Speaker 1: My my my big issue with June teeth. It's my same
Speaker 1: issue with Martin Luther King to Day as a federal holiday,
Speaker 1: you can't be responsible for the act, and he didn't
Speaker 1: get to celebrate it too. So I literally just had
Speaker 1: a fucking two hour no no, no, no, no. That
Speaker 1: was probably how long are you on the phone before
Speaker 1: I got in here? Ten minutes, so it's three and
Speaker 1: a half because I got in the nine twenties. So
Speaker 1: it's about It started off about um, it started off
Speaker 1: about just regular basketball. Ship We're talking about the Bucks
Speaker 1: and against the Hawks, and I had epiphany. I was like, man, Yannice,
Speaker 1: we're asking Yannice to win right without I don't remember
Speaker 1: the last time. I take that back. The last player
Speaker 1: who won with the lease of mint of talent was
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets from four because there was spotty with
Speaker 1: the All Stars, very few. Was that a Clyde team
Speaker 1: or is that a not yet? That's so ninety four,
Speaker 1: which is crazy because Janice also as an m VP
Speaker 1: of the Defensive Player of the Year. Now, he's not
Speaker 1: the scoring threat as a La Juan right, He's not
Speaker 1: as skilled of a score, but he's like so athletic
Speaker 1: he's like shock mixed with like Vince Carter or some ship.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but what I was thinking right now.
Speaker 1: So I made a bet with a brother on there
Speaker 1: about it, and I was like, yeah, he was talking
Speaker 1: about the Hawks, and I'm like, the Hawks don't have
Speaker 1: the defense, so you know, pray honest, don't get hurt,
Speaker 1: and you know he finally gets it done because I
Speaker 1: feel like people have been tough on his legacy. So
Speaker 1: it ended up being his dragout conversation and Lebron is
Speaker 1: sets a polarizing figure. So anytime you reference Lebron, even
Speaker 1: my homies, bro, they're going too automatic, feel like they
Speaker 1: need to defend his legacy. More funniest is all your
Speaker 1: people from l A thirty six months ago or motherfucker
Speaker 1: was fuck him up and down and now it's He's
Speaker 1: the greatest thing of all time and you can see
Speaker 1: it coming. I was like, you can you can see
Speaker 1: that one coming a mile away. It's it's just very bizarre.
Speaker 1: And I guess it's not that bizarre because I mean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a fan of your team, fan your team,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's it's tough. It's well for me, it's
Speaker 1: not really like, I don't have a problem with Lebron. Um,
Speaker 1: I think I don't know him to have a problem
Speaker 1: with him. I wonder about him controlling the narrative and
Speaker 1: always feeling like he needs to have positive spins on everything,
Speaker 1: but I guess that's a sign of the times. So
Speaker 1: people it comes across like I don't like Lebron, but
Speaker 1: in reality, I recognized Lebron is the best small forward,
Speaker 1: as the greatest small forward of all time at this point,
Speaker 1: which is tough because Larry Bird had that spot for years,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, Lebron has accomplished more rightfully. So
Speaker 1: I hate his fans. His fans are the worst fans
Speaker 1: in the history of stars to have fans. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: um true. Like Rihanna's navy is pretty bad, the bee
Speaker 1: Hive is bad, um pretty bad. Eminem's group is pretty bad.
Speaker 1: But Lebrons group. So you spend those fans who are
Speaker 1: man got some fans and fans lots of fans their
Speaker 1: Mothercker's are gonna cut your throat. Yeah that's yeah, they're Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're a passionate the group. I can see that, but
Speaker 1: I just from like, who, like, what type of parts
Speaker 1: are going to be. I don't know. They're all there.
Speaker 1: The Bakersfield, California's, the Tulsa, Oklahoma's the all that training park,
Speaker 1: all that, and then the hip hop like the like
Speaker 1: the like the people who who like drive around at
Speaker 1: night with M F. Doom playing in the car eat
Speaker 1: Sleeping Ship lyricism. Yeah yeah, m is tough though, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so long story short, that was the thing. How was
Speaker 1: our weekend? Though? It was whatever? There wasn't anything to
Speaker 1: it down. Didn't do shift. I don't I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: done it anyway. So I'm coming home right, I'm in
Speaker 1: the mirrow. Right, we're coming through the Murt Park. Oh man,
Speaker 1: it's yesterday. Bro. You weren't coming through the right park.
Speaker 1: You were going up to a point in Lamr Park,
Speaker 1: stopping and then circumventing an area much archer than Lamert Park.
Speaker 1: No sailings, g L. Peter Bias feel me. We're here
Speaker 1: a little late, but we're here getting it done. It's
Speaker 1: gonna get real done. We'll get it done. This June
Speaker 1: teenth ship is fucked up. It is. It's it's interesting
Speaker 1: like it stands on three pillars to me, and I
Speaker 1: don't like two of them. So two thirds of June tenth.
Speaker 1: What it is right now, I don't like. The element
Speaker 1: that I like is the historical element, the actual literal
Speaker 1: historical element. Everything beyond that, to me is a lot
Speaker 1: of bullshit. I'll be very honesty. What's the bullshit part
Speaker 1: of it? The bullshit part of it is it's kind
Speaker 1: of like multi pronged, but you have one. It disappoints
Speaker 1: like it's it's ridiculous that here we are yet again
Speaker 1: with a whole lot of politicians glad handing, Oh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do We're gonna do something to that, We're
Speaker 1: gonna give something to put a smile on black people's face.
