1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 1: Right here. I want to reintroduce myself. Allowed me to 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: reintroduce myself. My name is brob rob Okay. Allowed me 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: to re introduce myself, my name, my name, allowed me 4 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: to retrod myself. So what I'm saying is this, if 5 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: you survived eighth grade lunch tables, if you grew up 6 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: in any sort of hood environment, if you understand gang banging, 7 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: you understand geopolitics, trust me, let me let me show 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: you this my name. As I was really trying to 9 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: figure out if I could actually do rap for a 10 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: living because I never thought I actually could, I was 11 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: substitute teaching, and then during my tenure substitute teaching, I 12 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: found that I actually really loved teaching. Now, I taught 13 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: in alternative high school. So like all the juvenile hall 14 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: schools and the camps in California, we have this thing 15 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: called camps, which is just it's for juveniles, but it's 16 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: not exactly jail, like it's not Central or y A, 17 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: which is California Youth Authority. But I digress. Anyway, I 18 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: really fell in love with the craft because I was like, 19 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: I feel like, I'm I'm really good at this, and 20 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 1: maybe this was like my calling in life. Landed a 21 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: job at high school for the arts in a city 22 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: called Pomona, last city in l A County. Shook a 23 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: free from anyway. While I was there, it was like, Yo, 24 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: you should just go ahead and get your credential and 25 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: do this mug full time. So I did. I was 26 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: already hired, so a lot of the like credentialing program 27 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: was super easy. I was already through graduate program and 28 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: it was time to take my c set, which is 29 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: the California Single Subject credentialing thing. I taught social science. 30 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: I had in three parts of the test. It was 31 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: World history and geography, and then it was U S 32 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: History and Civics, and then government something like that, and 33 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: then the last one was California History Economics. I flew 34 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: through everything until the economics. I detect that mug three times. 35 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: And it's not that I don't understand economics. I didn't 36 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: know what they wanted me to say. I didn't know 37 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: how to answer the question in the language the test spoke. 38 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: And I never felt so dumb, especially about a topic 39 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: that I was positive I knew what I was talking about. 40 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: I never wanted anyone to have this feeling. Ever, That's 41 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: why we started herd politics look politics, So what's tell 42 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: y'all hood politics were prop this episode here is to 43 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: reintroduce myself kind of led so many different lives in 44 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: music and poetry and education, visual arts. That's actually what's 45 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: the school for Some of y'all know me from the 46 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: Behind the Police and the behind the Insurrection, staying with 47 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: Robert Evans for Behind the Bastards, and basically the homie 48 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: Southie put me on and was like, Yo, we're gonna 49 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: make you a star. Because some of y'all like know me, 50 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: know me as in personally we grew up with each other. 51 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: And some of y'all may know me from music or 52 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: poetry or Red Couch podcast with my wife, but the 53 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: vast majority of y'all are new here. So the story 54 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 1: at the top is like, this is a true story. 55 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: I was working on my credential. And the thing is 56 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: this economics is easy for anybody who grew up in 57 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: the city and my mind, actually it is easy for anybody. 58 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: It's real simple. Don't spend money you don't have. That's easy. 59 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: Spend money or what makes you money? If you borrow 60 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: and you gotta pay it back because you gotta pay 61 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: somebody to borrow money from. That's called interests. You. I'm 62 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: basically you have to pay me to loan you this money. 63 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna give you the money because I'm 64 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: back in zero. I need you to. I need to 65 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 1: make money, and letting you borrow money that's interest. And 66 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: the longer it takes for you to pay me back, 67 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: the more I'm a charge you. It's simple. I just 68 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: didn't know the language. I didn't know the words they 69 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: were using. I couldn't read the charts, but I understood. 70 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: I was a straight A student coming out of high 71 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: school and through college, like I graduated honor Society. I 72 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: knew what I was talking about. I just didn't know 73 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: how they wanted me to say it. So I failed 74 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 1: them about three times. And I never wanted anybody to 75 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,239 Speaker 1: ever feel like this again. So when I started teaching, 76 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: I taught hood kids, and I realized even in reading 77 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: the like word problems, you know Sally has five apples. 