1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: As media. Okay, it's literally Christmas Eve. Nobody should have 2 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: to work right now unless you're in a retail store 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: and somebody else was irresponsible somebody else and didn't get gifts. Anyway, 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: It's the most wonderful time of year for me. In 5 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: preparation for my favorite episode, The State of the Blackness, 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: before we go into the new Things, the Complete State 7 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: of the Blacknessity of twenty twenty five, talk about quarter 8 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: zips and f the streets. We got to go back 9 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: and remind ourselves how the first part of this year 10 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,279 Speaker 1: started with what we thought was the new generation of 11 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: the greatest hater of all time, Kendrick Lamar, you know, 12 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: starting off looking at the camera going say Drake, and 13 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: this year ending with you know, the og hater who 14 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: refused to let his crown get taken just yet fifty 15 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: What a great way to end cap the year. But 16 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: before we get into that again, let's remember twenty one 17 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: Drew Hills and when Joey Badass attempted to battle all 18 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: of California. What a time? All right, ladies and gentlemen, 19 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: the half year mark January to June twenty twenty five 20 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: State of the Blackness and we'll see y'all next week 21 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: with the full year. 22 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 2: Blackness. 23 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: Yes, it is that time of year, the bi annual 24 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: State of the Blackness Address. I will be your tour director. 25 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: My name is per Rop again and this is Hood 26 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: Politics with prop the State of the Blackness Address, Part one, 27 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: twenty to twenty five. Matt dropped the track on him. Okay, welcome, welcome, Welcome. 28 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: The bi Annual State of the Blackness Address twenty twenty 29 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: five has been quite a show so far. I know 30 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: we all feel like this that January was such a 31 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: long month and then we blinked and it was June. 32 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 1: We're already here. So many things have happened, so let's 33 00:02:54,639 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: stop and let's take a second to acknowledge the blackness. Now, 34 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: last year started out, came out swinging with with Club Shaysha, 35 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 1: and you have an unusual alliance with losers and that's 36 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: not like you, you know, and and all the things that 37 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: your boy Kat Williams gave us. Oh man, it came 38 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 1: out so fun. You know. We had the guy that 39 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: jumped over the bench, you know, went flying to tackle 40 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: the lady after he got sentenced. We had some good ones, 41 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: and of course last year gave us the Fall of 42 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: Drake and the Kendrick and Drake that gave us Stay 43 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: Night like us and man, the culture was very strong 44 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: and probably I think now we can say like the 45 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: biggest and greatest disc song and all of hip hop. 46 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: I just I don't know, man, I used to think 47 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: like I mean, I thought all those, all those I 48 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: thought all the Kendrick songs were amazing. Of course Wes West, 49 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: but were they in the history of hip hop. I'm like, 50 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: I think, man, I think Ether has been d throned. 51 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: I think it's it's hard to hard to defeat it. 52 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: I'm realizing I'm not wearing my headphones now, that's why 53 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: I don't hear myself. There we go anyway, I'm really 54 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 1: tired because of the club real ones yesterday and shout 55 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: out Ian Dude. Ian pulled up Ian producer Ian that 56 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: produces a lot of these clubs clubs see cools on 57 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: media shows. Ian came out with his with his lovely 58 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: better half and we had us a good time. So yeah, 59 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five stated of blackness, let's get to it first. 60 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 1: You got to start off in January with the La Fires. Now, 61 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: while we got to start there is because while a 62 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: lot of the news was covering what was happening in 63 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 1: the Palisades and Malibu, a lot of our local eyes 64 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 1: were on the city of Altadena. I know, I did 65 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: a small, short, kind of breakdown of Altadena inside of 66 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: the Block is literally Hot episode when I talked about 67 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: the La fires. And Altadena is the northern part of 68 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: Los Angeles County, on the east side, in the foothills 69 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: under the Angelus Mountains. Now the Hollywood Hills is a 70 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: part of a mountain range right with