WEBVTT - Fallen Heroes 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:07.360 Yeah, waiting our reparations. You're listening to waiting our reparations 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:11.520 production of My Heart Radio. Yeah yeah. Even my motherfucking mama, no, 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:13.600 what knife is? Batshit? She's like, why you hit the 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.000 Nazis with the micest tactics. You know? The truth is 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.360 that I'm a bastard when I talk on this mike. Look, 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:20.239 y'll be quiet. This is my writ of passage. I 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.919 don't pass pif drafted the last hit blade in my 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.919 hand hold metal like a Blacksmith dap hits got. I'm like, 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.640 you can't beat as ill dope knife spit hard as Adaman. 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.720 Team still still smacked ship out of wrappings and chill. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:33.760 I think this ship is all good at than rapping 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.199 with skill. Look, this is me, this is team. Your 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.040 mama is a fan. Y'all sipping lean. It's no doubt 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.040 whenever Rockspits six team have these niggas acting like a 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.080 white chicken scream. I came, I saw not the kid 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:53.080 ass conquered dope knife a k A big gass monster. Ah. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:58.640 That is verse and this is the beat. It's my song, 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.960 the big fat Kill. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, In case 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.040 you didn't know, I am a rapper. I will hawk 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:09.160 my music from time to time. I do push mix 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:14.800 tapes on unwanting family members. I'm not ashamed. I'm an idiot. Yo. 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:20.760 My name's Dope Knife. We are Waiting on Reparations. Hey, 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.720 how you feeling, partner, I'm feeling a little bit under 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:28.560 the weather. Um. Nothing like covid or scary Chess. I 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.600 don't know a little bit raspy. So thanks for taking 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.600 the bars this week. It's all good. It's all good. 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.240 You know, I got you. I always got it. Helped 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.760 down on the bars. What's going on everybody out there? 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.479 Welcome to the Waiting on Reparations Podcast. Another week has 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.000 gone by. I hope everybody out there is doing well. 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:52.360 So we lied to you again our voting episode. It's 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.760 going to come out next week before the election. We 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.440 figured it'd be a little bit more impactful that way 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.960 if we drop it there today, we're gonna be talking 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:04.640 about the heel turn as it were for ice Cube 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.760 and fifty Cent, as they both caused a little bit 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:12.240 of a stir last week by endorsing or at least 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.520 expressing a willingness to work with the Trump administration on 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.880 things A lot of people were mad about it, a 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.960 lot of people had a lot to say, and we're 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.520 going to talk about it. We're also going to talk 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.840 about the role the black celebrities playing the right wings 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.560 efforts to peel Black voters. Will also have a music 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.760 discussion as well. I gotta push back a little bit 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.800 on the framing that right wing are trying to peel 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.079 Black voters, because I know that we do sort sort 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.240 of vote as like a democratic black but if you 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.239 can only vote for one party, are truly free. I'm 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:46.000 not talking about voters from where just assumed democratic monolith. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.520 We'll not even peel black voters, but peel and suppress 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.600 Black voters. Like, Yeah, the suppression attempts are interesting and 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.960 concerning for sure. I mean I feel like I feel 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.600 like a part of political organizing is making connections with 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:08.600 titan ces on racial class, union membership, gender identity, sexuality, lines, 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:12.320 immigration status, and so they're just connecting with some people 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:17.520 that they perceive, even if in factually to be their 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.600 base in the sense of like men love Trump, Black 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.919 men love Trump. Unemployment numbers went up under Obama, which 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.040 they love to tout, and so like black the you know, 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.240 black people have done better under Trump than anyone else. 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.880 They just think they're just connecting with black people because 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:36.680 they don't see why black people wouldn't vote for them. 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.120 I'm in no way coming from it from like a 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.119 standpoint of black people aren't allowed to be right wing 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.640 or aren't allowed to vote Trump right right wing or 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.240 I know. Yeah, so we've talked, but we've talked previously 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.840 in this show about the right wing technancies of hip hop, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.440 and that though we has left us try to sort 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.040 of like look at the policy connections to hip hop 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.320 from someone of a US of lens. There is ultimately, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.600 like with regards to the Second Amendment, with regards to 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:12.600 like gender roles, with regards to xenophobia and homophobia, a 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:17.400 very much conservative strain through line in a lot of 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.800 mainstream hip hop in particular. And so I think to 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.920 sort of make this this, I think the recent controversies 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:29.080 around public black figures like ice Cube, UM, I hope 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:33.640 they illuminate that connection. And I'm happy about two and 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.560 especially in the fifty cent situation has but you know what, 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.960 like that's what we're gonna get into it today. So um, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.320 let's actually fill everybody in on the whole on the 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:53.720 whole topic. Over the last weekend, some change hip hop 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.560 artists ice Cube Famous Rapper both made the headlines when 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.359 they each respectively endorsed or express approval of the Trump 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.880 administration's policy, specifically in the form of tax and the 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.760 Black Agenda. For ice Cube, now, last week the Trump campaign, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:13.039 a Trump campaign official, seemingly out of the blue, thanked 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.200 Ice Cube for helping with the Trump administration or being 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.880 at least being open to working with them on implementing 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.400 the rappers proposed Contract with Black America. And I just 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.960 honestly feel like this is a massive failure of the 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:28.480 Biden campaign, which I think has advertisements on the show. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.960 But I'm gonna be real, because like if you had offered, 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.839 if you had offered reparations, if you had offered a 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.880 federal job guarantee, if you had offered like reverse redlining, 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.120 or like assuming this package to the form of community 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:47.760 development block grants to black communities, like people there, this 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.520 wouldn't have happened. Well, there's more to this, there's more 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.880 to the story. It wouldn't have to get that out 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.400 of the way because me off so ice Cube put 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.960 out the c w b A, the Contract with Black 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.600 America and uh for or while, you know, when this 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.640 Trump official thanked them for a little bit, people thought 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.760 that it was like a troll or a trick, and 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.359 no one was really sure what was going on. But 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.280 later on ice Cube himself confirmed it with a tweet 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.800 he said, facts, I put out the c w b A. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.240 Both parties contacted me. DEM said we'll address the c 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.680 w b A after the election. Trump campaign made some 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.159 adjustments to their plan after talking to us about the 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.720 c w b A. And that's that fucking ship. I'm 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.000 so I'm so sorry because it's like, okay, we just 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.640 need your votes for now, and we promise we'll get 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.960 to this. We'll get to your issues once we win. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.839 Like I think back to I recently finished reading We've 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.320 Got People by Ryan Grimm and which he talks about 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.919 UM during the fight for marriage equality UM and you 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.560 know during Obama uh for a selection campaign or it 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.280 might have been his re election twos, I can't remember which, 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:58.000 but he was like actively according LGBTQ constituency is UM 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:02.599 while also talking about how he believes marriages between a 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.240 man and a woman. He had a pastor who is 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:12.760 very like pro um like traditional views of marriage. I think, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.880 like fucking speak at his swearing like you know, prey 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.520 to sparing it or some sh it, and like they 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:23.120 used Obama, um, like Obama saying that he believes in 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.240 civil unions but marriages between a man and a woman 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.920 on robo calls when they were trying to repeal same 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:32.200 sex marriage in California, like, hey, Obama doesn't stand for 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:36.240 gay marriage, so vote no on prop whatever. And so 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.440 after all that, you know, it gets back trying to 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.680 court LGBTQ constituencies to like get back in the good 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:46.080 graces and then for years nothing, you know, for years 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:50.240 nothing for for us, nothing, you know, no marriage quality. Um, 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.200 you know, all the ship with like uh case in 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:58.040 the military, like is going back and forth. Um, and 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.760 it's always like, okay, vote for us, and then we'll 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.480 get to your issues once we're in. Like we're not 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.320 gonna speak to them now, but once we're in, we'll 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.480 do something about it. And then they still don't. But 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.320 so like if our ice cube and I did this, yeah, 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:15.800 i'd be like Trump campaign, I agree with, I agree, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.480 I don't. I don't think that this has to be 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:25.400 an endorsement of Democrats or a defense of Democrats are 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.880 Biden in order to critique somebody getting ruised by the 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:34.400 Trump campaign. Because the thing is everything that you like, 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.959 the superficiality of courting the vote is all present in 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.120 everything that the Trump campaign is going on. Like as 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.079 we'll go through, you'll see that it's like there are 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.120 things that are in the c W b A that 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.520 we just know for a fact that it's like the 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.200 Trump the Trump administration is like diabatrically opposed to. But 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.880 we'll get into that they don't even take us seriously 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.440 enough to pretend like they're going to do stuff for us. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.040 So this is the Democrats don't even take it seriously 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:03.920 enough to pretend like they're going to do so all 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:09.400 I'm saying is if somebody is truly last week. Don't 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.240 get me wrong, but like what the fun if somebody 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:17.200 is un ironically just in their heart believes no man 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.680 like Trump is telling the truth, like this is real? 