhere else. >> anthony: everybody here is very eager to tell you what a wonderful mix it is, and the food if you look at it is this incredibly harmonious stew pot, but i guess life doesnt work as well as food. >> muhammed: no, the only thing we agree on in this place is how much salt to put in anything, thats the only thing we agree on. >> muhammed: man were on a mission, a whole world to change, a whole world to change. join t-mobile, and get netflix included fo...

And this, this year it is a cuckoo year, they call this in africa. >> anthony: and calendar. >> and dashing, you know. but the great thing is the crab. everybody comes must eat crab. its dried coconut and the juice of that coconut and put it in with little ingredients like tomato. >> anthony: crunch it up. >> good teeth. >> anthony: all right. so far, so good. heres what really fascinates me. you started only doing calypso

Calipso. ♪ calypso rose. she the first woman to win the king title which shows you what the environment was like at the time with a female artist. ♪ live so free ♪ come and take you >> anthony: rose grew up in a large and strict catholic family until she was nine years old and sent to live with her aunt in trinidad. so she grew up with a foot in each island. whats the difference in growing up in both places? >> its different. 99% african. the culture is more out there.

You know arak, would you like arak? >> anthony: with a little ice and some water would be perfect. >> mario: perfect, my drink of choice is grey goose with coconut water. >> anthony: the family story is not an uncommon one. the first members came here during the collapse of the ottoman empire arriving penniless. they worked their way up as textile merchants and branched out to run businesses that sell everything from medical equipment to real estate. >> anthony: and how large is the community no...

Sentence, nothing good is going to happen. what do i, suck the paper. i dont think theres meat in here and i still like it. i mean its really, really good. >> anthony: a half century after trinidad became independent of the british empire, there are surprisingly few architectural remnants, but the fate of the country and its population, were forever changed when slavery ended in 1834 and great britain found itself in need of cheap, if not free, labor to work the plantations. they found it in eas...

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 doesnt feel like its substantiated by anything. >> anthony: in ...