1 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: You're listening to waiting on reparations of production of I 2 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Uh, I'm said he wishing there with six 3 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 1: of me want to find a husband. I could try 4 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 1: to feed me breakfast in a lunch and keep his 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: dick card mouth shutting the kitchen clee. I want to 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: sit between Dickinson and Linquin. Commission meets one for giving 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: hikis and swilling whiskey like let's dring, chasing it down 8 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: with dark and stormy, still the bars closing up at 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 1: little Kings. I wanted to fill my st before me 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 1: go depressive. Man it for me, standing for me out 11 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: and knock a soft for me. Maybe then I get 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: some sleep, which you probably need. The fifth to live 13 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,160 Speaker 1: in infamy, so I can live in peace. But I'm 14 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: splitting six which disease at the centerpiece. Who the fund is? Mariah? 15 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: What the fun is that? I said? Welcome to the 16 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: bottom of the barrel, cops j walking put the clock 17 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:48,559 Speaker 1: to your perrel. Lock you in the box for all 18 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: the posits in your bar row, and even taking washingt 19 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: bike and talking for in there row. 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My name's Dope Knife and I'm lingal Franca 35 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: reporting to you live from not live, reporting to you hot, 36 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: coming in hot, coming in hot from Athens, Georgia and 37 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: an undisclosed time on disclosed place. This is actually episode 38 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: zero of the Waiting on Reparations podcast, and then the 39 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: tradition of all episode zero is like like I don't 40 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: know do do you know what episode with with this 41 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: episode or issue zero is it's like the epicenter. It's 42 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: like the ground zero. It's like the dead nation point 43 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: for the whole thing. It's like the start of the 44 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: show before the start of the show. Right, It's like 45 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: it's like the Garden of Eden, you know, back in 46 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: the day, like in in comic books, they would always 47 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: have an issue zero, but it would come out long 48 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: after the comic book has been around, but it would 49 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: just be kind of like, what are you some kind 50 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: of nerd or something? Yeah, I mean you would think so, right, 51 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: but like if you know the standards story like Spider Man, 52 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 1: right then like there would be an issue zero and 53 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 1: it's like what did he do in school that day 54 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,920 Speaker 1: before he got bitten by the radio actors? So it 55 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 1: is that yeah, yeah, I mean so this is kind 56 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: of like that. It's like you know who, So who 57 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: are we? Who are you? Who are you? Who am I? Yeah? 58 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: So I'm going to answer a question with a question. 59 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm lingal franco Um hip hop artist, kind 60 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: of commissioner here in Athens, Georgia. Show me don't come 61 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: out to we we both have probably think some robber 62 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: reason know that from we were keeping a stickle sharp, 63 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: So pry you better riot if I don't pray you 64 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:08,519 Speaker 1: better right, if I'm don't pray you better riot? For 65 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: about a year and a half now, also getting my 66 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: PhD at the University of Georgia go doggs UM in 67 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: Language and Literacy education. So I study hip hop language 68 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 1: and culture and how it can be used in the 69 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: classroom and stuff like that. And also I'm very involved 70 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: in politics, and so I'm interested in the overlaps between 71 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,519 Speaker 1: the dimensions of the political realm and the realm of 72 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: hip hop. When did you get into hip hop? So 73 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: it's a funny story because it's also the story of 74 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: how I met you in the first place, the story 75 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: of how you got into hip hop, well, got into 76 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: hip hop in terms of being a performer, take it 77 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 1: all the way back, because we'll get to that. But yeah, 78 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: like so, like how did you get into hip hop? 79 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: Just in general, because I mean that matters, because that 80 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 1: has to happen first before you get into the performance. 