Speaker 1: Hold up, Hold up, Baller Nation. Welcome to another episode
Speaker 1: of The Baller Alert Show. I am Octavia at K
Speaker 1: A O C C. And I am your favorite Ethiopians
Speaker 1: is so low okay energy, that's I'm talking about. What's
Speaker 1: up y'all? How y'all doing a miss show? Um, I've
Speaker 1: been doing all right. I went and protest in two
Speaker 1: days said that, I man, you know, right when the
Speaker 1: when the when we first when the writing and all
Speaker 1: that first happened at Friday. Um, I watched it on
Speaker 1: TV and I didn't even know what was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I just turned on the news and a bow. Everybody
Speaker 1: was just you know, protest. It was peaceful for a
Speaker 1: while and then um, you know, they had all those
Speaker 1: police cars outside and then then you know, it just
Speaker 1: took one person to get on top of the car
Speaker 1: and then someone had to skateboard. It started bashing out.
Speaker 1: I was watching it on TV right down the street
Speaker 1: at the radio station. All hell broke loose. But I
Speaker 1: definitely saw it. And then that morning that start today morning,
Speaker 1: I went to go clean up after my people, because
Speaker 1: you know, I think everybody has a role, and although
Speaker 1: mine wasn't to be out there you know, you know,
Speaker 1: raising cane that night. I definitely just simply protesting, and
Speaker 1: just simply protesting, of course, but I just feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, my my energy was met um elsewhere and
Speaker 1: doing the work in another capacity. We can all contribute
Speaker 1: in our own ways. I actually did protests one of
Speaker 1: the days. On the first day of the protests, actually,
Speaker 1: I went over to Jackson Street, you know, that really
Speaker 1: popular bridge that people go to, and I just I
Speaker 1: just wanted to look over the city, just look over Atlanta.
Speaker 1: And I said a prayer to myself, and sure enough,
Speaker 1: at eight fifty seven, a couple of cop cars pulled
Speaker 1: up to the bridge and told everyone that we had
Speaker 1: to leave and go home. Once I got home, once
Speaker 1: I got to my building, I decided to go up
Speaker 1: to the rooftop because I just I was really I
Speaker 1: really can't describe how I felt, but I was overwhelmed
Speaker 1: with whatever that feeling was. I wasn't done praying. I
Speaker 1: needed to go to the rooftop and just have some
Speaker 1: quiet time. When I get up there, mind, our rooftop
Speaker 1: is still closed due to COVID nineteen. Okay, when I
Speaker 1: get up there, there is a whole techno party all
Speaker 1: white people, with the exception of one black person a
Speaker 1: full blown DJ like they like the DJ was going
Speaker 1: in it was loud, and it made me fall into
Speaker 1: that feeling even more because I thought to myself, Wow,
Speaker 1: life is so different for white people, Like look at y'all.
Speaker 1: You guys are literally up here enjoying this like it's
Speaker 1: nothing going on, Like like the police aren't lined up outside,
Speaker 1: like people aren't protesting, people aren't being you know, victimized
Speaker 1: by the police. And it definitely put me in my
Speaker 1: feelings more to see that it was actually hurtful. UM
Speaker 1: I did a demonstration. UM I laid down on the concrete.
Speaker 1: Man is behind my back. I didn't have nobody's knee
Speaker 1: on my neck, but just lying down on that con
Speaker 1: week for eight minutes and some change. At the same time,
Speaker 1: UM officer had his his knee on George Floyd's neck.
Speaker 1: Just lying down on there for almost nine minutes was
Speaker 1: a locked to just lie down on the concrete. M
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, because I did a priest for protests too,
Speaker 1: because I'd be protesting, you know, throughout throughout the week
Speaker 1: of last week as well. But UM, last weekend, I
Speaker 1: protested with some essential workers and we actually kneeled in
Speaker 1: the park um for that same amount of time, the
Speaker 1: eight minutes and forty six seconds, I believe, um, And
Speaker 1: that was a long time, so you're absolutely right, man,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about four minutes. And then it was like
Speaker 1: six minutes. I'm over here like wow, his neck. And
Speaker 1: as it got to eight minutes, I'm like, wow, his neck.
Speaker 1: His knee was on his this guy's neck for this
Speaker 1: long and I'm over here like this is crazy. And
Speaker 1: then I meant too young, Um, Caucasian UM girls. They
Speaker 1: were both seventeen years old. They were outside with us
Speaker 1: peaceful profits for peaceful protesting. Of course, we posted that
Speaker 1: on ball alert and I posted on my page at
Speaker 1: Ferrari Simmons UM. And they were so educated, um. And
Speaker 1: I had asked them also off the camera about their parents,
Speaker 1: and then they told me that their parents were kind
Speaker 1: of on the fence, but they told it. They told
Speaker 1: their parents that they still with us and they were
Speaker 1: coming out to protest with or without their parents consent.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was dope. And I love that
Speaker 1: Generation Z is changing the world. Um. You know, they
Speaker 1: are allowing themselves to do the work to learn. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been learning some things from you know, random white
Speaker 1: people on social media. I'm like, I didn't know Central
Speaker 1: Park used to be Black Land. I didn't know that. Um,
Speaker 1: you know thirty what did she say to grocery stores, banks, schools,
Speaker 1: all these all these things, And I just cannot believe
Speaker 1: how suppressed African American, real African American history is. Yes,
Speaker 1: I agree. And you know, one thing that we have
Speaker 1: now that was in the available in the sixties and
Speaker 1: social media. You know, everybody has a phone, and all
Speaker 1: the kids have a phone, so they're able to you know,
Speaker 1: see things and then research themselves and then educate themselves,
Speaker 1: and then you know, you don't have to agree with
Speaker 1: your parents. It's just like that one um, the young lady,
Speaker 1: I forget her name, but it went borrow when she
Speaker 1: was arguing with her dad and mom about you know,
Speaker 1: educating herself on Black Lives Matter, and they were, you know,
Speaker 1: saying that she don't really know what it's like, and
Speaker 1: you're just, you know, you're just reading it on the phone.
Speaker 1: You're not actually out there. I work in the ghetto,
Speaker 1: you know what they were talking about. So I am
Speaker 1: glad to see people are you know, taking the initiative,
Speaker 1: especially young kids and going out and doing the research
Speaker 1: and educating themselves and not you know, just taking their
Speaker 1: parents word for it. Yeah. I love that it seems
Speaker 1: like communities are getting stronger. People are actually coming together
Speaker 1: for a purpose outside of party and smoking, drinking, chilling,
Speaker 1: like we actually have more of a purpose UM and
Speaker 1: I do want to mention that I'm actually teaming up
Speaker 1: with UM the Book Bank Foundation and the Book Bank
Speaker 1: executive board member, which is Kabochi. I know everybody knows
Speaker 1: Kibachi um Desti banks as well, you know comedian Desti.
