WEBVTT - Replay* Conversations About Hip Hop's Accountability 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:04.400 What's up? And welcome back to another episode of No 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.440 Sinners Podcast with your hosts now fuck that with your 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:22.319 load glasses Malone. So it's been crazy, right, all this 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:26.240 promo shit started, Nigga doing the promo run, making all 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:31.760 the magic happening. That's the it don't stop. So I 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:40.680 put out to cancel these nuts. Six weeks ago, I 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.000 went on a mad promo run to the East coast, right, 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:56.000 brilliant idiots, breakfast club, horrible decisions, expert opinion, dash radio stuff, 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.680 serious radio stuff. Shout out to Ron Mills, all my 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:05.839 good people over there, see what's up. But stopped in Boston. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.000 Did the press up there? Promo up there? Shout out 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.279 to my brother DJ ros Sheet and I come home 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.840 and when I get home, obviously I do my run. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.759 So a lot of good solid brothers on the West. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.520 That started all of these dope you know media platforms 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:34.400 back on fig the community, my boy Pun Trail, a 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:38.520 d mac Wip. They just created like this really dope 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:47.000 you know media kind of cipher and it's been unbelievable. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:52.240 Like right, that run has been crazy. The conversation has 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:58.480 been crazy. One of the main conversations is that's that 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:05.280 everybody's being stuck on is is Drake hip Hop? For 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:10.040 twelve years, I ran around just to learn what records 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.079 was about, just to learn what hip hop was about, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.880 just to learn what marketing was about. I literally decided 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.120 I wasn't gonna even make money in this business because 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.920 I felt like I didn't do enough to deserve it, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.120 Like and it already paid me millions of dollars and 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.120 I didn't do enough to deserve it. So I committed 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.320 to it, almost like a nun or something. Because going 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:38.880 into like a church or you know how they pledged 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:43.919 their life to Catholicism, That's how I pledged my existence 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:48.280 to hip hop and understanding what was going on. And 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.680 obviously I'm compelled to speak on it at another level 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:57.400 because I literally sacrificed enough to have an opinion. I've 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:01.440 done enough work. I've done the work to have an opinion. Now, 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.240 how good I think my album is. It's not just 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:07.600 the work itself. The reason I know my album is great, right, 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.080 it's because I did the work. But then when you 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.040 listen to the album and you know enough, minds tell 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.200 you what it is, they confirm it. But I was confident, 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.519 just like a boxer and training camp because I did 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.480 all the hard work and training camp. I did all 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.960 the hard work way before you heard the music. But 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.000 it just made me have some interesting thoughts about hip 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:39.080 hop that was different. And I noticed it's a movement 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:45.960 of black people really blaming hip hop for everything right, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:53.080 and these saying black people are some of the brothers 0:03:53.120 --> 0:04:01.880 that argue with me about this particular topic. Shout out 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:08.920 to my nigga Jobs intellectually petty. Intellectually petty radio A podcasts, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.600 y'all go look it up for some of YouTube, really 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:19.440 intelligent brother from the Midwest from Detroit. And it made 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.400 me think, and I think we've talked about this before 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:32.280 with different people on those seilings that term accountability, What 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.839 is hip hop's accountability in the current status, like in 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:42.440 the current state of the ghettos across America? How much 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:47.520 is hip hop to blame? Jobs was saying to me. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.400 He thought Sexy Rare with Satan, and I'm like, this 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.119 is this young twenty seven year old girl from Saint 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:02.400 Louis right, who obviously understands some marketing. Because even through 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.560 all of the the marketing itself and the funniness itself 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:10.000 of what's going on. Most women when they're trying to 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.359 be sexy, the first thing they want to do is 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.279 take off their glasses. This girl keeps her glasses on, 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.520 doing the most ratchet shit in the world, acting like 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:24.000 she's attempting to be sexy. I really think sexy Red 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:28.600 is like a marketing savant because this motherfucker ain't took 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:34.599 off her glasses. Wearing two pieces. You know, she could 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:39.040 get contacts. She won't take off her glasses. Daisy Dupes 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:44.160 splits ratchet, but she got her glasses on. It reminds 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:52.000 me of Ice Spice and that orphan anywig. Ice Spice 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:56.960 is like orphan anty with ass when she wear that wig. 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:03.040 Like their marketing savants. That whole generation under thirty, that generation, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.000 I don't know if it's Alpha, but that whichever generation 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.279 it is, they're marketing savants. All these motherfucker's under thirty 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.920 understand how they want you to see them, and they 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:21.120 understand what you're gonna think about it. But back to 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:26.839 the point he was saying, he felt sexy Rere was 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.799 the satan, and I'm like, with all these Sam Smiths 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.919 and people doing crazy shit on these award shows endorsing 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:39.760 the devil. You thought a black lady, a black young 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:45.560 girl from fucking Saint Louis because she's a bit extra promiscuous, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:56.479 is satan? Like she's satan. It's so it's not Generation Alpha, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:01.000 it's the millennials or Generation Why. But I'm like, she's satan. 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.520 What is sexy Read really to blame for? At this point? 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:11.360 What is she really to blame for? No Siller's jail 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.440 flying solo today, Ain't no auto pilot, ain't no co pilots. 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.160 It's just me and y'all. So we're gonna pop this shit. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.960 But what is sexy Read really to blame for at 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:30.960 this point? Dog is sexy Read the first hood rat 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:36.200 girl in the communities? Is she inspiring women to be 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:40.160 hood rats? Or is she a reflection that there is 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:43.679 a promiscuous group of women that suffer from a level 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.120 of trauma that makes them feel like they have ownership 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.680 over certain things that you obviously are really rich and 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.680 deep that they feel they have ownership over. Maybe they 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.240 feel they have to claim ownership over it because in 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.720 some of those situations, some of these people men molested 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:02.840 and went through hell, So now they're trying to claim 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.440 it to have some level of strength. But it's Sexy 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:13.480 Red really inspiring a generation of women to be hood racks. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.320 Her biggest demographic is going to be middle class America, 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:22.160 white women you feel me, that are in college, white 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.320 women that live in the suburbs. Are is she gonna 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:32.640 inspire them to get pregnant? Are white women gonna line 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.360 up at the plant parenthood or at the clinic because 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:42.880 they got STDs? Like Sexy Red rap about? Like? Is 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:52.200 their clinics gonna be overfilled with motherfucking women getting abortion? Like? 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.839 How much is hip hop really to blame? Like let's 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.480 be for real, like we didne got so far out 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.560 of the space of understand that systemic oppression is still 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.079 currently going on, Like and we'll find ways to figure 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.480 it out. We'll name it. If somebody get their ass 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.680 killed by a police and then the police get off, 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.560 we'll see it be like, well that's different. We act 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.679 like one day we woke up and then the United 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.680 States of America decided, well, we not gonna go hard 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.520 on these niggas no more. So it must be these 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.480 niggas fat at this point that they are a bit 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:35.199 traumatized and react and develop confidence in even lower standards. 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.000 It's sexy red really to blame, Like, come on, man, 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.959 like this shit is getting crazy. Look, you don't gotta 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.959 like it, bro, I get it. You don't gotta like it. 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.520 Maybe you have a daughter cause and you're like, I 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.160 don't want my daughter to be sexy red. Bro, if 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.439 you're in her life, she's not gonna be sexy red. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:04.760 Trust me, if you, as a father, are in her life, 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:12.800 she is not gonna be sexy red. She is not 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.880 gonna be sexy red. Sexy reds issues are completely different. 