Speaker 1: When someone say, do it, see what happens, don't do it.
Speaker 1: If somebody say, oh, say something else, don't say nothing else.
Speaker 1: I wish you would, You shouldn't. Your actions have consequences
Speaker 1: and repercussions. Some people open hand slap. Sometimes your best
Speaker 1: bet is to just stop running your mouth. Take that out.
Speaker 1: But other things that don't go unpunished and unchecked continue
Speaker 1: to happen. As the young prophet Old Dog said in
Speaker 1: Minister Society, I ain't letting that ship ride. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Andre Chromo and the baby who politics, y'all. It's
Speaker 1: so hood right now, politics, y'all, so hood. Listen. Nonverbal
Speaker 1: communication is one of the survival skills you learned in
Speaker 1: the area that I grew up in, and you learned
Speaker 1: different code words of when it's probably either time to
Speaker 1: throw hands because somebody's gonna throw it before you do,
Speaker 1: or maybe you should just fall back because you're gonna
Speaker 1: lose this battle. There's some battles you just not gonna win.
Speaker 1: Just live to fight another day, come back with the homies,
Speaker 1: or just leave this one alone. I know when the
Speaker 1: vatos go, I don't give a folk ony. That means yeah,
Speaker 1: it's about to go down and how that has developed
Speaker 1: a lot of times, it is the degree for which
Speaker 1: these people make it clear that they are not the ones.
Speaker 1: keV on stage he got a merch shirt that say
Speaker 1: you can do all things through Christ except play with me.
Speaker 1: What do I mean by I'm not the one? Anybody
Speaker 1: ever day of the black and knows exactly what I mean?
Speaker 1: She say, I'm not the one that usually means you're
Speaker 1: playing with her. You're playing a little too much. She
Speaker 1: gonna let you have it with a black woman, saying Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: the nah, homie, you didn't already crossed the line, and
Speaker 1: you learned very quickly not to cross that line again.
Speaker 1: I watched my mama say that to my daddy. Okay,
Speaker 1: walk out this house one more time. I'm I'm laughing,
Speaker 1: but it's trauma because that was essentially the like, the
Speaker 1: last conversation before they split was final. She was like,
Speaker 1: walk out this house one more time. You You you
Speaker 1: know that you there's there's a line that has been crossed,
Speaker 1: and there's no going back. The only way back is
Speaker 1: the l apologizing correctly and make that mug right. So
Speaker 1: I guess this is about accountability and how you get
Speaker 1: accountable politically speaking. I watched Andrew Cuomo and I watched
Speaker 1: The Baby, and to catch you up on both these
Speaker 1: scenarios and why I think they matter is it has
Speaker 1: to do with the people for which they crossed, and
Speaker 1: the people for which they crossed are in hood terms,
Speaker 1: not the ones you won't you won't play with them,
Speaker 1: and I think that there's a way we can become that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all just saw Corey Booker stand
Speaker 1: up in front of that whole Senate and just blistering
Speaker 1: lee support the Blues. The Blue Lives Matter squad made
Speaker 1: it very clear in no uncertain terms that they have
Speaker 1: no plans on defunding the police. It mean he ain't
Speaker 1: scared of us. And I'm gonna take each scenario piece
Speaker 1: by piece and unpack what I mean by this. If
Speaker 1: you don't know, the Baby said at Rolling Loud, uh,
Speaker 1: some pretty homophobic statements. Now, before we even go further, though,
Speaker 1: let me make it clear and no uncertain terms, that
Speaker 1: the Hood Politics podcast with propaganda does not stand for
Speaker 1: no kind of mess this in my queer community family. Okay,
Speaker 1: I won't stand for no slights towards nobody. This look
Speaker 1: you out of pocket. You out of pocket, don't You
Speaker 1: don't stand for no indigenous slander. I don't stand for
Speaker 1: no black slander. I don't stand for no brown slander.
Speaker 1: I don't stand for no Lakers slander. I'm just playing
Speaker 1: sometimes I'll stand for that. But whatever, you get what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. We got y'all, we allies, same team. Let's
Speaker 1: push the line. Now, let's keep on. It just didn't
Speaker 1: go well, especially his version of apology. So what he
Speaker 1: started off with was he was making a statement about like, ladies,
Speaker 1: if you came here with no STDs, makes a noise,
Speaker 1: blah blah bla about your you know, put your lighters up,
Speaker 1: puts flashlight on. Then he was like, fellas if he
Speaker 1: wasn't sucking dick in the in the parking lot, put
Speaker 1: your lighters up. He was to get the next song up.
Speaker 1: Now there was another guy that was probably the DJ,
Speaker 1: that put some extra sauce on him tacos that added,
Speaker 1: like some of y'all nucas, Hill was suspect. That's what
Speaker 1: pushed it over into even further into the homophobic thing.
Speaker 1: Now it's important to note that since then I think
Speaker 1: I saw an article today was today Monday, the thirty one.
Speaker 1: I recorded this a long time ago. This is an
Speaker 1: add in um because this new news came up. He
Speaker 1: had been spending time off mike, off camera, off social
Speaker 1: media with a HIV advocacy group, like learning really what's
Speaker 1: going on with this, And ultimately that makes this story
Speaker 1: go from like who say something else to more like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is more like discipline, like like hood check. Discipline
Speaker 1: is something that happens in gang culture when somebody's in
Speaker 1: on on this set not doing right by the set,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And for outside looking in,
Speaker 1: it's like, this is harsh, but it's for the good
Speaker 1: of the set and for the good of that person.
