1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: Calls media. Hey, Yo, Happy Friday. Hopefully you're listening to 2 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: this on Friday, and this weekend is something special for me. 3 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,119 Speaker 1: I will be in Atlanta. No, I would have just 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: finished the show in Atlanta at Emory University. So if 5 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: you came to that shout out you, I would have 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: came home and be heading to the La County Fair 7 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: to rock with the Hommie Tycoon. If you're interested into 8 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: hearing the rap version of me prepping for the album 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: release party at Club real Ones on June first, so again, please, 10 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: I would love for you to come through there. If 11 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: you go to clubreal Ones dot com, you can get 12 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: like a discount ticket fifty percent off clubrel Ones dot com. 13 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: Use promo code props pr ops. Come chill with the 14 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: Day Party crew. It's a lot of hip hop, so 15 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: just be prepared for that, but a whole lot of 16 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: R and B and good times and just come chill. 17 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: It's fun and besides your home by nine, j'all oh last, 18 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: all right, this tap in is about keeping that same 19 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 1: energy that you need to keep and it also has 20 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: to do with my rap world. I just got back 21 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: from Joseph Harp Correctional Institution in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 22 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: an event called music Fest in conjunction with Justice for Julius. 23 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 1: Julius Jones was a man wrongfully convicted for murder who 24 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: was scheduled to be on death row. Was in on 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: death row for twenty years, and my homeboy JB fought 26 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:43,119 Speaker 1: alongside the Justice for Julius movement to get his wanting 27 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: to get him out of jail, but first of all 28 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: to get his death row sentence commuted. They succeeded with that, 29 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: but he is still sitting in jail. At the prison 30 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: he's at, there is an event called music Fest, which 31 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: is a three day music festival that's been going on 32 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: for the fast five years. I've had a chance to 33 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: be a part of three of those five years, but 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: this might be the end of it because of a 35 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: new head of security. And there was this moment with 36 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: one of these inmates. And this inmate is a man 37 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: that you would absolutely expect to just be working at 38 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: a church running sound like he's the most regular, regular 39 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: looking white boy you'd ever meet. Ever, he said something 40 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: that makes me want to tap in. What y'all about? 41 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: He says, I just really hope that prison reform is 42 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: still something you guys are talking about on the outside. 43 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: That kind of shook me a little bit taping with me. Okay, 44 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: So if you have to go to prison, this is 45 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: the prison you want to be at. A lot of 46 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 1: these men are lifers. There's one young man who is 47 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: serving two consecutive life sentences, but it was from a 48 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: charge when he was seventeen. There was a young man 49 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: that I was actually looking forward to seeing, and I'm 50 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 1: gonna change his name right now because it's none of 51 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: y'all's business. I'm gonna call him Paul. Paul. And another 52 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: one who I don't mind saying his name is Key Tech, 53 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: who was a legendary like producer in okac's hip hop 54 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 1: scene running a studio. And him Paul and that regular 55 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: degular white boy I was talking about. They put together 56 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: this thing called Music Fest. So it's completely put together 57 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: by the inmates in conjunction with Live Free OKC, Black 58 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: Lives Matter OKC, and the Justice for Julius program Org. 59 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: These are people who work not only for justice for inmates, 60 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: to see community organizing inside of OKC, but all so 61 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: specifically for Julius. So in conjunction with that, they work 62 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: to reach out to artists. It's a three day thing. 63 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: They have an amazing sound system. It's like a festival. 64 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: It's like it feels like coming to a festival. You 65 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: get emailed, you know with the team. They ask for 66 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: your tech writer. There are certain things that you can't 67 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: bring in because it is in fact a prison. But 68 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: like I said, if you have to be in prison, 69 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: you want to be in prison. Here there is the 70 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: closest to the just valuing of these brothers humanity. They're 71 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: not overly surveiled. It is still in fact jail, don't 72 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:42,559 Speaker 1: get me wrong. But the yard is of course a yard. 73 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: It's also but it's also you know, it's chapel. It's 74 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: gym where the brothers got a TV. You know, they 75 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: could play basketball. We go in there and this when 76 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: I tell you, it's nothing like this. It's like going 77 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: to a twenty four hour fitness except for all the 78 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: security you had to go through to get in there. 79 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: We're just chilling. We watched Game seven for the OKC 80 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,360 Speaker 1: and Denver series. They all get these tablets which was 81 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: loaded with of course, again you're still in prison, so 82 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: it's loaded with some like pre selected channels and some 83 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 1: musical selections that like, obviously are not going to spark 84 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 1: crippin blood wars. But these guys have, relatively speaking, a 85 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 1: lot of privileges. Now, granted, there were other men that 86 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: are there that are don't have those privileges, that are 87 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: in a little more you know, kind of lockdown situation. 88 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: Some of that's for their own good or whatever, but 89 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 1: or their own safety, you know. And of course they 90 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: still have is the white supremacist world that has to 91 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: get segregated because they choose to believe a thing. There 92 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: are brothers that I am excited to see every year. 93 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: It feels like a reunion, one of which is the 94 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: name I changed to Homie Paul. I was informed that 95 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: he got moved, and he got moved to a another 96 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: prison institution that did not have these types of freedoms. 