Today is Juneteenth. A Day of Celebration. A day of remembrance. I have a lot to remember.
Rage Against the Machine is a seminal band. One that spoke out loudly on social and political issues and may have completely predicted the times we live in now.
However, Rage essentially broke up in 1999 and hasn’t produced a new album since 2000’s “Renegades.” They never had a chance to comment on 9/11 or the Bush Administration directly. They never had a chance to comment on Barack Obama or Donald Trump. George W. Bush and Bill Clinton were the Presidents during their reign.
How much would they have to say about the times we’ve experienced since 1999?
It would be difficult to predict exactly what they might say today other than to quote Zach De La Rocha and Tom Morello on various interviews. However, much of what there is to say has been stated by many other groups.
As I’ve written several times in my Podcast where I’ve been releasing both original and cover songs I’ve worked on, Tom Morello is an old acquaintance of mine. In 1990, we were both members of the Black Rock Coalition which was focused on promoting Rock and Alternative music by Black and Brown artists. Tom has since said that the people in the BRC were “just trying to get a gig” and that’s true — but it was much more than that. They were trying to foster a new movement in music. This was an attempt to retake the ground that had been given up a generation before when largely Black people retreated from Rock Music after the death of Jimi Hendrix.
We intended to take back that ground.
But it wasn’t just Racial, it was deeper than that. The truth is that the nature of our lives here in America means that we have some additional concerns about the American experience that predominantly White artists are not concerned with, because they don’t have to be.
One of the first of those bands was Living Colour whose seminal hit was the song “Cult of Personality” which certainly resonates now as we look at the Cult of Maga.
Living Colour’s fast album was mostly a lark. It happened because they had a hand up. Guitarist Vernon Reid had performed on a few songs for Mick Jagger’s recent solo CD. Mick returned the favor by producing the song “Glamour Boys” on Living Colour’s first album — so they had they had the support of Jagger to get signed and to have their album put out.
Let’s recall that when this group’s album was released radio didn’t know what to do with it. As a band with black members, they couldn’t play these songs on what was then known as “Black Radio” because that was mostly R&B and occasionally Rap. Then again, Rock radio would also reject it upon seeing the band because they wouldn’t expect that the band was playing Rock n’ Roll.
So, the record label didn’t include a picture of the band on the album. Not even on the inside. They were faceless. Invisible. You just had to listen to the music.
They also didn't have a hit right off the bat, before “Cult” was released the band had another track that came out. That song was “Open Letter to a Landlord” which was a song about gentrification as poor people were being forced out of their homes by developers looking to cash in with higher rents.
And they very directly attacked the issue of Racism and how Black people are often typecast as “dangerous and “criminals” by others on a regular basis even when there’s literally no reason to make that assumption. This is “Funny Vibe”
On their 2nd album, Living Colour dug even more deeply into social issues with the song “Type” which looks hard at our monetary system and how systemic bias taints our worldview.
They again addressed race but even more deeply on the song “Pride” which speaks directly to the African diaspora and how “A people were robbed of their freedom, their riches, their pride.”
When I speak out loud
You say I'm crazy
When I'm feeling proud
You say I'm lazy
I look around and see the true reality
You like our hair
You love our music
Our culture's large, so you abuse it
Take time to understand, I'm an equal man
History's a lie that they teach you in school
A fraudulent view called the golden rule
A peaceful land that was born civilized
Was robbed of its riches, its freedom, its pride
When I'm at work you say I'm great
You watch and ponder, but can you relate?
Inviting eyes hands drop, when the music stops
Don't ask me why I play this music
It's my culture, so naturally I use it
I state my claim to say, it's here for all to play
It's time for a change
Concepts rearrange
Can't you feel my rage...
It's up to you to seek the truth
To know your history, the difference between me and you
Relate to me as me, not what you see on TV
This was really on the point. This hits racism not just as being about skin color, but being about history and culture. It’s about all the things that make up a person from their ancestry, their language, their cuisine, their clothing — all of these things were stolen from African people in this land. They’ve had to fight and claw through generations to retain elements of their culture and to rediscover who they really are — not what the larger White society tells them to be.