81 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: That's true. I mean I was a passive hip hop 82 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: listener throughout my childhood and like early adolescence, I was 83 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: around a lot of like ciphers and people who thought 84 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: they could wrap good and most of whom were like dudes, 85 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: And so I kind of stayed out of it, just 86 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: like had my little pen and add on the sidelines, 87 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: like writing rhymes until um frankly, like I wasn't I 88 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: got into UM. I was in graduate school and I 89 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:17,799 Speaker 1: had been in the spoken word, I've been in freestyle 90 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but like I started to really 91 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: find a sense of identity and hip hop listening to 92 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: hip hop that um, I felt like challenged the stereotype 93 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: of what hip hop could be folks like a sad 94 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: rock for example, and like Skeleton came out. I was like, oh, man, 95 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: hip hop can be this too, Like this can also 96 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,919 Speaker 1: embrace like the nerdy sides of me, the dark sides 97 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: of me in terms of like being a crazy person, 98 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: um and so and still be cool and still yeah 99 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: and be fantastical and be all these things and so 100 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: like my inner like you know, book reading, literary as 101 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,799 Speaker 1: like nerdy black girl like finally found like a space 102 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: within the genre and uh decided to like start making 103 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: my own music and know three years later, four years later, 104 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: traveling around the country and stuff, playing shows you know, 105 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: do them with a thing. So who are you? Um, 106 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: I am dope knife. I'm a rapper, producer, illustrator, sometimes 107 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: filmmaker from US Havannah, Georgia. I'd rather slabor way to 108 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: thank of something to say, so when it comes to point, 109 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: it works to get the dog. I'm a lap rant 110 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: with that. I still love my son if he's gay, 111 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: but I kicked him out the motherfucking house if he 112 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: wraps whacked one. Mike Mike Dree said everybody down. Kind 113 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: of found a little audience for myself. So I've been 114 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: making music independently for about a decade now. I didn't 115 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,239 Speaker 1: grow up in the States. You know. My my father 116 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: works in the State Department. When I was a kid, 117 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: so we used to travel from country to country, you know, 118 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: growing up, and we'd always you know, I was always 119 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: in American schools abroad or international schools abroad. There wasn't 120 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 1: that sort of you know, hey, hip hop is like 121 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: this new fresh thing. It just wasn't there and it 122 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: wasn't present for me like that. So when I did 123 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: get into high school, and I think I was in 124 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: Singapore at the time, um, and I did start meeting 125 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: people who were like DJ's and break the answers and 126 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: stuff like that, who are who are in school with me? 127 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,840 Speaker 1: And it was like, oh man, so like there's like 128 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: this whole other world that seems like dangerous and not 129 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: a lot of people do it, you know what I mean. 130 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: It It just had had this like countercultural vibe to 131 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 1: it that was cool from the surface level. So then 132 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: when I started becoming a participant and it started researching 133 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: it more and learning more about it, and then you 134 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: learn more about like why hip hop was started in 135 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: the first place, going to hip hop events and be 136 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: boy jams and battles and graffiti contests and stuff like that, 137 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: and just getting immersed in the culture. Do you feel 138 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: like you use hip hop in your everyday life today? Um? 139 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: I mean yeah, but in subtle ways stuff that's kind 140 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 1: of hard to articulate. Like I think so the way 141 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: that I think of hip hop, it's in the way 142 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: that I speak, It's in how I dress. Not to 143 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: sound corny, but like I look at hip hop as 144 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: kind of like a spiritual experience for me. Yeah, I 145 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: really want to talk about how we met because I 146 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: think it's really funny. Okay, Yeah, the story of how 147 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: Lingua Franca and Dope Nick and that I was on 148 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: this little string where one thing was leading to another, 149 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: and I was opening up for this cat, and I 150 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: was opening up for that cat. I was like, oh ship, 151 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: you know. And then it got to the point where 152 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you know, do you wanna open up 153 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: for St. Francis in Atlanta? I was like, yeah, you know, 154 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: that sounds like a planet, you know. So I go 155 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: down there and I opened up and it was like 156 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: one of the illest shows that I've done, felt like 157 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: I rocked. It, got off stage like people bought a 158 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: bunch of merch and the I came up to you 159 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, you were so great. 160 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: You should come play in Athens, Georgia. I'm not gonna imitate. 