WEBVTT - Conversations About Hip Hop's Accountability 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:04.440 What's up? And welcome back to another episode of No 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:07.520 Sealers podcast with your hosts now fuck that with your 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:22.360 load glasses Malone. So it's been crazy, right, all this 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.320 promo shit started, Nigga doing the promo run, making all 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.800 the magic happen. That's the it don't stop. So I 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:40.959 put out cancel these nuts. Six weeks ago, I went 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.080 on a mad promo run to the East coast, right, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:56.040 brilliant idiots, breakfast club, horrible decisions, expert opinion, dash radio stuff, 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.720 serious radio stuff. Shout out to Ron Mills, all my 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:05.880 good people over there, see what's up. But stopped in Boston. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.039 Did the press up there? Promo up there? Shut out 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:13.320 to my brother DJ ras Sheet and I come home 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.880 and when I get home, obviously I do my run. 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.800 So a lot of good, solid brothers on the West. 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.560 That started all of these dope you know media platforms 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:34.480 back on fig the community, my boy Pun Trail, a 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.560 d mac wad. They just created like this really dope 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:47.080 you know media kind of cipher and it's been unbelievable. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:52.280 Like right, that run has been crazy. The conversation has 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:58.520 been crazy. One of the main conversations is that's that 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:05.320 everybody's being stuck on is is Drake hip Hop? For 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:10.160 twelve years, I ran around just to learn what records 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.200 was about, just to learn what hip hop was about, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.919 just to learn what marketing was about. I literally decided 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.160 I wasn't gonna even make money in this business because 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.000 I felt like I didn't do enough to deserve it, 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.200 Like it had already paid me millions of dollars and 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.160 I didn't do enough to deserve it. So I committed 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.400 to it, almost like a nun or something. Because going 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:38.920 into like a church or you know how they pledged 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:43.959 their life to Catholicism, That's how I pledged my existence 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.320 to hip hop and understanding what was going on. And 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.760 obviously I'm compelled to speak on it at another level 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:57.480 because I literally sacrificed enough to have an opinion. I've 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.519 done enough work. I've done the work to have an opinion. Now, 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.280 how good I think my album is. It's not just 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.679 the work itself. The reason I know my album is great, right, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.160 it's because I did the work. But then when you 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:15.120 listen to the album and you know enough, minds tell 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.280 you what it is, they confirm it. But I was confident, 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.600 just like a boxer and training camp because I did 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.519 all the hard work and training camp. I did all 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:29.000 the hard work way before you heard the music. But 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.080 it just made me have some interesting thoughts about hip 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:39.119 hop that was different. And I noticed it's a movement 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:46.000 of black people really blaming hip hop for everything right. 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:53.160 And these same black people are some of the brothers 0:03:53.160 --> 0:04:01.880 that argue with me about this particular topic. Shout out 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:09.000 to my Nigga Jobs intellectually petty. Intellectually petty radio A podcasts, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.640 y'all go look it up for some of YouTube, really 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:19.440 intelligent brother from the Midwest from Detroit. And it made 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.440 me think, and I think we've talked about this before 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:32.400 with different people on those seilings, that term accountability. What 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.880 is hip hop's accountability in the current status, like in 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:42.480 the current state of the ghettos across America? How much 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:47.599 is hip hop to blame? Jobs was saying to me. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:52.440 He thought Sexy Rare with Satan, and I'm like, this 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:57.920 is this young twenty seven year old girl from Saint Louis, right, 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.919 who obviously understands some marketing. Because even through all of 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.960 the the marketing itself and the funniness itself of what's 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.880 going on. Most women when they're trying to be sexy, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.800 the first thing they want to do is take off 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.839 their glasses. This girl keeps her glasses on, doing the 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.920 most ratchet shit in the world, acting like she's attempting 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.400 to be sexy. I really think sexy Red is like 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:29.680 a marketing savant because this motherfucker ain't took off her glasses. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:35.479 Wearing two pieces. You know, she could get contacts. She 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:41.480 won't take off her glasses. Daisy Dupes splits ratchet, but 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.880 she got her glasses on. It reminds me of Ice 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:52.640 Spice and that orphan any wig. Ice Spice is like 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:58.360 orphan any with ass when she wear that wig. Like 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:03.080 their marketing savants. That whole generation under thirty, that generation, 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.040 I don't know if it's Alpha, but that whichever generation 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:11.320 it is, they're marketing savants. All these motherfuckers under thirty 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:16.960 understand how they want you to see them, and they 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.159 understand what you're gonna think about it. But back to 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:26.880 the point he was saying, he felt sexy Rere was 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.880 the satan, and I'm like, with all these Sam Smiths 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:35.000 and people doing crazy shit on these award shows, endorsing 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:39.800 the devil, you thought a black lady, a black young 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:45.640 girl from fucking Saint Louis because she's a bit extra promiscuous, 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:56.520 is satan? Like, she's satan. It's so it's not Generation Alpha, 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:01.080 it's the millennials or generation Why. But I'm like, she's Satan. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.559 What is sexy Read really to blame for? At this point? 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:11.440 What is she really to blame for? No, Siller's jail 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.520 flying solo today, Ain't no auto pilot, ain't no co pilots. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.280 It's just me and y'all. So we're gonna pop this shit. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.040 But what is sexy Read really to blame for? At 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:31.040 this point? Doug, is sexy Read the first hood rat 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:36.240 girl in the communities? Is she inspiring women to be 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.200 hood rats? Or is she a reflection that there is 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.760 a promiscuous group of women that suffer from a level 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.160 of trauma that makes them feel like they have ownership 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.720 over certain things that you obviously are really rich and 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.680 deep that they feel they have ownership over. Maybe they 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.280 feel they have to claim ownership over it because in 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.800 some of those situations, some of these people women molested 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.920 and went through hell. So now they're trying to claim 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.520 it to have some level of strength, But it's Sexy 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:11.000 Red really inspiring a generation of women to be hood rats. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.360 Her biggest demographic is going to be middle class America. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:22.240 White women you feel me, that are in college, white 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.360 women that live in the suburbs. Are is she gonna 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:32.680 inspire them to get pregnant? Are white women gonna line 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.440 up at the plant parenthood or at the clinic because 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:42.920 they got STDs? Like Sexy Red rap about? Like, is 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:48.240 there clinics gonna be overfilled with motherfucking women getting abortion? 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.520 Like how much is hip hop really to blame? Like 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.280 let's be for real, like we didne got so far 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:02.240 out of the space of understand that systemic oppression is 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.840 still currently going on, Like and we'll find ways to 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.240 figure it out. We'll name it. If somebody get their 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.720 ass killed by police and then the police get off, 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.640 we'll see it be like, well that's different we act 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.720 like one day we woke up and then the United 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.720 States of America decided, well, we not gonna go hard 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.559 on these niggas no more. So it must be these 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.559 niggas fault at this point that they are a bit 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:34.600 traumatized and react and develop confidence in even lower standards. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.040 It's sexy Red really to blame, Like, come on, man, 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.000 like this shit is getting crazy. Look, you don't gotta 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.000 like it, bro, I get it. You don't gotta like it. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.600 Maybe you have a daughter cause and you're like, I 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.199 don't want my daughter to be sexy red. Bro, if 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.520 you're in her life, she's not gonna be sexy red. 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.800 Trust me, if you, as a father, are in her life, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:12.880 she is not gonna be sexy red. She is not 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.960 gonna be sexy red. Sexy Reds issues are completely different. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.040 It's obviously it's obvious that girl been through a lot 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:25.080 of shit. But the fact that we're blaming an artist 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:30.520 painting a picture of something that exists in our communities 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.280 and we like, well, she's gonna tell everybody else they 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.560 didn't know hood rats existed. I saw people talking about 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:43.880 are we celebrating sexy Red or sexy Red celebrating that 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:49.520 promiscuous culture that people feel like she's a part of. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:54.040 And I'm like, what if her experiences is only fucking 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.520 with crazy niggas because she live in the ghetto. You 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:03.800 don't want people to know it's crazy Because I remember 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:08.959 growing up and people like see the Lords Tucker blaming 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:14.280 hip hop for what's going on in the ghetto, not 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.559 the ghetto for what's going on in hip hop, because 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.120 that would be too much like right. Instead, she's blaming 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:26.280 hip hop for what's going on in the ghetto. Again, 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:30.720 I say she was blaming hip hop for what's going 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.400 on in the ghetto. She didn't blame what's going on 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:39.240 in the ghetto on hip hop. I mean, excuse me. 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.920 She didn't blame what's going on in hip hop on 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.920 the ghetto. It was the other way around. The art 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:53.920 was inspiring the community. So you got all of these grown, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:58.319 middle aged men acting like Sexy Red is some kind 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.720 of unique character or her characters should be suppressed, even 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.240 though most of y'all have pretty much dealt with a 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.400 sexy Red, especially if you grew up where we grew 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.000 up at. Maybe your baby mama is a sexy Red. 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.240 Maybe you're the reason that sexy Red became sexy Red. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.480 It ain't like you niggas as waking up trying to 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.240 wipe these women. You're trying to get some pussy. So 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.360 if you're trying to get some pussy, and lord knows 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.959 how hell bent we bet on trying to get some pussy, 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.880 we'll lie, We'll do whatever it take. We'll break a 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.319 woman's spirit just to get some pussy, and then when 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:38.240 they mutate into sexy Red, we'll be like, well, I 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.000 don't know what happened. And then we'll get older and 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:51.120 really disassociate ourselves from those circumstances. And again, I say, 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:57.720 if sexy Red is that influential, then why aren't these 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:09.880 white women having the same exact problem. Why why the 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:14.960 biggest supporter of hip hop is very much Middle American 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:21.600 white people. Why why traditionally are they not changing? And 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.840 then if you notice they're not changing, you're like, well, 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.760 they're different. You know, they have this and that. You know, 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.600 but it's affecting the ghetto or is the ghetto affecting 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.240 the cheese a representation of it? This shit just sometimes 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.319 is getting crazy, Like we have literally decided white people 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.760 are not to blame, or we said we've blamed them enough, 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.160 even though they had motherfuckers and slave for two three 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.280 hundred years, four hundred years, We like, oh well this 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:59.360 hundred years was enough to escape it. All I hear 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:05.880 is hip hop's negative influence. All blame hip hop? Hip 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.880 hop did this? Not the ghetto is inspiring hip hop, 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:15.240 but hip hop is inspiring the ghetto. Well, let's talk 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.480 about what the ghetto has done. Let's talk about ice Cube. 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:24.800 Does anybody truly give ice Cube credit for creating three 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.600 of the biggest comics in the last I don't know 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:36.080 thirty years. Chris Tucker came from ice Cube, Mike Apps 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:40.280 came from ice Cube. Cat Williams came from ice Cube. 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.680 Everybody said, Chris Tucker made these big one hundred two, 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:49.120 three four five hundred blockbuster million dollar films, three four 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:53.040 five hundred dollars meal four five hundred million dollar films, 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.320 and all that that came from some nigga in hip hop, 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.840 some nigga that grew up in one to eleven South 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:04.320 Central one eleven neighborhood crip created three of the ten 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:09.280 biggest comics in the last thirty years. Hip hop did that. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:18.880 Hip hop did that. You don't have rush Hour without 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:25.480 fucking ice Qube. You don't have a rush Hour. So 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.080 you probably don't have Jackie Chan at this level without 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:35.400 ice Q. Because Chris Tucker is the starter film, right, 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.800 he's selling a film on a mainstream level. You don't 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.600 have none of them rush Hours. So about I don't 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:50.200 know a billion dollars worth of film franchise. You owe 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:54.040 that to hip hop because some nigga who said fuck 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:59.400 the police in eighty eight created a platform and motherfucking 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.480 developed one of the biggest and most important film stars 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:09.280 in the last motherfucking thirty years. You owe hip hop 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:17.560 for that? How about? What is that a trade off 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:26.280 of sexy read? You have Chris Tucker, Mike Apps. I 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.000 can't go down to listen ship Mike Apps has contributed 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:34.720 to that matter. Cat Williams, we all know how fucking 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:43.400 unbelievable he is. That's Cat Williams. Fucking Cat Williams dog. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.920 But I was gonna give hip hop credit for that? 0:16:50.920 --> 0:17:04.440 Probably not, Probably fucking not. What about Terry Crews. Y'all 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:10.400 love Terry Crews, y'all. That's y'all, motherfucking mad old Terry Crews. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.560 He was in training day, he was a backup person. 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.479 Friday at the next was his moment to Shine. You 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.200 owe that to Ice Q, You owe that to hip hop? 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:33.800 You owe that to hip hop? Can hip hop get 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:41.840 a thank you? You give it all the blame, all 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.520 the fucking blame is hip hop. But where is all 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:50.439 the fucking credit? A guy on Twitter Today asked me 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.960 about Snoop Dogg. He said crips didn't exist in the 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:58.680 Midwest until Snoop Dogg came out. Not the drug game 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.160 where everybody from Los Angeles was going to these towns 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:08.080 and setting up shot. Nope, the rap music, hip hop. 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:19.000 And I do agree that Snoop reinforced the title crypts. 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:23.919 He made people that was the first cryp. Most people 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.840 really felt like they knew. He's by far the most 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.160 popular crip of all time. It's pretty much it's fair 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:36.359 to say he's the greatest cryp of all time. But 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:41.240 he also defined it in his way. So while you're 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.399 looking at Rocket from Colors and like, this is what 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.640 crypts are about. Which in the movie Colors, maybe Rocket, 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.960 you know, shout out to Don Cheto probably the greatest 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:57.120 Black actor you know ever as far as just pure skills. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.480 I mean, I don't think he have the films of 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.280 Denzel Washington or like my favorite actor, you know, Samuel Jackson, 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:09.600 but just pure pound for pound awesome acting. Don Cheetoh 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.760 was probably the best one as far as Black actors go. 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:18.240 Maybe him a Forest Whitaker, but you know what I'm saying, 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:23.040 It's like Snoop is he didn't let Colors tell you 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.760 what cripping was about. So while you were looking at 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.119 the film Colors or the film dough Boy, you know, 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.280 excuse me boys in the Hood with Doe Boy, or 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:36.479 or the Wren's take character, Oh Dog, you mess, Snoop, 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:41.320 and Snoop showed you how diverse a cryp can be, 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.200 because that's how most crips are. Just like Snoop. Some 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.840 have jobs, some go to school, some most raised their family, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:56.679 most get married, most of them are productive members in society. Eventually, 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.600 they may start off in these ghettos, having to earn 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.920 how they earn, But just like my older homie Pluck, 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.760 they'll figure out their way. They'll be owning trucks and 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.240 driving trucks, or like my older homie Moon, they'll be 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:14.360 having tow trucks and running motorcycle clubs and monetizing social lifestyles. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.960 Or they'll be like my ogi homie Shady, who can 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:24.320 pull apart of hardy and put it back together, engine, frame, wheels, everything, 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.600 or like my homeboy Boom, my older homie Boo and 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.800 put together cars and he knows how to paint them 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.680 and bring cars back to life. After they've been salvaged. 