And lastly, on the title track of the album ‘Time’s Up” they went directly for the jugular pointing out that the time for the standard social structure is over. Global Warming and Climate Change are here. Things are changing and they’re doing so permanently.
Time's up
The rivers have no life
Time's up
The wold is full of strife
Time's up
The Sky is falling
Time's up
The Lord is calling
How you gonna stop the clock
when the well runs dry
All the rivers have died
Moment by moment, day by day
The world is just slipping away
Your future won't save your past
The time is now, it won't last
The time is nigh
Time to do or die
Time waits for no one
If you want to go on
Leave me something to grow on
The forests, the trees, the rivers, the seas
All die of this disease
You know time ain't on your side
Don't sit idly by
You've got to just try
But they didn’t there — on their 3rd album “Stain” the band addressed ever more issues such as Right-Wing fascism in Europe with the song “Auslander”
In a new place, in a strange land
An undone new world, not a part of the plan
Hatred and fear is the language I know
Out of my home, out of control
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
How much more do you think I can take?
I yield to your smile, a victim's mistake
I don't want your life, I've got my own needs
A life of my own, a chance to be free
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
Everything that I want, isn't it everything that you've got?
More recently Living Colour has reached back to one of their old song from this album and recontextualized it in the wake of the George Floyd protest.
“This is the Life.”
In another life
You might have been a genius
In another life
You might have been a star
In another life
Your face might have been perfect
In another life
You'd drive a better car
In another life
All your jokes are funny
In another life
Your heart is free from fear
In another life
You make a lot of money
In this other life
Everything is clear
In another life
You're always the hero
In another life
You always win the game
In another life
No one ever cheats you
In another life
You never have to change
In another life
Your friends never desert you
In another life
You never have to cry
In another life
No one ever hurts you
In this other life
Your loved-ones never die
But this is the life you have
This is the life you have
This is the life you have
This is the life
In another life
You're always the victim
In another life
You're always the thief
In another life
You are always lonely
In this other life
There is no relief
In your real life
Treat it like it's special
In your real life
Try to be more kind
In your real life
Think of those that love you
In this real life
Try to be less blind
The band has also released a new song — “Who Shot Ya” which addresses gun violence.
[Intro: ?]
Gun violence takes the life of an African-American man every five hours. It's the leading cause of death for black men under the age of 35
[Verse 1]
Who shot ya? Separate the weak from the obsolete
Hard to creep them Brooklyn streets
It's on nigga, fuck all that bickering beef
I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek
Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet
Thundering, breaking the concrete
Finish it, stop when I foil the plot
Neighbors call the cops, when they heard mad shots
[Chorus]
Who shot ya?
Who shot ya?
Who shot ya?
Who shot ya?
[Verse 2]
Saw me in the drop, three and a quarter
Slaughter, electrical tape around your daughter
Old school/new school need to learn though
I burn, baby, burn like "Disco Inferno"
I burn slow like blunts and yayo
Peel more skins than Idaho Potato
Niggas know: the lyrical molesting's taking place
Fucking with me. it ain't safe
I make your skin chafe, rashes on them asses
Bumps and bruises, blunts and Land Cruisers
Big Poppa smash fools, bash fools
Niggas mad because I know cash Rules
Everything around me, two Glock 9s
Any motherfucker whispering about mine
And I'm Brooklyn's finest
Come on, tell me
There was a point in time when Living Colour considered creating their own label. I've talked to Vernon about this around ‘02 — but I think they were already having a hard enough time keeping their own career going that they just didn't feel comfortable taking on all that extra work. They even broke up for several years before reforming. Maybe they were right, but I think that many labels didn’t have the best interests of these bands in mind. It would have been interesting.
Because they were clearly not the only BRC band doing this. There was also Fishbone who did the songs “End the Reign” and “Servitude”
Lyrics
In the darkness, I have found my vision
I`ve seen the Queen that thrives on desolation
A Queendom that preys on both young and old
Open your eyes...
A pain is growing that mocks all the true healers
The light of wisdom is making us all turn cold
Those who dare to dream can hold no quarter
Open your eyes...
Apathy in Babylon
Dreams have been deferred so long
Those who dwell in misery
Ne`re receive my empathy
`No one cares for anyone
The chorus to her fatal song
This woman spites everyone
This woman is man...
