WEBVTT - The Cray of Ye 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:04.519 You are now listening and waiting on reparations A production 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:10.840 of I Heart Radio. Yeah it's waiting. Uh, it's way now, 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.560 yell yo, Knife is the illness. Don't matter any state 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.239 I'm in. I'm wrought like an uncut gym. This is 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.919 the way I win. Wrappers acting FRONTI for money, So 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.320 I don't play with them. Your favorite rappers out here 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.600 making America great again. But I just played a winning 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.600 focus on the state I'm in. Staying Tim still told 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.280 Boots time to break him in hearing through the wire. 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.120 I was steering through the fire. I was focused on myself. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.560 I'm appear that you admire Dope Knife Lingua Franca. We'll 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.519 be preaching of the choirs, waiting on reparations. Now the 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.960 booth can retire. Nigger take chords, swing swords like a showgun. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:49.320 Y'all fair, Now, all hail to the dope one ye yea. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:57.640 Waiting on reprobations, yea, wait in reprobations. Hey, what's going on? 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:02.560 Yeah that's good. I'm dope knife Franca and we are 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:10.160 waiting on reparation. Well, what good? What's good with you? No? 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.720 I started to ask you first. I ask you first. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.880 I'm good. I'm good, Like I I you know, the 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.679 studio thing I've been talking about like the last month, 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:24.199 like I'm finally finally like done, you know, fully getting 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.520 that it's been It's been really it's been rough. I 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.440 don't know why it's been so slow, but it's like, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.160 you know, one day I'll move a desk in there, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.399 and then I won't go back there for like another 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.000 like week, and then you know, but finally I've got 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.520 like all the stuff in there, so it's good to go. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.880 I'm good to start using it and finally start recording 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:45.040 at my prolific MC pace that I I once had 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.520 going what about you? How was your week? Oh? Also, 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:53.280 I'm getting prepared for that Afroman show that August eleventh 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.240 at Victory North and Savannah, Georgia. So yeah, that's like 0:01:56.280 --> 0:02:00.680 pretty much preoccupying like every aspect of stuff right now. 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:05.440 What about you? Yeah, I mean important thing, I hope. No, 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.560 I mean I'm back on my commission grind. We had 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:12.240 our first in person meeting at City Hall last Tuesday, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:13.920 first in person meeting in a year and a half, 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:15.960 and you know what, actually felt good to be back. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.160 I thought I would be like resentful that I can't 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.400 hang out with like no pants on on camp, you know, 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.239 on the camera, eating snacks, taking you know, turning my 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.480 camera off so and go pee mid meeting. But actually 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.519 it was really nice being back there with my colleagues. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.600 Um sinse of like more of a human element. It's 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.600 really easy to just hate these bitches sometimes when even 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.160 here it's just like, yeah, they're like cameras aren't even 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:41.360 all you don't even know if they're in the meeting 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.560 and ship, but it's like, oh, they're there, and you know, 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.000 like you, oh, I like your raincoat and you know whatever. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.160 Just banned this basic banter to bring people together to 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.200 remember that we made different. Yeah, we may different ideologically 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:00.560 or like in how we move through this political um sphere, 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.000 but like we're people. You know, It's it's kind of nice. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.639 It's kind of nice. It's not gonna lie, but yeah, 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.560 that's all that's going on on this end. You know. 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.680 We're all people with our with our flaws and our quirks. 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.200 Speaking of people with flaws and quirks, Oh boy, Sir, 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.880 Kanye West is back in the news again, and this 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.760 week we're gonna talk about Kanye West again, talk about 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.880 ye we unpacking some of his his headline making political 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.360 stances old because some of his old controversies, and then 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.080 during a Delbo's well into his discography which has interesting 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.840 um implications for politics as well. So just you know, 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.640 before we dive into the episode and stuff, just what 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.720 are your general I don't even want to say thoughts, 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:48.240 what was your general reaction to like this new resurgence 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.800 and Kanye's popularity during this album cycle for this album 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.640 Donda He's got coming out. I mean, well, I wouldn't 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.840 even call it a resurgence because as I as I 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:02.240 kind of looked into his recent musical history, his musical 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:06.000 output has really ramped up over the last decade. Where 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.960 it went from you know, a couple of years between albums, 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.320 so like we're consistently getting one every two years every year, 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:17.600 or you know back in fum with that too, when 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.320 did you do NASA's album? Shoot on the subject, so 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:25.120 back to you know, like producing four or five albums 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.760 in a single year. Yeah, he didn't push ther tease 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:33.240 album and then NASA's album. Yeah, him and Kid Cutty 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:37.600 did a project, didn't there. I think that ghosts in 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.720 that period, I think yeah, And