WEBVTT - Conversations About Street Culture 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.400 Watch up and welcome back to another episode and No 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.480 Sillers Podcast with your host. Now funk that with your 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:17.600 low glasses, Malone, Are we ready? I feel like it's like, Okay, 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:21.720 it's been so long since your did podcast, so I'm 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:26.520 just trying to break y'all in because it's been so long. Yes, 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.800 so long. It's all right. It's just like riding a bike. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.400 Riding a bike, right back on it. There you go, 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:41.080 there you go. I don't even know. That just sounded crazy. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.600 It sounds like a pervert, you know what's funny. No 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.879 matter what girls says, it's gonna sound like a pervert. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.800 Why why that's just because that's what men are thinking. Yeah, 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.600 that's not because that's what men are thinking. Because I 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.240 didn't think. I didn't think what she said was. I 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.760 didn't think yeah, it was like jump back on it 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.960 and write it again. Yes, you know, but I got 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.360 y'all right because this what I was thinking about. What 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:11.760 I want to talk to you all about. It is 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:18.959 um Today somebody was on Twitter and they were talking 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.440 to me about Fat Joe and there's some brothers from 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.160 a movement. The movement is called the FBA Foundational Black 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.839 America Um. It's a movement that focuses on black people 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.600 that are the descendants of you know, slave the slave 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.560 trade to America, to this part of the continent, not 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.680 the southern part right here, right um, and the movement 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.640 targets the needs of those people. So it's a really 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:50.080 dope movement created by Tarkna Sheet Tarika's um really smart 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.880 dead hidden colors, super super dope dude, like really smart, 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:58.200 really researched, really well. Um. It's also a branch of 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:00.720 a d o s right. America can descend it a 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:06.120 slaves and the movement is pro black, but it's not 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:09.520 like black all black. It's like this specific niche, which 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.640 is fine, right um. But it was something that was 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.600 bothering me, and a dude was asking me. He was 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.520 like giving Fat Joe ship and he was like, you know, 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.040 you're the type of person that left Fat Joe say nigga. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.320 And I'm like, yeah, I don't think I've ever been 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.480 bothered with Fat Joe saying nigga. You know. He was like, yeah, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.919 see that's the problem. You know, he's not one of us, 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.680 And I'm like, what do you mean one of us? Like, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.160 you know, where are you from? He's like, oh, you're 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:38.799 gang banging on me. And I was like, no, where 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.240 are you from? Like in the country, not not not 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.160 like cripping where you're from, like not glasses low cripping 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.720 where you're from, but like where are you from? But 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.040 it hit me and that's what I want to talk 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:56.079 to you about. So these ideas, right come from the street. 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:58.880 Like I was talking to my dad. My dad was 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.880 born in forty seven this year, he'll be seventy five 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.160 years old, and I was asking him, do he does 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:09.359 he remember when the term nigga became like a term 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:15.520 of endearment. He was like, did your generation started that? Said, 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.920 before your generation? If somebody said nicked to you, if 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.040 he was a white person, for sure, that was sucked up. 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.480 If a black person called you and Nike, it was 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.360 mad at you, like nigga where my money? And it 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.960 was it was meant to be, you know, fucked up. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.600 He was like, he remember Richard Pryor using it, you 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.400 know as a kind of a segue, right, But it 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.400 wasn't a term of endearment until my generation, right, which 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.800 is eight s and up. And he was like, yeah, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.320 like regular black people don't talk like that. That ship 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:50.120 is the streets. And I'm like, I thought about it. 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.120 I was like, you know what, He's right, like the 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:57.760 streets and that's where the cultural break happens, right, because 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.960 the same thought about hip hop, right, hip hop isn't black, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:11.440 Well it is black, but hip hop before anything else 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:17.560 is street. It's the street urban perspective, culturally, like us 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.520 looking out of a window. And I did a pot 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.000 on this about hip hop before, but it was important 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:29.400 because it's getting to a place to wear. How do 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:35.320 I say this where the everyday black person feels like 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.520 they have entirely too much say about what's going on 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.240 in the streets. And the Internet made that happen, you know, 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.680 social media made that happened to where a lot of 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.680 the lingo that we started, you know on the corner, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.760 you know, has been adopted by all of Black America. 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.760 You gotta realize Slain come from the street. I mean 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.440 he put sling in the records, right because hip hop 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.239 come from the street, the street urban. Um we're talking 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.560 about Hurt Kirk was a graffiti artist, you know, I 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.480 mean he was tagging on walls. It's illegal. He's a criminal, right, Um. 