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Speaker 1: Hurry up. My name's Dope Knife and I'm lingal Franca
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Speaker 1: coming in hot, coming in hot from Athens, Georgia and
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Speaker 1: zero of the Waiting on Reparations podcast, and then the
Speaker 1: tradition of all episode zero is like like I don't
Speaker 1: know do do you know what episode with with this
Speaker 1: episode or issue zero is it's like the epicenter. It's
Speaker 1: like the ground zero. It's like the dead nation point
Speaker 1: for the whole thing. It's like the start of the
Speaker 1: show before the start of the show. Right, It's like
Speaker 1: it's like the Garden of Eden, you know, back in
Speaker 1: the day, like in in comic books, they would always
Speaker 1: have an issue zero, but it would come out long
Speaker 1: after the comic book has been around, but it would
Speaker 1: just be kind of like, what are you some kind
Speaker 1: of nerd or something? Yeah, I mean you would think so, right,
Speaker 1: but like if you know the standards story like Spider Man,
Speaker 1: right then like there would be an issue zero and
Speaker 1: it's like what did he do in school that day
Speaker 1: before he got bitten by the radio actors? So it
Speaker 1: is that yeah, yeah, I mean so this is kind
Speaker 1: of like that. It's like you know who, So who
Speaker 1: are we? Who are you? Who are you? Who am I? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I'm going to answer a question with a question.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm lingal franco Um hip hop artist, kind
Speaker 1: of commissioner here in Athens, Georgia. Show me don't come
Speaker 1: out to we we both have probably think some robber
Speaker 1: reason know that from we were keeping a stickle sharp,
Speaker 1: So pry you better riot if I don't pray you
Speaker 1: better right, if I'm don't pray you better riot? For
Speaker 1: about a year and a half now, also getting my
Speaker 1: PhD at the University of Georgia go doggs UM in
Speaker 1: Language and Literacy education. So I study hip hop language
Speaker 1: and culture and how it can be used in the
Speaker 1: classroom and stuff like that. And also I'm very involved
Speaker 1: in politics, and so I'm interested in the overlaps between
Speaker 1: the dimensions of the political realm and the realm of
Speaker 1: hip hop. When did you get into hip hop? So
Speaker 1: it's a funny story because it's also the story of
Speaker 1: how I met you in the first place, the story
Speaker 1: of how you got into hip hop, well, got into
Speaker 1: hip hop in terms of being a performer, take it
Speaker 1: all the way back, because we'll get to that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like so, like how did you get into hip hop?
Speaker 1: Just in general, because I mean that matters, because that
Speaker 1: has to happen first before you get into the performance.
Speaker 1: That's true. I mean I was a passive hip hop
Speaker 1: listener throughout my childhood and like early adolescence, I was
Speaker 1: around a lot of like ciphers and people who thought
Speaker 1: they could wrap good and most of whom were like dudes,
Speaker 1: And so I kind of stayed out of it, just
Speaker 1: like had my little pen and add on the sidelines,
Speaker 1: like writing rhymes until um frankly, like I wasn't I
Speaker 1: got into UM. I was in graduate school and I
Speaker 1: had been in the spoken word, I've been in freestyle
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but like I started to really
Speaker 1: find a sense of identity and hip hop listening to
Speaker 1: hip hop that um, I felt like challenged the stereotype
Speaker 1: of what hip hop could be folks like a sad
Speaker 1: rock for example, and like Skeleton came out. I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: hip hop can be this too, Like this can also
Speaker 1: embrace like the nerdy sides of me, the dark sides
Speaker 1: of me in terms of like being a crazy person,
Speaker 1: um and so and still be cool and still yeah
Speaker 1: and be fantastical and be all these things and so
Speaker 1: like my inner like you know, book reading, literary as
Speaker 1: like nerdy black girl like finally found like a space
Speaker 1: within the genre and uh decided to like start making
Speaker 1: my own music and know three years later, four years later,
Speaker 1: traveling around the country and stuff, playing shows you know,
Speaker 1: do them with a thing. So who are you? Um,
Speaker 1: I am dope knife. I'm a rapper, producer, illustrator, sometimes
