Urban Shamans Jam Session with Maceo | Germantown, Philly

0:00A: All right, let’s just do the Urban Shout version.

0:02B: Yeah, but I think also just like calling thoughts, like literally 2 parts, and one part is the --

0:10A: as far as that, and they’re both the same. Whatever I do will probably end up being pretty much what I did.

0:20B: It’ll be the beat, but it’s the same.

0:23A: All right, that’s cool. Saturday, May 9th.

0:27B: Yes, it is. In between the vibes.

0:31A: They’re bobbing their heads. That’s like the one song. This might sound loud. We’re in for a show, huh?

1:53C: Celebrating life, life, give praise and tell me. Life, life, life, life, celebrating this beautiful day called life, life, with your friends.

2:12B: Now you do it all over again.

2:22C: May we honor the life we live. May we bring joy with it. Thanks for the blessings of the sun we’ll shine. Thanks for the new day begun. For the first manifestation, Father, lead your Father into this ground. Seeds planted for seeds to grow. Cultivating love we sow. Give it thanks to face the snow. Life, life. Give praise to this wonderful journey of life, life. Celebrating this beautiful journey of life, life.

3:01A: We give thanks now.

3:03B: Life, life. Every animal life we live, may we bring joy to the baby.

3:13C: Thanks and blessings for the celestial sun. Thanks for the blessing we They’ve begun. Birthplace manifestation, Mama Vision, Baba.

3:22B: Yeah, there we go. Hey, hey, that’s it. So life, life, let’s thank the spirits for this wonderful journey.

3:44C: Life, life, we give praises.

4:14B: Channeling our higher self. And now I see divine interventions. Reality that the true path is mine.

4:27C: This life is so divine. We thank and praise for life, life, honor life, life, this beautiful journey of life, life. May we honor the life we live, may new days close the year. Thanks and blessings for that celestial sun, thanks for the blessings new day begun.

5:06B: First manifestation, That’s what I’m with, and that’s what I’m saying. That’s very boring. How? And that, that whole shit over it. You want to jump with me or what? You want to jump on the ride? Get back. Come on, let’s get down.

6:22A: He said life, life is something different. You can’t escape it. It is what it is.

6:32B: Life, life, I don’t really know what it’s giving, but it’s a type of thing ain’t always going to be Hitting, um, it’s what it is though.

6:40A: Um, today, tomorrow, Mother’s Day tomorrow. Yeah, I’m making plans, thinking about how I’m gonna hide on time. Mama waiting on what you getting? I don’t know, not yet. But I’ve been outside rapping like it’s my time to set the tempo. The rhyme, the rhythm, the theme is true. Um, playing peekaboo with my niece and my nephew. Um, like what it do? His shirt is white, don’t screw it up. Yeah, you know it’s true enough. We have it funky, really cool with us.

7:09B: Yeah, he said life, life.

7:13A: This thing is mad. I can’t lie.

7:17B: He said life, life.

7:21A: Doing it right, I won’t worry. Am I doing it right? I won’t worry. It doesn’t help, just ask for help and don’t hurry. Yeah, take your time with life.

7:30B: Going faster doesn’t help that much.

7:32C: That’s what I learned.

7:33B: I’m only 26.

7:34A: It’s true, but I’m outside, I’m having fun.

7:36B: I don’t know what it is, but I’m telling the truth.

7:38A: I’m not kidding, I’m lying, no, not at all. I’m outside on Saturday having a ball.

7:44B: Life, life, this is what it is, huh? This is what it is, huh?

7:57A: This is what it is, huh?

7:58B: Yeah.

7:59A: Oh, shout out to y’all. The mic’s cutting out, but shout out to y’all. That’s what I said, shout out to y’all.

8:14B: So what should I talk about now?

8:18A: What should I talk about?

8:21B: You said life.

8:22A: You talk about life.

8:23B: Life, life, life, life, life, life, life. Life is going.

8:29A: I need a job. I’m showing up places saying I need a job. What’s the plan?

8:34B: I don’t know, but I’m kind I’m trying to have fun. I’m trying to do things that really make sense, huh?

8:38A: I don’t want to do things I don’t want to do. Maybe that’s the problem. That’s what my great aunt said.

8:41B: She said I just do things I don’t want to do, and that’s true. But I just, I just want to know why I want to do them, I guess.

8:48A: But that’s life. Life, do it anyway and figure it out, right? That’s what they would tell us. That’s what I was trying to do.

8:54B: Yeah.

8:57A: How often do I get to jam with a band? You know, that’s a nice thing. Can’t take that for granted. Can’t do that at all. And I got a video. I like that. I like that. Look at that.

9:08B: That’s just like live, live, live, live.

9:13A: And this is live in German town. Hold on.

9:18B: He says live, live.

9:21A: Don’t forget what it is.

9:22B: Just keep it going. You know it’s flowing, rolling.