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.200 They were talking about somebody earlier than him, right, because 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.800 it's multiple forefathers. When you start talking about hip hop. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.400 They were talking about uh disco King Mario, who was 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.560 from a gang called the Black Space in New York 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:25.760 and the Bronx, the gang members criminals. I mean, so 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.440 all of this culture, you know, comes from the street. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:34.960 And I realized what was bothering me about him? What? What? 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.800 What it was was he was telling me he was 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.200 an accountant, and then you know, he didn't grow up 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.360 in the hood, but he's a black man. And I'm 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.560 and I'm thinking to myself, like, well, what the funk 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.880 make you think you should have any right? And who 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.040 uses the time niked as a term of endearment. That's 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.680 something that people that grew up in my lifestyle came 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:58.720 up with, actually me and my generation. And that's when 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.720 I'm starting to have this disconnect, you know what I'm saying, like, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:06.839 if if a movement can isolate itself from all of 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.640 black people as a whole and like, Okay, I'll represent 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.680 this niche of black people, then what would the funk 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.240 would make him think that? I'm not gonna be like, 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.000 well wait a minute, If that's it, then I've represent 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:24.200 the streets. Nigger has become it's hip hop. I mean, 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.360 it's become like a part of culture. Got white people, 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:32.240 like the kids that are into hip hop or into 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:36.080 that culture, they say nigga and it doesn't mean for 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.360 them like oh you're a nigga. They're like, oh, this 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.839 is my boy, this is my nig Yeah you got 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.080 the kids. Yeah, they they don't even care. They don't 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:48.599 say it. Like I said, it's in the zone. So 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:53.839 but then they say, okay, well it's not nigger, it's nigga. Right, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.840 So where did that become where it's like because I 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.160 remember I too was like, okay, well it's not nigger. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:09.160 I don't you guys are calling each other niggas. So 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.880 so so this and this is what I want to say. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:16.040 So first off, no ceilings, glasses low, I got my 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.600 dog Asia, I got my people read right here, forel 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.720 me doubling up. Y'all know are we doing this? We're 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.400 about to really shift this ship in the overdrive. Right. 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:30.520 So that's my issue, right because that's black people's question. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.080 The average black person is like, well, nobody that's not 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:39.280 black should use the term nigga. And I'm thinking, like, no, 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:44.040 nobody's not streaked. She used the term nigga, So then 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:48.080 I can't say and I never said nigga until I 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:56.000 started doing hip hop, start hanging with I didn't say nigga. 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.560 I didn't say. I didn't say, you start hanging with 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:03.400 the ni street I had, Like my lingo came from 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.720 what I saw on TV or what was gonna be 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:10.000 most people's experience as far as how they take in 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.680 hip hop, and then you have the actual culture itself. Now, 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.960 let me define hip hop right. Hip hop is urban 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:25.360 street culture, right, densely populated, crime written neighborhoods. So it's 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.920 a level of poverty to go with that oppression of 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.520 being black. It's not just black, it's a level of 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:36.360 poverty that's needed in the vicinity to create this culture. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.280 Because a black man in Beverly Hills can be oppressed. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.640 He can be poured over and sweated and be rich. 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.199 It's wealthy athletes that are oppressed right now today by 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.360 the NBA as far as when it comes to them 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:56.440 raising levels of success. But the poverty part is what 0:08:56.600 --> 0:09:01.079 forces the culture out. I mean, it's the connection of both. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.200 And so when this attorney who grew up in his nice, 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.600 middle class neighborhood. And he was like, yeah, well I'm black, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.680 And I'm like, well, I don't think you really should 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.400 have saying who uses the term nigga? You're not street 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.319 a matter of fact, you shouldn't be using the term 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.320 using it. Yeah, I mean, well, I mean, so he 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.840 is using it unless he listens to music, because his 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.760 partner is walking outside the house, if he's in the 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.000 middle class neighborhood, unless they listen to the rap songs 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.480 white kids in middle class suburbian I mean, but I 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:35.080 can't see him sitting like, you know, somewhere. What's up, nigga. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.920 I mean, you're an attorney. He's an attorney. Why are 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:42.280 you this is my life, like right, my dad, you know, nigga. 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.160 When I was like, yeah, nigga, my older brothers, nigga. 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.880 You feel so, but baby, baby, he did come from that. