1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: As media. Truth is, I'm tired. Truth is, I'm tired. 2 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: I'm tired of unprecedented times because I really wish that term, 3 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: like why can't that apply to when it's good? It 4 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: always be when things is like truly falling apart. And 5 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: I've tried to on these fridays give y'all pieces that 6 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: were obviously shorter and sometimes you know, kind of fun 7 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: or breadth, the fresh air you know with the or 8 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: a farmer for me, and don'tisa or be the tyler 9 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: you want to see in the world. But it's just 10 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: so much awfulness happening that I can't dedicate. I can't 11 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: commit to this just being all positive. But sometimes people 12 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: be good, Sometimes the news be good. Sometimes you get 13 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 1: stories that remind you that, like, oh, you know what 14 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: it's it's some humanity in there somewhere. And I got 15 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: two stories of that for you, tap being with The 16 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: first one has to do with how oftentimes we rise 17 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: to the occasion in ways that will continue to surprise me. 18 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 2: So Gaza is being starved. 19 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: We all see that, and do you in everyone watching 20 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: is like, Israel is doing this. You have the power. 21 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: You created this sense of urgency. It got to a 22 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: place to where they had reached phase four of starvation, 23 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: which means that they're so malnourished that even if you 24 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: got food in there now is probably too late for 25 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: most of them. And then they want to cart around 26 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: images of boxes of aid sitting in the sun and saying, see, 27 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 1: the UN's not distributing it. It's like, bro, you think 28 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: we're stupid. You're the only person defending it. Why the 29 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: rest of the world is like, we see what you're doing. Anyway, 30 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 1: a complete governmental breakdown and collapse. That the institutions, even 31 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: the well meaning institutions, have truly failed these people, but 32 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: the people don't failed these people. And a video has 33 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: gone viral of people in Egypt. I almost want to cry, 34 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: understanding the desperation, understanding that listen, these borders are guarded 35 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:58,239 Speaker 1: by weapons and military and choke points, and even when 36 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: you did bring food in, you're just gathering them in 37 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: there and shooting them. There has got to be a 38 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: way to get food here. And they said, you know 39 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: what carries food, the ocean currents. They're putting bottles sealed 40 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: up with rice and grain, throwing them into the Mediterranean 41 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: Sea and just like hoping that the current would take 42 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: that into Gaza, and you know what, a few of 43 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 1: them got there. It's desperate, it's sad. It should not 44 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 1: have to be like this, but damn, that is beautiful 45 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:34,079 Speaker 1: to me. It's just so beautiful that people will find 46 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: a way. And it's at the time, like y'all, I've 47 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,839 Speaker 1: been so I almost didn't want it. I was like, yo, record, 48 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: I'm not recording this week, man, y'all run some reruns. 49 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: I'm like, my heart is just I have a soul 50 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: tiredness being here in La the fires, then the ice raids. 51 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: I'm tired this Palestine like I'm tired. But that moment 52 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: right there, and that gave me life. These people did it. 53 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: They found a way, and it's why I am an anarchist. 54 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: CC See, y'all think anarchy means no rules, and in 55 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: some ways it is because listen, it's the archies that's 56 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: stopping the food from coming in there. The anarchy is 57 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: the one that says, I don't care about your borders. 58 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: I'm gonna put this rice in bottles and we're gonna 59 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: get this food to these people. 60 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 2: We gonna do it. 61 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: I don't need no dude to tell me there is 62 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: an understanding that these humans who live on the other 63 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: side of an imaginary line, who clearly that this government 64 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: want them to die, not on my watch, cause we're 65 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: gonna do whatever we can. And it was such a 66 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: shot of life to me because it's like, we can 67 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: paint our signs, we could protest over here. It's children 68 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 1: in Israel right now burning their draft paper. I love it. 69 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: Nobody wants this, nobody wants this. But as much as 70 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: these governments want to believe, you can't control the tides, baby, 71 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: the tides is bringing the food in there. 72 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 2: And is it enough? No, not at all. Now. 73 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: Of course, since the whole world was like you are 74 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 1: you created a famine and they was like, all right, 75 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: all right, we'll stop shooting for ten hours and we'll 76 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 1: let y'all fly in eight. It's just so absurd, like 77 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: why do we have to do this. It's just I mean, 78 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: this is disgusting. But sometimes people be good and they 79 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: put the rice in the bottles. Now, my second story 80 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: is stateside. Uh you remember how when Republicans would drop 81 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: the All Lives Matter on you and they and the 82 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: whole black on black crime thing, and what about in Chicago? 83 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: What about crime in Baltimore? I don't know if y'all notice, 84 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,559 Speaker 1: but these white people then built their own segregated city 85 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: again in Arkansas and the Ozarks. This white's only city. 86 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 1: They literally built a white's only city. How they were 87 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 1: able to do this was they was able to get 88 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: their charter as a private country club. But it's a 89 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: city that only white people allowed to live in. Anyway, 90 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 1: we can't live with the blacks or any other races. 