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Speaker 1: So Mac, how you've been feeling in the aftermath of
Speaker 1: the transition presidentially this past week? To be honest, I've
Speaker 1: been trying my hardest not to like pay attention to
Speaker 1: politics for a good amount of time, but I mean,
Speaker 1: I can it's unsuccessful obviously. I just I can't help.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how you would do that. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't even not even like as a person in
Speaker 1: the twenty one century, but like you as a person.
Speaker 1: I don't want to describe it as like it's it's
Speaker 1: like a train wreck that you can't look away from,
Speaker 1: because that's not necessarily the case, but there is just
Speaker 1: it's like the fucking most interesting show on television at
Speaker 1: this point. You know, I just keep finding myself going
Speaker 1: back and wanting to see what's going on this season
Speaker 1: and feeling like a missing stuff each day that I
Speaker 1: I whatever, a day goes by that I don't watch
Speaker 1: the news, but I mean, I don't know. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's a weird, funky feeling. It's like a mixture of
Speaker 1: being relieved and that kind of you know, gives a
Speaker 1: dash of optimism, and then it's a bit of an
Speaker 1: up and down thing. You know. One day I hear
Speaker 1: something that Biden's doing that I dig, and then another
Speaker 1: day I hear something that Democrats are doing that I
Speaker 1: don't dig, And the next day I hear something Biden's doing.
Speaker 1: Then I don't dig, and then the next day, Oh,
Speaker 1: it seems like your Chuck Shooter has got a spine,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's it's it's going off
Speaker 1: and on. I think that's really getting to me, is
Speaker 1: that you're not hearing really about what Trump's up to,
Speaker 1: and it's making me really nervous, Like I'm scared, like
Speaker 1: that he's like secretly meeting with the Proud Boys or
Speaker 1: like I don't know, like there's something like, you know,
Speaker 1: I would prefer to know what my enemies are up
Speaker 1: to at all times. Maybe that's just me to like
Speaker 1: keep an eye on them, Like, Okay, I can see,
Speaker 1: like you know, if you if you're in the woods,
Speaker 1: you like hear footsteps behind you, You're like, well, what's that?
Speaker 1: But like if you really see the bear, you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, I know where the bear is. If I
Speaker 1: want to run from the bear, I know what direction
Speaker 1: to run away from. But if you're just like don't
Speaker 1: there's there's just no sign of life. You don't know
Speaker 1: what direction the enemy could be coming from. That's how
Speaker 1: I feel with like Trump somewhat out of the news,
Speaker 1: not like tweeting every day or like doing some function
Speaker 1: power to like destroy all of our lives with I
Speaker 1: think that with what we're talking about today is actually
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit of a uh justification or
Speaker 1: your fears a little bit, because we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about these pardons that Trump did on his way out,
Speaker 1: and just you know, when listeners, when you'll hear us
Speaker 1: talking about it. I mean a lot of this stuff,
Speaker 1: you guys have have been heard about this, but I
Speaker 1: mean when you hear about the nature of it and
Speaker 1: just get like the full rundown of it. Some of
Speaker 1: it is so like on its face corrupt that you
Speaker 1: can only imagine what type of ship Trump is up
Speaker 1: to with out cameras all in his business right now. No, man,
Speaker 1: it freaks me out. I don't feel relieved. I do
Speaker 1: feel a sense of like like I am surprised by
Speaker 1: like how little disappointment I feel so far about the
Speaker 1: Biden administration. Like it's I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to be worse than the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, I kind of like shipped
Speaker 1: on lips being like, oh, you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: back to normal podcast. I feel like getting punched in
Speaker 1: the face every day for like years, and then so
Speaker 1: you get stopped getting punched in the face. You still
Speaker 1: need to see a doctor, like your jaw is broken
Speaker 1: and you can't you're blinded, and like your nose needs reconstruction.
Speaker 1: But like it feels good to just to not be
Speaker 1: punched in the face anymore. Well, I mean, as a
Speaker 1: result of that sort of relief, Biden is experiencing one
Speaker 1: hell of a honeymoon period. I think he has a
Speaker 1: sixty two approval rating or something like that. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then like across the board, every single aspect of his
Speaker 1: COVID planning has a sixty plus you know, approval rating.
Speaker 1: So because the Trump administration was so horrible, you know,
Speaker 1: Biden has got a little bit of extra political capital
Speaker 1: that I think anybody really expected. So, you know, so far,
Speaker 1: it seems like, you know, they're grabbing the bull by
Speaker 1: the horns. They're taking it. They've got Bernie in there.
Speaker 1: He's he's he's whispering ship and motherfucker's ear, you know, hopefully,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously, you know, no one wants to do,
Speaker 1: you know, fucking kid themselves and act like the Democrats
Speaker 1: are about to get this ship right or whatever, but
Speaker 1: people are all are seperate, all about kidding themselves. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I don't themselves right now. I
Speaker 1: don't hate on anybody for being happy, especially if you live.
Speaker 1: If you're a lib y'all won you know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying across the board. So it's like I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I agree with it, It's just I
Speaker 1: get it. You know. It's just important that people I
Speaker 1: think I think it's gonna come out in the years
Speaker 1: that that past is, like, the more that they really
Speaker 1: start looking into the things that went down in the
Speaker 1: Trump administration, not just this tumultuous ship that's been going on,
Speaker 1: you know, in the post election, but just throughout it,
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna like get a clear picture of
Speaker 1: just how close we worked to the abyss, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, on like every front. And I think
Speaker 1: that will in turn extend, you know, the more that
Speaker 1: the mainstream media you know, plays it up and keeps
Speaker 1: that ship in the face of the American public, I
Speaker 1: think that will extend Joe Biden's honeymoon period. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. If every day you're hearing some horrible
Speaker 1: ship about Like yo, y'all have no idea how close
Speaker 1: we were to World War three, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like for real, real or like yo, the economy like
Speaker 1: almost crashed like twelve times and none of us knew
Speaker 1: because they were hiding the you know. You know. Well,
Speaker 1: Today we're gonna talk about the last days of the
Speaker 1: Trump presidency, notably the presidential pardons of a hundred forty
Speaker 1: three people, but chiefly among those since we are hip
Speaker 1: hop show, those of Kodak Black and Little Wayne, talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about what they've been up to since then.
Speaker 1: We're also going to get into some new music, some
Speaker 1: new songs from Kodak Black and Little Wayne on their
Speaker 1: you know postparton High Yeah, as well as new new
Speaker 1: joint by Afro and Taller Quality. And we're gonna just
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the first days of the
Speaker 1: Biden administration. Have we're feeling about how it's going in
Speaker 1: a little more detail, looking at some of his executive
Speaker 1: orders in this plus six hundred that's been going on.
Speaker 1: As Georgians, I well as a George and I have
Speaker 1: a lot to say. We'll be with that right after
Speaker 1: the job. All right, So before we get into all
Speaker 1: of this yammering that we're about to do, why don't we,
Speaker 1: you know, started off with some additional yamer and what
Speaker 1: don't you tell them what exactly is a presidential party.
Speaker 1: Let's end them a little bit of public policy, you know. So, um,
Speaker 1: federal pardon is an action that can be taken by
Speaker 1: the President of United States that completely sets aside punishment
Speaker 1: for federal crime. It's grammed by Article two, section to
Speaker 1: Clause one of the U. S. Constitution, and it's one
Speaker 1: form of clemency power of the president has. So you know,
Speaker 1: you can also commuter sentence, you can remiss a fine
Speaker 1: or you know, restitution for a crime, or grant reprieve.
Speaker 1: And actually it's interesting a person may also decide not
Speaker 1: to accept a pardon, in which case it doesn't take effectum.