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.640 But he said he didn't come from He said he 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.800 grew up in the middle class black experience and he's 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.840 an attorney now. And I just thought to myself, like, 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.120 why the funk would you think you would have say 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.520 over who says the word nigger? And I thought about it, right, 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.000 because maybe he feels like Okay, white people used it 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.520 negatively about Black people that were slept, but all them 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.959 black people was poor, no pressed black people, you feel 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.880 me like, So again we go back to the same 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:23.600 thing that's forcing culture. So urban street culture is what 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:28.880 hip hop is. Densely populated, crime written neighborhoods. The culture 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:35.920 that's developed there in those communities, Watts, Compton, those communities, 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.679 the Bronx, you know, I mean the places in the 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.199 Bronx where it's like that, the places in Brooklyn, Queens, Cleveland, 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:46.320 all of these densely populated, crime written neighborhoods. The culture 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.640 that that type of oppression and poverty forces is what 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:54.040 we call hip hop. Right that that's that's the flavor 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.080 of the month. Unless you're a young kid that's playing 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.200 the fucking sacks and now you're making jazz because a 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:04.360 terrorist terrorist it forced terrorists to he responded and made jazz, 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:13.880 but he still produces hip hop. Right, street is crime. Mean, 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.000 street is crime. But if you know somebody is a 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:21.400 street nigga, you're criminal. So to be street is crime. 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:23.920 To be in the streets as you're where the crime is. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.560 See like a lot of these terminologies, And I said 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.840 this on another podcast as well. Like when people say 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.240 I'm outside, that means you're where the action is, where 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.280 shootouts are happening. It doesn't literally mean really, I never 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.720 when I say I'm outside, I'm saying i'm outside. No, 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.880 that's not Again, there's a real term. Again there's so 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.040 who said that. That's what that means. I'm a street 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:50.640 nigger and I created the term. This is culturally, it's 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.400 so it's the new we active, like we active doesn't 0:11:54.400 --> 0:12:00.480 mean like I'm jogging. But I'm just laughing because we 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:02.840 always say we are, like when you use a little 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.920 kid like or go outside, and I'm not. We outside 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.560 is the combination. That's what I'm saying. I'm outside. We outside? 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:14.080 That means we're looking for the action? Does it literally 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:18.480 mean domain? When I did post we outside, I was 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.080 looking for the action because I'm outside and as heat. Yeah, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:26.240 and was looking that's action, not the action. You're right, 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.760 You're right. I wasn't active. He was looking for the 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.160 turn up to me. Yeah, not like like yeah you 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.040 were going to Yeah. It was in theory like what 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.000 the function would be, but not really where you would be. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.320 So you're not going to function. The function is a 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.160 neighborhood gathering where you guys go to in the middle 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.000 class part as a party, a function. Right from the streets, 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.040 we go to functions, right, I went to a couple 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.679 of functions, of course you have and you see how 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.880 functioning it functions. Yeah, it functions, it functions. It was 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.040 function So that that was the thought I was having. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:02.880 So the term streaked is crime, right, crime written streaked 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.439 don't mean like the pavement where the lines are marked outside. 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:12.760 It means the crime written communities, right like crime crime 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.000 where crime is happening that street. A street nigga is 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:20.680 a criminal. The term, like I said, real nigga was 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.320 created as a as an achievement for somebody who was 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.720 a street nigga, because if you was a street nigga, 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.960 you wasn't trying to be a doctor. You gotta remember 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.760 like terms like doctors, lawyers, attorneys, those are great terms 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.480 in America. And if you're like caught up in crime 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:40.040 in these densely populated crime written neighborhoods, those things don't 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.720 look obtainable, you know, doctor, lawyer. So do you create 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:48.640 you know real nigga. That that's the elite term. But 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.560 that's the problem. Why doesn't it look obtainable, Like, well, 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.400 that's the point of oppression and poverty. It's a blinding thing. 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.760 It's a it's a real limiting thing, you know, like 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:05.720 you gotta think humanity, Like Russia is gonna always be 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.960 for Ukraine, they're right next door to each other. Russia 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.920 worst enemy can really never be America's too far. They 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.720 can have a cold war that they never fought because 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.439 it's too fucking folks. Wan't be doing all them fly 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:21.880 bars all the time. You can't stick at war all 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.880 the time, like you gotta put some troopers dead take 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.880 It would take too much energy and work and it's 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.280 too dangerous. China right now, the worse enemy is Taiwan. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.640 And I hold up y'all doing too much with America. 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.640 I mean, remember they worse enemies for a while was Japan. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:40.440 It was close. People beef with what's in the vicinity. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.720 Real beasts are within the vicinity. You know, if you 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.280 if you look at most El Salvadorians, they don't they 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:51.000 beef with Mexicans. Yeah, I mean again, it's kind of common, right, 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.840 It's it's like, um, you you fight who you're close to, 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:59.120 especially poor people, because it's limited resources. But the point 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.880 I was making will us. He kept asking me, why 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.560 was I so comfortable with Fat Joe using the N word? 