9:27A: You know we flowing.

9:29B: So this is live.

9:31A: And it never stops being that start to finish. You’re really always being that. You even understand this thing we’re really living at? Like, like, what is this thing? I just woke up one day and then I stopped waking up. And I’m never gonna stop waking up until I do. And then after that, I won’t know what happens.

9:48B: That’s just life.

9:49A: That’s a little philosophical. That’s a little existential. Let’s keep waking up.

9:54B: Life. Life. Mm. Mm. Mm. Life. Life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He said fly, fly. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

10:37A: Life doesn’t stop for no reason, and when it does, you know it’s that season, that season for grieving when people pass on. And they just say, yes, you gotta be strong, don’t take time to deal with that, not in this zone, we don’t got no time for that.

10:53B: This is a capitalist timetable.

10:55A: You don’t got no time to relax, to chat, to be present at all.

10:59B: If you do have to give, you shouldn’t take for granted at all. But most of us do until it’s gone, and that’s the way that they fall behind. But that’s life. Yeah, yeah, that’s life.

11:10A: It’s not right, but it is what it is.

11:13C: That’s true. Uh-huh.

11:14B: Yeah. Life, life.

11:17A: I don’t even know what you were saying when you was up here. I was making it up.

11:19B: I said life. I said life. I said okay. It’s about life now. Life, life.

12:11A: So you guys have a name for your group?

12:12B: What’s the name of the group?

12:16A: Urban Showman.

12:16B: Urban Showman? Yeah, shout out to Urban Showman.

12:19A: I like that. This video is going to go on my YouTube. I try and go out and do a lot of YouTube videos and kind of be like a community reporter. Community journalist, and I have some people out in Nigeria and Kenya to go out with me. We go out and do weekly interviews like this. We’re trying to become like an international newsroom.

12:33B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, thank you.

12:38A: So now you guys got to be on my YouTube page.

12:40B: Welcome. I like that.

12:45A: All right, guys, I’m fine.

12:46B: Thank you, man.

12:48C: It’s good to meet you.

12:48B: Yes, sir.

12:49C: It’s Kenya.

12:53B: What genre do you do?

12:56A: I’m standing right with the album. Which genre? Okay. I mean, I like to rap.

13:00B: That’s probably what I do. Do you do hip hop?

13:06C: Huh?

13:07B: Do you do hip hop? Yeah.

13:09A: Let’s do a hip hop.

13:10B: Yeah, hip hop.

13:11C: Okay. Oh, absolutely.

13:12A: I like that. That was cool. You know, it’s cool to things I don’t do.

13:20B: Okay, I like that. You like that?

13:34A: If you guys are feeling it, I’m gonna feel it. I can feel you’re feeling it. That’s what matters to me. Okay, I was still with it now either way, but I appreciate that. Whatever, it’s okay.

14:19B: Yeah, I like that. I like that.

14:23C: Mm-hmm. Okay.

14:25B: The thing about being the MC, it matter --

14:27A: just starts off and whatever happens happens.

14:29B: That’s how it goes. Um, so I guess you guys seen up my, my foot.

14:35A: Yeah, my foot in a cataclysmic sense.

14:37B: Yeah. Ooh, life.

14:46A: Okay, it says, it says life don’t change, set the pace, don’t change. Um, um, um, yeah, I was in Germantown, but I don’t know Germantown for nothing. Yeah, I’m from Germantown, I’m from Germantown, but I really don’t know nothing about Germantown, so I’m trying to find out what’s going on in Germantown. I’m asking questions with my phone like So what do you think about Germantown? Little do they know I’m finding out things I’m as my audience asking about Germantown, asking about everything and anything for the audience.

15:17B: Like, what should I ask the world?

15:19A: That’s the question I’ve been asking.

15:21B: If you could ask everybody around the world what question, what question would you ask them?

15:25A: That’s a different. That’s a different size of conversation. It’s a different scope of conversation. How many conversations are you a part of that are happening around the world actively? Not the Social media. I’m talking to you.

15:36B: I’m talking to you. That’s a global conversation.

15:43A: Oh, a global conversation can reset the whole theater. It’s top down, so it’s not top down.

15:48B: Bottom up.

15:49A: What about that?

15:51B: What about that? Bottom up.

15:53A: What about that? What would that look like?

15:55B: Community first, equity second, mutual aid reciprocity.

16:03A: Extraction?

16:03B: No, it’s a question.

16:05A: There’s no extraction. It’s a different type of cadence, different type of speed. You get what I’m saying?

16:11B: I’m not talking about praying, I’m talking about actually setting the cadence.

16:14A: Did you hear it? It’s not a cycle, it’s not a race at all.

16:18B: Day by day, day by day, day by day, day by day, day by day. Y’all do get it?

16:23A: These bones don’t stop moving at the right now.

