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♪ My brothers livin' under the bridge ♪

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♪ Under the bridge ♪

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♪ So my Savior's livin' under the bridge ♪

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♪ My Savior's livin' under the bridge ♪

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<v ->You know, I've always been into rap music.</v>

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Even in junior high school,

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we used to battle in the lunch rooms.

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Hip hop for me is a tool, its a gift.

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I met a pastor when I was in college who saw my gift.

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He named it in me and he said,

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"God's gonna use you to do big things."

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And I was like, okay (laughs),

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not knowing what I wanted to be when I grew up yet.

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I felt like he really spoke that into my life

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and I said, okay this is what we're doin'.

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I took all kinds of different classes at Gustavus,

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African American history,

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I took Latin American literature, Asian American Literature,

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Native American studies.

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I wanted to learn as much as I could about the world

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so that I could impact the world.

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I was reading a sermon in Garrett Paul's

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religion class at Gustavus.

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The sermon was called Loving Your Enemies,

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by Martin Luther King, Jr.

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He said, "Agape is an overflowing love,

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"which seeks nothing in return.

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"It's the love of God operating in the human heart."

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And I was like, that's amazing, I wanna do that.

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So that's when I chose the name Agape.

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So music for me is, oftentimes it's a pedagogical tool.

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I use music to convey a message to a group of people.

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Hip hop is a unique thing because it uses repetition,

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it uses movement, storytelling, rhythm.

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And we all have a story, and we all have a heartbeat,

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so we all have rhythm.

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And so it's about telling our story.

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And they trace the history of hip hop all the way back to

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West Africa to the griots, the storytellers.

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So it's about telling the story of your people,

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telling your own story.

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I feel like I have a really good story to tell

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and that's why I use hip hop.

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(hip hop music)

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What counts to me, I would say,

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is connecting people that don't understand each other

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and connecting them to a God that knows them

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and loves them very much.

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I'm Dave Scherer, also know as "Agape",

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and I am a Gustie.

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Gustavus Adolphus College,

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make your life count.

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(hip hop music)