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:42.840 Just because Hollywood tried to tell you what crips was, 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:47.199 you ran to everybody else like, this is what crips was. 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.640 And then you met Snoop. It Snoop showed you everything 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:57.080 cribs could be. It made the whole world fall in 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:04.040 love with crips. That's what hip hop does. Hip hop 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:08.920 shows you how the ghetto party, how the ghetto parties. 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:14.119 That's where hip hop started at as far as the music, 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:19.400 it started as a party. When we celebrated the fiftieth year. 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:22.600 The address they put on that flyer fifteen to twenty 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:27.360 segwich that project. You were going to a party. It 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:32.440 was a hip hop. My dad and the generation they 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:36.199 called a party a hop and you know what hip is. 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:40.600 Hip is cool. It was the way the ghetto party. 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:48.480 We are the cool kids. The way we write right, 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:55.640 that's tagging. The way we dance, that's breaking, the way 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.360 we take the music and make our own thing right, 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.720 that's a breakbeat. And then we can't sing. We wasn't 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:07.359 professional trained singers, So guess what we rap? Shout out 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:18.000 to Joe Text, shout out to the watch poets. DJ's 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:23.200 existed before hip hop they did. They existed before hip hop. 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:27.600 This goal had DJ's, radio had DJ's, but they didn't 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:31.639 do it the way we did it. They didn't do 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:35.679 it the way the cool kids did it. So it 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.240 looks like we created all of this stuff because we're 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:42.080 so fucking cool in these ghettos that when we start 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:46.400 doing stuff, everybody does stuff like it. But you know what, 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:49.880 it's not the ghetto that does stuff like it, it's 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:54.320 Middle America that does stuff like it. So I'm almost 0:22:54.320 --> 0:22:59.600 starting to believe Middle America is not as mad at 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:07.119 hip as the people that are black people. It's almost 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:11.840 like it's more ridicule from middle class and wealthy black 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:19.640 people or successful black people on poor people. I don't 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:23.840 even think they really believe in systemic oppression because they're successful. 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:31.440 I think this is a greater problem. I genuinely think 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:38.199 this is a greater problem. I think this is a 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:42.640 greater problem. I've heard people tell me hip hop, oh, 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:46.360 it was created to solve problems. And then I had 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:49.879 great conversations with Crazy Legs and other founding fathers, and 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:52.600 they was like, man, we were stick of kids. They 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:56.639 were telling me they were criminals. The Black Spades are 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.439 pretty much the founder of hip hop. That's a gang 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:09.920 in the runs. So when people blame Snoop Dogg, like, oh, well, 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:13.440 you know, crips didn't exist in the Midwest before Snoop Dogg, 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:19.000 just because you retitled gangs. Gangs existed in the Midwest 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:24.800 before Snoop Dogg. Violence existed in the Midwest before Snoop Dogg. 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.600 All of these things existed. But because you put the 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:41.640 new name Crips on there, like, the violence is magnified. Oh, 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:50.280 the violence has to be crazier. I just don't get it. 0:24:50.440 --> 0:24:55.320 I really don't get it. Forty years ago, we understood 0:24:55.800 --> 0:25:02.800 systemic oppression, you know, we understood poverty, like that type 0:25:02.800 --> 0:25:07.800 of economic hardship was responsible for the way people acted 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:11.920 in the ghetto. The fashion is the fashion because people 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:16.080 were deprived of economics, and six pair of dickeys cost 0:25:16.119 --> 0:25:21.320 fifty dollars, seven pair of checks of chuck all start. 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:28.480 You know, converts cost fifty dollars. T shirts were undershirts. 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:32.679 They were cheap. So people mom didn't have money, but 0:25:32.760 --> 0:25:35.240 they wanted to make sure their kids had new clothes, 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:39.119 so they went down to HP Huntington Park and bought 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:44.760 them new clothes. You get six pair of pants for 0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:50.200 fifty dollars, six pair of shoes for fifty dollars, different 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:53.720 colored shirts for fifty dollars, and you have enough for 0:25:53.760 --> 0:25:56.960 a whole school year. So your mentality is, we should 0:25:57.000 --> 0:26:03.600 have been sad because our circumstances. We should have been sad. 