Speaker 1: Right here. I want to reintroduce myself. Allowed me to
Speaker 1: reintroduce myself. My name is brob rob Okay. Allowed me
Speaker 1: to re introduce myself, my name, my name, allowed me
Speaker 1: to retrod myself. So what I'm saying is this, if
Speaker 1: you survived eighth grade lunch tables, if you grew up
Speaker 1: in any sort of hood environment, if you understand gang banging,
Speaker 1: you understand geopolitics, trust me, let me let me show
Speaker 1: you this my name. As I was really trying to
Speaker 1: figure out if I could actually do rap for a
Speaker 1: living because I never thought I actually could, I was
Speaker 1: substitute teaching, and then during my tenure substitute teaching, I
Speaker 1: found that I actually really loved teaching. Now, I taught
Speaker 1: in alternative high school. So like all the juvenile hall
Speaker 1: schools and the camps in California, we have this thing
Speaker 1: called camps, which is just it's for juveniles, but it's
Speaker 1: not exactly jail, like it's not Central or y A,
Speaker 1: which is California Youth Authority. But I digress. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: really fell in love with the craft because I was like,
Speaker 1: I feel like, I'm I'm really good at this, and
Speaker 1: maybe this was like my calling in life. Landed a
Speaker 1: job at high school for the arts in a city
Speaker 1: called Pomona, last city in l A County. Shook a
Speaker 1: free from anyway. While I was there, it was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: you should just go ahead and get your credential and
Speaker 1: do this mug full time. So I did. I was
Speaker 1: already hired, so a lot of the like credentialing program
Speaker 1: was super easy. I was already through graduate program and
Speaker 1: it was time to take my c set, which is
Speaker 1: the California Single Subject credentialing thing. I taught social science.
Speaker 1: I had in three parts of the test. It was
Speaker 1: World history and geography, and then it was U S
Speaker 1: History and Civics, and then government something like that, and
Speaker 1: then the last one was California History Economics. I flew
Speaker 1: through everything until the economics. I detect that mug three times.
Speaker 1: And it's not that I don't understand economics. I didn't
Speaker 1: know what they wanted me to say. I didn't know
Speaker 1: how to answer the question in the language the test spoke.
Speaker 1: And I never felt so dumb, especially about a topic
Speaker 1: that I was positive I knew what I was talking about.
Speaker 1: I never wanted anyone to have this feeling. Ever, That's
Speaker 1: why we started herd politics look politics, So what's tell
Speaker 1: y'all hood politics were prop this episode here is to
Speaker 1: reintroduce myself kind of led so many different lives in
Speaker 1: music and poetry and education, visual arts. That's actually what's
Speaker 1: the school for Some of y'all know me from the
Speaker 1: Behind the Police and the behind the Insurrection, staying with
Speaker 1: Robert Evans for Behind the Bastards, and basically the homie
Speaker 1: Southie put me on and was like, Yo, we're gonna
Speaker 1: make you a star. Because some of y'all like know me,
Speaker 1: know me as in personally we grew up with each other.
Speaker 1: And some of y'all may know me from music or
Speaker 1: poetry or Red Couch podcast with my wife, but the
Speaker 1: vast majority of y'all are new here. So the story
Speaker 1: at the top is like, this is a true story.
Speaker 1: I was working on my credential. And the thing is
Speaker 1: this economics is easy for anybody who grew up in
Speaker 1: the city and my mind, actually it is easy for anybody.
Speaker 1: It's real simple. Don't spend money you don't have. That's easy.
Speaker 1: Spend money or what makes you money? If you borrow
Speaker 1: and you gotta pay it back because you gotta pay
Speaker 1: somebody to borrow money from. That's called interests. You. I'm
Speaker 1: basically you have to pay me to loan you this money.
Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna give you the money because I'm
Speaker 1: back in zero. I need you to. I need to
Speaker 1: make money, and letting you borrow money that's interest. And
Speaker 1: the longer it takes for you to pay me back,
Speaker 1: the more I'm a charge you. It's simple. I just
Speaker 1: didn't know the language. I didn't know the words they
Speaker 1: were using. I couldn't read the charts, but I understood.
