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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Waiting on Reparations Podcast. Another week has
Speaker 1: gone by. I hope everybody out there is doing well.
Speaker 1: So we lied to you again our voting episode. It's
Speaker 1: going to come out next week before the election. We
Speaker 1: figured it'd be a little bit more impactful that way
Speaker 1: if we drop it there today, we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about the heel turn as it were for ice Cube
Speaker 1: and fifty Cent, as they both caused a little bit
Speaker 1: of a stir last week by endorsing or at least
Speaker 1: expressing a willingness to work with the Trump administration on
Speaker 1: things A lot of people were mad about it, a
Speaker 1: lot of people had a lot to say, and we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about it. We're also going to talk
Speaker 1: about the role the black celebrities playing the right wings
Speaker 1: efforts to peel Black voters. Will also have a music
Speaker 1: discussion as well. I gotta push back a little bit
Speaker 1: on the framing that right wing are trying to peel
Speaker 1: Black voters, because I know that we do sort sort
Speaker 1: of vote as like a democratic black but if you
Speaker 1: can only vote for one party, are truly free. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about voters from where just assumed democratic monolith.
Speaker 1: We'll not even peel black voters, but peel and suppress
Speaker 1: Black voters. Like, Yeah, the suppression attempts are interesting and
Speaker 1: concerning for sure. I mean I feel like I feel
Speaker 1: like a part of political organizing is making connections with
Speaker 1: titan ces on racial class, union membership, gender identity, sexuality, lines,
Speaker 1: immigration status, and so they're just connecting with some people
Speaker 1: that they perceive, even if in factually to be their
Speaker 1: base in the sense of like men love Trump, Black
Speaker 1: men love Trump. Unemployment numbers went up under Obama, which
Speaker 1: they love to tout, and so like black the you know,
Speaker 1: black people have done better under Trump than anyone else.
Speaker 1: They just think they're just connecting with black people because
Speaker 1: they don't see why black people wouldn't vote for them.
Speaker 1: I'm in no way coming from it from like a
Speaker 1: standpoint of black people aren't allowed to be right wing
Speaker 1: or aren't allowed to vote Trump right right wing or
Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, so we've talked, but we've talked previously
Speaker 1: in this show about the right wing technancies of hip hop,
Speaker 1: and that though we has left us try to sort
Speaker 1: of like look at the policy connections to hip hop
Speaker 1: from someone of a US of lens. There is ultimately,
Speaker 1: like with regards to the Second Amendment, with regards to
Speaker 1: like gender roles, with regards to xenophobia and homophobia, a
Speaker 1: very much conservative strain through line in a lot of
Speaker 1: mainstream hip hop in particular. And so I think to
Speaker 1: sort of make this this, I think the recent controversies
Speaker 1: around public black figures like ice Cube, UM, I hope
Speaker 1: they illuminate that connection. And I'm happy about two and
Speaker 1: especially in the fifty cent situation has but you know what,
Speaker 1: like that's what we're gonna get into it today. So um,
Speaker 1: let's actually fill everybody in on the whole on the
Speaker 1: whole topic. Over the last weekend, some change hip hop
Speaker 1: artists ice Cube Famous Rapper both made the headlines when
Speaker 1: they each respectively endorsed or express approval of the Trump
Speaker 1: administration's policy, specifically in the form of tax and the
Speaker 1: Black Agenda. For ice Cube, now, last week the Trump campaign,
Speaker 1: a Trump campaign official, seemingly out of the blue, thanked
Speaker 1: Ice Cube for helping with the Trump administration or being
Speaker 1: at least being open to working with them on implementing
Speaker 1: the rappers proposed Contract with Black America. And I just
Speaker 1: honestly feel like this is a massive failure of the
Speaker 1: Biden campaign, which I think has advertisements on the show.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna be real, because like if you had offered,
Speaker 1: if you had offered reparations, if you had offered a
Speaker 1: federal job guarantee, if you had offered like reverse redlining,
Speaker 1: or like assuming this package to the form of community
Speaker 1: development block grants to black communities, like people there, this
Speaker 1: wouldn't have happened. Well, there's more to this, there's more
Speaker 1: to the story. It wouldn't have to get that out
Speaker 1: of the way because me off so ice Cube put
Speaker 1: out the c w b A, the Contract with Black
Speaker 1: America and uh for or while, you know, when this
Speaker 1: Trump official thanked them for a little bit, people thought
Speaker 1: that it was like a troll or a trick, and
Speaker 1: no one was really sure what was going on. But
Speaker 1: later on ice Cube himself confirmed it with a tweet
Speaker 1: he said, facts, I put out the c w b A.