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.000 It's obviously it's obvious that girl been through a lot 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:25.000 of shit, But the fact that we're blaming an artist 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:30.479 painting a picture of something that exists in our communities 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.199 and we like, well, she's gonna tell everybody else they 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.520 didn't know hood rats existed. I saw people talking about 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:43.800 are we celebrating sexy red or sexy red celebrating that 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:49.440 promiscuous culture that people feel like she's a part of. 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:54.000 And I'm like, what if her experiences is only fucking 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.440 with crazy niggas because she live in the ghetto. You 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:03.720 don't want people to know it's crazy because I remember 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:08.920 growing up and people like see the lords Tucker blaming 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:14.240 hip hop for what's going on in the ghetto, not 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.520 the ghetto for what's going on in hip hop, because 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:21.080 that would be too much like right. Instead, she's blaming 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:26.240 hip hop for what's going on in the ghetto. Again, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.679 I say she was blaming hip hop for what's going 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.320 on in the ghetto. She didn't blame what's going on 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:39.160 in the ghetto on hip hop. I mean, excuse me. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.840 She didn't blame what's going on in hip hop on 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.880 the ghetto. It was the other way around. The art 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:53.840 was inspiring the community. So you got all of these grown, 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:58.280 middle aged men acting like Sexy Red is some kind 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.720 of unique character or her characters should be suppressed, even 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.160 though most of y'all have pretty much dealt with a 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.360 sexy Red, especially if you grew up where we grew 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.920 up at. Maybe your baby mama is a sexy Red. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.199 Maybe you're the reason that sexy Red became sexy Red. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.400 It ain't like you niggas as waking up trying to 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.160 wipe these women. You're trying to get some pussy. So 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.280 if you're trying to get some pussy, and lord knows 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.920 how hell bent we beat on trying to get some pussy, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.840 We'll lie, we'll do whatever it takes, We'll break a 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.280 woman's spirit just to get some pussy. And then when 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:38.079 they mutate into a sexy Red, we'll be like, well, 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.800 I don't know what happened. And then we'll get older 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:51.080 and really disassociate ourselves from those circumstances. And again, I say, 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:57.640 if sexy Red is that influential, then why aren't these 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:10.320 white women having the same exact problem. Why the biggest 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:15.480 supporter of hip hop is very much Middle American white people. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:21.959 Why why traditionally are they not changing? And then if 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.720 you notice they're not changing, you're like, well, they're different. 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.040 You know, they have this and that. You know, but 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:31.680 it's affecting the ghetto or is the ghetto affecting the 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.360 cheese a representation of it? This shit just sometimes is 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:39.439 getting crazy, Like we have literally decided white people are 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.720 not to blame or we said we blame them enough, 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.120 even though they had motherfuckers and slave for two three 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:48.200 hundred years, four hundred years, We like, oh well this 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:59.320 hundred years was enough to escape it. All I hear 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:06.160 is hip hop's negative influence. All blame hip hop? Hip hop? 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.280 Did this not the ghetto? Is inspiring hip hop. Hip 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:15.640 hop is inspiring the ghetto. Well, let's talk about what 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.760 the ghetto has done. Let's talk about ice Cube. Does 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:24.880 anybody truly give ice Cube credit for creating three of 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:31.080 the biggest comics in the last I don't know thirty years. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:36.400 Chris Tucker came from ice Cube, Mike Epps came from 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:41.560 ice Cube, Cat Williams came from ice Cube. Everybody to 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.200 Chris Tucker made these big one hundred two, three four 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:49.800 five hundred blockbuster million dollar films, three four five hundred 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.520 dollars meal four five hundred million dollar films, and all 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.600 that that came from some nigga in hip hop, some 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.520 nigga that grew up in one eleven South Central one 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:05.600 eleven neighborhood. Crip created three of the ten biggest comics 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:12.320 in the last thirty years. Hip hop did that. Hip 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:19.200 hop did that. You don't have rush Hour without fucking 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:25.600 ice Cube. You don't have a Rush Hour. So you 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.640 probably don't have Jackie Chan at this level without ice Cube. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:36.440 Because Chris Tucker is the starter film, right, he's selling 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.480 a film on a mainstream level. You don't have none 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:44.440 of them rush Hours. So about I don't know a 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:50.440 billion dollars worth a film franchise. You owe that to 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.680 hip hop because some nigga who said fuck the police 0:15:55.120 --> 0:16:00.880 in eighty eight created a platform and motherfucking developed one 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.520 of the biggest and most important film stars in the 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:09.440 last motherfucking thirty years. You owe hip hop for that? 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.240 How about? What is that a trade off of sexy read? 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:26.920 You have Chris Tucker, Mike Epps. I can't go down 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.720 to listen ship Mike Epps has contributed to that matter. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.120 Cat Williams, we all know how fucking unbelievable he is. 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:48.400 That's Cat Williams. Fucking Cat Williams dog. But I was 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:54.200 gonna give hip hop credit for that? Probably not, Probably 0:16:54.240 --> 0:17:07.639 fucking not. What about Terry Crews. Y'all love Terry Crews, y'all. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:16.639 That's y'all, motherfucking mad old Terry Crews. He was in 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.639 training day, he was a backup person. Friday at the 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.840 next was his moment to shine. You owe that to 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:28.440 ice Q. You owe that to hip hop? You owe 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:34.560 that to hip hop? Can hip hop get a thank you? 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:42.720 You give it all the blame, all the fucking blame 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.280 is hip hop. But where is all the fucking credit. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.280 A guy on Twitter today asked me about Snoop Dogg. 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.359 He said crips didn't exist in the Midwest until Snoop 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:59.840 Dogg came out. Not the drug game where everybody from 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:06.280 Los Angeles was going to these towns and setting up shot. Nope, 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:15.280 the rap music, hip hop. And I do agree that 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:21.040 Snoop reinforced the title crypts. He made people that was 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:25.520 the first cryp. Most people really felt like they knew. 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.280 He's by far the most popular cryp of all time. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.240 It's pretty much it's fair to say he's the greatest 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:38.080 cryp of all time. But he also defined it in 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:43.040 his way. So while you're looking at Rocket from Colors 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.679 and like, this is what crypts are about, which in 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.200 the movie Colors, maybe Rocket, you know, shout out to 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:54.479 Don Cheto probably the greatest Black actor you know ever 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.240 as far as just pure skills. I mean, I don't 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.560 think he have the films of Denzel Washington or like 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:05.119 my favorite actor, you know, Samuel Jackson, but just pure 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:10.479 pound for pound awesome acting. Don cheeoh was probably the 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.920 best one as far as black actors go. Maybe him 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:18.480 a Forest Whitaker, but you know what I'm saying it's 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:23.119 like Snoop is he didn't let Colors tell you what 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.800 cripping was about. So while you were looking at the 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.639 film Colors or the film dough Boy, you know, excuse 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.000 me boys in the Hood with dough Boy, or the 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.600 Wren's take character, Oh Dog, you mess Snoop and Snoop 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:41.760 shows you how diverse a cryp can be, because that's 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.960 how most crips are. Just like Snoop. Some have jobs, 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:48.760 some go to school, some most raised their family, most 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:56.600 get married, most of them are productive members in society. Eventually, 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.560 they may start off in these ghettos, having to earn 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.879 how they earn, But just like my older homie Pluck, 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.720 they'll figure out their way. They'll be owning trucks and 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.199 driving trucks, or like my older homie Moon, they'll be 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:14.320 having tow trucks and running motorcycle clubs and monetizing social lifestyles. 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.920 Or they'll be like my ogi homie Shady, who can 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:24.280 pull apart of Harley and put it back together, engine, frame, wheels, everything, 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.320 or like my homeboy Boom, my older homie Boo can 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.760 put together cars and he knows how to paint them 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:34.639 and bring cars back to life after they've been salvaged. 