Speaker 1: I was a straight A student coming out of high
Speaker 1: school and through college, like I graduated honor Society. I
Speaker 1: knew what I was talking about. I just didn't know
Speaker 1: how they wanted me to say it. So I failed
Speaker 1: them about three times. And I never wanted anybody to
Speaker 1: ever feel like this again. So when I started teaching,
Speaker 1: I taught hood kids, and I realized even in reading
Speaker 1: the like word problems, you know Sally has five apples.
Speaker 1: I'm like, nigga, I don't know nobody named Sally. This
Speaker 1: don't resonate with me. But if you would have said
Speaker 1: something like, hey, the ice cream truck is coming, and
Speaker 1: Carlos got five dollars. You got two dollars and you
Speaker 1: asked me what ice creams we should buy. It's seven
Speaker 1: of us out here playing outside. We are going to
Speaker 1: figure out how everybody get some ice cream. We all
Speaker 1: get some candy. You never go to the ice cream
Speaker 1: truck and only buy stuff for yourself, You create. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: So I knew, okay, if I'm taking money from Carlos,
Speaker 1: I know Carlos's brother push a whole lot of weight.
Speaker 1: So the money that Carlos got probably came from drugs.
Speaker 1: So I need to really count the costs as to
Speaker 1: should I let him buy me something. You gotta figure
Speaker 1: out which is more offensive telling him no, because that
Speaker 1: might really put you in danger, or telling him yes
Speaker 1: and then owing him something. You know what that's called.
Speaker 1: I know now it's called opportunity costs in economics term,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know that then. I just knew, I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, Carlos, Carlos family dangers. You gotta be
Speaker 1: careful you're taking money from Carlos. So in my mind
Speaker 1: I had to figure out how to translate these questions
Speaker 1: into terms that I understood and then translated back to
Speaker 1: what the people was asking me. To answer this question.
Speaker 1: It took me three tries, dog like, I could not
Speaker 1: get it, and I never felt so ill equipped. Yo,
Speaker 1: and for real, for real, if you really want to
Speaker 1: know why black and brown children score lower on average
Speaker 1: and the s A T S is this, These questions
Speaker 1: aren't calibrated to us. We have to translate things into
Speaker 1: what we understand, then translate them back to what you understand.
Speaker 1: We all do this. You have to really be by
Speaker 1: try and quadri lingual to really understand how any of
Speaker 1: this works. And I'm not just saying black and brown,
Speaker 1: I'm saying poor kids too. It's not calibrated to us,
Speaker 1: and I feel like that's all of us with politics.
Speaker 1: The point is this, they're not smarter than you. They
Speaker 1: just use a different language than you. And you could
Speaker 1: be the black and brown person in the community, which
Speaker 1: is the lens that I'm speaking from. You could be
Speaker 1: the rural kid from the middle of Central Texas. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, toughest nails. You could be the
Speaker 1: trailer person in in Pontiac, Michigan. It don't matter to me.
