WEBVTT - Mysonne | ROC Solid w/ Memphis Bleek 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:14.920 Yeah, y'all, you already know what it is. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:19.400 Yours truly back with another exclusive episode of Rock Solid Podcasts. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:20.639 YO, listen. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.919 This one right here is special because I watched this 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:26.480 brother come up in the game along with myself. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.160 He was definitely one of my pairs spitting. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.400 One of the guys I listened to him, was like, 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.800 ain't no fucking way he got nice. I gotta go 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.320 in the crib and burn these niggas. How these niggas 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:38.680 off from the Bronx at Harlem? Get this nice? What 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.000 the hell are they eating up there? I watched this 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.919 man transition not only from one of the best spinners 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.479 of hip hop, but doing the major, major service for 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:51.280 the community that we need. And I definitely invited my 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.840 brother here. Let's welcome my song to the building. What's up, 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:55.400 my brother? 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.400 How you doing man? Yo? First, before we start, I 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:00.760 want to just say I want to. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:06.480 Apologize to the whole activism community, everybody that's pushing the culture, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:07.919 moving the community forward. 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.760 My words might have been tooken the wrong way. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.440 I might have set them the wrong way because I 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.680 definitely didn't mean fuck activism, that's what we need. We 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.680 wouldn't have greats like Malcolm X and all other greats 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:20.959 we have, like Martin Luther King and everybody else you 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.960 have read about in the history books. My thing was 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.360 fuck selective jay Z activism. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:29.880 That was my words. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:31.800 Because the homie I was speaking to, I think his 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.520 name is MOUSEI or Mouse. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:35.160 He had me hot Mice. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.240 I see, I seen, and that's why you know. I 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.360 went on the post and I've seen it. And you know, 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.319 people send you everything listen because you know they want 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:43.959 to cause the confident. When I've seen it, I'm like, 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.399 I no, bleak, And I could tell that there's a 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:47.600 level of frustration. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.720 Oh I was. I was at the frust. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.960 It's frustration, you know. And I know being part of Rockefeller. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.280 I'm not even part of Rockefeller, and people act like 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:55.800 I'm part. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:56.280 Of one feller. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.880 So you know what I'm saying, I'm supposed to getting paper, 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.720 so I know the frustration, you know, And I'm listening 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.720 to you and I'm like, nah, bleak, don't mean that. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:05.560 It's just a level of frustration. 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.640 And he's saying, fuck everybody is going that gym todded 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:09.359 niggas going. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.079 And that wasn't my point. Like what it was. It's 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.000 like first of all, I haven't done interviews in a minute. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.920 Like you know, since I got my own podcasts, I 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.880 haven't been sitting down with anybody because I felt like 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.600 any point I wanted to get across, I say it here. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.000 But being that I had music out, we just shut 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:29.160 down Yankee Stadium. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:30.120 I went up there. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.480 I had no clue they was gonna throw in the 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.400 target kap a Nick. So you know, my natural defense 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.080 mechanism always gonna kick in when it comes down to 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.280 my homies, I'm gonna defend first and think later. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:43.480 You know what I'm saying. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.480 And then when I sat back and watched it, I'm like, 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.520 damn bleek. You could have said that a little different. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.799 It could have said it's a little different. That's why 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.880 definitely when you reached out, it's like Mice is the 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:57.000 perfect person to bring up here, so I could speak 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:58.960 my truth and let people know. You know, that was 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.800 out of anger, and that's not what I think. I'm 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.600 all the way behind what you're doing. Like, yeah, I've 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.480 been at the front line for every movement we had 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.359 out here. Man, anything that been going down in our community, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.160 you've been on the front line. And me from a 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.400 fans perspective of watching you rap. I want to know, like, 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.920 what was the transition, what inspired you to even like 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.240 be like, yo, I'm this is what I'm gonna do. 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.639 I mean, I think for me, it was just actually 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:32.160 being involved in multiple facets, right, being in the streets, 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.880 being incarcerated, coming home, just understanding the seriousness of what 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.920 we're dealing with. I think first it started with being 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.440 incarcerated and knowing. 