Speaker 1: filmmaker from US Havannah, Georgia. I'd rather slabor way to
Speaker 1: thank of something to say, so when it comes to point,
Speaker 1: it works to get the dog. I'm a lap rant
Speaker 1: with that. I still love my son if he's gay,
Speaker 1: but I kicked him out the motherfucking house if he
Speaker 1: wraps whacked one. Mike Mike Dree said everybody down. Kind
Speaker 1: of found a little audience for myself. So I've been
Speaker 1: making music independently for about a decade now. I didn't
Speaker 1: grow up in the States. You know. My my father
Speaker 1: works in the State Department. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: so we used to travel from country to country, you know,
Speaker 1: growing up, and we'd always you know, I was always
Speaker 1: in American schools abroad or international schools abroad. There wasn't
Speaker 1: that sort of you know, hey, hip hop is like
Speaker 1: this new fresh thing. It just wasn't there and it
Speaker 1: wasn't present for me like that. So when I did
Speaker 1: get into high school, and I think I was in
Speaker 1: Singapore at the time, um, and I did start meeting
Speaker 1: people who were like DJ's and break the answers and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, who are who are in school with me?
Speaker 1: And it was like, oh man, so like there's like
Speaker 1: this whole other world that seems like dangerous and not
Speaker 1: a lot of people do it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It It just had had this like countercultural vibe to
Speaker 1: it that was cool from the surface level. So then
Speaker 1: when I started becoming a participant and it started researching
Speaker 1: it more and learning more about it, and then you
Speaker 1: learn more about like why hip hop was started in
Speaker 1: the first place, going to hip hop events and be
Speaker 1: boy jams and battles and graffiti contests and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and just getting immersed in the culture. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like you use hip hop in your everyday life today? Um?
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, but in subtle ways stuff that's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to articulate. Like I think so the way
Speaker 1: that I think of hip hop, it's in the way
Speaker 1: that I speak, It's in how I dress. Not to
Speaker 1: sound corny, but like I look at hip hop as
Speaker 1: kind of like a spiritual experience for me. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: really want to talk about how we met because I
Speaker 1: think it's really funny. Okay, Yeah, the story of how
Speaker 1: Lingua Franca and Dope Nick and that I was on
Speaker 1: this little string where one thing was leading to another,
Speaker 1: and I was opening up for this cat, and I
Speaker 1: was opening up for that cat. I was like, oh ship,
Speaker 1: you know. And then it got to the point where
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, you know, do you wanna open up
Speaker 1: for St. Francis in Atlanta? I was like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a planet, you know. So I go
Speaker 1: down there and I opened up and it was like
Speaker 1: one of the illest shows that I've done, felt like
Speaker 1: I rocked. It, got off stage like people bought a
Speaker 1: bunch of merch and the I came up to you
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, you were so great.
Speaker 1: You should come play in Athens, Georgia. I'm not gonna imitate.
Speaker 1: And and uh my friend who also has made fun
Speaker 1: of me and like play wear and Atham started and
Speaker 1: like Athens is like the whitest town in America, which
Speaker 1: is not true, but like as a white kid, he
Speaker 1: you know, um, et cetera. And you you were still like, yeah,
Speaker 1: sure is you know, come up sometime, we'll play a show.
Speaker 1: It'll be I was also like just got off stage
Speaker 1: mode too, so it was like yeah, yeah, somebody's like
Speaker 1: talking anyone anything. Yeah, yeah, stuck with me. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to put on a hip hop show in Athens.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna bring this cat out. He's gonna do
Speaker 1: that who's got the props thing? It's gonna be awesome. Um.
Speaker 1: And so I had never performed before ever, like it
Speaker 1: didn't you know, and Athens and only have a five
Speaker 1: hip hop scene at the time. But I went to
Speaker 1: the bar where I was working at and like, you know,
Speaker 1: asked him, like a hip hop show, there's this really
Speaker 1: dope cat from Savannah who I'm gonna have come up.