Speaker 1: Don't cost us a red fucking sense. There's that, and
Speaker 1: then there's all the black people who are just like
Speaker 1: fuck yeah. It's like, god, damn it, could it be
Speaker 1: like could you just I mean just gosh, they know
Speaker 1: what's gonna work and and do nothing but prove it, right.
Speaker 1: And I hate that you're a white person acknowledging that
Speaker 1: because you know, right, And that's the funk up part,
Speaker 1: like you know what, I'm so do nine other white senators. No, Okay,
Speaker 1: yeah that's true. But but that's the thing like they
Speaker 1: understand when somebody is so broken, when the community is
Speaker 1: so broken, all they have is hope. So when all
Speaker 1: you have is hope, symbols is all you need to
Speaker 1: give somebody. It's why the Black Church is probably the
Speaker 1: most successful business in the Hood. The Black Church is
Speaker 1: more successful for me than the Dope Spot. The Black
Speaker 1: Church is more successful than Louisiana Fried Chicken, Popeye's Put Together. Um,
Speaker 1: So it's easy to give people, you know, the Brothers
Speaker 1: hope instead of actual tangible good like, okay, do you
Speaker 1: want to Black President ran on hope, on hope, change,
Speaker 1: but hope first, and they know it. I get mad
Speaker 1: at a lot of my rap counterparts because I feel
Speaker 1: like they sell hope. Like one of the worst lines
Speaker 1: in the world to me is self made, Like how
Speaker 1: then can anybody be self made? Yeah? Like your mom
Speaker 1: at best, making at worst makes you. Yeah, self made
Speaker 1: is challenging. It's it's impossible. It's a very interesting term.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's very very relative, it's very very contextual.
Speaker 1: It's more relative than contextual. Yeah, But back to the point.
Speaker 1: So I just hate the fact that again they just
Speaker 1: deliver hope. Yeah, and you know what they're delivering hope
Speaker 1: on the front end, while all that I'm doing for
Speaker 1: the past hundred and twenty days is is backdoor manipulating
Speaker 1: the complete eradication of school choice and urban neighborhoods with
Speaker 1: black dance population communities from coast to motherfucking coast. All
Speaker 1: you're talking about howaday controlling what they can teach? Now,
Speaker 1: not even that. I'm talking about the stranglehold that the
Speaker 1: public sector teachers unions have over the d n C
Speaker 1: at the at the local, state and federal level, where
Speaker 1: you can't provide subsidized school choice for a kid in
Speaker 1: a parent to go to a private school or a
Speaker 1: charter school or god knows whatever else. It's like, we're
Speaker 1: just gonna stick these guys out here on an island.
Speaker 1: You can only go to Jordan High School. What about
Speaker 1: the charter school right over there? No no, no no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no no no, they don't contribute to our campaign. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like that is unbelievably damaging. But guess what
Speaker 1: you can celebrate on Saturday for free? Funk out of here,
Speaker 1: so funk out of here. Oh look feel this though, No,
Speaker 1: how does how does slavers get a day off? So
Speaker 1: if you make it a federal so like, so all
Speaker 1: the descendants of the slaver's get a day off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what was the day off? It was on Saturday? For
Speaker 1: fox sake. It was like the fucking It was like
Speaker 1: the joke about Black history about being the shortest month
Speaker 1: of the year. Then we're gonna give you a holiday
Speaker 1: on Saturday. I mean, what the like? You can't write
Speaker 1: it up any better? The first year? How many years
Speaker 1: did it take to vote it down before nineteen came
Speaker 1: up on a Saturday? They voted down the previous six
Speaker 1: years to make sure that they got the Saturday on
Speaker 1: the first one day off as the holiday. There wasn't Friday,
Speaker 1: wasn't a close nothing closed on Friday. Nothing's closing tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It was a Saturday holiday. God damn. It was like
Speaker 1: college football out of here, Like, what the funk are
Speaker 1: we talking about? Bro? Who writes these jokes? People were
Speaker 1: just happier and ship to have a Saturday. It's like, dude,
Speaker 1: there's a food like, there's a farmer's market, creshaw, like
Speaker 1: every Saturday. It was just Saturday, Bro, what's crazy? Is
Speaker 1: Ive seen a lady on the news and she was
Speaker 1: crying because they opened up the Merd Park and she
Speaker 1: was like, we could finally come back home. And I
Speaker 1: was like, damn, we're so happy that they opened the park.
Speaker 1: They opened the park on Wednesday. They didn't open the
Speaker 1: park on Saturday. But who the funk cares? Like, And
Speaker 1: this is my problem. We've talked about this and the
Speaker 1: van late and shout out to nmy van. He's still
Speaker 1: mad at me. But that's my problem with symbolism and
Speaker 1: and conversations about you know, we're spending so much time, right,
Speaker 1: my my community is spending so much time trying to
Speaker 1: get you know, like symbolic victories. Right. So the elite
Speaker 1: right it is all talking about police brutality because they
Speaker 1: saw what happened to George Floyd Recipes on the news.