Speaker 1: And we are requesting that people join us in a
Speaker 1: march for unity and basically what we're gonna do one
Speaker 1: block at a time. We're gonna do a community clean
Speaker 1: up starting at the West End Mall. So we will
Speaker 1: all meet at the biggest parking lot at the Weston Mall.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about what our mission is and then we
Speaker 1: want to walk that area and clean up as much
Speaker 1: as we can. Make sure we're communicating with the neighborhood
Speaker 1: and let them know that we are here. We're here
Speaker 1: for each other. And so if you guys can make
Speaker 1: it out, please come out this Saturday. The March from
Speaker 1: Unity this Saturday eleven thirty am Saturday June. You can
Speaker 1: go to my page and get more information at underscores
Speaker 1: to Solo s U s O l O. If you
Speaker 1: are down, well, we got more on Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: on the Bail Alert show. Let's get into in case
Speaker 1: you missed it though. Okay, this is probably one of
Speaker 1: the best things that can happen to an a t
Speaker 1: Alien or an Outcast fan. Andre three thousand is alive
Speaker 1: and well. Okay, Andre three thousand, Um, he made a
Speaker 1: post on Instagram, so you know, hip hop lovers around
Speaker 1: the world, we all miss Andre three thousand. We know
Speaker 1: him as half of the supergroup Outcast, and he actually
Speaker 1: scared us a little while ago when he shared that
Speaker 1: he wasn't feeling inspired. You know that it was difficult
Speaker 1: for him to not only make new music, well, to
Speaker 1: not only release new music, but to make it period
Speaker 1: because he was just uninspired. So it was scary. We
Speaker 1: didn't know what that meant if we didn't know if
Speaker 1: he was leaving us for good. But back in May
Speaker 1: of two thousand eighteen, he had actually posted his first
Speaker 1: thing on social media. If y'all remember, it was a
Speaker 1: screenshot of a text message, UM. And we didn't really
Speaker 1: see much of him up until this past was it Tuesday? Yeah,
Speaker 1: up until this past Wednesday actually, and he came on
Speaker 1: on to promote a shirt and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Speaker 1: He also asked the question. He said, something very important
Speaker 1: is happening all over the world, and it is happening
Speaker 1: to all of us. How does it make you feel?
Speaker 1: And I don't know what it is about Andre three
Speaker 1: thousand asking a question, even if it's just on freaking
Speaker 1: social media. I sat there and I thought about how
Speaker 1: do I feel? How do I feel? Yeah? I definitely
Speaker 1: think that it's important for all of our you know,
Speaker 1: black musicians and UM celebrities to come out and shed
Speaker 1: light on issues that are going on right now and
Speaker 1: you know, doing what they can and lifting their voices
Speaker 1: and asking questions as in how do you feel? You know, um,
Speaker 1: and sharing with us the public because we need all
Speaker 1: we can, We need all hands on deck to keep
Speaker 1: a consistent conversation about what's going on. No effects. And
Speaker 1: Andrew thousand is of course the top three uh my
Speaker 1: favorite rappers that are alive and UM, when he speaks,
Speaker 1: we need to listen. I want to know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen with music now. Is Andre going to feel
Speaker 1: compelled to make the Black Lives Matter soundtrack? I would
Speaker 1: say so, Um he if if he especially if he
Speaker 1: said he was lacking inspiration. Um, we have never been
Speaker 1: so inspired to do anything like to be successful down
Speaker 1: to you know, being a lot more to show a
Speaker 1: lot more empathy towards each other as um a black race, um,
Speaker 1: even towards other races. I mean, keep in mind, Hispanics
Speaker 1: are its president's prejudices about against them too. It's racism
Speaker 1: against uh Mexican people who are not white. A lot,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of whites don't like more
Speaker 1: than just a Frican Americans, it's other people too, totally.
Speaker 1: It just seems like, you know, black people are at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the barrel, though you know we are,
Speaker 1: it just seems like it never stops. And I'm definitely
Speaker 1: not taking away from any other minority group because we
Speaker 1: know that injustice lives everywhere. We absolutely know that, but
Speaker 1: we feel like our voices are the least important. And
Speaker 1: it's gotten to a point where we have had enough
Speaker 1: of that and we're going to make you hear us coming.
Speaker 1: And as far as him, you know, making music. I'm
Speaker 1: just glad that we're able to see him and him
Speaker 1: able to speak about what's going on, you know, in
Speaker 1: this time. So if it's just T shirts he's selling
Speaker 1: or whatever, I'm just glad that he's voicing, he's sharing
Speaker 1: his voice with us and letting us know, you know,
Speaker 1: he's here to lend his hand and to you know,
Speaker 1: make his mark. I know we often say, you know,
Speaker 1: black folk in particularly, there's a popular saying right now,
Speaker 1: I am not your ancestors, I will beat your ass.
Speaker 1: You know. I know a lot of us have been
Speaker 1: hearing it. But these younger white kids, especially, you know,
Speaker 1: the two young ladies that Rory interviewed, they are showing
Speaker 1: us that they're not even their parents. Forget the ancestors.
Speaker 1: I am not my racist parents. And I love, I
Speaker 1: love that they are putting it on blast. I just
Speaker 1: hope that these kids are safe. I just I really
Speaker 1: hope they're safe, because if I was a racist pappy,
Speaker 1: I am whooping your ass. You're gonna starve, you're gonna
Speaker 1: do all like you will not embarrass me. But I think,
Speaker 1: like you said we said earlier generations, Z is changing
Speaker 1: the world Um, the way that they view things, the
Speaker 1: way that they see things. It's you know, technology is
Speaker 1: different now again, racism is just being filmed. It always
Speaker 1: was there before, we just didn't really see it the
Speaker 1: way that we see it now. And when we see it,
Speaker 1: it looks bad. Um. You can look at the Instagram
Speaker 1: pages social media, Karen's gone wild. Um, I think it's
Speaker 1: another page, another Karen's page because they're calling Karen's the
Speaker 1: racist white women. So all on social media you can
Speaker 1: see people posting racist and people are getting fired, people
Speaker 1: are getting fired, suspended without pay. And when you see
Speaker 1: that happening, that's when you'd be like, thank you. But
Speaker 1: this has been going on since forever, and we, you
Speaker 1: know us as African America's we were kind of just like, damn,
Speaker 1: that's just how it is because you never really understood,
Speaker 1: like to see justice, just normal racism justice at work.
Speaker 1: Now when you see things like this happening, now, white
Speaker 1: people gotta think a little different. And I hate saying
Speaker 1: white people because I'm not racist, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Because I get saying it and we're only talking about
Speaker 1: racist white people. I'm just like, okay, so racist white
Speaker 1: people are gonna think twice before they do anything, because
Speaker 1: now you can lose your job, you can lose um,
Speaker 1: you can get fired from whatever you got going on,
Speaker 1: if you're in the club, whatever, you they will denounce you.
Speaker 1: You thinking twice, motherfucker. I like that ship, but it's
Speaker 1: never keep in mind of what ten years of just
Speaker 1: ten years ago, this was never like this, like ten
Speaker 1: years ago, ten weeks ago, ten weeks ago, forget that
Speaker 1: ten weeks ago. But I'm proud. I am so proud
Speaker 1: to see all these people on the front line. I'm
Speaker 1: proud to see people boycotting businesses. I'm proud to see
Speaker 1: people share their experiences. And honestly, this is the shift.
Speaker 1: I feel like if we do not let me just
Speaker 1: be last week's news, do not let this be last
Speaker 1: week's news. Keep fighting, don't let up because next week
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna hit us with all these coronavirus headlines
Speaker 1: or whatever the cases and allies, do not forget what
Speaker 1: we are fighting for because the way these people play,
Speaker 1: it's dirty and it's something that we do not understand.
