1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: Colser Media Blackve Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the twenty 2 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: twenty five State of the Blackness Addressed Part two. 3 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 2: Full year. It has been a year for the diaspora, y'all. 4 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: Wow, oh wow, A lot of ups, a lot of downs, 5 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: a lot of fun, a lot of pain, a lot 6 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: of love, a. 7 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 2: Lot of lessons. What a year, ladies and gentlemen. 8 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: This is my honor to bring this moment to you 9 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: on this here New Year's Eve. It couldn't have been 10 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: more perfect, but we could reflect is goodness. 11 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 2: When I about it, Lord, my soul crises. I'm sorry, 12 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 2: I'm being silly, all right, y'all. The year. 13 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five started off very interesting, actually very painful, 14 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: with the la fires. 15 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 2: Like we talked about before. 16 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 1: This is the you know, kind of recap from from 17 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: last week in the first half of the year, you know, 18 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: with the Palisades fire in California, which is I'm not 19 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: so interested in it's out to Dina. Out to Dina 20 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: being an historically black area we've covered multiple times this 21 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: year and why it was so important so just us 22 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: losing sort of our black affluence and was trying to 23 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: hope to rebuild rebuild the city back in the way 24 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: way that it was and capitalized capitalism capitalized, and yes 25 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: it's being sold to investors in a way that continues 26 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: to erase our culture. 27 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 2: So that was a crazy way to start the year. 28 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 2: She sh did. 29 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: He was in the first half of the year and 30 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: also completed the year. But we'll get to that with 31 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: the amazing battle between Daylight and Joey Badass that kind 32 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,239 Speaker 1: of had us in a choke hold for a while. 33 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 2: Y'all remember the. 34 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: One hundred men versus one gorilla that had our social 35 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: media in a chokeho You know that came from black Twitter, right? 36 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,839 Speaker 1: That was That's a blackness man. 37 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 2: Rodney Hidton Jr. 38 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: Who went out there and popped that cop who killed 39 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 1: his son and put it kept his chin up where 40 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: he walked by all them officers with no regret. Nigga, 41 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: I do it again. Yes, they deserve to diner. I 42 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: hope they burning hell Target. I can say, oh man, 43 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: with one hundred percent certainty. This year I did not 44 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: shop at Target. The culture of the king folks said 45 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: we gonna boycott Target, and we boycotted Target. Their dollars 46 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: is down, they losing money. We did it y'allen then 47 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: and jone, let me see some bad news. Darren Chauvin 48 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: Finna get out of jail. Y'all go ahead and google 49 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: that is talked about it already. There was a plantation 50 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: that burnt down that was beautiful. There was another plantation 51 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: that was purchased by a black family that was like, 52 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: I'm a body land in my ancestor. It's pretty dope. 53 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 2: But that when that plantation burnt down, y' y'all remember 54 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 2: the memes oh Man with the Harriet tell me just. 55 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: Smiling looking at it burnt oh Man twenty Drew Hills, 56 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: what a moment. See if you don't know, Drew Hill 57 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: is a nineties R and B singer group, and there 58 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: was a particular dance that they did in that video that. Yeah, 59 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: nineties dancing was a workout, like you worked out side note. 60 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: You ever seen Ethiopians dance? A lot of they knew 61 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: young ling dances. My lord, this is so much work. 62 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:32,160 Speaker 1: They also like dislocating they shoulders, like, good lord, I 63 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: wish I had that ability to do they It's amazing. 64 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 2: What a year. 65 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: But as we know, the first half of the year's 66 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 1: crown jewel was the completion of the destruction of Drake 67 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: with Kendrick Lamar when he was supposed to be sued 68 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,679 Speaker 1: if he did not like us in the Super Bowl. 69 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: And then Broy Boy looked right at the camera and said, 70 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: say Drake, which told us that, like y'all thought Taylor 71 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 1: Swift was a hater, the king hater. Right now, the 72 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: new generation of the haters, the king of the haters 73 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: is Kendrick Lamar. Now we're saying that just being funny, 74 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 1: because Kendrick had every right. Kendrick kept his peace for 75 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,799 Speaker 1: a long time, but he ended it with his Super 76 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: Bowl performance. 