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This is an educational parody of the Thrift Shop music video by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. It was created by students ages 12 & 13 as part of Maui Huliau Foundation's Huliau Environmental Filmmaking Club. MHF worked with four students to write the lyrics which focus on Maui's extreme dependence on imported food and goods. The lyrics the students wrote were rapped by Brendan O'Colmain and recorded in Maui Wave Studio. Students from the program then filmed and edited the film at various locations on Maui. Funding for this film came from CDF Engineering and CDF Solar. For more about our programs or to help us support future student-produced environmental films, please visit http://www.mauihuliaufoundation.org Lyrics: Look in our shopping bags All our stuff comes on barges I, I, I'm hunting, for a new solution This can't last forever I walk into a store like what up, this is a big shock I'm so mad that this junk is in our food shops Hawaiians on the land were so damn susty Til the capt' said "Get me a Big Mac Rusty" Barges' in the ocean deep, wastin' all that gasoline No food growin', except sugar cane, fields of green Barges fill all my needs, ship all that stuff to me Probably should have grown this, it's growin' just down the street Miisssss But shipped it was 99 cents We're drinkin' it, eatin' it Take a look at these ingredients high fructose and maltodexterin How'd that get all in my muffin'in? Get me some real ingredients I am plantin' and growin' and savin' my island And I'm hella happy, in my garden {Yesss!} Imma take it local style, imma take it local style No, for real Mr. Farmer, help me start my garden now Pass me some seeds and some good compost A pick axe and a shovel and I'll start plantin' You want some sweet potatoes, I got some sweet potatoes Mexico, guess what, don't send us your tomotatoes Hello, hello, my farmer, my mello The MAINland got nothin' on our food game, Hello! I can plant some fruit trees, let 'em grow, sell those The Haiku hippies be like "aaah, he got the mangoes" Look in our shopping bags All our stuff comes on barges I, I, I'm hunting, for a new solution This can't last forever Look in our shopping bags All our stuff comes on barges I, I, I'm hunting, for a new solution This can't last forever What ya know about rockin' the bow on the barges What you know about where your stuff comes from I'm diggin, I'm diggin, I'm searching right through that garbage East and west, is where that stuff comes from Thank those little kids for sewing that button-up shirt 'Cause in China they don't get paid dirt I'm at the thrift shop, you can find me buyin' used stuff Cuz I'm not, I'm not, I'm not supporting that system Your laptop, your TV, your iPhone, your Camry They make a new one every year so you'll buy another. They build all this crap to break disgracin' the mother In end in the landfill one way or another. They be like oh! All this stuff is hella cheap I'm like Yo! Single-use plastic is hella weak Somethin' we're missin', let's do some simple addition 5,000 miles for a plastic fork, that you use for 2 minutes-ssss I call that a waste of fuel and money-yyy I call that a throw away society Your shoes hella dope But havin' 50 pairs of the same one in your closet is a hella don't Peep gang, come take a look through my telescope If buyin' happiness is your plan, then you hella won't Then you hella won't. Look in our shopping bags All our stuff comes on barges I, I, I'm hunting, for a new solution This can't last forever It's time to buy local You'll feel incredible When you buy my vegetables from my farm stand down the road It's time to simplify Won't know 'til you try We bought all our clothes, from that thrift shop down the road. Look in our shopping bags All our stuff comes on barges I, I, I'm hunting, for a new solution This can't last forever