Speaker 1: So they're like, oh, you know, police brutality. We need
Speaker 1: to get justice and police brutality and and and and
Speaker 1: what's that word they call it when you move the
Speaker 1: money out defund the police and blah blah blah. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, y'all don't see all of these people
Speaker 1: that's poor every day, Like and I'm starting to realize
Speaker 1: the media doesn't show how poor people are. Like they
Speaker 1: will do it if white people is involved. So like, right,
Speaker 1: they'll go to what's that park? Park? So it was
Speaker 1: a park where everybody stayed at where the lake is
Speaker 1: that off the Uh what's that the five O the
Speaker 1: one on one, Yeah, the one to remember they had
Speaker 1: all intents they shut all that ship down and like
Speaker 1: that was on the news. But it's like all the
Speaker 1: elite from my community don't see that the problem with
Speaker 1: the community. Right, I'm listening to people talk about gang
Speaker 1: bang and they're like, oh man, you know the problem
Speaker 1: with the bad community is gangbanging. Well, people on the
Speaker 1: gang bang where they pour red like black people don't know.
Speaker 1: But that's not that's not even that's poor, even even
Speaker 1: though as that's Los Angeles poor. Yeah, right, so what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, that's a state of mind. But even the ass,
Speaker 1: it's not as bad as when you go to the dark.
Speaker 1: So the ass, that's the forty Avenue as my point
Speaker 1: or not my point, but that's a point. It's not
Speaker 1: I don't think particular, and I'm a little tor on
Speaker 1: it's because I I will understand, like, if you're the
Speaker 1: black community, you want to put your center of congregation
Speaker 1: somewhere that's that's pretty cool, you know, Like, I think
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate that like the Black Each is like right
Speaker 1: underneath the runway of l a X. Every beach is public,
Speaker 1: and it was like, for some reason, the shittiest beach
Speaker 1: you can find in southern California's the Black Beach unless
Speaker 1: you were like jumping off of the Yeah I could,
Speaker 1: I was trying to stall. But the like the convenience
Speaker 1: for l as a media city, the media in l
Speaker 1: a always defers you hear about like like like Watts
Speaker 1: is a is a is an idea. It's not a
Speaker 1: place the media goes to crash all. The nicest place
Speaker 1: Lamurt Park should be Magic Johnson Park. Sure, I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree that makes sense, But that's my point. So
Speaker 1: I really am starting to blame the elite of of
Speaker 1: of my community because it's like yo, because like Puff,
Speaker 1: like if Puff is not screaming about you know, opportunities, reparations,
Speaker 1: those conversations not necessarily one. But if it's not economic conversations,
Speaker 1: like I don't want to hear them talking about their
Speaker 1: opportunities anymore. Oh man, we need to know these people
Speaker 1: right who have never experienced I truly believe um when
Speaker 1: you get a chance to earn or like prosper you
Speaker 1: gained vision from it. Yeah, Like I had a homie
Speaker 1: who who I've been knowing him this whole time he rapped.
Speaker 1: He ain't really had no money, you know, he comes
Speaker 1: from his neighborhood, ain't really having it. And over the E.
Speaker 1: D D and all that time PPP stuff, he came
Speaker 1: up and just to listen to him talk now like
Speaker 1: I could tell he's he's witnessed more. It opens door.
Speaker 1: Meant even in your mind you start believing things exist.
Speaker 1: Poverty isn't very much. Yeah, yeah, poverty exactly because you
Speaker 1: have a little bit more freedom. You're not you're not
Speaker 1: constrained to how my gonna eat or how am I
Speaker 1: gonna pay my rent? And there's an incentive also to learn.
Speaker 1: I mean, anybody can just like go study god knows
Speaker 1: what at any time. Who's really like it's not all
Speaker 1: that practical idea, you know when it's like, oh, well
Speaker 1: I got a stack of money and I would like
Speaker 1: to not blow it, there's an an instantaneous incentive and
Speaker 1: time sensitive I need to actually go and then learn
Speaker 1: some ship and then you realize, whow I've learned this
Speaker 1: look at all this stuff. You know, like you don't
Speaker 1: even know it exists, but because you have an impetus
Speaker 1: to learn that it is. This is different than just
Speaker 1: casually just under questions. Um, I got an idea, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say before we get back to the point. But
Speaker 1: I was trying to tell some of my people that
Speaker 1: because they were under the impression, oh, you go to
Speaker 1: college and you make money, and I'm like, no, you
Speaker 1: go to college for education. Yeah. Like, and in my community, right,
Speaker 1: it's this big fabrication that college means more money, bigger
Speaker 1: than your community. Specifically in my community right, because I
Speaker 1: think like the white communities and white people the elite,
Speaker 1: it's more or less like parents to show off their kids.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of that. I think. I think that
Speaker 1: there's and there are some kind of lost in transit
Speaker 1: translation things between like white and Black America, and like
Speaker 1: the nuance I think white people go to college is
Speaker 1: a bit of a rite of passage and in a
Speaker 1: luxury Black people go to college because they figure, well,
Speaker 1: if it's a rite of passage for them, it must
Speaker 1: be a rite of passage for me. And it's not
Speaker 1: quite the same passit And you know, I mean you
Speaker 1: you can be like like, there's what three and a
Speaker 1: half trillion dollars in student debt something like that. That's
Speaker 1: everybody that's too big to belated. And I again, I
Speaker 1: have to be for this. As I told you, I I
Speaker 1: wanted to a whole podcast on the university one time.