161 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: And and uh my friend who also has made fun 162 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: of me and like play wear and Atham started and 163 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: like Athens is like the whitest town in America, which 164 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: is not true, but like as a white kid, he 165 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: you know, um, et cetera. And you you were still like, yeah, 166 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: sure is you know, come up sometime, we'll play a show. 167 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: It'll be I was also like just got off stage 168 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: mode too, so it was like yeah, yeah, somebody's like 169 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: talking anyone anything. Yeah, yeah, stuck with me. I was like, 170 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: I'm going to put on a hip hop show in Athens. 171 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna bring this cat out. He's gonna do 172 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: that who's got the props thing? It's gonna be awesome. Um. 173 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: And so I had never performed before ever, like it 174 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: didn't you know, and Athens and only have a five 175 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: hip hop scene at the time. But I went to 176 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: the bar where I was working at and like, you know, 177 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: asked him, like a hip hop show, there's this really 178 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: dope cat from Savannah who I'm gonna have come up. 179 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: It can be great, and they, you know, they grudgingly obliged. 180 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: Was that the hot corner? That was the hot first off? 181 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: When I hip hop I had and I, uh, that 182 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 1: was like two yeah. So I was like, yeah, I'm 183 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: gonna open for him. It's gonna be great. But then 184 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 1: I had to write all the songs like I had 185 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: like I didn't have any material. I was like, oh, 186 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: it's gonna be fine. I'm gonna you know, write all 187 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: this material and then you couldn't come. So I was like, well, 188 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 1: I guess I'm gonna headline my own first show. And 189 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: like put this whole bill together, even though like the 190 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 1: whole premise initially it's fallen through now um and uh 191 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: eventually did come play an appen? Yeah, no I did, 192 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: I did. Um. I think it was the next year 193 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:38,079 Speaker 1: I came and played. Yeah it was at the Caledonia, 194 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: I think. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, then we started, i know, 195 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: times live, We started playing music a lot together. We 196 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,839 Speaker 1: went on tour through the southeast south to Texas and 197 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: South seventeen. Now we are roommates. That was the model 198 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: to model minority tour back into that seen and now 199 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: we are. We lived together as of like yesterday two 200 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: days making music and podcasts. Yeah, well you know what 201 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: I mean. Even this, the whole conversation we've been having 202 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: so far is all kind of surface levels far as 203 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:29,199 Speaker 1: episode zeros. Yeah, anyway, let's yeah, okay, so Athens, Georgia. 204 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about Athens, Georgia, because you know, 205 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: we might have big ideas, but we live in a 206 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: small town is and I think a lot of you know, 207 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:40,079 Speaker 1: people can relate as be consume media that I was, 208 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: you know, produced oftentimes like on the coast, Like now 209 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: we we regular people. We live in a regular town, 210 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: but it's a sound the vibrant, I guess you could say, 211 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: like music history, and so it's an interesting place to 212 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: be if you are in hip hop, you know, because 213 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: folks oftentimes know Abouthens for people like you know, R A. 214 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: M and Bet two and then eight is or like 215 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: if you're into like I don't know, can you call 216 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 1: it indie rock? I don't even know that. I don't 217 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: genres outside of hip hop. Um, it's like, you know, 218 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: like Neutral medic Hotel by the nineties or like upon 219 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: Montreal of Montreal in the two thousands. I mean, shout 220 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: out to Kichi Bashi is like killing him right now, 221 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: is homie. It's definitely one of those towns that's like 222 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: has has like a musical pedigree, but it does. Yeah, 223 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: that's a good way to say it. Yeah, yeah, yeah 224 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 1: sont Notably, we do claim Bubba Sparks is Bubba Sparks 225 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: Sparks is from Athens. Yeah, you getg Twins with the 226 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: high school here. That sounds like, y'all not it made. 227 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: I mean just just serves claim and famous motherfucker sounds 228 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: like not known for his musical talents as much. But 229 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: Titus Burgess is also from Athens. Yeah, I went to 230 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: Clark uh Clark County High schools now uh cedar shows 231 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: high school co jacks. Um. But it's an interesting Yeah, 232 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: it's got this like this music called pedigree as he said, 233 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: but like not a lot of offerings for hip hop 234 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: artists up until the current moment. I mean there's been 235 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,199 Speaker 1: waves of it over the decades. My friend Tommy and 236 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,479 