Speaker 1: Both parties contacted me. DEM said we'll address the c
Speaker 1: w b A after the election. Trump campaign made some
Speaker 1: adjustments to their plan after talking to us about the
Speaker 1: c w b A. And that's that fucking ship. I'm
Speaker 1: so I'm so sorry because it's like, okay, we just
Speaker 1: need your votes for now, and we promise we'll get
Speaker 1: to this. We'll get to your issues once we win.
Speaker 1: Like I think back to I recently finished reading We've
Speaker 1: Got People by Ryan Grimm and which he talks about
Speaker 1: UM during the fight for marriage equality UM and you
Speaker 1: know during Obama uh for a selection campaign or it
Speaker 1: might have been his re election twos, I can't remember which,
Speaker 1: but he was like actively according LGBTQ constituency is UM
Speaker 1: while also talking about how he believes marriages between a
Speaker 1: man and a woman. He had a pastor who is
Speaker 1: very like pro um like traditional views of marriage. I think,
Speaker 1: like fucking speak at his swearing like you know, prey
Speaker 1: to sparing it or some sh it, and like they
Speaker 1: used Obama, um, like Obama saying that he believes in
Speaker 1: civil unions but marriages between a man and a woman
Speaker 1: on robo calls when they were trying to repeal same
Speaker 1: sex marriage in California, like, hey, Obama doesn't stand for
Speaker 1: gay marriage, so vote no on prop whatever. And so
Speaker 1: after all that, you know, it gets back trying to
Speaker 1: court LGBTQ constituencies to like get back in the good
Speaker 1: graces and then for years nothing, you know, for years
Speaker 1: nothing for for us, nothing, you know, no marriage quality. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, all the ship with like uh case in
Speaker 1: the military, like is going back and forth. Um, and
Speaker 1: it's always like, okay, vote for us, and then we'll
Speaker 1: get to your issues once we're in. Like we're not
Speaker 1: gonna speak to them now, but once we're in, we'll
Speaker 1: do something about it. And then they still don't. But
Speaker 1: so like if our ice cube and I did this, yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd be like Trump campaign, I agree with, I agree,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that this has to be
Speaker 1: an endorsement of Democrats or a defense of Democrats are
Speaker 1: Biden in order to critique somebody getting ruised by the
Speaker 1: Trump campaign. Because the thing is everything that you like,
Speaker 1: the superficiality of courting the vote is all present in
Speaker 1: everything that the Trump campaign is going on. Like as
Speaker 1: we'll go through, you'll see that it's like there are
Speaker 1: things that are in the c W b A that
Speaker 1: we just know for a fact that it's like the
Speaker 1: Trump the Trump administration is like diabatrically opposed to. But
Speaker 1: we'll get into that they don't even take us seriously
Speaker 1: enough to pretend like they're going to do stuff for us.
Speaker 1: So this is the Democrats don't even take it seriously
Speaker 1: enough to pretend like they're going to do so all
Speaker 1: I'm saying is if somebody is truly last week. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, but like what the fun if somebody
Speaker 1: is un ironically just in their heart believes no man
Speaker 1: like Trump is telling the truth, like this is real?
Speaker 1: Like this is I mean, I know that he's been
Speaker 1: president for three and a half years and they haven't
Speaker 1: done shipped, and they've been hanging with Nazis and been
Speaker 1: have like been actively antagtagonistic towards marginalized people. But you
Speaker 1: know what, I believe this like this is this is
Speaker 1: the real ship. Then by all means, I think you know,
Speaker 1: mago Away, you know, if like you truly live. But
Speaker 1: if you don't really believe that, then I just don't
Speaker 1: understand how you could fall for it. Like being critical
Speaker 1: of the Democrats, like, oh, the Democrats didn't do this outreach,
Speaker 1: the Democrats didn't do this. I want the Democrats to
Speaker 1: do that, or whatever political party you want to do it,
Speaker 1: that's fine. But the Trump administration in particular, it's like
Speaker 1: want man, you know what I'm saying. But um, but
Speaker 1: if Joe Biden put on his platform next week, then
Speaker 1: we're going to nationalize all energy production. They say he's pandering,
Speaker 1: and that would literally wouldn't believe him, but I would
Speaker 1: be like fucking stoked to vote for him because at
Speaker 1: least acknowledge my fucking existence and acknowledge the deep existential
Speaker 1: dread that I fear every morning when I wake up
Speaker 1: and think about our planet burning to ash. But alwayst like, oh,
Speaker 1: we acknowledge me, all right, okay, so the thing so
Speaker 1: I get it. Would would you describe the Joe Biden
Speaker 1: campaign as being run in as being absent and unacknowledging
Speaker 1: of the black community or black people. They want our votes,
Speaker 1: they don't want to do ship for us? What the
Speaker 1: fund is Trump doing. So what I'm saying is if
Speaker 1: that if somebody was like, Yo, they want our votes,
Speaker 1: they don't want to do it for I'm not voting.