Speaker 1: According to Supreme Courtmatory opinion and verdict versus United States Um,
Speaker 1: a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance acceptance
Speaker 1: of a confession of it. So, I mean, if you
Speaker 1: are pardoned, you are innocent of the crime. It's not
Speaker 1: simply that your punishment for the crime is no longer
Speaker 1: um carried out. Under the Constitution, the president's clemency power
Speaker 1: extends to all federal criminal offenses and except cases of impeachment.
Speaker 1: Interesting good to know. You know, you might have heard
Speaker 1: this before. With the whole thing with Trump is so
Speaker 1: he can't do anything when it comes to state crimes.
Speaker 1: So if you're somebody who's been pardoned and you've done
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff that's illegal in the state of Nebraska,
Speaker 1: and Nebraska can still come after your ass even though federally.
Speaker 1: Is that also why like never mind, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I was gonna talk about the fact that like, oh,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't prosecute him for anything while he was president,
Speaker 1: but like meanwhile, like ye know, it was like you know,
Speaker 1: we're piling up cases. Oh yeah, New York is going
Speaker 1: after that. Aside, like you were saying that you were
Speaker 1: worried about what he's up to, don't worry. Part of
Speaker 1: it is that he's off doing some evil planning. But
Speaker 1: there's another good chunk of the reason you haven't heard
Speaker 1: from him is because his lawyers are telling them to
Speaker 1: keep his mouth shut because there are cases, there's civil
Speaker 1: and state cases that are being built up right now
Speaker 1: out the ass. So when Trump is not going to
Speaker 1: be out of the news, Like I was thinking this
Speaker 1: the other day because I was like, you know, seeing
Speaker 1: a bunch of thumbnails on YouTube that had him, and
Speaker 1: I was like, man, why the funk are people still
Speaker 1: talking about Trump every day and he's not the president?
Speaker 1: And then it was like, oh, wait, I've never in
Speaker 1: my lifetime seeing a former president that committed this many
Speaker 1: crimes leave office. You know what I'm saying, He's gonna
Speaker 1: be in the news for the next four years. People
Speaker 1: just need to get used to that. And that's not
Speaker 1: necessarily the media trying to keep him in your face.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, a president how been like fifty cases
Speaker 1: is a big deal you you would want them to
Speaker 1: report on that ship. Yeah, So the full extent of
Speaker 1: the president's power to pardon, it's something that's actually not
Speaker 1: been fully resolved. Pardons have been used for presumptive cases
Speaker 1: of crime. So like, for example, when President Gerald Ford
Speaker 1: pardon Richard Nixon, who hadn't been charged with anything but
Speaker 1: just in case he did some crimes connected with Watergate, um.
Speaker 1: But the Supreme Court is never um considered legal effectiveness
Speaker 1: of such pardons, and it's send disagreement about how um
Speaker 1: pardon power applies in cases involving obstruction of an impeachment.
Speaker 1: So again, the peature is sort of like sort of
Speaker 1: off limits territory, and we're not really sure in the theory,
Speaker 1: like all of this ship is in theory um. And
Speaker 1: then the ability for a president to pardon themselves has
Speaker 1: never been tested in the courts because the president has
Speaker 1: ever tried. I'm frankly surprised that part Trump didn't just
Speaker 1: like I pardoned myself for anything, even though like we
Speaker 1: start talking about with like the state of New York,
Speaker 1: like they're the states are coming from. Even if he
Speaker 1: were to federally to part himself of any federal crimes,
Speaker 1: but I have a sense that it wouldn't work. I
Speaker 1: have a sense that if if the people who are
Speaker 1: advising him legally really thought that it could help hold up,
Speaker 1: given that it's never been tested, I think he would
Speaker 1: have done it. Yeah. There's also a speculation of whether
Speaker 1: secret pardons are possible, and Trump's former concierly Michael Cohen
Speaker 1: his his raised this specter as well. He says he
Speaker 1: thinks that Trump probably has attempted to do a bunch
Speaker 1: of secret pardons. Now, Um, that man don't know how
Speaker 1: to keep a secret for his life, So I doubt
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna do shady, unethical things and everybody to know.
Speaker 1: Like we've been saying. One of the features of the
Speaker 1: four unfortunate years of Trump's presidency has been the series
Speaker 1: of unethical pardons out the gate of the game, starting
Speaker 1: with the corrupt racist Arizona Sheriff Joe R. Pio in
Speaker 1: year one. Now. Poio had been accused of numerous types
Speaker 1: of police misconduct, including abuse of power, misuse of funds,
Speaker 1: failure to investigate sex crimes, criminal negligence, abuse of suspects
Speaker 1: and custody, improper clearances of cases, unlawful enforcement of immigration laws,
Speaker 1: and election law violations, all on a sesame seed. But
Speaker 1: it's like a caricature of a police of like what
Speaker 1: you think like a sheriff is he's like literally causing
Speaker 1: all the crimes, the number one crime doer of like
Speaker 1: the thing I got Batman after him and shipped with
Speaker 1: this fucking rapture for real. Um yeah, so that was
Speaker 1: week one, Yeah, But on the way out a week ago,
Speaker 1: Trump put up a dizzying list of last second part
Speaker 1: in hundred forty three if I'm not mistaken, which had
Speaker 1: added which added to the dozens he had handed out
Speaker 1: weeks before. Now, to be fair, there are a number
Speaker 1: of names, um, people within this list that legitimately should
Speaker 1: no longer be in prison or shouldn't have been there
Speaker 1: to begin with. Um. And you know, pulled a couple
Speaker 1: of cases here, like Lynn Barney, who was sending thirty
Speaker 1: five months in prison for possessing a firearm as a
Speaker 1: previously convicted fat fell in after having been convicted for
Speaker 1: distributing a small amount of marijuana. According to the White House,
Speaker 1: so like out of gun had committed a crime. Beflore
Speaker 1: toldom Lane doesn't sound that bad to me personally. There's
Speaker 1: also David Baron. Trump commuted the sentence of David Baron,
Speaker 1: who was sentenced to life in prison in addition to
Speaker 1: twenty years for drug conspiracy charges. In two thousand seventeen,
Speaker 1: President Barack Obama commuted his life term to a thirty
Speaker 1: year sentence. Was in that bipartisanship. The White House said
Speaker 1: Baron is a father of six children and has maintained
Speaker 1: an exemplary prison record. Petition advocating for further clemency for
Speaker 1: Baron's release has garnered nearly twenty thousand signatures. And then
Speaker 1: there's Christina Boneen Camp, whose sentenced Trump commuted um after
Speaker 1: she served more than ten years of a twenty four
Speaker 1: year sentence for a non violent drug offense. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean okay. And so it's stuff like this that
Speaker 1: to me makes sense of things like the pro Trump
Speaker 1: politics of Angelistan King. Like I don't know if you'll
Speaker 1: know about her, but stan King was convicted on a
Speaker 1: federal conspiracy charge for her participation in a car theft
Speaker 1: ring served two the years in prison, during which time
Speaker 1: she gave birth to her daughter. February last year, Trump
Speaker 1: granted Stanton Clinging clemency, and she appeared at the White
Speaker 1: House afterward as part of a roundtable discussion in African
Speaker 1: American history for you know, African American History month. Who
Speaker 1: calls it? Then? Oh god, okay around dad was discussion
Speaker 1: about history a month um. And then she went on
Speaker 1: to make appearances the Drum campaign and numerous black voices
Speaker 1: for Trump events and and this is the this is
Speaker 1: the real kicker. She also went on to run as
Speaker 1: a Republican against then incumbent John Lewis for Georgia's fifth
Speaker 1: congressional district seat, and later that year went up against
Speaker 1: Lewis's appointed successor candidate Nikima Williams after his passing. Now
Speaker 1: she got fourteen percent of the vote. She supports Q
Speaker 1: and on and she's anti LGBTQ. She generally sucks. But
Speaker 1: she supported the right to vote for anyone released at
Speaker 1: who had a felony conviction that after they get released
Speaker 1: for JAM restored restoration of the voting rights, and as well,
Speaker 1: she supported the First Step Act, which outlawed the handcuffing
Speaker 1: of whim and during childbirth, which you know, she herself
Speaker 1: claims to have experienced when she was in prison two
Speaker 1: thousand four. She was shackled while giving birth and described
Speaker 1: her daughter being snatched from her arms twenty four hours later.