a valley in between, 71 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: which is how you get over to the valley. But 72 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: that range kind of stretches up and it becomes like, 73 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: you know, like I said, the Angelus Crest all the 74 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: way over to the Azusa Mountains, down the mountain Baldy, 75 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: and then you get out to Big Bear as you're 76 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: going east or inland. But nestled at the foothills the 77 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: east side is an enclave called Alta Dina, and Altadena 78 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: was one of the few standing black communities that most likely, 79 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: I think it's it's fair to say that most likely 80 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: your grandma lived in Altadena. She probably bought a house 81 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 1: right after the Vietnam War because This was one of 82 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: the first like middle class, like working class, middle class 83 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: black neighborhoods where you could you could get an affordable 84 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 1: home working a regular ass job. Now as time went on, 85 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: those homes became quite pricey because won their location and 86 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: to their build They're these like super dope kind of 87 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 1: break mid century modern like just it's just a great neighborhood. 88 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 1: You know. Merce talked about how when he moved to 89 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: the six to six that's where his church was. A 90 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:09,280 Speaker 1: lot of times if you lived in the rest of 91 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: the spots like down in West Covina or Baldwin Park, 92 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: like you live with the Vathos, like a lot of 93 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: times your barber was up in Altadena, you know, or 94 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: in Pasadena. You know, the Pasadena Rubber Rebels. You know, 95 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: that's a very local reference. But the loss of that 96 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: neighborhood is something that as far as locally has been concerned, 97 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: was our focus. There was an African American library there. 98 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: There was all these like kids programs that where a 99 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: lot of us learned about the diaspora of Africa and 100 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: drumming circles and stuff like that. Like if you wasn't 101 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: going out to Lamert you know, you were staying. Lahmert 102 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: Park is in the Crenshaw District, which is on the 103 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: West Side, and sometimes because of unfortunately, because of gang 104 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: festivities and activities, that's sometimes not an option. But a 105 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: lot of times you were moved as a child out 106 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: of those areas. But you don't want to lose what 107 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,239 Speaker 1: it means to have a black community, just as simple 108 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: as like where to get your hair grease, not having 109 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: to explain what hair grease is, you know what I'm saying, 110 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: Like those things become the seasonings. I remember I was 111 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: trying to make some greens one time last summer. I 112 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: just needed a smoke turkey leg. Whole Foods ain't got 113 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: no smoke turkey leg. I went to the rest of 114 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: the grocery store around here. Y'all know I live in 115 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: a Mexican neighborhood. They're like, yo, we only have smoke 116 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: turkey during the holidays, during Thanksgiving. So I'm like, uh, yeah, 117 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: I need to go to Alsadena because I was like, 118 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: I need to go where black people live because I 119 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: know they're gonna have They're gonna have hamhogs, they're gonna 120 00:08:55,840 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: have the things I need just to cook. So sometimes now, granted, 121 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: this Alta Dina and a lot of like ethnic neighborhoods 122 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: were created because of redlining and because of prejudice. But 123 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: inside of that you create a community of the things 124 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: that we all need and those little things that I 125 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: feel like a lot of times white people are people 126 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: of the dominant culture, you know, really can't appreciate, like 127 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: why other ethnicities feel even more like a fish out 128 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: of water when they're in you know, neighborhoods that don't 129 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: represent them, you know what I'm saying. It's little stuff 130 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: like that. You know, I couldn't find the right kind 131 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 1: of shampoo for a long time too, because that mug 132 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 1: said you got the store and it said this is 133 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: for normal hair texture. I'm sorry, what the hell is 134 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: normal hair? Well? You know what they mean by that, 135 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 1: don't you exactly? So little things like that where I 136 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 1: don't have to like concern myself. You know, Altadena is 137 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 1: a beautiful, beautiful city, and most of the fundraisers focused 138 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: around la especially again in the black community, was around 139 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: rebuilding Altadena and it's still going on. There are still 140 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: links in my bios to support a lot of these families. 