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Lakeisha Benjamin

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And they're like virtuosos.

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And you can say from that moment on, no one ever danced to jazz again.

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I guess I'm such a jazz funk saxophone player that to me, I would be inhibiting myself.

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So a good example of that is classical saxophone.

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Here's this how my voice sounds.

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This is how it sounds classical.

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How's everybody doing?

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I play classical saxophone.

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But no, this is my real stop, stop, stop.

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You see, so like I felt, I just felt oppressed because I'm just like, why can't I play like this when this is how I talk?

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Why do you want me to do this?

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Please, please, I want to play jazz.

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It gets more political because it was founded by African-Americans.

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So if we ever got a group of people that are founding a music that starts off with them oppressed, it's already the music of revolution.

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When prohibition is going on, you go to the jazz place to get the liquor.

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If you're trying to drink and party and fornicate all night, that's where you go.

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And the music that's playing for that...

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is the blues and jazz.

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That's what the mafia is with.