Speaker 1: I was talking about earlier it was like really instrumental 237 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: and being like the trojan horse of hip hop because, 238 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: like I said, it's like this shiny, bald headed white 239 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: guy who like looks good and like a cardigan and 240 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: like coach shoes, and so they'd like send them in 241 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: to the hip to the venues that we're booking rock music, 242 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: like hey, you guys, can we like have a show 243 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: here to like ease them into having like black people 244 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:34,839 Speaker 1: in their spaces because they were a little how did 245 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: you get into politics? Uh? So also through hip hop, 246 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:41,959 Speaker 1: And that's kind of why I'm so obsessed with that intersection. 247 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 1: You know. I met through one of the hip hop shows, 248 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 1: either I was putting on or someone's putting on. I 249 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: met this cat named Tommy Valentine and two thousand, I 250 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: guess twousnant seventeen, also right before we went on tour 251 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: together um who was a former hip hop artist who 252 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: was running for office. And uh, eventually, like when you 253 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: talked to about the public policy issues that affect people 254 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: a hip hop community, you know, stuff like affordable and 255 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 1: reliable access transportation, childcare, educational opportunities, you know, wages, criminal 256 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: justice system, all these things that like people talk about 257 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: in their songs and like, well even impede them from 258 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: like having the opportunity to perform their songs so people 259 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: can hear that story. And so I started to see 260 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: all these connections, and you know, eventually started working on 261 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: this campaign field director, campaign manager. And then through some 262 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: weird circumstances, I was like, you know what, fuck it, 263 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: he's running. I can run. I could just do this. 264 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: I have nothing to lose. Became his running mate, and 265 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: uh later you know, two thousand eighteen and then one 266 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 1: and here I am a year and half later, having 267 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: previously never thought it was gonna be a politician. Like man, 268 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 1: I've I've just done too much in this life. They 269 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: find me out on dead Man. But here we are 270 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: doing the thing. And so in this in this podcast. 271 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: We're going to talk a lot about like that general 272 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: idea of like the ways that politics both like you know, 273 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: public policy and then like revolutionary you know, leftist kind 274 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: of politics. Can you know what the bearing they have 275 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 1: on the hip hop community, the ways in vice versa 276 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 1: and vice versa as well. Yeah, Um, the ways that 277 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: public policy of shaped hip hop and the ways that 278 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: hip hop shaped public policy and public discourse, and so um, 279 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: that's that's what we're gonna be talking about a lot. 280 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: You have been in office for a little over a 281 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: year year and a half, now, okay, so how's that going. Um, 282 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: it's a struggle. I mean, when you're only outside, it's 283 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: so easy to just be mad at the folks with power, 284 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: like why is everything kicking so long? But now that 285 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: I am actually engaging with like the gears of power, 286 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: like the interlocking pieces within the local government, I have 287 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: seen how long things take and kind of appreciate how 288 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: long things take because like these are millions and millions 289 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: of dollars were allocating and they're kind of affects the 290 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: lives of tens of lessens of people. So um, I've 291 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 1: definitely had to cultivate some patients with the process um 292 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: and learned the art and slowly learning and still frustrated 293 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: with but like and learning the art of compromise because 294 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: so many good ideas, really great ideas, get watered down 295 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: based on you know, just preemptitions by state law, a 296 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: lack of like federal funding for programming, you know, and 297 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,239 Speaker 1: then just like the will of my other commissioners who 298 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: don't see the urgency of like improving the conditions And 299 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: do you mean any like mine, do you think it 300 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: affective your platform at all? Like just the realities of 301 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: how long things sake um somewhat, I mean, like I 302 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: still aspire to, like, you know, do things I can 303 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: increase the stock of affordable housing in my neighborhood. And like, 304 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of criminal justice reform yet 305 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: to be done, but just like I think it's expanded 306 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: the scope and timeline of like what those things are 307 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: going to happen on and uh and seeing that like 308 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 1: piecemeal processes, sometimes what you what you have to sometimes 309 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: just sometimes what you get and remember remembering to like 310 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: celebrate when you get little things done as a part 311 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: of that larger picture, because you know, it is a 312 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: very large puzzle, very um complicated image in the background. 