WEBVTT - "Across the Pond" 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:06.439 Hold up, Hold up, Baller Nation. Welcome to another episode 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:09.320 of The Baller Alert Show. I am Octavia at K 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:13.600 A O C C. And I am your favorite Ethiopians 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:20.360 is so low okay energy, that's I'm talking about. What's 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.360 up y'all? How y'all doing a miss show? Um, I've 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:25.120 been doing all right. I went and protest in two 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:29.120 days said that, I man, you know, right when the 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.000 when the when we first when the writing and all 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:35.680 that first happened at Friday. Um, I watched it on 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:37.760 TV and I didn't even know what was gonna happen. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:39.960 I just turned on the news and a bow. Everybody 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.040 was just you know, protest. It was peaceful for a 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:44.440 while and then um, you know, they had all those 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.159 police cars outside and then then you know, it just 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.120 took one person to get on top of the car 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.680 and then someone had to skateboard. It started bashing out. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:54.240 I was watching it on TV right down the street 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.320 at the radio station. All hell broke loose. But I 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.520 definitely saw it. And then that morning that start today morning, 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.440 I went to go clean up after my people, because 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.000 you know, I think everybody has a role, and although 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.800 mine wasn't to be out there you know, you know, 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:13.200 raising cane that night. I definitely just simply protesting, and 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.400 just simply protesting, of course, but I just feel like, 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.600 you know, my my energy was met um elsewhere and 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.840 doing the work in another capacity. We can all contribute 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.480 in our own ways. I actually did protests one of 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.240 the days. On the first day of the protests, actually, 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.920 I went over to Jackson Street, you know, that really 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.000 popular bridge that people go to, and I just I 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.840 just wanted to look over the city, just look over Atlanta. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.720 And I said a prayer to myself, and sure enough, 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.160 at eight fifty seven, a couple of cop cars pulled 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.080 up to the bridge and told everyone that we had 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.880 to leave and go home. Once I got home, once 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.520 I got to my building, I decided to go up 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.040 to the rooftop because I just I was really I 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.160 really can't describe how I felt, but I was overwhelmed 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.280 with whatever that feeling was. I wasn't done praying. I 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.600 needed to go to the rooftop and just have some 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.280 quiet time. When I get up there, mind, our rooftop 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.920 is still closed due to COVID nineteen. Okay, when I 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.960 get up there, there is a whole techno party all 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.919 white people, with the exception of one black person a 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.919 full blown DJ like they like the DJ was going 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.320 in it was loud, and it made me fall into 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.600 that feeling even more because I thought to myself, Wow, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.680 life is so different for white people, Like look at y'all. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.600 You guys are literally up here enjoying this like it's 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.680 nothing going on, Like like the police aren't lined up outside, 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.760 like people aren't protesting, people aren't being you know, victimized 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.960 by the police. And it definitely put me in my 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.640 feelings more to see that it was actually hurtful. UM 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:54.080 I did a demonstration. UM I laid down on the concrete. 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.160 Man is behind my back. I didn't have nobody's knee 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.840 on my neck, but just lying down on that con 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.919 week for eight minutes and some change. At the same time, 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.799 UM officer had his his knee on George Floyd's neck. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.000 Just lying down on there for almost nine minutes was 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.359 a locked to just lie down on the concrete. M 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.480 You're absolutely right, because I did a priest for protests too, 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.400 because I'd be protesting, you know, throughout throughout the week 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.960 of last week as well. But UM, last weekend, I 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.640 protested with some essential workers and we actually kneeled in 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:31.720 the park um for that same amount of time, the 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.680 eight minutes and forty six seconds, I believe, um, And 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.640 that was a long time, so you're absolutely right, man, 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.160 I'm talking about four minutes. And then it was like 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.320 six minutes. I'm over here like wow, his neck. And 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.839 as it got to eight minutes, I'm like, wow, his neck. 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.960 His knee was on his this guy's neck for this 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.160 long and I'm over here like this is crazy. And 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.560 then I meant too young, Um, Caucasian UM girls. They 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.240 were both seventeen years old. They were outside with us 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.720 peaceful profits for peaceful protesting. Of course, we posted that 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.080 on ball alert and I posted on my page at 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.720 Ferrari Simmons UM. And they were so educated, um. And 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.800 I had asked them also off the camera about their parents, 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.360 and then they told me that their parents were kind 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.440 of on the fence, but they told it. They told 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.080 their parents that they still with us and they were 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.880 coming out to protest with or without their parents consent. 