141 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 1: One of the people up there was mad Lib. Mad 142 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: Lib again in the state of hip hop is a 143 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: behemoth of a producer. The Mad Villain album that everybody 144 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: talks about with m F Doom mad Lib, Jlib is 145 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: him and Jay Dillah, you know, the champion sound stuff man. 146 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 1: Mad Live is a if you are a rapper, no 147 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:55,079 Speaker 1: matter what part of the country you're from, mad Lib 148 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: should be on your bucket list to get production from. Yeah, 149 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 1: he lost his own too, you know, and there was 150 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 1: a bunch of fundraisers that we've done in hopes to 151 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: save his own and his record collections and those things. 152 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: So rather than coming out swinging for black people with funniness, 153 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: we came out swinging with a little bit of pain. 154 00:11:21,720 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: Next is the Ballad of p Diddy, y'all. This topic 155 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: has clearly spanned a number of stated the blacknesses because 156 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: Ditty is now finally on trial. As we've known, Diddy 157 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: was one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood, hip 158 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: hop and black culture. We all knew that man was 159 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: weird now, unfortunately, because homophobia is a normal, normalized thing 160 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: among the black community, although black queer is also a 161 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: ginormous part of our culture. So weird how we do this? 162 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: People still have kind of changed pause to all no Diddy, 163 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: which is essentially a way to say I'm not gay, 164 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: like I'm not doing gay stuff. Unfortunately, that the gayness 165 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: was the line that the culture finally drew. But as 166 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: the case is going on, we're seeing that man was 167 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: even more bizarre than we all thought. The story about 168 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: one of the male escorts said no, this was Cassie's 169 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: story that she was forced to make live to this 170 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: male escort while Diddy was in a job like with 171 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: just the little eyes showing watching him get down. Boy, 172 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: that man kid Cutty two for two with his mentor 173 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:44,679 Speaker 1: choices because both of them went crazy. Cutty said that 174 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: man showed up at his house and set his car 175 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 1: on fire. Obviously he didn't do it himself. Why you 176 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: set that man's car on fire? Did he look like 177 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 1: he aged seventy two years inside of jail? Oh you 178 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: know you ain't got your skincare routine in the pan? 179 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 2: Do you. 180 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: Listen? 181 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 2: Oh man? 182 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: Did he out here wildin in the state of the blackness. 183 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: Maybe let's stay in hip hop before we move into 184 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: other topics. The continuation of Kendrick Tamar's curb stomping of 185 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: the culture moves on while this tour, that the GNX 186 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: tour that is now broken records for touring ever, and 187 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: then he broke his own record as this tour game 188 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 1: went on as far as ticket sales. The argument against 189 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: k Dot apparently, which I didn't agree with, was that 190 00:14:55,960 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: he don't make bops, that he don't make hits, that 191 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: the songs are not made for radio. That's what everybody's 192 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: argument with, Like mister Morale was like, but there's no 193 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: there's no radio songs. He come back with these these 194 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: hits with sizz of which he took on tour and 195 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: gave her, which what I love about it equal amount 196 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: of time on stage because he's just a good man. 197 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: He continues to break streaming records, he continues to break 198 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: tour ticket sale records, and just continues to put the 199 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: West on the map. Now while that was happening out 200 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: on the East Coast, on the Beast coast, my homeboy 201 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: Joey Badass. Now Joey is not my homeboy because I 202 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: ain't never met this man, but we do share a manager, 203 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: which would be like, damn man, can y'all connect us please? Anyway? 