Speaker 1: So like, Okay, I'm not trying to give Trump any
Speaker 1: credit here whatsoever because obviously, but I think this is
Speaker 1: just like an interesting pattern and trajectory and wonder if
Speaker 1: we're on the left or like overlooking ship that could
Speaker 1: be argued as like materially good that people that draw
Speaker 1: people to the far right, like you know, fucking letting
Speaker 1: you know, this lady had a baby in jail and he,
Speaker 1: you know, offered her clemency and she was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: that's dope. Hell yeah, I'm a Trump Republican now black
Speaker 1: voices for Trump. What's up? And like, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I get and I hear what you're saying, and I
Speaker 1: get it. You know, when when you're somebody, when somebody
Speaker 1: gives you a chance in a world where nobody gives
Speaker 1: you a chance, you're gonna funk with them. And so
Speaker 1: I just like worry, I guess more so, I'm just
Speaker 1: like worry about things like this. Well no, I mean,
Speaker 1: and that's at the end of the day, that's why
Speaker 1: they do it. And that's why it's like usually always
Speaker 1: disingenuous coming from conservatives in my opinion, just because it's
Speaker 1: like I mean, they're definitely are quick to do things
Speaker 1: for like an individual somebody that they know or somebody
Speaker 1: that they have a relationship with, but they they don't
Speaker 1: think too much in terms of like people in doing
Speaker 1: things for the benefit of people, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I always hate going here, but like I personally know
Speaker 1: women in from Liberia who escaped the Liberian Civil War
Speaker 1: who have had a lot worse done to them. That
Speaker 1: don't believe in Q and on. So I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: it's not if everybody who was in a difficult situation.
Speaker 1: And again, just to add to what you're the point
Speaker 1: that you're making is like you gotta give credit where
Speaker 1: credit to do. You know what I'm saying. You can't
Speaker 1: just boo who every single thing just because you don't
Speaker 1: like Trump. So you know, there was some good that
Speaker 1: came out of these partners. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: good depending on you know, how you want to look
Speaker 1: at it. But despite these corrections to justice, so to speak,
Speaker 1: there was a smorgess board of ghouls and goblins and
Speaker 1: fiends on this parting list. You ever, you've seen the
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson thriller video, you remember the part when him
Speaker 1: and the girl are walking to Vincent Prices talking and
Speaker 1: all the zombies are coming out of like the sewers
Speaker 1: and the alleys and and and shipped and from under
Speaker 1: the ground. That's how Washington was looking right now with
Speaker 1: the fucking partons that Trump leaned out. I mean, you
Speaker 1: have literal war criminals, mass murderers, seven corrupt Republican congressmen
Speaker 1: who were convicted of crimes, including Chris Collins, who was
Speaker 1: videotaped doing insider trading at the White House, and then
Speaker 1: Duncan Hunter, Duncan Hunter who spent campaign funds on his
Speaker 1: multiple side chicks and more and more, and with everything
Speaker 1: in trump Land. Uh, you know, Mariah kind of alluded
Speaker 1: to it earlier. You've got to treat these pardons like
Speaker 1: they're a serious like they're serious legal documents. And Trump
Speaker 1: Land is known for its incompetencies. So some of the
Speaker 1: wording on some of these pardons has apparently been so
Speaker 1: sloppy that it doesn't necessarily leave everybody off of the hook,
Speaker 1: and some people might be open to, uh, further prosecution
Speaker 1: down the line. Kimberly Well, who's a University of Baltimore
Speaker 1: law professors, told Business Insider, it says speaking about the pardons,
Speaker 1: it says for his convictions, and that's it when referencing, uh,
Speaker 1: someone like Paul Manafort. And that's different from what Richard
Speaker 1: Nixon wrote in his which actually had in quotes all
Speaker 1: conceivable crimes instead of just for his convictions. So yeah, wait,
Speaker 1: you're fucked up. Yeah, I mean, like if you're gonna
Speaker 1: if you're gonna sucking try to you know, strong arm
Speaker 1: the office, then you might as well go all the
Speaker 1: way with it. What the hell is this for his convictions? Bullshit?
Speaker 1: If you're gonna be like a fucking criminal, master criminal,
Speaker 1: you want to have a little bit more imagination than that.
Speaker 1: But hopefully that is the case when some of these
Speaker 1: you know guys getting nailed, that would be so sweet,
Speaker 1: so sweet. Now what our eyes? You know? This being
Speaker 1: a hip hop show obviously is the pardons of Kodak
Speaker 1: Black and Lil Wayne. Yeah, the Krodak was in federal
Speaker 1: prison after pleading guilty to fire on its possession after
Speaker 1: being detained at the Canadian American border. UM right around
Speaker 1: with the pandemic hit last year. UM. He still faced
Speaker 1: his potential prison time after being indicted in a FELLO
Speaker 1: charge for first degree criminal sexual conduct or alleged lame
Speaker 1: forcing himself onto a woman in two thousand sixt So
Speaker 1: like like president, like pardoned. In a statement slash tweet,
Speaker 1: Kodak said, I want to thank for the President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump for his commitment to justice reform and shortening my sentence.
Speaker 1: I also want to thank everyone for their support and love.
Speaker 1: It means more than you will ever know. I want
Speaker 1: to continue giving back, learning, and growing, and could I
Speaker 1: just say that every word in this tweet is capitalized
Speaker 1: and ask like the listeners as well as Mac what
Speaker 1: it is with like hip hop cats and like do
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about? It? Like you see
Speaker 1: mad people on the t L like I want to
Speaker 1: thank the president. I think it's because it looks. It
Speaker 1: looks good when you like look at it, when you
Speaker 1: like look at a paragraph like that where every word
Speaker 1: has a capitalization. I don't know. Maybe I'm just being
Speaker 1: they understands where this trend came from. It looks beautiful.
Speaker 1: Let us know. Enquiring minds are desperate for answers. It's
Speaker 1: a tweet, so who knows. Maybe it's some Twitter thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know about it. Your phone out of correct?
Speaker 1: I just I just got I just for years have
Speaker 1: been curious about something like new What's do you know?
Speaker 1: How to? Anyway? Is it? Is it? Like? Is it
Speaker 1: out of bounds for me to say that that doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like Kodak wrote it? I mean I don't know that, man. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, doesn't that seem like a PR thing?
Speaker 1: That's probably a publicist was like, yeah, I should probably
Speaker 1: say this. Then we had Little Wayne, who was the
Speaker 1: second one that we mentioned got pardoned, and a little
Speaker 1: Wayne had admitted to weapons charged back in December of
Speaker 1: last year and was due to be sentenced later this month.
Speaker 1: He was facing ten years in jail before Trump swooped
Speaker 1: in with the cape and the pardon, and he made
Speaker 1: a statement as well, saying, I want to thank President
Speaker 1: Trump for recognizing that I have so much more to
Speaker 1: give to my family, my art, and my community. Back
Speaker 1: in October, many months before the part in, Wayne Piste
Speaker 1: off a bunch of people by posting a picture of
Speaker 1: Trumpet himself and professing support at for forty five ahead
Speaker 1: of the election. In November, Pick was taken after an
Speaker 1: in person meaning they had to discuss the administration's Platinum Plan.