77 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 2: Little did we know. 78 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: That the Aye Ta Troll, the greatest hater of multiple 79 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: generations fifty was going to do his Swan dance the 80 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: Crown Jewel of hater races, which was this Diddy documentary 81 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 1: that just it was a two year saga. Did he 82 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: been in the State of the Blackness for the past 83 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: two years? We finally got the completion of it. So 84 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, let's get into it, the twenty twenty 85 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: five State of the Blackness. On the sports side, you 86 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: have the complete uh coonery of Stephen A. 87 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 2: Smith. Now we've had issues with Steven A. Smith for 88 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 2: a while, like he you. 89 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,559 Speaker 1: Know, sports guys, sportscasters, especially in this in this era, 90 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: are supposed to kind of be heels. You're supposed to 91 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 1: kind of say things that are like a little out 92 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: of pocket. You're supposed to rage bait. You're supposed to. 93 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's part of the thing. What 94 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: you're not supposed to do is just start accepting the 95 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: shucking jive money. So kind of what happened with Stephen A. 96 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: Smith is he started accepting the suck shucking jive money. 97 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 1: And at that point, there's a few things that black 98 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: people really cannot abide by, which we will refer to 99 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: towards the end of this episode. 100 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 2: We do not abide by. 101 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: You doing your homies dirty. Like, even if we not 102 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: from your section, you shouldn't snitch on your folks. You 103 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: shouldn't do your homies dirty. You if anybody you ride 104 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: for your folks, the folks you came with, is the 105 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: folks you leave with, like you unless they choose, you understand, 106 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: I'm saying, unless they choose, they can't breathe the air 107 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: you in now, because like we know, everybody can't go 108 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: like we understand that that's part of like when you 109 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: especially when you elevate, you know everybody can't come with you. 110 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:59,559 Speaker 1: But it's not because you did them dirty. It's because 111 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: they can know. They just couldn't handle where we're at 112 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: right now. But you look out for your peoples. That's 113 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: one thing we can't stand. The other thing we can't 114 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: stand is a cooning, shucking and jiving. You we can't 115 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: do no tap dancing. When you start tap dancing, we 116 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,239 Speaker 1: were done. You can have your opinions, We could differ 117 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: in your opinions, but you start tap dancing. 118 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smith started tap dancing. 119 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 1: And my favorite meme was one that said, name this 120 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: popular vacation spot. And it's a picture of a unwrapped 121 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: like can of soup, like just a can, and then 122 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: a picture of Stephen A. 123 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 2: Smith. 124 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: So it's a can and Stephen A Smith. What do 125 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: you think that means? There you go, black people, y'all. 126 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 2: Thug, young thug got out of jail and gave us 127 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 2: one line. Whooped he do? So he got out and 128 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 2: he probably got out. 129 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: Because he started talking a little bit, and then he 130 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: started doing a lot of interviews and kind of what 131 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: was kind of crazy is like most of the time, 132 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: when you go to jail, you start getting yoked up. 133 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 2: It looked like your thug. 134 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: Like gadweight, like it was like like you get a 135 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: little little chunky that now, right. But the lesson around 136 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: the Thugger situation was like what was so unique about 137 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:38,319 Speaker 1: what he did was most of the time, historically speaking, 138 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: you do the drug loude, you get the drug money, then. 139 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 2: You start building a business. 140 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: A lot of time of rap career and a rap 141 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: career is your exit out of the drug game, and 142 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: then you just rap about your old drug game. What 143 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: Thug did was the other way around. The rap music 144 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: was funding the drug game and the ogs like Gully 145 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: and then was kind of being like, my sir, you you. 146 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 2: Can't just. 147 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: You can't just do that like so anyway, so once 148 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: he got off, uh he's got took all these interviews, 149 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: one of which was how there was a line in 150 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: Squabble Up that we kind of didn't understand about young 151 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: Thug and apparently because because Thug got in his feelings 152 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: that he didn't give Dot didn't give him a feature. 