Their Pollution, Our Solution (feat. Dr. Bruce Strouble & The Moving Forward Network)

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Kxng Crooked

Dominick Antron Wickliffe (born September 23, 1976), better known by his stage names Crooked I and Kxng Crooked, (stylised as KXNG Crooked and pronounced "King Crooked") is an American rapper from Long Beach, California. He is best known as a former member of the hip hop supergroup Slaughterhouse with other members Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz and Royce da 5'9". He is CEO of his own record labels, Dynasty Entertainment and C.O.B. Digital as well as Senior Vice President of Treacherous Records. Before starting his own label, he was also signed to Virgin Records and Death Row Records. He is currently one half of the rap duo Crook and Joell with his former Slaughterhouse bandmate, Joell Ortiz. Together, they released three studio albums. more »

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The struggle you start today is a struggle our babies don't have to start tomorrow
I know this because I've lived this.
A long time ago, my grandma said the politicians thought we wouldn't fight,
But we united and said, ya basta enough,
This is a dumping ground no more.
The kids around here were babies when we started
Now they will fight for what they believe in because we showed them their voices count

Every day in the United States, toxic pollution is shipped into Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities, resulting in thousands of deaths and extreme health burdens for people of color

All over the country, activists are organizing in front-line communities and fighting for zero-emission solutions to protect their families and themselves from environmental racism

My name is Dr. Bruce Struble.
I asked my homeboy King Crooked from Long Beach to speak on the issue.

Yo Crook, talk to them.

All I wanted to do was go and play outside.
This lil Crooked talking to you, man Let's take a ride
To the community park, but that's where all the danger hide.
Cause they dumping chemicals under my favorite slide.
They ain't got no toxic waste in the place where they reside.
Guess that's something my neighborhood gotta take a stride
Pipelines taint the water for the native tribes.
Politicians look the other way  They taking bribes.
Been lying about their political stance on CNN with their pitiful rants and minimal chance of ever shutting down chemical plants.
I'm just giving you a visual glance at how these criminals dance around the truth like the running man.
I'm just keeping it 100, man
Look at Flint's water and then you'll begin to understand how one hand washes the other hand
I smell rubber, man.
All this pollution abusing our winter wonderland.
Environmental justice activists are at the rally fighting for people in Louisiana who live in Cancer Alley.
Extra pollution every breath's alluding to execution
No restitution in destitution that's disaster valley.
What's the solution?
Just uphold the evidence and think of this song when it's time to go vote for presidents.
They built our neighborhood on a wasteland and never told the residents time to fight for the zip code we represent.

I don't think the people understand this,
But following Ron DeSantis and his antics gone leave Miami looking like Atlantis.
It's like they really trying to wipe us off the planet or maybe the plan is to dump more black bodies in the Atlantic
Man, I can't stand it. Human survival taken for granted.
Nothing changing but the climate the globe warming.
Stop the semantics
We fighting Asthma and cancer can't find enfamil or pampers
But they worried about which lectures I'ma give when I'm on campus.
We started moving forward together because it gives us better chances when we fight to win even though they have every advantage.
They had the money and politicians in their pockets,
But we invest in our communities and put the people over profit.
How could they stop it?
The power of the people will never be defeated.
The elders speak it, you seek it. We don't keep the truth secret.
We make them see it's not just about shootings. If you allow this pollution to kill millions every year, when you disavow the solutions,
Confirms our suspicions that this is done with racist intentions.
You sanctioned those shipments equivalent to chemical lynchings.
So here's our petition demanding transition to zero emissions,
Advancing this mission to dismantle the system
By building this worldwide coalition to amplify the voice of the victims until it lifts our communities out of these toxic conditions.
I hope that you listened.

We need clean air in the southward of the city of New Jersey today
One out of four children suffer from asthma and we are dying because we can't escape the pollution.

We can't keep doing this intentional destruction of toxic communities.
We are killing so many people, so many black and brown people

Our communities are not disposable.
We not only have the right to survive we have the right to thrive. We have the technology, we have the money.
What are we waiting for?
It's time that the EPA and our elected officials do something.

We need to change how things have been.
We need to save the lives of our current generation and of our future generations from all the diesel emissions, from trucks, from freight, from anything that's causing pollution.
And we must demand that not only they put on these rules, but that they enforce them
And hold those responsible for this pollution accountable and make them pay for what they have done to our communities.

The reason why we are in existence,  she came to our organization, Citizens for Environmental Justice,
She said you gotta help us because we're dying.
We're so sick  We don't have insurance What are we gonna do
Somebody needs to stand up for us,
And so we said Harambee.

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