{"id":1154,"date":"2018-05-06T22:47:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2018-05-08T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T07:03:27","slug":"the-hoodia-rap-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/05\/06\/the-hoodia-rap-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hoodia Rap Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

***Click HERE to take a listen — Hoodia Rap***<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a rap song I wrote from the contemplative practice about industrialized food process, hunger, and its aftermath. The Hoodia plant grows naturally in the southern region of Africa. The San people traditionally consume the bitter plant as an appetite suppressant, to help survive in desert conditions where food resources are scarce. However, dietary markets today harvest Hoodia and target it towards those who eat too much, a dietary supplement. This bitter<\/em> contrast in uses is what inspired me during the contemplative practices to write this rap. As a student of the arts, and growing up in South Seattle\u2019s ethnic community, rap is a great medium of expression, poetry in rhythm (I know I\u2019m not really a rapper). Please Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Link to Instrumental —\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CrhrGFg4HZM&start_radio=1&list=RDCrhrGFg4HZM<\/p>\n

The Hoodia Rap:<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t you hate this bitter taste<\/p>\n

This bitter life, this empty plate<\/p>\n

This empty mouth, this empty faith<\/p>\n

Cannot relate. Why not?<\/p>\n

Scarcity is too scary<\/p>\n

15,000 to the dirt<\/p>\n

That\u2019s 15,000 on the daily (Referring to the film Silent Killer,<\/strong> 15,000 kids die each day)<\/em><\/p>\n

But we head to the delis-petroleum jelly in our bellies<\/p>\n

Cause’ the system be tellin\u2019<\/p>\n

Get acres of land<\/p>\n

Monocrop for demand<\/p>\n

But we losing a lesson, selling more\u2019an we threaten,<\/p>\n

Running Earth through the dirt turning heaven to hellish, yeah,<\/p>\n

Are we blind by our own selfish nature?<\/p>\n

Obsessed with trade we control mother nature<\/p>\n

Nothin\u2019 compares to another mother\u2019s hatred<\/p>\n

Seeing her baby fighting hard just to make it<\/p>\n

Yeah, catch my breath on the exhale,<\/p>\n

Try to hold yours, it\u2019s getting hard just to inhale,<\/p>\n

Try to not eat now, feeling sinks deep, wow,<\/p>\n

Oh well, stomach on a nail like an impale,<\/p>\n

Entails disaster, details devastating,<\/p>\n

Large-scale we\u2019re on the verge of suffocating [gasp]<\/p>\n

CO2 levels rising, man it\u2019s irritating\u2026<\/p>\n

Industries s\u2019posed to look out for us?<\/p>\n

Now you\u2019re telling me that the system is what,<\/p>\n

We can get en\u2019uh,<\/p>\n

F-Feening for m\u2019uh,<\/p>\n

GMO my MO! its my leggo my eggo, get<\/p>\n

The jelly n\u2019 nuttele I put helly in my bready, yuh<\/p>\n

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Oh yeah, past that hoodia plant<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s gonna die, who\u2019s gon\u2019 be next?<\/p>\n

I need that bitter taste cause I can\u2019t get enough,<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m tired of this uh, man enough is enough, yeah.<\/p>\n

[Psh, Hoodia plant,<\/p>\n

I mean like, who do ya\u2019 think?<\/p>\n

Hurting others also hurts ourselves<\/p>\n

Hmph\u2026]<\/p>\n

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Uh, Got this machinery<\/p>\n

Moving easily,<\/p>\n

Eventually all this corn<\/p>\n

Turns to feedery,<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like catering<\/p>\n

To the economy,<\/p>\n

Doing this without<\/p>\n

Accountability,<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re feelin\u2019 me<\/p>\n

Send all that energy,<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to start change, lets hit the streets<\/p>\n

Change the industry<\/p>\n

Cause hungers a no!<\/p>\n

You know\u2026<\/p>\n

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Oh yeah, past that hoodia plant<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s gonna die, who\u2019s gon\u2019 be next?<\/p>\n

I need that bitter taste cause I can\u2019t get enough,<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m tired of this uh, man enough is enough, yeah.<\/p>\n

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