WEBVTT - The Tezlyn Figaro Episode 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.720 Yet get no boys, It's back and reloaded all in 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:08.119 your mind. Yeah, now deep throating. This is for the streets, 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:12.400 the reel, the railroading, the distant franchise, the truth, the scapegoating. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:14.760 And they ain't knowing we speak the truth, so they 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.680 ain't quoted because we wrote it. The North South East 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.640 coat g b my keeping your head bobbing, it ain't 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.000 no stopping and wants to be try head by then 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.480 the system is so corrupt they throw the rock out 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.240 of the head and then blame it on us. Don't 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.800 get it twisted on code and we danceing for no 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:40.120 buttoment biscuits. It's Willie d y'all scar faces in the building. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.479 Collectively we are the get old boys, reloaded, reloaded with 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.680 another episode of information and instructions to help you navigate 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:52.360 through this wild, crazy, beautiful world. In the studio Teslin forgo, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:59.320 what's up? Glad to be here with that. I'm gonna 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:03.360 get it out of the way. You are perhaps the 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:08.319 greatest political commentator of our time, of our time, of 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.920 our times, and I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you. I'm 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:16.000 gonna tell you why I feel that way. Uh, you 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.720 are nonpartisan and that in your own words, you don't 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.600 give a damn about Democrats are the Republicans and you 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:28.280 call it like you see it. When the Republicans get 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:32.600 it right, you acknowledge it, you praised them. When the 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.640 Democrats get it right, you acknowledge them. You praise them. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.560 When they get it wrong, you go in on them, 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.320 and you go in on the Republicans when they get 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:46.080 it wrong. That's what makes me think, That's what makes me. 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.160 And it's not just going in. It's the way you 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.840 articulate your message. You're very knowledgeable and you know what 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.760 you're talking about and can't nobody. I I have not 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:01.000 seen anybody funk with you at all, and fat I 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.960 see a lot of your contemporaries when they're chairing the 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:10.919 panel with you, And where did that come from? That's amazing? Well, 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.480 thank you. Um, that's an honor, first of all, glad 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.040 to be here, feel like I'm at church giving all 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.760 to God, to the pastor to face hob Willie did 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.880 get a voice, UM, But no, it's an honor, UM. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.639 And I don't take that lightly. I'm I'm humbled by 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.440 that because when you ask what it what it comes from, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.280 it really comes from just being an m C on 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.640 the mic. You know, I would have never thought, do 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:41.600 I need to free style? Let me hear the free style. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.280 I don't. I don't want to be busted out. I 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:47.359 don't want to be busted. Yeah it's did you rap 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.920 for real? Yeah? Yeah? Really? What was your name? Well, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.560 technically in the fifth grade it was luscious, imprescious. They 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.440 didn't really count. And then I was called sugar Tea 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.720 after my Then I thought it. I was a little kid, 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.720 look at face, a little camp. But you know, we 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.880 grew up in that error was about the microphone, you know, 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:07.680 when you when you when you here. I never thought 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.720 that hip hop would take me this far. I never 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.800 thought that politics will take me this far. Like to 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.679 literally be sitting down with you. See why I fight 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.960 so hard to get into the political Absolutely, it's a 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.760 natural transition. When you talk about politics and you talk 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.320 about what we fight for, what we stand for, what 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.720 we believe in. It really comes from the same thing 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.880 that we rap about, the same thing that we talk about. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.960 I heard the craziest thing to day, and it came 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:38.520 from it came from somebody higher up. I can't say 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.960 no names because I can't like he told me, don't 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.840 say nothing about it. But a very higher up told 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.839 me that. Another higher up it was like, we don't 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:54.800 even Republican, Like, we don't even you know, uh, solicit 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.920 y'all vote. We don't even want y'all vote. And if 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.480 we you know, we we don't, we don't. You can 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.000 move to our neighborhoods, but we don't want you there. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:08.119 And I was like, god damn. Really, like they eat 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.440 regardless if we was Republican or whatever, they don't want 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.119 us around. They don't want us with them. They will 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.160 not put us down, like they won't put us in. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.320 Like I'm like, god damn. And I was under the 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.760 impression that if you was a black Republican, you will 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:27.280 welcome in the Republican Party. But that's not true. You black, 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.800 they don't want you in their period. They don't even 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.240 want your vote. They don't even come to your neighborhood 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.039 and ask you for your vote. Have you ever noticed this? 