End the reign!
I have passion, I have faith and reason
Yet she decrees I am less than human
(The darkness hides within the light...)
But it`s my soul that satisfies her hunger
(The evil`s always in your sight...)
Open your eyes...
When the pretense starts to fall
The `prefects` make their margin call
Will you join the ranks of sheep
That will not a soul to keep
Their premise is intelligence
Profaned by human arrogance
If you stand against it all...
Make the bastards fall...
End the reign!
In the world that you perceive
Who are your true enemies ?
Is it those you do not know...
Or the ones you can`t control
Does joy excite every nerve
From the `Mistress` that you serve
Do you have the strength at all
To heed the final call
End the reign!
The video for “Servitude” was shot during their tour with Lollapalooza where they also performed with Rage Against the Machine in 1992.
Lyrics
Who, who do you serve?
For whose empire and for whose whims?
Is your honor judged by men?
Will you lie?
Will you lie if they say it`s their will?
Will you die or continue to kill?
Until the generals all have their fill
Craven cowards
Armchair warriors
You will serve them well
What, what will you write?
For whose pleasure, for whose delight?
Will your readers see your light?
Will you say... That the singer can`t blow you away?
That we hate people just `cause they`re gay
Women and children all stay away
To whom, whom do you pray?
Do dollars wash your sins away?
Does God love cold hard cash?
Do you say... If we all just continue to pay
All our ailments will go away
And our souls will be saved
God`s not with you
"Holy Roller"
Your heart dwells in Hell
Why, Why do you run?
Our awareness has spoiled your fun
Our eyes see you too clear
Will you hide
From the joy of expressing our pride
For the leaders and people who`ve died
While combating your genocide
Chains are breaking
Minds are waking
Soon we`ll serve no more...
There was also Suicidal Tendencies featuring Rocky George on Guitar and future Metallica Bassist Robert Trujillo which gained the eyre of the LAPD because there was a street gang with the same name in the LA area. So the group was banded from local performances, later on Secret Service detain lead singer, Mike Muir, to question him about the lyrics to the song ‘I shot Reagan” which had appeared on the Repo Man soundtrack. Yet again this was an attempt to intimidate the group. All charges were later dropped and Mike wrote about it in the song “You can’t bring me down.”
This song features a truly epic rant toward the end — worth a listen.
Lyrics
… What the hell is going on around here?
… First off, let's take it from the start
Straight out, can't change what's in my heart
No one can tear my beliefs apart
You can't bring me
… You ain't never seen no one like me
Prevail regardless what the cost might be
Power flows inside of me
You can't bring me
… Never fall as long as I try
Refuse to be a part of your lie
Even if it means I die
You can't bring me
… You can't bring me down
Who the hell you calling crazy?
You wouldn't know what crazy was if Charles Manson
Was eating fruit loops on your front porch
… Time out, let's get something clear
I speak more truth than you want to hear
Scapegoat to cover up your fear
You can't bring me
… You ain't never seen so much might
Fight for what I know is right
What up? You got yourself a fight
You can't bring me
… Stand up, we'll all sing along
Together ain't nothin' as strong
Won't quit, we ain't in the wrong
You can't bring me
… You can't bring me down
Bring me down, you can't bring me down
Bring me down, you can't bring me down, no
Bring me down, you can't bring me down
Bring me down, you can't bring me down
You can't bring me down
… Tell them what's up, Rocky
… You can't bring me down
Bring me down, you can't bring me down
Bring me down, you can't bring me down, no
Bring me down, you can't bring me down
Bring me down, you can't bring me down
You can't bring me down
… So why you trying to bring me?
Well, you can't bring me down, no, no, no, no
Can't bring me down, no, no, no, no, no, no
Can't bring me down, no, no, no, no, no, no
Can't bring me down, no, no, no, no, no, no
… So why you trying to bring?
Well, you can't bring me down
… Just 'cause you don't understand what's going on
Don't mean it don't make no sense
And just 'cause you don't like it, don't mean it ain't no good
And let me tell you something
Before you go taking a walk in my world
You better take a look at the real world
'Cause this ain't no Mister Roger's neighborhood
… Can you say, "Feel like shit"?