Speaker 1: Good in air quotes, but in this scenario, this is
Speaker 1: what you want again, harp on this all the time
Speaker 1: like I don't believe cancer culture, like y'all say, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a thing, but cancel culture in this
Speaker 1: scenario to where it's like, no, it's more like, look,
Speaker 1: I need you to learn about this stuff, and the
Speaker 1: hope and hope that you bounce back and become a
Speaker 1: better person at the end of it. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say this at the end of the show, but I
Speaker 1: believe the baby will be fine. I believe he will
Speaker 1: go do the learning that he needs to go do
Speaker 1: and will come out come out better. And this article today,
Speaker 1: as in the thirty one, even though I recorded this
Speaker 1: a month ago. This the rest of this episode kind
Speaker 1: of shows that that's what happened, you know. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: anyway back, let me give you some context about baby
Speaker 1: and what the baby represents. The baby is. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a street nigked Charlotte, North Carolina, you know, straight
Speaker 1: out the block. Just uh, he's just a hood dude.
Speaker 1: And the embracing of the l g B, t q
Speaker 1: I a community is not of high priority for hood dudes.
Speaker 1: You know, in hip hop, especially the high bravado type
Speaker 1: hip hop, it takes a while for artists to grow
Speaker 1: and to see more of the world. I think y
Speaker 1: G and Nipsey both have made statements to where they
Speaker 1: were like, if there's anything I'll regret, I regret a
Speaker 1: lot of like some of the the gay slurs that
Speaker 1: I've said it in my past. You know, once you
Speaker 1: get all that you get out of the hood, you
Speaker 1: just don't you don't know no different. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of gay stuff that goes down. That stuff either
Speaker 1: goes down on the low or in jail. So it
Speaker 1: seems like in in in a lot of street turns
Speaker 1: of scenes, it's like a power play. It's the it's
Speaker 1: the softest a man can be in in their context.
Speaker 1: This is no excuse, this is just explanation, you know.
Speaker 1: So for him to say that is not in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways out of touch with how hood niggas
Speaker 1: are rap. They don't make it right. Again, it's context.
Speaker 1: It is a very new phenomenon that this generation is
Speaker 1: much more clearly, much more open and inclusive and understanding
Speaker 1: sort of the intersectionality of black, trans black queer community
Speaker 1: and how all that stuff, you know, kind of interplace
Speaker 1: and and and works together. This generation is much different.
Speaker 1: Now interesting, you think, enough, he's from this generation, but
Speaker 1: he's also he's just a street nigger. Street niggas don't
Speaker 1: they're just not a part of that sort of advocacy.
Speaker 1: Because when you in the streets like that, it's maslow again.
Speaker 1: You in constant fight or flight kind of situation. You
Speaker 1: in constant survival mode. You're just repeating what you were taught,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's not okay. It's just how it
Speaker 1: is so in typical hood artist situation, you get on
Speaker 1: your gram and you try to defend yourself and you
Speaker 1: explain like in the way that he explained, like oh, y'all,
Speaker 1: wasn't there you know my gay fans. No, that's not
Speaker 1: what I was doing. That's not what I was talking about.
Speaker 1: You know. I was making a comment about STDs and
Speaker 1: taking care of yourself, which kind of felt like a stretch,
Speaker 1: but you gotta do some sort of damage control. Then
Speaker 1: it got so far that he started sucking up the money.
Speaker 1: He sucked up his own bag, and he was sucking
Speaker 1: up the bags of a bunch of events. So events
Speaker 1: started dropping him because there was a really big outcry
Speaker 1: about like, man, you don't know nothing about AIDS epidemic.
Speaker 1: It's not just a gay thing. And no matter how
Speaker 1: much you clean that up, it's still a homophobic statement.
Speaker 1: And I understand the hood in them to be like, well,
Speaker 1: I said what I said. You stand on your square.
Speaker 1: You try to clarify, but you don't take it back. However,
Speaker 1: the money was starting to get messed up, so let's
Speaker 1: try to clarify again. Then you try to go back
Speaker 1: again and explain that like, look, man, social media be
Speaker 1: blowing stuff up. They pile on. You don't give me
Speaker 1: a chance to learn. I needed to learn. I apologize
Speaker 1: for my statements that were hurtful, they were unintentional, and
Speaker 1: he released like an official apology. Now I'll know that man.
Speaker 1: I don't know his streets, I don't know his hood,
Speaker 1: I don't know the people around him, but I do know. Again,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, context, when you come from these hoods,
Speaker 1: you have to learn this stuff later, and unfortunately, with celebrity,
Speaker 1: you learn it in the eyes of everyone. I learned
Speaker 1: to let go of a lot of homophobic views and
Speaker 1: off to my in private among friends, among homies, traveling,
Speaker 1: meeting people, interacting you you you you, you undo all
Speaker 1: this stuff. Of course, you know what I'm saying. I'm black.
