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Zion I | Tech $

Zion I, Tech Money (660)

Three minute musical documentary following Zion I’s Baba Zumbi and his family on the day they move out of Oakland, their longtime hometown but a place that’s gentrified beyond the scope of their modest finances. Powerful in its own right but also topical in the week San Fransisco politicians have proposed a 1.5% “tech tax” on tech company profits to help house the growing number of Bay Area homeless. He elaborates some in an interesting interview with Market Watch, “I’m not a rich man by any stretch, but I’m also not poor … I can only imagine people that are actually struggling economically dealing with this situation.

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This entry was posted on July 4, 2016 by in Hip Hop Videos and tagged , , .
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