Yeah, maybe sometimes I do feel like shit
I ain't happy 'bout it, but I'd rather feel like shit than be full of shit
And if I offended you, oh, I'm sorry, but maybe you need to be offended
But here's my apology, and one more thing
Fuck you!
… You can't bring me down
Bring me down, you can't bring me down
Bring me down, you can't bring me down, no
Bring me down, you can't bring me down
Bring me down, you can't bring me down
… Bring me down, you can't bring me down
Bring me down, you can't bring me down
Bring me down, you can't bring me down, no
Bring me down, you can't bring me down
You can't bring me down
… Can't bring me down!
Can't bring me down!
You can't bring me down!
Suicidal
There were some other bands that I knew of because of my BRC association. One of those bands was Total Eclipse who did get signed and put out a single record, but were almost immediately dropped (just as Tom Morello’s previous band Lock Up had been). They had the song “Don’t be afraid of the dark” which again was a not that subtle argument against prejudice and racism.
This band - Total Eclipse - featured two former members, Victor Johnson(guitar) and Andre Berry (bass) of the Bus boys (who you may have seen in Eddie Murphy’s first movie 48Hrs), and also the two members, Bernie K(voice) and Dave Brown(drums) from the all black metal band SoundBarrier.
They even had a video on MTV.
Dave Brown eventually passed but many of the other members are still making music. Vic Johnson has been playing with Sammy Hagar as a member of the Wabaritas and The Circle for decades.
There was the group Super 8 featuring Bronx Style Bob, who was known as a rapper but sang in this band.
They also had a song that focused on the day that the Waco tragedy took place, April 19th. Later Timothy McVey blew up the Murrah Federal Building on that anniversary, and the Columbine killers also tried to perform their attack on that day - but missed it and did it one day later.
I saw the television
Saw what the picture told me
I sat in captivation
I felt a cold chill down my spine
How people often can define
The hate that lurks beneath the skin
Oh yeah
Prechorus:
It never really matters
Too busy living your hectic life
But if it’s your child or your wife
There’s no exception close to home
Can you help those that you haven’t
Somewhere out there all alone?
Chorus:
Are you taken by the wicked tongue
Are you action taken damage done
See how the hatred loads the gun
Stand up and make it never happen again
I saw the television
I saw the mother’s crying
They washed their pretty faces
dressed them up and dropped them off to die
Now they ask me question why
The answer can’t be justified
(Repeat Prechorus)
(Repeat Chorus)
Another BRC group, Subject to Change, that did get signed featured actress Cree Summer (who is part Native American) on vocals and did some hardcore black/native feminist rock songs. They were soon dropped by the label but these songs are still available including tracks like “Beauty is Made” about being a woman living under society’s rules for “Beauty.”
(I just found this video - I’ve never seen it before)
They also had a pretty vicious song about organized religion called “Universal Pimp.”
Universal Pimp is the Massa mind
Behind the planetary spine decline
Here their turning tricks for Missionary Man
Holy hustler got you on your back
Prechorus:
Pimping you on purpose
Pimping your soul
Pimping you like sheep
Pimping you to control
Chorus:
Pimping just enough to bring out the junkie in you
Religion is the drug of choice
Choosing everything you do
(Universal Pimp)
(Universal Pimp) Pimp of the Universe
Universal Pimp is a master of disguise
Call it the death of suicide, the death of mind
Universal Pimp is the devil in white-face
Minstrial Massiah make a mockery of my race
(Repeat Prechorus)
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge
Preacher is your publicist
Make the ghetto a flock of sheep
Made my momma a prostitute
With my daddys insecurity
Mercy Mercai — You can see you mind to jerk off
You never been free
Mercy Mercai — You can see you mind to jerk off
Mercy Mercai — You can see you mind to jerk off
You never been free
Mercy Mercai — You can see you mind to jerk off
Only a slave would pray to the grave
Worship and prey to be born again
In image of him (I ain’t your slave)
Only a slave would pray to the grave (I won’t be your fucking slave)
And this song “Only Color” which really breaks down the issue of racism on a whole new level. Plus it has an extended gospel outro of vocal call-and-response that is amazing.