Speaker 1: You understand, and this stuff it's just set in a
Speaker 1: different language. So it makes you feel like they're smarter
Speaker 1: than you. These people ain't smarter than you. Now, in
Speaker 1: this episode, I'm gonna attempt to give you a treatise
Speaker 1: as to why I'm your guy, a little bit of
Speaker 1: my background, and what I hope to accomplish. Um, you
Speaker 1: kind of heard what I hope to accomplish just now,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna try to go into it a little
Speaker 1: more and give you more examples of how this applies
Speaker 1: to politics and why I'm your dude. But first, your
Speaker 1: boy's background. Who is propagandia? So for me, all of
Speaker 1: it started in south central seventy third San Pedro. That's
Speaker 1: where my family is, my my father's side. At least,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna name a lot of places. Since most of
Speaker 1: y'all really probably aren't from l A, you won't know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. I'm also gonna not name names
Speaker 1: because it's a high possibility that, you know, there's plenty
Speaker 1: number of people to listen to this that do actually
Speaker 1: know me personally, so I'm trying not to name names
Speaker 1: because that's not fair to them. And also the fact
Speaker 1: that these people listening to me that do know me
Speaker 1: would be able to call bullshit. So I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: it a whole buck with y'all. Seventy three of San
Speaker 1: Pedro my father's side, almost all of his aunts and
Speaker 1: uncles on his mother's side all kind of came to
Speaker 1: South Central and South Los Angeles. So Watts Compton, South Central. Uh,
Speaker 1: A few of us kind of spread out to Currenchhaw District, Inglewood,
Speaker 1: they kind of moved west, but we all kind of
Speaker 1: like came around here during the sixties in the Watts
Speaker 1: Towers projects when Jim Crow was ending and black people
Speaker 1: were allowed to own homes in a place that was
Speaker 1: never a slave state, you know, as far as slave
Speaker 1: as far as black people are concerned. So we landed
Speaker 1: in this area. That's where a lot of my roots
Speaker 1: kind of sprout from. My first five was spent right
Speaker 1: on that street with my grandmother babysitting me. That's where
Speaker 1: I learned that I wasn't set out for gang life
Speaker 1: on that street. If you listen to my music, I've
Speaker 1: talked about it before. The Alleyway on Florence in Maine,
Speaker 1: behind this burger joint called the Golden Ox was, yeah,
Speaker 1: where I saw my first gun, where I realized I
Speaker 1: was ten years old, where I realized Uh, yeah, gang
Speaker 1: life ain't for me. I was like, Yo, these y'all
Speaker 1: signed up for this, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: what you learned quickly is like, even if you don't
Speaker 1: sign up for it, having to navigate street stuff is unavoidable.
Speaker 1: No matter how square you are, it's you have to
Speaker 1: at least know how to navigate it. I was in
Speaker 1: an art you know. I was an art kid, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And I fell in love with graffiti,
Speaker 1: and graffiti became uh and hip hop became the way
Speaker 1: that I spent most of my formative years. The story
Speaker 1: about the Alleyway and behind the Golden Knox is a
Speaker 1: whole other story that we don't got enough time for
Speaker 1: this podcast. But just no, that was a squad car
Speaker 1: you know what I mean by squad car that handed
Speaker 1: the homies these guns. Anyway, my family moved twenty minutes
Speaker 1: east to the San Gabriel Valley, which is right outside
Speaker 1: of Los Angeles. Like I said, twenty minutes east, right
Speaker 1: outside of South Central I moved to. This neighborhood was
Speaker 1: predominantly Mexican, very Latino, but predominantly Mexican, which was another
Speaker 1: reason as to why I didn't join my neighborhood set
Speaker 1: because I mean there was Vatos, you know, it was Tolo,
Speaker 1: so like I would be a liability to these dudes.
Speaker 1: But again, this was my neighborhood that sort of I
Speaker 1: kind of cut my teeth in fell in love with
Speaker 1: hip hop where I scraped my knee from first skateboard
Speaker 1: where I figured out how to hop the bus to
Speaker 1: the l a river and you know, throw your jacket
Speaker 1: over the barbed wire to hop the fence to clack clack,
Speaker 1: scribble your name on the wall, you know, and then
Speaker 1: how to throw the backpack somewhere else and you know,
Speaker 1: stash it in a in a bush on the off
Speaker 1: ramp and come back at eleven to come pick up.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't be telling you all this stuff. It's also
Speaker 1: how I got into the system because of like the
Speaker 1: gang sweeps and gang injunctions of the nineties and two
Speaker 1: thousands in Los Angeles, because stupid me wrote my name
Speaker 1: on every folder that I had and then put it
Speaker 1: on walls so then the popo could be like, uh,
Speaker 1: is this you? You can't be like nah, because that's
Speaker 1: the same name that's on Well, we were so dull.