153 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 2: And hey, Dot, can I get a drop? I'm like 154 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 2: nigga nah. 155 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 1: So apparently that's about young thug and like he wanted 156 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: him on the album it didn't work here it is 157 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: and more gangster news Big U from West Side rolling 158 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:05,560 Speaker 1: sixties crips and absolutely notorious legendary gangster Crypt who was 159 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: a member of the same gang and was a OG 160 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: for Nipsey Hustle. He also had quite a nonprofit that 161 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,440 Speaker 1: if I am truly honest with y'all, after he got 162 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: out of jail, he started this nonprofit and had this 163 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: this football program right for kids trying to get out 164 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: the streets. And I will be honest, like I might 165 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 1: have been a little too old for the program itself, 166 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: but I was deeply affected by programs like his and others, 167 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: like whether it was some of like kids I worked with, 168 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: kids I grew up with, you know. Either way, like 169 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: a program that really and truly made a difference, right, 170 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: that was like a powerful thing. It turns out, though 171 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: he got caught up in a Rico trial because gangsters 172 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: is gangsters, that there was a number of racketeering situations. 173 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,359 Speaker 1: There was a number of ways that he was extorting 174 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: other businesses, and now there was scuttle bucket around the 175 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: streets that he had played a very big part in 176 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: the killing of Nipsey. Now that's hood business. Don't listen 177 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: to me. I'm not a six so you understand what 178 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: I'm saying. I don't know all they drama. I don't 179 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: know all they politics. I just know that that's the 180 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: part that made the news. Apparently he was laundering the 181 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: illegal money through the nonprofit and while at the same 182 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 1: time that whole checking in thing that he would do. 183 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: And it's funny because there was clues about it from 184 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: Schoolboy Q. He would give some clues about that where 185 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: you know, there's an interview with Schoolboy Q on Drink 186 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: Champs where he was just like checking in, checking in. 187 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: That's everybody's favorite thing, checking in. And part of it 188 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: is because which we will come back to at the 189 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,079 Speaker 1: end of this year. At the end of this episode, 190 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: this glorification of this West Coast gangster life. People come 191 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: out here and they want to go to the hood. 192 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 1: They want to go where it's happening. And the school 193 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: boy was like, go where's fun? Like why you want 194 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 1: to come down here? Like we like, go where's fun? 195 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: Get off the plane, go to Beverly Hills, Nigga, go 196 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: to your hotel, get you something to eat and just chill. 197 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: Where's not why are you trying to you checking in? 198 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: He go, think about this for a second. You saying 199 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: this one man from this one hood, it's gonna keep 200 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: you safe in every hood out here. Nigga, he gonna 201 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: rob you. 202 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 2: Like he was like, what are you talking about? Right? 203 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 2: So the the the. 204 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: Practice of checking in or tapping in when you go 205 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: to a particular city in general, is something that like 206 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: I practice where it's just like, hey, if I'm gonna 207 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 1: go to your place, goodio. I don't know this part 208 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:06,719 Speaker 1: of town, Am I okay? If I'm gonna hang out here, 209 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: blah blah blah, like this is good. So he would 210 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 1: just say hey, when you come and just you know, 211 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,440 Speaker 1: just check in. We make sure you could. But he 212 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: was making himself as like the king of the check in. 213 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: You understand what's happening. So Schoolboy was like, now there's 214 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: a history around why school Boy would say something like that. Again, 215 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: this is just hood politics, like actual hood politics. It's 216 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: because the sixties and eight trays or hoovers like they 217 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: don't get along, like they're from. 218 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 2: From gangs that don't get along anyway. 219 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: That was this year man big U, who was also 220 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: a prominent like in hip hop out here, Like he 221 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: was kind of like you had to kind of go 222 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: through Big if you was gonna do that street coming, 223 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: you kind of had to go through Big U, you know. 224 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: So Man, Puerto Rico a not so black thing, but 225 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: was very black thing. Was probably one of my favorite 226 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: things that happened this year was the white boy that 227 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: was breakdancing at the city council. 