Speaker 1: I come from black church. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I come from inner city church. And yo, we had
Speaker 1: the same views every other church had, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and you know, in the black church it
Speaker 1: was like, well acchoed director, we all know, I mean,
Speaker 1: we know, you just don't talk about it. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't, you don't crack jokes. You know it's there,
Speaker 1: but you just don't talk about it, and among the
Speaker 1: Black community historically, there was this view that the LGBTQ
Speaker 1: community was equating their suffrage to the suffrage of African slaves.
Speaker 1: And for you know, a generation of activists before us,
Speaker 1: it felt like an assault because we were at a
Speaker 1: time to where we thought. Especially if you think about
Speaker 1: the MLK generation, they were Baptist preachers. I mean, these
Speaker 1: people were revolutionaries, but they were also very misogynistic, Like
Speaker 1: they didn't allow women to preach, so of course they
Speaker 1: weren't inclusive and affirming, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: they had this belief that almo sexuality was a sin.
Speaker 1: So you were creating your sin to my skin. So
Speaker 1: when you come from that, you gotta get out the block.
Speaker 1: You gotta meet other people, you gotta learn other things
Speaker 1: for your worldview to expand. It's like how Mark Twain
Speaker 1: was like, you know, travel is the greatest cure of ignorance,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and ends prejudiced to just
Speaker 1: open your mind up to stuff you gotta get out
Speaker 1: and to be like, okay, see these views are like
Speaker 1: super damaging. I'll see what I'm doing now. I understand
Speaker 1: things like critical race theory and intersectionality and how you know,
Speaker 1: you could be black and queer, and how the power
Speaker 1: dynamics and oppression and how this stuff works. There's just
Speaker 1: this view that like where we come from, that it's
Speaker 1: something else. It took a lot of work, and it
Speaker 1: takes a lot of work for people of color who
Speaker 1: again come from these like traditional Baptists and Catholic like
Speaker 1: it's in the Latino community, to these these backgrounds that
Speaker 1: you know, Latino community with their very traditional machismo, like
Speaker 1: you know, men are manly men, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like to really open your eyes and embrace like the
Speaker 1: full spectrum of who we are and where we come from.
Speaker 1: It takes a while. It just happened in front of
Speaker 1: millions of people with him. Now to take that I
Speaker 1: want you to take from this is people say, wow,
Speaker 1: you can just the great women. You could call women
Speaker 1: all kind of names and hose and bitch as, you
Speaker 1: could say nigga. You could do whatever you want to women.
Speaker 1: But as soon as you offend the queer community, and
Speaker 1: everybody want to stop. Everybody want to stop, everybody want
Speaker 1: to say, everybody want to take the baby down. Because
Speaker 1: he finally talked about the queer community. But all this
Speaker 1: stuff about women all through hip hop. Hip hop is
Speaker 1: very misogynistic, very we're killing our own. How come that's
Speaker 1: not a problem, but the queer community is a problem.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about that comparison. Here's the lesson I
Speaker 1: want you to know. It's because them niggas don't play
Speaker 1: the my my my homeboy calls it the alphabet game,
Speaker 1: the l g B t q i A, they called
Speaker 1: the alphab plus called the alphabet alpabat gang don't play.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna stand for it. They will funk up
Speaker 1: your money. And the lesson we need to learn is
Speaker 1: they get results because they have action. They be holding
Speaker 1: people accountable. I'm not coming and this is the energy
Speaker 1: I would hope that we start bringing to our elected
Speaker 1: officials where it's like, hey, homey, you said you was
Speaker 1: gonna do this, you're not doing it. We're not showing
Speaker 1: up for you. It's that simple. It's because when you say, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: black people voted for Democrats, like we carried their votes.
Speaker 1: We put these niggas in office. They said they was
Speaker 1: gonna have police reformed by May. Then they was like, yo,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it before the August recess. Nothing and
Speaker 1: then we all just watch We're not we all us
Speaker 1: nerds that watch stuff like this all Corey Bucker just
Speaker 1: be like, listen, we're not about that. What's up with
Speaker 1: the back? Are we still on some back to blue
Speaker 1: no matter who? Like, I'm not saying let's jump ship,
Speaker 1: but I am saying when they call us on to
Speaker 1: start stumping for him to be like, Yo, where's your receipts?
Speaker 1: I mean, thank you for the child tax credit? Thanks,
Speaker 1: but fam, this is what we asked you to do.
Speaker 1: What the hell queer community was like, say another homophobic thing.
Speaker 1: See what happens. Guess what niggas don't say another homophobic thing.
Speaker 1: Niggas fall back and hopefully human and human there is
Speaker 1: an actual lesson to be learned. Hopefully, you know, you
Speaker 1: start choosing your words a little more wisely, you don't
Speaker 1: realize the damnage you're doing. He's don't realize even though
Speaker 1: it ain't in the news. No more. I believe the baby.
Speaker 1: I believe he probably was like damn, I never even
Speaker 1: all right, you know, I appreciate being dragged on social media,
Speaker 1: like nig you're not gonna drag me no more, but like, hey,
Speaker 1: that's you know what I'm saying. I never thought of
Speaker 1: it like that. I believe the best in him, But
Speaker 1: I think that happened because LGBTQ don't play They could
Speaker 1: get this right or get left. We know we're not
Speaker 1: playing games. And I think the baby heard him because
Speaker 1: you put out an apology. Now granted, I will say this,
Speaker 1: you like media savvy. One oh one is you don't
Speaker 1: lead with a defense to yourself in an apology, which
Speaker 1: you kind of did. But that said, I believe him.