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:42.800 Just because Hollywood tried to tell you what crips was, 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:47.119 you ran to everybody else like, this is what crips was. 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.600 And then you met Snoop. It Snoop showed you everything 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:57.040 cribs could be. It made the whole world fall in 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:04.000 love with crips. That's what hip hop does. Hip hop 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:08.880 shows you how the ghetto party, how the ghetto parties. 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:14.080 That's where hip hop started at as far as the music, 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:19.360 it started as a party. When we celebrated the fiftieth year. 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:22.560 The address they put on that flyer fifteen to twenty 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:27.280 segwitch that project. You were going to a party. It 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:32.400 was a hip hop. My dad and the generation they 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:36.119 called a party a hop and you know what hip is. 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:40.560 Hip is cool. It was the way the ghetto party. 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:48.400 We are the cool kids. The way we write right, 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:55.600 that's tagging. The way we dance, that's breaking. The way 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.320 we take the music and make our own thing right, 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:01.640 that's a breakbeat. And then we can't sing. We wasn't 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:07.360 professional trained singers, So guess what we rap? Shout out 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:17.960 to Joe Text, shout out to the watch poets. DJ's 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:23.160 existed before hip hop. They did. They existed before hip hop. 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:27.560 This goal had DJ's, radio had DJ's, but they didn't 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.600 do it the way we did it. They didn't do 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:35.639 it the way the cool kids did it. So it 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:38.200 looks like we created all of this stuff because we're 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:42.040 so fucking cool in these ghettos that when we start 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:46.360 doing stuff, everybody does stuff like it. But you know what, 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:49.840 it's not the ghetto that does stuff like it, it's 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:54.240 Middle America that does stuff like it. So I'm almost 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:59.560 starting to believe Middle America is not as mad at 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:06.440 hip hop as the people that are black people. It's 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:11.480 almost like it's more ridicule from middle class and wealthy 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:19.320 black people or successful black people on poor people. I 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:22.639 don't even think they really believe in systemic oppression because 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:30.320 they're successful. I think this is a greater problem. I 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:37.760 genuinely think this is a greater problem. I think this 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:42.600 is a greater problem. I've heard people tell me hip hop, oh, 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:46.280 it was created to solve problems. And then I had 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:49.760 great conversations with Crazy Legs and other founding fathers, and 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:52.560 they was like, man, we were stick of kids. They 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:56.600 were telling me they were criminals. The black Spades are 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:59.399 pretty much the founder of hip hop. That's a gang 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:09.840 in the un So when people blame Snoop Dogg, like, oh, well, 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:13.400 you know, crips didn't exist in the Midwest before Snoop Dogg. 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:18.960 Just because you retitled gangs. Gangs existed in the Midwest 0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:24.720 before Snoop Dogg. Violence existed in the Midwest before Snoop Dogg. 0:24:31.760 --> 0:24:34.560 All of these things existed. But because you put the 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:41.600 new name Crips on there, like, the violence is magnified. Oh, 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:50.239 the violence has to be crazier. I just don't get it. 0:24:50.400 --> 0:24:55.240 I really don't get it. Forty years ago, we understood 0:24:55.760 --> 0:25:02.720 systemic oppression, you know, we understood poverty, like that type 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:07.760 of economic hardship was responsible for the way people acted 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:11.879 in the ghetto. The fashion is the fashion because people 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:15.960 were deprived of economics, and six pair of Dickys cost 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:21.280 fifty dollars, seven pair of checks of chuck all start. 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:28.400 You know, Converse cost fifty dollars. T shirts were undershirts. 0:25:28.680 --> 0:25:32.639 They were cheap. So people mom didn't have money, but 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:35.240 they wanted to make sure their kids had new clothes, 0:25:35.480 --> 0:25:39.000 so they went down to HP Huntington Park and bought 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:44.679 them new clothes. You get six pair of pants for 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:50.199 fifty dollars, six pair of shoes for fifty dollars, different 0:25:50.240 --> 0:25:53.679 colored shirts for fifty dollars, and you have enough for 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:56.920 a whole school year. So your mentality is, we should 0:25:56.920 --> 0:26:03.560 have been sad because our circumstances. We should have been sad. 