204 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: What I love about this moment in hip hop is 205 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: that it's kind of just for us because the rest 206 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: of the people I'm about to name, unless you really 207 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: tapped into hip hop, you'll know these people are. But 208 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: if you're in our culture, this has been some of 209 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: the funnest few months of bringing which is what Kendrick 210 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: said he tried to do. Bring that competition back, that 211 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: goon competition back the sport of hip hop, the sport 212 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: of battling, of beating your chest and spinning in bars 213 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: and having bar and having something to come back, having 214 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: a response, the competition part of hip hop. That is 215 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: about we're sparring. This is art for art's sake, this 216 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: is this is battle raps for battle rap sake. There 217 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: has been a battle going on between Joey Badass and 218 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: essentially all of the West. Right. Joey had said in 219 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: a song a while back, in reference to a line 220 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: that Jay Z said years ago, which was like it's 221 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: too much West Coast dick licking right. He was making 222 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 1: an observation that the West is up right now, the 223 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: West is hot, you know, and y'all need to stop 224 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 1: jocking this, like, don't forget the East Coast started hip 225 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 1: hop essentially, like I feel a way that I'm not 226 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: in the conversation about the top rappers of my era. 227 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: This is Joey. Joey Badass is a sort of premise 228 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: and like y'all acting like New York don't run things still, 229 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,360 Speaker 1: and they don't. Partially, I believe because New York gave 230 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: up its sound because it started doing drill and like 231 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: the ASoP rocky stuff, the French Montana stuff. There was 232 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: no way you'd know they were from New York because 233 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: they don't have they don't have a sound. Joey has 234 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:51,360 Speaker 1: that sound. Dudes like Griselda and you know, Westside Gun 235 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 1: and and and all this stuff that they're doing is 236 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: bringing a New York sound back. So in some stances, 237 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,199 Speaker 1: I feel like New York gave up its flavor. But 238 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 1: it's cool to see it pop smoke, Like y'all didn't 239 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: know he was from New York unless mke told you. 240 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:11,120 Speaker 1: He didn't sound like it. They're redefining their sound anyway. 241 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: In this battle, he takes shots at the West but 242 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: Kendrick over it, so everybody else jumped in. Ray Vaughn 243 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: is an artist on TDE also and Homie can rap 244 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: Rap Rap rap rap, And then it became this like 245 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 1: sort of a brawl because another man named Daylight. Now 246 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: Daylight is super interesting because Daylight again comes from the 247 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: battle scene. I believe Watts right. He also his ghostwriting 248 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: pen is insane. He wrote a number of Drake songs. 249 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: He's also very close with ab Soul, And you have 250 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 1: to remember about the thing about ab Soul, who's also 251 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: a part of Top Dog absol of Black Hippie. Black 252 00:18:55,480 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: Hippie is j Rock, Kendrick, Schoolboy Q and Apps like 253 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 1: the first the kind of the founding members of Top 254 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: Dog Entertainment. Of them, Kendricks obviously the hit maker, the 255 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,479 Speaker 1: star of the show. Jay Rock's the street goon, you know, 256 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: and then Schoolboy is the like almost like the melodic 257 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: street goon, you feel me. Ab Sol that's the rappers rapper, 258 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: he's the that's the caviar, like the the We would 259 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 1: be here for seven months trying to break down his lyrics, 260 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: like he's the wordplay intricate, like I said I'd said before, 261 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: which I love. He's like backpack rap with a gat 262 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: in it, Like so it's a backpacker but he got 263 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: a gun in it because he's still the street dude. 264 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: But he's the Caviar. Now when he got in there's 265 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: Red Bull has this thing where they do this like 266 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,359 Speaker 1: three sixty sipher. The first one I saw was of 267 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: Soul's a Mischief. But what they do is they get 268 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 1: like three or four rappers in and they spit, you know, freestyles, 269 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: not like I call freestyles, but freestyle's into this thing. 270 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 1: And this one was Big Sean, Joey and Absol. Now 271 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: Joey had already taken shots at Daylight and at Rayvaon 272 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: but because they're all friends, right, AB finally or not, Yeah, 273 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 1: ab Soul finally addresses it in this circle where he 274 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 1: was like, listen, Joey, you put me in this predicament 275 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: that like, I know me and you are friends. But 276 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,640 Speaker 1: it's not like I'm not gonna stand with my syndicate. 