Speaker 1: So before we switch up, just shout out to my
Speaker 1: white friends that have been standing up and saying something
Speaker 1: and um, that's been calling me and other people that's
Speaker 1: been posting and being out there with us, um, and
Speaker 1: if you don't, because I I did have one white
Speaker 1: friend called me and said, you know, UM, how do
Speaker 1: I help? What do I do? You know? And he
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew him to not be a very
Speaker 1: vocal person. But I told him, it's other things that
Speaker 1: you can do. And I just was talking to him
Speaker 1: about other options. And I think that that's dope too.
Speaker 1: Drew Rees, by the way, go ahead for real? All right? Well, um,
Speaker 1: Speaking of heat and the social climate out here in
Speaker 1: the world, Treta had an opinion that a lot of
Speaker 1: people are not rocket. Hey, hey, can we play the
Speaker 1: audio of the original Heat? Everybody off the street? These
Speaker 1: animals off the streets that are running around in Miami
Speaker 1: Dade County acting like they have escaped from a zoo.
Speaker 1: Locked him up at five pm so the streets could
Speaker 1: be nice and clean. That's how I feel. What the
Speaker 1: streets with lives talking about the lives, not talking about
Speaker 1: the lives that mean tear about city. Ain't nobody that
Speaker 1: mean tear about that? Run through, turn down stuff and
Speaker 1: breaking up fool and go and tear a Baseback marketplace
Speaker 1: to trot, my friends, shot, the having fun and the
Speaker 1: kid to take care of her family to go to. Personally,
Speaker 1: it's definitely personal. It's definitely personal because I feel like,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day she got her shirt,
Speaker 1: I'm like that for fifty days also. And she also
Speaker 1: don't have money like me. I don't approve a bit period. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so that's what Trina said. Okay, now she didn't. She
Speaker 1: did an apology, which I thought was too little, too late.
Speaker 1: She I mean, that's what always happens, right. You know.
Speaker 1: The thing is, when I was listening to it, I
Speaker 1: I felt bad for Trick. Okay, I felt like they
Speaker 1: try to say twice he was trying. He on top
Speaker 1: of that, he tried to keep it cool, you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't want to go off. He tried to keep
Speaker 1: it cool. And I feel like, well, your friend warns
Speaker 1: you of something in that manner, you gotta know that serious. Like,
Speaker 1: But Trina was in her zone. She was in her feelings.
Speaker 1: She could she was It's like she wasn't listening. She
Speaker 1: had to say what she wanted to and that was it.
Speaker 1: Called us animals said to lock the protesters up at
Speaker 1: five PM. So the streets can be clean. It the
Speaker 1: undertone of that, So the streets can be clean? Come on, man,
Speaker 1: it's certain things. Then she called them caged and she
Speaker 1: needs to we need to cage the animals or something like. Man, listen, bro,
Speaker 1: that ain't how you do that. And now you're you
Speaker 1: will you know, she's still on the radio. Keep in mind.
Speaker 1: I loved Trina. I loved her music. Keep mind, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't a big fan of Trina as the rapper.
Speaker 1: But just what she's still for because you know, I'm
Speaker 1: from down that way, you know what I'm saying, and
Speaker 1: just hearing somebody who sounded, you know, like where I
Speaker 1: was from. I thought that was dope when she first
Speaker 1: came out in her career. But my thing is, damn man,
Speaker 1: when you on the radio and you're speaking to millions
Speaker 1: of people, you have to be mindful how you articulate yourself.
Speaker 1: And that's that's very important to media people, people who
Speaker 1: have a large following. You have to be mindful of
Speaker 1: how you articulate yourself because people who follow you sometimes
Speaker 1: really follow you, follow what you say, follow what you do.
Speaker 1: They look up to you and you don't even know it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So you have to be
Speaker 1: careful and mindful how you articulate yourself. That's why the
Speaker 1: rappers have so many people who do what they rap about.
Speaker 1: And we'll be trying to get on these rappers like, yo,
Speaker 1: if y'all gonna rap about this stuff, be accurate. If
Speaker 1: you're not, if that's not your lifestyle, don't rap about
Speaker 1: that because these kids are thinking you are this big
Speaker 1: drug lord when you really aren't. Man, listen, So back
Speaker 1: to Trina, what I got you. Back to Trina. You
Speaker 1: gotta be careful you she was called in the heat
Speaker 1: of the moment. I know in my heart she probably
Speaker 1: didn't mean it how she said it, but she said it,
Speaker 1: and you said it with conviction. And when I think,
Speaker 1: I think she showed a lot of concern for her
Speaker 1: her friend's business that was unfortunately vandalized. I think to
Speaker 1: her that was more important than what the actual message
Speaker 1: of all of this is. And it very hurtful. It's
Speaker 1: very hurtful. And I think we have to realize there
Speaker 1: is a such thing as black privilege. Okay, and it
Speaker 1: definitely don't look anything like white privilege, But there is
Speaker 1: a such thing as black privilege, and most of the time, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the people who have advanced in their careers, the people
Speaker 1: that made it, you know, made it out the mud
Speaker 1: and got where they are, and feel like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm having meetings full of white people. Oh these
Speaker 1: record exacts, they respect me. Oh look how these producers
Speaker 1: treat me. I'm so and so, I'm so and so.
Speaker 1: You cannot forget that you're being exploited, Okay, Like, if
Speaker 1: you're looking around in the room and all you see
Speaker 1: is white people and that brings joy to you, something
Speaker 1: is wrong with that, Something is wrong with that. That
Speaker 1: is how the system set us up. Even I know
Speaker 1: there have been plenty of times where people will lean
Speaker 1: towards working with a white person because it looks better,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like it it looks like
Speaker 1: you made it. And I think sometimes black people who
Speaker 1: have reached a certain level of success, they it's stuck
Speaker 1: on that and they turned their backs on us and
Speaker 1: they start talking about us like those white people talk
Speaker 1: about us, and it's not okay. Treata forgot. Treata forgot
Speaker 1: for a minute. She definitely forgotten. Now. I don't know
Speaker 1: if her apology was genuine. I don't know if she
Speaker 1: truly understands now, But what do we do with, you know,
Speaker 1: people in our community on such large platforms saying things
Speaker 1: like that, what what do we do? Um? I think
Speaker 1: all prs and I'll let you go after this. I
Speaker 1: think all prs and people who managers should be sitting there,
Speaker 1: artists down, sitting there, clients down. I think I posted
Speaker 1: I posted this a couple of about a week and
Speaker 1: a half ago when a lot of people started getting canceled,
Speaker 1: and it's a whole thing called canceled nation too. We
Speaker 1: can't just be out here counseling everybody. That ain't a
Speaker 1: good idea. But I will say to the people who
Speaker 1: presumed to be canceled or managers out there, and people
Speaker 1: who have clients PR people, we need to sit down
Speaker 1: and speak to these two your clients you're hiring clients
Speaker 1: about how to articulate them themselves on social media, because, um,
Speaker 1: just going and speaking off the fly may not be
Speaker 1: the best thing for you to do, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Especially if you don't if you don't mean
Speaker 1: something in a certain way, you might not want to
Speaker 1: say it without really properly writing down your thoughts and
Speaker 1: articulating yourself, especially if you have a large platform. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I think we're gonna speak to
Speaker 1: somebody in the next coming of days about about something
Speaker 1: that she said on an interview and how people just
Speaker 1: twisted it and took it a whole different way and
Speaker 1: some things she tweeted. We'll be talking to her about
Speaker 1: that too, Right, guys, you already know what you had
Speaker 1: to say. Um, these days, the tolerance for black disrespect
Speaker 1: is at all time low. It doesn't matter whatever race,
Speaker 1: the disrespect for black lives is over with. I understand
Speaker 1: she was upset about her Homegirl's store being looted, but
Speaker 1: the way she went about it on her show, like
Speaker 1: you said, you know, it was it was horrible and
Speaker 1: it was really general to me, like she just lumped
Speaker 1: all the piece for protesters and with the looters altogether.