228 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 2: Oh Man. 229 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: That was one of the funniest things that happened this year. 230 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: It was I mean, they even put it on the 231 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: Washington Post in New Jersey. When they were gonna talk 232 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: about property taxes at his. 233 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 2: Outse of meeting, he. 234 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: Just started pop locket, oh man, just like wasting their 235 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: time because he was like, y'all wasting our time. Now listen. 236 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: In a town council candidate in Crawford, New Jersey, went 237 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: viral for breakdancing in the town hall meeting to protest 238 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: property tax hike. And he's known for his antics during 239 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 1: civic meetings, but basically he was protesting their property tax hike. 240 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 2: I just breaking in a backspence. Oh man. It's so great. 241 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 1: My man got down. That brought me joy. Sometimes white 242 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: people bring you joy. One of those white people that 243 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: brought us joy was the boy Tyler Tyler on the 244 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: Carnival cruise ship. I don't know when hookah pipes and 245 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: cruises just grab black people by their necks, but those 246 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: are two things we love to do, right. 247 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 2: And there was a little. 248 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: Tyler that was on there that was singing his little 249 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: heart out to some Keith Sweat. 250 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 2: Now, when he. 251 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: Was singing his little heart out, boy, it warmed the 252 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: soul of him. Thick black women, I bet you Tyler 253 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: could have knocked down a couple pineapples that night, if. 254 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 2: You know what I mean. 255 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: Oh Man, Gloilla put out a disc track in the 256 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: most Memphis way possible, thising young fuck Thuck just. 257 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 2: Kept getting it fried that boy. 258 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: That's all I need to say. Just go look up 259 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: the Gloilla Young Thug disc. That was a great thing happened. 260 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: We appreciate that we had some gains in the UK 261 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: and old head world with the Clips album. The Clips 262 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: showed everyone how to age up and not age out. 263 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 2: This Clips album, it was incredible. Pharrell did what Farrell did. 264 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: And not only that, Pharrell brought that whole performance Maji 265 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:31,640 Speaker 1: to the Vatican, God Dog, but in Not So Solidarity News. 266 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: For some reason, Farrell feels like he's above politics and 267 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: just don't want to talk about the things that need 268 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: to be talked about. Now, speaking of black people in 269 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: politics ice raids, there was a minute there, this was 270 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: not a proud moment for us, when black people felt 271 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 1: like this was not they fight. Now, part of why 272 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: we felt like it was not our fight was because 273 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 1: we felt as though we were abandoned with the Latinos 274 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 1: voting for Donald Trump in such big numbers. Now that's 275 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: a complicated conversation, but also in some situations, actually in 276 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: most situations, as a black person in America, you have 277 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 1: to understand that what they do to them, they gonna 278 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: do to us. What they do to us, they gonna 279 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,920 Speaker 1: do to them. One of the leaders of the Black 280 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: Lives Matter organization out here tot of an African proverb 281 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: that I'm going to butcher. But he was just basically like, 282 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 1: when you see a goat eating your neighbors plants and vegetables, 283 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: go and help because he's. 284 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 2: Coming to yours next. 285 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: So, first of all, I don't understand why you don't 286 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: think that there's black immigrants. You know what I'm saying, 287 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 1: and that ice ain't coming for your black ass too. 288 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: Not only that they're just putting people in prisons, just 289 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 1: disappearing black bagging people. This your fight, and even if 290 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: it don't affect black people, it's still your fight because 291 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: dim your neighbors. That's what solidarity means, right. And also 292 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: there's black people in Latin America. I don't like why 293 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: y'all acting like we don't come. Our diaspora ain't a 294 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 1: part of the whole thing. 295 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 2: So that was a pretty I was little. 296 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: I come on y'all, like, you gotta know that that's 297 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: a part of our situation. What they do to the Latinos, 298 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:39,360 Speaker 1: they doing to us. And some more sad news. We 299 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: lost the king of Neo soul this year, mister DiAngelo, 300 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 1: just a perfect sound, the physical specimen of what all 301 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: black men wish they could look like if you was 302 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 1: a little dark dark skin, Especially when he dropped. 303 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 2: The how does It Feel video? 