313 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: What is nerds to you? Like, what does that mean? 314 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: We're talking about like this this podcast is somewhat about 315 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: nerd life. I don't know what anybody else's definition of 316 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: nerd ship is. To me, nerds ship is anything that 317 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: completely has captured your imagination and your interests, and something 318 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: that is captured it so thoroughly that you do not 319 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: care what anybody's opinion is of it, you know what 320 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: I mean. To give an example, like I was dating 321 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: a girl who was like much younger than me, not 322 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: too long ago, and it's like we would be having 323 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: conversations and I would be like talking about like you know, 324 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: like movies or something like that, and I would be 325 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,160 Speaker 1: like getting really intricate into it. I'd like find myself 326 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: being like to ship, you're nerding out like, and I'd 327 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: like feel bad about it, like damn, I really kind 328 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: of just talked her ear off like nerding out right. 329 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 1: But then you know, in reverse, like something would come 330 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,679 Speaker 1: up that she was interested in that like you totally 331 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,199 Speaker 1: wouldn't think was like nerdy at all, like some I 332 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:26,080 Speaker 1: don't even know something something mainstreaming, right, and she would 333 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 1: talk something yeah, like like okay, that that's totally not it. 334 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:31,719 Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't know who that is. 335 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 1: But let's just say for the same example that like 336 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: she was talking about Salena Gomez, she would start really 337 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: talking about Salena Gomes like yeah, all the minution detail 338 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:48,679 Speaker 1: and internet stuff and ship like nobody. It's like, word, 339 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: you are just as passionate about Selena Gomez as any 340 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: fucking Star Wars fanboy I've ever met in my life 341 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: that I appreciate that have. Definitely you are nerd nerdity. 342 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: Some people are like that about sneakers. Yeah, I know, 343 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: motherfucker's who could tell you like what color the Jordans 344 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: that came out in ninety two are? You know what 345 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:16,400 Speaker 1: I mean? That's nerds ship to me like that, there's 346 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,920 Speaker 1: no difference between that and some kids playing magic who 347 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: can like Chris Wite to you, you know, like like 348 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,199 Speaker 1: all the details of some power Card or some shows. 349 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 1: So to me, that's nerds ship. And and I'm nerdy 350 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: about hip hop and I'm nerdy about politics. I want 351 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:34,120 Speaker 1: to talk to you because like now that I live 352 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: with this man, he has the news on like every 353 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,120 Speaker 1: from what I can tell every waking moment of every 354 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 1: day it's good background. But like, so why politics though? 355 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: Why do you give a ship about politics? Well, I 356 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:51,639 Speaker 1: mean it's kind of like the intersection of all the 357 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 1: things that I'm interested in. It's like show business but 358 00:18:56,119 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: for ugly people, and it's serious but sometimes times it's funny. 359 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: But that's like a bad things, you know what I'm saying. 360 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 1: It's just like like I'm as far as that aspect 361 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: of it goes, like like if you just see me 362 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: and I'm like drawing, or if I'm like working on 363 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: beats and I have the news on the background, take 364 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: it no different than you would if like I had 365 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 1: like some Netflix series on the background. All right, so 366 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: what's the what's it? What's your favorite rap song? My favorite? 367 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 1: Don't I don't want to answer that. Come on, no, okay, fine, 368 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: what are like? Okay, I won't even put the pressure 369 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: a favorite? No, No, it's fine. I have a favorite 370 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 1: rap song. Say it, I'll say it, Okay. So it's 371 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: probably a Tassa. I'm gonna talk about Asap Rock a 372 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 1: lot on this podcast because I'm really obsessed with them. 373 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: Then it's you know, it's what it is. Second, but 374 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 1: shut to the gun. I love to have you on 375 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: the show sometimes, Um, so I like identify as like 376 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: somewhat like a little bit crazy and off kilter and 377 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 1: so and some I am someone that goes to therapy 378 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,280 Speaker 1: a lot, and I'd love it and it's a lot 379 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: better for it. So when I'll be speaking, I'll be speaking. 