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:06.960 We shouldn't find a sense of pride. That's what hip 0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:10.120 hop is. It's that pride of no matter how bad 0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:14.600 our circumstances are, we still find pride to exist. We 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:18.960 still make it look good. We're gonna put big crease, 0:26:19.600 --> 0:26:23.480 a big crease, and those six pans for fifty dollars, 0:26:23.960 --> 0:26:26.600 we're gonna wear it with pride, and we're gonna wear 0:26:26.640 --> 0:26:31.000 it so fucking awesome that everybody else who could afford 0:26:31.080 --> 0:26:35.960 better wants to wear them. That's what hip hop is. 0:26:38.080 --> 0:26:44.280 You know what else is like that? Soul food? Soul 0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:47.119 food is just like that. It was the slops that 0:26:47.240 --> 0:26:50.480 the master threw back there, the worst of the vegetables, 0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:55.640 the worst of everything we cooked. That shit so fired 0:26:55.680 --> 0:26:58.320 that they start coming back to the back house trying 0:26:58.359 --> 0:27:05.840 to eat. Now they have gourmet restaurants selling soul food, 0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:13.040 slave food, not black food. Slave food. Hip hop is 0:27:13.240 --> 0:27:19.080 slave food. It's when you find the sense of pride 0:27:19.440 --> 0:27:26.280 no matter the circumstance, and you put that pride on 0:27:26.440 --> 0:27:31.120 so motherfucking thick cuz that the world be like, damn, 0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:35.000 that shit look nice. It's like an ugly bitch with 0:27:35.080 --> 0:27:39.720 too much confidence. The ugliest woman could get the best 0:27:39.760 --> 0:27:43.800 man if she but makes her if she believes in herself, 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:46.840 that convinces him that she thinks she the shit. You 0:27:46.920 --> 0:27:50.399 a fool of motherfucker. I knew a girl that was 0:27:50.480 --> 0:27:53.679 like that to me. This motherfucker was ugly, but she 0:27:53.840 --> 0:27:56.399 acted like she was fine and had me kind of 0:27:56.400 --> 0:27:59.320 have fast convinced. I started to want to take the 0:27:59.359 --> 0:28:05.840 bitch out to get my thoughts together. That's what hip 0:28:05.880 --> 0:28:09.160 hop is. It's finding a sense of pride no matter 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:13.240 the circumstances you are put in. Yeah, you can't learn. 0:28:13.359 --> 0:28:16.320 They don't got no band programs. They took all the 0:28:16.359 --> 0:28:19.080 band programs away. Well, guess what, I'm gonna take the 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:23.480 break of this record the drum loop, and I'm gonna 0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:28.000 loop this motherfucker over and over again. Then I don't 0:28:28.040 --> 0:28:30.080 know how to sing, but I know how to put 0:28:30.119 --> 0:28:34.560 my thoughts together and make the motherfuckers rhyme. They didn't 0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:37.199 give me no professional dance lesson. But I know what 0:28:37.240 --> 0:28:39.560 this beat is telling me. I see all these breaks, 0:28:39.600 --> 0:28:46.560 so let me break just like this motherfucking beat. Yeah, 0:28:46.760 --> 0:28:50.440 the education programs wasn't that great, showing us how to write, 0:28:50.440 --> 0:28:53.200 and the cursive program and all that was and shit, 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:56.240 But I know how to make this art look motherfucking nice. 0:28:58.320 --> 0:29:02.920 Hip hop is about taking whatever your circumstances are and 0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:08.000 making it work and making it sexy, putting it on 0:29:08.160 --> 0:29:12.320 with pride, and you will have motherfuckers that could afford 0:29:12.400 --> 0:29:16.320 better being a part of it, just because you carry 0:29:16.360 --> 0:29:19.760 it with such pride. And that's your fear for a 0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:25.080 sexy read her trauma, you know, niggas using her whatever 0:29:25.160 --> 0:29:27.280 happened to her in her life that made her feel 0:29:27.280 --> 0:29:31.240 like this ain't valuable, she still created a sense of value, 0:29:31.480 --> 0:29:34.600 and no matter her circumstances, she walk around pride being 0:29:34.600 --> 0:29:37.920 a motherfucker she is. That's what she's supposed to do. 0:29:40.120 --> 0:29:43.440 That's what she's supposed to do. She'll get exposed to 0:29:43.520 --> 0:29:46.080 more and everything else to change in her life, but 0:29:46.200 --> 0:29:49.160 she supposed to be proud of the motherfucker she is. 0:29:49.440 --> 0:29:52.120 And you motherfuckers want her to walk around with her 0:29:52.200 --> 0:29:59.440 head down. That's why I hate you, motherfuckers. Y'all jealous 0:29:59.440 --> 0:30:01.720 of that sister, because she walk around with her fucking 0:30:01.840 --> 0:30:05.560 head up. She comes from one of the poorest places 0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:09.600 in this fucking country. She then made it out. Whatever 0:30:09.680 --> 0:30:14.800 her circumstances is, whatever promission, whatever promiscuous lifestyle she did 0:30:14.880 --> 0:30:17.280 is she didn't put together enough words and got some 0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:19.560 dope beats and put her bread together. And she's so 0:30:19.760 --> 0:30:23.080 proud of herself, and she proud of the motherfucker she is. 0:30:23.280 --> 0:30:27.280 And y'all made h she she's showing she's she's doing 0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:31.600 too much. She's talking about real life shit, shit that 0:30:31.920 --> 0:30:37.000 really happens. And you so worried about your daughter hearing 0:30:37.040 --> 0:30:39.640 that bitch, Get in your daughter life and be her 0:30:39.720 --> 0:30:50.400 fucking parent. Be your parent, Be your parent. You won't 0:30:50.400 --> 0:30:54.960 have nothing to worry about. You worried about your son 0:30:55.280 --> 0:30:58.120 hearing Snoop dogg Rap. You think he's gonna run to 0:30:58.160 --> 0:31:02.160 the nearest crip neighborhood. Your son her Snoop, and he 0:31:02.160 --> 0:31:04.720 didn't live in a cryp neighborhood. Most likely he not 0:31:04.760 --> 0:31:07.320 gonna run to the nearest neighborhood to be a fucking crypt. 0:31:07.920 --> 0:31:10.200 But rest is sure, Snoop, don't got nothing to do 0:31:10.280 --> 0:31:12.680 with glasses. Look being a crypt because I grew up 0:31:12.680 --> 0:31:16.120 in cryp neighborhoods. That's why I'm a crip, because I'm 0:31:16.200 --> 0:31:23.120 from there. And if I'm wrong, then white people would 0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:26.560 have crips in their neighborhood. They'd be all crips and 0:31:26.600 --> 0:31:29.560 they'd be killing each other. The murder raider be crazy. 0:31:30.120 --> 0:31:32.760 But you can't blame the same ghetto that's spawning this 0:31:32.880 --> 0:31:36.240 lifestyle and then these niggas representing it as these niggas 0:31:36.240 --> 0:31:41.440