304 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,160 Speaker 1: I have never been more insecure about my body than 305 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 1: when he did that. Like good Lord Almighty, there was 306 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 1: a there was an era where you couldn't bring your 307 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: lady around certain certain artist. You can't bring your lady 308 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 1: around No Maxwell, you can't bring your lady around. No, no, di'angelo, 309 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: because you don't matter after that. And then now when 310 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: Usher had his lord, when Usher had his his Vegas thing, 311 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 1: you don't go on a date for that one, buddy, 312 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,240 Speaker 1: because you you not the startest show there. 313 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 2: Boy. 314 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: D'Angelo was that guy gave us some of the greatest music, 315 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: some of the just the source material for so much 316 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 1: of the new sort of black renaissance. There was a 317 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: there was you know black as you know the sixties, 318 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: you know, the late fifties or early sixties and through 319 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: the sixties, just this like and even some of the seventies, 320 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: just this reclaiming of what it meant to be black 321 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: and beautiful and and you know, and and afrocentric and 322 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,520 Speaker 1: just just like and like tapping into what it are 323 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 1: the full expression of our blackness, and that it's not 324 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: just all street stuff, it's not just all gangsters stuff, 325 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: like we are a fully evolved pokemon of a species. 326 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: It brought back that that that, you know, the the 327 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: the the Afros, that of the sixties, that which was 328 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: like us wearing our our color with pride. You feel 329 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 1: me to day, Shiki's he brought it back. You know 330 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,919 Speaker 1: what I'm saying with the neo soul and the head wraps, 331 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,959 Speaker 1: you know, the the that that ended up bringing us 332 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: to Rika Badeus and the you know and the and 333 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: the and the Jill Scott's and the Angie Stones and 334 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: just just this music that just reminded us that it 335 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: was beautiful to be young and black. Di'angelo is that 336 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: for us? And uh yeah, we lost him man, you 337 00:21:53,440 --> 00:22:27,640 Speaker 1: know he passed away. Another news Dame Dash just completely 338 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: crashed out on the Breakfast Club. 339 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 2: Oh lord, he crashed out. Dame is one of them 340 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 2: people that you can't one. 341 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: You can't get a word in when he talk, and 342 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 1: it's like he reminds me of another og I have 343 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: where it's like. 344 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 2: The truth just is like seasoned with lies, you know 345 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 2: what I'm saying. 346 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: So it's like the story mostly true, but then it 347 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 1: be parts of it that you like, what part of 348 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: that was him and Cameron right, and him just not 349 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: allowing you I'm a boss, like you have to be 350 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: a boss, Like you have to be a boss. 351 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 2: You can't. I'm only a boss. 352 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: And it's like okay, bro, but then you file for bankers, 353 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: Like don't you understand you're not wealthy? So he was 354 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: getting mad at Charlotte because HM and Charlttaine don't get along. 355 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: Charlemagne laughing the whole time because he thinks Dame is 356 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 1: a joke. Now, my boy merce you know, one of 357 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 1: the really good friends of mine. He will not stand 358 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: for any dame dash slander. 359 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 2: But that was that was a tough one. 360 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: He kept calling Charlemagne a girl. He's yeah, Dame's like 361 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: he's like a pause head ass dude, Like everything's paused. 362 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: Hip hop for the first time in forty years, was 363 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: not in the top forty. Some of us in the 364 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: culture felt very happy about that, like it's going underground. 365 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,360 Speaker 1: It says everything ain't for everybody making music for us. 366 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: Others are like, you know, the trump of it all. 367 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 1: You keep telling us that we dangerous. Okay, well forget it. 368 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: More entertainment News Center sinners. Ryan Coogler changed it all. 369 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 1: Shot a movie on film, broke the broke the business 370 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: by being like, no, I'm gonna need I'm gonna need 371 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: franchising rights. I'm gonna need merchandising rights for all these films. 372 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 1: That's something that's never happened. And he said it in 373 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: the most outland town possible. Sounded like he had a 374 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: grill in his mouth, sharing soul. I shot this from 375 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 1: eight bit like it was just so dope to see 376 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: again the business be done so well. 377 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 2: With black folks. 