Speaker 1: Platinum Plan black people we discussed in the previous episode
Speaker 1: um the back class, Yet I was having people were
Speaker 1: a little like the funk Bro. You guys heard it
Speaker 1: on this show, though it remains unknown, I would like
Speaker 1: to see quantitative data on howers effective to sales and streams,
Speaker 1: if at all, because you know what, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if we really delved too deeply into this ongoing
Speaker 1: eternal even debating, but you know, people separate the artists
Speaker 1: from the art like I still put on you know,
Speaker 1: college dropout like whatever you know, like but but I
Speaker 1: mean people upgrade the artists from the art. But I
Speaker 1: think it's all circumstantial. It all depends on what that
Speaker 1: artist has. It all depends on what you have a
Speaker 1: problem with based on what you know that believe that artists.
Speaker 1: Did you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: there's also a linkage between social media presence and like
Speaker 1: media and then like art artistic consumption. So like somebody
Speaker 1: might not be like I'm gonna intentionally never listening a
Speaker 1: little way again, and they might be christof at him
Speaker 1: and then follow him on Twitter, which would then lead
Speaker 1: them to not hear about his new song, which like
Speaker 1: it's like a like a like a two step process
Speaker 1: by which it does negatively impact them financially or like
Speaker 1: in terms of artistic prominence. Well, I think with like
Speaker 1: a with music, especially, you know, you want to like,
Speaker 1: you know, you want to feel like you can relate
Speaker 1: to the music you're listening to, because I mean with
Speaker 1: the movie it's different. You could be like, hey, I
Speaker 1: funk with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Even though he's a Republican because
Speaker 1: he's playing the terminator, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: with like with music, especially with hip hop, you know,
Speaker 1: you want to feel some of that connection that hey,
Speaker 1: at the bare minimum, like I could hang out with
Speaker 1: this person and this person's like someone that's like me,
Speaker 1: and I guess it. Don't just depend for a social
Speaker 1: relationship put them through the music where you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm to be in the club of Drake. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But if you think that Drake is like his personality
Speaker 1: is somebody that you wouldn't hang out with in real
Speaker 1: life or that you wouldn't tolerate, that's like it's like
Speaker 1: not we need UI exactly. I mean, that's that's just
Speaker 1: how I look at it. I mean, I I think
Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to. Somebody, somebody who can
Speaker 1: still listen to Little Wayne and listen to Kanye, I
Speaker 1: feel like they could probably tolerate a Trump supporter in
Speaker 1: their life personally. And I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I can't. I you know, like I
Speaker 1: absolutely can't. So like for me, it's like I can't
Speaker 1: it when I go back and listen to college dropout.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just I smoke too much weed maybe
Speaker 1: or something. But my brain just can't help but connect
Speaker 1: what I'm hearing to what I know. Now you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, I mean, I can always appreciate
Speaker 1: it for the art that it is, but it just
Speaker 1: has that little bit of difference from when you're watching
Speaker 1: a movie, because you know, it's like a John Wayne's
Speaker 1: not playing John Wayne or or whatever whatever fucking movie
Speaker 1: you're watching. You can, you can, you can try your hardest,
Speaker 1: you can. You can just more easily lose yourself in
Speaker 1: the fantasy of a movie or a book if it's
Speaker 1: written by somebody that well, maybe not a book. A
Speaker 1: book kind of has the same sort of vibe. You
Speaker 1: think Layne's endorsement might have been a ploy to secure
Speaker 1: the pardon. You are probably right, You're most likely right.
Speaker 1: But Wayne's lawyer, Bradford Cohen denies the speculation earli as
Speaker 1: he did to the n y T. He said, it
Speaker 1: never heard that someone gets a full understanding of an
Speaker 1: individual when they're looking at just looking at a pizza paper.
Speaker 1: In hindsight, I guess it worked out. I think they
Speaker 1: have a very strong connection. He's in the entertainment world.
Speaker 1: He's got a style. It is similar in terms of
Speaker 1: the way it carries himself, and a lot of rappers
Speaker 1: and people in the industry relate to that. I've been
Speaker 1: saying that since the start of the show, these rappers
Speaker 1: funk with Trump Yo, And I saw this tweet that
Speaker 1: I thought captured the significance of these particular partners perfectly.
Speaker 1: In essence, it said the failure of black capitalism as
Speaker 1: a vehicle for black liberation is not seen anywhere as
Speaker 1: clearly as in Trump partnering a couple of buck millionaires
Speaker 1: like Wheezy and Kodak, while also pardoning his rich white
Speaker 1: supremacist cronies like Bandon. They are to these people all
Speaker 1: a part of the same class. It's all a big club.
Speaker 1: Who said that? That is Bravo ship, right. I don't know,
Speaker 1: some bitch like, hell yeah, girl, get it. I hope
Speaker 1: you live drive for that's what. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I agree agree with you that that's what it is.
Speaker 1: That's that's why it's like you know that, that's why
Speaker 1: you shouldn't trust these rappers. Man, you really should have
Speaker 1: fucking Fabulous had a really dope line in the song
Speaker 1: back in the day where he said a lot of
Speaker 1: these rappers say that there for the hood. They're not.
Speaker 1: They're just from the hood. Not everybody who's from the
Speaker 1: hood is for the hood. And I feel like this
Speaker 1: hip hop flirtation with maggot ism, like encap encapsulates that
Speaker 1: quote to a t um. This isn't the first time
Speaker 1: that a disgraced, unpopular Republican president handed out confusing pardons
Speaker 1: to random rappers as he limped out of office in
Speaker 1: shame um. Back in two thousand eight, Fuji's affiliate John
Speaker 1: Forte was among those pardoned by George W. Bush as
Speaker 1: he left office, and Forte was arrested back in two
Speaker 1: thousand for carrying a suitcase filled with one point four
Speaker 1: million dollars of liquid cocaine in the New York International Airport,
Speaker 1: which like, let me just stop you right there for
Speaker 1: a second and say, the liquid that the ship that
Speaker 1: looked like a bomb, that's amazing, that's crazy. He had
Speaker 1: he had a single out and everything. For the life
Speaker 1: of me, I'm usually good with this, but I would
Speaker 1: just like do a really high pitched bad singing of
Speaker 1: the hook, but I can't remember it for the life
Speaker 1: of me. But the audacity. You really got to marvel
Speaker 1: of the audacity. But yeah, he was when you have
Speaker 1: a record on the radio though words four millions come
Speaker 1: on man um he Jesus Christ. He was convicted with
Speaker 1: the intent to distribute charge and was given a mandatory
Speaker 1: minimum of fourteen years in prison. So, with over a
Speaker 1: decade having passed since Forte has been pardoned, there's been
Speaker 1: more light drawn onto the situation. And I'm sure that's
Speaker 1: pretty much what's gonna happen with Wait in Kodak, We'll
Speaker 1: get all the details. You No one's gonna talk about
Speaker 1: this yere right now. In a Forte's case, during his
Speaker 1: travels as a rapper, he had become really good friends,
Speaker 1: almost best friends, with a guy named Ben Taylor. And
Speaker 1: Ben Taylor's mother is famed singer songwriter Carly Simon, and
Speaker 1: she threw her resources and personal connects was able to
Speaker 1: lobby Bush to get, you know, a pardon for John Forte.