380 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: Uh No, I was like anyway I was doing today, 381 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: it was great. Um. But his song about going to therapy, 382 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 1: Shrunk is my favorite hip hop song. Really got a 383 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 1: great narrative. I mean it's like very it's it's fantastical. Also, 384 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: it's like very it's like wild. It's like the portraits 385 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: he paints of sitting in the waiting room and like 386 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: his interactions it's like going to battle with this like 387 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: shrink or whatever. I just find it really entertaining. I 388 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 1: like that. That's cool and that's cool. That's I think 389 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 1: that's a good um you know, like eclectic pick. You 390 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, like, not too many people 391 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: are going to say shrunk. Yeah you can know. It 392 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,719 Speaker 1: kind of a really contemporary song to to be like 393 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: it is somewhat yeah. Yeah, So that's that's that. That 394 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: that's you know, well, right back at you. What about 395 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: your favorite song My favorite rap song. Um see now 396 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,959 Speaker 1: this one, I legitimately have a hard time. Oh Like 397 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 1: I didn't, like, I wasn't forts into a corner. Okay, 398 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: if it's not as easy when the tables turn on, 399 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: there could be five, it could be like five of them. 400 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 1: But if I got to pick one d twelves, I'll 401 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,680 Speaker 1: shoot up you. Oh yeah, yeah, okay, until talking about that, why, 402 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: it's just like, first of all, when I first started rapping, 403 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: it was like, you know, it was one of those 404 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,439 Speaker 1: early songs that was like, oh man, okay, now that 405 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 1: I'm doing this and I see how hard it is, 406 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 1: and then I would listen to you know, hear that 407 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, fuck, like you know what I mean. 408 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: That was like one of the first songs where it's 409 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,959 Speaker 1: like I heard it as like an early rapper was 410 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: like damn, you know, like if I get to be 411 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: the point where I can wrap like that, especially like 412 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: Eminem's both of them versus on that in his last 413 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: verse specifically didn't see that either, but like I can 414 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: see it now. It's fine. It's fine. I mean, this 415 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,680 Speaker 1: isn't an It's not on any like deep metaphysical fit 416 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: is just I have it on seven and like it's 417 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: like not it is just it is a beat in 418 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: a collection of versus that just to me go so 419 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: well together that I can listen to it any fucking time, anywhere, 420 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 1: any place. We need to talk a little bit about 421 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: the title of the show. Okay, why why is it 422 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 1: called this? Okay, well, I am gonna ask you this first, 423 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 1: because Okay, my answer is not deep at all. My 424 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: answer is not deep at off. Well, Okay, the way 425 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,199 Speaker 1: that I experienced it is ship. At this point, it 426 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,919 Speaker 1: was like a year and a half ago and I 427 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 1: hit you up. I literally was like, wouldn't it be 428 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: funny if we were stitting on stage and we had 429 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 1: to tell people, hey, we're waiting on reparations, which is 430 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: like we're talking about names for like a rap group album, 431 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,360 Speaker 1: and like that was one of them. And I remember 432 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 1: you gave you gave like a list of them, and 433 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 1: that was one of them, and I think I liked it, 434 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 1: but I didn't say anything to you, so like for 435 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 1: months you were just still kind of like, oh, we 436 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: haven't picked something. But in my head I was like, 437 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: n yo, like waiting our reparations cold as ship, Like 438 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 1: we need to go with that so yeah, I like 439 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 1: it because it's cool and it's a dough fast name. 440 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: The deep The deep thing is the idea that you know, 441 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 1: as progressive thinkers, as a part of burgeoning progressive movement, 442 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: we're all waiting on something. We're all kind of waiting 443 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,679 Speaker 1: around for what we believe is going to change things. 444 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:47,720 Speaker 1: We might have our different policy issues. You might have 445 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 1: a sense of communities that we feel are effective, that 446 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: need to be heard and have amend's made, you know, 447 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: for past wrongs for them, and we want to invite 448 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: people to like when we have guests come on, kind 449 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 1: of have them talk about like what are you waiting 450 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: on it? What are you waiting in criminal justice reform? 