Speaker 1: But to tighten it up, you can be Susie Q
Speaker 1: from Irvine, you know, and why is the driven snow
Speaker 1: and go to university and major and whatever the funk
Speaker 1: like the most like the least monetizeable, biggest ways of
Speaker 1: time you can find and walk out with a big
Speaker 1: old basket of debt, you know. But you did that
Speaker 1: because it was a luxury. Because when you're done, you're
Speaker 1: gonna go backpacking in Europe for the summer and whatever
Speaker 1: the funk it is. That really your parents are gonna
Speaker 1: be proud that parents gonna give you the business um opportunities.
Speaker 1: But I told my family, I was like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: for education. It's not about to make more money, it's
Speaker 1: just to be educated. Specifically, further on the idea, it
Speaker 1: can be like, for example, like when I lived in Oakland, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is a lot of years ago, but we had
Speaker 1: a couple of girls stayed in this house with me
Speaker 1: and my boy ran track on the pro level and
Speaker 1: the girls were like Afro studies majors and all their
Speaker 1: friends came around. It became like a house like people
Speaker 1: hung out at and it was a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: it was this this girl, Erica Willis shout out to
Speaker 1: her and her um congratulates to her husband. Just passed
Speaker 1: the LAPD lieutenant test. So do you ever need an
Speaker 1: officer to come on and talk? But they're watched people.
Speaker 1: She went, well, she lives in Carson, but her dad
Speaker 1: was like a coach at Lock, so she went to
Speaker 1: Lock and um, you know, she was there. And the
Speaker 1: girl in April was, you know, from Richmond. It was.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of the Watson and Richmonds in
Speaker 1: the world who were there. And I'm like, all you
Speaker 1: girls are shouldering you know, not a it's not USC
Speaker 1: level debt money, but you're taking on intents at that
Speaker 1: probably you know, fifty to walk out of there and
Speaker 1: all of you, you know, your friends because you're in
Speaker 1: the same classes and ship like that. But like literally
Speaker 1: all of you were walking out and an unmonetizable you
Speaker 1: you can't walk in and be like I know an
Speaker 1: awful lot about African American studies. I should be your
Speaker 1: next accountant, you know, so you can. But but again
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. So even if you're going to
Speaker 1: be in the county, is to get further education on
Speaker 1: the county exactly. So I think we just look at
Speaker 1: the paper like, oh, well, if a person has a
Speaker 1: degree and a person doesn't have an agree. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: if you go to McDonald's, well that person probably can
Speaker 1: be an assistant manager. And I was telling there like,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna go get like fifty dollars worth of
Speaker 1: debt to be an assistant manager. If you had worked
Speaker 1: there for four years, you're gonna be an assistant manager. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: you might as well work there too and just put
Speaker 1: the work in. But so shout out to to my
Speaker 1: cousin Nikki. I was telling her that, um, but she
Speaker 1: thought I was crazy because you know, again black people,
Speaker 1: that's what we taught. Oh man, you go to college,
Speaker 1: get a better job. Um. My. My big issue with
Speaker 1: June teeth it is my same issue with Luther King
Speaker 1: to day as a federal holiday, you can't be responsible
Speaker 1: for the act and didn't get to celebrate it too.
Speaker 1: Like June teeth should be like the word nigger, like nigga. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you like Pete, you shouldn't be able to celebrate, bro,
Speaker 1: it's your fucking fun. Yeah, not your fault because I
Speaker 1: had I didn't have any friends. But you missed a
Speaker 1: good point, right, it's your fault. Yeah, why the fuck?
Speaker 1: Like I was looking at some ship on the news
Speaker 1: where they was having a a thing that this Manhattan park.
Speaker 1: I guess the context was it was belonged to a
Speaker 1: black family. They took it and now they were trying
Speaker 1: to give it back. Sure, I don't know about it,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, but they were all performing and these
Speaker 1: white folks was just laid all up in the grass
Speaker 1: and ship watching them like it's June teeth now, bitch,
Speaker 1: it's your fault. What like Martin Luther King, Like you
Speaker 1: can't knock off the person, you can't be responsible for
Speaker 1: knocking off the person, and to celebrate his life. Well,
Speaker 1: that brings up two very interesting points I think our
Speaker 1: existential bedrock points in this conversation bigger than like the
Speaker 1: Juneteenth discussion. First being it's like, just like just because
Speaker 1: you play for the Lakers today doesn't mean you you know,
Speaker 1: like Larry Bird and walking through that door like rape Pettino.
Speaker 1: You know that's different players from a different era. So
Speaker 1: just because you're a Celtic today doesn't mean that you
Speaker 1: want the rings Celtic. You a Celtic, but you don't
Speaker 1: have If you don't have no eighteen rings, you're part
Speaker 1: of the tradition. You stretched it because I should have
Speaker 1: chose a different team, got a Celtic hot hot wires fair.