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.920 And I'm like, I've been to where fat Joe is from. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.560 Fat Joe is from the streets where that's how people talk. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.240 My question to him, even as a black man, why 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.800 the funk are you asking me? Who should use them? 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:23.480 Where you should be asking me? But somehow these middle class, 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.800 wealthy black people feel entitled to have us say in 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:30.920 this street culture, you're not a criminal. You shouldn't even 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.520 be talking like this. You should be an outstanding citizen 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.320 for our kids to look and say, I don't have 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:41.040 to be glasses or you know this guy, I can 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:48.120 be doctor Dick fore me like that's the option. But somehow, 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.520 at the at the elite level of middle class, because 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.360 of hip hop the music, people have lowered their standards. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.120 It was like, you know, you could have a dude. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.120 He's like, oh, I got a good job, as you know, 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.360 the FedEx manager you know what I mean. He's like, oh, yeah, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.560 I was at work eight hours. They real nigga ship. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:11.280 No it's not bro, it's actually real manager ship's real manship, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:16.360 real fathership. Like you don't why are you allowing the 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:21.560 concentrate right of of urban struggle to be your pinnacle 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.600 like you have it. It's weird to me because even 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:29.760 the whole complete movement has adopted America as part of 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.680 their slogan, like like people wanted from None of us 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.840 is proud Americans. We fucking hate America like you enslaved 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.560 us and it's fucked up. I have figured out a 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.880 way to be like, yeah, we built this country, which 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.440 I think is dope to have claim is something you built. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.960 I can never be That's why I'm saying, but I 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:50.200 could never be American because you know, it's like my dad. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.640 My dad could never be like like, uh, you could 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.440 have all the conservative views, but because racist white people 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.520 as conservatives in his mind is like, yeah, I can't. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.120 That's how I feel about America, like I can never 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:07.360 claim somebody that don't claim me. So wait, so you're 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.360 saying that since he doesn't understand it, he shouldn't say 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.320 it or have a say, so who says it? That's 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.240 my issue? My issue is what would make him think 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:21.600 it's okay to ask me? First off, why do you think? Honestly? 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.800 It's more cringe e to me when African people say nigga. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.560 Then when says like when I hear like, let's say 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:35.240 like like the comedian, like the comedian uh black Michael 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:43.040 Blacks would sounds Yeah, it's like that should be cringe e. Yeah. 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.040 I haven't really um talked too many Africans that say 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.560 that because you know why, that's not where they're from. Yeah, 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.959 they say that it's sad because they've been around us. 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.200 Middle class black people said, because they've been around us, 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.639 because they heard it. It's not something that was like 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.359 shared amongst the black community. We're not going to the 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.080 black elite opportunities and they walk around like, what's up, nigga, 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.560 that's not a commune black thing. Yeah, I'm not from 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.280 a middle class from middle class, but I just didn't 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.840 grow up in important poor community. I just didn't. Yeah, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.440 best of both worlds. I mean yeah, because I went 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:23.240 through you know, where did you grow up at? Um? Everywhere? 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.720 Where's your main place of growing up? You were starting 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:33.760 to become impressionable Asia impressionable in the valley Um, Yes, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.360 but no, I mean I lived awhere, I lived off 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.000 I lived off figure on a hundred and ninth. I've 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:46.680 lived Gardina, So what junior high elementary, junior high high school, 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.000 junior high high school. Where'd you go? Where you go 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:57.040 to high school? At Palm Dell Palm? Yeah it was. 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.200 But the thing is is we I lived in the valley. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:05.760 We're from Guardina, and my mom she I wanted me 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:07.240 to go to school in the valley because she went. 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.919 She got busted out there when she was in school, 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:16.320 bust the taft to Yeah, you know, she went to Grant, 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.720 went to Grant and I kicked out and then I 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.240 got sent to Granada Hills and I finished Granada Hills. 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.159 Granada Hills considered like a worse school than Grant. Granada 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:30.359 Hills was like Granada Hills was actually a mixture of 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:32.480 people because they got bust a lot of I had 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.960 a lot of friends from Watts, from the West Side, 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.560 like over there by Hamilton's. They were getting bused to 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.840 my school, a lot of them. Like you know, the culture. Yeah, 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.760 it was a mixture. We had Indians, whites, everybody had 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.640 their own little clicks. But it was weird to me. 