378 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: Michelle Obama with the with the quote of the year, 379 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: don't even look about look at me about running because 380 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 1: you all know you are lying. You not ready for 381 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,159 Speaker 1: a woman you are not, so don't waste my time. 382 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,920 Speaker 1: Everybody's like, man, what if Michelle Obama ran? Y'all not 383 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: ready for Like, first of all, I'm black. Number two, 384 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: y'all not ready for a woman president. She just just 385 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 1: like which is all the more reason why we want 386 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 1: her around. 387 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 2: Man. 388 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: Uh prize well from the fujis as in white cleft 389 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:28,199 Speaker 1: lauryn Hill proz proz doing fourteen years and in prison 390 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: for funneling money through the Obama's campaign. 391 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 2: Nigga what oh man? I don't even know what else 392 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 2: to add to that. 393 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: That just happened the Wayians they have discovered the quarter zips. 394 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 2: Y'all do you know what the quarter zip is? 395 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 1: So it's like those DApp like tech vests, you know that, 396 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: like tech nerds, where were only zips just at the top. 397 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 2: Now they done traded. They Nike texts for the quarter zips. 398 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 2: Now the seisties over their eyes. Now here's the thing 399 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 2: about this. Uh. 400 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 1: I am happy to see the young men take They 401 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,120 Speaker 1: look very serious. However, there was a time my man 402 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: Miles talked about this. There was a time when we 403 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 1: was up in the club with black with jeans and 404 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: like like button up shirt tops not tucked in in 405 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: some hard bottomed shoes, just like leather Adidas, looking like herbs. 406 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: Why because the club had a dress code, and the 407 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: dress code was really about respectability. It was like no 408 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,400 Speaker 1: backwards hats, no hoodies. They just didn't like the way 409 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: we dressed because they said it brought a bad demeanor. 410 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 1: So I don't know if this is in that spirit 411 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: or if it's in the like you know what, I 412 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 1: think it's time to grow up. There's a new look 413 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 1: for us. I want to be taken serious. So the 414 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 1: young boys are looking at the quarter zips. There was 415 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: a era sometimes it good air. It was the dapper era. 416 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 1: There was a time when Brothers was like, nah, nigga, 417 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:10,399 Speaker 1: we need to be clean out here. I'm with it. 418 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:12,440 Speaker 1: I'm with it, lo homie. You know what I'm saying, 419 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: take your look a little serious. You feel me trying 420 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,199 Speaker 1: to find something that's timeless. You know, the young boys in. 421 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,199 Speaker 2: The court of zips out here look at sharp like 422 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:21,360 Speaker 2: the old man used to say. 423 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:27,360 Speaker 1: Oh man, he look at shop. Ah man, going back 424 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 1: to some more thugger news. There's a lot of thugger 425 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 1: news this year's he's married. He's getting married. He proposed 426 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: to his wife. We happy for that blue face out 427 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: of jail. That's a great thing. American black people realized 428 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,400 Speaker 1: that there are black people in Scotland. 429 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 2: That was pretty funny. Oh man. 430 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: It was a tough time for black lawmakers. There was 431 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:05,160 Speaker 1: Nicole Collier being babysat in the Texas State Assembly about 432 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: you know, the Jerry Mandarin vote, and them just like 433 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: leaning over her like she a child. Jasmine Crockett kept 434 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: they kept trying to roast Jasmine Crockett, especially old girl. 435 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 2: What's old girl in the and. 436 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 1: That's not even that don't even Laura Lumer, the old 437 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,439 Speaker 1: girl that don't even actually work for the president. But 438 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 1: she's just in everything she trying to troll, uh, Jasmine Crockett. 439 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: Jasmine was like, I just want you to know that 440 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: you see how she looks, you see how I look 441 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: that I'm actually older than her, and that was all 442 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: you needed to know. Because Jasmine is a roast master. 443 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: Like we all know, il han Uh has got into 444 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 1: the cross fire of the president on the strength of 445 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: the fact that she's Somalian. She ain't playing this Palestine 446 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 1: stuff now. All of a sudden, the Somalians are new 447 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: shithole country apparently right just really a hard time to 448 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: be a black politician right now. But I want to 449 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: give a shout out to all of them for standing 450 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:13,959 Speaker 1: their ground. 451 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 2: We actually elected more black. 