78 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: I'm like, nigga, I don't know nobody named Sally. This 79 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: don't resonate with me. But if you would have said 80 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: something like, hey, the ice cream truck is coming, and 81 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: Carlos got five dollars. You got two dollars and you 82 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: asked me what ice creams we should buy. It's seven 83 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: of us out here playing outside. We are going to 84 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: figure out how everybody get some ice cream. We all 85 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 1: get some candy. You never go to the ice cream 86 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 1: truck and only buy stuff for yourself, You create. That's crazy. 87 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: So I knew, okay, if I'm taking money from Carlos, 88 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: I know Carlos's brother push a whole lot of weight. 89 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: So the money that Carlos got probably came from drugs. 90 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: So I need to really count the costs as to 91 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 1: should I let him buy me something. You gotta figure 92 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: out which is more offensive telling him no, because that 93 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: might really put you in danger, or telling him yes 94 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: and then owing him something. You know what that's called. 95 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: I know now it's called opportunity costs in economics term, 96 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: but I didn't know that then. I just knew, I 97 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: don't know, man, Carlos, Carlos family dangers. You gotta be 98 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 1: careful you're taking money from Carlos. So in my mind 99 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: I had to figure out how to translate these questions 100 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: into terms that I understood and then translated back to 101 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: what the people was asking me. To answer this question. 102 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: It took me three tries, dog like, I could not 103 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: get it, and I never felt so ill equipped. Yo, 104 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: and for real, for real, if you really want to 105 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: know why black and brown children score lower on average 106 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 1: and the s A T S is this, These questions 107 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: aren't calibrated to us. We have to translate things into 108 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: what we understand, then translate them back to what you understand. 109 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: We all do this. You have to really be by 110 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: try and quadri lingual to really understand how any of 111 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: this works. And I'm not just saying black and brown, 112 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: I'm saying poor kids too. It's not calibrated to us, 113 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: and I feel like that's all of us with politics. 114 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: The point is this, they're not smarter than you. They 115 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: just use a different language than you. And you could 116 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: be the black and brown person in the community, which 117 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: is the lens that I'm speaking from. You could be 118 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: the rural kid from the middle of Central Texas. You 119 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, toughest nails. You could be the 120 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: trailer person in in Pontiac, Michigan. It don't matter to me. 121 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: You understand, and this stuff it's just set in a 122 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: different language. So it makes you feel like they're smarter 123 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: than you. These people ain't smarter than you. Now, in 124 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: this episode, I'm gonna attempt to give you a treatise 125 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: as to why I'm your guy, a little bit of 126 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: my background, and what I hope to accomplish. Um, you 127 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: kind of heard what I hope to accomplish just now, 128 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: but I'm gonna try to go into it a little 129 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: more and give you more examples of how this applies 130 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: to politics and why I'm your dude. But first, your 131 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: boy's background. Who is propagandia? So for me, all of 132 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: it started in south central seventy third San Pedro. That's 133 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: where my family is, my my father's side. At least, 134 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: I'm gonna name a lot of places. Since most of 135 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: y'all really probably aren't from l A, you won't know 136 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. I'm also gonna not name names 137 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: because it's a high possibility that, you know, there's plenty 138 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: number of people to listen to this that do actually 139 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:16,119 Speaker 1: know me personally, so I'm trying not to name names 140 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: because that's not fair to them. And also the fact 141 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: that these people listening to me that do know me 142 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 1: would be able to call bullshit. So I'm gonna keep 143 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: it a whole buck with y'all. Seventy three of San 144 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: Pedro my father's side, almost all of his aunts and 145 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: uncles on his mother's side all kind of came to 146 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 1: South Central and South Los Angeles. So Watts Compton, South Central. Uh, 147 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:43,199 Speaker 1: A few of us kind of spread out to Currenchhaw