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:07.040 We shouldn't find a sense of pride. That's what hip 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:10.200 hop is. It's that pride of no matter how bad 0:26:10.200 --> 0:26:14.679 our circumstances are, we still find pride to exist. We 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:19.000 still make it look good. We're gonna put big crease, 0:26:19.640 --> 0:26:23.560 a big crease, and those six pans for fifty dollars, 0:26:24.000 --> 0:26:26.640 we're gonna wear it with pride, and we're gonna wear 0:26:26.720 --> 0:26:31.000 it so fucking awesome that everybody else who could afford 0:26:31.119 --> 0:26:36.000 better wants to wear them. That's what hip hop is. 0:26:38.119 --> 0:26:44.359 You know what else is like that? Soul food? Soul 0:26:44.440 --> 0:26:47.159 food is just like that. It was the slops that 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:50.520 the master threw back there, the worst of the vegetables, 0:26:51.240 --> 0:26:55.680 the worst of everything we cooked. That shit so fired 0:26:55.720 --> 0:26:58.399 that they start coming back to the back house trying 0:26:58.400 --> 0:27:05.919 to eat. Now they have gourmet restaurants selling soul food, 0:27:06.480 --> 0:27:13.080 slave food, not black food. Slave food. Hip hop is 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:19.160 slave food. It's when you find a sense of pride 0:27:19.480 --> 0:27:26.320 no matter the circumstance, and you put that pride on 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:31.160 so motherfucking thick cuz that the world be like, Damn, 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:35.040 that shit looks nice. It's like an ugly bitch with 0:27:35.160 --> 0:27:39.760 too much confidence. The ugliest woman could get the best 0:27:39.800 --> 0:27:43.879 man if she but makes her if she believes in herself, 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:46.879 it convinces him that she thinks she the shit. You 0:27:47.000 --> 0:27:50.479 a fool of motherfucker. I knew a girl that was 0:27:50.520 --> 0:27:53.720 like that to me. This motherfucker was ugly, but she 0:27:53.920 --> 0:27:56.439 acted like she was fine and had me kind of 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:59.359 have fast convinced. I started to want to take the 0:27:59.400 --> 0:28:05.400 bit child. I have to get my thoughts together. That's 0:28:05.440 --> 0:28:08.640 what hip hop is. It's finding a sense of pride 0:28:08.720 --> 0:28:12.679 no matter the circumstances you are put in. Yeah, you 0:28:12.760 --> 0:28:16.080 can't learn. They don't got no band programs. They took 0:28:16.119 --> 0:28:18.800 all the band programs away. Well guess what, I'm gonna 0:28:18.840 --> 0:28:23.119 take the break of this record the drum loop, and 0:28:23.160 --> 0:28:27.400 I'm gonna loot this motherfucker over and over again. Then 0:28:27.480 --> 0:28:29.760 I don't know how to sing, but I know how 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:32.720 to put my thoughts together and make the motherfuckers rhyme. 0:28:34.200 --> 0:28:36.919 They didn't give me no professional dance lesson. But I 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:39.080 know what this beat is telling me. I see all 0:28:39.080 --> 0:28:46.600 these breaks, so let me break just like this motherfucking beat. Yeah, 0:28:46.800 --> 0:28:50.440 the education programs wasn't that great, showing us how to write, 0:28:50.520 --> 0:28:53.280 and the cursive program and all that was and shit, 0:28:53.520 --> 0:28:57.840 But I know how to make this art look motherfucking nice. 0:28:58.400 --> 0:29:02.080 Hip Hop is about take making whatever your circumstances are 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:07.959 and making it work and making it sexy, putting it 0:29:08.000 --> 0:29:11.960 on with pride, and you will have motherfuckers that could 0:29:11.960 --> 0:29:15.840 afford better being a part of it, just because you 0:29:16.080 --> 0:29:19.680 carry it with such pride. And that's your fear for 0:29:19.760 --> 0:29:24.080 a sex. She read her trauma, you know, niggas using 0:29:24.160 --> 0:29:26.760 her whatever happened to her in her life that made 0:29:26.800 --> 0:29:30.200 her feel like this ain't valuable. She still created a 0:29:30.240 --> 0:29:33.560 sense of value, and no matter her circumstances, she walk 0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:37.040 around pride being a motherfucker she is. That's what she's 0:29:37.040 --> 0:29:42.640 supposed to do. That's what she's supposed to do. She'll 0:29:42.680 --> 0:29:45.360 get exposed to more and everything else, a change in 0:29:45.440 --> 0:29:47.960 her life, but she supposed to be proud of the 0:29:48.040 --> 0:29:51.480 motherfucker she is. And you motherfuckers want her to walk 0:29:51.520 --> 0:29:57.200 around with her head down. That's why I hate you, motherfuckers. 0:29:58.760 --> 0:30:01.160 Y'all jealous of that sister, because she walk around with 0:30:01.160 --> 0:30:04.680 her fucking head up. She comes from one of the 0:30:04.760 --> 0:30:08.920 poorest places in this fucking country. She then made it out. 0:30:09.280 --> 0:30:14.640 Whatever her circumstances is, whatever promission, whatever promiscuous lifestyle she 0:30:14.680 --> 0:30:17.200 did is she didn't put together enough words and got 0:30:17.240 --> 0:30:19.480 some dope beats and put her bread together. And she's 0:30:19.520 --> 0:30:22.680 so proud of herself, and she proud of the motherfucker 0:30:22.760 --> 0:30:27.040 she is. And y'all made Oh, she's showing she's she's 0:30:27.080 --> 0:30:31.400 doing too much. She's talking about real life shit, shit 0:30:31.520 --> 0:30:36.680 that really happens. And you so worried about your daughter 0:30:36.760 --> 0:30:39.480 hearing that bitch, Get in your daughter life and be 0:30:39.600 --> 0:30:50.440 her fucking parent, Be her parent, ber parent. You won't 0:30:50.480 --> 0:30:55.000 have nothing to worry about. You worried about your son 0:30:55.320 --> 0:30:58.160 hearing Snoop dogg Rap. You think he's gonna run to 0:30:58.200 --> 0:31:02.000 the nearest crip neighborhood. If your son her Snoop and 0:31:02.080 --> 0:31:04.560 he didn't live in a crip neighborhood, most likely he 0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:06.680 not gonna run to the nearest neighborhood to be a 0:31:06.720 --> 0:31:10.040 fucking crypt for rest is sure, Snoop, don't got nothing 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:12.280 to do with glasses. Look being a crypt because I 0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:15.720 grew up in cryp neighborhoods. That's why I'm a crip, 0:31:15.760 --> 0:31:22.480 because I'm from there. And if I'm wrong, then white 0:31:22.480 --> 0:31:25.680 people would have crips in their neighborhood. They'd be all 0:31:25.760 --> 0:31:28.840 crips and they'd be killing each other. The murder raider 0:31:29.000 --> 0:31:32.240 be crazy. But you can't blame the same ghetto that's 0:31:32.240 --> 0:31:35.600 spawning this lifestyle and then these niggas representing it as 0:31:35.640 --> 0:31:40.560