452 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 1: Governors and mayors this year than any other year in 453 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: a very long time, So shout out to us. I 454 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: think there are three things that I would say this 455 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: year ended us on a high note. One is in 456 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: sports or quasi sports. Two people black people could not. 457 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 2: Hate more. 458 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:52,000 Speaker 1: That is Andrew Tate and Jake Paul both got they 459 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 1: ja Juna punched in. O Lord, what a great way 460 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: to end the year. 461 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 2: Thank you, Sweet Jesus to sweet brother and Tony Joseph, 462 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 2: who finally took Jake Paul's soul, punched that boy jaw in. 463 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 2: He told him he was like, listen, part of fighting 464 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:11,600 Speaker 2: is psychological. 465 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 1: I told him, I'm gonna take your soul and you 466 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: are either going to give up or. 467 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 2: Get knocked out. 468 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 1: And my only regret is that I didn't knock him out. 469 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: That boy got hit kidney shot and then hugged him 470 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: in his legs like, oh, you supposed to only dude 471 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: twenty percent? 472 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 2: Oh boy. 473 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 1: Also Andrew Tape, I wouldn't like the top G no more. 474 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 1: That top G looked like he was folded over boy, 475 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: And I'm usually in a normal situation, I would look 476 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 1: at both of them and say, nah, the fact that 477 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: you got into the ring. 478 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 2: Who cares if you lose? Losing is a part of 479 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 2: the game. You don't win every fight. 480 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: But y'all too are the ones that swear that you 481 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: that losing is for fucking Okay, well. 482 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 2: Your mouth to God's ears. Okay. So I'm very thankful. 483 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: The world is correct, The universe is correcting itself, the 484 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: planet is healing itself because Jake Paul and. 485 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 2: Andrew Tate just both got dog walked and that was 486 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 2: very beautiful. 487 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: The street dudes, these these drill rappers are starting to 488 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: put out on their social media. Man, fuck the streets. 489 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: Listen to me, y'all. For some of us, that's an 490 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:40,440 Speaker 1: answered prayer. We talk about being from the streets because 491 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: we know that's all, that's all we had, we as 492 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: in the Royal weed. 493 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 2: But then these crack ass record execs. 494 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,479 Speaker 1: Put millions and millions of dollars, and you getting up 495 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: there and glorifying your trauma, talking about your pain. I 496 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: just you know, just why I ain't feed me, right, 497 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: You just talking about your pain without any hope for 498 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: a solution. And then you got little kids out here 499 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: sillyly following them thinking they are heroes. Meanwhile, a lot 500 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 1: of these brothers would these brothers, when they start having children, 501 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 1: they put their kids in private school, because like, why 502 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 1: would I put my kids back in the streets, Nigga? 503 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 2: You talk about the streets every day. That was where 504 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 2: I'm from. 505 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: That's what I know, and why you understand what I'm 506 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: trying to say. These dudes are starting to be loud 507 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: about it, like, man, f these streets. 508 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 2: They listen. I think I've said this plenty of times. 509 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 1: I don't wish I don't wish this on anyone, and 510 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: I ain't really have it that bad. I don't wish you. 511 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 1: You make do it what you had, you make do 512 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: what the life you got but I don't. This is 513 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,760 Speaker 1: not something I would want anyone to go through, anybody 514 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:54,920 Speaker 1: who really was outside. 515 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 2: Their attitude. Is this was the life I. 516 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: Chose or it chose me. It is what it is. 517 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 1: But nigga, you shouldn't want this like I do not. 518 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 1: I there are things, there are sights that just will 519 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: never leave the back of my eyeballs, like I will 520 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 1: always know what it looks like to see how a 521 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: body falls when it's shot, Like I'm gonna know what 522 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 1: it looks like. I just it sucks. The sound like 523 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: the fist makes the thud, or even when the back 524 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: of your head hits the concrete, that sound. I wish 525 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: I didn't. I wish I didn't know. You know what 526 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like you don't You you shouldn't be going 527 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 1: to You shouldn't be going to funerals as young as 528 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 1: we was going to funerals with. You'd like that's you 529 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: should not go through that that heightened sense of fighting 530 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,440 Speaker 1: flight that you always exist in, like you nobody should 531 00:33:58,440 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: have to like exist it. 532 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,160 Speaker 2: But do ude? They like look f them streets. I 533 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 2: feel you're ruin your life, haven't they? Now? 534 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 1: I hope that this just the first step, and then 535 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,480 Speaker 1: the next step is to be like, nah, we're not 536 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:10,960 Speaker 1: talking like that no more. This is not what we're 537 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 1: putting on. This is what we're doing now. You know 538 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:17,760 Speaker 1: what I'm saying hopefully is that we'll see. But finally, 539 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 1: the crowning jewel of this year was the Diddy documentary 540 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 1: fifty cent, choosing to do his interview about the thing 541 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,320 Speaker 1: on ABC because that's the one channel they can watch 542 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 1: in jail. 543 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 2: Listen, black people. 