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Smarter than cars, girls or where's my money? >> lupe: um, i guess it depends on where you come from, and do you feel the obligation to where you came from. a lot of people in the hood won't take me serious. they won't take chuck d serious, because at least you take somebody who's rapping about crack, rapping about dope, that is actual thing that they can go get and sell and make money that day if they wanted to. you can't preach to them black panther party or, or, you know, marcus garvey or this because they can't go out and get it and actually sell it and monetize it and make some money off ...

Ugly fact that chicago's south side is also currently the murder capital of america. why do you think people are killing each other in such large numbers in chicago and not in new york? >> webb: let's be clear, it's only a few spots, it isn't the whole city. it's not the whole city. >> lupe: to be honest, chi-raq, is englewood. >> anthony: it's a pretty staggering body count. >> lupe: the sad part is it's been like this, right and the only reason the story now is white people looking at it. oh, that's terrible, that's been like this for 30 years. how come it wasn't terrible 30 years ago when y...

>> lupe: um, i guess it depends on where you come from, and do you feel the obligation to where you came from. a lot of people in the hood won't take me serious. they won't take chuck d serious, because at least you take somebody who's rapping about crack, rapping about dope, that is actual thing that they can go get and sell and make money that day if they wanted to. you can't preach to them black panther party or, or, you know, marcus garvey or this because they can't go out and get it and actually sell it and monetize it and make some money off it. >> anthony: despite an appalling murder ra...

Help themselves because of mass incarceration. how can we help that? >> when we had done that broadcast last year in california the very next day jamie fox, without any formality, got on a plane, flew to new york, and participated in union square -- excuse me, participated in union square on a rally defending and putting light on the issues of what happened to trayvon martin. his presence caught instant press attention. a lot of people began to stay focused. he brought huge resources to the table and there was a consciousness. you could almost equate it tangib tangibly. by doing this he also r...

Powerful medium. great poets described it as being the bridge between heaven and earth and i see it as the bridge between health education and the streets. >> the centerpiece of the interventions, whether it's in schools, summer ♪ about healthy food selection using a traffic light analogy. ♪ slow they're not off-limits ♪ >> you help write the music. >> yes, i do get involved. i'm sitting down with chuck d and explaining the traffic light food model. whether i'm sitting down with doug and then there is a usually back and forth process until i'm happy and they're happy. and when we find th...