District, Inglewood, 148 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: they kind of moved west, but we all kind of 149 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: like came around here during the sixties in the Watts 150 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: Towers projects when Jim Crow was ending and black people 151 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: were allowed to own homes in a place that was 152 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: never a slave state, you know, as far as slave 153 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: as far as black people are concerned. So we landed 154 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,839 Speaker 1: in this area. That's where a lot of my roots 155 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 1: kind of sprout from. My first five was spent right 156 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: on that street with my grandmother babysitting me. That's where 157 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: I learned that I wasn't set out for gang life 158 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 1: on that street. If you listen to my music, I've 159 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: talked about it before. The Alleyway on Florence in Maine, 160 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: behind this burger joint called the Golden Ox was, yeah, 161 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: where I saw my first gun, where I realized I 162 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: was ten years old, where I realized Uh, yeah, gang 163 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: life ain't for me. I was like, Yo, these y'all 164 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: signed up for this, you know what I'm saying. But 165 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,240 Speaker 1: what you learned quickly is like, even if you don't 166 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: sign up for it, having to navigate street stuff is unavoidable. 167 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:46,719 Speaker 1: No matter how square you are, it's you have to 168 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:48,599 Speaker 1: at least know how to navigate it. I was in 169 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: an art you know. I was an art kid, you 170 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And I fell in love with graffiti, 171 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: and graffiti became uh and hip hop became the way 172 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: that I spent most of my formative years. The story 173 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: about the Alleyway and behind the Golden Knox is a 174 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: whole other story that we don't got enough time for 175 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: this podcast. But just no, that was a squad car 176 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: you know what I mean by squad car that handed 177 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: the homies these guns. Anyway, my family moved twenty minutes 178 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 1: east to the San Gabriel Valley, which is right outside 179 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,200 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles. Like I said, twenty minutes east, right 180 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: outside of South Central I moved to. This neighborhood was 181 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 1: predominantly Mexican, very Latino, but predominantly Mexican, which was another 182 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: reason as to why I didn't join my neighborhood set 183 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: because I mean there was Vatos, you know, it was Tolo, 184 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: so like I would be a liability to these dudes. 185 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: But again, this was my neighborhood that sort of I 186 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: kind of cut my teeth in fell in love with 187 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: hip hop where I scraped my knee from first skateboard 188 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: where I figured out how to hop the bus to 189 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 1: the l a river and you know, throw your jacket 190 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: over the barbed wire to hop the fence to clack clack, 191 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:56,839 Speaker 1: scribble your name on the wall, you know, and then 192 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: how to throw the backpack somewhere else and you know, 193 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: stash it in a in a bush on the off 194 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: ramp and come back at eleven to come pick up. 195 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: I shouldn't be telling you all this stuff. It's also 196 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: how I got into the system because of like the 197 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: gang sweeps and gang injunctions of the nineties and two 198 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: thousands in Los Angeles, because stupid me wrote my name 199 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: on every folder that I had and then put it 200 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: on walls so then the popo could be like, uh, 201 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: is this you? You can't be like nah, because that's 202 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: the same name that's on Well, we were so dull. 203 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: That's where I learned all this stuff. I went to 204 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: high school twenty minutes east of there to the sort 205 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 1: of the Inland Empires, what we call it. I went 206 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: to high school out there, very diverse. It was brand new, 207 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: sort of like planned community. The thing about California suburbs 208 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: is like they're not as white as they seem. They're 209 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 1: actually very diverse, and like every family had the same idea, 210 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 1: which was, man, let's get a little money and get 211 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: our sons or our daughters out of these environments. So 212 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: we just basically took l A and such and just 213 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 1: moved it to nicer houses. I had a chance to 214 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: sort of like live in a predominantly black neighborhood, predominantly 215 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: Latino neighborhood, and then in a white community that happened 216 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: to be sprinkled with a whole lot of other, uh 217 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: diverse pockets. So that's kind of the childhood sort of 218 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 1: the story. I felt, like I said, I fell in 219 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 1: love with hip hop in those early stages of my life, 220 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: started rapping, battle rapping