a slop in the face to any mother who lost a child. you don t live here. you ve never watched someone die here. don t tell me to be calm. first chance rap will say full disclosure. his father works for the mayor. he s the chief of staff whatever the title is. his father is the chief of staff. show me any criticism, if he s so concerned about chicago, do your research. show me where he s made a criticism about the mayor. i think your findings will be surprising. he has not criticized the mayor. why? his father works for the mayor. and on top of that, jennifer hudson is in the film. she plays a pivotal role. her mother, brother, and nephew were murdered in chicago. why would she be part of a film if if what chance rapper is saying is true why would she be
religious background to fight this enemy and defeat them. thank you. thank you, chris. still to come, my interview with spike leon his new controversial movie chiraq . what he said happened in his meeting with chicago mayor ram emmanuel. he was trying to convince me to change the title chiraq. first of all, i didn t come up with the title. local chicago rappers came up with the title. his reasons for changing the title were troubling to me. it s your grandpappy s hammer and he would have wanted you to have it. it meant a lot to him. yes, ge makes powerful machines. but i ll be writing the code that will allow those machines to share information with each other. i ll be changing the way the world works. (interrupting) you can t pick it up, can you? go ahead. he can t lift the hammer. it s okay though! you re going to change the world. spending the day with my niece. that make me smile. i don t use super poligrip for hold,
first of all, i didn t come up with the title. local chicago rap areas came up with the title. his reasons for changing the title were troubling to me. he said the title chi-raq would hurt tourism and economic development. but understand why you know, and i recognize that chi-raq spike lee chi-raq. it comes from folks in chicago. you recognize that term, part of the objection to that term is sometimes when we talk about urban violence and i m talking about us, me, the media, okay? all right. you can talk about west side of chicago, detroit, a lot of places. it s very easy in communicating how bad it is and how traumatic it is to live there to make it seem like some other place. that s not us. that s chi-raq. that s some other place. i totally disagree with that. if you saw the film angela bassett, you might have
and stop thinking that this craziness is fun. spike lee s new movie is called chi-raq . it is a fantastical mythical modern adaption of lysistrata. where women band together for a sex strike to put an end to the gang violence in their chicago neighborhoods. film has been controversial from the start from the title which conjures up the images of a distant war zone to the premise criticized as an front to residents of chicago where gun violence is a deeply serious reality. i sat down with spike lee to talk about the movie, including a series of tweets from chance the rapper who is father is ram emmanuel s chief staff and the director of the mayor s office of public engagement. i asked spike if this movie is really about the city of chicago into this is about america because a big take away for me
still to come, my interview with spike leon his new controversial movie chi-raq. what he said happened in his meeting with chicago mayor ram emmanuel. he was trying to convince me to change the title chi-raq. first of all, i didn t come up with the title. local chicago rappers came up with the title. his reasons for changing the title were troubling to me. the radiant glow of being in love.