Speaker 1: That's where I learned all this stuff. I went to
Speaker 1: high school twenty minutes east of there to the sort
Speaker 1: of the Inland Empires, what we call it. I went
Speaker 1: to high school out there, very diverse. It was brand new,
Speaker 1: sort of like planned community. The thing about California suburbs
Speaker 1: is like they're not as white as they seem. They're
Speaker 1: actually very diverse, and like every family had the same idea,
Speaker 1: which was, man, let's get a little money and get
Speaker 1: our sons or our daughters out of these environments. So
Speaker 1: we just basically took l A and such and just
Speaker 1: moved it to nicer houses. I had a chance to
Speaker 1: sort of like live in a predominantly black neighborhood, predominantly
Speaker 1: Latino neighborhood, and then in a white community that happened
Speaker 1: to be sprinkled with a whole lot of other, uh
Speaker 1: diverse pockets. So that's kind of the childhood sort of
Speaker 1: the story. I felt, like I said, I fell in
Speaker 1: love with hip hop in those early stages of my life,
Speaker 1: started rapping, battle rapping and doing a lot of graffiti
Speaker 1: and all those different things that kind of come around
Speaker 1: being a part of hip hop where you kind of
Speaker 1: all over the city in all different types of communities
Speaker 1: that you know, you're jumping in the schools, you jump
Speaker 1: ditching school to go to the neighbor to the rival
Speaker 1: high school to battle somebody like I'm not out here
Speaker 1: like you know it was. She was battling like I
Speaker 1: wanted to. Like we had some breakdancing battles, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, during the lunch break at a school
Speaker 1: down the streets. So if I was ditching school, it
Speaker 1: wasn't to go smoke or nothing, although we were smoking,
Speaker 1: but it was over there to bust some windmills. Was
Speaker 1: over there to slaughter whack um. See you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And you know it is you got the
Speaker 1: testosterone go on his hot heads. And again gang life
Speaker 1: is unavoidable, so some people start set trivi. You start
Speaker 1: serving this full he from his block. He got his
Speaker 1: homies out there. Now you gang banging. It's just like
Speaker 1: this stuff all overlaps. But you just see so much
Speaker 1: of the world and just being in love with hip hop,
Speaker 1: and if you live in Los Angeles, like the undercurrent
Speaker 1: of all this stuff is still what set you claim
Speaker 1: when neighborhood you're from, because that kind of explains sort
Speaker 1: of the the metal for which you're made of. Do
Speaker 1: you got some strengthen you do got some stay in power?
Speaker 1: And if I like, if I try to test your jaw,
Speaker 1: which basically means if I punch you, you know, do
Speaker 1: you got a glass jaw? Or is there somebody else
Speaker 1: I gotta worry about? If I punch you, can you
Speaker 1: call somebody? Can you make a call? And the El
Speaker 1: Dorado come around the corner. That's why a lot of
Speaker 1: times when they're asking you where you're from, or why
Speaker 1: it's so important for California's or hood people to say
Speaker 1: where they're from, because it it it tells you all
Speaker 1: of that in that one sentence. So that's sort of
Speaker 1: the personal narrative. The school narrative is what's to school
Speaker 1: for illustration and intercultural studies? Then, like I said before,
Speaker 1: when you got my teacher and credential in history and
Speaker 1: social science. My father was a black panther, so ideas
Speaker 1: of justice and blackness, even though I was in a
Speaker 1: predominantly Latino space, these were unquestioned norms. The reality of
Speaker 1: racism in America, the reality of the oppression of poor
Speaker 1: communities everywhere was was there was no option. You're going
Speaker 1: to participate in justice. You're going to participate and interact
Speaker 1: with government in law because duh, they wrote it into
Speaker 1: the constitution. Y'all told me I have a say, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you honor. That's really the attitude you
Speaker 1: get from being raised by a black panther, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. My parents split when I was in
Speaker 1: high school. My father sort of stayed around the l
Speaker 1: A San Gabriel area. I kind of bounced back and
Speaker 1: forth between my mom's house and my father's house, in
Speaker 1: between nice neighborhoods and hood hoods, really getting my passport
Speaker 1: stamped and pretty much in community, whether it was Filipino
Speaker 1: or Pacific Islander, and you know, tongue in Samoan Latino.