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.719 All the white Democrats that come in, they the black churches, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.520 they know they got us, they know they got us 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:45.520 pen But the Republicans know, Yeah, I have a I 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.600 have a more than a few conservative friends. They really 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.640 push I call grass roots, and then concrete roots. You know, 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.440 there's grassroots for the grass tops, the end up, l CP, 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.360 the Urban League, and then I created my own concept 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.960 concrete Roots that comes from Pox, you know, the Rosy group, 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.440 Concrete the street street, the street level, which is deeper 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.560 than the grass you know, really getting down to the 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.480 authenticity of what hip hop stands for. When you really 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.720 look at what hip hop stands for. And I remember 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.920 years ago when everybody thought it was a game, and 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.720 they made fun of me in Florida because I said, 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.160 nobody ever put hip hop in this. We got enough 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.120 wrap labels, and now we need districts with constituents. The 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.599 idea of really bringing hip hop the story that it 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.960 tells into the fold and then taking that and making 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.200 a constituent so that people can vote for people like you, 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.640 and people like you then really understand where it is 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.520 we come from and how do you change that? Because 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.440 everything in hip hop is talking about our current conditions, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.360 what conditions we want. Talks about the Second Amendment to 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.880 write to carry, talks about getting paper, capitalism, talks about 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.120 all of the things which ling moderated. Right Actually, when 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.479 you really think about hip hop but still having a 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.440 conscious of loving our own people and having social issues 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.839 that matter. Hip hop is a direct correlation to what 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.040 politics should be. So not only do Republicans fear that, 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.720 but Democrats feel that as well. I remember when you 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.080 were running and you and I met and yeah, and 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.680 I said, you gotta let face be face, like he 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.880 gotta they have to know. It's like what it's brad, 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.480 he gotta be there. No, no, no no, no, no, yeah, 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.960 it gotta be faced. Because everything that you talk about, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.200 everything that you exemplify when you say, damn it feel 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.000 good to be a gangster, that's what Putin is doing 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:26.400 right now. Yeah, like on some gangster ship. Yeah. So 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:30.000 if we include that, then there's more voices for people 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.200 like us. They say, you know, I got a place 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.080 in this. It's not as complicated as people think. And 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.240 so when you answer your question where you got there from? 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.159 I got it from this microphone. My it wasn't I 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.640 set out to be a rapper. I won the little 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.720 Remember when Sprite had the contest when they were doing 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:48.360 a spright eye contest. I want that. Hey, okay, I 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.880 get my little credit. I want that. I want to 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.880 R and B contest with public announcement. But it wasn't 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.640 in me to keep pushing the music. I was kind 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.360 of hard. I mean that's what makes me so good 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:03.320 and and momentary, you know it really is. Yeah, it's 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.760 the freestyle. It's the gift to the freestyle. People say, well, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.840 how do you know what? I certainly can't predict what 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.600 my opponent will say. I don't give my topics until 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.120 I'm literally an hour before I'm on the air. So 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.120 it's the ability to freestyle. It's the ability of rocking 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:20.320 this mike. It's the same thing. Um so when it 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.280 comes from when when you say how did you get 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.360 that way? It's being authentistic of who I really am 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.240 and what I believe in and everything that I that 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.200 I grew up and really communicating that. It's MC. It's 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.440 the microphone commander. I just bring it to the political 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.960 space and you can't fake that ship face. Like it's 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:38.680 a lot of people in the commentary space. So while 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.920 I'm hip hop, I'm hip hop. They can love the music, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.760 but did you really live it? Like when when when 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.960 the super Bowl happened? And like Mega's from the street 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.680 really understand like what it means to see Dre on 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.720 the stage and Snoop on the stage, Mary J. Blige 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.560 on the stage view and like like to really live that, 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.160 to know to me and to get some stitches in 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:06.320 your face behind that, Yeah, that I'm sure, but it 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:10.000 was a celebration for those that lived that life. I 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.640 saw a lot of people, you know, putting on their 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.240 dickies and doing whatever and in the cliche of it all, 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.680 which is cool, but there's a different it's a different 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.960 level to that to really say, okay, we can make it, 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.880 we can go that far. The issue with the NBA, 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.040 with the NFL separate and apart, but to really see 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.360 the streets, to see somebody who's been shot five times 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.640 on the stage and make it to be able to 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.640 tell the story, and then to see East and West together, 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.319 you know, when not that would have never happened. So 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.720 that's what I try to bring. The politics. Just who 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.720 I am. The bag is really to be honest. If 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.760 I wanted to get the bag is quite simple to do. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.000 All I gotta do is go be a conservative and 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.360 mon Fox News. I gotta do is talk about black 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.040 on black crime and Chicago when I get the bag. 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.200 It's been offered to me several times. If I wanted 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.240 to be a Democrat shield and just fight for the Democrats. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.520 That bag is there too. But I've always just been 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.400 true to who I am and my character, um and 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.880 really speak truth to power. And I want I want 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.720 the hood involved in a way where where they haven't 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.960 seen themselves, um to know that there's opportunity there for 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.480 you to. The politics is set up just like bloods 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:20.880 and crips and the O G and the B G 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:22.560 and the Y G and how you run the trap. 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.760 The trap is the precinct, the work, the dope, the 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.960 whole thing, like it's literally laid out exactly how you 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.880 run a set. And so my my biggest thing is 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.760 even when I talk to my homies in Inglewood, when 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:38.360 you have the Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, if y'all neggas 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.880 can organize Inglewood family like the Electoral College and get 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.600 it all over this country, what's the difference between you 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.600 doing that and getting contracts at the Sofi Stadium and 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.920 getting paper. So I'm I'm really about trying to, you know, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.360 be that voice and it's not again because it's really 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.080 who I am. But I still mix in you know, 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.600 I got a couple of degrees and got a little 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.520 bit of sin. Don't try to mix that in. Why 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:09.080 hasn't the anti lynching bill been passed? Why? Because I know, 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.600 you know, like when the Asian hate bill came out, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.640 that was immediate. Why why why why is it? Why 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.680 why are they waiting so long to address the issues 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:24.320 with Black America. Well, it moved so quickly on the 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:28.400 other America. It's the lack of pressure. Um my my motto, 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:33.880 my my my h mantra is pushed the line politics 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.120 until something happens. This is another reason why I want 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.480 the streets so involved. We need more people that have 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.160 nothing to lose that can push the line in a 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.719 way that we've never seen before. Do we mean more 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.080 people that don't got nothing to lose an office though, Absolutely, 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.679 that's what we need more to Absolutely we need somebody 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.960 to push that button. Absolutely, we need It's not even 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.320 just the candidate, even the operative. I was a candidate 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.160 for like three months and I said, Okay, that's not 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.640 for me. We need operatives, we need trainers, we need people. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.640 My favorite candidate commission and Regina Hill in Orlando, Florida. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.800 She was arrested twenty one times. Didn't give a damn 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.560 one first one straight out the gate. What did she 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.040 do for her city? What did she do? Now? I 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:17.760 mean what did she do? I mean did she She 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.880 was involved in the community, but she didn't come from 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.439 the political space. Was first time Candida. She ran against 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.400 a sixteen year incumbent. Nobody believed it was literally hearing 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.719 about two or three of us. We ran on a 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.280 couple of thousand dollars, ran against an attorney sixteen or incumbent. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.240 But she was true to the game, She was true 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.440 to who she was. Jeez, what made me understand that 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.360 Trump was coming? She won in two thousand fourteen. It 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.960 was her that made me say, Okay, something on the ground. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.600 There's a ground swell happening, a populist movement that's saying, Okay, 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.079 we don't see what y'all did. Let's let some other 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.960 folks in here that that that that truly have a 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:55.400 nothing to lose attitude, that's willing to push a line 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.199 in the area um that others have not. That's why 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:02.600 Trump won. Trump had no intention of women. Black people 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.880 have been pushing the line for a long time, and 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.520 there are a lot of disgruntled voters out there that 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.240 are black and they're like, hey, man, I'm tired of 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.079 voting for these negroes who and they get in and 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.480 they don't do anything. They just they act just like 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.400 everybody else. They promised to make these promises and then 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.840 they break them. They break them, they break them. There 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.280 aren't a lot of people, even right here in Houston 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.559 that you can talk to and yours talk to your 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.840 tell that would tell you that my quality of life 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.600 is better because I have this person as a city councilman, 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:43.000 a woman, this person as a council uh congressman, accomplished woman. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.880 You know, so hold on, hold on, hold on, I 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.280 gotta make this point. How do you get people who 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.760 have given up on the voting process to get back in? 