Speaker 1: I do understand the frustrations of the people who presented
Speaker 1: and signed the petition, and I'm not surprised real petition
Speaker 1: out to the hump and I'm not surprised that this
Speaker 1: happening the Trina, you know, as far as her, as
Speaker 1: far as them wanting her to be fired. I understand, um,
Speaker 1: she did not agree with the looting. Um, but like
Speaker 1: you said, where she could have expressed herself in a
Speaker 1: different way. And you know, Portrack, like he was saying
Speaker 1: to he was sitting there trying to doubt her back.
Speaker 1: But I felt like her emotions were getting the best
Speaker 1: of her and the apology didn't even match the initial
Speaker 1: passion that she had when she was saying what she
Speaker 1: was saying. Yeah, that's the thing to the apology. Didn't
Speaker 1: never do that, but apologies. She never wanted to apologize either,
Speaker 1: because initially when she said what she said the first um,
Speaker 1: she went on Twitter and said, I said what I
Speaker 1: said that right there told me that she really meant it,
Speaker 1: so like I do, I will have to say so
Speaker 1: you were right. But I kind of felt like, I
Speaker 1: think maybe that's the fan of Trina and me. That
Speaker 1: was like, damn, man, she ain't she meaning like that?
Speaker 1: Did she? Damn? Dreaming? Yeah? And you know, not to
Speaker 1: be careful with their words. Everybody seems to be tripping
Speaker 1: up around here. But that's why you got the petition
Speaker 1: out now, you know what I'm saying. And I believe
Speaker 1: right now they have like fifteen thousand signatures to try
Speaker 1: to get her fired, removed from her position at UM
Speaker 1: the radio station. But you know, if that had been
Speaker 1: any other person, you know, especially like a white person,
Speaker 1: that they would have said what they said, they would
Speaker 1: have been removed. You know, we we cannot afford people
Speaker 1: on that kind of platform. I just thought about that. Wow,
Speaker 1: you are right. Wow, Well this is that I want
Speaker 1: to point out, you know, because you mentioned cancel culture
Speaker 1: and how real it is. And the thing is, I
Speaker 1: do feel like than our communities we need to be
Speaker 1: a little more patient with each other. We definitely need
Speaker 1: to start giving each other constructive criticism more so than
Speaker 1: coming at them. Do I agree um that you know,
Speaker 1: she should get fired. I can't necessarily say that, but
Speaker 1: I can definitely say that I don't think we have
Speaker 1: the capacity to allow black people to say those kinds
Speaker 1: of things about black people on that type of a platform. Well,
Speaker 1: if that was the case, then the word I should
Speaker 1: have cut her mic and you know, saved her in
Speaker 1: m I wonder who that was. Yeah, that's such a
Speaker 1: tricky situation because I'm pretty sure they probably wasn't trying
Speaker 1: to go viral. They were speaking, and she went, she
Speaker 1: just flew left. She went all the way left and
Speaker 1: at that point you kind of just in a state
Speaker 1: of a thirty second shock, like you were over here
Speaker 1: like what I know. People that was listening in the
Speaker 1: car was like what the hell, man, that's We're sitting
Speaker 1: there looking like trick, like, please shut up. What's the
Speaker 1: what's the next Well, we discussed Andre three thousand, Trina,
Speaker 1: and we kind of already went in on the Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter movement. But I do want to say again,
Speaker 1: you know, thank you to everybody that is holding it
Speaker 1: down be s somemone. I'm sorry the internet is dragging you.
Speaker 1: We will definitely talk more about a little later on
Speaker 1: as we talk with Ebeneezer. Ebenezer is a Nigerian London artist, producer,
Speaker 1: all types of things, so we're gonna talk to him
Speaker 1: and also go through his road collection. Yeah, and going
Speaker 1: back to the politics of everything. UM, I just want
Speaker 1: to talk about voting for a second. Um, the issues
Speaker 1: that we just had on June nine, and there were
Speaker 1: so many issues out there, you know, UM as far
Speaker 1: as you know, the long hours it rain, you had
Speaker 1: people out there in the rain. UM, the technical issues,
Speaker 1: the machines not being delivered to the right places you
Speaker 1: had workers not even being able to work the machines. Um,
Speaker 1: and this happened like in counties like full Tender Cab
Speaker 1: and a lot of the areas where the large black
Speaker 1: populations were in Georgia. Now Brad rathers Raffersberg, Um Raffersberg,
Speaker 1: I believe his name is the Secretary of State is
Speaker 1: blaming the county leaders and saying that the problems should
Speaker 1: have been taken care of months in advance. And um,
Speaker 1: you also had people like Hillary Clinton who took the
Speaker 1: Twitter and saying what happened in Georgia, you know, was
Speaker 1: by design and that voter suppression is a threat to
Speaker 1: our democracy. You also had Keisha Lan's Bottoms tweeting on
Speaker 1: actual voting day that, um, if you're in line, please
Speaker 1: stay in line, don't let your vote be suppressed. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I just wanted to kind of get your
Speaker 1: opinion on and your experience and voting, because mine. I
Speaker 1: went out there crack of dawn, Like, I got up
Speaker 1: and I called myself trying to get there early. Um,
Speaker 1: I got there like six thirty. The line was already
Speaker 1: down the street, and it took me like a good
Speaker 1: two hours, you know, just to get in the door.
Speaker 1: Then when I actually got in and had my ballot
Speaker 1: and hand ready to scan, um, the machine wasn't working,
Speaker 1: you know, to scan the ballot, and so I had
Speaker 1: to sit there another like forty five minutes just for
Speaker 1: them to get the text support on the phone and
Speaker 1: for them to fix the problem. So what were y'all experiences? Well,
Speaker 1: lucky for me, I'm a early voter, honey. I don't
Speaker 1: know why more people do not take more advantage of that.
Speaker 1: There were so many options absentee ballots, you could have
Speaker 1: just gone to vote early. However, I am not excusing
Speaker 1: the fact that they screwed us in Georgia on that
Speaker 1: particular day. I have friends that actually went to go
Speaker 1: early vote. Jason, as a matter of fact, he went
Speaker 1: to early vote the week before and he waited four
Speaker 1: hours then and was still not able to vote. Then
Speaker 1: he had to go back on the regular vote day
Speaker 1: and he waited another four hours, so in total it
Speaker 1: took him eight hours to get his vote in. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: well you know, keep of mine. Also a little fact, Uh,
Speaker 1: they weren't used to us voting before, so therefore it
Speaker 1: never was vote machines and all that stuff. We're never
Speaker 1: in the areas that people were voting in Before it
Speaker 1: was only a few people that voted, um, and of
Speaker 1: our racial background before. But now since people are voting
Speaker 1: and people were active, this is the most active I've
Speaker 1: ever seen voting since the Obama administration in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight. I never forget that because it was like,
Speaker 1: you have to vote, it's almost like life or death.