97 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 1: This was supposed to be disciplinary action because apparently he 98 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: had peanut butter in his cell. Now he's one of 99 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: the people that greet us that organized this event. And 100 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: then I come to find out that this was because 101 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: the new head of security apparently had an issue with 102 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: him from twenty years ago when he got written up. 103 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: He asked the guy like what, like, where do you 104 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: where's this coming from? Like, what do you know me 105 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: from He goes, man, you were a troublemaker back in 106 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: twenty years ago at you know whatever whatever he and 107 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: he goes. My friend Paul was like, I was in 108 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: Florida then, so like and then the security guy was 109 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,919 Speaker 1: like you talking back to me shipped him out. He 110 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: has been working tirestly to end a lot of these freedoms. 111 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: He feels as though security, safety and control needs to 112 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: be done through power by an iron fist. Some of 113 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: the other things the Brothers was telling us is that 114 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: they do these mind game these just manipulation type stuff 115 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 1: that just completely unnecessary and intentionally designed to remind them 116 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: that they are not free. And I even noticed it 117 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: from the day or from the first moment walking in 118 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: to get through the metal detectors into security, I used 119 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: to be greeted very warmly, like there were professionals. There 120 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: were still like prison guards, but it was warm. Hey, dude, 121 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: glad you're doing this for the guys. Just put your 122 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: laptop right there, blah blah blah blah your name man, 123 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: Like it was great. This dude was like signing right here, 124 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: won't even look at us in our eyes. Just a 125 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: whole other like old school lapd just bully. You guys 126 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: are like just bullies, like all of us are beneath you. 127 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: The whole tone. I just saw, like after going their 128 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: two years, I just saw how their demeanor was so different. 129 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: One thing you gotta know about when you when you 130 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: when you're talking to inmates is they don't really be 131 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: having a lot of people to talk to. So you 132 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: got to, like, you gotta be prepared for a lot 133 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: of stories because they just don't have a lot of 134 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: time to do small talk often because they only see 135 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: each other all the time. So whenever there has a 136 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: new face, these brothers with Takyo year off, so you 137 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: gotta make sure you get your rest before you before 138 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: you go to be very present for him. The stories 139 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: they were expressing of just really petty, unnecessary, like we're 140 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: already in prison creating problems and creating problems with guys 141 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: that are the good ones, if we're gonna use those terms, 142 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: and even the men that like apparently Key Tech is 143 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 1: about to get transferred to another institution too, and I 144 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 1: think that is in for the purpose of removing this festival, 145 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: which is a sense of joy, like a moment for 146 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: these guys to just remember that they're humans again, that 147 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: there is such thing as joy. They're serving their time. 148 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: You don't have to dehumanize them. I haven't even gotten 149 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: too the concept of abolition. I'm saying, they already locked up. 150 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: And the way that they were explaining this thing just 151 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: it grieved me so much because they would They kept saying, man, 152 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,440 Speaker 1: they're not even he's not even treating us like we're 153 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: a human. Man. Hopefully he'll leave. And that guy that 154 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: I told you that just seems like a regular, regular 155 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: dude that you'd meet it at the parent teacher conference. 156 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: That's just like that guy's kid is in your fourth 157 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: grade class, just the most regular. He was like, yeah, 158 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: you know, we've been, you know, doing our homework, doing 159 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 1: our research, really trying to understand like what's going on. 160 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: And he goes, the message we're getting is like those 161 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,599 Speaker 1: guys are dinosaurs, like they are on their way out. 162 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 1: But what he said at the end of that was, Man, 163 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: I just hope and pray that people are still talking 164 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: about this on the outside. You know a lot of times, 165 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: especially if you move in justice circles or just pay 166 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: attention on social media, it's about the news coming so 167 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: fast that you can't keep up. We all know about 168 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: like Instagram activists that are moving on to the next 169 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: to borrow Jamie's language, the next Internet main character. But 170 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:24,839 Speaker 1: of justice. You know, you're only caring about it because 171 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: we talking about it right now, all the black squares 172 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: that were on twenty twenty when everybody cared about Black 173 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,719 Speaker 1: Lives matter. Eventually something else happens and it takes over 174 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: our zeigeist. But then there's the reality of like, yeah, 175 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:40,839 Speaker 1: Flint still doesn't have clean water. There's so many things 176 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,839 Speaker 1: we have to care about. But that moment reminded me 177 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 1: of something that I want to remind you of is 178 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 1: that these people are not just Internet topics or what's 179 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: going on in the news cycle. They are in fact 180 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: people of people that are hoping and praying that we 181 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: can keep the same energy. And I know i'm speaking 182 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: to peace people, especially if you subscribe to anything that 183 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 1: Cool Zone does, y'all care. I also know that it's 184 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: impossible to care about everything, But I just want to 185 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: remind you that your advocacy, the things that you do 186 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: speak up about and push the line on, there are 187 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:22,959 Speaker 1: people counting on us and it do work. Just man, 188 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: when you're posting your watermelons in support for the children 189 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: of Gaza. Remember, I mean literally, this is somebody's baby 190 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: and they're kind of counting on us to not lose focus. 191 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: I don't know, man. It was such a reminder to 192 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: me that these ain't just pods. This is somebody's lives. 193 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: Tap being with