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:44.440 How many of. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:49.880 Us in ourselves, especially young black and Latino men, right, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.400 And it was like, you know what, I've been in 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.840 the streets, and I know how they have tricked us, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.320 you know, and we brought into the wrong thing. So 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.920 I wanted to come home, change that narrative and tell 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.560 these kids the truth about what's going on. Right, these 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.680 they got a whole structure that is designed to keep 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.760 us inside of themselves and keep us, you know, away 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.320 from anything that's positive, you know. So that's why when 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.840 we talk about activism, and we have these conversations about activists, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.400 and a lot of people don't really understand the whole 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.160 level of activism, you know. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:24.200 And that's what I was trying to tell. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.120 I'm like, bleak is not coming from a perspective of 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.840 he's saying fuck activism, He's coming from a perspective of 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.359 people who are being attacked, especially when you're in alignment. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.760 I'm attacked, like I see it, Like literally, I'm. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.080 On the front line doing work and people attacking me like, yo, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.880 you're not for the community. You the boulet and you 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.719 with the illumine, all types of abortions. So I understand 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.880 the frustration, but I do this work because it comes 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.320 from my heart right, right. So when I'm when I'm 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.279 watching and I'm seeing how people utilize and they try 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.040 to tell us apart, they try to divide in confort, right, 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.880 and that's what happens. And I'm watching all of these 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.560 things every day, and I'm seeing how they attack J 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.760 and they attack this, and they play the J and 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:08.240 Kaepernick and they played it Rockefeller and everybody's situation. And 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.800 we got to just be a little bit smarter, right, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.080 because they know how to say, well, what about this 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.800 and what about this? And sometimes you just got to 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.640 take a breath and just say because we have each 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.640 other's though right, So when they talk about activism and 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.400 they talk about this and that, you should say, I'm 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.640 gonna have a conversation with my son about that, right, 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.240 because I have I got that man's direct content. That's 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.120 one of my brothers, and I think that's that's what 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.760 it is, because they definitely try to play this, They 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.200 try to play us against each other. 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.920 But I'm my activism comes from what Jay has done. Right. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:43.960 When Jay was talking about show you how to move 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.240 in a room full of vultures. When Jay was talking 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:47.919 about the end of the straight you need to be 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.159 taken over. When you talk about nigga, I ain't know 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.680 your token nigga. That that was what said. I know 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.760 hip hop has a place in activism because I listen 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.640 to j right, because I followed Ja and Nas and 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.760 Nose and brothers like that. So activism and hip hop 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.159 is hands in hand. It can't It's never gonna work 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.560 without each other. So that's why we gotta be. We 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.480 gotta understand. And that's why when people tell me about 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.680 your Jay did this, and I'm like, well, y'all don't 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:16.320 even know a lot of the ship that Jay has 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.680 done for the movement silently. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.800 But that's why I say it's selective range with these people, man, 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.960 because they just pick him because he's the biggest Target. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.480 You know what I'm saying, But all of us, my giac. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.840 If you want to purchase an album right now, if 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.479 you not, if like physically purchase an album. I'm not 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.280 talking about buy it from Apple, streaming on Title or Spotify. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.520 I'm talking about physical copy of an album where you're 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:42.360 gonna go bro. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.120 No, and and those are things that the average person 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:51.080 doesn't know right So because they don't know that, it's 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.240 people like us that explain that. Because I'm gonna have 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.360 a conversation when they say you're talking because literally we 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.560 called the boycott to Mek. It was the first person, 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.760 I mean Senator Nita Turner to Meek and Jamal Bryant. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.680 They was the forefront of the boycott. 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.800 So when when that happened and they say Jay did 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.560 a deal with Target, I'm reaching out to people that's 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.120 in roy niggas because we family what's going on, and 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:14.600 they're like. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:15.960 This ain't no exclusive deal. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.320 This this is the regular place that all of the records, 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.720 everybody's music is there. We didn't have no exclusive deal 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.440 with Target. So those are messages that we That's why 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.200 y'all gotta use it. That's why I'm trying to say 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.880 they can't divide us. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.200 That's what the game is. I'm telling you. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:39.120 They divided Malcolm X and doctor Martin Luther King, they divided. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:45.040 Imagine if HUEP, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, James all 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.360 of them were together, they couldn't they couldn't do nothing 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.480 with them. And that's we in a moment right now 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.720 where there's so much power. Well, when you when you 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.400 go to the Yankee Stadium and you see jay Z 0:07:55.560 --> 0:08:00.360 got over forty thousand people in the building, right, this 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:01.080 is history. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:02.400 That means that he got the. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.520 Ears of the people right, and they know that we 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.880 have the streets, we have the people that really on 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.920 the front lines of the civil rights when they know 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.800 that when we make a decision and we decide that, listen, 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:14.720 we're gonna get behind the. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.280 People because we work for the people. We don't. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.040 We don't call no boycotts because the people called the 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.240 target boy Cause let's be clear, the people decided that 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.160 target was the target. So when people ask, like, yo, 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.520 why Target, why not Google? 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:27.880 Why not? 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.160 The people decided. People said what black people say, Yo, 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.120 we spend a bunch of money in fucking Target. We 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:37.320 damn near treat target like it's the club, especially black women. 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.840 They going in there for seven to eight hours. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.640 So y'all telling us that y'all gonna take d away 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.840 from us after all the money and the time we 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.560 spend it. Fuck y'all, we gonna boycott, y'all because we 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.600 know that we're gonna directly impact it exactly. And that's 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.640 why over five billion dollars they lost in that. So 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.520 when niggas act, why, it's because we knew that we 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.640 can impact that. We can't boycott. It's no boycott in 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.400 his three has ever been successful. Boycott and everybody, So 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.440 there has to be a direct target. When you talk 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:10.000 about boycott's to Montgomery boycott, they boycott at one place. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.800 There was a bunch of places that was racist against 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.920 black people. But now they say, yo, we're gonna direct 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.800 all this energy in one place. And he was able 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.679 to move the need and make the mother fucking the boycott. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.520 The Montgomery bus company say look, you ain't getting on 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.439 the back of the bus. So everything is a strategy 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.560 and we understand that, and that's why we gotta. We 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.760 need to utilize y'all life. When we come to y'all 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.720 and be like, yo, listen, this was going on. We 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.760 need something to be amplified when we need you to 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.320 get up here and say some shit the same way 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.760 we got a piggyback. We can't let these people trick 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.440 us because that's what they've been doing for years. They divided, conquer. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.920 Oh he think this and this is his ideology on 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.840 y'all beefing with each other. Now we not beefing with 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:48.240 each other. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:48.760 Now. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.240 We got one of the biggest hip hop artists in 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.240 the world who've been funding this movement, who've been behind 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.600 this movie, silently doing shit for this movement for years. 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.679 We're not gonna let y'all separate us, even if we 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.079 don't agree on everything, because we're humans exactly. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.520 My best friend, my mommy, and my mother used to have. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.720 But we we understand that we're trying to get black 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.800 to the place we're supposed to be right, and that's 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:14.839 where we intersect that. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:15.560 So we knuck. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.640 I'm that and you saying that. That's why I love 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:20.360 the movement. 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.880 You have boycott Black Murder because I believe we are 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:25.320 our biggest enemy. 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:27.400 We are bro like. 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.679 It's no, it's like me like just so for hip hop, 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.559 I'm gonna keep it hip hop not even gonna dive 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.800 deep into the streets with us, because that's a whole 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.960 nother wormhole. But just in hip hop, right, if you 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.559 look at all these platforms and everybody who has a podcast, 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.080 streaming network, or whatever you want to call it, or 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.760 whatever they call itself, all they do all day is 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.719 shoot at each other. You know, from one is on 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.640 this one, it's on that one. And if this one 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.200 drop an album is critique them. Yo, this young boy, 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.360 this nigga too old, this nigga young, he can't do it. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.760 No platform is bigg en up our culture. But they'll 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.040 say hip hop is dying. 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.040 But why why do you think that is? Tell me 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:06.920 what you think it is. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.360 If I if I, I don't know what I believe 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:10.760 it is. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:15.040 It's just natural instinct from what they believe the culture 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.240 generation before them was because our generation, like think about it, 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.120 the Jays, you know what I mean, Cash money, no 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.240 Limit never linked up the you know what I mean, 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.040 Like it was a lot of separation thing. If I 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.079 think the only link up back then really was the 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.720 Hard Knocked Life Tour, you know what I'm saying. Other 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.719 than that, and and what was that the smoke the 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.040 doctor Dreanham tore Smoke, but that was more of the 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.880 up and Smoke tour. That was more of the Death 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.120 Row Records tour or what they were. But back then 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.640 it was no what you would call it like. We 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.280 didn't we didn't click up, we didn't link up, we 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.200 didn't collaborate a lot. So I think the youth now 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:58.080 and the streamers took that energy from music and put 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:02.000 it on these platforms where they just spread instead of 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.400 rapping out fuck with niggas or fuck these niggas. Is 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.559 being sad now and they divide the artists think they 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.000 divided fan bases. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.719 Bro they did, but it's like, but you gotta think 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.400 about this, and I'm not saying I disagree with you, 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.760 but just even and then I'm gonna bring it back 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.480 to Jay because Jay said, truthfully, I want to round 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:21.280 like common sense. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.480 That so five mils, I ain't rund like common sense. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.840 And the reality is that we live in a culture 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.760 where an algorithm don't push the positivity when we're pushing 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.840 each other together. If we not, if you not shooting 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.920 at somebody else, it don't go viral. You do not 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.559 see a viral clip of somebody celebrating somebody else. So 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.920 somebody bigging somebody else. Who what what podcast do you 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.880 see that's positive, that's amplifying other people, that's bringing up 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.800 and amplifying people, that's going viral. They don't do the 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.400 clips that go viral ate. The even Norri's podcast, right, 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.040 Noorid be up there and he he The first thing 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:00.960 he do is I'm bringing you up there with your flowers? 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.440 Want to give your flowers? They don't show that part. 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.880 They show when he having a conversation and saying that 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.640 they had a conflict with somebody else. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.000 That's this culture that they created. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.480 They made it so that you cannot financially benefit off 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.760 of nothing in our culture unless there. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.439 Is some conflict. I don't I don't think so tell 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:25.720 me rock solid. We don't bash no one here. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.600 But I'm just trying to say, okay, do you think 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:32.320 that you get the same views as somebody ass And 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:32.880 that's what I'm. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.360 Trying to a third of the views. 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:36.360 So that's what I'm saying. 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.200 So, but you if you was up here, if you 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:43.000 was up here controversial saying yo, these you'll be going 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.000 l because that's what they want to see. And it's 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:47.840 not even an. I don't think it's our nature. We 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.640 don't want to be for niggas. You think you want 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.160 to sit around and be for niggas. I don't want 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.960 to have no And that's why my podcast is steadily 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.720 just doing what it does, because we don't sit up 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.360 there and promote negativity and promote how Black's gonna move, 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.640 howos and us to be together all. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:02.880 These things, and that's my thing. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.160 I try to give out game to the youngins, like 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.560 if any youngins or even people my age that feel 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.240 like because you're never too old to get it right, 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:10.040 you know what I'm saying. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:11.880 So I made mistakes. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.080 So I try to be here and be transparent as 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.600 possible with people and let them know like nobody's perfect. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.160 I definitely wasn't, you know what I'm saying, And I 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:20.880 made mistakes. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.840 These are the moves we made to correct them. And 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:23.720 this is what I'm into. 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:28.480 So I use this platform definitely to uplift not only 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:32.280 my hip hop partners in my pears, but just like 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.160 the community, because I want these niggas to understand like 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.800 I don't have to hate you to get money. That's 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.000 where they I think it's confusion where they think because 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.680 you making all the money right now for me to 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.160 get Brad, I gotta I gotta target you. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.040 And that's not bro. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.840 They burn money every year, they print and burn money 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:54.440 every year. 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.160 They don't see where the positive is beneficial. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.320 And that's what I had this conversation because I see 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.320 it with you, but you know with D one. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.360 But even but listening D one, even though D one 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.960 is controversial, is because he's going on somebody else. Right, 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.720 even though it's positive, he's saying that this person right 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:15.680 here is saying negative. 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:16.960 So they promote the beef. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.440 They're not really promoting that he's positive because when he 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.560 just said, Yo, we need to change what we're doing 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.400 in hip hop this and that if he don't say 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.800 a name that's attached to it, it ain't nothing he 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.960 and unfortunately he realizes that and that's what happens, and 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.040 a lot of a lot of people say it to theyself. Damn, 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:34.680 I been trying to do it the right way on 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.200 long time. So let me just pick up a be 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.520 I got. I got dudes who built their whole life 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.400 on YouTube talking about me. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.640 I never respond, never had a conversation. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.480 But just because they built a website or whatever, and 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.000 decided he was gonna talk about me. People tune in 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.480 every week and it's the strange and shit to me. 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.520 And but but that's what the culture has celebrated because 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.520 that's where the money is. Is the fact that you 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.920 got niggas like academics in them that nothing but talk 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.840 about people, and they literally have been rated the top 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:04.400 hip hop. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.240 What in hip hop? Just think, just think about how 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:09.080 funny that is. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.640 I feel that's crazy to me. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.960 Like we was born in hip hop, like we was 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.200 bred nigga. I went from battles in the park our 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.720 battle DMX. I bet anybody you know you know we were. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.000 We had to go through, we had to go through 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.440 the trenches. I know everything about hip hop from the eighties. 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.920 That man don't know nothing about hip hop. I don't know. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.280 But he could get on a platform and just talk 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.880 and create beef for niggas and they say that he 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.720 dictates what hip hop is. So that's what I'm saying. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.560 If we you we ran a fuck that place, bro, 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.960 If that's what dictates hip hop, were the. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.280 Place, that's what it is. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:46.840 I ain't gonna lie. 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.240 I see the clips of act I really don't pay 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.680 attention some of them are entertaining some of them, I 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:56.400 du listen to. I'm not gonna lie. But when he 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.240 when he talking that hood gang ship, I don't. I 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.160 don't get in that because that's not his life. So 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.760 I don't like when niggas promote something they don't know 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:04.520 nothing about. 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.000 But it's the only clips you see is when he's 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.880 talking about somebody else. It's never a clip you see 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:11.159 where he's just giving you. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.440 I like his clips where he's breaking down the music. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.600 But he's breaking down the music and he always be like, well, 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.800 this is not that good and that person is this good, 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.240 and he can't complete with that because he always needs 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.399 some conflict for the clips to go viral. 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:25.760 But and they figured that out. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.399 I'm not defending act don't don't don't. I'm not. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.600 Nobody will take that the wrong way because I want 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.000 to have a sit down with him the way he 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:34.920 shoot at my team too. I want to have that. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:36.760 I don't even want to sit there listen. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:37.960 But this is my thing, right. 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:43.879 But I think the people like academics Whack one hundred, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.560 a lot of people might not understand them and get 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:51.000 their message to Charleston Whites. To me, they needed bro 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:56.439 they're needed. They are the new generation. Wendy Williams, starn 0:17:56.480 --> 0:18:00.880 Buck Wild, Miss Jones. They it's the same thing they 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:02.440 were just on the airwaves. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.000 But I don't I don't think it's the same because 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.120 even when you're talking about we weren't. 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.399 Gang members back then, bro, but they was talking about 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:10.600 all the negativity that. 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.320