PoliTricks feat. Mitchy Slick & Alfred Howard [Official Video]

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In Nov. of last year, as most likely anyone who has followed us on social media knows, I (Burkey) was involved in constant debates with those whom, we now know, were spreading #RussianTroll farm propaganda….I too was a victim, clinging to issues I believed to represent my ideals. This ploy by the great divider worked on us, America, the old “Divide and Conquer” strategy.

I was so frustrated at the time, that anyone I knew could support #45, and were rallying around issues, which to me, as someone who married an immigrant, worked in the inner cities most of my life, been a welfare child, marched at a young ager to stop apartheid, support equal rights for women, gays etc….the fact that I actually knew people who didn’t support these things truly perplexed me.

After the bomb dropped on Nov 8th, in the midst of battling several former friends on FB, I had to pull my car over and call a time out.

I wrote a few simple lines and the catharsis began “FUCK THE #GOP AND THE #DNC, MY IPHONE NEWS AND YOUR #FOXTV” and from there it went.

From the #DAPL to #BowlingGreen, #Kaepernick to #RussianBots, it was rigorous.

I asked Rob if he was down to work on a track like this track. I didn’t wanna force it on him, as he is an amazing connector and NEVER tries to divide, and I respect that so much. He was down and we set to work on recruiting two other voices:

#MitchySlick:
Mitchy took this track to another level. As someone who has experienced systematic oppression via gang injunction, his neighborhood victimized by police brutality, and living through one of the most tumultuous times in SD history.

#AlfredHoward:
AKA “The hardest working man in SD music”
Al is one of my favorite poets. His unique use of sarcasm and a vernacular carefully woven to toe the line of whatcha think, paints a picture I find dear to my own heart. He had posted this poem on IG, and I must have watched it 50 times. I begged him to flow it onto this track, and he graciously conceded, coming out of a decades worth of mic retirement.

Finally our long time BFF and #Vokab spine, #GeoffNigl made the beat and song come to life.

It took one year.

We hope that by collaborating with with these uniquely different artists, with such differing voices, perspectives and communities, we can show the unity music allows-which is beyond skin color, crew, background and partisanship, and make our city proud.

PLEASE watch this. If you took part in the convo, I’m personally and specifically talking to you, not AT you-with the hopes that we can return to neutral ground over a thing that usually brings people together anyways, THE MUSIC :)

Shot and edited by Littlefoot Productions
Additional video editing by Robbie Gallo
Final editing by Spencer Groshong
Al Howard's video footage shot by Matthew Burke