Speaker 1: I believe that he was like trying to do some
Speaker 1: damnage control and then realized like, oh no, I don't.
Speaker 1: You can't mess with them. You gotta like you gotta
Speaker 1: make this right. This community also understand who to bring
Speaker 1: the heat too, because they went to the festivals and
Speaker 1: was like, you gotta drop him or we ain't coming.
Speaker 1: They understand how to how to bag moves, and in
Speaker 1: corporation is just worried about the bag. Why do they
Speaker 1: book artists not because they fans' is because they fans
Speaker 1: of the people that they're gonna bring. Do you understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? So when you stop being able to bring.
Speaker 1: I'm an artist. I'm a hip hop artist. I understand.
Speaker 1: I've had listen, I've had radio program directors tell me
Speaker 1: I'm their favorite artist, but they'll never play my music
Speaker 1: because I just don't fit their programming. Then being a
Speaker 1: fan of my music, don't know. They're like, we got buired.
Speaker 1: I'm we here for the buyers, but the buyers don't
Speaker 1: like you. We don't like you. So the baby makes
Speaker 1: actually a good point, even in his defense, it's like,
Speaker 1: y'all really don't care about the culture. You care about
Speaker 1: the fact that I have access to the culture. He's
Speaker 1: telling the truth. That's true. They really you book him
Speaker 1: because he's hot. They don't love him, which in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways goes back to a person's hood. Antennas
Speaker 1: you and this thing. You're just like, oh, these niggers
Speaker 1: don't love me. Like I know, y'all don't love me.
Speaker 1: So I just need to get here, get my bag, dude,
Speaker 1: I gotta do, you know, do my movement, talk to
Speaker 1: my talk to my tribe, and talk to him. Well,
Speaker 1: so when somebody else peaks into your tribe, you like
Speaker 1: nig block, you don't, it's none of your business. You
Speaker 1: don't know you don't. You don't even know, like you
Speaker 1: don't even know what we're doing over here. I get
Speaker 1: why that would be his defense, But listen, LGBTQ committing there. Look,
Speaker 1: they're gonna You're gonna respect them. It's what you just saw.
Speaker 1: You're gonna respect them for you. So my hope is
Speaker 1: that he we we saw brought to the baby, we
Speaker 1: bring that same energy to the Congress, to the legislation,
Speaker 1: to your governor, to your senator, to Yo, to Yo,
Speaker 1: your mayor. You feel me bring that heat. Start messing
Speaker 1: up his money, start messing up her money, start messing
Speaker 1: up their money. I'll tell you what. They started apologizing me.
Speaker 1: You started messing with their money. I mean, I still
Speaker 1: can't get over Like, I mean, we had an entire
Speaker 1: summer trying to show all the problems with them, and
Speaker 1: I mean and and and to Joe's uh defense, he
Speaker 1: said in the beginning, like, yeah, I'm not a I'm
Speaker 1: not a defundant police guy. I'm here to perform them.
Speaker 1: I have the police, and but they're not doing anything.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I mean it was, I mean, we
Speaker 1: had a whole summer of protests. It don't y'all they're
Speaker 1: not scared of us, but they're scared of somebody though. Whoo.
Speaker 1: Which brings us to Governor Andrew Cuomo. Now he didn't
Speaker 1: step down, but before that man stepped down broad the way,
Speaker 1: he tried to bring that energy to be like y'all
Speaker 1: gonna leave you a low My favorite part of his defense.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna get to that yet. Let's back
Speaker 1: up real quick, Andrew Cromo. Andrew Cromo is New York legacy.
Speaker 1: They are the Cuomo family is a dynasty. The thing
Speaker 1: about New York and New York governorship, their state government
Speaker 1: office is I mean legendary in the corruption I mean legendary.
Speaker 1: I mean the names that I mean. Roger Stone is
Speaker 1: even a part of, like some of the story in
Speaker 1: the history of like Albany All Bully, shout out my
Speaker 1: man Seth Static from MC dope artists from Albany, New York,
Speaker 1: and they called it all Bully, Get it Albany all Bully. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the corruption up there is like I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: at Chicago level, Like it's just ridiculous. There's a pod,
Speaker 1: a really dope pod called American Scandal, and they do
Speaker 1: a couple of dives into the Cuomo family and in
Speaker 1: their history. Now have you ever taken put your eyes
Speaker 1: on Andrew Cuomo and his brother Chris Cuomo, who's on CNN.
Speaker 1: They are like just off looking at them. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: y'all New York Italians, like, y'all are you you on brand?
Speaker 1: Y'all are on Brand New York Italians. And I'm saying this,
Speaker 1: and I'm stepping out on a limb saying this, But
Speaker 1: this is hood politics. It's kind of impossible. Just like
Speaker 1: if you're from certain parts of Los Angeles and surrounding
Speaker 1: areas and around my age, you affiliated with gangs, It's
Speaker 1: just someone in your family, one of your homeboys. You
Speaker 1: don't have some run ins you are connected. It's impossible.