544 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: The hard part about what Diddy is, especially for our age, 545 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 1: is he was connected to the music before us, our 546 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:53,719 Speaker 1: music and the music after us. Like we're encompassed by 547 00:34:54,960 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 1: his effects. His influence has affected decades of things that 548 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 1: we love but kind of knew he was a menace, 549 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,959 Speaker 1: and this documentary put so many pieces together of things. 550 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: You know when you look at somebody sideways, yeah, you 551 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: know you kind of eyebrown, like kind of side eyron 552 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:17,840 Speaker 1: where you kind of like, I feel like I know 553 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: you ain't no good, but I can't prove it because 554 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: I wasn't really there. But I would never let you 555 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 1: watch my children. That was kind of the vibe with Diddy, 556 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 1: like we knew, like we knew now I'm I'm in 557 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: the music industry. It was the worst kept secret. Don't 558 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 1: go do a studio session with him. Don't be in 559 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: that room by yourself. Now, if y'all saw that doc, 560 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And the thing is, like, 561 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 1: like I said in the beginning of this episode, there 562 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,840 Speaker 1: are things that we will not stand for. He never cooned, 563 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,760 Speaker 1: you gotta give him that. But he did his folks 564 00:35:54,760 --> 00:36:00,839 Speaker 1: so dirty, so dirty, and then God on screen talking 565 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 1: about how much he doing for black people and for 566 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,319 Speaker 1: black man. 567 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,160 Speaker 2: I would never judge a black man. I'll never put 568 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 2: a black man down. My nigga. 569 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,520 Speaker 1: What you did to these beautiful black women, what you 570 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: did to these black people, How you ruin these people's life. Listen, 571 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 1: I'm with everybody. Put that man up under the jail, now, 572 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:26,239 Speaker 1: y'all keep him like the great prophetic cartoon Boondocks. Every 573 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:31,319 Speaker 1: nigga in jail ain't Nelson Mandela. Okay, So put that 574 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 1: man up under the prison. It is good to see 575 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 1: a reckoning. And I think we all know now too 576 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,840 Speaker 1: that we really weren't over the loss of Biggie and Tupac. 577 00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: You can't take out our oh geez like that. 578 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,799 Speaker 2: Ain't even I ain't even like that. 579 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:57,879 Speaker 1: So coming into twenty twenty six, I feel like Black 580 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,000 Speaker 1: people feeling good. I feel like we had a lot 581 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,520 Speaker 1: of ups and downs this year. We had a lot 582 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,120 Speaker 1: of joys and some pains. We got our years in 583 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 1: Captain by the two greatest haters of our generation. We 584 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,840 Speaker 1: appreciate that because they dealt with some shit that needed 585 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:14,600 Speaker 1: to be dealt with. 586 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,480 Speaker 2: Drake needed to be dealt with. Did he needed to 587 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,120 Speaker 2: be dealt with? 588 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,319 Speaker 1: And I am glad that it took two dark skin 589 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,200 Speaker 1: brothers to make sure that that got taken care of. 590 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:31,240 Speaker 1: The Wayans is gonna start dressing a little nicer, thugger, 591 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 1: gonna get married, Jasmine Crockett, gonna keep roasting these people. 592 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 1: We found our solidarity among these ice raids. Praise the Lord, 593 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,000 Speaker 1: and we probably not gonna talk about Steven A. Smith 594 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:48,319 Speaker 1: ever no more, because that's what happens. That's how That's 595 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,319 Speaker 1: what happens when you start cooning. So the state of 596 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:58,520 Speaker 1: the blackness is strong, vibrant, and well, you know what, 597 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 1: if I'm miss something, go ahead and send me some messages. 598 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,000 Speaker 2: Let me know what I missed. 599 00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:07,279 Speaker 1: You feel me, and we could throw that in in 600 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,120 Speaker 1: a Q and AD one. All right, Happy New Year, 601 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:17,239 Speaker 1: Happy twenty twenty six. I can't wait to navigate this 602 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 1: hell hole at y'all. All right, now, don't you hit 603 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,800 Speaker 1: stop on this pod. 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If you understand urban living, 623 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,160 Speaker 1: you understand politics. 624 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 2: These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all 625 00:39:47,000 --> 00:40:01,600 Speaker 2: next week.