Portland held the national consciousness rapt earlier this summer as nightly protestors faced off with jackbooted federal troops. But even as tensions there have somewhat calmed, hosts Dope KNife and Linqua Franqa are left with lingering questions: How does the Portland Hip Hop community feel about the Portland Uprising, and how has it taken part? The hosts give account of the Portland City Council's budget deliberations, which culminated in cuts to the Portland Police Bureau and a windfall for Portland Street Response, the city's policing alternative, before speaking with Portland-based Hip Hop journalist and police abolitionist Mac Smiff about Hip Hop's role in the Portland Uprising. They close out by traipsing through the musical offerings of Portland's robust Hip Hop scene, from the antiracist anthems of Swiggle Mandela to the brooding stylings of Mic Crenshaw to the effervescent Black joy of Karma Rivera.

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