Speaker 1: It's the air we breath. It's impossible to be our
Speaker 1: age and not somehow or another connected with some sort
Speaker 1: of set. I'm gonna say, to be the a age
Speaker 1: from New York and Italian. It's impossible for them to
Speaker 1: not be in some way, shape or form connected to
Speaker 1: the crime families. It's just you can't use your antennas. Man,
Speaker 1: It's impossible now to make the jump to say that
Speaker 1: that's how he got an office, he's using muscle or that.
Speaker 1: That's gross speculation. And dare I say it slightly racist?
Speaker 1: You can't like, yeah, no, you can't be You can't
Speaker 1: do that to them, Like you can't say because he's Italian,
Speaker 1: he is a member of the mob and the mob
Speaker 1: helped him into all. That's that's ridiculous. You can't say that,
Speaker 1: just like you can't say to every black person. I
Speaker 1: remember once at this church event so that he walked
Speaker 1: up to me and she was just like, hey, so
Speaker 1: you know before you're a Christian? Were you a crip
Speaker 1: or a blood? And I was like, excuse me, man,
Speaker 1: like how so offended? But was like, well, my family
Speaker 1: was cript. I was like, well, I grew up with
Speaker 1: the Vato so like I lived in it. I lived
Speaker 1: in a Latino neighborhood. But why you ask me? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I don't want to do
Speaker 1: that to the Cuomos. Now that said, I mean, I
Speaker 1: I do got family, like you know I do. No
Speaker 1: Nigga's like, I don't you You're right in that sense,
Speaker 1: but you don't get to be racist anyway. Cuomos have
Speaker 1: for a long time, that family has had a grip
Speaker 1: on New York government. So in a season of me too,
Speaker 1: where the Democrats have attempted to position themselves as the
Speaker 1: party of justice, at least when they run. And you know,
Speaker 1: liberals is very different than Progressive, which very different than moderates.
Speaker 1: You know, all this good stuff, but they've attempted to
Speaker 1: present themselves, especially as a foil of the extremism that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was. These differences are clearly seen in the
Speaker 1: speech Corey Booker gave. Keep coming back to that that
Speaker 1: we have no interest in really doing much about the police.
Speaker 1: I can't get over that, dude. I guess could it
Speaker 1: just happened anyway? So they tried to be the opposite
Speaker 1: of it. They you know, it's posturing. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It's Biggie Tupac like you had. They they
Speaker 1: picked a side and decide that they were attempting to
Speaker 1: pick was the side that was, we believe women. We're
Speaker 1: here to you know, we're here to uh to see
Speaker 1: climate change slow down. We are We're here to see
Speaker 1: you know, racial and political and social justice happened. Now. Granted,
Speaker 1: we know this is all lift service because I don't
Speaker 1: need to get into that. But either way they presented
Speaker 1: themselves as such, right, and then ran a cop for
Speaker 1: vice president. Let me just go and I mean, don't
Speaker 1: bring that energy. Ill love you, Auntie Kamala, but you
Speaker 1: a cop anyway. And then you know a few years
Speaker 1: back that it's hard to not hearken back to Al Franken,
Speaker 1: who took it like a chap who in his situation,
Speaker 1: some allegations came up. He was like, listen, I don't
Speaker 1: remember it the way they do, but I'll step down.
Speaker 1: He took that l which if we're gonna get into
Speaker 1: the greater conversation and cancel culture, which is I'm gonna
Speaker 1: still say not a thing the way that y'all say it.
Speaker 1: It's what you want. You have a way to hold
Speaker 1: those in power accountable. He heard the allegations. I don't
Speaker 1: remember it that way, but there's two people in a moment,
Speaker 1: and I'll step down. If it's better for the party,
Speaker 1: it's better for the hood, it's better for the set,
Speaker 1: I'll step down. And he did. And I think that's
Speaker 1: the goal, Like it's not to in somebody's life, do
Speaker 1: you know, to ruin him forever, but to oh somebody accountable.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, um, and he did the
Speaker 1: right thing. Now it's his situation identical to Cromo ab
Speaker 1: solutely not. But I think that's an interesting example of
Speaker 1: how in the Democratic Party they attempted to do the
Speaker 1: right thing. Uh, in relation to at least front facing
Speaker 1: I take care of these these these situations. Now republic Is,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, it's like we go down with
Speaker 1: the ship like you are boy, you are boy. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. They live that, we ride you
Speaker 1: feel the uh, which for better or for worse. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that's what they've been doing it now. You know,
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's a dog on Supreme Court justice now
Speaker 1: out there boofing, getting getting drunk as hell and just
Speaker 1: out there while with these girls. They was like she tripping.
Speaker 1: They don't know what she's talking about. It's ridict it's wrong,
Speaker 1: it's not funny. What I'm not I'm not laughing at
Speaker 1: sexual assault. Y'all know that, right that this is incredibly awful.