277 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. He's take So he's taking 278 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: shots at at Joey standing there, and then when it's 279 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 1: Joey's turn, Joey taking shots at Ab standing there. So 280 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: for a few weeks reason Daylight, Rayvaughn, Joey Badass. These 281 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 1: are like, again, you not in the culture. These are rappers, rappers, right, 282 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: They are spitting because GENA views is part of the 283 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: show called Effective Immediately with DJ head Gina Is was like, 284 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,159 Speaker 1: I'm t get off the internet and get into booth, 285 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: like nigga rap. Why are y'all not rapping rap? 286 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 2: Right? 287 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,239 Speaker 1: And guess what niggas is rapping? But the beauty of 288 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: this is everyone agrees in this that we are having fun. 289 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:37,719 Speaker 1: As vicious and cutting as these words are, this is 290 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: almost like black people getting to be black without the 291 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 1: white gays. How do we talk when y'all not around, 292 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: when we don't have to worry about things being misinterpreted. 293 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: This is what's happening inside of hip hop right now 294 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 1: when you ain't got to explain. There's no New York Times. 295 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: I don't have to explain to you why BBL drizzy 296 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: is funny, Like I don't like. This is one of 297 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: those things where's like cool, we get to just speak 298 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: our own language. We ain't gotta translate and just enjoy 299 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,120 Speaker 1: what's happening in hip hop right now. That's what's going 300 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: on right now, man, and it is fun and they're 301 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 1: all talking about how fun it is. The homie Curtis 302 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: King was like, listen, bro, if we were gonna if 303 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 1: you're gonna hop online, and play two K or Madden 304 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,880 Speaker 1: with your friends. You gonna talk trash. I'm trying to win. 305 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:28,120 Speaker 1: I like, I am truly trying. I'm trying to destroy you. 306 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,239 Speaker 1: This is the same as hip hop. This is what 307 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,080 Speaker 1: I love. This is what I felt love about battle 308 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: rap is after telling someone the worst possible things you 309 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: could ever say to somebody, we all left and went 310 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: to Denny's. This stuff isn't personal. This is fun with somebody. 311 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: If you was slapboxing with your friends outside that there's rules, 312 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: but we're still being physical. I'm gonna get slapped in 313 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: the face, and I feel like I want you to try. 314 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 1: Like that's the thing. Like if you playing pickup ball, 315 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 1: like that's a lot, that's another way to clay battle 316 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: rap like this, it's like street ball, Like you know, 317 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: these are pickup games. There's gonna be more elbows, it's 318 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,440 Speaker 1: gonna be a little more aggressive, but you gotta hold 319 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,120 Speaker 1: your mud. You know what I'm saying. You gotta stand 320 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 1: your ground, you gotta spit back, and the best bars win. 321 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 1: This is also what's beauty about beautiful about this moment. 322 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: It's like without the gaze of pop culture talking about 323 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 1: numbers and streams, and all that good stuff. That's not 324 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: a part of the conversation because these artists have not 325 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: poked into mainstream or pop culture. These are rappers. So 326 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 1: all this is about is bars. And it's been good 327 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: to enjoy this with hip hop because this is something 328 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: we needed. You know, you get Mac Miller's death, you 329 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: get Pop Smoke's death, you know Triple X at Tassion, 330 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: all these like really sad stories. You got young thugs, 331 00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: all these rappers going to jail. You know, just not 332 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: a good look. This was a moment we all needed, 333 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: moving out of hip hop. Let's go to this little more 334 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: politics next, all right, for some reason, the desire that 335 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: for some reason this year it kind of worked where 336 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 1: black people got real solidified over Target. And I think 337 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 1: partially because Target took such serious strides towards being present 338 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:19,360 Speaker 1: for us in supporting black businesses. And then when DEI 339 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: was attacked, they removed their DEI program. Here's where this 340 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: becomes complicated. They still sold the products, the black products 341 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,120 Speaker 1: that they already had, they just decided to stop being 342 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: upfront about it. Now. It's not so much that we 343 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 1: care as black people about the name DEI. It's the 344 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,719 Speaker 1: principle of it in the sense that you stood up 345 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: for us, and when the white supremacists came to tell 346 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,919 Speaker 1: you to stop doing it, you just folded, And I 347 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 1: know you folded in a way that was supposed to 348 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,199 Speaker 1: be looking at us and winking saying we're still going. 