Speaker 1: She since written exclusively about it. There's a Vanity Fair
Speaker 1: article from titled Brooklyn Bard where she refers to John
Speaker 1: Forte as her godson. I mean, the whole entire article
Speaker 1: is dedicated to this entire situation. Of her life in
Speaker 1: getting John Forte out of jail and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It's a really interesting read. But what are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on this? This this one seems like a bit more.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even I don't want to say
Speaker 1: it's on the level, but I mean it is on
Speaker 1: a level. It's a big problem. You ain't in it
Speaker 1: whether or not they're like using black people as like
Speaker 1: political props to like cement key like support within key demographics,
Speaker 1: or it's a matter of someone well connected through a
Speaker 1: friend of a friend using their social capital, which is
Speaker 1: a crude through being a millionaire to you know, lobby
Speaker 1: a president for a pardon like this is always motherfucker's
Speaker 1: they on. They are on the same team, and we
Speaker 1: are not on it with them. That is true. That
Speaker 1: is definitely true. The sad thing is that, um, I
Speaker 1: don't think John Firte ever made any more albums, but
Speaker 1: we're definitely gonna get a bunch of Kodak Black and
Speaker 1: Little Wayne songs. Yeah, there's that. No matter the case,
Speaker 1: all those pardons, until otherwise revealed, are within the immense
Speaker 1: parton powers of the sitting president. And I don't think
Speaker 1: that there's been a modern president that is like flex
Speaker 1: that as much as Trump has I mean, the rappers aside,
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting, it's funny because you know, it's a
Speaker 1: hip hop show and stuff. But I mean, the mere
Speaker 1: fact that Trump just brazenly pardoned black Water is like,
Speaker 1: for real, The fact that anyone talks about anything other
Speaker 1: than that is bonkers. You know what I'm saying This
Speaker 1: This ship is fucking crazy. Yeah, I mean the new
Speaker 1: cycle I since accelebrated both based on like what the
Speaker 1: media environment is like now and also just the amount
Speaker 1: of fucking crazy things happening in the last four years.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that, like hypercceleration, it's just going
Speaker 1: to become the norm now, even if like perhaps less
Speaker 1: insane things happened constantly because we have slightly more competent leadership.
Speaker 1: That is the ultimate dog whistle to me, though, is
Speaker 1: those that pardon to those guys more than anything that
Speaker 1: Trump and Trump is somebody who like woke up in
Speaker 1: the morning randomly and tweeted out white power. But I
Speaker 1: think that, like, oh man, I almost forgot about that. Sometimes.
Speaker 1: I think pardoning some mass murderers who killed Iraqi women
Speaker 1: and children in cold blood proven you know, what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: that's pretty much just saying, hey, it's okay to kill
Speaker 1: brown people in a nutshell. That's that's the that's the
Speaker 1: did before. But in case you were still wondering even too,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, weapons free, go ahead, Like if you
Speaker 1: were like, oh no, no, no, I didn't think that, Like,
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure, you know, I believe
Speaker 1: mass slaughter of forens is okay by me, Like, yeah, unequivably. Now,
Speaker 1: speaking of presidential power, did you want to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit of some of the flex and the Biden's
Speaker 1: been doing here. Yeah, let's keep over this h n
Speaker 1: r A stuff stuff to kind of burn out. Um,
Speaker 1: don't you go ahead and enter that? So? Um, actually,
Speaker 1: let me see if I can find a wiki real quick.
Speaker 1: I do believe it's thirty. It's thirty so far. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So let's get into another immense presidential power
Speaker 1: that's been on display too great links in the last week,
Speaker 1: to the power of executive order. To An executive order
Speaker 1: is a means of issuing federal directives by the President
Speaker 1: of the United States to manage the operations of the
Speaker 1: federal government. Um Article two of the United States Constitution
Speaker 1: gives the president broad executive and enforcement authority to use
Speaker 1: his or herd to expression. Do you determine how to
Speaker 1: enforce the law otherwise manage to the resources and staff
Speaker 1: of the executive branch. So, um, they can just so
Speaker 1: it's like I guess limited, Like executive orders were limited
Speaker 1: to like things within the executive branch or the operations
Speaker 1: of the government that they can control. They can't just
Speaker 1: like decree new laws for all of us too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why. For example, one of his executive orders was
Speaker 1: a mass mandate on federal property, because it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if these are federal buildings that are run by the
Speaker 1: federal government, then we can like force people there, but
Speaker 1: we can't do it and say great Capitals or something
Speaker 1: like that. They also kind of leave the policy open
Speaker 1: to being altered whenever a new administration comes in, because
Speaker 1: they can just pass executive orders and change everything up.
Speaker 1: That's a concern that I feel a bit more relevant
Speaker 1: to eight years ago. That really doesn't matter right now anymore. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll get in taught in a little bit. Some of
Speaker 1: these executive orders that he put out. Joe Biden and
Speaker 1: had signed a flurry of these, UM, I believe it
Speaker 1: was like twenty the first day and he had like
Speaker 1: twenty more the next day. He's just he's signing executive
Speaker 1: orders out there out the gate. Some people are kind
Speaker 1: of wondering why they're doing Why are they're doing it
Speaker 1: this way instead of rolling it out one at a
Speaker 1: time to extend the news story and keep keep a
Speaker 1: headline the way that Trump did. How would be one day, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to not feed children. Then the next day
Speaker 1: it was like, hey, transgenders are illegal, and then the
Speaker 1: next day he's like, hey, Mexicans need to leave like
Speaker 1: and people were expecting Joe Biden to kind of make
Speaker 1: these corrections on a day daily basis to make headlines.
Speaker 1: But I actually like the strategy of just doing all
Speaker 1: of it at once, just from the get go, because A,
Speaker 1: you're getting more done quicker, and then let's keep it real.
Speaker 1: People are stupid, and if you start doing these things
Speaker 1: one by one, I can totally see people getting upset
Speaker 1: that their particular issue isn't getting rectified first. And how
Speaker 1: do you I mean, I was funny question to you
Speaker 1: as someone that's followed politics for a little bit longer
Speaker 1: than I have. Um when presidential candidates are any candidate
Speaker 1: for that matter, says they're going to do something on
Speaker 1: day one. Is that a rhetorical flourish, because like he
Speaker 1: got a lot of ship done on day one, but
Speaker 1: like the kids are still in cages, like and if
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, on the campaign trail, like dealing with
Speaker 1: migrant family separation and detainment was something he claimed to
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna do on day one. So like I'm
Speaker 1: not saying, like I'm I just want to understand what
Speaker 1: these people mean when they say that I never meant that.
Speaker 1: Then it's just like, oh, everyone else understands that he
Speaker 1: just meant like soon things. I don't know this for
Speaker 1: a fact, but I think that when they say day
Speaker 1: one they kind of mean the first hundred days. But
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely, it's definitely rhetorical. I mean the end
Speaker 1: of the day. It's like, as much as I would
Speaker 1: love for Biden to just go in there and like
Speaker 1: wave the wine and undo stuff, I personally don't necessarily
Speaker 1: want authoritarian authoritarian authoritarianism that I agree with, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So it's like I still I still
Speaker 1: do would want him to like I wouldn't want him
Speaker 1: to fucking strong arm the ship the way Trump did. HM.
Speaker 1: But to a certain extent, I kind of do want
Speaker 1: in a strong arm the ship the way Trump did
Speaker 1: because I don't believe that we can work or Republicans anymore.
Speaker 1: So I don't know that's where you were saying, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's like again, it's like sometimes
Speaker 1: I find myself slipping into the ship thinking that it's
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve and that we're talking about Mitt Romney
Speaker 1: and ship, and it's like, no, we're talking about literal Nazis.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, I I actually the more that
Speaker 1: I think about this in my head, I I agree
Speaker 1: with strong arming it and I think that that should
Speaker 1: be the way, because I mean, it's not looked. It's
Speaker 1: not like the Republicans aren't going to strong arm ship
Speaker 1: the next time that they get power, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So it's like immediately, yeah, immediately, I mean
Speaker 1: if it did, they just try to overturn the election violently,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you can pretty much
Speaker 1: expect the next time that there's a Republican president, on
Speaker 1: day one, there's going to be executive orders like now,
Speaker 1: you're allowed to eat poor people. It's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: be crazy. They're just gonna like go full mask off
Speaker 1: with it. Um. But let's get into some of these,
Speaker 1: you know, some of these Biden has passed some of
Speaker 1: the interesting ones. Yeah. So day one he signed an
Speaker 1: executive order rejoining the Paris Agreement and climate change sign
Speaker 1: you know, like in a creen of deal and nothing.