and doing a lot of graffiti 221 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: and all those different things that kind of come around 222 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: being a part of hip hop where you kind of 223 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: all over the city in all different types of communities 224 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: that you know, you're jumping in the schools, you jump 225 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: ditching school to go to the neighbor to the rival 226 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: high school to battle somebody like I'm not out here 227 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: like you know it was. She was battling like I 228 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: wanted to. Like we had some breakdancing battles, you know 229 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, during the lunch break at a school 230 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 1: down the streets. So if I was ditching school, it 231 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: wasn't to go smoke or nothing, although we were smoking, 232 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: but it was over there to bust some windmills. Was 233 00:12:58,080 --> 00:12:59,839 Speaker 1: over there to slaughter whack um. See you know what 234 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: I'm saying. And you know it is you got the 235 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: testosterone go on his hot heads. And again gang life 236 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 1: is unavoidable, so some people start set trivi. You start 237 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: serving this full he from his block. He got his 238 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: homies out there. Now you gang banging. It's just like 239 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,240 Speaker 1: this stuff all overlaps. But you just see so much 240 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: of the world and just being in love with hip hop, 241 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: and if you live in Los Angeles, like the undercurrent 242 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: of all this stuff is still what set you claim 243 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: when neighborhood you're from, because that kind of explains sort 244 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: of the the metal for which you're made of. Do 245 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: you got some strengthen you do got some stay in power? 246 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: And if I like, if I try to test your jaw, 247 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: which basically means if I punch you, you know, do 248 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 1: you got a glass jaw? Or is there somebody else 249 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: I gotta worry about? If I punch you, can you 250 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 1: call somebody? Can you make a call? And the El 251 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,439 Speaker 1: Dorado come around the corner. That's why a lot of 252 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: times when they're asking you where you're from, or why 253 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: it's so important for California's or hood people to say 254 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,320 Speaker 1: where they're from, because it it it tells you all 255 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: of that in that one sentence. So that's sort of 256 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: the personal narrative. The school narrative is what's to school 257 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 1: for illustration and intercultural studies? Then, like I said before, 258 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: when you got my teacher and credential in history and 259 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: social science. My father was a black panther, so ideas 260 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: of justice and blackness, even though I was in a 261 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: predominantly Latino space, these were unquestioned norms. The reality of 262 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: racism in America, the reality of the oppression of poor 263 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: communities everywhere was was there was no option. You're going 264 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: to participate in justice. You're going to participate and interact 265 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: with government in law because duh, they wrote it into 266 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: the constitution. Y'all told me I have a say, and 267 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you honor. That's really the attitude you 268 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: get from being raised by a black panther, you know 269 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. My parents split when I was in 270 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: high school. My father sort of stayed around the l 271 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: A San Gabriel area. I kind of bounced back and 272 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 1: forth between my mom's house and my father's house, in 273 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: between nice neighborhoods and hood hoods, really getting my passport 274 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: stamped and pretty much in community, whether it was Filipino 275 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 1: or Pacific Islander, and you know, tongue in Samoan Latino. 276 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: I speak decent Spanish, you know. And back back home 277 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: to South Central I just got to see the world 278 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: in a lot of different arenas, and then being able 279 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: to go off to college in Orange County, which was 280 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: if you know Orange County in Los Angeles, those are 281 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: the people that Orange County is where they had the 282 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: anti mass protests. So I'll let you draw your conclusions 283 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: by Orange County. That's where I went to college. So 284 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: you just traversed so many different spaces and gives you 285 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: a lot of ways to sort of like understand how 286 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: everybody is looking at the same thing and drawing these 287 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: different conclusions. So finished school. I taught high school for 288 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: six years. And during this whole time that I was 289 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: finishing school teaching high school, I was doing music battle rapping. 