Speaker 1: I speak decent Spanish, you know. And back back home
Speaker 1: to South Central I just got to see the world
Speaker 1: in a lot of different arenas, and then being able
Speaker 1: to go off to college in Orange County, which was
Speaker 1: if you know Orange County in Los Angeles, those are
Speaker 1: the people that Orange County is where they had the
Speaker 1: anti mass protests. So I'll let you draw your conclusions
Speaker 1: by Orange County. That's where I went to college. So
Speaker 1: you just traversed so many different spaces and gives you
Speaker 1: a lot of ways to sort of like understand how
Speaker 1: everybody is looking at the same thing and drawing these
Speaker 1: different conclusions. So finished school. I taught high school for
Speaker 1: six years. And during this whole time that I was
Speaker 1: finishing school teaching high school, I was doing music battle rapping.
Speaker 1: And then one day, actually the day I got my
Speaker 1: first record deal was the same day I got higher
Speaker 1: full time at the high school I taught, which is
Speaker 1: pretty funny, but I had no delusions of grandeur. I
Speaker 1: kept working, but I kept getting, you know, more and
Speaker 1: more involved in hip hop until the day came that
Speaker 1: I kind of had to make a choice. Am I
Speaker 1: going to continue to do music? Because I wasn't doing
Speaker 1: either of them well. So I had to decide whether
Speaker 1: I was gonna keep doing music or keep teaching. And
Speaker 1: I just decided I'm gonna strike while the iron's hot
Speaker 1: with music, and I started pursuing that full time. I
Speaker 1: have no problem working. I cleaned toilets for a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, I painted a garage one month to make
Speaker 1: meet rent. I went on tour, uh with some big names,
Speaker 1: you know, depending on how old you are, went on
Speaker 1: to over care us one. I was on the war tour.
Speaker 1: I did to smoke out for a while, but none
Speaker 1: of it cracked until I started taking the poetry side serious.
Speaker 1: When that happened, I had a few poems go viral.
Speaker 1: I started getting on some sort of a couple believe
Speaker 1: it or not, evangelical events that put me on arena
Speaker 1: stages faster than I was prepared for it to happen.
Speaker 1: But it did happen, and uh, I was off to
Speaker 1: the races. But a funny thing that happens when you
Speaker 1: get into evangelical spaces is they tend to believe that
Speaker 1: you are just like them, which brings me to the
Speaker 1: final part of the introduction, which is the faith part.
Speaker 1: Every other blackground we went to church. You know what what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. M Some of y'all who have been checked
Speaker 1: in with me for a while know where I stand.
Speaker 1: Know that my background with music has been in a
Speaker 1: good amount of Christian spaces. I've I've been able to
Speaker 1: like navigate a lot of different arenas with my music
Speaker 1: and with my poetry. But ultimately, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, like you know, you can you can't lie.
Speaker 1: A lot of y'all saw me as a Christian artist.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. New people. New people are old people.
Speaker 1: I honestly believe the worst thing a person can do
Speaker 1: is have their faith tied to their income. It's just
Speaker 1: it's just a death nail dog. You can't because you
Speaker 1: can't do either of them. Well, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like you not allowed for your thoughts to evolve. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, You may think something a certain
Speaker 1: way because listen, anybody who got the same views and
Speaker 1: thoughts they did ten years ago. Like, that's a problem.
Speaker 1: You you gotta grow, Like at some point you should
Speaker 1: be growing. And then there's this quote from like Upton Sinclair,
Speaker 1: which I really feel like, like nails what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say here. It goes like this, It's difficult to
Speaker 1: get a man to understand something when his salary depends
Speaker 1: upon his not understanding it. Do you know how many
Speaker 1: d ms I get from pastors who have been atheists
Speaker 1: for years? You know what I mean? Foods have come
Speaker 1: out to me, either in person over some beers or
Speaker 1: some weed or some dams that are like, I just
Speaker 1: can't share this with nobody else. It's just the space,
Speaker 1: don't allow for nuance, don't allow for you to change
Speaker 1: your mind in any way. So you're either gonna lose
Speaker 1: your faith or you're gonna lose your job. I was like,
Speaker 1: if I'm a deconvert or dig my feet into stand,
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna because of y'all. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: like a disembodied voice. I mean I'm a real person
Speaker 1: and I got real people in my life that actually
Speaker 1: know me that are making sure Like yo, are you
Speaker 1: are you're giving credit where credits due? Are you loving
Speaker 1: your neighbor? Are you being as humble as possible? Are
Speaker 1: you taking care of your family? Are you you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Are you taking care of your soul?