Speaker 1: But it's one of those top campaign promises. Um And Okay, sure,
Speaker 1: I don't know what are your what's your thoughts on that?
Speaker 1: Like I feel it's a bare minimum And like I said,
Speaker 1: I mean that that's one feels great because it's like
Speaker 1: not getting punched in the face anymore after getting punched
Speaker 1: in the face every day for the last four years.
Speaker 1: And it is the first day, so you know. But
Speaker 1: I mean again, like there's a lot of these corrective
Speaker 1: things that have to be done that are really just
Speaker 1: kind of, um, what's the word that I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: It's really just kind of window dressing. Window dressing in
Speaker 1: a way, because some of the real corrections that they
Speaker 1: have to do within the to the damage that Trump
Speaker 1: did is like not just as easy as signing an
Speaker 1: executive order. Sure, there. I mean, like executive orders do
Speaker 1: seem expansive in their power, but they aren't. Really. It's
Speaker 1: just like, aren't they aren't. I mean, to be honest,
Speaker 1: we were. We were making fun of of of Trump
Speaker 1: and his flurry of executive orders for just how like
Speaker 1: useless they truly were. So it's a it's a good
Speaker 1: it's a good feel good thing, and it's a good
Speaker 1: symbolic thing. And don't get me wrong, there's I'm sure
Speaker 1: in most cases there are a lot of cases that
Speaker 1: it's actually making tangible differences and corrections and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, it feels good to like
Speaker 1: stick it to the maggots, like how we're coming in
Speaker 1: and we just changing all y'all ship you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? That feels And have transgenders back in the military.
Speaker 1: This is what you call unity, you know, nervous breakdowns. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: go for it. I was gonna say this one the
Speaker 1: executive order. This is another it's another immigration one, but
Speaker 1: the executive order revising immigration enforcement policies, revoking Trump error
Speaker 1: policy that cracked down on communities shielding undocumented immigrants from deportation. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That there was also another one that he signed that
Speaker 1: pretty much makes librarians unde portable for like the next
Speaker 1: three or four years. Graduation. Thank thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: for that, family that thanks you for that. UM A
Speaker 1: lot of immigration stuff, Memorandum strengthening DOTA, so you can
Speaker 1: see where most of the Trump administration's focus was. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: as well, they pulled funds for the border wall, cancel
Speaker 1: the Keystone pipeline. I think that's pretty dope because it's
Speaker 1: like Dakota Access Pipeline next maybe you know, it's like
Speaker 1: one of those that points towards perhaps better things to
Speaker 1: come in future, whereas like the you know, getting back
Speaker 1: in the Paris Climate Accords feels like they're going to
Speaker 1: just like do that and then stop. Um like, oh
Speaker 1: we didn't, hooray. Like, you know. They've also terminated federal
Speaker 1: funding for private prisons, which is pretty dope. I mean,
Speaker 1: prisons are still terrible and all of them should go.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't it doesn't affect ice, it doesn't. TREK
Speaker 1: I just kind of become its own paramilitary organizations of
Speaker 1: salt of like understanding their true scope, just understanding that
Speaker 1: the president is not a king, you know, like the
Speaker 1: president is not a king. UM in in in moments
Speaker 1: when you're coming off the hive, being on the winning
Speaker 1: side of a political victory, it can sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel good to like imagine, oh, man, wouldn't it
Speaker 1: just be cool if the president was actually a king
Speaker 1: and then we could just do all this cool dope
Speaker 1: ship that I like. You know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: you just got to keep in mind that the pendulum
Speaker 1: always swings no matter what, no matter what, and you
Speaker 1: guys have seen what these people are capable of. So
Speaker 1: this isn't saying we shouldn't do anything because you know,
Speaker 1: just like I said with in prior episodes, there's nothing
Speaker 1: that the right wingers are going to do that they
Speaker 1: were going to change the mind of because it wasn't
Speaker 1: done to them first, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: can I say my personal favorite, my personal favorite Executive
Speaker 1: order um banned discrimination in the base of gender identity
Speaker 1: or sexual orientation um UH and a move alotted by
Speaker 1: LGBTQ advocate Spines, order extends federal non discrimination protections. Two
Speaker 1: members of the LGBTQ community. Building off the landmark Supreme
Speaker 1: Court decision in Bostock versus Clayton County Georgia last year
Speaker 1: to expand protections against discrimination based on sex and federal
Speaker 1: agencies to also include sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender
Speaker 1: expression as well. And why are like this? I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's important, but like from just like a
Speaker 1: purely like lizard brain standpoint, like I heard about it
Speaker 1: because I heard turfs and transphobs were really pissed. And
Speaker 1: like after Biden's talk about, you know, at the inauguration
Speaker 1: about like unity and all of us coming together, I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, cool, maybe is willing to piss
Speaker 1: off the right people, like people like Oh, he's like
Speaker 1: willing to make bad people angry sick, because that's gonna
Speaker 1: be really important for us to like gets ship done
Speaker 1: that brings everyone, that brings this true unity that is
Speaker 1: only a possible through justice, and so um I was like, yeah, cool, maybe,
Speaker 1: like will they pissed off some white supremacists. Well, I
Speaker 1: think that Joe Biden wants to go down with Like
Speaker 1: I think he's thinking of his ship like in terms
Speaker 1: of legacy and stuff like that. So I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna do whatever he thinks is going to be good politics,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So if that's where the
Speaker 1: political winds are blowing, I think. I think that's where
Speaker 1: he's going to be at and right now, the political winds,
Speaker 1: I think are telling him to piss off some of
Speaker 1: the right people, you know what I mean, A couple
Speaker 1: of folks the left maybe like you know, doesn't quite
Speaker 1: hate you for all your talk community without accountability. Before
Speaker 1: we get into this music discussion, talk to them about
Speaker 1: your thoughts about the fourteen dollar or fourteen or four
Speaker 1: hundred and six hundred two stimulus. So let's talk about stimmy. Like,
Speaker 1: I just don't like being made a liar, Okay. I
Speaker 1: was out here knocking the nors all over Athens and
Speaker 1: all over the state, literally telling people like, they'll give
Speaker 1: you two thousand dollars, because that's what they said. They
Speaker 1: will give you, not two dollars, two thousand dollars check,
Speaker 1: We're not tweeted out a picture of a check with
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars on it and was like, do you
Speaker 1: want this vote for me? Which ethnically questionable, but you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of like concrete, like legible material benefit for
Speaker 1: people that are struggling right now, a might not like oh,
Speaker 1: living wage and crew, So I'm not sure, like you know,
Speaker 1: I already make fourteen forty five. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that means for me or like oh, like you know,
Speaker 1: in being private persons for an example, like no, that
Speaker 1: sounds cool and don't really you know so and like
Speaker 1: everybody could use sucking two k right now. And I
Speaker 1: fucking told them when they asked me, you know, like, well,
Speaker 1: the thing that it matters for me is COVID relief.
Speaker 1: And these motherckers said they're gonna give you a two
Speaker 1: thousand dollar check. Joe Biden came down, he told us
Speaker 1: that we have us to two thousand check. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna I was like, you get us in there immediately.