290 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: And then one day, actually the day I got my 291 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: first record deal was the same day I got higher 292 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: full time at the high school I taught, which is 293 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: pretty funny, but I had no delusions of grandeur. I 294 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: kept working, but I kept getting, you know, more and 295 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: more involved in hip hop until the day came that 296 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: I kind of had to make a choice. Am I 297 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: going to continue to do music? Because I wasn't doing 298 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: either of them well. So I had to decide whether 299 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: I was gonna keep doing music or keep teaching. And 300 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 1: I just decided I'm gonna strike while the iron's hot 301 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: with music, and I started pursuing that full time. I 302 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: have no problem working. I cleaned toilets for a little bit, 303 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: you know, I painted a garage one month to make 304 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: meet rent. I went on tour, uh with some big names, 305 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: you know, depending on how old you are, went on 306 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: to over care us one. I was on the war tour. 307 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 1: I did to smoke out for a while, but none 308 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: of it cracked until I started taking the poetry side serious. 309 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: When that happened, I had a few poems go viral. 310 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: I started getting on some sort of a couple believe 311 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: it or not, evangelical events that put me on arena 312 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: stages faster than I was prepared for it to happen. 313 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 1: But it did happen, and uh, I was off to 314 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: the races. But a funny thing that happens when you 315 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: get into evangelical spaces is they tend to believe that 316 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 1: you are just like them, which brings me to the 317 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 1: final part of the introduction, which is the faith part. 318 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: Every other blackground we went to church. You know what what 319 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: I'm saying. M Some of y'all who have been checked 320 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: in with me for a while know where I stand. 321 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: Know that my background with music has been in a 322 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 1: good amount of Christian spaces. I've I've been able to 323 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: like navigate a lot of different arenas with my music 324 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: and with my poetry. But ultimately, at the end of 325 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 1: the day, like you know, you can you can't lie. 326 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: A lot of y'all saw me as a Christian artist. 327 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 1: So here's the thing. New people. New people are old people. 328 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 1: I honestly believe the worst thing a person can do 329 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: is have their faith tied to their income. It's just 330 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 1: it's just a death nail dog. You can't because you 331 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: can't do either of them. Well, you know what I'm saying, 332 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: Like you not allowed for your thoughts to evolve. You 333 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, You may think something a certain 334 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 1: way because listen, anybody who got the same views and 335 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 1: thoughts they did ten years ago. Like, that's a problem. 336 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 1: You you gotta grow, Like at some point you should 337 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 1: be growing. And then there's this quote from like Upton Sinclair, 338 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: which I really feel like, like nails what I'm trying 339 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: to say here. It goes like this, It's difficult to 340 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,120 Speaker 1: get a man to understand something when his salary depends 341 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:56,640 Speaker 1: upon his not understanding it. Do you know how many 342 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: d ms I get from pastors who have been atheists 343 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 1: for years? You know what I mean? Foods have come 344 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 1: out to me, either in person over some beers or 345 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: some weed or some dams that are like, I just 346 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: can't share this with nobody else. It's just the space, 347 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: don't allow for nuance, don't allow for you to change 348 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: your mind in any way. So you're either gonna lose 349 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: your faith or you're gonna lose your job. I was like, 350 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: if I'm a deconvert or dig my feet into stand, 351 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 1: it ain't gonna because of y'all. I mean, I'm not 352 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: like a disembodied voice. I mean I'm a real person 353 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: and I got real people in my life that actually 354 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,640 Speaker 1: know me that are making sure Like yo, are you 355 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: are you're giving credit where credits due? Are you loving 356 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: your neighbor? Are you being as humble as possible? Are 357 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 1: you taking care of your family? Are you you know 358 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Are you taking care of your soul? 359 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,439 Speaker 1: Are you, you know, taking care of the globe? You 360 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,400 Speaker 1: feel me that? Like, I mean, so many people worry 361 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: about your theology don't actually know you. I look, I 362 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,199 Speaker 1: came from a hood church. I love them families. My 363 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: uncle Billy ray My, you know what I'm saying, My 364 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:07,719 Speaker 1: uncle COR's gene. This was Citizens Design Missionary Baptist Church, Compton, California. 365 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: Like I grew up, like every other black person grew up. 366 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 1: We went to church, you know what I'm saying. But 367 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,360 Speaker 1: when we say we went to church and we was Christians. 