so I mean I 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.960 wonder to a degree it does impact the quality. As 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.680 an old Kanye, a lover of ole Kanye, as many 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.640 of us are, you know, I just don't feel as 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:55.280 inspired by some of the newer material. Do you think 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.240 some of that's like influenced by some of how your 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.920 reaction to his personal antics and stuff like that that 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:03.920 is affecting how you're taking in the music, or do 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:07.720 you think the music itself has dropped in quality at 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.200 least become different. I'm far more inclined to give someone's 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:12.960 music a chance if I think they're a cool and 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:19.880 good person for sure. Um, and so uh hardst like 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.080 you said some black ship, bra, I don't really. I mean, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.919 on the flip side, I have not canceled Connie entirely 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:31.360 from my discography and from my like you know, playlist rotations. Um, 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.920 I don't think on account of the things he said either. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.560 It's just that I obviously got his music just because 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.200 it's on a different tip than it used to be. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.440 And also I don't want to really encourage this ship. Yeah, 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.800 I mean, I totally agree with you. I don't think Kanye's, 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.920 at least not to this point, has done anything that 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:54.600 like makes what you thought of his older stuff or 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:59.640 how you even just interpreted it any different. But I 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:04.080 don't know. To me there as somebody who's never necessarily 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.720 been like a Kanye fan, I have noticed like a 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:12.000 change stylistically or like an approach to music making that 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.200 that seems like it's gotten different over the years. That first, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:17.839 what do you hope? You know if you if an 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:22.080 artist stays making the same sounding music for twenty years, 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:24.960 like are they really growing as an artists? Are they 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.760 really like pushing themselves? Are they really like like hitting 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.880 their creative like peak? And if you don't enjoy the 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:34.960 new music that's coming out that is changing at all 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:44.240 of growth? Yea agree, it's just who is that growth for? 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.840 I guess you know what I mean? Like I have 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:53.279 a feeling that if I if I were like an 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:58.160 NBA player, or if I like hit it big and 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.400 like the Bitcoin stock, if I was like a young 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.000 rich person, Yeah, I feel like I would really really 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:09.000 really enjoy likes to say it is music, you know 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.000 what I mean? But um, we're gonna we're gonna jump 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:13.720 into that and more because I mean, we both got 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.360 a lot to say on this, and we also got 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.440 a lot to cover. So we're gonna get into all 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:27.400 this Kanye madness after the job, after the job. So yeah, 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.800 returned to Atlanta last week, the place of his birth 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.920 and how the listening party last Thursday for US new 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:39.280 but partially unfinished forthcoming album Donda at the Mercedes beIN Stadium. U. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:44.680 There's about forty thousand fans in attendance, which I with 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:49.200 the Delta, Barian and everything the people all got the 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.360 Delta makes me kind of held nervous. But an addition 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.280 to you know, they crammed for UK people in there 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:02.320 to experience the album five. The event was also streamed 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.000 exclusively on Apple Music and is said to have broken 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.560 the record for Apple Music live stream with three point 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.360 three million people across the world tuned in to listen 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:18.640 to the new album. Um, that's before Yeah, It's fine. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.160 That same evening, the Atlanta City Council issued a proclamation 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.640 honoring Kanye West with the citywide holiday in his name, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:32.000 Kanye West Day. They call it. That's right. July is 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:37.439 now officially Kanye West Day in Atlanta. I want that 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.679 to I want that to sink in. I wanted to 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:44.599 sink in and marinate just for a second now, This 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.560 was presented by the city councilor for the District five, 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:55.520 Nataline Archibong, Nataline Archibald, who is currently running for a 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.080 city council president. And she probably thought this was gonna 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.920 be like a doll all know, we're proclaimed a lot 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.240 twenty two Kanye West day. I'll get a great photo 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.679 op with Kanye. Put it on my campaign you know 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.800 card or whatever, and uh, you know, and boost my 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.800 and boost my you know, my standing in the district. 