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:21.480 Like this is I mean, I know that he's been 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.680 president for three and a half years and they haven't 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.920 done shipped, and they've been hanging with Nazis and been 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:31.960 have like been actively antagtagonistic towards marginalized people. But you 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.040 know what, I believe this like this is this is 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.600 the real ship. Then by all means, I think you know, 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.000 mago Away, you know, if like you truly live. But 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.640 if you don't really believe that, then I just don't 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.280 understand how you could fall for it. Like being critical 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.959 of the Democrats, like, oh, the Democrats didn't do this outreach, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.959 the Democrats didn't do this. I want the Democrats to 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.480 do that, or whatever political party you want to do it, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.800 that's fine. But the Trump administration in particular, it's like 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.400 want man, you know what I'm saying. But um, but 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.160 if Joe Biden put on his platform next week, then 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:11.640 we're going to nationalize all energy production. They say he's pandering, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.600 and that would literally wouldn't believe him, but I would 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.920 be like fucking stoked to vote for him because at 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:22.439 least acknowledge my fucking existence and acknowledge the deep existential 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.080 dread that I fear every morning when I wake up 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:30.440 and think about our planet burning to ash. But alwayst like, oh, 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:39.360 we acknowledge me, all right, okay, so the thing so 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.360 I get it. Would would you describe the Joe Biden 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:47.880 campaign as being run in as being absent and unacknowledging 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.720 of the black community or black people. They want our votes, 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.360 they don't want to do ship for us? What the 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.320 fund is Trump doing. So what I'm saying is if 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.080 that if somebody was like, Yo, they want our votes, 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:00.840 they don't want to do it for I'm not voting. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.680 I don't agree still, but I got it, you know 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.000 what I mean. If somebody's like, they don't want my vote, 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.560 they don't want to do ship for us, so let's 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.880 vote for the nazis no, no something for you, and 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.760 that something is tossed us into a fucking furnace. Look, 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.640 if they had the chance, they would bring back Jim 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.880 Crow because let me tell you something, people, right, the 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:27.600 Republican endgame is apartheide. That's what they're going for. They're 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.560 going for minority rule. They want to control the courts. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.600 They want to fuck the country so bad from like 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.160 the structural level, that it doesn't matter how much they're outnumbered, 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.800 it doesn't matter how progressive the country really is. That 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.720 they just have total control. You do not have to 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.800 be a Democrat to be able to look at the 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.559 situation and and see that. In my opinion, I don't 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.720 think you have to be a democrat or a liberal 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.719 to look at the situation and realize that. And if 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:59.080 you are leftist, I mean, I'm just not understanding, Like 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.600 I mean, I was with you. I canvass for Bernie, 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:03.679 I did that little bit of the work. At what 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.760 point for anybody in the Bernie or bus crowd did 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.600 like you read in a pamphlet or some ship. Hey guys, 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.079 do you know what the alternative the better alternatives to 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.079 this is nazis? It's just what the funk are people 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.040 talking about? I just don't understand how you're not looking 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.000 at how people are looking at it from like, uh, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.319 what is going to give us more freedom of movement? 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.319 Because if you think that these Trump motherfucker's are gonna 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.880 like sit at the table and negotiate with people, they 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.400 damn sure aren't. That's why they're doing all this ship 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:38.320 twenty five days before the election happens. That's like, you 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.560 know what I mean that right there is a dead 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.200 giver if they if they were talking about this a 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.840 year ago. You know what I'm saying, Like, how how 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.240 how much woulden doubt of what I'm saying be if 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.200 like now, yo, like Trump has been on this black 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.120 agenda for like a year. It's like, oh, okay, well, 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.600 I mean they've been going at it. It didn't take 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.679 pull numbers being in the tank. It didn't take him 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.719 lagging behind and it'll in the election by you know, 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.560 like major points. It didn't take Covid ruining the country 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.000 and changing the dynamic of how the race was supposed 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.679 to play out. He just did it because it was 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.000 on his mind. So it's just like, I don't understand 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:22.360 how the critique can be on one end where it's like, oh, man, 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.960 the Democrats did the Democrats didn't do. The Democrats are 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.880 supposed to do better because we think we don't let 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:33.520 the Republicans aren't honest and aren't acting in good faith 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.560 on virtually everything, to the point where it's like I 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.439 don't even feel any hesitation to just say that as 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.280 a matter of fact, See we know that, but ice 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.719 Cube doesn't. And that's not his because he's older than 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.760 both of us, and he's more connected than both of us, 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.080 and I mean this all led to um in in 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.960 the weeks afterwards, ice Cube doubled and tripled down, and 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.640 he's talked about it, and I'm not even I'm not 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.560 gonna like mischaracterize it because you know, all of his 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.280 critique of the Democrat Party are all on point. Is 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.760 it's nothing unlike things that you've heard Mariah say just now. 