91 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: And apparently the Jews ain't allowed in there either, because 92 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: they have their own cities. We're not allowed. We need 93 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: our own safe spaces because what about crime. 94 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 2: In Baltimore? 95 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: Now, crime in Baltimore, don't get me wrong, was awful. 96 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: And the approach for years, just like the approach that 97 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: Donald Trump tried to sell us song, was by continually 98 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: to incrementally militarized areas and get tough on crime. But 99 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: now they truly got a home grown elected mayor, somebody 100 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: from the soil, and Baltimore just finished the first half 101 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five with the fewest homicides ever recorded 102 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 1: thanks to Mayor Brandon Scott. Now, how does this happen? 103 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,840 Speaker 1: How is this happening right now? And I don't understand 104 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: why I do know why the news ain't talking about it? 105 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: And you know why the news ain't talking about it. 106 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 2: Because Brandon Scott. 107 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: Now, of course this is obviously more complicated than this, 108 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: and of course that I bet you if you was there, 109 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: you got a lot more critiques. But I can attest 110 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: to this. The mayor invested in forty two summer youth programs, 111 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: twenty nine literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 112 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: eleven PM, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe 113 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: fund in several school for summer's classes, and crime is 114 00:07:55,480 --> 00:08:04,679 Speaker 1: down sixty two percent. Imagine that. Now, why are y'all 115 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: not talking about that? 116 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 2: Well, nigga do. 117 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: But you know why I believe these numbers is because 118 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: I'm a product of these numbers. That's what happened in Kelly. 119 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: I've mentioned these locations in my own rap music and 120 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: on this show. Palm View Rec Center, Shadow Oak Park, 121 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: Cameron Youth Center, after school karate classes, after school boxing classes, 122 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: after school art classes, community sports teams, Edgewood Swimming Pool, 123 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 1: Workman High Swimming Pool. Listen, we had stuff to do. 124 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: There were other things to do that were fun. And 125 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: guess what my mama could afford them. Why because the 126 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: city supported it. It wasn't a private thing. I have 127 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: to go all the way to the burbs. No, in 128 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: my city. I just finished performing on Saturday, which was 129 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: well now last weekend for y'all. But down in South 130 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: Central off of fifty fourth and Crenshaw. 131 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 2: The what is it called the Whitehall. 132 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: Arts Academy, they do this third annual Rock the Block. Okay, 133 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: I watched these kids go to this art school from 134 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: it looked like from first grade all the way to 135 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 1: eighth grade. These kids wrote and performed these songs for 136 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: this little block party festival. The radio was out, Guitar 137 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: Center sponsored it. They was doing free groceries. These is 138 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: black and brown kids, and they wrote some of the 139 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: dopest songs. They danced, they performed. Me and the homies 140 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: who ended up having to perform, was like, look, man, 141 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: I hate that y'all put us on after them. 142 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 2: I cite for when I was a child. 143 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: I cite space people like Tommy and the Crump Battles. 144 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: You know why we weren't being violent, why we wasn't 145 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 1: out doing all kind of foolishness, was because we had 146 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: stuff to do. It ain't because you had a gang 147 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 1: of police on our streets. We had things to do 148 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: with adults that cared about us, people that gave us 149 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: ways to channel our energies and use our talents. 150 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 2: And even if we had beefs. 151 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: Like y'all understand, that was what was so dope about 152 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: Timmy the Clown. 153 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 2: If y'all beef, you would battle. 154 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: If it was some street stuff you was a little 155 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: more aggressive, they'd give you boxing gloves. 156 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 2: You go to a rec center, y'all box, and then 157 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 2: after that you cool. 158 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 1: And of course for me, two locations project Glowed and Foundation. 159 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 2: These were and mic and dim lights. 160 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: These were poetry spots, rap spots, and dancing spots where 161 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: you just look, You used your energy and your talent. 162 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 1: You made friends, and some of these people I'm still 163 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: friends with to this day. I can attest that I 164 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: know in my soul that crime is probably down sixty 165 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: two percent, and I can draw a direct line in 166 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: my own life that the city investing in ways for 167 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: which the youth can spend their time in healthy ways 168 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,439 Speaker 1: in my own life is what I'm telling you. I 169 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: know that brings crime down. So shout out the mayor, man, 170 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: I see you, homeboyd that's a terror former. Now you 171 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,079 Speaker 1: might notice that me big enough. This mayor would be 172 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: the opposite of anarchy, because now I'm saying the institution 173 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: is doing good. Here's the reality. I'm not married to 174 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: any of these systems. You know what. I'm married to 175 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 1: the flourishing of the people. 176 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 2: Tap in with me.