16:25B: Like what? That’s not what it is. Sometimes you gotta take a break.

16:30A: Sometimes you gotta chill out, soak a little bit in weight.

16:34B: Some people, they don’t get it.

16:35A: Be more productive. They gay. What they talking about telling you what to do? What they banking on you to do? The shit that they need done. Can’t that nigga go do his own shit then, huh? If it’s so important. You got 40 hours to do this? Go ahead and do it.

16:48B: I bet you got 40 hours.

16:50A: I don’t got 40 hours not to do some shit I don’t want to do.

16:53B: That’s not me.

16:54A: Maybe that’s you. You gotta make me want to do it. I’m not gonna do it.

16:59B: That’s my kind of ADHD.

17:02A: If I don’t want to do it, it’s not getting done. They’re gonna be mad at me, but I’m just like, you should have made me want to do it. What does that mean?

17:07B: They say.

17:07A: I say, you’re not listening.

17:09B: I’m not doing it. Do it. I’m not doing it. Why didn’t he do it?

17:14A: He’s irresponsible. No, I just didn’t want to do it. I got a lot of things done, but not what you wanted me to get done because I didn’t want to get it done. So how do we get on the same page when we want to get things done? You don’t got to push me, you just got to get me to want to do it. Cuz I don’t got time for things I don’t want to do, but I got time for a lot of shit I don’t really need to do. Don’t make sense, does it?

17:39B: Um, but as I’ve realized, I’ve been getting more organized.

17:46A: I’ve been using AI to get organized. AI makes it very easy for me to do things I don’t want to do. I’m like, wow, it’s done!

17:54B: I didn’t even write that, but I proofread it and I said I approve.

18:00A: That’s right, my disciple, you work for me now.

18:05B: Y’all use AI?

18:10A: Are we using AI? We using AI? I use AI enough.

18:16B: Probably not, most of us.

18:18A: We got to switch that up. We need to be the most AI-using people on the planet. We need to be more productive, more efficient, outpacing everybody, so we have time to chill. Okay, somebody said they’re concerned that AI is taking jobs. I said that’s great, it’s time for everybody to use AI to open up businesses. That’s what it is. Disrupt everything that’s not that. Now you got more time to do that. I said I was going to start a business a year ago and I didn’t start it. I said, well, now use AI and see how much you can get done in one month. That’ll inspire you. Ooh, you nervous to put the AI down. I didn’t even know AI could do this stuff. Spend time learning AI. Oh, you’re in school or something?

18:59B: I don’t need to go to school.

18:59A: I know everything I need to know. My grandson’s going to use AI. I’m not using it.

19:04B: Yeah, okay.

19:06A: He don’t want to do that. You got to make him want to do that, but you can want to do it. You guys know about crypto? You know about the Bitcoin stuff? That’s what I’ve been doing the last couple years. I’ve been doing a podcast where I was interviewing Black people who were working in crypto. So I’ve been traveling around the world doing that. I’m not getting paid to do that anymore, so now I need a job. I’m shooting videos that don’t make any money and I’m having fun, and I’m telling people I want a job.

19:43B: That’s what it is.

19:44A: But I’m fundraising too. My team is going out and shooting these interviews, so I’m letting people know, you know, unpaid they’re doing stuff.

19:53B: Unpaid until yesterday I paid my last bill, and now it’s a lovely day in the world. Okay, you said you want to do a little hip-hop vibes.

20:07A: I said I would rap, but I ain’t really rapping now. It’s all what you count raps though.

20:11B: What do you count as rap, bro? It’s just rap if I say it is and I’m doing it just like this.

20:17A: It’s not about trying to get rich. It’s trying to, uh, it’s a reinvention of a system that I never liked, never once in my whole life. I can spend my whole life working on that, but I can work for somebody I don’t like.

20:28B: Isn’t that funny?

20:30A: They don’t want you to think that way.

20:31B: What?

20:33A: They just say everything is gonna be all right.

20:38B: I don’t believe it at all.

20:39A: I don’t believe what they saying. I really don’t. I don’t believe them at all. If I want to do it, I’m really not doing it. You got to be better than that. You got to really run some psychological operation on me to get me to do something I don’t want to do. It’s got to make sense.

20:52B: So if you can’t do that, well, you got to take my grandma or something, because I don’t got a choice with this.

20:59A: That’s what it is. Shout out to my grandma.

21:02B: Every time I wanted to freestyle, I could just spawn you guys in and try to open it up YouTube. That would be cool. Like, boom!

21:14A: Time to jam. No, you’re all good. Y’all be killing it though. Y’all be killing it. Y’all been putting in the sweat. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, what am I doing? Spitting. You guys are having fun. I like that. And overtime too. Y’all here overtime. Yeah, you know, creative process. When we get together, that’s what happens. There’s no right, no wrong, man. Yeah, keep it simple.

21:57C: Wow.