Speaker 1: But there's that element too, And and then the second
Speaker 1: one being like there's not and obviously like again, and
Speaker 1: it just kind of goes to my first point, Like
Speaker 1: the black community today is like forty million people over
Speaker 1: the hundred some years. That's a quarter of a billion
Speaker 1: people who have lived and died or whatever over you know,
Speaker 1: to make that number possible. So what is it? It's
Speaker 1: not clearly, de fine, you can't clear to find something
Speaker 1: where one person feels one way, another person feels the
Speaker 1: other way. We will lump them all together by color.
Speaker 1: It's not really how I get down. What is it
Speaker 1: that the goal or the desire is, Like do you
Speaker 1: want the separation? Do you want the assimilation? What is
Speaker 1: it that you want? Do you want to have support?
Speaker 1: From white America, do you not. So the tricky part
Speaker 1: for me is is like, obviously, no one black person
Speaker 1: can speak for all black people, right, So my particular
Speaker 1: thing is the economic portion. I don't even want to
Speaker 1: get into conversations. Don't think nobody should have to live
Speaker 1: next to people if they don't want to, Like I'm
Speaker 1: not necessarily for I don't want segregation, but separation is
Speaker 1: not bad. Like, if you don't want to live next
Speaker 1: to some black family, I don't think you should have to.
Speaker 1: I don't think I mean, you shouldn't block that person.
Speaker 1: But I don't like the fact that we want to
Speaker 1: move in certain neighborhoods where they're in the first place.
Speaker 1: But I understand the economic gang of that, you know,
Speaker 1: buying property somewhere that's gonna have good value. And that's
Speaker 1: one of my big old issues sure is like I
Speaker 1: think it's tragic and incredibly damaging longer term bigger picture
Speaker 1: that I mean, name a neighborhood anywhere, and I mean
Speaker 1: anywhere that is a that is a or was a
Speaker 1: has become a black quote unquote black neighborhood that got
Speaker 1: comparatively better, you know. And there's two elements to that
Speaker 1: one of us is because anybody who wants to make
Speaker 1: their place better us and make it better there, they
Speaker 1: just bounce. Yeah, you know. But on the other side
Speaker 1: of it, the fact that you do bounce because you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the only idiot who just invested two
Speaker 1: thousand dollars to put a second story in a pool
Speaker 1: or whatever on my house. I'm not gonna get the rye.
Speaker 1: There's no one else in my block is gonna do it.
Speaker 1: So there's a lack of kind of structure stood confidence
Speaker 1: in your neighbors there and that and that bleeds net
Speaker 1: worth and that's a big problem. But but not even
Speaker 1: just net worth, but morale. Yeah, like where I'm from
Speaker 1: and Watson Content, my mom was a nurse, so I
Speaker 1: knew a nurse. Even though she was thugging and kind
Speaker 1: of did her thing with crime, she was a nurse. Um,
Speaker 1: it's not a lot of doctors that live where we're from,
Speaker 1: you know. Even even where my mom house was at,
Speaker 1: in a in the in the Richling farms in County,
Speaker 1: I don't remember any doctors how they live. And that's
Speaker 1: the Richling Farms, you know, that's eight nine dollars right
Speaker 1: now in Compton. Yeah, they're they'll commute in the King
Speaker 1: Drew or whatever the heppen and I know it was
Speaker 1: a teacher, but I didn't know where they lived if
Speaker 1: they live right there. So the Richling farms was a
Speaker 1: little special. So let's go to my dad's right and
Speaker 1: watch the only person driving nice cars was the dope dealers,
Speaker 1: was the hustlers, was the pimps, right, So I think
Speaker 1: that's a big problem. But it's a tough problem to
Speaker 1: put on like my community too, because it's like, am
Speaker 1: I asking you to stay in Watts you know? Am
Speaker 1: I asking you to stand wats? Am I saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you become a doctor at King Drew, should you
Speaker 1: live right on the outskirts of the PJSA, Should you
Speaker 1: live on the seven? Should you live in the lot
Speaker 1: you know the niggasent guards and body on ut for me?
Speaker 1: Should you live you know, near to Jordan Downs. Like
Speaker 1: it's almost unfair and I think we're picking out liars though.
Speaker 1: I think if you look at the Bell curve, that's
Speaker 1: on the horizontal threshold of the Bell curve and not
Speaker 1: the vertical threshold of the Bell curve, And I think
Speaker 1: that there's probably more potential in the vertical threshold of
Speaker 1: the bell curve in the neighborhood like that to say, like,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'll pick on some nameless, faceless entities here,
Speaker 1: but like you know, in Compton, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys who were like longshoreman or whatever. The hell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know some of them now live around away. There's
Speaker 1: a lot and they're in like the bike, the bike cruise.
Speaker 1: So it's been a lot of more It would be
Speaker 1: better for everybody if you spent the money on the
Speaker 1: house instead of the bike. Am I saying I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm a free choice. But that's tricky though, because they
Speaker 1: do spend money on houses like like they do, like Mo.
Speaker 1: You know my boy Mexican Mo So Mo lives in
Speaker 1: Long Beach. He builds up his house like, um, I
Speaker 1: know some guys that do. But it's it's it's more exceptional.