349 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 1: We're just going to you know. But when you just 350 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 1: wink and look over there and say I'm still gonna 351 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,160 Speaker 1: do it, but I'll still please you by changing this name, 352 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: you still give them a win because they still believe 353 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 1: that they have the authority to bully you, and that perception, 354 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: the visual and the belief is all they need because 355 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: then they're gonna come do it again, and then you're 356 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 1: gonna change the name again and try to figure it out. 357 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: Either way, you're still taking a submissive position to a 358 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: group that needs to understand the principalities of a thing. 359 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: So Black people decided some of it was organized through church, 360 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,280 Speaker 1: others was just organized through social media, that we were 361 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: just gonna not shop at Target. No more than the 362 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: businesses that were in Target. They all got websites. We'll 363 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: still support y'all. You don't have to lose money because 364 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: it is so we still buy a products. We're just 365 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 1: not shopping it to Target. They took a massive l 366 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: Black people used to spend twelve million a day at Target. 367 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: That's gone. They made that CEO get a fifty percent 368 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:16,400 Speaker 1: pay cut because black folks decided when we was done 369 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 1: shopping there. It's crazy that when we actually decide, when 370 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,880 Speaker 1: we finally done, when you get to the go ahead, 371 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: a chief, you got a champ when we get to that, 372 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: like when we're done, we're done, which is what's going 373 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,439 Speaker 1: on with Kanye. We're done. That's why not on the 374 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: news no more. We're done. Sell your swastikas. Go ahead, bro, 375 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: niggas is over it. It's one thing I do enjoy 376 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,880 Speaker 1: about us is we are long suffering. We will stick 377 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: with you for a while. But when we're done, I said, 378 00:27:48,920 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: because it's all you, you got a chief sticking in 379 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: the politics section, Larry Hoover, founder of the Gangster Disciples, 380 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 1: Leonard Peltier, freedom fighter from the sixties, political prisoner, and 381 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: believe this, NB A Young Boy all got released from prison, 382 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:33,640 Speaker 1: Larry Hoover specifically, and NBA Young Boy got that sentence commuted, 383 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: commuted from a d Trump organization. Now, no one could 384 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: have imagined this timeline that this would happen commit black people. 385 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: Y'all get it? What the lick read? The lick is 386 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: to exploit the divide of gender among the black community 387 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 1: because we're having some some sort of some sort of 388 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 1: a civil war among us, and Trump is making strides 389 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: in gaining support with black men. Part of that is 390 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: because we're trying to get this money and we just 391 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: want to be getting money. Muff, because you understand what 392 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: I'm saying, but it's complicated. And then when you start 393 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: doing stuff like this, because we understand prison reform, we 394 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: understand our need to like a lot of young brothers 395 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: have been put in jail, you know, on some un 396 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: trumped up charges. So this is supposed to feel good. Now, 397 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: this is not to be little. Any of the things 398 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 1: that Larry Hoover has done to better himself. I'm not 399 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: putting that aside. I'm talking about Trumps rereading Trump's lick 400 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 1: because this man may do these gestures to try to 401 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: make us feel better, but just the same man that's 402 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: ending head Start programs, the same man that looked at 403 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: our Haitian brothers and sisters and was like they eating pets, 404 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,240 Speaker 1: literally eating cats and dogs. That's what they said about 405 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 1: our brothers and sisters in the diet. This the shithold 406 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: Country's man. This the same man that's removing the medicaid, 407 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 1: that's making medicaid hard for my d and them. That 408 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: man don't love you. And I feel like we understand 409 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: this because I have a lot of the similar memories 410 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: you have when the pusher come through the city or 411 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: come through the neighborhood in the Cadillac you start handing 412 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: out twenty dollar bills or taking us off to the 413 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: ice cream truck. You know, doing backpack drives you feel me. 414 00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: But that man is why your auntie strung out. That 415 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 1: man is while you went to your cousin's funeral last week. 416 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: He may tell you sorry and promised to take care 417 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: of you, of you and your mother, you and your auntie, 418 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: your cousin, your auntie. He promised to take care of him, 419 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 1: but I tell you what, he also got him killed. 420 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 1: So I need you to remember that this man is 421 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: really not on your side. That being said, welcome home 422 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 1: the NBA, young boy and Larry Hoover, U Leonard Peltier, 423 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: because can you believe it? Do your googles all right? 424 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: Next is our continual war with state sponsored violence Rodney Hitton, Junior. 425 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: This happened out there in Cincinnati, Ohio, where a young 426 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 1: man and his friends stole a car and were pursued 427 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: by the police. One of them hopped out the car. 428 00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: The cop says he saw a gun. The guy dropped 429 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 1: the gun and run ran. The little boy took four 430 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 1: shots to his back and died. After the little boy's 431 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: father got to see the police surveillance video, he was 432 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: so distraught that the next day he drove his car 433 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: into an officer who was directing traffic. The complications of 434 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: this story, he puts the reality of radicalization into focus 435 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: even more because this is a sad story for all 436 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: parties involved. It's a clear case of temporary insanity. But 437 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: also it is what I've been trying to tell y'all 438 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: about Palestine. It's that state sponsored violence always creates terrorism. 439 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: As I don't know of any terrorist group that wasn't 440 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: a response to state sponsored violence. So the continual insurgent 441 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 1: force that is the police department in America towards or 442 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,760 Speaker 1: at least what it feels like towards black people, is 443 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: gonna eventually drive us to these types of actions. So 444 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 1: this man was like, listen, you not gonna see justice. 445 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: These people killed my son and now they protecting the 446 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: man that killed my son. I don't know if you know, 447 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: but Derek Chauvin is getting out also by the same 448 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 1: administration that freed Larry Hoover. So don't think this man 449 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: is full of us. Dek Chauvin is the person that 450 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:16,880 Speaker 1: killed George Floyd. So Rodney was on trial. Rodney Hidton 451 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: Junior and gave us one of the most epic moments 452 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: where thirty officers showed up for this trial, for his uh, 453 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: for his for his arraignment, and that man chin up 454 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 1: full of pride, like you not gonna have me down. 455 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: You're not gonna have me sad. I stood up for 456 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: my son. I found justice for my son because I 457 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 1: know you would never do this for me. So he 458 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 1: kept his head up. Now, I'm sure you're not asking 459 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,239 Speaker 1: me this because you listen to the show and you 460 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:56,080 Speaker 1: know what it is that I am not giving a 461 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 1: defense for vigilanteas them or murder. I'm not. I'm saying 462 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,879 Speaker 1: I understand it. This is what I'm saying. I am 463 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: a father and sometimes watching movies and I'm seeing somebody's child. 464 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 1: If you see the if the parents are part of 465 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: the storyline, you see somebody's child going through some suffering, 466 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,400 Speaker 1: if you care about your fathering. 467 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 2: You. 468 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,719 Speaker 1: It's hard for me to see that without feeling like 469 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:38,439 Speaker 1: deep feelings and emotions and sometimes rage like I'm like, boy, 470 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: I wish a mother, I wish you would talk to 471 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,799 Speaker 1: my daughter like that. I wish you would put my 472 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 1: child's life in danger like you feeling froggy get jump 473 00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: So I think I understand that. Lastly, in the State 474 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:56,239 Speaker 1: of the Blackness, the memes, Ladies and Gentlemen twenty Drew Hills, Now, 475 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:03,399 Speaker 1: a father saw his son being disrespectful to his mother. 