00:00The name is Hanumankind.
00:01I've seen people butchering the name online, and that's okay.
00:04It definitely comes off as humankind when you read it in the beginning.
00:08It's an amalgamation.
00:09It's a bringing it together of two worlds.
00:11Hanuman is an important figure within my culture and within my society.
00:16Mankind is the rest of the world.
00:18So we just brought the world together.
00:26Big Dawgs was fun, man.
00:28It came from a very honest place.
00:30My boy, Call Me, shout out to my boy, Call Me, who was the producer behind this,
00:33made me a beat.
00:34The energy was amazing.
00:36The power that it brought within me and out of him was just a beautiful thing to feel.
00:41The music video was just a coming together of people that care and wanted to push themselves.
00:48We just sat and came up with the idea of, you know, there's a skirt and a whip.
00:51You can do the traditional skirt a whip, have some bad bitches on the side,
00:54throw some money around.
00:56We were just like, hey man, if you're skirting a whip, why not do it inside the well of death?
01:13For those who don't know, UGK was a very, very prominent and integral part of Houston
01:20music and just culture in general.
01:22Pimp C and Bum B, what they did for the city of Houston and what they did just generally
01:27in terms of stylistics and aesthetics, it cannot be recreated.
01:31It is second to none.
01:32It's Pimp C's line.
01:33Top notch hoes get the most, not the less, right?
01:36Pimp C was just ahead of his time, man.
01:38He believed in bringing the community together.
01:40He believed in putting aside all your petty beef.
01:43Focus on getting your money up.
01:44Focus on providing for yourself and your community and your family.
01:47Rest in peace to Pimp C.
01:49I think what he did and what he left behind is monumental.
01:53December 4th, 2007 will forever be a dark day in history.
02:02I come from a country that unfortunately has a lot of stereotypes and typecasts that have
02:07been placed within our communities.
02:09I don't believe that these are what define us, right?
02:13There's so much more to where I'm from.
02:16There's so much of tradition.
02:17There's so much of style.
02:18There's so much of beauty from where I'm from.
02:20That's how you push culture, though.
02:21You show them what the truth is.
02:23You show them what is reality.
02:25There's a side of this world that you have never seen and never experienced, and that
02:29is something that I would love to show you.
02:36Project Pat is a pioneer.
02:37The style and the delivery that this man has brought to the world, you can hear it in so
02:44much of music that you hear nowadays.
02:46What he and Three 6 Mafia did in terms of their sound and stylistics and in terms of
02:50so many things, there was a time period where they were on top of the world and I was there
02:54for it.
02:54Big shout out to Project Pat for changing the world like this, man.
02:57For bringing this to music.
03:09So, rolling through the city with the big dogs is basically, I'm proud to be able to
03:13say that I did this with my boys from the ground up.
03:15We will continue doing it with my boys.
03:17These are my big dogs.
03:18This is the circle that you choose to keep.
03:20That's kind of what big dogs symbolizes, right?
03:23I'm rolling through the city with the big dogs.
03:24Fuck the laws.
03:25We made our own rules.
03:26We made our own scenarios and we created our own future.
03:40The long hair is actually a very new thing.
03:43Before all this, I had a very, very clean fade that I carried with pride and dignity.
03:48I had a great barber.
03:49Shout out to my boy, Ashik Bai.
03:51If people are around you that don't deserve a cut, you gotta cut them off.
03:55Just like my barber, make sure that I stay clean.
03:57Make sure that you cut out things that you don't need in your life, people or energies
04:01that you don't need in your life because these things will hamper your progress.
04:14Throughout my journey and throughout a lot of my friends, we have lost a lot of good
04:17people along the way.
04:18A lot of what we do and how we do it is keeping their memories in mind.
04:23When you move, you must remember that maintaining the integrity, not just for yourself, but
04:28the people that were there and were rooting for you is very important.
04:31So it's in your memories that we carry on.