Speaker 1: But but well it's it's kind of common for the longshoreman's.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, because they get a fucking ton
Speaker 1: of money. But I'm saying they do do that. But
Speaker 1: it's not just that. It's not just raising the value
Speaker 1: up per house, right, that's one thing, right to create
Speaker 1: more taxes, more better education, blah blah blah. But you
Speaker 1: can borrow ability all kinds of things because the circumstances
Speaker 1: and and in that community, in our communities and the underserving,
Speaker 1: underprivileged places. You know, people mom on drugs, things not right,
Speaker 1: you know, worrying about eating parent. You already lack vision.
Speaker 1: You can't see beyond what's outside because you're trying to
Speaker 1: just you know, you're trying to, like you're fighting so
Speaker 1: many regular simple problems that no human being, you know,
Speaker 1: you would like to be. Yeah, yeah, right, you count exactly.
Speaker 1: Like the movie that, like the Justin Timberlake movie in Time,
Speaker 1: you gotta really see it as dope because it's really
Speaker 1: that concept that ship is fired. Bro, it's like one
Speaker 1: of my favorite films. Um, that's the thing. So but
Speaker 1: if I genuinely believe, like so right, like you have
Speaker 1: people aspiring the community, right, but it's still a far grasp,
Speaker 1: right you got so, like you know, inspiring aspire is different,
Speaker 1: right to aspire, right, So the rappers are inspiring, they're
Speaker 1: not inspiring the aspiring right there, Like we're gonna live
Speaker 1: this life and you look at us, we come for
Speaker 1: where you come from? Maybe you could live it not
Speaker 1: necessarily giving you tips. That's interesting. Like obviously, like in
Speaker 1: more recent years, I've become a lot more like I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not an intellectual, but I'm more like intellectually interested.
Speaker 1: So like one of the things that always bothered me.
Speaker 1: This is obviously back in the day because it's an
Speaker 1: older song, like, uh, Jadakis is a song called like
Speaker 1: twenty one questions, right? Is that fifty? He did a
Speaker 1: song about a number of questions. Is that that's not? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Came around the time. Dope. Yeah. They're both songs,
Speaker 1: a great songs, and one of them, just the Jadakis song,
Speaker 1: it asked a lot of questions. I'm like, that's nice,
Speaker 1: but some of these questions. I can't need to be
Speaker 1: a song about answers. You know, more songs about answers
Speaker 1: and questions. I need to make that what should that
Speaker 1: the answers? Because you know what, this is a double
Speaker 1: ontic for you. You can call a song because okay
Speaker 1: and then just say these things are happening because because
Speaker 1: because of that's RT, I would do that. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do that for you that I'm gonna do that for you.
Speaker 1: Um But back to the point is if there were
Speaker 1: more teachers, doctors. You have black teachers, black doctors, black lawyers,
Speaker 1: h you have black people in all walks of life,
Speaker 1: but if they lived in said community, the aspirational point
Speaker 1: of it all would change. Yeah, totally. The tangible pathway
Speaker 1: becomes a lot clear. There you go. I like that,
Speaker 1: the tangible pathway, And but then again, I don't want
Speaker 1: to like, I can't you know, I can't drive it
Speaker 1: because it's like, yeah, absolutely, yo, I'm not asking you
Speaker 1: to stay, you know, in the motherfucking pot. That's That's
Speaker 1: why I think the only real, not say, the only
Speaker 1: maybe the most viable answer to that like quandary is
Speaker 1: for you know, the guy who goes from being along
Speaker 1: shorts until like now you're a union delegate or whatever
Speaker 1: the hell are you know, the the top ten percent,
Speaker 1: the ones that are gonna just fucking leave, you know,
Speaker 1: just sure, ship, I want to do this because I
Speaker 1: want to leave. If the rest of the community wants
Speaker 1: to benefit from them staying, they have to do a
Speaker 1: better job of incentivizing them to stay. That's tough, It
Speaker 1: is very tough. But I think like there are probably
Speaker 1: some controllables in that list of variables that are more
Speaker 1: that that are manageable enough to maybe make a little
Speaker 1: bit of a difference there. I think it's tough because
Speaker 1: like the community lacks so there's a sense of togetherness
Speaker 1: in the face of true adversity. Like, right, so if
Speaker 1: the police kill somebody, um, somebody shoot a little kid. Um,
Speaker 1: that's short and it's easy and whatever, and not even
Speaker 1: that thought of it's easy as much as you feel
Speaker 1: like no choice, yeah, you're not missing out on something
Speaker 1: else because of that. Yeah, this becomes the paramount thing.
Speaker 1: But for me, the choices, like like, the reality is
Speaker 1: the elite, and it's hard to tell another motherfucker what
Speaker 1: to do with their money because it's not really their
Speaker 1: job somebody like the people like me, because it's I
Speaker 1: take that back, it's my it's my responsibility at this point,
Speaker 1: it's not even tireef responsibility. It's not even um, you know,
Speaker 1: the the wealthy, and it's not their responsibility. I'm coming
Speaker 1: to that conclusion that is my responsibility to focus because
Speaker 1: I'm still in a place in this purgatory where I'm
Speaker 1: not wealthy and I'm not poor. Right, I'm cool, I
Speaker 1: ain't missing no mills, you know, I mean, every bill
Speaker 1: get paid. If I want the crab every day, I could.