Speaker 1: Are you, you know, taking care of the globe? You
Speaker 1: feel me that? Like, I mean, so many people worry
Speaker 1: about your theology don't actually know you. I look, I
Speaker 1: came from a hood church. I love them families. My
Speaker 1: uncle Billy ray My, you know what I'm saying, My
Speaker 1: uncle COR's gene. This was Citizens Design Missionary Baptist Church, Compton, California.
Speaker 1: Like I grew up, like every other black person grew up.
Speaker 1: We went to church, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: when we say we went to church and we was Christians.
Speaker 1: A lot of times that conjure up that Western evangelical
Speaker 1: idea that most of y'all have, because they built an
Speaker 1: industry out of their faith. The problem is, I don't
Speaker 1: come from that. I don't understand how a book that
Speaker 1: took place in the Sinai Peninsula, Nibia, Egypt, Ethiopia somehow
Speaker 1: translated into a white Jesus and white supremacy that these
Speaker 1: people believe in Rome. You the occupiers, do you understand
Speaker 1: you following the story Roam the bad guy in the story.
Speaker 1: I just I don't. I just don't have no understanding
Speaker 1: about the Christian nationalism, the patriot the garden country. I
Speaker 1: don't get none of it. I'm just sending up a slave.
Speaker 1: I don't understand what the hell they talking about? What
Speaker 1: are y'all so worried about? Why you only care about
Speaker 1: babies in a wound like I don't what about when
Speaker 1: they are out? Like? I just the hell I care
Speaker 1: about a Puritan? I didn't come from that. I came
Speaker 1: from an inner city space. I just didn't come from
Speaker 1: this like culture war, sort of like arrogance of thought
Speaker 1: that we're the onliest people. With the rightest answers about
Speaker 1: all the stuff and then honestly, like real ship, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm real cool on a lot of this. How I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look my grandma to face, my great grandma in
Speaker 1: the face, my ancestors who somehow got through them slave ships,
Speaker 1: somehow got through the nigger corters, thinking, these Negro spiritual
Speaker 1: and these families in and around our city who just
Speaker 1: cared about us so much and worried about, you know,
Speaker 1: for better or for worse, what our soul was doing,
Speaker 1: and became the people that they I can't look them
Speaker 1: in the face and say they're tripping. But I do
Speaker 1: know the yang they talking ain't the yang y'all talking?
Speaker 1: You feel me? So for me, Look, I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: talk to you about peno substitutionary atonement of super lapsarian
Speaker 1: is um like this ain't the show for that, and
Speaker 1: it's not where I am. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I don't let go of a lot of stuff I
Speaker 1: used to think, and there's a lot of stuff that
Speaker 1: still ain't true. But look, I ain't here to argue
Speaker 1: about his facial features. I probably shouldn't invot Kanye, but
Speaker 1: you get the point, I'm just saying, damn man, chill,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm said. But in the spirit of
Speaker 1: the show, let me give you a hood example about this.
Speaker 1: I have fourteen I think I think I have fourteen
Speaker 1: first cousins, and I ain't gonna tell you which side
Speaker 1: because my family listening and I love him. Now, this
Speaker 1: could be hypothetical, it could not be hypothetical. I don't
Speaker 1: name names. The point is, I know y'all can relate
Speaker 1: to this, So just just follow me here. Other fourteen
Speaker 1: first cousins, there's a there's a few of them who
Speaker 1: are just them niggas is trashed. I don't know what
Speaker 1: else is saying. They just they're criminals because they all
Speaker 1: saying like this, this my cousin. I love him, but
Speaker 1: they're dangerous. That is dangerous. Yeo, I'm saying, I'll walk
Speaker 1: there around my children. I don't like it when they're
Speaker 1: around my my mama. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: I love my auntie, that's my cousin, but I am nothing.