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.040 And I thought that was dope. And I love that 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.400 Generation Z is changing the world. Um. You know, they 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:34.160 are allowing themselves to do the work to learn. You know, 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.279 I've been learning some things from you know, random white 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.760 people on social media. I'm like, I didn't know Central 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.880 Park used to be Black Land. I didn't know that. Um, 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.760 you know thirty what did she say to grocery stores, banks, schools, 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.120 all these all these things, And I just cannot believe 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:56.440 how suppressed African American, real African American history is. Yes, 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.640 I agree. And you know, one thing that we have 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.040 now that was in the available in the sixties and 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.800 social media. You know, everybody has a phone, and all 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.440 the kids have a phone, so they're able to you know, 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:11.000 see things and then research themselves and then educate themselves, 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.160 and then you know, you don't have to agree with 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.440 your parents. It's just like that one um, the young lady, 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.000 I forget her name, but it went borrow when she 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.680 was arguing with her dad and mom about you know, 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.160 educating herself on Black Lives Matter, and they were, you know, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.320 saying that she don't really know what it's like, and 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.760 you're just, you know, you're just reading it on the phone. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.160 You're not actually out there. I work in the ghetto, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.920 you know what they were talking about. So I am 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.479 glad to see people are you know, taking the initiative, 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.560 especially young kids and going out and doing the research 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:45.400 and educating themselves and not you know, just taking their 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.480 parents word for it. Yeah. I love that it seems 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:52.160 like communities are getting stronger. People are actually coming together 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:57.200 for a purpose outside of party and smoking, drinking, chilling, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.840 like we actually have more of a purpose UM and 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.920 I do want to mention that I'm actually teaming up 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:06.080 with UM the Book Bank Foundation and the Book Bank 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.760 executive board member, which is Kabochi. I know everybody knows 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.359 Kibachi um Desti banks as well, you know comedian Desti. 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.919 And we are requesting that people join us in a 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.280 march for unity and basically what we're gonna do one 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.599 block at a time. We're gonna do a community clean 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.080 up starting at the West End Mall. So we will 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.640 all meet at the biggest parking lot at the Weston Mall. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.240 We'll talk about what our mission is and then we 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.880 want to walk that area and clean up as much 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.599 as we can. Make sure we're communicating with the neighborhood 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.280 and let them know that we are here. We're here 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.640 for each other. And so if you guys can make 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.800 it out, please come out this Saturday. The March from 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:48.040 Unity this Saturday eleven thirty am Saturday June. You can 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.400 go to my page and get more information at underscores 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.640 to Solo s U s O l O. If you 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.279 are down, well, we got more on Black Lives Matter 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.800 on the Bail Alert show. Let's get into in case 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:04.039 you missed it though. Okay, this is probably one of 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.359 the best things that can happen to an a t 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:12.080 Alien or an Outcast fan. Andre three thousand is alive 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:17.800 and well. Okay, Andre three thousand, Um, he made a 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.680 post on Instagram, so you know, hip hop lovers around 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.880 the world, we all miss Andre three thousand. We know 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:28.080 him as half of the supergroup Outcast, and he actually 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.880 scared us a little while ago when he shared that 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.160 he wasn't feeling inspired. You know that it was difficult 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.720 for him to not only make new music, well, to 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.440 not only release new music, but to make it period 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:43.760 because he was just uninspired. So it was scary. We 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.320 didn't know what that meant if we didn't know if 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.800 he was leaving us for good. But back in May 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.760 of two thousand eighteen, he had actually posted his first 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.920 thing on social media. If y'all remember, it was a 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:58.560 screenshot of a text message, UM. And we didn't really 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:03.720 see much of him up until this past was it Tuesday? Yeah, 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.520 up until this past Wednesday actually, and he came on 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.840 on to promote a shirt and the Black Lives Matter movement. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.280 He also asked the question. He said, something very important 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.840 is happening all over the world, and it is happening 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.200 to all of us. How does it make you feel? 