Speaker 1: It can be great, and they, you know, they grudgingly obliged.
Speaker 1: Was that the hot corner? That was the hot first off?
Speaker 1: When I hip hop I had and I, uh, that
Speaker 1: was like two yeah. So I was like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna open for him. It's gonna be great. But then
Speaker 1: I had to write all the songs like I had
Speaker 1: like I didn't have any material. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fine. I'm gonna you know, write all
Speaker 1: this material and then you couldn't come. So I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm gonna headline my own first show. And
Speaker 1: like put this whole bill together, even though like the
Speaker 1: whole premise initially it's fallen through now um and uh
Speaker 1: eventually did come play an appen? Yeah, no I did,
Speaker 1: I did. Um. I think it was the next year
Speaker 1: I came and played. Yeah it was at the Caledonia,
Speaker 1: I think. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, then we started, i know,
Speaker 1: times live, We started playing music a lot together. We
Speaker 1: went on tour through the southeast south to Texas and
Speaker 1: South seventeen. Now we are roommates. That was the model
Speaker 1: to model minority tour back into that seen and now
Speaker 1: we are. We lived together as of like yesterday two
Speaker 1: days making music and podcasts. Yeah, well you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Even this, the whole conversation we've been having
Speaker 1: so far is all kind of surface levels far as
Speaker 1: episode zeros. Yeah, anyway, let's yeah, okay, so Athens, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about Athens, Georgia, because you know,
Speaker 1: we might have big ideas, but we live in a
Speaker 1: small town is and I think a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: people can relate as be consume media that I was,
Speaker 1: you know, produced oftentimes like on the coast, Like now
Speaker 1: we we regular people. We live in a regular town,
Speaker 1: but it's a sound the vibrant, I guess you could say,
Speaker 1: like music history, and so it's an interesting place to
Speaker 1: be if you are in hip hop, you know, because
Speaker 1: folks oftentimes know Abouthens for people like you know, R A.
Speaker 1: M and Bet two and then eight is or like
Speaker 1: if you're into like I don't know, can you call
Speaker 1: it indie rock? I don't even know that. I don't
Speaker 1: genres outside of hip hop. Um, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: like Neutral medic Hotel by the nineties or like upon
Speaker 1: Montreal of Montreal in the two thousands. I mean, shout
Speaker 1: out to Kichi Bashi is like killing him right now,
Speaker 1: is homie. It's definitely one of those towns that's like
Speaker 1: has has like a musical pedigree, but it does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good way to say it. Yeah, yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: sont Notably, we do claim Bubba Sparks is Bubba Sparks
Speaker 1: Sparks is from Athens. Yeah, you getg Twins with the
Speaker 1: high school here. That sounds like, y'all not it made.
Speaker 1: I mean just just serves claim and famous motherfucker sounds
Speaker 1: like not known for his musical talents as much. But
Speaker 1: Titus Burgess is also from Athens. Yeah, I went to
Speaker 1: Clark uh Clark County High schools now uh cedar shows
Speaker 1: high school co jacks. Um. But it's an interesting Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's got this like this music called pedigree as he said,
Speaker 1: but like not a lot of offerings for hip hop
Speaker 1: artists up until the current moment. I mean there's been
Speaker 1: waves of it over the decades. My friend Tommy and
Speaker 1: I was talking about earlier it was like really instrumental
Speaker 1: and being like the trojan horse of hip hop because,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's like this shiny, bald headed white
Speaker 1: guy who like looks good and like a cardigan and
Speaker 1: like coach shoes, and so they'd like send them in
Speaker 1: to the hip to the venues that we're booking rock music,
Speaker 1: like hey, you guys, can we like have a show
Speaker 1: here to like ease them into having like black people
Speaker 1: in their spaces because they were a little how did
Speaker 1: you get into politics? Uh? So also through hip hop,
Speaker 1: And that's kind of why I'm so obsessed with that intersection.