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:55.600 And like he asked me, why was I comfortable with 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.760 Fat Joe saying nigga? And I'm like, because Fat Joe 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.879 grew up in the streets that we grew up in. Like, 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.880 that's the point. Like my homeboy Mando from my gang, right, 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:09.520 My homeboy Mando from seven Street, right, Mando grew up 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.639 with us his whole life. He was adopted by you know, 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.400 forgive me for telling his private business, but I don't 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.800 think he you've seen him, you would know it's different. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.359 But he was adopted by the matriarch family of my 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:28.080 neighborhood since you know, months old. So he's a nigga 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.960 the whole time. He's everybody nigga. That's how everybody around 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.960 him talk. Yeah, nigga. This then the third nigg feel me. 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:36.320 This is how it works. So when you grow up 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:40.800 with us, that's why you become whatever we are because 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:44.320 culturally we become the same thing. That's how we talk. 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:47.159 That's how my mother talked, That's how my daddy talked. 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:49.199 This is how my people talk. This is how the 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.359 neighbors talk. There's some neighbors who didn't, but most people 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:59.200 talk just like this. I mean, hill coaches at school 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.359 talk like this. Said that nigga, get the hell up 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:05.040 out of here, and nobody told the principle because that's 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:10.200 how the Nigga's talk. So I just wanted to get 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:14.919 your opinion if y'all can even understand what I'm saying, Like, like, 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:20.200 the ownership of the term, the ownership of that culture 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:25.280 is the streets more than it's just black. You know, 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:27.520 there's poor people that grow up with us and and 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.520 pick up right with us. Feel me that are you 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:35.280 know this this is might be the I hate to 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:39.520 say this, I literally hate I severely dislike it. But 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:42.120 I may relate to a person that grew up next 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:46.520 door to me. That's a that's ah. Let's say if 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:48.960 he was Cuban, right, he grew up next door to me, 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.480 I may relate to him more than a black person 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.879 in Beverly Hills. Like my relation of that person to 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:59.120 be a police oppressing us somewhere. You and Beverly Hills 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.399 going to this nice house and me going to you know, 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:04.080 Watson and my dad are Compton. So yes, we can 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:07.480 relate there, But every other struggle, feel me, outside of 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.080 those oppressions, it's going to be a disconnect because poverty 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:13.040 is not there. Meanwhile, the same Cuban person next door 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:16.120 to me is gonna get oppressed with me. He's going 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:18.000 to be as poor as I am because we live 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:24.240 next to each other, so culturally we create the culture together. 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:28.720 Excuse me, Like, like we create the culture in these places, 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:32.320 you know, the bad English. The slang is created by 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:36.360 us because of the lack of educational opportunities and how 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:40.080 we want to speak. I mean, if we had fantastic schools, 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:45.800 it wouldn't be as much slang. Or if the slang 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:51.919 has become trendy, it's become aware of even you know, 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:57.520 talking caption, you know, just texting like it's it's the 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:00.399 thing to do, you know, as far as like the slang, 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:04.600 but um, it makes a lot of sense. Like I know, 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:09.000 for me, Um, I didn't necessarily grow up in the hood, 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:12.199 but of course I have family that grew up in 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:15.240 the hood. But me just moving from l A coming 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:19.120 up to Um the valley area, there are certain parents 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:23.960 that I would just fall naturally be more drawn to 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:28.840 Um versus say another parent you know that's been from 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:32.760 that area for forever, Like we just wouldn't connect. Like 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:35.679 my you know daughter's friends her parents are white, Like 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:38.800 I just didn't connect with them. Like it just was 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:43.080 like okay, well I always end up finding a black berry, 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:45.480 Like you know, we just have more in common. So 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:51.200 and yeah, it was just it makes sense. That's how 0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.960 I how I grew up. Some I'm more comfortable being 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:58.480 around what I'm used to being around as far as 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:03.280 like I remember, um, saying bitch was like a no 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:06.760 no for me, like I was not my friends like 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:11.639 what bitch And we used to look at people wrong, 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:15.919 you know, like why they calling each other bitches and 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:18.960 ship and then was the girls that was they was 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:20.879 from the hood, like you know what I'm saying, and 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:23.080 it was calling each other bitches, and me growing up 0:24:23.119 --> 0:24:26.359 it was like like me and my friends, we didn't 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:30.480 do that, you know. So now I say bitch like 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:37.720 it's just water. It's like you seasoned right by that poverty. 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:42.160 But it's mainstream though it's so popular. But I'm gonna 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:48.080 tell you it is right, But that doesn't mean culturally 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:53.240 it didn't belong to somebody, right, And then so imagine 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:57.840 if so let's say right, because that is very much 0:24:57.880 --> 0:25:02.120 something that that poor black extreme women, you know, poor 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:04.720