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.960 Little did she know at a time that Kanye would 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.079 be wearing pantyhose over his head and face for the 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.280 events duration. And so the photos of them together, of him, 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:29.320 of her, of delivering the proclamation to Kanye, he looks 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.199 like he just either has some kids in the back 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.599 of his vand or sold some gold bars from a 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:41.440 Swiss bank, So it's bad. He was recently at something 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:47.400 in um in Paris with a little baby and the 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.559 basketball player James Harden and there was a picture take 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.000 of of them all like all sitting together and He's 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.320 got the mask on over his head and little baby 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.800 and James Hardener just looking at him like, Yo, what 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.679 the fund is even going on right now? I mean, 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.520 you know, it's like this whole thing, and that's I 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.959 guess why I was saying, like resurgence and popularity. I 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.520 guess that was a wrong way to phrase it, because 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.600 it's not like he's ever lost the popularity, not necessarily, 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:19.640 but it's just like, you know, if you if a 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.719 hip hop artist can't at least see any kind of 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.920 a hit after like Kanye's run the last like three years, 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:29.600 you know what I'm saying, then I think we're at 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.240 the point where, like if an artist like establishes enough 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.480 of a of a fan base that they're pretty much 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.840 bulletproof to any everything. And I'm not I'm not talking 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.839 about like canceling, you know what I mean. But it 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:44.280 just seems like even people who were like, oh man, 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.080 I don't like the Kanye did that, or I don't 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.679 like the Kanye said that, like right now, we're like, 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.480 oh man, I can't wait for this album, you know 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.600 what I'm saying. So it's almost like his career is bulletproof, 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.320 you know. At this point, I guess I really don't 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.319 know what he can do. I really know what you 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.080 could possibly do, and we're obviously going to get into 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.840 what he's done, but yeah, I can't at this point, 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.240 I can't think of it really like, yeah, I think 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.640 these people are all in the tank. So Dr Kevin James, 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:18.480 the president of Morris Brown College, private Methodist, historically black 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.160 liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, also presented West with 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:30.680 the Merritt how do you say that? Marrit? He also 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.760 awarded Kanye West with a Meritorious Service Award for his mother, 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:41.440 doctor Donda West. His mother, so he said, doctor Donda 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.079 West started her career at Morris Brown College as a 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:49.240 professor and eventual and eventual department Chair of English. We 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.880 wanted to convey the utmost respect that we have for 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.000 his mother's legacy. So in addition to I didn't know, 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.320 first of all, I didn't know that Kanye was born 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.160 in Atlanta. I also didn't know that his mother was 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:05.040 the department of the chair of English at like an HBCUM. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.439 Which makes sense because I mean, something that was so 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.839 iconic about Kandye when he made his breakthrough was his 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.800 like aesthetic that he broke away from, like the gangs, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.240 that the life kind of thing, and like learning more 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:19.800 and more about his history, it's like, well that's just 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.959 like authentically, wasn't him like he was kind of like 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.160 a middle class ass dude, and like was just like 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:30.079 that's a I guess like normalized like that as a 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.520 way to be black. That is fine to be you 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.079 know what I mean. I guess that's what makes me 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.839 wonder about like Kanya is because like a lot of 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.400 his early a lot of his early stuff, like his 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:48.160 early aesthetic very much was like steeped in that sort 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:53.000 of like no nonsense, unapologetically black, Like I don't funk 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.400 with you know, I don't funk with the bullshit type 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.079 of ship. And it's just like I don't know, I 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.360 feel like if I were like a Kanye West fan 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:03.800 like that, because like like I said, I don't know, 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:05.719 like his whole discography, I don't I don't know like 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.920 all of the classic lines from all of the Kanye 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.640 songs and stuff like that. Like, but it feels like 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.560 everything about him is kind of has to be called 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.959 into question now, doesn't it, Like did you mean? Like 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.079 you kind of have to reassess like a lot of 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.520 like past statements. It's like did he really mean that? 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:26.120 Like did like what was really behind him saying George W. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.640 Bush doesn't care about black people and snl if like 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.040 we see what he's doing. Now, I see what you're saying. 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.720 I see what you're saying. And it's so funny because 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.000 like you're like, oh, like you're posting the question and 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.360 also saying like if I had at that level of investment, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.319 I would like want to that like in trogate that 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.600 and then my end as like a somewhat Kanye fan, 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.080 I'm like, oh, maybe I can answer this one. Nope, 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.040 no one can. No one can't because I actually don't 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.080 care that much. Yeah, I don't care as much as 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.480 I surprisingly as I thought I might try. Yeah, I don't. 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.640 I don't really. I'm not really gonna read into it's 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.959 a whole great deal. You gonna be real with him. 