Speaker 1: You know. I met through one of the hip hop shows,
Speaker 1: either I was putting on or someone's putting on. I
Speaker 1: met this cat named Tommy Valentine and two thousand, I
Speaker 1: guess twousnant seventeen, also right before we went on tour
Speaker 1: together um who was a former hip hop artist who
Speaker 1: was running for office. And uh, eventually, like when you
Speaker 1: talked to about the public policy issues that affect people
Speaker 1: a hip hop community, you know, stuff like affordable and
Speaker 1: reliable access transportation, childcare, educational opportunities, you know, wages, criminal
Speaker 1: justice system, all these things that like people talk about
Speaker 1: in their songs and like, well even impede them from
Speaker 1: like having the opportunity to perform their songs so people
Speaker 1: can hear that story. And so I started to see
Speaker 1: all these connections, and you know, eventually started working on
Speaker 1: this campaign field director, campaign manager. And then through some
Speaker 1: weird circumstances, I was like, you know what, fuck it,
Speaker 1: he's running. I can run. I could just do this.
Speaker 1: I have nothing to lose. Became his running mate, and
Speaker 1: uh later you know, two thousand eighteen and then one
Speaker 1: and here I am a year and half later, having
Speaker 1: previously never thought it was gonna be a politician. Like man,
Speaker 1: I've I've just done too much in this life. They
Speaker 1: find me out on dead Man. But here we are
Speaker 1: doing the thing. And so in this in this podcast.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk a lot about like that general
Speaker 1: idea of like the ways that politics both like you know,
Speaker 1: public policy and then like revolutionary you know, leftist kind
Speaker 1: of politics. Can you know what the bearing they have
Speaker 1: on the hip hop community, the ways in vice versa
Speaker 1: and vice versa as well. Yeah, Um, the ways that
Speaker 1: public policy of shaped hip hop and the ways that
Speaker 1: hip hop shaped public policy and public discourse, and so um,
Speaker 1: that's that's what we're gonna be talking about a lot.
Speaker 1: You have been in office for a little over a
Speaker 1: year year and a half, now, okay, so how's that going. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a struggle. I mean, when you're only outside, it's
Speaker 1: so easy to just be mad at the folks with power,
Speaker 1: like why is everything kicking so long? But now that
Speaker 1: I am actually engaging with like the gears of power,
Speaker 1: like the interlocking pieces within the local government, I have
Speaker 1: seen how long things take and kind of appreciate how
Speaker 1: long things take because like these are millions and millions
Speaker 1: of dollars were allocating and they're kind of affects the
Speaker 1: lives of tens of lessens of people. So um, I've
Speaker 1: definitely had to cultivate some patients with the process um
Speaker 1: and learned the art and slowly learning and still frustrated
Speaker 1: with but like and learning the art of compromise because
Speaker 1: so many good ideas, really great ideas, get watered down
Speaker 1: based on you know, just preemptitions by state law, a
Speaker 1: lack of like federal funding for programming, you know, and
Speaker 1: then just like the will of my other commissioners who
Speaker 1: don't see the urgency of like improving the conditions And
Speaker 1: do you mean any like mine, do you think it
Speaker 1: affective your platform at all? Like just the realities of
Speaker 1: how long things sake um somewhat, I mean, like I
Speaker 1: still aspire to, like, you know, do things I can
Speaker 1: increase the stock of affordable housing in my neighborhood. And like,
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of criminal justice reform yet
Speaker 1: to be done, but just like I think it's expanded
Speaker 1: the scope and timeline of like what those things are
Speaker 1: going to happen on and uh and seeing that like
Speaker 1: piecemeal processes, sometimes what you what you have to sometimes
Speaker 1: just sometimes what you get and remember remembering to like
Speaker 1: celebrate when you get little things done as a part
Speaker 1: of that larger picture, because you know, it is a
Speaker 1: very large puzzle, very um complicated image in the background.