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.040 But you know he'd gotten he had an interview with 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:14.440 Roland Martin and it was kind of a disaster, you 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.000 know what I mean. And it was obvious he was 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:17.960 a bit out of his depth in terms of like 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.800 knowing even what Trump's policies were and stuff like that. Now, Trump, 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:26.520 the Trump administration, they have a proposal which um is 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:32.000 called the Platinum Plan because the Bling Bling Plan must 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.920 not have been available, so they went with the Platinum Plan, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:41.400 and it allegedly promises opportunity, security, prosperity, and fairness for 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:45.160 the black community. Um So, in this the Trump Plan, 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.200 we've got a promise of three million new jobs for 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:53.560 the black community, creating five hundred thousand new black owned businesses, 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:58.520 increase access to capital and black communities by almost five 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:05.240 hundred billion dollars, safe urban neighborhoods with the highest policing standards. YadA, YadA, YadA, 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:09.440 da dada. But it's interesting, I guess interesting to me, 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:15.120 given Ice cubes previous views on the cops. You're right, 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.640 I was thinking that too. I mean, if you see 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:20.560 any footage of the Trump rallies now, they're like flying 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.200 the American flag right next to the Blue line flag. 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.600 So I guess it's love the police. I mean, both 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.480 parties are like, we support our law enforcements. So I 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:36.760 guess if you're dealing with equivalent like sanceis why not 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.080 go with the people that are like, we're willing to 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.280 like throw you a fucking bone. But do you But 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:47.040 that's what I'm saying, like that is to be honest, 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.160 I don't understand how anyone can think that, Well, that's 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.040 too fucking bad, like like no, for real, Like so 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.920 you're telling me that you're looking at the Republicans and 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.840 you're like, oh man, Trump wants to throw us a bone. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.600 I mean, I'm just seeing how I'm seeing how I'm saying. 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.880 I see how I got that. Well. I think that 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.960 if ice Cube feels that that's genuine, then I feel 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.440 that the Nigerian Prince could probably scam ice Cube out 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:14.000 of some ship too. And I feel that like, uh, 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.800 vacuum cleaner salesman could probably sell him a broken vacuum 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.520 cleaner as well, and it used car salesman could sell 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.400 him a shitty car that doesn't work, Like I mean, 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.480 it's just it's all like a con. So it's not 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.640 even really something that I'm that I I personally am 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.000 taking serious. Like I think that Trump lies through his teeth. Like, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:38.800 for example, in the Ice Cubes contract with Contract with 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.160 Black America, there's this part right here where it says 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:47.479 mandatory civil rights and anti racism classes and all elementary 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:52.600 schools black scholars will write the textbooks and curriculum adopted 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.480 for these classes. That's one of the things that ice 0:16:55.560 --> 0:17:02.160 Cube wants. Trump literally had a full two hour press 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:06.040 conference to pretty much say fuck anti racism, Fuck you niggas, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.960 talking about how they he was against that that very thing. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.560 So when ice Cube talked with Trump or when ice 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.040 Cube met with Trump, did he ask Trump about that? 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.520 You know, like, like, did did he ask Trump about like, hey, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.080 what what what is up with the fine people on 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.560 both sides ship? Like what did he ask Trump about 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.200 stand back and stand by with the proud boys? Did 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.280 he ask Trump about the migrants that are locked in 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.320 the cages? You know what I'm saying. It irks me out, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.479 especially with like rappers and rock stars when they're like 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.400 cozy with any politicians, because I feel like, if you're 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.560 really like a rock star like that, I don't think 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:50.919 like a really mainstream politicians should feel comfortable like talking 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.440 with you, because you're probably gonna ask them some ship 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:57.680 that they're not gonna feel comfortable answering, and we can 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.000 hedge everything with saying, oh, both sides are fucked out. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.840 I agree, But there's never been a politician that's more 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.159 embodied that to me than Donald Trump. You know what 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.639 I'm saying, Like Donald Trump should only want to be 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:15.399 around far right, fringe media figures that are gonna lavish 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.280 praise on him and tell him everything he wants to hear, 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.240 because anybody who's real is not gonna be able to 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.680 have like a regular conversation with him about ship. So 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.520 you know, you you're hearing the pain in the voice 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:31.760 of somebody who really really was like a huge Ice 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.600 Cube fan and right now, I'll always be a fan 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.919 of his music and what it you know, what it 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.440 did for me, But this is disappointing, not even from 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.600 a political and it's just like, damn, like you were 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.960 able to fall for that. That's how I feel. But 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:48.920 I look at all Trump So I look, literally look 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.840 at all Trump supporters that work. That's it, you know, 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.240 you know, they're all being con to a certain degree, 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:59.640 and the maggots are going crazy online over it. Um 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:03.320 there's a picture that was photoshop with a fifty cent 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:08.320 nice cube wearing Trump hats, and Eric Trump tweeted it 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:13.280 out like a dumb fuck. So, um, fifty cents situation 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.280 was a bit more. I think it's a less nuanced situation. 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.600 I don't even know if it's serious. So as for 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.160 fifty cities watching the news and heard about Biden's tax 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.320 plan and proposed an increase of taxes on people making 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.440 more than four New thousand ills a year, he responded 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.040 with the treat tweet, what the fuck vote for Trump? 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.920 I'm out for New York. The Knicks never win anyway. 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.880 I don't care that Trump doesn't like black people. Are 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:42.200 you out of your fucking mind? Yeah? So, I mean, yeah, 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:44.680 that sounds like a troll to me. To like, I mean, 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:47.159 it sounds like fifty cent doing some friendship. Whether or 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.359 not it's a situation you should be playing around with 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.080 when you have millions of followers, I don't know, but 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.520 I don't know how serious he Isn't that. I mean, 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:00.520 I'm not super will versed in Biden's tax policy. I 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.679 am not a tax expert in general. But I feel 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:08.680 like even millionaires, even even ice Cube, even like all 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.880 of the movie stars we love and rock stars whatever, 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:16.040 like we're still all getting screwed by the people that 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:22.600 like ohn Sony, that own Microsoft, that own Spotify, that 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.160 own Netflix, like the folks at the like the top, 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:30.160 top top, Like I hate that this happened. I guess 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:35.359 I'm trying to say because like Hiftes is closer to 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.000 being at my level than he is to being Jeff Bezos. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:43.080 Like we're on the same team ultimately, But does fifty 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:47.920 cent consider himself on the same team. That's what I'm saying. 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.200 I'll even ask you this. I would say that there's 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:57.280 like millions of Americans who definitely aren't on the Jeff 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:00.560 Bezos team, but they think that they will be. And 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.720 that's the problem. Yeah, I think fifty cent would probably 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:05.920 be one if if this is like a serious sentiment, 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.800 that would put fifty cent in that category of like no, man, 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:14.120 I mean, I'm rich, and it's like, yo, you're rich. 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:17.080 But like when people say eat the rich. They're not 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:21.640 talking about rappers. Are you're talking about Lebron We ain't 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:25.040 talking about David Levato, ain't talking about Chris Pratt. We 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:28.840 are talking about We're talking about people at the very 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.320 top that run the whole ship. That the reason why 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.680 isn't as rich as he could be because they're taking 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:38.440 a cut on his contract when put album on. Motherfucker's 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.280 whose names you don't know, who you never saw in 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.640 a music video, That's who we're talking about. UM would 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:48.119 like it kind of brings up like another question of 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:55.480 black celebrity, Black celebrities playing this role just in politics 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:57.720 in general, because like I feel, you know what else 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:01.200 is like a sheer good away at how much of 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:03.680 a rus this is? I feel like if this was 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.040 some serious ship, Like if it was some serious ship, 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.200 if Trump is Trump and it's like, y'all see me, 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:10.359 I'm Trump on the mic. You know what I'm saying. 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:14.120 But that's that's my that's my character. Like you don't 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:16.280 know what I'm thinking behind closed doors and ship like that, 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:19.920 because I actively think about the black community every day. 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:22.720 Let's just say that's what it is. I think that 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:27.560 this Platinum plan would have involved like actual serious people. 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:30.399 And this is no disrespect to ice Cube in the 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:32.720 fifty cents of the world ship like that, but maybe 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:35.080 it would have been. Hey, the Trump campaign reached out 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:36.680 to Cornell West, you know what I mean? The Trump 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:40.280 campaign reached out to Tissy Coats. That's not what happened. 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.399 They're reaching out to rappers in boxers, you know what 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:46.480 I'm saying. In in Kanye West, that's who they're That's 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.200 who they're getting like, because that's Trump is like that 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.760 sort of old school in New York racists where it's like, 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:54.879 oh no, those are the good ones, you know what 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:57.639 I mean. The I like basketball players, wouldn't let them 0:22:57.720 --> 0:22:59.640 date my daughter, but you know that's a good one. 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:03.959 I like that one. So shit, I'm black and COVID 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:06.200 and it's just got my blood pressure up. You wanna 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:16.600