Speaker 1: Yo, West West. Everybody my name is propaganda or prop
Speaker 1: for short. I mean, I'll answer to any of it.
Speaker 1: I'm give y'all some game real quick. I want to
Speaker 1: put you onto my uh my podcast called Hood Politics
Speaker 1: to the black people always want to do something real quick. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let me tell you where I'm coming from. I firmly
Speaker 1: believe that if you understand hood life, gang life, you
Speaker 1: understand geo politics, because politics is gangbanging in nice suits.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I mean. Dig this. We're
Speaker 1: gonna cover all kinds of hot topics that are in
Speaker 1: our news and in our daily zeitgeist, and even concepts
Speaker 1: that maybe take a little more to understand, kind of
Speaker 1: like how the January six insurrection could be understood as
Speaker 1: like the hood boss given a green light that was
Speaker 1: clearly a green light. Kind of like how Vladimir Putin's
Speaker 1: foreign policy is basically Tupac stance, which is, I ain't
Speaker 1: a killer, but don't push me. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: How the GOP had to make a calculus when Trump
Speaker 1: was leaving office to be like, am I gonna ride
Speaker 1: with the boss or ride with this that? Because bosses
Speaker 1: come and go, but the Hood lasts forever. It's all politics,
Speaker 1: it's just hood life. It's gangbanging. You understand it, and
Speaker 1: if you don't, I'll show you how our politicians tend
Speaker 1: to talk to us like like this, like alien language,
Speaker 1: and it makes you feel like you posted just trust
Speaker 1: what they're saying. But I think inside all of us
Speaker 1: were kind of saying to ourselves, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I trust y'all because what I'm
Speaker 1: experiencing is quite different than what you're saying. I'm experiencing
Speaker 1: what you're doing is so much different than what you're
Speaker 1: saying you're doing. Somehow, another deep down inside of us,
Speaker 1: we're like, no, I don't know if I understand this,
Speaker 1: but this kind of looks familiar to me. I want
Speaker 1: to lean into that feeling of familiarity. Okay, little background
Speaker 1: on me. I'm from south central Los Angeles. I've moved
Speaker 1: all over the l A surrounding areas, and before I
Speaker 1: did music full time, I used to teach hight school
Speaker 1: and when I was in the process of getting my
Speaker 1: teaching credential in history and social science, I kept stumbling
Speaker 1: over the last part of the test, which is the
Speaker 1: economic part, and it wasn't that I didn't know what
Speaker 1: I was talking about, because economics, in my mind are
Speaker 1: real simple because I'm from the hood, scared money, don't
Speaker 1: make money, right, don't spend money you don't have right.
Speaker 1: But I didn't understand their terms. I am of the
Speaker 1: belief that most of us are like that, where we
Speaker 1: know what we're talking about, we just don't know the
Speaker 1: way you want us to talk about what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: But again, if you understand hood life, you actually understand
Speaker 1: all this stuff. Can I give you some more examples? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to anyway. How about this. If a person
Speaker 1: wants to expand their business to a neighborhood next to him,
Speaker 1: you gotta pay for that. You have to pay that
Speaker 1: block to be able to sell their But if you
Speaker 1: feel like you're being charged way too much, and that
Speaker 1: neighborhood wants to sell a product on yo block, you're
Speaker 1: gonna charge them a high price. You're gonna sell on
Speaker 1: my block, It's gonna cost you. So what does that
Speaker 1: mean for the consumer? Well, it means that it costs
Speaker 1: the seller way more than it normally would. So what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. You think they're gonna keep the price
Speaker 1: to say, no, they raised the price all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: What you used to be able to buy, but ten
Speaker 1: dollars now cost twenty dollars. So it's like, who's being
Speaker 1: punished here? Turns out that's called a tariff. And what
Speaker 1: I just explained was a trade war. You're looking around like,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the cost of aluminum foiled and tripled. Why,
Speaker 1: it's because we got beef with China. We had a
Speaker 1: trade war with China. The government doesn't raised the tariffs
Speaker 1: on aluminum. Everybody in the city already understood it. You
Speaker 1: just didn't know that's what it was called. Here go
Speaker 1: another one. You know, Vietnam War, Korean War, those are
Speaker 1: called proxy wars. Turns out of proxy war is real simple.
Speaker 1: It's just two dads that kind of don't like each
Speaker 1: other and their sons are on rival. Pop Warner teams.
Speaker 1: Turns out mixed. McConnell's moves are actually real simple. He
Speaker 1: needed his judges. Trump was just a leg. Are we
Speaker 1: really ever confused as to why, despite this not being
Speaker 1: in your own best interest, you always vote along party lines? Well,
Speaker 1: because the hood comes first, as the great profit of
Speaker 1: our time. Kendrick Lamar said, Democrats re blood of kins.
Speaker 1: It's all the same, Ride or die, loyal to your soil.
Speaker 1: I could go on for hours, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: cease fires, workers unions. It's all there. You actually already
Speaker 1: understand this stuff here. I can't stress this enough. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be just from the hood to understand this.
Speaker 1: If you navigate the eighth grade, if you ever had
Speaker 1: to figure out which of the lunch tables you can
Speaker 1: sit at during lunch, you understand geo politics. So join
Speaker 1: me every week. This is what we're gonna do. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go through the news, maybe go through a concept
Speaker 1: that's going on in the news, maybe something that takes
Speaker 1: a little more background to understand. I'm gonna show you
Speaker 1: how you could use what you already know to understand
Speaker 1: what you think you don't. We're gonna laugh, We're gonna
Speaker 1: have fun. I don't take myself too seriously, but I
Speaker 1: do want you to feel empowered. These people ain't smarter
Speaker 1: than you. They just use a different language. Joe. If
Speaker 1: you're feeling real Froggy, go ahead and check out. Like
Speaker 1: some of the old episodes, they're still in the feed.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying kind of get You get yourself a
Speaker 1: primer as to what's going on in here. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to tell y'all something. Dig this because politics is just
Speaker 1: gang banging in nice suits. So tap in with me
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