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.720 But um, so you know, he was awarded and accolades 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.319 both from the academic community in Atlanta as well as 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:18.520 the UM City Council, which I find hilarious. Um, in 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.200 upcoming weeks or I guess when I go away for 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.160 for a little bit later, uh, you know, like September. Um, 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.680 I got some episodes stockpile for you. Also, I had 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:32.080 an interview with someone who's in Atlanta politics that uh, 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.400 I'm excited to share and so just like always, it's 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.960 always like a spectator of Atlanta politics. It's just hilarious 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.200 to see the city council just do some weird random 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:45.080 like silly ship like this, like call it naming it. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.320 Kanye West is pandering to super rich people. It's like 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.080 very very on brand for them. So addition all of this, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:58.000 you know happening around his um his listening party last Thursday, 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.480 Kanye West is now a part of living in Mercedes 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.600 Benz Stadium. Um Vans took to social media on Saturday 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.680 with photos of a man at the Atlanted United game 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.800 who were who was dressed in the same outfit that 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.680 West dawned at his Thursday listening party, face camouflaged and 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:18.400 panty pose and in videos from the game of this individual, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.480 the man who should escorted around the stadium with a 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:24.040 large security detail and seemingly responds, you know, kind of 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.600 like waves and looks up when fans called out like Kanye, 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.480 Kanye Kanye. So it could be a weird hoax, but 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.920 I'm inclined to believe it was really him, And increasingly 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.880 reports are confirming that Kanye and his team have created 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.760 a studio space, a living quarters, and even have a 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:46.520 chef um on call to prepare his meals inside the Mercedes. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:51.000 Benz is definitely not a hoax. It's real. At first, 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.960 I was like, maybe some guy just dressed up like 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.760 him and went to the Atlanta United game to be funny, 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.400 But like it's increasingly seeming like, no, this is actually 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.800 this is the man. I saw a video on YouTube 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.640 of Kanye West and Jay Z recording the Watch the 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:11.360 Thrones album in a fucking castle in Australia with Russell 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.840 Crowe sitting in the background. Watch it, Like, trust me, 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.560 this Nick is living in the best state. He's all 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.920 the way up in there. Yeah, just to recap Sims, 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.600 you know, you've got some of these city officials kind 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.400 of attaching themselves to Kanye West with all the accolades 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.520 and stuff. Let's just do a little quick stroll down 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:34.760 memory lane, so like, you know, like seven months ago 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:39.000 and ship about like what Kanye's political involvement has been 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.360 as of late months, removed from Kanye having a sort 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.720 of kind of presidential campaign that was filled to the 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:51.360 brim with GOP operatives who were making albeit stupid and 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:56.320 misguided or whatever, but on their front, a genuine earnest 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.680 attempt to shave the margins of election in favor of 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.160 Donald Trump. We all remember the at this point infamous 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:10.040 Oval Office visit that. I mean, there's a lot of 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.880 shocking and driving going on. This is all I'm gonna 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.320 say in that Oval Office visit. What else We've got 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:21.200 him championing Candice Owison's Blexit strategy or in other words, 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:25.520 her imaginary plan for African Americans to make a large 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.200 exodus not just from the Democrat Party but into the 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:33.520 Republican Party and voting for Trump. In his advocating for 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:37.439 this whole Blexic thing earned him the praise of Alex Jones. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.359 You want to read that Alex Jones quote. Oh God, 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.920 nothing would make me more happy. I just assumed he 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:49.240 was a Democrat and a globalist, says Alex. Said Alex Jones, 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.080 He's has a lot of courage, and he's a maverick. 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.040 Connie West has got talent, you name it. I apologized 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:59.920 to him for being ignorant myself. See Alex Jones also 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.960 later on. But they would have like Alex Jones and 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.920 Tanya West in the club. I would I would pay 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.159 I would pay money to be near that, not too 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.080 near like just kind of like close enough to like 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:16.000 binocular distance. Kanye West, Kandy host with shirtless Alex Jones 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:20.720 next to them in the club. Hell yeah, oh my god, 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.520 I would pay to be like just an close enough 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.960 to just see but not physically you know, be at 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.560 risk of physical harm. This is the same Alex Jones 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.480 who just recently said that there's genetic differences between the 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.200 intelligence of on racial groups and obviously he believes that 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.119 on average, white people are genetically smarter. That that's the 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.920 same Alex Jones that you know. Kanye West is getting 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:48.880 praise from great transformer campaign manager and editor right wing 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.600 and news site Breitbart, even express wanting to bring West 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.119 on as a columnist after his slavery comments that we 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.280 are going to get into a little bit later. So 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:01.240 that's Kanye's people for you. You got owns bright Bart 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:05.639 news editors, former campaign staff or Trump sort of freaks 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:12.200 and goblins, Canda Zens fucking freaky ass yo. Nothing that 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.800 made me sadder though. Let's okay, quick detour on Candace Owens. 