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.959 How do you get them like involved again? They need 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.719 to run. You know, I talk about I'm a I'm 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.920 a political tribute on Black News Channel and I say 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.440 all the time, We're not gonna chase them, we replace them. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.480 Trying to get people to believe in something that they 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.679 don't identify with it just makes no sense. We need 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.280 to have people run on. Give damn what it's for. 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:19.480 A precinct chair, commissioner, uh party chair, whatever, the the 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.720 dog catcher. People that can literally identify. I tell em 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.400 Cate all the time home, Why don't you go around 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.800 for Compton man syl You know, whyn't you go around 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.199 for Component? It ain't got nothing lose. Let's just see you. 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.880 You you deal with thousands of thousands of kids every month. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.440 How can we turn those children's parents and the voters 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.600 when you really look at the numbers and you look 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:39.760 at how many people actually go to the polls, which 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.800 is just a couple of thousand people. I mean, you 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.520 can flip an election between five people thousand people. That's 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.000 your high school class, that's your just the homies in 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.760 the hood. So they have to first identify with somebody 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.160 that speaks their language. You're trying to go to a 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.959 foreign country and speak a language that they don't understand. 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.720 They don't see themselves in that position. Once you started, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.160 and you I explained, I wasn't joking when on some 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.679 of the electoral college. I explained to the blood and 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.520 out in the Houston's different because I know y'all dealing 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.640 awards and different things like that. I come from Mire West, 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.960 which ran offense for the West Coast, so it was 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.280 very much you know, gang related. I grew up in 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:20.520 a part. You know, I grew up in a blood territory, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.680 and when I break down to people like the electoral 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.160 college is literally like Inglewood family. When I'm explaining to 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:27.400 the home, it's like, okay, you know how the big 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.240 home that generation may not have a lot of people, 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.600 but they have more power than the young homies that 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.560 may have thousands and thousand. That's the electoral college, and 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.360 the homies be like, Okay, I get what you're saying. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.520 When you explain it in a certain way, you explain that, Okay, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.320 the governors the o G, that the state rep is 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.840 you know, the y G, that the state senator is 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.320 the y G, that the uh the what the state 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.680 senators the y G, the state rep is the b G. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.200 When you explain that to people on the way, okay, 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.520 I get it. They understand organizing power, and I'm not 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.760 saying that the only you know, the only angle to 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.680 it because I talk all demographics across the board and 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.080 I remember the homies and be like, why do you 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:08.560 talk to me that way, like that's the only thing 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.280 I can understand, and said, no, it's not that, it's 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.600 the only thing that you can understand. I'm trying to 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.240 explain that you displaining you that you've been doing this 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.120 game ship all along, You've been organizing all along. If 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:23.480 you can organize award third ward or get one group 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.760 of people on board to do something for the negative, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.000 why not can we switch that and get the positive? 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.480 And it makes sense. You would lect your sheriff, you 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.040 would let your city council, you wouldlect the people that 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.160 decide should a basketball court go there? Should and after 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.720 school program go there? Should? The police not be as 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.360 hot on your block because you actually elect the sheriff. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.520 So when you explain that and have conversations and you 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.920 don't have operators in the game to say no, no, no, 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.160 don't don't say that, Willy, no, no, no, don't say that, 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.800 scar Phace, do this, do that, Then now we start 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:53.840 to make change. And that's what they fear. You're going 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.400 do a training all over the country with the hbc 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.640 U S to the hood. They fear those two demographics 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.960 coming together and saying, how can we, you know, learn 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.960 from each other, how can we move I was a 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.360 veteran in the Air Force. You can't have a war 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.800 without the army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Marines, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.760 everybody has a role to play. And if we start 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.920 understanding that role and say no, let's let face go 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:17.880 up and say this to that. But then it got 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:19.640 to be a testlent in the background. It's gonna know 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:24.040 how to move that weight too. It's all about moving weight, politics, power, money, 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.600 the whole nine. And that's why you see sex and politics. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.960 You see powdering politics, you see the doping politics, you 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.720 see the power and politics. Everything from pussy politics, pimp 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.680 and pastor, all of it is in politics. And they 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.400 don't want us to get it and the homies to 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.960 get it because the same homies that was willing to 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.960 die for that flag, imagine if they take that same 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.480 militia mentality and say I'm willing to die for mind, 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.960 It's a whole new level of the game that they 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.000 honestly just don't want us to have. Whether it be 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:59.160 Republicans are Democrats. I think that our our our voters 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:03.800 are should be disappointed in themselves because they think are 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.919 they figured at the vote? When after you vote and 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:11.960 you and your your man get in that the fight stop. No, 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.640 that's when the fight starts. Because if you vote Willie 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.240 in and you know how Willie speak to the fire 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:20.919 then will you can get in there and do what 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.000 you want to do. It doesn't stop at the vote. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.440 And that should be another man. You should have used 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.520 somebody named black Kanye for some ship like that. You know, 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.520 I'm I'm I'm for the people already, so that's automatic. 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:35.520 I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do automatically what the people 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:40.800 need to need done. You did, yes, sir, relaxed. But 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:45.359 look at how we I use analogy a lot so 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.199 people can get it when you say that's when the 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.040 fight starts. Think about how we manage our personal relationships 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.400 being black women. I can speak being a black woman. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.400 We talk about the black woman being the backbone quote 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.280 unquote of the Democrat Party. How hard do black women 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.840 go for men that don't give them back what they should? 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.840 So it's the same. And tell our men when you're 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:10.080 the booty call some black women, some black women, but 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.159 overall black women just in general. And this is not 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.480 a gender you know, war thing, but overall, when you 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:18.760 look at the numbers, when you look at what we 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:23.280 get out of the relationship, that same mentality transfers over 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.720 the voting. So I'll give you to be a clear 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.600 example when black women constantly saving American They brag about it. Oh, look, 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:31.680 the black women saved America and this and and I'll 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.560 tell him, he says, stop saying that ship. Ain't nothing 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.520 cool about being the mistress. You say, the genie, and 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.480 what the fun did you get out of it? So 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.119 it ain't no different than when they they can come 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.359 by at two am in the morning and he gets 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.199 some masks and you roll on and you talk that 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.120 ship all girl. Next time when he comes by, he knows, 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.600 he already know what it is. Politics understands action, just 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.840 like a man and a woman, a female and male 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.879 relationship action. So until we start understanding that when you 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.000 say when you get into the relationship, that's when the 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.880 fight begins. Think about in our relatelationships that we get 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.159 into even when we with each other, we let our 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.800 guards down. Okay, out there now, so I don't have 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:08.679 to keep myself up. I don't have to remember on 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.120 cater to you when she said, I still look good. 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.040 I still when you tap me on my shoulder, I 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.399 still turn over. I still look good. I'm still putting 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.480 in the work. The reason why, Beyonce, the reason why 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.840 this and shall and that was Kelly's verse that did 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.600 that was able to highlight that because even in relationships, 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.480 you stop doing the work. And so people have to 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.480 understand that voting is a relationship. If I if you 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:33.320 and I get together and I say, well, now you're 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.560 my man, now to get on you harder the most, 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.080 the natural reaction is what the funk you got me? Now? 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.800 Why are you tripping? So people's voting has to It's 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.600 the same thing. So I'm not surprised when I see 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:46.600 how That's why I always do my thing. When I 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:50.960 talk about politics, politicians, politicians, pimps, and pastors, it's the 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:53.320 same talk game. And so we have to understand that 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.280 relationship start. You have to keep me. So when I 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.320 ask a group of folks, black men, black women, why 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.439 are you not make these democrats work harder for you? 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.360 And then I look at how the man treat them, 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.720 how the woman treat them. You don't require nothing from 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.720 your woman. You don't have no boundaries. She can say 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.280 do whatever is long she give you something. We shouldn't 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.280 be confused on why this ship translates into Power's the 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:19.040 same thing puts in politics, baby, the same thing. By 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:20.520 the way, you know what I'm trying to get the 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:26.240 six conversation, We get that. When Trump was in office, 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.480 one thing that I paid attention to is every time 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:34.480