Speaker 1: What is nerds to you? Like, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: We're talking about like this this podcast is somewhat about
Speaker 1: nerd life. I don't know what anybody else's definition of
Speaker 1: nerd ship is. To me, nerds ship is anything that
Speaker 1: completely has captured your imagination and your interests, and something
Speaker 1: that is captured it so thoroughly that you do not
Speaker 1: care what anybody's opinion is of it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. To give an example, like I was dating
Speaker 1: a girl who was like much younger than me, not
Speaker 1: too long ago, and it's like we would be having
Speaker 1: conversations and I would be like talking about like you know,
Speaker 1: like movies or something like that, and I would be
Speaker 1: like getting really intricate into it. I'd like find myself
Speaker 1: being like to ship, you're nerding out like, and I'd
Speaker 1: like feel bad about it, like damn, I really kind
Speaker 1: of just talked her ear off like nerding out right.
Speaker 1: But then you know, in reverse, like something would come
Speaker 1: up that she was interested in that like you totally
Speaker 1: wouldn't think was like nerdy at all, like some I
Speaker 1: don't even know something something mainstreaming, right, and she would
Speaker 1: talk something yeah, like like okay, that that's totally not it.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't know who that is.
Speaker 1: But let's just say for the same example that like
Speaker 1: she was talking about Salena Gomez, she would start really
Speaker 1: talking about Salena Gomes like yeah, all the minution detail
Speaker 1: and internet stuff and ship like nobody. It's like, word,
Speaker 1: you are just as passionate about Selena Gomez as any
Speaker 1: fucking Star Wars fanboy I've ever met in my life
Speaker 1: that I appreciate that have. Definitely you are nerd nerdity.
Speaker 1: Some people are like that about sneakers. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: motherfucker's who could tell you like what color the Jordans
Speaker 1: that came out in ninety two are? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? That's nerds ship to me like that, there's
Speaker 1: no difference between that and some kids playing magic who
Speaker 1: can like Chris Wite to you, you know, like like
Speaker 1: all the details of some power Card or some shows.
Speaker 1: So to me, that's nerds ship. And and I'm nerdy
Speaker 1: about hip hop and I'm nerdy about politics. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you because like now that I live
Speaker 1: with this man, he has the news on like every
Speaker 1: from what I can tell every waking moment of every
Speaker 1: day it's good background. But like, so why politics though?
Speaker 1: Why do you give a ship about politics? Well, I
Speaker 1: mean it's kind of like the intersection of all the
Speaker 1: things that I'm interested in. It's like show business but
Speaker 1: for ugly people, and it's serious but sometimes times it's funny.
Speaker 1: But that's like a bad things, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's just like like I'm as far as that aspect
Speaker 1: of it goes, like like if you just see me
Speaker 1: and I'm like drawing, or if I'm like working on
Speaker 1: beats and I have the news on the background, take
Speaker 1: it no different than you would if like I had
Speaker 1: like some Netflix series on the background. All right, so
Speaker 1: what's the what's it? What's your favorite rap song? My favorite?
Speaker 1: Don't I don't want to answer that. Come on, no, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: what are like? Okay, I won't even put the pressure
Speaker 1: a favorite? No, No, it's fine. I have a favorite
Speaker 1: rap song. Say it, I'll say it, Okay. So it's
Speaker 1: probably a Tassa. I'm gonna talk about Asap Rock a
Speaker 1: lot on this podcast because I'm really obsessed with them.
Speaker 1: Then it's you know, it's what it is. Second, but
Speaker 1: shut to the gun. I love to have you on
Speaker 1: the show sometimes, Um, so I like identify as like
Speaker 1: somewhat like a little bit crazy and off kilter and
Speaker 1: so and some I am someone that goes to therapy
Speaker 1: a lot, and I'd love it and it's a lot
Speaker 1: better for it. So when I'll be speaking, I'll be speaking.