Speaker 1: I'm laughing from the uncomfortable nous that the Republicans they
Speaker 1: get a like I don't. I don't get fucked. That's
Speaker 1: our boy. And it's more like not like oh my God,
Speaker 1: that's funny. It's just like, damn, I can't believe it
Speaker 1: unless you just the boss, just the boss you out,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. Back to Andrew Cuomo, So a bunch
Speaker 1: of videos, uh surfaced, eleven complaints kind of came up
Speaker 1: saying he's he he too touchy feeling, but eleven acts
Speaker 1: will like assault, harassment cases, some actual very serious allegations
Speaker 1: about him, you know, putting young interns and workers in positions,
Speaker 1: young ladies in positions to where like you know, invite
Speaker 1: you to the crib for like, you know, private meetings, y'all, y'alla,
Speaker 1: Like all these things kind of came up, and he,
Speaker 1: of course off top denied it. Then there's these awesome
Speaker 1: pictures I'm saying, awesome, you know, you know what I
Speaker 1: mean by awesome, These awesome pictures of this fool at parties,
Speaker 1: like grabbing cheeks and face cheeks, not booty cheeks, grabbing
Speaker 1: face cheeks, and these young ladies when he meets them,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, really old man stees. But
Speaker 1: the best part of his defense was this montage that
Speaker 1: this man put together defending himself about how handsy he is.
Speaker 1: It's these pictures of and he's like, listen, listen, I'm Italian.
Speaker 1: I come from a big Italian family. We're affectionate. He's like,
Speaker 1: and I do this to everybody, black, white, gay, straight,
Speaker 1: male female. And he's got this video of him in public,
Speaker 1: you know, touching, kissing cheeks, blah, being like what he
Speaker 1: would call just an Italian grandpa. And the most funniest
Speaker 1: part to me was the idea that he really thought
Speaker 1: this was gonna defend him. I'm like, homie, this ain't
Speaker 1: communicating what you think it is. I was talking to
Speaker 1: this o G, who I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: name no names, talking to this o G. And he
Speaker 1: was talking about like really trying to teach these young niggas,
Speaker 1: like better ways to be right. So he was telling
Speaker 1: the young nigga about this story about you in the streets.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, somebody disrespect you. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, kind of get out of pocket. You're like,
Speaker 1: you know this little nigga too like the booty to
Speaker 1: be talking like this. So in the streets you're supposed
Speaker 1: to go, You're supposed to mark this nigga. And he
Speaker 1: was telling this story where he was encouraging foods, like, man,
Speaker 1: just go rob and beat him up a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like you get your respect,
Speaker 1: Like that was his advice. His advice was like, yo,
Speaker 1: n just just go just hit lick man and live
Speaker 1: to survive another day. Like I was like, Yo, that's
Speaker 1: this is like that streets it like that's actually good advice,
Speaker 1: you know, saying because at least nobody died. At least
Speaker 1: you got a murder case. Like, but I'm like, making
Speaker 1: it's not communicating what you think it is. You feel me.
Speaker 1: I remember one of my homeboys used to be like,
Speaker 1: you know, back when selling we was you know, illegal.
Speaker 1: He would say, man, you know, I mean I slang,
Speaker 1: but like only enough for a misdemeanor. So I just
Speaker 1: I'll just be telling young homies like carry enough on you.
Speaker 1: That's like not a felony. And I'm like, okay, that's
Speaker 1: I guess that sound advice, you know, like you're trying
Speaker 1: to communicate to me that you're doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I don't know if it's coming off
Speaker 1: the way you imagine it coming off. It's this video
Speaker 1: was that where I was just like bro pro pro Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you ever had to look at you ever had to
Speaker 1: look at your sibling what they was trying to give, give,
Speaker 1: give your parents to what had happened was a story.
Speaker 1: And you're doing to like chop the neck like stop
Speaker 1: stop stop stop stoping eight bro, he shut the fun
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying, like this is not
Speaker 1: You're not helping yourself. I'm trying to tell you you're
Speaker 1: not helping yourself. That was this Andrew Cuomo video. I
Speaker 1: was like, this the funniest should I ever seen in
Speaker 1: my life because you really think this is helping. It's
Speaker 1: not helping. Now. As a side note, come on now,
Speaker 1: y'all know, use your antennas. Big Homies called Cuomo and
Speaker 1: was like, you need to sit your ass down. We're
Speaker 1: not playing with your asks. No more sucking up the money,
Speaker 1: sucking up the move. I don't care. I don't care
Speaker 1: how long you've been out here. I don't care. Like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this one more time. Stop running your
Speaker 1: motherfucking mouth and step down now we listen use your antennas.
Speaker 1: Of course that happened, but anyway, let's get back to it.
Speaker 1: So and it's just like I said with the hood
Speaker 1: like you. You. I said what I said, I did
Speaker 1: what I did. You know what I'm saying. You don't
Speaker 1: like you don't back off nods, because again, politics are
Speaker 1: just like good stuff. You just know I did what
Speaker 1: I did. Y'all misunderstood. You just out clarified, But y'all misunderstood.
Speaker 1: I'm not the problem. Y'all just misunderstood. You weren't there,
Speaker 1: just same way the baby was like, no, y'all weren't there. Finally,
Speaker 1: as of this morning, this is August Tent. He resigns.