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.000 I was seeing on Twitter. It was this was a 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.720 while ago, but she like posted pictures of her baby right, 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:27.480 and I know, and her fan base like who she 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:32.160 you know, she thrives off of like feeding invalidating people's racism. 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.960 Like in the comments, so many people were like, oh, well, 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.000 that's unfortunate that you have like a you know, on 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:43.200 unpure blood or like whatever sort of like because it's 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.639 like a mixed race child. It's like, oh, it's like 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.119 it sucks the way that like MUDs turn out and 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:53.080 like saying like people who like, you know, follow her 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.119 because they like love her work because she is a 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:59.760 racist being racist about her baby in the comments on 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.800 her so because they're racist. And I was just like wow, 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:06.600 to be that in the sunken place that I don't 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:12.200 know how she even psychologically just manages to live through 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.440 what she has done. But that's the thing for like 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:17.399 those uh, token right wingers and stuff like that. If 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.840 you look through if you look through their comments sections, 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.639 it's all like that. Like Candice Osen's comments section is 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:25.080 like that where it's like, oh, like, yeah, you know, 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.080 your fans are all racist and don't really like you, 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.359 you're just spreading propaganda. You look on Blair White's comments section, 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.840 there's bad transpobs in there. Ben Shapiro always has like 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.320 Nazis that hate him because He's Jewish and his comment 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.680 section it's like reaping with you so type of ship. 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:41.960 But they're grifters at the end of the day, so 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:43.920 they don't care, you know what I mean, to sell 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:46.040 yourself to that degree, I mean, I understand to do 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.639 it for the money or whatever, but to subject yourself 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.040 to that like level of not from people that disagree 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:56.280 with you, but for the people that support you like shit, bro. 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:00.440 So yeah, so Owen's rare breed of black person dollar 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:04.679 dollar bills. So we're gonna get into some of Kanye 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:10.320 West's most ridiculous statements in and antics and the political 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:19.440 spectrum right after the joke. So we're back, and I 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:21.840 don't even know where we should start, but I guess 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:25.480 we could start. He's been just doing wild ship for years, 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.000 but it's been coming. I feel like it's becoming increasingly 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:31.040 poltical in recent years. I mean, perhaps everything has become 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.800 more politicized, um in the Trump and post trump eras. 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:36.840 I mean, he did you know he did the basics 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:40.360 share with like the Taylor Swift thing that other controversies. 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:43.240 I mean, it was like regular celebrity bullshit before, you 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:45.320 know what I mean, And now it's like, yeah, now 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.920 he's up. So okay, let's start with the time that 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:52.679 Kanye said that slavery was a choice and his interview 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:56.040 with Charlotte Mae and the God so Um. He said, 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.560 when you hear about slavery for four years, for four 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:03.520 new years, that's look a choice. He said, Um, you 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:05.680 were there for four years and it's all of y'all. 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:11.440 It's like we're mentally imprisoned. He later unclarified, of course, 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:13.400 I know that slaves did not get shackled and put 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.440 on a boat by free will. My point is that 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:19.400 my point is for us to have stayed in that position, 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:21.560 even though the numbers were on our side, means that 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:25.040 we are mentally enslaved. Would you know what, I'm not 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:30.159 even gonna like, okay, hear me out. I feel like 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.440 Conny has a point in that we are previously on 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:36.240 the show. Listen here, just hear me. On previous almost 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:39.840 I've discussed like the Haitian revolution um and things like that, 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:42.320 where the numbers were on the side of the slaves 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:45.480 and they rose up and like ended slavery. You know, 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:50.040 like it's not a historically unprecedented act. I'm not gonna 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:52.359 I'm not gonna go so far as to blame slaves 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:56.920 for slavery, like, oh, you know, they're mentally enslaved. It's 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:01.040 their fault that has happened, you know. But like the point, 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:03.199 the point that he's making that like the numbers were 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:07.159 on our side and like slaves, like I mean, there 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:09.560 was like Nat Turner's rebellion, there were various you know, 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.280 smaller slave rebellions that got squashed. But like it is 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:18.479 kind of surprising that like it we never never managed 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:21.640 to pop off here the way it did in place. 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:24.040 It's like Ja make our Haiti, where people were just like, 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:26.040 we're not having it and they just kind of ended 0:23:26.080 --> 0:23:29.000 the institution of slavery by force. Well, I mean, I 0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:31.600 think it probably would have had to have been just 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:33.920 on a larger scale than it ever was able to 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:36.520 you know what I mean, than was ever able to 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:40.119 happen for it to really pop off. But regardless of 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:42.680