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing is that they were like immediately,
Speaker 1: it's like vote for us, the whear us and get
Speaker 1: your two k immediately. That was the messaging. And now
Speaker 1: we're talking about by like April. I just don't. I
Speaker 1: just feel personally upset because like like a wind of people,
Speaker 1: y'all make a lot of people. I believe, I believe
Speaker 1: to you, and I'm sucking us. Oh you're talking to
Speaker 1: people for you about it. Even the mention that they're
Speaker 1: even thinking about doing that is stupid and they should
Speaker 1: just go with the two thousand dollars. The thing, look,
Speaker 1: look at all these all these all these executive actions
Speaker 1: that are like pretty good. But you know what, it's
Speaker 1: hard to explain when I'm out canvass in in the
Speaker 1: hood where the fucking matter were back in the Paris
Speaker 1: Climate Agreement. An't nobody give a ship if you've got
Speaker 1: to fucking wear a mask on federal property. I couldn't
Speaker 1: even point to you a piece of federal property over
Speaker 1: and all the block. But one thing, one thing I
Speaker 1: will say that people were going to remember that. People
Speaker 1: are going to remember that they will. But one thing
Speaker 1: I will say is that Joe Biden has been president
Speaker 1: for seven days. He's been That's all I'm saying is
Speaker 1: that he's been president for seven days, which is not
Speaker 1: a long time. I don't know, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: I just like I think political again, like I said, politically,
Speaker 1: I don't even think the should be a discussion, Like
Speaker 1: I don't think that anyone should even be questioning whether
Speaker 1: these just need to be two thousand dollar checks. But
Speaker 1: realistically it's just like I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It doesn't, I don't know, it doesn't. It's not like
Speaker 1: a deal breaker with me right now. I just think
Speaker 1: I think it's just incredibly politically stupid. Yeah, it's super
Speaker 1: politically stupid. I just don't think it's like ha ha,
Speaker 1: we fleeced you and now we won't get you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, at least that's not why. At least
Speaker 1: that's not what I think. But I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: regret anybody else for feeling that way. It's just so
Speaker 1: funny because the discourse has always been like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: don't criticize Biden right now, he's got to make it
Speaker 1: through the president, you know, the presidential election. Well, anybody
Speaker 1: who's saying don't criticize Biden right now can need a dick.
Speaker 1: But it's funny. It's because the people with the politicals
Speaker 1: happy to realize they're shooting themselves in the foot for
Speaker 1: because the one of the forthcoming steps along that process
Speaker 1: or this on this hamster wheel, it's like, don't criticize Biden,
Speaker 1: like we gotta win two and like keep the Senate now,
Speaker 1: or like expand our margin in the House, or expect
Speaker 1: you actually take the Senate by it you know, actually
Speaker 1: you know number of seats. Yeah, it's like y'all are
Speaker 1: the ones already sucking up. It's not mine criticizing you
Speaker 1: that pushed you into this position where like people are
Speaker 1: gonna hate you because you lined to them. Well, if
Speaker 1: you if you're if for people out there who are progressive,
Speaker 1: I feel like if you are hoping for Biden to
Speaker 1: go more left, then you should continue to hope that
Speaker 1: the Republicans divulge into this Q and non madness ship
Speaker 1: that they're doing and just like become completely unreasonable to
Speaker 1: work with and every facet all of them. And then
Speaker 1: then I think, I think, you know, the Democrats might
Speaker 1: straighten up a little bit. Are you trying drop about music? Hello,
Speaker 1: we'll get at the music discussion right after the job,
Speaker 1: all right, so this matter, we're gonna first listen to
Speaker 1: a track that mc lemore dropped. I believe this was
Speaker 1: on Biden's inauguration. Drop this, It made us made some
Speaker 1: noise on the internet. A lot of people were upset.
Speaker 1: I don't understand why. But let's take a little listen
Speaker 1: Big Drive, Blue Lives Matter, talking about the right. Everybody
Speaker 1: was you know what, like, Okay, I don't necessarily funk
Speaker 1: with mac lemore style. Yeah, but I appreciate mac Lemore.
Speaker 1: I really do. I'm not like saying that like as
Speaker 1: a joker, facetiously, Like because of mac Lemore. I had
Speaker 1: a little cousin asked me, who's grandmaster? Has you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying because back Lemore motherfucker is in their
Speaker 1: video and shouts motherfucker's out, and I think his heart's
Speaker 1: in the right place. This is actually I don't know
Speaker 1: what the big deal is, you know, I just I
Speaker 1: tend to not give people points for having their hearts
Speaker 1: in the right place. Like I only funk with smart people,
Speaker 1: and like he doesn't have a great track record of that,
Speaker 1: but like I appreciate that anybody being like, I don't
Speaker 1: care the funk if I lose you as a fan,
Speaker 1: if you like Sailer in the face of you know,
Speaker 1: this ship and calling up outside, you know, calling up
Speaker 1: liberals are going back to brunch, calling out Brian in
Speaker 1: his like lifted truck, the face of a gas station
Speaker 1: attendant or whatever. Like, I just know nobody was talking
Speaker 1: about the content of what mc lamore was saying, and
Speaker 1: everybody was saying that it was cringe, and it was cringe,
Speaker 1: and it was cringe, and that was the word I
Speaker 1: kept here in associated with this track more than anything.
Speaker 1: Oh it's cringe. Oh it's cringe. Now, I've been listening
Speaker 1: to rap music for a long, long, long long time.
Speaker 1: If this Maclamore ship was the ship that you heard
Speaker 1: this week the world him that made you cringe, I
Speaker 1: dare say you're not listening to pop because some of
Speaker 1: these motherfucker's will listen to a motherfucker freestyle and go.
Speaker 1: But I I kept perceive it as cringe and that
Speaker 1: it's preachy, and like some people don't listen to music
Speaker 1: to like hear a rappers opinion about shit. I don't
Speaker 1: understand that. I don't understand that. I don't understand that.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Yeah, I mean again, I can listen
Speaker 1: to it and I can be like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't funk with that. Why oh he wasn't rhyming enough
Speaker 1: and like I don't like the way he was flowing
Speaker 1: to the beat or no, that style was too slow.
Speaker 1: I thought he should have come faster over that beat,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Or yo, that one line there,
Speaker 1: it was like, no, I don't funk with that line.
Speaker 1: That line didn't make no sense of something like that.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if like if a rapper wraps
Speaker 1: in in, your response is like, oh, that's cringe. I
Speaker 1: don't care what the rapper was rapping about, what the
Speaker 1: rapper was saying. As a hip hop head, I'm probably
Speaker 1: not listening to a word that. You know. The person
Speaker 1: who's given that opinion is like, Okay, a cringe, that's
Speaker 1: your that's your servation of this beautiful art form that
Speaker 1: we love. It's just cringe. That's all you got to say.
Speaker 1: Get out of here with that ship, like you know,
Speaker 1: for yourself, I was like, well, I mean aesthetically, I
Speaker 1: don't think I didn't expect it to be when I
Speaker 1: thought when I when I came into it, assuming it
Speaker 1: was going to be current. I thought it was because
Speaker 1: it's gonna be bad rapping. Yeah, me too to Really,
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't like example, it wasn't good rapping
Speaker 1: regular bars. It was matter more regular bars, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, there's so many crash bars out
Speaker 1: there that like, when you get a and bars, it
Speaker 1: could feel like a full course. Jess Christ, I'm sweating
Speaker 1: when we lay down. Okay. Up next, we got Kodak
Speaker 1: Black with his track Last Day, in which I guess
Speaker 1: was recorded after his parted I live him crazy, but
Speaker 1: you're fame, and I'd try to spend my East Damn
Speaker 1: Miami Okay, Kodak colection sing ever no never, no never.
Speaker 1: Just want to get that all right? Cut that cut that,
Speaker 1: like I mean because I know like or at least
Speaker 1: I seem to recall that, like you don't like sing
Speaker 1: rappers period, But that's not why I don't like that.