Speaker 1: But in his resignation speech, he was like, Okay, to
Speaker 1: drag the taxpayers out into this long situation, this ain't
Speaker 1: good for everybody. I'm just gonna fall back. But I
Speaker 1: want you all to know there is still an anti
Speaker 1: Italian sentiment across New York. I was being cultural. We
Speaker 1: are touchy feely people, and and I'm from a different
Speaker 1: generation like you applying these rules to me, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I just why are you guys not understanding of the
Speaker 1: fact that, like, I'm just from a different world, y'all
Speaker 1: are being judgmental and prejudice towards my culture. But I'll
Speaker 1: fall back. I'll fall back. I will resign. That is
Speaker 1: a lot to unpack with that statement. One of the
Speaker 1: things to unpack with that statement is again the understanding
Speaker 1: and importance of critical race theory and white supremacy, how
Speaker 1: all that stuff works. You have to remember that in
Speaker 1: a lot of really white supremacists, far right circles, they
Speaker 1: don't think Italians are white people. It's the strangest thing,
Speaker 1: but they they honestly believe Italians or something other than white,
Speaker 1: which is now again whiteness blackness. Social construct have to
Speaker 1: do with power and control. So we understand that, and
Speaker 1: the structuring formation of whiteness was a foil to justify slavery.
Speaker 1: We understand this nonetheless, But they don't think Italians is
Speaker 1: is white. Now Italians know they white, they also know
Speaker 1: they know they're white in the sense that we ain't niggas.
Speaker 1: And if you know anything in the history of of
Speaker 1: of Brooklyn, and when Brooklyn kind of switched from Italian
Speaker 1: and black in the amount of like just go watch
Speaker 1: the movie do the Right Thing, that's a good example
Speaker 1: of the cross between these two cultures. Now that said,
Speaker 1: I used to always tease um my homeboy Andy Mineo's
Speaker 1: who's half Italian, called him Alan irishman. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: saying the Italian and right Irish, which just means this
Speaker 1: man just want to fight all the damn time. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I used to tease him and I used to say,
Speaker 1: you know, Italians are the black white people. Y'all got
Speaker 1: big old families, y'all get pay, y'all loud as hell.
Speaker 1: You love music, you know what I'm saying. And yo,
Speaker 1: and you experience prejudice, right, And so I used to
Speaker 1: just teach him about that. I'm also going on tour
Speaker 1: this fall with the Honey as long as Delta don't
Speaker 1: be no hater, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, probably
Speaker 1: pop dot com. But that said, I am going to
Speaker 1: acknowledge for Mr Cromo that there is a history of
Speaker 1: prejudicial treatment towards Italian Americans. You are absolutely correct and Italians, yes,
Speaker 1: I understand. In your culture, you guys are affectionate. I
Speaker 1: get it. In my culture, we allowed and my culture
Speaker 1: were pretty mean to our children. My wife looked at
Speaker 1: me a few times, it was like, why are you
Speaker 1: mercilessly teasing your own child? And I'm like, have you
Speaker 1: met my mother, my father? Have you met your mother
Speaker 1: in law? Have you heard any stories about my mama,
Speaker 1: and she's like that sweet lady that takes care of
Speaker 1: our grandchildren, that woman that gave every single dime for
Speaker 1: your ass to make sure she said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. I'm like, yeah that woman. Nobody. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you. Why. Let me tell you why black people
Speaker 1: don't ever worry about getting roasted at school, Why we're
Speaker 1: so good at it, Why it's so fun. Why are
Speaker 1: we so quick with comebacks, Why we don't never cry,
Speaker 1: Why we always got something to say back to you.
Speaker 1: It's because our mama's, our aunties and our uncles roast us.
Speaker 1: They'd be cooking us. They cook us mercilessly. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you. And what you have to do is clap back.
Speaker 1: There's no listen, you have no there's no option. You
Speaker 1: have to clap back because if you cry, you're not
Speaker 1: part of the family because you you just never get
Speaker 1: to participate in nothing. So where we come from, we
Speaker 1: just roast each other. We roast our kids. Now, maybe
Speaker 1: there's some historical trauma in that truth. Maybe it's because
Speaker 1: I don't know, we uh, you know, we was paraded
Speaker 1: as slaves. But a lot of times it's like it's
Speaker 1: because we say we're trying to prepare you for it
Speaker 1: when you go outside of our houses, we love you.
Speaker 1: This is our way of toughening you up. This is
Speaker 1: our way of of showing our affection. We roast our children.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, and I'm looking at my first gin
Speaker 1: Mexican wife saying, wait a minute, did you just call
Speaker 1: my nephew gortigo. My nephew's nickname is fat. You called
Speaker 1: that's what you call that little boy? You call that
Speaker 1: little boy fat? Are you mad at me? I'm like, yeah, y'all,
Speaker 1: y'r body shame for fun. So like listen, we all
Speaker 1: got our cultural things, you know. And and and in
Speaker 1: Mexico it's called a Kadokadeno is like it's a nickname
Speaker 1: that you give like a kid that's usually pretty mean.
Speaker 1: It's usually the opposite of what they are a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. So if you call it get Gordo, it's
Speaker 1: because he's actually really skinny, you know what I'm saying, Gordius,
Speaker 1: because she's actually really really skinny. Or if you call
Speaker 1: it or somebody that's kind of big, you call him
Speaker 1: flock hole. It's like, you know, until they get older
Speaker 1: than they actually than the name actually fits the size
Speaker 1: that they are right, But when their babies you call
Speaker 1: them the opposite. That's just anyway. The point is everybody
Speaker 1: got their things and you write, we can do better.
Speaker 1: We should stop doing this to our children. But it's
Speaker 1: definitely a part of our culture. However, do we be
Speaker 1: roasting niggas at work? No? Well, maybe to the other
Speaker 1: black person at office, but not in public. We know
Speaker 1: to turn it off. You can't roast people at work.