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.240 And I don't know what it is about Andre three 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.040 thousand asking a question, even if it's just on freaking 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.440 social media. I sat there and I thought about how 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:34.240 do I feel? How do I feel? Yeah? I definitely 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.440 think that it's important for all of our you know, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.240 black musicians and UM celebrities to come out and shed 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.720 light on issues that are going on right now and 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.280 you know, doing what they can and lifting their voices 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:54.320 and asking questions as in how do you feel? You know, um, 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.960 and sharing with us the public because we need all 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:59.880 we can, We need all hands on deck to keep 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.480 a consistent conversation about what's going on. No effects. And 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.520 Andrew thousand is of course the top three uh my 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.160 favorite rappers that are alive and UM, when he speaks, 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.800 we need to listen. I want to know what's going 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.720 to happen with music now. Is Andre going to feel 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:22.640 compelled to make the Black Lives Matter soundtrack? I would 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:26.400 say so, Um he if if he especially if he 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:31.520 said he was lacking inspiration. Um, we have never been 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.679 so inspired to do anything like to be successful down 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.640 to you know, being a lot more to show a 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:42.040 lot more empathy towards each other as um a black race, um, 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.679 even towards other races. I mean, keep in mind, Hispanics 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:49.760 are its president's prejudices about against them too. It's racism 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:55.559 against uh Mexican people who are not white. A lot, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.280 a lot of a lot of whites don't like more 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.160 than just a Frican Americans, it's other people too, totally. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.520 It just seems like, you know, black people are at 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.160 the bottom of the barrel, though you know we are, 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.520 it just seems like it never stops. And I'm definitely 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.720 not taking away from any other minority group because we 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:18.840 know that injustice lives everywhere. We absolutely know that, but 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.920 we feel like our voices are the least important. And 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:24.800 it's gotten to a point where we have had enough 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.560 of that and we're going to make you hear us coming. 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.800 And as far as him, you know, making music. I'm 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.000 just glad that we're able to see him and him 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.160 able to speak about what's going on, you know, in 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.200 this time. So if it's just T shirts he's selling 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.480 or whatever, I'm just glad that he's voicing, he's sharing 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.280 his voice with us and letting us know, you know, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.720 he's here to lend his hand and to you know, 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.080 make his mark. I know we often say, you know, 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.520 black folk in particularly, there's a popular saying right now, 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.480 I am not your ancestors, I will beat your ass. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.080 You know. I know a lot of us have been 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.720 hearing it. But these younger white kids, especially, you know, 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.960 the two young ladies that Rory interviewed, they are showing 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.760 us that they're not even their parents. Forget the ancestors. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.760 I am not my racist parents. And I love, I 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.000 love that they are putting it on blast. I just 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.480 hope that these kids are safe. I just I really 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.559 hope they're safe, because if I was a racist pappy, 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.200 I am whooping your ass. You're gonna starve, you're gonna 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.560 do all like you will not embarrass me. But I think, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.120 like you said we said earlier generations, Z is changing 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.640 the world Um, the way that they view things, the 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.520 way that they see things. It's you know, technology is 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:41.080 different now again, racism is just being filmed. It always 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.080 was there before, we just didn't really see it the 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.079 way that we see it now. And when we see it, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.840 it looks bad. Um. You can look at the Instagram 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.679 pages social media, Karen's gone wild. Um, I think it's 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.200 another page, another Karen's page because they're calling Karen's the 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.360 racist white women. So all on social media you can 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.680 see people posting racist and people are getting fired, people 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.520 are getting fired, suspended without pay. And when you see 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.160 that happening, that's when you'd be like, thank you. But 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.120 this has been going on since forever, and we, you 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.920 know us as African America's we were kind of just like, damn, 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.319 that's just how it is because you never really understood, 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.800 like to see justice, just normal racism justice at work. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.120 Now when you see things like this happening, now, white 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.120 people gotta think a little different. And I hate saying 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.680 white people because I'm not racist, you know what I'm saying, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.120 Because I get saying it and we're only talking about 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:40.560 racist white people. I'm just like, okay, so racist white 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.480 people are gonna think twice before they do anything, because 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.400 now you can lose your job, you can lose um, 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.240 you can get fired from whatever you got going on, 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.120 if you're in the club, whatever, you they will denounce you. 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:58.000 You thinking twice, motherfucker. I like that ship, but it's 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.840 never keep in mind of what ten years of just 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.680 ten years ago, this was never like this, like ten 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.600 years ago, ten weeks ago, ten weeks ago, forget that 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.520 ten weeks ago. But I'm proud. I am so proud 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.160 to see all these people on the front line. I'm 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.800 proud to see people boycotting businesses. I'm proud to see 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.840 people share their experiences. And honestly, this is the shift. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.120 I feel like if we do not let me just 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.400 be last week's news, do not let this be last 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.240 week's news. Keep fighting, don't let up because next week 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.679 they're probably gonna hit us with all these coronavirus headlines 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:37.760 or whatever the cases and allies, do not forget what 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.640 we are fighting for because the way these people play, 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.439 it's dirty and it's something that we do not understand. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.960 So before we switch up, just shout out to my 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.480 white friends that have been standing up and saying something 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.600 and um, that's been calling me and other people that's 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:58.200 been posting and being out there with us, um, and 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.040 if you don't, because I I did have one white 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.840 friend called me and said, you know, UM, how do 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.000 I help? What do I do? You know? And he 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.160 I knew, I knew him to not be a very 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.680 vocal person. But I told him, it's other things that 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:12.439 you can do. And I just was talking to him 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.120 about other options. And I think that that's dope too. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:20.000 Drew Rees, by the way, go ahead for real? All right? Well, um, 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:24.040 Speaking of heat and the social climate out here in 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.760 the world, Treta had an opinion that a lot of 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:33.880 people are not rocket. Hey, hey, can we play the 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.720 audio of the original Heat? Everybody off the street? These 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.520 animals off the streets that are running around in Miami 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.720 Dade County acting like they have escaped from a zoo. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.400 Locked him up at five pm so the streets could 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.520 be nice and clean. That's how I feel. What the 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:54.000 streets with lives talking about the lives, not talking about 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.920 the lives that mean tear about city. Ain't nobody that 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:01.440 mean tear about that? Run through, turn down stuff and 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.440 breaking up fool and go and tear a Baseback marketplace 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.480 to trot, my friends, shot, the having fun and the 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.240 kid to take care of her family to go to. Personally, 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.440 it's definitely personal. It's definitely personal because I feel like, 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.480 at the end of the day she got her shirt, 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.800 I'm like that for fifty days also. And she also 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.400 don't have money like me. I don't approve a bit period. Yeah, okay, 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.280 so that's what Trina said. Okay, now she didn't. She 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.800 did an apology, which I thought was too little, too late. 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.440 She I mean, that's what always happens, right. You know. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.760 The thing is, when I was listening to it, I 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.400 I felt bad for Trick. Okay, I felt like they 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.600 try to say twice he was trying. He on top 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.720 of that, he tried to keep it cool, you know, 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.360 he didn't want to go off. He tried to keep 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.160 it cool. And I feel like, well, your friend warns 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.120 you of something in that manner, you gotta know that serious. Like, 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.280 But Trina was in her zone. She was in her feelings. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.880 She could she was It's like she wasn't listening. She 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.560 had to say what she wanted to and that was it. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.680 Called us animals said to lock the protesters up at 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:10.440 five PM. So the streets can be clean. It the 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.160 undertone of that, So the streets can be clean? Come on, man, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.120 it's certain things. Then she called them caged and she 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.800 needs to we need to cage the animals or something like. Man, listen, bro, 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.600 that ain't how you do that. And now you're you 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.560 will you know, she's still on the radio. Keep in mind. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.960 I loved Trina. I loved her music. Keep mind, but 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.600 it wasn't a big fan of Trina as the rapper. 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:34.720 But just what she's still for because you know, I'm 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.680 from down that way, you know what I'm saying, and 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.920 just hearing somebody who sounded, you know, like where I 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.800 was from. I thought that was dope when she first 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.680 came out in her career. But my thing is, damn man, 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.480 when you on the radio and you're speaking to millions 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.680 of people, you have to be mindful how you articulate yourself. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.400 And that's that's very important to media people, people who 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.880 have a large following. You have to be mindful of 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.680 how you articulate yourself because people who follow you sometimes 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.000 really follow you, follow what you say, follow what you do. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.480 They look up to you and you don't even know it. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.199 You know what I'm saying. So you have to be 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.840 careful and mindful how you articulate yourself. That's why the 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.160 rappers have so many people who do what they rap about. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.000 And we'll be trying to get on these rappers like, yo, 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.479 if y'all gonna rap about this stuff, be accurate. If 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.879 you're not, if that's not your lifestyle, don't rap about 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.960 that because these kids are thinking you are this big 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:30.360 drug lord when you really aren't. Man, listen, So back 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.560 to Trina, what I got you. Back to Trina. You 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.960 gotta be careful you she was called in the heat 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.960 of the moment. I know in my heart she probably 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.480 didn't mean it how she said it, but she said it, 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:46.879 and you said it with conviction. And when I think, 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.120 I think she showed a lot of concern for her 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.600 her friend's business that was unfortunately vandalized. I think to 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.160 her that was more important than what the actual message 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:01.200 of all of this is. And it very hurtful. It's 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.880 very hurtful. And I think we have to realize there 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.760 is a such thing as black privilege. Okay, and it 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.720 definitely don't look anything like white privilege, But there is 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.600 a such thing as black privilege, and most of the time, unfortunately, 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.040 the people who have advanced in their careers, the people 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.320 that made it, you know, made it out the mud 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.600 and got where they are, and feel like, oh, well, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.040 I'm I'm having meetings full of white people. Oh these 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.040 record exacts, they respect me. Oh look how these producers 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.639 treat me. I'm so and so, I'm so and so. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:36.560 You cannot forget that you're being exploited, Okay, Like, if 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.120 you're looking around in the room and all you see 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.600 is white people and that brings joy to you, something 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:43.760 is wrong with that, Something is wrong with that. That 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.159 is how the system set us up. Even I know 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.040 there have been plenty of times where people will lean 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.040 towards working with a white person because it looks better, 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.359 you know what I'm saying, Like it it looks like 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.160 you made it. And I think sometimes black people who 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.480 have reached a certain level of success, they it's stuck 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.520 on that and they turned their backs on us and 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.880 they start talking about us like those white people talk 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.520 about us, and it's not okay. Treata forgot. Treata forgot 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.480 for a minute. She definitely forgotten. Now. I don't know 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.119 if her apology was genuine. I don't know if she 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:18.440 truly understands now, But what do we do with, you know, 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:23.119 people in our community on such large platforms saying things 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:27.200 like that, what what do we do? Um? I think 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.639 all prs and I'll let you go after this. I 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.560 think all prs and people who managers should be sitting there, 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.720 artists down, sitting there, clients down. I think I posted 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:38.600 I posted this a couple of about a week and 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.399 a half ago when a lot of people started getting canceled, 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.159 and it's a whole thing called canceled nation too. We 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:48.199 can't just be out here counseling everybody. That ain't a 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.120 good idea. But I will say to the people who 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:55.680 presumed to be canceled or managers out there, and people 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:58.800 who have clients PR people, we need to sit down 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.520 and speak to these two your clients you're hiring clients 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:06.520 about how to articulate them themselves on social media, because, um, 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.600 just going and speaking off the fly may not be 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.159 the best thing for you to do, you know what 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.640 I'm saying, Especially if you don't if you don't mean 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.040 something in a certain way, you might not want to 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:22.719 say it without really properly writing down your thoughts and 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.119 articulating yourself, especially if you have a large platform. You 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:27.520 know what I'm saying. I think we're gonna speak to 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.240 somebody in the next coming of days about about something 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.959 that she said on an interview and how people just 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.360 twisted it and took it a whole different way and 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.800 some things she tweeted. We'll be talking to her about 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:43.560 that too, Right, guys, you already know what you had 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:48.480 to say. Um, these days, the tolerance for black disrespect 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:52.680 is at all time low. It doesn't matter whatever race, 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.919 the disrespect for black lives is over with. I understand 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:01.080 she was upset about her Homegirl's store being looted, but 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:02.879 the way she went about it on her show, like 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.879 you said, you know, it was it was horrible and 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.719 it was really general to me, like she just lumped 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:12.040 all the piece for protesters and with the looters altogether. 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.520 I do understand the frustrations of the people who presented 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.760 and signed the petition, and I'm not surprised real petition 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:23.159 out to the hump and I'm not surprised that this 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.479 happening the Trina, you know, as far as her, as 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:30.360 far as them wanting her to be fired. I understand, um, 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.600 she did not agree with the looting. Um, but like 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:35.760 you said, where she could have expressed herself in a 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:39.040 different way. And you know, Portrack, like he was saying 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:41.560