Speaker 1: But now it's retreating voting like it's life or death
Speaker 1: as much as possible because we can't see change. I
Speaker 1: believe I forgot what state it was, Arkansas. I double checked,
Speaker 1: but um, they had they posted a for the first
Speaker 1: time ever, they had an African American mayor in one
Speaker 1: of the states and in the Midwest, and I just
Speaker 1: thought that was so dope. So people are actually seeing
Speaker 1: examples of African American or just voting. Were people that
Speaker 1: used that you share your values with them, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. People are definitely understanding the importance of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's sell the offset. You know, one third
Speaker 1: of amigos he voted for the first time. I think
Speaker 1: he's twenty eight or twenty nine years old. So this
Speaker 1: is really inspired. Yes, And even if you don't know
Speaker 1: that you can just find out. Find out. These people
Speaker 1: will trick you. Even Uncle Snoop said it. He said
Speaker 1: that he was tricked into believing that he cannot vote yes.
Speaker 1: And and that's the thing I was saying. People are
Speaker 1: now doing research to see if they're eligible to vote.
Speaker 1: So so many people are voting for the first time ever,
Speaker 1: and they're grown adults, like they're in their late twenties
Speaker 1: voting for the first time ever locally and nationally. And
Speaker 1: that is the big thing that we're missing and we're
Speaker 1: seeing it. It's dope. I waited hour. I believe it
Speaker 1: was like forty five minutes to an hour, but it
Speaker 1: was people my age there. And I do agree with you,
Speaker 1: so you should. People can't take advantage of the early voting.
Speaker 1: I'm on to like to go out on actual voting day,
Speaker 1: you know, and experience it on voting day. And yeah,
Speaker 1: and I like to go out and help anybody who
Speaker 1: can't get around to voting, you know. Um that that's
Speaker 1: my time. I like to I like to kind of
Speaker 1: do that on voting day. So that's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why I was very nervous about it. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: just I don't know you know, it's uncomfortable because you
Speaker 1: don't know is your voice truly being heard? But then
Speaker 1: it's like you really don't know when you go to
Speaker 1: the machines. And unfortunately the State of Georgia they show
Speaker 1: us every election that they funk us over every time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, voter suppression is very real. However, Um, it's
Speaker 1: still a right that we have to exercise because I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, we had people dying for us
Speaker 1: to vote. You know, even not too long ago, there
Speaker 1: was a post um on Instagram I believe on ball
Speaker 1: alert or it was. It went viral, but a lady
Speaker 1: showing papers on where she had to pay two dollars
Speaker 1: just to vote. You know, we had to actually pay
Speaker 1: the vote. So I feel like we have this opportunity
Speaker 1: now with black people and we should exercise that, right Amen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I just want to say, lastly, for George Floyd,
Speaker 1: UM speak on that a little bit, you know, under
Speaker 1: the circumstances which are horrible and what happens to George
Speaker 1: Floyd rest in peace. I feel like in this moment,
Speaker 1: it has awakened so many people. And although we were
Speaker 1: in this pandemic, you know, which everyone seemed to have
Speaker 1: forgotten because we all saw, like you know, ain't nothing happening,
Speaker 1: but um, the restrictions that formulated within the pandemic, you know,
Speaker 1: with us staying in the house, no sports, no new
Speaker 1: TV shows, things like that forced us to focus on,
Speaker 1: you know, the horrific topics at hand, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of impossible for everybody to turn a blind eye.
Speaker 1: And I'm pleased to see everybody, every celebrity stepping up,
Speaker 1: you know, unifying within the Black Lives community and you know,
Speaker 1: people joining us and um doing doing what we can
Speaker 1: to reach justice. I applaud us. And you know it's
Speaker 1: just like um Joe Budden who just gave us a
Speaker 1: shout out you know on ball Alert for posting and
Speaker 1: you know, doing what we can to keep the awareness
Speaker 1: out there, you know, and enforcing change within the world.
Speaker 1: We definitely appreciate that. Facts well, uh very intelligently said
Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah. At this point, you know, my only
Speaker 1: prayer is consistency. I just hope you know, we keep
Speaker 1: we stay consistent, So you have to. We gotta hold
Speaker 1: each other accountable and understand that we are doing this
Speaker 1: for ourselves, our children and the generations to come, and
Speaker 1: that it was time for a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 1: You're you're listening to the aler. We have Mr super
Speaker 1: Producer Ebeneezer correct, and he's a super producer, super engineer,
Speaker 1: super songwriter. This man does it all. Now. The first question,
Speaker 1: what is where did your name come from? Is that
Speaker 1: your real name, Ebenezer? Yeah, that's my actual name, given
Speaker 1: to me by my parents. Wow, people with a nickname
Speaker 1: Eban either. And so you're Nigerian right, yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not m I was born in London, but not during
Speaker 1: I just want to say you're Nigerian, but you sound
Speaker 1: like you're from Great Britain, from London, from London. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Don't you go to Nigeria often? No, unfortunately I've only
Speaker 1: been once. I didn't. I didn't actually want to go
Speaker 1: to Nigeria to begin with because growing up in London,
Speaker 1: they always used to show videos of like Africa, people
Speaker 1: with flies on their faces and it always just kind
Speaker 1: of like deter me and put me off. And then
Speaker 1: I went there and there's nothing that what you see
Speaker 1: on the adverts that they proper guy, the messages, Nigeria
Speaker 1: is so beautiful and amazing. I'm gonna trying to go
Speaker 1: back this year again. I felt like that too. I
Speaker 1: was actually born in the United States, but I'm Ethiopian
Speaker 1: and I did not want to go to Ethiopia at all.
Speaker 1: I was like, mom, I'm not trying to see these
Speaker 1: hungry people. I mean, it's bad. It was really bad.
Speaker 1: And I got there and fell in love. I literally
Speaker 1: cried like a bit when it was time to leave,
Speaker 1: like I do not want to leave Africa. It was
Speaker 1: it was amazing. Yeah, yeah, it's it's unfortunate that that's
Speaker 1: the propaganda they try to sell to us in the
Speaker 1: Western society or the Western hemisphere, that afril car is
Speaker 1: so poor and deprived. But I'm like, we have poor
Speaker 1: and deprived people in our own countries here, so that
Speaker 1: propaganda I don't buy into it. And I said, just
Speaker 1: nobody buying into it, because it's it's just nonsense. Now
Speaker 1: you're saying here, like, are you in London now? I
Speaker 1: flew back to London. I was in l A, but
Speaker 1: I flew back to London because we have free healthcare.
Speaker 1: Could you explain to us this single that we see
Speaker 1: that is popping everywhere Plausa. You come up with this
Speaker 1: concept right here? It was literally about my ex. Um
Speaker 1: oh all the way were just bits and pieces of it.
Speaker 1: What I have to give her credit where credit is due.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say her name in case she tries
Speaker 1: to come and get some now, Evaneezer, I must say
Speaker 1: I did catch your interview on lip service shout out
Speaker 1: to Angela. Ye, and this this the same ex that
Speaker 1: came to your house. What was it like? She drove
Speaker 1: like three hours to your house and stood outside and
Speaker 1: you made her go home. Yeah, she drove three and
Speaker 1: a half hours to come to come and quote unquote
Speaker 1: late with me. I was like, na being a half
Speaker 1: hours back, I don't I don't know. Boy, she wasn't
Speaker 1: given starfish. What really listened to the interview? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. I
Speaker 1: couldn't go through all the headache and order that drama again.