368 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: A lot of times that conjure up that Western evangelical 369 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 1: idea that most of y'all have, because they built an 370 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: industry out of their faith. The problem is, I don't 371 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: come from that. I don't understand how a book that 372 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 1: took place in the Sinai Peninsula, Nibia, Egypt, Ethiopia somehow 373 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: translated into a white Jesus and white supremacy that these 374 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: people believe in Rome. You the occupiers, do you understand 375 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 1: you following the story Roam the bad guy in the story. 376 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: I just I don't. I just don't have no understanding 377 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: about the Christian nationalism, the patriot the garden country. I 378 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: don't get none of it. I'm just sending up a slave. 379 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: I don't understand what the hell they talking about? What 380 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: are y'all so worried about? Why you only care about 381 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 1: babies in a wound like I don't what about when 382 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,880 Speaker 1: they are out? Like? I just the hell I care 383 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: about a Puritan? I didn't come from that. I came 384 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: from an inner city space. I just didn't come from 385 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 1: this like culture war, sort of like arrogance of thought 386 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 1: that we're the onliest people. With the rightest answers about 387 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 1: all the stuff and then honestly, like real ship, I mean, 388 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,360 Speaker 1: I'm real cool on a lot of this. How I'm 389 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: gonna look my grandma to face, my great grandma in 390 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 1: the face, my ancestors who somehow got through them slave ships, 391 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: somehow got through the nigger corters, thinking, these Negro spiritual 392 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: and these families in and around our city who just 393 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,199 Speaker 1: cared about us so much and worried about, you know, 394 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,400 Speaker 1: for better or for worse, what our soul was doing, 395 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: and became the people that they I can't look them 396 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: in the face and say they're tripping. But I do 397 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: know the yang they talking ain't the yang y'all talking? 398 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: You feel me? So for me, Look, I ain't gonna 399 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 1: talk to you about peno substitutionary atonement of super lapsarian 400 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: is um like this ain't the show for that, and 401 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 1: it's not where I am. You know what I'm saying. 402 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: I don't let go of a lot of stuff I 403 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: used to think, and there's a lot of stuff that 404 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: still ain't true. But look, I ain't here to argue 405 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: about his facial features. I probably shouldn't invot Kanye, but 406 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 1: you get the point, I'm just saying, damn man, chill, 407 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: you know what I'm said. But in the spirit of 408 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: the show, let me give you a hood example about this. 409 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: I have fourteen I think I think I have fourteen 410 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: first cousins, and I ain't gonna tell you which side 411 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 1: because my family listening and I love him. Now, this 412 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: could be hypothetical, it could not be hypothetical. I don't 413 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 1: name names. The point is, I know y'all can relate 414 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: to this, So just just follow me here. Other fourteen 415 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: first cousins, there's a there's a few of them who 416 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: are just them niggas is trashed. I don't know what 417 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:05,439 Speaker 1: else is saying. They just they're criminals because they all 418 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: saying like this, this my cousin. I love him, but 419 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: they're dangerous. That is dangerous. Yeo, I'm saying, I'll walk 420 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: there around my children. I don't like it when they're 421 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,400 Speaker 1: around my my mama. You know what I'm saying, Like, 422 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: I love my auntie, that's my cousin, but I am nothing. 423 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: And what sucks is like when you come around the hood, 424 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: Like if I come around the hood, I got the 425 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: same last name. I come around the hood, and the 426 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 1: whole hood like, oh oh you word you you from 427 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: that family, And I'm like wait wait wait, wait, wait 428 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 1: wait wait, wait, time out. I'm like family, it's fifty 429 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 1: others of us that ain't like that. I don't know 430 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: what he owned. This man had made his own decisions. 431 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: We just share the same grandma. Yeah, and my grandma 432 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 1: one of the most honorable humans on the planet. I 433 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 1: just I admired my I love my grandma, so out 434 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 1: of honor of my grandma, I can't disavow this nigga 435 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 1: like heat my family. I mean, we got the same grandma. 436 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: What you want me to do? But hell yeah, the trash, 437 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 1: I don't know what you want to say. Man, that's 438 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 1: really the way I feel. I don't know what's going 439 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: on with this white supremacy stuff. That's just white being white. 