451 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: Are you waiting on marijuana legalization? Fucking hope not Jesus 452 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: Christ as my team were still having this conversation and 453 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: Aden's rogia, but like are you waiting on? You know, 454 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,879 Speaker 1: like what are you waiting on? And like, I have 455 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: I have to to be waiting on reparations for a 456 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 1: number of reasons we're gonna get into later on in 457 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: the podcast, But um, we're waiting in reparations? What about you? 458 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: Freestop freestyle? Um not? I mean if I was gonna 459 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: apply like if reparations equal justice injustice equals you know, 460 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: like all things dope. And it's like we're waiting on 461 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: ship to get though, you know what I mean? Like 462 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: for me, that is like you know, that's that's a 463 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 1: hip hop concept. It just like you know, in hip hop, 464 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: we we like dope ship. We like doing dope ship. 465 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: We like seeing dope ship and hearing dope ship, and 466 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: we like for other people to to enjoy in that dopeness. 467 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:10,880 Speaker 1: You know, equity, dope equity, dope equity exact, see what equity? Yes, yes, 468 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: um okay, you know. But other than that, it's a 469 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,400 Speaker 1: cold blood ship. Otherwise it's just cold old blooded rock. 470 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: A mic on it. Hey, guys, can we can we 471 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 1: get a beat? Please? I feel like rapping? Oh oh 472 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:42,920 Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah wait no waiting waiting our reparations, yo, okay, 473 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: fuck it yo. I said that I was gonna freestyle, 474 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: but I gotta hit it first. But I go in freestyle, 475 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 1: don't kick a written first. Motherfucker's no. When I go 476 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 1: and spit a word, I go and put a rapper 477 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: riding in the written hers forbidding, going right down the street. 478 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: Every time I go and swap. Yeah, that's right where 479 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: we meet. I take off my captain, I give you agree. 480 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 1: Any enemy stepping up, then he's meet in the cleats, 481 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: meet in defeat. That's a wrestling move. When I'm coming 482 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: up testing like I'm testing the groove, I'm just stressing 483 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 1: them in. This is my will and testament, max coming 484 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: up with extra men, with extra men fitting in the 485 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 1: call like Mexicans. These motherfucker's want to come through. I 486 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: put the X and men in this X. You out 487 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: and you acting like you don't know what I'm just about. 488 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: But you just about about to get it up to 489 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:29,919 Speaker 1: top the dome out of this and I can't. I 490 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: can't free all right now, it's just like too weird. Ok. Yeah, 491 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 1: we're waiting on reparations from here too, across the nation, 492 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: and everybody trying to come chase it after us. I 493 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: have to be like Jason, send you to the rapture. 494 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 1: Everybody know that I'm something wrapping stuff off the top 495 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: of the dome. You know about the capsula like a dracula. 496 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 1: Everybody knows you better pack it up right on the microphone, 497 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 1: about to smack you up like your mama did back 498 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 1: when she was being honest with you when you came 499 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: up into kitchen with conditions. I don't know everybody living 500 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:06,640 Speaker 1: in rough conditions. I can't. Yeah, yeah, okay, ship yo 501 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: yo yo yo, check it, check it, check it, check it. 502 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 1: Try to pull a sex seed out yo? Hey yo, 503 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: hey you thought because I'm underground, I don't want to 504 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 1: cut a check. I let these sharp words slide across 505 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: your fucking necks out of step any rapper saying that 506 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: it stucks the best letting deaf. I don't wrap for 507 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: any of your punk's respect. I'm thirty plus every day 508 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 1: still smoking weed. It took that long for me to 509 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 1: figure what I'm supposed to be. I'm not supposed to 510 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 1: be hoping that you notice me? Yo? What m the omen? 511 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 1: So you know you ain't as dope as me? You 512 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: were soldier? Please break both your knees seem tremble every 513 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: time that I approach them. Sees if not rhymes, where 514 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: the focus be? I go proceed, Stay above y'all pussys 515 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 1: like overreaths broken, stude, rude, rude, Yo. All right, yeah 516 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: we are. We are waiting on reparations. Am dope knife, 517 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 1: I'm lingal Franco. Hurry see you next week. Yeah yeah, 518 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: hurry up and tune in. Waiting on Reparations as a 519 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio. Listen to Waiting on Reparations 520 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: on the I heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever 521 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:15,719 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.