Speaker 1: I was like, it's not worth it, even just for
Speaker 1: one night, It's still not worth it. Um, So you
Speaker 1: driving music? Are you signed? Yes? I just signed to
Speaker 1: a label called twelve some in America that is run
Speaker 1: by Dog Morris and Steve Bottles. Steve Bottles just came
Speaker 1: from death sham. Dog Morris has been out all of
Speaker 1: the labels Universal or Sony and Wara. So yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a good bunch of people you've got, and some pack
Speaker 1: on the labels. So and they just let me. They
Speaker 1: give me full creative control to drop as much as
Speaker 1: I want, do as much music as I want. And yeah,
Speaker 1: they're just super supportive. So I'm grateful. I'm really grateful.
Speaker 1: Now that's definitely where I was going. I was gonna
Speaker 1: ask you, you know, being signed in America, do you
Speaker 1: feel like they're putting parameters on the type of music
Speaker 1: you can put out or trying to keep you from
Speaker 1: doing your thing? No, because my music don't If you
Speaker 1: have my music, you can't tell where I'm from. I
Speaker 1: don't sound like I'm from London. So they just literally
Speaker 1: let me do whatever I want and say, we'll give
Speaker 1: you full creative control. We believing you believe in your music.
Speaker 1: And yeah, they just they should be best playing. Um,
Speaker 1: I've done a song literally two days ago and they're
Speaker 1: letting me drop it next week. Yeah. So now I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, you write, produce, mixed, perform your records engineering,
Speaker 1: what made you get to that point? You know as
Speaker 1: far as being an artist? Because I produce an engineer
Speaker 1: as well. And it's just like I know for me,
Speaker 1: sometimes you just tired of waiting on people to do
Speaker 1: certain things for you. What was it like for you?
Speaker 1: How did you get to the point of like doing
Speaker 1: everything for yourself? Literally exactly what you said, tired of wait?
Speaker 1: And I'm very I'm patient about the same time, I'm
Speaker 1: very impatient. Um, something that I can do for myself.
Speaker 1: I hate waiting someone else to do it for me,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to procrastinate any longer, so I
Speaker 1: used to. I started off as a songwriter trying to
Speaker 1: get people to semi beats. People are taking long to
Speaker 1: semi beats. I was like one day myself. Then it
Speaker 1: went to I need someone to demo it for me.
Speaker 1: Same thing. Everyone was just moving along, starte the end
Speaker 1: of myself. Next thing, you know, Um, where I am
Speaker 1: right now due to the grace of God and so
Speaker 1: many great people behind me and all the people who
Speaker 1: slept on me, and it was taken along and the
Speaker 1: same people blowing up my phone now, please can I get? Please?
Speaker 1: Can I get? It's just it's just how the game goes.
Speaker 1: I don't take much, yeah, but I worked hard for mine.
Speaker 1: This this this didn't come overnight. I spent like years
Speaker 1: working harder, slept on my studio floor for weeks, didn't
Speaker 1: go home, and didn't have a change of clothes because
Speaker 1: I couldn't afford it. So this isn't just all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Yeah, he's working with ty dollar Sign and
Speaker 1: he's got records out and it's doing well. Now there's
Speaker 1: a lot of pain and then like, there's so many
Speaker 1: times I wanted to quit music, so many times. I
Speaker 1: was going to what was your first break that showed
Speaker 1: you that you can keep doing this? I was in
Speaker 1: a catch phony too. Um. I was trying to get
Speaker 1: records to people, but people won't take the records because
Speaker 1: I didn't have any credentials under my belt. I didn't
Speaker 1: I haven't written for like your A list this yet
Speaker 1: and I couldn't get in with the A lists because
Speaker 1: I haven't haven't had the song. So I was in
Speaker 1: a psycle. I was in a loop um and one
Speaker 1: of my friends sent my song. They asked him for
Speaker 1: a song and he sent my song instead, and then
Speaker 1: they loved the song, and I was like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: want to use this song, and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't do this. My friend friend who who was
Speaker 1: that guy who was the trade on Mavie one of
Speaker 1: my best friends. Um, he literally put on for me
Speaker 1: when I had nothing. Did you buy him a robe
Speaker 1: of the you need to give him one of anyone?
Speaker 1: I get him other stuff like anything that drops, like gadgets.
Speaker 1: So I was like, watches, iPhones, Gucci, whatever you want,
Speaker 1: and make sure he's straight, because he really didn't put
Speaker 1: on for me when nobody everybody left me. The people
Speaker 1: I used to run with left me by myself, so
Speaker 1: I was literally solo dollo, trying to make ends meet.
Speaker 1: I was over five ground in debt. My friends were
Speaker 1: paying my studio bills and my other friends. And he
Speaker 1: was always like, it's a matter of when not if,
Speaker 1: so just you know, just stick with it. And I
Speaker 1: was like, fuck you trying, don't want to hear that
Speaker 1: that I need to go in this year and go
Speaker 1: make money. He's like, no, trust me, trust me. And
Speaker 1: then I made my record fifty three Sundays, and then
Speaker 1: that's when my life really changed. But he put on
Speaker 1: me early and still put something to me. Now, so
Speaker 1: you didn't mention working with Tywason. I see that you
Speaker 1: worked with a few other people stuff I'm done, Jeremiah
Speaker 1: Craig David definitely to me. I'm actually going to the
Speaker 1: house literally after this interview. I do want to ask you,
Speaker 1: when these artists are, you know, looking to work with you,
Speaker 1: do you think they're looking for a specific sound, like
Speaker 1: is there an ebonize or sound that people are going for.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a specific sound simply because I
Speaker 1: can do everything too. Uh. I would say a phenomenal
Speaker 1: standard of it be pop or and B hip hop up.
Speaker 1: I got Billboard number one with a Korean boy band,
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's a specific looking for It's
Speaker 1: just they know whatever I'm going to give them, it's
Speaker 1: going to be amazing and not like everyone else's. Well,
Speaker 1: you gave us Bad Romance one. You know it was nice,
Speaker 1: but Bad Romance too? Now? Yeah, so bill them undertones
Speaker 1: in that and that the project a little darker. What's
Speaker 1: up with that bat Amantic too? Completely? Like it completely
Speaker 1: ships on Batomantic one. Um, when I made that Romantic one,
Speaker 1: it was just literally God telling me, oh, you're a badomantic.
Speaker 1: You're terrible with communication, time keeping, etceter. So I took
Speaker 1: it almost as a joke and just made a Batromantic one, Like,
Speaker 1: ha ha, I know you said I'm a bad romantic,
Speaker 1: So it's bad romantic about Romantic two. I kind of
Speaker 1: saw that hard. In a second, I think that actually right,
Speaker 1: because I really do struggle with time and I do
Speaker 1: struggle with communications simply because of how much work I do.