White man looking for brown sugar
Cuz she tastes so sweet
And he don’t have to be there
When the son calls out her name
Yellow girl
Seen through different eyes
Hears the pain
Of a bombs silent cry
Polute the air with polutted minds
Through the dark love still can shine
Pain is the same for every man
Recognize my eyes and take my hand
Prechorus:
We share life
Aint that enough
We share life
Aint that enough
My black man
Oh, So full of hate
His mind denied
And his pride’s been raped
He will seek out
An empty revenge
Fire water
Hangs down on the totem pole
It’s a spirit dance for lost red soul
Go on and search the land but it’s not his anymore
Mother Earths in pain
We are all to blame
We share life, aint the enough
(repeat prechorus)
Chorus:
The only color is red color
On the blood that flows thru your veins
The only color is red color
On the blood that flows thru your veins
The only color - my brother
Is the one the mind creates
You don’t know me
I don’t know you
Get to know yourself
Get to know your own destiny
Before this life is through
Don’t you think it’s time we
Synchronize our religion
Be aware
We got this life in common
(Prechorus)
(Chorus)
(Outro)
Here’s a further discussion of this record which was truly a masterpiece.
Another BRC group from back in the day was called Civil Rite — which featured Carl Young (keyboard/sax) on bass, and Tory Ruffin (Left handed Guitar) from Subject to Change - they had a song that again addressed racism which was called “No Country.”
Growing up in a country where the innoent are guilty
And the guilty go free
What does that do to me?
And you want to send me off to fight your wars
For democracy and freedom
So when.I come home I just end up in the street
What does that do to me?
Chorus:
(That’s why) A man without a country
(Gotta be) Is a man without a home
No language to call his own
Man without home
(Repeat Chorus)
On my knees to pray to my Jesus
Everyday
How come he look like you?
What does that do to me?
Manumission Abolition
Can’t fix my transmission
Somebody told. me once the I had a dream
(I had a peice of)
Bridge:
Somebody told me
Somebody said
That I had a piece of (Just a piece)
The American dream (American dream)
(Rap)
(Repeat Chorus)
They also had another song with addressed Black/White relationships which in the past had led to situations like the Scottsboro Boys who were wrongly accused of rape. The Tulsa Race Massacre began because of a black man supposedly “accosting” a white woman by bumping in her exiting an elevator, and obviously Emmet Till was murdered because he “whistled” at a White woman. Never mind the fact that Emmet whistled to help him handle his stutter. In this song, the black male protagonist gets beaten and castrated by the father (who's in the Klan) of his white girlfriend. [Yeah, it goes there]
This is “Butt Naked in a Field of Daisies”
Carl Young bassist from this band eventually joined Michael Franti and Spearhead, the drummer went on to join Bodycount, while vocalist/guitarist Tori Ruffin has recorded with Dionne Farris on the song “Passion.” [I knew it was Tori as soon as I heard his pinch harmonic]
He is now with Morris Day and The Time and the second guitarist J.J. Brown (whose father appeared in Good Times) is still making music and is a friend of mine.
Dionne after she left the rap group Arrested Development and sang the key vocal in their song “Tennessee" had a bigger hit with the song “I Know” which features David Ryan Harris.
David fronted his own Black Rock band from Atlanta at the time called Follow For Now.
About a decade later Cree Summer scored her own record deal as a solo artist and put out a record produced by Lenny Kravitz (ex-husband of her “Different World” co-star Lisa Bonet) and she redid the Butt Naked song into her own version with the genders swapped. This was called “Curious White Boy.”
[My first extended conversation with Corey Glover — which happened at a local club in Sacramento in the late 90s — was about this song from Cree’s album which had just come out and really impressed him. I told him about it’s previous history with Civil Rite.] The interesting thing is the Cree turned what was the bridge into the Chorus.
Politically erect
Romanticizing about ancestral innocence
Conscious easing, curiosity pleasing
Slum teasing
Lab rat is cool, ego foolin’
No afro, no halo can pick the content of your conscience
Prechorus:
Inside the Panic Zoo (Was it cool for you?)
