Jaded Forum: Episode 5 (feat. Malik Shakur)

SKIP INTRO: 1:40

Date Recorded: May 24th, 2022.

In this episode, hosts Yedoye Travis and Z welcome actor, musician, and friend Malik Shakur on to discuss race, power, Black struggle, Mutulu Shakur (his grandfather), Tupac Shakur (his uncle), Kurt Cobain, and much more.

About Our Guest:
Malik Shakur (@malikshakur.nyc) is an actor and musician based in Harlem, New York City, with roots in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Beyond creative work, Malik’s current focus is with the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation (founded by his late grandmother, Afeni Shakur), and working to steer more of its operations towards efforts for systems change.

For information on how to support (and directly contact) Mutulu Shakur (Tupac’s father, and Malik’s grandfather, currently a political prisoner at FMC Lexington in Kentucky), please visit the link below:

JADED FORUM is a series of private conversations, public dis­cus­sions, live per­for­mances, and parties based in New York City and host­ed by co­me­di­ans/artists Yedoye Travis (@professordoye), Con­nor Boyd (@moschinodorito), and Z (@zetto.plus).

CONTRIBUTE: https://opencollective.com/jadedforum
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/nJaw7yg3

The audio for this episode can be found exclusively on Resonate, a cooperative music streaming platform for the commons:

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/jadedforum/
TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@jadedforum
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/jadedforum/
RESONATE: https://stream.resonate.coop/artist/21687

JADED HQ: https://jaded.site/
DIGITAL ZION: https://digitalzion.online/

Tired, but here.

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0:00:00 – 0:01:43 – Intro
0:01:43 – 0:03:25 – Z is at The Table
0:03:25 – 0:07:20 – Dr. Umar vs. Kevin Samuels
0:07:20 – 0:09:35 – “Broken Clocks” and Reactionary Pipelines
0:09:35 – 0:12:35 – Bill Maher
0:12:35 – 0:14:40 – Ben Affleck’s Ancestors
0:14:40 – 0:23:58 – Punk’d, Pranks, and Authoritarian Parenting
0:23:58 – 0:31:40 – Power and Different Forms of Slavery
0:31:40 – 0:40:20 – White Supremacy and Industrialization
0:40:20 – 0:45:55 – “We Used to Be CEOs”
0:45:55 – 1:01:15 – Colorism and “Diaspora Wars”
1:01:15 – 1:09:12 – Moving Beyond the Nation-State
1:09:12 – 1:10:09 – Digital Zion Promo
1:10:09 – 1:14:30 – Moving Beyond the Nation-State (cont.)
1:14:30 – 1:21:10 – Indigenous People Are Not a Monolith
1:21:10 – 1:43:50 – Tupac Shakur
1:43:50 – 1:50:34 – Kurt Cobain
1:50:34 – 2:02:01 – Tupac Shakur (cont.)
2:02:01 – 2:12:30 – Kendrick Lamar
2:12:30 – 2:15:00 – The Necessity of Struggle
2:15:00 – 2:18:30 – Tupac Shakur (cont.)
2:18:30 – 2:24:54 – Freedom Through Cooperative Practice
2:24:54 – 2:29:00 – BLM
2:29:00 – 2:31:15 – Individualism
2:31:15 – 2:38:35 – Addiction
2:38:35 – 2:47:50 – “Emotional Labor” and Community
2:47:50 – 2:51:27 – Ending Remarks
2:51:27 – 2:52:04 – Credits