Beginning of a series on hip hop activists. This week we talk to Shahid Buttar, Democratic Socialist Congressional candidate taking on Nancy Pelosi in California's 12th Congressional district and long-time spoken word poet, MC and DJ. The gang discusses his early music career, his views on the War on Drugs, his goal of defunding the Pentagon, his plans to defeat Nancy Pelosi in November.

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