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Germantown is the melting pot: walking with Omar.

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Omar, walking Germantown with Maceo in May 2026, and starting over because he pressed a button by accident. “today we touched through Germantown grass,” and Germantown, where he spent a lot of his childhood, showed him something about the city. “what I’m seeing is that Philadelphia is very segregated,” in its peoples, cultures and identities, “but Germantown, I feel like it’s really that melting pot.” People “share the same cafe, share the same corner store,” and “You don’t really see that that much in Philly.”

The other thing is how easy it was to talk. “we just walk into somebody’s drumming studio, bro, shout out Jerry.” Jerry has a show at the Germantown library, June 2 at four, “they gonna do some killer jazz.” His last line is the whole piece: “big shout out Germantown.”

Maceo’s own minute from the same walk, on Maplewood Mall, is the companion piece linked below. The transcript below is from the original audio.

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0:00A: Sorry, I pressed this button by accident, so it started over. Alright, bet. Yo, here with Maceo, We Them Niggas, because We Them Niggas, and you know, today we touched through Germantown grass, bruh, and Germantown, Germantown showed me a lot, because I’ve been through a lot as a kid, Germantown, but what I’m seeing is that Philadelphia is very segregated, and in the peoples, and in the cultures and identities, but Germantown, I feel like it’s really that melting pot, and seeing these people live here together, share the same cafe, share the same corner store, like, You don’t really see that that much in Philly, you know what I mean, and also just like having conversations with people, man, no meme mugs, bro, we just, you can just talk to anybody, we just walk into somebody’s drumming studio, bro, shout out Jerry, bro, he got a show at the Germantown Public Library, Josephine Coleman, Josephine Coleman, yeah, June 2nd, 4 o’clock, PMB there, bro, he said they gonna do some killer jazz, but we love it here, man, shout out Germantown, bro, big shout out Germantown.

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