Speaker 1: Uh No, I was like anyway I was doing today,
Speaker 1: it was great. Um. But his song about going to therapy,
Speaker 1: Shrunk is my favorite hip hop song. Really got a
Speaker 1: great narrative. I mean it's like very it's it's fantastical. Also,
Speaker 1: it's like very it's like wild. It's like the portraits
Speaker 1: he paints of sitting in the waiting room and like
Speaker 1: his interactions it's like going to battle with this like
Speaker 1: shrink or whatever. I just find it really entertaining. I
Speaker 1: like that. That's cool and that's cool. That's I think
Speaker 1: that's a good um you know, like eclectic pick. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, like, not too many people
Speaker 1: are going to say shrunk. Yeah you can know. It
Speaker 1: kind of a really contemporary song to to be like
Speaker 1: it is somewhat yeah. Yeah, So that's that's that. That
Speaker 1: that's you know, well, right back at you. What about
Speaker 1: your favorite song My favorite rap song. Um see now
Speaker 1: this one, I legitimately have a hard time. Oh Like
Speaker 1: I didn't, like, I wasn't forts into a corner. Okay,
Speaker 1: if it's not as easy when the tables turn on,
Speaker 1: there could be five, it could be like five of them.
Speaker 1: But if I got to pick one d twelves, I'll
Speaker 1: shoot up you. Oh yeah, yeah, okay, until talking about that, why,
Speaker 1: it's just like, first of all, when I first started rapping,
Speaker 1: it was like, you know, it was one of those
Speaker 1: early songs that was like, oh man, okay, now that
Speaker 1: I'm doing this and I see how hard it is,
Speaker 1: and then I would listen to you know, hear that
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, fuck, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: That was like one of the first songs where it's
Speaker 1: like I heard it as like an early rapper was
Speaker 1: like damn, you know, like if I get to be
Speaker 1: the point where I can wrap like that, especially like
Speaker 1: Eminem's both of them versus on that in his last
Speaker 1: verse specifically didn't see that either, but like I can
Speaker 1: see it now. It's fine. It's fine. I mean, this
Speaker 1: isn't an It's not on any like deep metaphysical fit
Speaker 1: is just I have it on seven and like it's
Speaker 1: like not it is just it is a beat in
Speaker 1: a collection of versus that just to me go so
Speaker 1: well together that I can listen to it any fucking time, anywhere,
Speaker 1: any place. We need to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: the title of the show. Okay, why why is it
Speaker 1: called this? Okay, well, I am gonna ask you this first,
Speaker 1: because Okay, my answer is not deep at all. My
Speaker 1: answer is not deep at off. Well, Okay, the way
Speaker 1: that I experienced it is ship. At this point, it
Speaker 1: was like a year and a half ago and I
Speaker 1: hit you up. I literally was like, wouldn't it be
Speaker 1: funny if we were stitting on stage and we had
Speaker 1: to tell people, hey, we're waiting on reparations, which is
Speaker 1: like we're talking about names for like a rap group album,
Speaker 1: and like that was one of them. And I remember
Speaker 1: you gave you gave like a list of them, and
Speaker 1: that was one of them, and I think I liked it,
Speaker 1: but I didn't say anything to you, so like for
Speaker 1: months you were just still kind of like, oh, we
Speaker 1: haven't picked something. But in my head I was like,
Speaker 1: n yo, like waiting our reparations cold as ship, Like
Speaker 1: we need to go with that so yeah, I like
Speaker 1: it because it's cool and it's a dough fast name.
Speaker 1: The deep The deep thing is the idea that you know,
Speaker 1: as progressive thinkers, as a part of burgeoning progressive movement,
Speaker 1: we're all waiting on something. We're all kind of waiting
Speaker 1: around for what we believe is going to change things.
Speaker 1: We might have our different policy issues. You might have
Speaker 1: a sense of communities that we feel are effective, that
Speaker 1: need to be heard and have amend's made, you know,
Speaker 1: for past wrongs for them, and we want to invite
Speaker 1: people to like when we have guests come on, kind
Speaker 1: of have them talk about like what are you waiting
Speaker 1: on it? What are you waiting in criminal justice reform?
Speaker 1: Are you waiting on marijuana legalization? Fucking hope not Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ as my team were still having this conversation and
Speaker 1: Aden's rogia, but like are you waiting on? You know,
Speaker 1: like what are you waiting on? And like, I have
Speaker 1: I have to to be waiting on reparations for a
Speaker 1: number of reasons we're gonna get into later on in
Speaker 1: the podcast, But um, we're waiting in reparations? What about you?
