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First of all, i didn't come up with the title. local chicago rap areas came up with the title. his reasons for changing the title were troubling to me. he said the title "chi-raq"" would hurt tourism and economic development. >> but understand why you know, and i recognize that "chi-raq" spike lee "chi-raq." it comes from folks in chicago. you recognize that term, part of the objection to that term is sometimes when we talk about urban violence and i'm talking about us, me, the media, okay? >> all right. >> you can talk about west side of chicago, detroit, a lot of places. it's very easy in co...

And stop thinking that this craziness is fun. >> spike lee's new movie is called "chi-raq"". it is a fantastical mythical modern adaption of lysistrata. where women band together for a sex strike to put an end to the gang violence in their chicago neighborhoods. film has been controversial from the start from the title which conjures up the images of a distant war zone to the premise criticized as an front to residents of chicago where gun violence is a deeply serious reality. i sat down with spike lee to talk about the movie, including a series of tweets from chance the rapper who is father i...

>> still to come, my interview with spike leon his new controversial movie "chi-raq." what he said happened in his meeting with chicago mayor ram emmanuel. >> he was trying to convince me to change the title "chi-raq." first of all, i didn't come up with the title. local chicago rappers came up with the title. his reasons for changing the title were troubling to me. the radiant glow of being in love.

>> chance the rapper who is from chicago and as he was coming up before he became big was rapping a lot about this issue about violence in chicago, went off. he said the idea that women abstaining from sex would stop murder. a slop in the face to any mother who lost a child. you don't live here. you've never watched someone die here. don't tell me to be calm. >> first chance rap will say full disclosure. his father works for the mayor. he's the chief of staff whatever the title is. his father is the chief of staff. show me any criticism, if he's so concerned about chicago, do your research. sh...

If you saw the film angela bassett, you might have forgotten, angela bassett has a scene where she says is, people don't know what they're talking about. a character in the movie says she hates the word "chi-raq." >> you have characters ins the movie saying everything. >> people have to have a right. they want to see the different viewpoints. as a flaemmaker, i'm not going to have every character in my movie say what i believe. >> right, now. >> that's what he artists do. >> so the other reason i think -- this has true before people saw the film. like my impressions going in and what the film ...