Speaker 1: Not only do I write produced mixed record all for myself,
Speaker 1: I do it for other artists as well. So it's
Speaker 1: it's a bit hard trying to find time to balance
Speaker 1: for myself. And when I finally get some free time,
Speaker 1: I want to spend it with myself. Sometimes I don't
Speaker 1: get enough mean time. So Got Romantic two has much,
Speaker 1: like you said, a much darker undertone and it's more
Speaker 1: serious and it's literally was just addressing so many situations
Speaker 1: and relationships that I had been in. Um for instance,
Speaker 1: the one where I sampled Candy Bears. I was just
Speaker 1: about to ask you that about the h IF three
Speaker 1: Am sample Candy's don't think I'm not what made you
Speaker 1: a sample? Candy? Were you like a big Escape fan
Speaker 1: growing up? Yeah? I grew up. See in my house,
Speaker 1: I was fortunate enough, like my sister was a big
Speaker 1: R and B head. She's older than me four years
Speaker 1: older than me, Big r and b head. So she
Speaker 1: listened to Escape, Cisco Boys, Two Men Branch, She listened
Speaker 1: to all of them. And then I had my brother.
Speaker 1: He was a big hip hop head. So I grew
Speaker 1: up on Nag jay Z, Big Girl, Big Punt two, Biggy.
Speaker 1: I grew up on like the legends and the Brace
Speaker 1: and people who stood for something, who said something. So
Speaker 1: I was fortunate. And so I've got a back catalog
Speaker 1: of memories that are like all stored. And I was
Speaker 1: talking to my friend. I was like, Yo, I really
Speaker 1: want to sample when youvel and Nike. Don't think no,
Speaker 1: because literally, my the guy I was dating at the
Speaker 1: time literally always try to make me jealous, always post
Speaker 1: videos of herving a club with the ballers, her with
Speaker 1: the rappers, with the train darling like, if you can
Speaker 1: do I can do it too. I can be out
Speaker 1: with the models. I got loads of my friends, loads
Speaker 1: of friends who are wow only friends I So it
Speaker 1: literally was just to address that situation, and it turned
Speaker 1: out it came out really dope, and Candy loved that.
Speaker 1: She posted on the Instagram. She said, it's amazing the
Speaker 1: flip that you've done on the record. And I love it.
Speaker 1: But I was like, are you guys done? Because I
Speaker 1: have my question. Man ahead, let's see these robes. Bro
Speaker 1: Come on, how much approximately? How much was this that
Speaker 1: role you have on? That's that's that looks like a
Speaker 1: four thou dollar rowd this cost a preety penny in
Speaker 1: a miracle. It's cost more than it does in the
Speaker 1: UK for clothes from the EU. So this one. I
Speaker 1: got this one in blue and I got this one
Speaker 1: in red. I have also got the Versaci Puppy I'm
Speaker 1: a Bitch edition Sashi Poppy on the weekend edition the
Speaker 1: Versaci Poppy meet me at the hotel. I did any
Speaker 1: black designers that make robes like this? Whish I knew?
Speaker 1: I wish I knew. We're gonna find out. We don't
Speaker 1: damn you, We're gonna be We're gonna hit you on
Speaker 1: the Graham and all that instantly. Yeah, we're gonna make
Speaker 1: sure you have some black owned robes in that collection somewhere.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm trying to do my own black owned
Speaker 1: like designs myself, funny contraction with my manufacturing company UM Overseas.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna try and get them to start
Speaker 1: speaking of black owned. How has it been as far
Speaker 1: as protesting in the UK. Have you been a part
Speaker 1: of any protests or Unfortunately I couldn't go out simply
Speaker 1: because I'm high risk. I've got asthma, so I was
Speaker 1: advised not to go out to protests. But I've so
Speaker 1: desperately wanted to. UM. But I'm literally on my phone
Speaker 1: seven just just trying to you know, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: stay connected. UM. I keep telling people UK is the
Speaker 1: father of colonial racist and you know, oppression because the
Speaker 1: UK started, UM America just continue to end it well,
Speaker 1: although it's continued in the UK as well. UK it's
Speaker 1: very racist. We we tried to take down some statues
Speaker 1: like people ya gonna ask about Bristol. Yeah, and imagine here,
Speaker 1: So the UK waters are very dirty and muddy. After
Speaker 1: we got thrown in, you had like members of Tommy
Speaker 1: Robinson's like fascist organization dive into the water to fish
Speaker 1: you out. The heck out of here. You have to
Speaker 1: be to dive in the water to fish you out. Discussing,
Speaker 1: I wondered where the descendants are, like with all these
Speaker 1: statues coming down, where are their families? Are they buying?
Speaker 1: Another information that was just found out so in the
Speaker 1: UK to apologize to the slave owners for making them
Speaker 1: lose so much money, the government decided to give them
Speaker 1: over sixteen point eight billion pounds So two thousand and fifteen.
Speaker 1: Since three thousand fifteen, we have been us touchpayers have
Speaker 1: been paying the slave owners for reparation. Squeeze. No, it
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. We've been paying you because you're
Speaker 1: no longer a slave owner. Wow, it's very subtle. It's
Speaker 1: very subtle. It's no, it's public. I've got videos on
Speaker 1: my part. I can send you videos of police grabbing me,
Speaker 1: putting me in a Headlook, police grabbing me from your car,
Speaker 1: police attacking me at my mom's house, trying to reason
Speaker 1: to my car. Get out. We're gonna break that, smash
Speaker 1: your car, and they've done the while it's going to me.
Speaker 1: I've gotta pulled on video. My friends offer every day,
Speaker 1: we get it overtly in our faces. The ones that
Speaker 1: are subtle are the ones where you're trying to go
Speaker 1: and apply for a job and you have someone who
Speaker 1: is less qualified. Um, and then you have a black
Speaker 1: person with an African name like Quake Kofia wants to
Speaker 1: and he's got a very high grade and just on
Speaker 1: his name alone, they know he's black. He's not getting
Speaker 1: a job. You know what, I can say that it
Speaker 1: is blatant there because ball alert just posted a post
Speaker 1: of of somebody in the UK and they were trying
Speaker 1: to get into their house there in their neighborhood or something,
Speaker 1: and the police stopped him and said, you know I
Speaker 1: had stopped you because you're black. I had this this period.
Speaker 1: I was like over there. The only the only differences
Speaker 1: which um which pains me to say, is when we
Speaker 1: get arrested, I still know that I can go home.
Speaker 1: In America, you don't know if you're going home, if
Speaker 1: that's gonna be your last interaction or not. Because your
Speaker 1: police have guns or police don't have guns. In order
Speaker 1: to have you have to go under um stringent training
Speaker 1: and like so you aren't just be bullied at school
Speaker 1: on one day decided to be I'm a cop. I'm
Speaker 1: going to become a cop and I'm going to get
Speaker 1: a gun and be able to It doesn't make no sense.
Speaker 1: It takes longer for you to become a barber to
Speaker 1: go through barber training then it is to be a
Speaker 1: police officer and get a gun. Do you know how
Speaker 1: ridiculous that sounds. It's nobly no sense. And then when
Speaker 1: you try to explain to someone all lives matter, Yes,
Speaker 1: we agree, but for some reason, black the black lives
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to matter amongst a vast majority of people.
Speaker 1: And so how can that all lives matter statement be true?