Speaker 1: I could take a trip to any place around the
Speaker 1: world that's like in the Middle Um. But I have
Speaker 1: the time. People in my position have the time and
Speaker 1: still have the bond with the community to help. I
Speaker 1: think once you become an elite, no matter what you say,
Speaker 1: you either get too much information and your bond just
Speaker 1: becomes broken and it's tough. So when I look at
Speaker 1: wats particularly, right, I look at all of them factories,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I just want to run in all
Speaker 1: of those factories and be like, yo, y'all all gotta leave.
Speaker 1: If you don't live in this community, you can't work here.
Speaker 1: That's not gonna work. But that's really the solution. The
Speaker 1: solution is these people from this same community should be
Speaker 1: working here because this was built for these people. It
Speaker 1: was built. Not take that back, because that's like I
Speaker 1: hate when people that's like rappers saying radio was built community.
Speaker 1: It's not community radio. It's for profit. But the problem
Speaker 1: is when they built them businesses, they did build them
Speaker 1: to employ the people. Instead. Community were usually to make money. No,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure history would suggest the factories built first
Speaker 1: the homes are built. Second, Yes, so the homes were
Speaker 1: built there to occupy people to work. Same But that's
Speaker 1: a good point though, like Hershey's like Hershey, Pennsylvania. You
Speaker 1: build the factories, you built their home bam. So I
Speaker 1: think when that part broke, that's it was dead. That's
Speaker 1: what killed it, because that is that's what makes Compton
Speaker 1: or Watts urban communities. That's the way you can work.
Speaker 1: Because Compton a suburb if we're honest, comptent, what you know,
Speaker 1: what's as urban community. But it was always built to
Speaker 1: be an urban community. Like the sub the suburban parts
Speaker 1: of Compton would probably be Paramount No, or is the
Speaker 1: Lakewood maybe paramount of Lakewood? I mean those are all
Speaker 1: suburbs of Los Angeles. I mean the reality is I
Speaker 1: mean those were neighbors that were built to commute workers
Speaker 1: to the Port order Vernon. That's why it's the hub
Speaker 1: at the time they were built. That's a good point.
Speaker 1: I mean, nobody moved to Compton because there was stuff
Speaker 1: to do in Compton. It was just near other things
Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, but that's it's live, work and play, right,
Speaker 1: So so I think that's the problem though, I think
Speaker 1: genuinely the opportunities right to earn a living for the
Speaker 1: average man, because listen, we're talking about the average man.
Speaker 1: That's the place, right and without those places being available
Speaker 1: for said citizens, there's no job, there's no careers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, it's just limited, there's no
Speaker 1: But but this is a problem across America, or it's
Speaker 1: not just That's why Trump's campaign was so successful, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because that's who he spoke to.
Speaker 1: He spoke to the average American, Like, Yo, you used
Speaker 1: to have a job. Why doesn't the average guy has
Speaker 1: a job. So his promises was we need to get
Speaker 1: steel mills open back up, we need to get all
Speaker 1: this stuff because that's when America was great as far
Speaker 1: as Yah, we're gonna deregulate domestically and we're gonna make
Speaker 1: it very expensive to export human capital, which which I agree.
Speaker 1: I thought that was brilliant. Yeah. I mean, you're the
Speaker 1: president of the citizens the United States America. That's who's that.
Speaker 1: You're not the president of the corporations in the United
Speaker 1: States of Marriage. So again that's the problem. I think.
Speaker 1: That's I think, which is crazy when you think about it. Again,
Speaker 1: it's the same trickle down effect. Always had this issue, right,
Speaker 1: Like I used to always make this reference to my dad,
Speaker 1: um when white people, when white men are doing bad
Speaker 1: in America, you know, we fucked up. You know it's
Speaker 1: fucked up. We don't got no action, right, And I
Speaker 1: compared it to be in the yard right where if
Speaker 1: it's a yard right with with a fence built around
Speaker 1: it and it's all these fruit trees, you could sneak
Speaker 1: in that yard. It's that enough fruit to feed your
Speaker 1: family forever long as that yard has you know, it's
Speaker 1: for the fruit trees. But as that yard, you know,
Speaker 1: that white man's yard thin out and it's one tree
Speaker 1: left with a couple of feuds. You jumped that gate,
Speaker 1: you get your punk ass shot. Yeah, So America is
Speaker 1: a much more profitable place for my community when white
Speaker 1: men are profity. Not a conversation becomes, oh can you
Speaker 1: can the brother get their own yard? And the problem
Speaker 1: is it's tough because like right now, we're having more
Speaker 1: action and we're still not getting it done, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's all a revolutionary perspective, right, just the industrial
Speaker 1: revolution and goal revolution, goal rush, the technology. We're still
Speaker 1: not at the top of enough of them. So revolutions
Speaker 1: is when America changes. Is that fair to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: at least the face of it. Right. Um So I
Speaker 1: think again this same June Teeth conversation, We've missed out
Speaker 1: on multiple revolutions, right. We don't have the economics, you know,
Speaker 1: historically to be a part of them truly, you know.