Speaker 1: You can't talk to your co workers the way you
Speaker 1: talk to your nephews. You think we all know that.
Speaker 1: You think I know how to not be like, hey,
Speaker 1: naked win the phone call when I'm at work, But
Speaker 1: I know how to stop saying marked the car. Because
Speaker 1: I'm from Los Angeles. We out sawe loose kids. We
Speaker 1: had to call our MoMA at work to be like, Yo,
Speaker 1: what's for dinner or what we're supposed to do? What
Speaker 1: I supposed to be home? She answered the phone like
Speaker 1: Administration office. This is Janice. I'd be like mom, She'd
Speaker 1: be like, what all of a sudden she sound black again.
Speaker 1: It's called code switching. I'll be out here. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We all you're jigging on the
Speaker 1: lit cut you know, cuts over on the corner. No, nigked,
Speaker 1: I'll say, nig at work? Hell wrong with you? How
Speaker 1: would that be my defense if my boss come in
Speaker 1: the room and he say, uh so, Mr Petty, um,
Speaker 1: I listened to your your conversation on the on the
Speaker 1: phone yesterday, and then you seem to use a lot
Speaker 1: of well, I don't know what they call that street lingo.
Speaker 1: If I was like, oh, yeah, no, that's where I'm from,
Speaker 1: hommie loose this outside last week? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And you know I was trying to be respectful. You
Speaker 1: feel me crip, but like, look, man, cul was you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like I understand what I was saying.
Speaker 1: So I had to tell him, like, look right outside,
Speaker 1: you know, right next to the park, this is where
Speaker 1: we know nigger. I was like, I'm not gonna have
Speaker 1: that conversation because I'm at work. My wife, no, my
Speaker 1: first gin bi lingual Afro Mexican, her granddaddy black as hell.
Speaker 1: I've never done wound. I know she don't look it,
Speaker 1: but regret she from Southern Mexico to central You know,
Speaker 1: I could poke a granddaddy black is hell. That woman
Speaker 1: no not to be like a food when she go
Speaker 1: to work. It ain't foods gone wild when she go
Speaker 1: to work. Call me double consciousness code switching chromo. You
Speaker 1: can't you you can't You mean to tell me you
Speaker 1: don't understand that you ain't supposed to be touchy feeley
Speaker 1: at work, My nigga, that's what you're saying right now.
Speaker 1: That's your defense. You can't be touchy feely at work.
Speaker 1: But listen, you don't took on the wrong people. And
Speaker 1: you can't get no bullshit as apology. That ain't a
Speaker 1: real apology. It don't work like that. This ain't to say.
Speaker 1: This ain't the nineties like. You gotta come with better
Speaker 1: energy than this. This to take it on the chin season.
Speaker 1: This the I'm gonna do better season. You feel me now?
Speaker 1: You could bounce back. Let me go back to baby.
Speaker 1: Baby gonna bounce back. He gonna be all right. He's
Speaker 1: gonna take this. Heil, but he's gonna bounce back. It
Speaker 1: took him a while, but he's gonna bounce back. He
Speaker 1: will be all right. Streets loving, he'd be fine, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna be He gonna feel that because he didn't
Speaker 1: offended the wrong people. And I think this this these
Speaker 1: these are white women said no more to this, Andrew Quobo.
Speaker 1: White ladies say, I ain't know caring home me. I'm
Speaker 1: about this action. That's crazy that white girl. That's like, listen,
Speaker 1: you ain't finished. Stay in power on me now. Once
Speaker 1: they started acknowledging the actual movements and power that black
Speaker 1: feminists have done, you know that sojourn the truth being like,
Speaker 1: like you start recognizing, you know what I'm saying, we're
Speaker 1: really putting his work in here. You know these these
Speaker 1: sisters out here. Then man, I'll tell you what who
Speaker 1: It's gonna be some receipts. There's gonna be some some payments. Boy,
Speaker 1: you feel me. But the point I'm trying to make
Speaker 1: is at Cuomo, you didn't mess with the wrong folks. Look,
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party taking some els these days, you know,
Speaker 1: especially with this um Gavin do some recall like we
Speaker 1: like these some els. And I'm like the party was
Speaker 1: like listen, man, look, we gotta we need to throw
Speaker 1: these people a body, like somebody, somebody. We gotta sacrifice somebody. Cuomo,
Speaker 1: you out look, you can mass and cross the rad
Speaker 1: black people. You can allow for a variant to spread
Speaker 1: across your state. You can miss allocate funds, you can
Speaker 1: steal money. Because we really ain't drawing the line in
Speaker 1: the sand. L g pt Q community drew a line
Speaker 1: in the sand. It was like, Nah, that's too far,
Speaker 1: homie and me too a movement. They was like, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing to smoke and I respect it. I respected
Speaker 1: so much. So what I'm saying is, let's bring that
Speaker 1: energy to the entirety of our government, to all the
Speaker 1: other issues too. You know what I'm saying. Let's learn
Speaker 1: and be like listen, look at them foods and be
Speaker 1: like say a nothing to say another word. I wish
Speaker 1: you would. This is what you said you was gonna do.
Speaker 1: You're gonna do it or hands gonna be thrown by voting,
Speaker 1: not not insurrections, because that's ridiculous. That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Not insane, right, it's unless it's needed. I'm gonna stop
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