Speaker 1: It's a false positive. It doesn't make sense, and it's
Speaker 1: always coming from people who say I don't see race,
Speaker 1: I don't see color, And honestly, that's the problem. We
Speaker 1: don't want to feel like you don't see us. We're
Speaker 1: trying to tell you we'red here and we're having a
Speaker 1: problem with how we're It's like, hey, guys, don't forget
Speaker 1: about us. I think Jane Elliott said it best when
Speaker 1: she said, if you wish to be treated like an
Speaker 1: African American, please raise your hand. Then no one did,
Speaker 1: and she said you must not understand the question. If
Speaker 1: you like to be treated like an African American, please
Speaker 1: raise your hands. Again nobody did, and she said that
Speaker 1: means you must know, understand it and accept it, but
Speaker 1: you don't want it for yourself, which is not okay,
Speaker 1: very real. Do you see a lot of um? How
Speaker 1: is it now? In the UK as far as the
Speaker 1: protesting are they, you know, you see a lot of
Speaker 1: whites out there with the blacks, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: protest every day like it is here every day. Um.
Speaker 1: I have friends calling me, white friends saying how can
Speaker 1: I help? What can I do? Um? So some crying
Speaker 1: on the phone like I'm so sorry I didn't see this?
Speaker 1: How have I been oblivious to it? And sometimes like
Speaker 1: for for a white person who lives in a countryside,
Speaker 1: who is not in a densely populated area like London,
Speaker 1: who's not gonna see the police brutality, doesn't mean it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. We've been screaming this for decades, for years,
Speaker 1: for centuries, like yo, this is what's going on, Like
Speaker 1: we need to do something about and it's not for
Speaker 1: It's not for us to do something about, you about it.
Speaker 1: So we need our fellow white people to stand up
Speaker 1: and fight with us, because we can't end this by ourselves.
Speaker 1: We didn't start this. And there's the majority of people
Speaker 1: in the UK are white. The black Star because I
Speaker 1: do feel like the revolution is here. I definitely feel
Speaker 1: like there is a big shift happening. But the reality
Speaker 1: is it would not have happened if we didn't have
Speaker 1: so many white people that finally get it. It's like
Speaker 1: it still had to be on their time for this
Speaker 1: to happen. I'm not too sure about that, simply because
Speaker 1: I think it would have went amiss if not for Corona,
Speaker 1: right know, I was gonna say, I think the quarantine
Speaker 1: had a forced focus on everybody. It's like there was
Speaker 1: no sports, no new TV, nothing to distract. You couldn't
Speaker 1: even go anywhere. So I feel like that forced us
Speaker 1: to focus on the you know, situations at hand. And
Speaker 1: I feel like that that video of George Floyd just
Speaker 1: really you know how gruesome it was. It really everybody
Speaker 1: over the edge. Yes, Brian A. Taylor, you can kill
Speaker 1: someone about it sleeping. I don't get it. When you
Speaker 1: let off one shot, the gun re closed like it
Speaker 1: pulls your risk back after one shot. Do you not think, bro,
Speaker 1: the person hasn't put their hand up, the person hasn't moved.
Speaker 1: Let me shoot again. That's two shots now and three
Speaker 1: the person sleeping. What massive worse is the people they
Speaker 1: were looking for. The person was already in custody. That's
Speaker 1: even worse. They were already incustoming. They don't care about
Speaker 1: our statistics. Don't get me started. We'll talk for a
Speaker 1: whole another hour. Man, E Benezer, we appreciate you so much.
Speaker 1: Bad Romantic to the single flaws and alls a million views?
Speaker 1: How do you feeling about that? And I'm honestly so
Speaker 1: proud simply because I wrote some produced the song, which
Speaker 1: is something everything by myself. Oh man, So you seeing
Speaker 1: a hunder That's what I fumbled the bag because I
Speaker 1: have the bag. So I'm just I'm still there. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tweet that, sure. I'm just I'm super grateful to
Speaker 1: everyone who was supporting, especially because I'm from London as well,
Speaker 1: for you guys to take like take to the song
Speaker 1: like it is no TikTok dances, no gimmicks to straight music.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm ever so grateful. That's super proud. What's
Speaker 1: that tell everybody where to follow you? What projects you
Speaker 1: have coming up? What do you want the people to know? Uh?
Speaker 1: You can follow me? All myselfs are the same. I've
Speaker 1: kept it nice and simple, so at Ebeneze as well.
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Speaker 1: and I have music dropping, So I'm doing a badomatic
Speaker 1: two point five and the songs on it are don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if I even leak onto you guys.
Speaker 1: Just come home. Music coming out, Like in the next
Speaker 1: week or two. I'm gonna have a new song out
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Speaker 1: and then I've got five shopping So yeah, more music
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Speaker 1: what's more important being auntie being being with your best friend?
Speaker 1: I think, but she listen all that was. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's kind of messy. I'm staying out of it. I'm
Speaker 1: falling back. But if you come down, you can come
Speaker 1: and trying to fight meet my sister and you beat
Speaker 1: my sister up. I mean, am I gonna let you
Speaker 1: beat my sister up? Now? It's like blood and water.
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Speaker 1: a tough one, but I'm staying out of it. Don't
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Speaker 1: your best friend? Or maybe the family and who is
Speaker 1: this dude? Yeah, I was gonna say, maybe her sister
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Speaker 1: The dude knew what he was doing too, But hey, man,
Speaker 1: that's a lot, that's a lot going on. Yeah, stay
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Speaker 1: a rap because even if you try to get your
Speaker 1: best friend back, I mean, your sister is always gonna
Speaker 1: be your sister. Your nephew is gonna have to fight
Speaker 1: your best friend. I think your best friend gonna fight you.
Speaker 1: I think that. I mean, if they have to fight,
Speaker 1: fight and get it over. But as far as repairing
Speaker 1: the relationship, I think obviously, like she's going to have
Speaker 1: to review each relationship because I'm sorry, sometimes you know
Speaker 1: your your blood is they might not be the right
Speaker 1: people for you. You know, um, we don't know. It's
Speaker 1: her sister, Trifling is the man, Trifling is the best
Speaker 1: friend Trifling who is the most trifling person in the crew.
Speaker 1: And if you can't figure it out, leave them all alone.
Speaker 1: And it ain't your damn faulty. Yeah, it's not your
Speaker 1: fault y'all. I think everybody just need to move on.
Speaker 1: I think you just need to go on to be
Speaker 1: an anti because blood is forever. I'm not sure the
Speaker 1: relationship with you all, but you know, I think the
Speaker 1: relationship between you and the best friend is pretty much
Speaker 1: over at this point. Yeah, it's like a Jordan and
Speaker 1: Kylie situation. Just let it be good, good one right
Speaker 1: there soon with all the nation. We want to say
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us, um and tuning into another
Speaker 1: episode of the ball Alert Show. Before we head out, though,
Speaker 1: our very young Ferrari Simmons has imparting ones. Hey man, uh,
Speaker 1: you know I was gonna go future, but I ain't
Speaker 1: doing that right now. It's got we got a lot
Speaker 1: going on out here. Um, and I gotta leave with
Speaker 1: a quote I saw on Instagram. I actually don't know
Speaker 1: the author of this, but um, I will say it anyway.
Speaker 1: We said black lives matter, right, We never said only
Speaker 1: black lives matter. We know all lives matter, but we
Speaker 1: just need some help. We need your help with black
Speaker 1: lives matter because black lives are in danger. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next week. Peace. So glad there wasn't a future quote.
Speaker 1: Thinks that the dream is real