Speaker 1: Freestop freestyle? Um not? I mean if I was gonna
Speaker 1: apply like if reparations equal justice injustice equals you know,
Speaker 1: like all things dope. And it's like we're waiting on
Speaker 1: ship to get though, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: for me, that is like you know, that's that's a
Speaker 1: hip hop concept. It just like you know, in hip hop,
Speaker 1: we we like dope ship. We like doing dope ship.
Speaker 1: We like seeing dope ship and hearing dope ship, and
Speaker 1: we like for other people to to enjoy in that dopeness.
Speaker 1: You know, equity, dope equity, dope equity exact, see what equity? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: um okay, you know. But other than that, it's a
Speaker 1: cold blood ship. Otherwise it's just cold old blooded rock.
Speaker 1: A mic on it. Hey, guys, can we can we
Speaker 1: get a beat? Please? I feel like rapping? Oh oh
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah wait no waiting waiting our reparations, yo, okay,
Speaker 1: fuck it yo. I said that I was gonna freestyle,
Speaker 1: but I gotta hit it first. But I go in freestyle,
Speaker 1: don't kick a written first. Motherfucker's no. When I go
Speaker 1: and spit a word, I go and put a rapper
Speaker 1: riding in the written hers forbidding, going right down the street.
Speaker 1: Every time I go and swap. Yeah, that's right where
Speaker 1: we meet. I take off my captain, I give you agree.
Speaker 1: Any enemy stepping up, then he's meet in the cleats,
Speaker 1: meet in defeat. That's a wrestling move. When I'm coming
Speaker 1: up testing like I'm testing the groove, I'm just stressing
Speaker 1: them in. This is my will and testament, max coming
Speaker 1: up with extra men, with extra men fitting in the
Speaker 1: call like Mexicans. These motherfucker's want to come through. I
Speaker 1: put the X and men in this X. You out
Speaker 1: and you acting like you don't know what I'm just about.
Speaker 1: But you just about about to get it up to
Speaker 1: top the dome out of this and I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't free all right now, it's just like too weird. Ok. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're waiting on reparations from here too, across the nation,
Speaker 1: and everybody trying to come chase it after us. I
Speaker 1: have to be like Jason, send you to the rapture.
Speaker 1: Everybody know that I'm something wrapping stuff off the top
Speaker 1: of the dome. You know about the capsula like a dracula.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows you better pack it up right on the microphone,
Speaker 1: about to smack you up like your mama did back
Speaker 1: when she was being honest with you when you came
Speaker 1: up into kitchen with conditions. I don't know everybody living
Speaker 1: in rough conditions. I can't. Yeah, yeah, okay, ship yo
Speaker 1: yo yo yo, check it, check it, check it, check it.
Speaker 1: Try to pull a sex seed out yo? Hey yo,
Speaker 1: hey you thought because I'm underground, I don't want to
Speaker 1: cut a check. I let these sharp words slide across
Speaker 1: your fucking necks out of step any rapper saying that
Speaker 1: it stucks the best letting deaf. I don't wrap for
Speaker 1: any of your punk's respect. I'm thirty plus every day
Speaker 1: still smoking weed. It took that long for me to
Speaker 1: figure what I'm supposed to be. I'm not supposed to
Speaker 1: be hoping that you notice me? Yo? What m the omen?
Speaker 1: So you know you ain't as dope as me? You
Speaker 1: were soldier? Please break both your knees seem tremble every
Speaker 1: time that I approach them. Sees if not rhymes, where
Speaker 1: the focus be? I go proceed, Stay above y'all pussys
Speaker 1: like overreaths broken, stude, rude, rude, Yo. All right, yeah
Speaker 1: we are. We are waiting on reparations. Am dope knife,
Speaker 1: I'm lingal Franco. Hurry see you next week. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: hurry up and tune in. Waiting on Reparations as a
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