Speaker 1: Pull it off and pack obviously, like that's his whole name,
Speaker 1: Like there's been there, there's precedent set, but it can
Speaker 1: be done. Look. Look, unfortunately, I would almost rather the
Speaker 1: entire subgenre of sing rapping be abolished just so I
Speaker 1: would not have to have her that yo. I I'm
Speaker 1: not a fan of sing rap, but it is what
Speaker 1: it is. I can appreciate it when it's done. Well,
Speaker 1: that was just bad, Joe, And like I want to
Speaker 1: talk about it because like I think that he's talking
Speaker 1: about wanting to see a lover out of jail about
Speaker 1: like you didn't even call and check on me, which
Speaker 1: like is a thing. You know, he's in president ship,
Speaker 1: but that execution, like you know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you want to say that I'm just not hip
Speaker 1: and I just like I don't get it, then fine.
Speaker 1: But that ship was whack, yo, Like, I'm sorry that
Speaker 1: that was I was not working with that. Let's let's
Speaker 1: see holds up? But am I tripping about that song? Though?
Speaker 1: Like that was? That was whack? Right? The last day
Speaker 1: was bush. We're sorry, We're sorry, We're sorry we did that.
Speaker 1: We gotta see what people do with they freedom when
Speaker 1: they get out, like exactly, let's let's hear what little
Speaker 1: Wayne has to say. Yeah, I'm a little bit higher
Speaker 1: hopes for this kid. Ain't got time. I guess the
Speaker 1: down turn Flieswham. I can't live when I think too much?
Speaker 1: Did the partner just make niggas not want to wrap?
Speaker 1: I mean the something happened to him on the inside. Okay,
Speaker 1: we gotta we need to we need to puke the
Speaker 1: whole wrap game on hold. Figure out what's going on
Speaker 1: with these niggas, because like Trump got these niggas hitting
Speaker 1: high nose. I'm really scared for them. What happened yo?
Speaker 1: That was hot garbage. Yeah, I'm really worried. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: let me see, how do I how do I how
Speaker 1: do I put that into words. That was that was bad.
Speaker 1: It's bad. Um, I don't know, I don't even know
Speaker 1: what to say. It's like it's hard to even get
Speaker 1: into the ship. It's I believe it was Forest Whitaker
Speaker 1: who once said this sucks the sweat of a dead
Speaker 1: man's balls. I don't even know what the funk that
Speaker 1: ship means, but it sounds appropriate for this ship. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the lyrics right now for like some
Speaker 1: of the clever word play, like I've always loved his
Speaker 1: ability with metaphor his like uh punch lines. The private
Speaker 1: plane went and got one that's more private. Good job? Um, alright,
Speaker 1: produced world wrote it on two cups, poor little juice
Speaker 1: for him? Sup, gave me goose bumps. Wait wait, wait
Speaker 1: when he says poor little juice for him? Is he
Speaker 1: talking about porn? More lean? I you know, I just
Speaker 1: I mean, isn't that inappropriate? Up? Bron the man, I
Speaker 1: keep going, keep going? Anything else? That really? You mentioned
Speaker 1: Trump at all? No? I mean he talks about like,
Speaker 1: you know, the FBI getting arrested by the FBI, um,
Speaker 1: trying to hide from getting high. That's it. Okay. The
Speaker 1: Little Wayne song was better than the Kodak song, but
Speaker 1: they were both not dope. In my opinion, they were
Speaker 1: both not dope. Yeah I was. I'm kind of disappointed.
Speaker 1: You know what. The last rapper, the last rapper who
Speaker 1: put out like a joint right after they got out
Speaker 1: of jail that I really dug, was Gucci Man with
Speaker 1: the track First Day Out. But Nigga, I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I only chance to kill my enemies and beat my case. Yo,
Speaker 1: slow on that. That just slaves me exactly. I've been
Speaker 1: listening that year for the last like four years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like, Yo, I just got the jail. I don't
Speaker 1: know how to just like take my time because that's sober.
Speaker 1: Get in the jail cell of a day, an hour
Speaker 1: out in the yard, that's ship, that's sober. I don't
Speaker 1: do lean no more, Gucci like when he was fresh
Speaker 1: out on probation, Like so, I just gotta like sit
Speaker 1: there with the pen and really get busy with it.
Speaker 1: And I mean, after just listening to all three of
Speaker 1: those back to back, I mean even one of the
Speaker 1: joints has the same name as his song, and Gucci
Speaker 1: slayd both of those tracks. Easy, easy to corrections. This
Speaker 1: is called First Day out. It's called First Day Out
Speaker 1: Kodak songs Last Day and okay, last Day and first
Speaker 1: Day Out. But um yeah, now he killed put that
Speaker 1: backin of ship. Um yeah. I mean when you don't
Speaker 1: take favorites from the fascist and you just do your time,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Hey, I'm a better rapper.
Speaker 1: We got one more new joint. This is by um
Speaker 1: M C and I guess fellow podcaster too Toler Quality
Speaker 1: featuring Afro and Diamond D Far Out Bar Out. Let's
Speaker 1: check this out like I'm Black itself, wraps Ubador Dell
Speaker 1: and a nice boom bab track. I remember hearing this
Speaker 1: interview with rock him once and he was breaking down
Speaker 1: how his You know, he took a lot of his
Speaker 1: cues from jazz, so he always envisions his rhyming like
Speaker 1: a sacks playing on the track, like the way that
Speaker 1: you know. And he's a trained saxophone player too, so
Speaker 1: like he always imagines his raps being like a saxophone
Speaker 1: playing on the track. And that Toler song, This far
Speaker 1: Out Bar Out joint gives me that sort of vibe
Speaker 1: where it's like, like you said, it's not necessarily that
Speaker 1: anyone is saying much. But it's an exercise in like flow.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It's like, that's beautiful exercise,
Speaker 1: a masterful exercise. It's exactly way to say that. And
Speaker 1: yeah and a little bit lit lyric videos cute too.
Speaker 1: So about chut that out on YouTube? Yeah? Yeah, check
Speaker 1: that shut out? Yeah? Um, I believe that that is
Speaker 1: it for us today. You know, hit us up on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I heart reparations, Um, you hit me up Lingua Franca
Speaker 1: or what's yours? I'm at dope underscore knife, hit us
Speaker 1: up if you got what you want to hear about
Speaker 1: on the policy on the side of music, you know,
Speaker 1: this is your shot to oh something that somebody gave
Speaker 1: me a good idea for that we're going to start
Speaker 1: doing in this episode. Is since we have yet to
Speaker 1: figure out how to link a playlist of some sort
Speaker 1: along with the podcast, I'm sure there's an easy way
Speaker 1: to do it. We're just dumb, and we're going to
Speaker 1: start writing the songs that we talk about within the
Speaker 1: episode description. So so for you guys who do want
Speaker 1: to go check with that, because somebod y'all be hitting
Speaker 1: me up to you know, ask. First of all, y'all,
Speaker 1: hit me out to say, hey, can you tell me
Speaker 1: the songs that you guys are talking about? I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: can't you listen to this ship? But but yeah, I
Speaker 1: know we're gonna start including the songs in the episode descriptions,
Speaker 1: so if you want to go find those, you can
Speaker 1: look for those. And in the future, like I said,
Speaker 1: one day, we'll have like an official waiting on a
Speaker 1: referations playlist that updates every fucking week with new songs
Speaker 1: and then all that cert of jazz. All right, I
Speaker 1: feel like grabbing Joel. It's gonna beat yo. Yo. I'm
Speaker 1: usually be alone of it. Right now, I got a
Speaker 1: larger group looking at Biden can get a pardon to
Speaker 1: give one to my mother and a couple from my
Speaker 1: squaddle due. It'll come in handy because I was thinking
Speaker 1: of robbing you. It's just a joke. I ain't doing crime.
Speaker 1: I just use a rom I'm just short and pretty.
Speaker 1: I ain't doing time. But if Trump offered me a
Speaker 1: pardon with our true decline, I don't know, you decide
Speaker 1: who am I. It's the knife, the dopest one got
Speaker 1: the smoking luck. I spit it slick with the golden tongue.
Speaker 1: I just tell you how it is. Say I'm hating.
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