476 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:08,080 Speaker 1: And if you understand something about the black nuclear family, 477 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,799 Speaker 1: won't play not about our wives. Ain't nowhere in the 478 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 1: world you're gonna let your child be disrespectful today. Mother, 479 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,120 Speaker 1: That's something we just don't that's not not we don't 480 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 1: abide by that, and especially if it's your boy. Now, 481 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 1: I have daughters, such a different story. But black men 482 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,440 Speaker 1: and their sons when it talks about how when when 483 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,680 Speaker 1: you think about how you want your boys to treat they, Mama, boy, 484 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 1: you be not in my presence, I bet not ever 485 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,200 Speaker 1: catch I bet not ever see you be out of 486 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,359 Speaker 1: pocket with your mother. That's it. We don't, that's not 487 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,879 Speaker 1: that's not something we play around with. So a lot 488 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: of men I've seen my homeboy Triune makes their kid 489 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: do He used to make his son, his stepson do laps, 490 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,239 Speaker 1: so he would told go to the high school on 491 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,480 Speaker 1: the court and you not make him run laps. The 492 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 1: hommy La Cree used to have his kids do walk 493 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: Sits right, we're trying to break these generational curses of 494 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:07,480 Speaker 1: whipping our children. Okay, so forgive us. But this man said, 495 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,160 Speaker 1: we're doing twenty Drew Hills. Now, if you know nineties 496 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 1: R and B, you already know exactly what he talking about. 497 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,080 Speaker 1: It is a dance from a video that has a 498 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 1: step and a jump and it's almost a burpie. Because 499 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,280 Speaker 1: when he said I gave my son twenty Drew Hills, 500 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,880 Speaker 1: we all knew exactly what he meant. And then the 501 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:31,879 Speaker 1: video cut to his son do it. 502 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 2: Because it's a workout. 503 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:46,800 Speaker 1: One man said twenty Drew heels. And lastly, one hundred 504 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,239 Speaker 1: men versus one gorilla. You may or may not know, 505 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 1: but that whole discussion actually came out of black Twitter. 506 00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,680 Speaker 1: Now I know there is no such thing as Twitter anymore, 507 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:04,279 Speaker 1: but it actually comes from black Twitter. Can Now is 508 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,920 Speaker 1: a stand in term just for black. Social media started 509 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:13,080 Speaker 1: off on Reddit a long time ago, got brought back 510 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,400 Speaker 1: via the Black social media Pipeline, and then spilled out 511 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 1: to the rest of the world, charting out some of 512 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 1: the greatest moments of extra ness about stuff that don't matter. 513 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:35,440 Speaker 1: People writ now charts, bringing in anthropologists and people who 514 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:43,320 Speaker 1: study apes just sometimes we just need some fun. Another 515 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,479 Speaker 1: trend in social media, which has to do with sort 516 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,360 Speaker 1: of all of this, is how, for the most part, 517 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,400 Speaker 1: a lot of the anti Trump rallies don't have no 518 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,160 Speaker 1: black people there. A lot of the anti fascism ones 519 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,680 Speaker 1: don't really add to black people there. Let me tell 520 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,840 Speaker 1: you why, because but we try to tell you we 521 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 1: fought all we could. Nobody y'all ain't we told y'all 522 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 1: about this man. Ain't nobody We tried. We tried, We 523 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:21,440 Speaker 1: did a whole movement in twenty twenty, got laws changed, 524 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: really saw some results, just for y'all to put this 525 00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,839 Speaker 1: man back in charge again. You know what, y'all got it. 526 00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,600 Speaker 1: Y'all got it. That is not so much that we 527 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,160 Speaker 1: don't want to stand in solidarity with you. It's that 528 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:41,880 Speaker 1: this yo turn My feet hurt. Been trying, but I 529 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:46,000 Speaker 1: tell you what, I'm gonna go on to this brunch 530 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,920 Speaker 1: and Mimosa's. You let me know how it goes, so 531 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,600 Speaker 1: I can say the state of the blackness is strong. 532 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,960 Speaker 1: We still got the rest of the year ago. We're 533 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:08,560 Speaker 1: gonna see the complete fall of Diddy and hopefully we 534 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:12,439 Speaker 1: keep the city laughing because that's how we handle things. 535 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:30,040 Speaker 1: Good politics. All right, now, don't you hit stop on 536 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,640 Speaker 1: this pod. You better listen to these credits. I need 537 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,120 Speaker 1: you to finish this thing so I can get the 538 00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:40,000 Speaker 1: download numbers. 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