Speaker 1: But we're getting closer, right, and it's up to people
Speaker 1: like me in my position to to to really get
Speaker 1: with it, you know, I mean to really figure it
Speaker 1: out and create those opportunities for that community from my community,
Speaker 1: because obviously they're not gonna give us nothing but a symbol. Yeah,
Speaker 1: June tenth. And what I'm saying, which is like, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at all these people celebrate, like because the federal
Speaker 1: government it was people who always celebrated June team, but
Speaker 1: this year it was just out of hand. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's just because this is the first weekend
Speaker 1: California back up or yeah, part of it things. So
Speaker 1: it's these huge celebrations for something and I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: break bread, and I'm just every day I'm coming further
Speaker 1: to the conversation that we're not going to get the
Speaker 1: elite of my community to understand that that's the important
Speaker 1: part because it had cost them money. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that there's also a couple of like to go back
Speaker 1: to the point about WATS, it's like, do you want
Speaker 1: What's to be a better place, or do you want
Speaker 1: Wat's to be or do you want the people and
Speaker 1: WATS to be better off? I want the people in
Speaker 1: wants to be better off because I don't think that
Speaker 1: there's an issue, Like I think really like what um
Speaker 1: like like public housing, for example, what's supposed to be
Speaker 1: somewhat temporary, you know, So like if WATTS was to
Speaker 1: turn into like a transient type of community, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a lot of apartment abilities down there. There's public
Speaker 1: housing projects down there, and be like, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: a three year stop and go you know. But you
Speaker 1: go there and can you figure out a way to leave?
Speaker 1: But you go there with like that in mind, and
Speaker 1: and and and there, and there's not really a WATS
Speaker 1: per se generation like intergenerational community, transnational community. It's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's cheap over there. I can slide in
Speaker 1: there for a few years after high school or after
Speaker 1: college or after whatever. The fun, get someoney together, go
Speaker 1: someplace else and kind of like launch pad myself out
Speaker 1: of there. You know, that's one way to look at it.
Speaker 1: And there's like also, I'm like the reality kind of
Speaker 1: unfortunately is like most of the like of the per
Speaker 1: square mile high per capita, like black populations in the
Speaker 1: country as far as areas go, aren't usually the nicest areas.
Speaker 1: So there's like kind of two ways to skin a cat.
Speaker 1: Do you want to make those areas nicer or do
Speaker 1: you want to make the people in those areas more
Speaker 1: potentially mobile, you know, like so that you can move
Speaker 1: to un Irvine easier, you can move to a wherever
Speaker 1: easier and kind of distribute the population a little bit more,
Speaker 1: you know. You know, evenly, I don't think that's ever
Speaker 1: going to be the solution because I think that just
Speaker 1: picks out exceptional people. Um. I always tell sticks Watts
Speaker 1: is the people, because I'm not gonna give two ships
Speaker 1: about Watts. Once they finished gentrifying, it'll be something that's
Speaker 1: the memory of the past. It will never be what
Speaker 1: it was. Like. Gangs ain't the street sign, it ain't
Speaker 1: the actual neighborhood. People think you're fighting no the property,
Speaker 1: and it's not. You're fighting over your friends. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know you're fighting over things. You feel a disrespect to
Speaker 1: you and your friends. So territory becomes a conversation. But
Speaker 1: if they move you into somewhere else, you don't got
Speaker 1: to live in your hood. If you live in another house,
Speaker 1: your trip on a person the same way. So I
Speaker 1: think the focus, Like I tell sticks, sticks got the
Speaker 1: key to watch too yesterday, so that was go shout
Speaker 1: out the sticks. Um, we need to focus on the people. See,
Speaker 1: the spirit is the people and that's the focus. So
Speaker 1: as they're moving them out, if we were able to
Speaker 1: go create opportunities for all of those people to have
Speaker 1: careers excuse me for the average man, you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's the that's the solution. The solution is a couple
Speaker 1: of things. It's not just that. But you gotta breathe
Speaker 1: more togetherness. You gotta be able to give opportunities to
Speaker 1: the adults. You gotta breathe togetherness. And the kids, you
Speaker 1: gotta strip them with identities that make them going to
Speaker 1: set for places and feel like this is their only place,
Speaker 1: versus having a pride of a whole community. That's what's
Speaker 1: supposed to be the Black Church, pride of a whole community,
Speaker 1: but without without the careers for the average man to
Speaker 1: go out and make a living and buy home and
Speaker 1: you know, make sure they can, you know, afford their
Speaker 1: children's in life. I mean, it's a tough it's a
Speaker 1: tough sale. It's gonna always be a tough seale without that,
Speaker 1: because it's always a mental stress and strain that if
Speaker 1: you don't have intellect or break, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna work out for you. It's tough. So if we're
Speaker 1: not thinking for each other, if I'm not thinking for him,
Speaker 1: or if STICKS not thinking for him, we're in trouble.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying that's the truth. We were so far
Speaker 1: behind the eight ball at this point, like we way
Speaker 1: back in the government is not gonna do nothing. That
Speaker 1: I've came to that conclusion. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: sound like I'm not a hopeful person anyway, Like I'm
Speaker 1: a truthful person and I'm a factual person, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking down at everything and I know these people are
Speaker 1: not going to do right and do the right things economically.
Speaker 1: Any time that you're waiting on someone else to do
Speaker 1: something for you in life, no matter what the circumstances,
Speaker 1: grab yourself a Snicker's Bar is going to be a
Speaker 1: very long wait.