Speaker 1: I don't agree still, but I got it, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. If somebody's like, they don't want my vote,
Speaker 1: they don't want to do ship for us, so let's
Speaker 1: vote for the nazis no, no something for you, and
Speaker 1: that something is tossed us into a fucking furnace. Look,
Speaker 1: if they had the chance, they would bring back Jim
Speaker 1: Crow because let me tell you something, people, right, the
Speaker 1: Republican endgame is apartheide. That's what they're going for. They're
Speaker 1: going for minority rule. They want to control the courts.
Speaker 1: They want to fuck the country so bad from like
Speaker 1: the structural level, that it doesn't matter how much they're outnumbered,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how progressive the country really is. That
Speaker 1: they just have total control. You do not have to
Speaker 1: be a Democrat to be able to look at the
Speaker 1: situation and and see that. In my opinion, I don't
Speaker 1: think you have to be a democrat or a liberal
Speaker 1: to look at the situation and realize that. And if
Speaker 1: you are leftist, I mean, I'm just not understanding, Like
Speaker 1: I mean, I was with you. I canvass for Bernie,
Speaker 1: I did that little bit of the work. At what
Speaker 1: point for anybody in the Bernie or bus crowd did
Speaker 1: like you read in a pamphlet or some ship. Hey guys,
Speaker 1: do you know what the alternative the better alternatives to
Speaker 1: this is nazis? It's just what the funk are people
Speaker 1: talking about? I just don't understand how you're not looking
Speaker 1: at how people are looking at it from like, uh,
Speaker 1: what is going to give us more freedom of movement?
Speaker 1: Because if you think that these Trump motherfucker's are gonna
Speaker 1: like sit at the table and negotiate with people, they
Speaker 1: damn sure aren't. That's why they're doing all this ship
Speaker 1: twenty five days before the election happens. That's like, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean that right there is a dead
Speaker 1: giver if they if they were talking about this a
Speaker 1: year ago. You know what I'm saying, Like, how how
Speaker 1: how much woulden doubt of what I'm saying be if
Speaker 1: like now, yo, like Trump has been on this black
Speaker 1: agenda for like a year. It's like, oh, okay, well,
Speaker 1: I mean they've been going at it. It didn't take
Speaker 1: pull numbers being in the tank. It didn't take him
Speaker 1: lagging behind and it'll in the election by you know,
Speaker 1: like major points. It didn't take Covid ruining the country
Speaker 1: and changing the dynamic of how the race was supposed
Speaker 1: to play out. He just did it because it was
Speaker 1: on his mind. So it's just like, I don't understand
Speaker 1: how the critique can be on one end where it's like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: the Democrats did the Democrats didn't do. The Democrats are
Speaker 1: supposed to do better because we think we don't let
Speaker 1: the Republicans aren't honest and aren't acting in good faith
Speaker 1: on virtually everything, to the point where it's like I
Speaker 1: don't even feel any hesitation to just say that as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, See we know that, but ice
Speaker 1: Cube doesn't. And that's not his because he's older than
Speaker 1: both of us, and he's more connected than both of us,
Speaker 1: and I mean this all led to um in in
Speaker 1: the weeks afterwards, ice Cube doubled and tripled down, and
Speaker 1: he's talked about it, and I'm not even I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna like mischaracterize it because you know, all of his
Speaker 1: critique of the Democrat Party are all on point. Is
Speaker 1: it's nothing unlike things that you've heard Mariah say just now.