Speaker 1: And what sucks is like when you come around the hood,
Speaker 1: Like if I come around the hood, I got the
Speaker 1: same last name. I come around the hood, and the
Speaker 1: whole hood like, oh oh you word you you from
Speaker 1: that family, And I'm like wait wait wait, wait, wait
Speaker 1: wait wait, wait, time out. I'm like family, it's fifty
Speaker 1: others of us that ain't like that. I don't know
Speaker 1: what he owned. This man had made his own decisions.
Speaker 1: We just share the same grandma. Yeah, and my grandma
Speaker 1: one of the most honorable humans on the planet. I
Speaker 1: just I admired my I love my grandma, so out
Speaker 1: of honor of my grandma, I can't disavow this nigga
Speaker 1: like heat my family. I mean, we got the same grandma.
Speaker 1: What you want me to do? But hell yeah, the trash,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you want to say. Man, that's
Speaker 1: really the way I feel. I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: on with this white supremacy stuff. That's just white being white.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's up with this purity culture. That's
Speaker 1: just Victorian. I don't know about this colonialism stuff. That's
Speaker 1: just colonial that's what colonialism do. They just put a
Speaker 1: Christian name on it. That's just what they do. I
Speaker 1: ain't got nothing to do with that. I don't understand
Speaker 1: none of that stuff. I don't know what to say, y'all.
Speaker 1: But that's my that's my backstory. You know you're gonna
Speaker 1: go through music, you won't hear a lot of Jesus stuff.
Speaker 1: But trust me, Jesus I'm talking about that ain't the
Speaker 1: same nigga. You know what I'm saying. I'm cool. Look
Speaker 1: the earth older than six thousand years. I got you.
Speaker 1: I get it yourself saying y'all reading that mug all wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm cool with the gays. You feel me like, I
Speaker 1: ain't got know homophobic ball to my body. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, I'm that's not me. I got
Speaker 1: trans folks, I got trans family. Because like I'm not listening,
Speaker 1: I got not to do it. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're talking about. I'm just as outraged as you are.
Speaker 1: Trust me all that to say this, I come from
Speaker 1: this really diverse background. I've seen a lot of different things. Now,
Speaker 1: I should never be your source of news. This should
Speaker 1: never be the first time you heard a story. This
Speaker 1: is more about. You heard a story in the news,
Speaker 1: something going on in politics, geopolitics, whatever, and you're just like, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: what I kind of feel like is this? But maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm here to
Speaker 1: tell you yes you do. And the reason why I
Speaker 1: feel like I know I could say that this is
Speaker 1: because I've had to traverse so many different worlds. Whether
Speaker 1: it was the evangelical spaces, whether it was hood spaces,
Speaker 1: Latino spaces, Asian spaces, academic spaces, street spaces. I've just
Speaker 1: had to at least learn how to understand the way
Speaker 1: that they saw the world. And it helps me go, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what you're trying to say. That sounds a
Speaker 1: lot like this. When you're talking about foreign allies. You
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Speaker 1: what they're trying to say. Whatever you hear a word
Speaker 1: about these are our allies. These are fine. They're just
Speaker 1: asking you who're gonna jump in? If you're getting jumped,
Speaker 1: that's that's That's all that is. See, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say. It's not that hard. You feel me.
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Speaker 1: you feel me. It's easy, y'all. And all I wanna do.
Speaker 1: I just want to direct traffic. You smell me. That's
Speaker 1: all this pot is about directing traffic. So that's me
Speaker 1: in a nutshell. I know we didn't talk about any
Speaker 1: particular topic, but I just want to introduce myself with
Speaker 1: this one. And as we keep going in, we're gonna
Speaker 1: dive into more things that have to do specifically with
Speaker 1: really understanding politics, because politics, after all, it's just gangbanging
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