Can’t hide in small tight spaces
Curious is a luxury
White long still be wrong
All my jungle hung out
Chorus:
Curious White Boy
When am I gonna meet your mama? (Met your daddy already)
Curious White Boy
When am i gonna meet your mama? (Met your daddy already)
Another housekeeper fantasy
Afro-diety, Coffee colored remedy
From your hangover, from history
I know your daddy and your brother too well
And his friend made me swear I wouldn't tell
(Repeat PreChorus)
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge:
Whatcha so made about
Always have to scream and shout
Find a difference point it out
Spread your legs
Shut your mouth
My virginity, hanging on your family tree
Why ya so angry they just crowned Mammy Miss America?
(Repeat Chorus x 3)
Cree eventually toured on this album which featured a redone version of “Soul Sister” and other tracks from the Subject to Change record.
[I also just found this video - never saw it before either]
Since RATM closed up shop, there have been bands such as Sevendust with Lajon Witherspoon — who started out as a Living Colour Cover band — here at Woodstock ‘99.
And also Killswitch Engage.
And Ra with Sahaj Ticotin.
Then after all this you have the absolute worst example of Police censorship with the release and response to the “Cop Killer” by the band Bodycount, lead by Ice-T. Again, this was not a Rap song — but it was characterized by the media as part of “Gangster Rap” — but it wasn’t Rap. It was a Rock song. It was about Police Brutality in the wake of the Rodney King beating and Riots just as much as Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name.” It was just more direct and told a fictional story of someone who was just fed up with the violence and brutality by police who had decided to take matter into their own hands. It’s a STORY - just like “I shot the Sherrif” by Bob Marley and Eric Clapton. It’s not meant to be taken literally.
(Into:) This next record is dedicated to some person friends of mine, the LAPD. For every cop that has ever taken advantage of somebody, beat them down or hurt them because they got long hair, listen to the wrong kind of music, wrong color, what ever they thought was the reason to do it. For every one of those fucking police, I’d like to take a pig out here in this parking lot and shot him in the mutha fucking face.
Yeah
I got my black shirt on
I got my black gloves on
I got my ski mask on
This shit's been too long
I got my twelve gauge sawed-off
I got my headlights turned off
I'm 'bout to bust some shots off
I'm 'bout to dust some cops off
I'm a cop killer, better you than me
Cop killer, fuck police brutality
Cop killer, I know your family's grieving (fuck 'em)
Cop killer, but tonight we get even, haha
I got my brain on hype
Tonight will be your night
I got this long-assed knife
And your neck looks just right
Now my adrenaline's pumpin'
I got my stereo bumpin'
I'm 'bout to kill me somethin'
A pig stopped me for nothin'
Cop killer, better you than me
Cop killer, fuck police brutality
Cop killer, I know your momma's grieving (fuck her)
Cop killer, but tonight we get even, yeah
Die, die, die pig, die
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Yeah
Cop killer, better you than me
I'm a cop killer, fuck police brutality
Cop killer, I know your family's grieving (fuck 'em)
Cop killer, but tonight we get even, hahahaha, yeah
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police
Fuck the police, break it down
yeah
(Fuck the police) for Darryl Gates
(Fuck the police) for Rodney King
(Fuck the police) for my dead homies
(Fuck the police) for your freedom
(Fuck the police) don't be a pussy
(Fuck the police) have some muthafuckin' courage
(Fuck the police) sing along
Cop killer
Cop killer
Cop killer
Cop killer
Cop killer, (what do you want to be when you grow up?)
Cop killer, (good choice)
Cop killer, I'm a muthafuckin'
Cop killer
Cop killer, better you than me
Cop killer, fuck police brutality
Cop killer, I know your momma's grieving (fuck her)
Cop killer, but tonight we get even
In reaction, the police and their supporters phoned death threats into the record label promoting Ice T to remove it from future pressings of the album.
These are not the songs that you’re average white rock band was singing. You weren’t hearing this kind of thing from Warrant, Poison, Nirvana, Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains. It was about more than just skin color. It was about life - how you live, the conditions you live in, the world that surrounds you.
This was what the Black Rock Coalition was about. I was proud to have been a member. Imagine what could have happened if people had even realized all these bands were connected — that there were as many as a DOZEN bands like RATM all at the same time — all of them were taking a stand and making a difference.
How different would things be now, if people had really listened back then?
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