We're coming to you live from the Scottish Rite Temple near the intersection of Crenshaw
and Wiltshire, where, as you can see in the background, military personnel are mobilized
and awaiting orders.
Despite the quiet and the deceptive calm, tension is still thick in the air after last
night's concert and rebellion.
The incident was allegedly sparked by police officers trying to shut down a reportedly
peaceful concert by hip-hop artists, Dilated Peoples.
We'll keep you updated with any new developments.
For Triclop's Media Watch, this is Harry Allen, hip-hop activist and media assassin.
And now, proper propaganda.
Yo, Ayo, we handling, these brothers are fabulous, Dilated showing you what rhyme travel is.
The world's a spittoon, from sunlight to moon, busting off stage like gunfight saloons.
Pull my mic back, you like that?
Journalists, we're journalists too, we can strike back.
Hardcore reporters with orders from headquarters, behind enemy lines, sidestepping the borders.
We're trespassers, we bring it to you as it happens.
The streets love my crew for music and rapping.
Street commander slash beat expander, here to fight the slander with the proper propaganda.
What's happening?
You got a question?
Then ask it.
The news is just a TV show, get past it.
And this from a quiet wartime journalist.
Headlines, wake up, refuse and resist.
Like this, like this, like this, like this.
This show, we kick finance, action and scores.
Sports, politics, new fashion and war reports.
Entertainment, when we come to perform.
And the illness where the man in the biz, the storm watch.
Triclops, media, record tape, the TV, net radio, CD or DVD.
Our recites.
This is why bad brewers ain't scratching, keeping time.
I make the people listen, boogie down in the heat.
I make the people listen, boogie down in the heat.
I make the people listen, boogie down in the heat.
Glory, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Cause the pen gives the word, sending swords to war.
They twisted it when he quoted Mao Zedong.
It's their political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
The officer meet his fate by 4438.
It was a dirty deed, but that don't need a dirty case.
Witnesses against the state for sure.
Facts overlooked so the judge could throw the book.
Perhaps for politicians with something to prove.
In the city where they blew the roof off a moon.
Yo, questions with answers lead to more questions.
Why'd it take months to remember a confession?
The principles the same even without the name.
But I still say M-U-M-I-A.
I have to fight, it could easily be me.
But just being the thinker, the speaker, the free me.
Although I use my brain before using a fist.
Don't push it. Wake up. Refuse and resist.
I make the people listen, boogie down in the heat.
I make the people listen, boogie down in the heat.
I make the people listen, boogie down in the heat.
I make the people listen, boogie down in the heat.
We got finance, action, and scores to spoil.
Politics, new fashion, and war reports.
Entertainment, when we come to perform, watch.
I'm the illest weatherman in the biz, I'm so wild.
Trot, flops, media, record tape, or TV.
Net, radio, CD, or DVD.
I'm reciting.
And this is why Babu is in scratch and keeping time.