04:33When I die, they will not bury me, not what I want.
04:35Within my country and within my community, cremation is a very important part of my life.
04:41Within my community, cremation is a very consistent and real thing that we do.
04:45After passing, we burn the bodies in a funeral pyre.
04:49After the body is burnt, we pour the remnants, the ashes into the holy river, which basically
04:55symbolizes the moving on from this life to the next.
04:59The body is a vessel, but the soul will continue to move on.
05:03Reincarnation is a very real tradition and belief that we have over here.
05:07After this life, you move on to the next one.
05:09And I think that this process of cremation is to symbolize that.
05:12The remnants are placed into the river where it will flow on and continue into the cycle
05:17of life.
05:26It is a brief glimpse of immortality.
05:28If you are true to your craft or your beliefs and what you pursue in this life, even when
05:34you are gone, a part of you will remain.
05:38They ask me how you be like this, how you get like this, why you worried about it ho,
05:43get up on my dick, get up out the way, what you think this is, we ain't worried about
05:48it ho, watch me skirt the whip.
05:50People are way too focused on how other people are doing their things.
05:53How people are getting their money, how people are pursuing their endeavors, how people are
05:58just going about their business.
05:59I feel like people need to relax on that and take care of your own thing.
06:03Get your money up.
06:04Provide for your family.
06:05Focus on what's important.
06:06Get up on my dick.
06:19Whether it's here where I live or whether it's across the world, a lot of people due
06:25to the way that they are perceived through their skin tone or their background, automatically
06:31assumptions are made, doors are closed, opportunities have been ended.
06:35I have experienced it.
06:36Many of my people have experienced it.
06:38Many of your people have experienced it.
06:40However, that doesn't stop us from getting what we're supposed to be getting.
06:43I'm proud of my heritage.
06:44I'm proud of my people.
06:45I'm proud of where I'm from, where our skin color is like the bourbon, right?
06:49But even within our community, there's layers to this.
06:52People are subjugated to a certain way of life and certain treatment by society at large
06:58that is unfair or that has negative implications on how we can move forward as a society.
07:16This is a worldwide phenomenon.
07:19There are so many consistent instances of the people being promised this and that.
07:25The people being assured that these things are going to happen by people that are in
07:29positions of power, people that should be helping.
07:31But unfortunately, a lot of these promises are broken and the general population are
07:35the ones that have to suffer because of that.
07:37So because of that, me and everybody else here, we're finding ways to cope, man.
07:41And sometimes to ease the pain within my heart, I need a break, a back or two.
07:56These things don't change.
07:57It's a cycle.
07:58There are figures and authority figures that are constantly suppressing your movement.
08:02So we fight that, man.
08:04It doesn't change.
08:15With the forces that are against you, they're going to try and budge you.
08:18They're going to try and push you left to right.
08:20But it is up to you to maintain the stability, maintain focus on what is important to you.
08:26And I bet you that they won't change me.
08:29It is my duty to stay to what I'm supposed to do.
08:32And if you doubt that, you can call my bookie.
08:34I can put you in touch with a good guy or two.
08:35And my bookie's taking bets because profits as a profit when you know what's coming next.
08:39This is just you betting on yourself, man.
08:41Make sure that if you believe in what it is that you do, rest assured good things will
08:46come to you.
08:47But you must believe.
08:50The Well of Death is actually, I don't think it's actually an Indian event.
08:54Historically, it's been all around the world.
08:56But it is something that you see all across India because it is a very common carnival
09:01or circus act.
09:02They set up in an area for a month or two.
09:05You can see that because the structures are usually fucking very rickety.
09:09It's just to be able to make it quickly and then break it apart quickly and take it out.
09:13So when it comes to being in the car and the Well of Death and actually performing this,
09:1810 out of 10 in terms of an experience.
09:20But if I had to get inside the car again, I would need some time to prepare myself and
09:25get ready because it's not a joke.
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