440 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 1: I don't know what's up with this purity culture. That's 441 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,120 Speaker 1: just Victorian. I don't know about this colonialism stuff. That's 442 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: just colonial that's what colonialism do. They just put a 443 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: Christian name on it. That's just what they do. I 444 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,640 Speaker 1: ain't got nothing to do with that. I don't understand 445 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: none of that stuff. I don't know what to say, y'all. 446 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,480 Speaker 1: But that's my that's my backstory. You know you're gonna 447 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: go through music, you won't hear a lot of Jesus stuff. 448 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:46,919 Speaker 1: But trust me, Jesus I'm talking about that ain't the 449 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: same nigga. You know what I'm saying. I'm cool. Look 450 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: the earth older than six thousand years. I got you. 451 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: I get it yourself saying y'all reading that mug all wrong. 452 00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: I'm cool with the gays. You feel me like, I 453 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 1: ain't got know homophobic ball to my body. You know 454 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, I'm that's not me. I got 455 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 1: trans folks, I got trans family. Because like I'm not listening, 456 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: I got not to do it. I don't know what 457 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 1: they're talking about. I'm just as outraged as you are. 458 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,640 Speaker 1: Trust me all that to say this, I come from 459 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: this really diverse background. I've seen a lot of different things. Now, 460 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: I should never be your source of news. This should 461 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: never be the first time you heard a story. This 462 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 1: is more about. You heard a story in the news, 463 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: something going on in politics, geopolitics, whatever, and you're just like, wait, wait, 464 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: what I kind of feel like is this? But maybe 465 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,199 Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm here to 466 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: tell you yes you do. And the reason why I 467 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: feel like I know I could say that this is 468 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:50,399 Speaker 1: because I've had to traverse so many different worlds. Whether 469 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: it was the evangelical spaces, whether it was hood spaces, 470 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:02,719 Speaker 1: Latino spaces, Asian spaces, academic spaces, street spaces. I've just 471 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: had to at least learn how to understand the way 472 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 1: that they saw the world. And it helps me go, Okay, 473 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: this is what you're trying to say. That sounds a 474 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: lot like this. When you're talking about foreign allies. You 475 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 1: just mean being clicked up. Who's gonna jump in? That's 476 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 1: what they're trying to say. Whatever you hear a word 477 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: about these are our allies. These are fine. They're just 478 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: asking you who're gonna jump in? If you're getting jumped, 479 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 1: that's that's That's all that is. See, that's what I'm 480 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,400 Speaker 1: trying to say. It's not that hard. You feel me. 481 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: You're talking about terrorists. That's that's a bolic buying box. 482 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,199 Speaker 1: All my Penoise shout out, Boli buying box. You just 483 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: pulled up from Manila. You feel me. She in the house. 484 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,159 Speaker 1: She got this whole box of all kind of stuff 485 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: that's for everybody. Trust, she had to pay to get 486 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,959 Speaker 1: this in the house. That's a that's that's a tariff 487 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 1: that's coming in. It's just just think by buying box 488 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: you feel me. It's easy, y'all. And all I wanna do. 489 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: I just want to direct traffic. You smell me. That's 490 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: all this pot is about directing traffic. So that's me 491 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: in a nutshell. I know we didn't talk about any 492 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: particular topic, but I just want to introduce myself with 493 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: this one. And as we keep going in, we're gonna 494 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,400 Speaker 1: dive into more things that have to do specifically with 495 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: really understanding politics, because politics, after all, it's just gangbanging 496 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: in nice suits. Allowed me to re introduce myself. My 497 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: name allowed me to re introduce myself, y'all. This mug 498 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: was recorded and edited by me Propaganda right here in 499 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,879 Speaker 1: East Low's boil Heights, Los Angeles. Y'all can follow me 500 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: at prop Hip Hop on all the socials. You could 501 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: follow the Hood Politics pot itself at Hood Politics Pod, 502 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: where we'll be trying to make takes on stuff that 503 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: aren't really big enough for a whole episode, but definitely 504 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: needs a little bit of clarity. This mug was scored, 505 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 1: mixed and mastered by the one and Only Headlights. Y'all 506 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: go follow my dog Matt. I was Swellski. I still 507 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: don't know how to say his name. I'm glad he 508 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 1: changes your headlights. 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