Speaker 1: But you know he'd gotten he had an interview with
Speaker 1: Roland Martin and it was kind of a disaster, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And it was obvious he was
Speaker 1: a bit out of his depth in terms of like
Speaker 1: knowing even what Trump's policies were and stuff like that. Now, Trump,
Speaker 1: the Trump administration, they have a proposal which um is
Speaker 1: called the Platinum Plan because the Bling Bling Plan must
Speaker 1: not have been available, so they went with the Platinum Plan,
Speaker 1: and it allegedly promises opportunity, security, prosperity, and fairness for
Speaker 1: the black community. Um So, in this the Trump Plan,
Speaker 1: we've got a promise of three million new jobs for
Speaker 1: the black community, creating five hundred thousand new black owned businesses,
Speaker 1: increase access to capital and black communities by almost five
Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars, safe urban neighborhoods with the highest policing standards. YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 1: da dada. But it's interesting, I guess interesting to me,
Speaker 1: given Ice cubes previous views on the cops. You're right,
Speaker 1: I was thinking that too. I mean, if you see
Speaker 1: any footage of the Trump rallies now, they're like flying
Speaker 1: the American flag right next to the Blue line flag.
Speaker 1: So I guess it's love the police. I mean, both
Speaker 1: parties are like, we support our law enforcements. So I
Speaker 1: guess if you're dealing with equivalent like sanceis why not
Speaker 1: go with the people that are like, we're willing to
Speaker 1: like throw you a fucking bone. But do you But
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying, like that is to be honest,
Speaker 1: I don't understand how anyone can think that, Well, that's
Speaker 1: too fucking bad, like like no, for real, Like so
Speaker 1: you're telling me that you're looking at the Republicans and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh man, Trump wants to throw us a bone.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just seeing how I'm seeing how I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I see how I got that. Well. I think that
Speaker 1: if ice Cube feels that that's genuine, then I feel
Speaker 1: that the Nigerian Prince could probably scam ice Cube out
Speaker 1: of some ship too. And I feel that like, uh,
Speaker 1: vacuum cleaner salesman could probably sell him a broken vacuum
Speaker 1: cleaner as well, and it used car salesman could sell
Speaker 1: him a shitty car that doesn't work, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's all like a con. So it's not
Speaker 1: even really something that I'm that I I personally am
Speaker 1: taking serious. Like I think that Trump lies through his teeth. Like,
Speaker 1: for example, in the Ice Cubes contract with Contract with
Speaker 1: Black America, there's this part right here where it says
Speaker 1: mandatory civil rights and anti racism classes and all elementary
Speaker 1: schools black scholars will write the textbooks and curriculum adopted
Speaker 1: for these classes. That's one of the things that ice
Speaker 1: Cube wants. Trump literally had a full two hour press
Speaker 1: conference to pretty much say fuck anti racism, Fuck you niggas,
Speaker 1: talking about how they he was against that that very thing.
Speaker 1: So when ice Cube talked with Trump or when ice
Speaker 1: Cube met with Trump, did he ask Trump about that?
Speaker 1: You know, like, like, did did he ask Trump about like, hey,
Speaker 1: what what what is up with the fine people on
Speaker 1: both sides ship? Like what did he ask Trump about
Speaker 1: stand back and stand by with the proud boys? Did
Speaker 1: he ask Trump about the migrants that are locked in
Speaker 1: the cages? You know what I'm saying. It irks me out,
Speaker 1: especially with like rappers and rock stars when they're like
Speaker 1: cozy with any politicians, because I feel like, if you're
Speaker 1: really like a rock star like that, I don't think
Speaker 1: like a really mainstream politicians should feel comfortable like talking
Speaker 1: with you, because you're probably gonna ask them some ship
Speaker 1: that they're not gonna feel comfortable answering, and we can
Speaker 1: hedge everything with saying, oh, both sides are fucked out.
Speaker 1: I agree, But there's never been a politician that's more
Speaker 1: embodied that to me than Donald Trump. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like Donald Trump should only want to be
Speaker 1: around far right, fringe media figures that are gonna lavish
Speaker 1: praise on him and tell him everything he wants to hear,
Speaker 1: because anybody who's real is not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: have like a regular conversation with him about ship. So
Speaker 1: you know, you you're hearing the pain in the voice
Speaker 1: of somebody who really really was like a huge Ice
Speaker 1: Cube fan and right now, I'll always be a fan
Speaker 1: of his music and what it you know, what it
Speaker 1: did for me, But this is disappointing, not even from
Speaker 1: a political and it's just like, damn, like you were
Speaker 1: able to fall for that. That's how I feel. But
Speaker 1: I look at all Trump So I look, literally look
Speaker 1: at all Trump supporters that work. That's it, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, they're all being con to a certain degree,
Speaker 1: and the maggots are going crazy online over it. Um
Speaker 1: there's a picture that was photoshop with a fifty cent
Speaker 1: nice cube wearing Trump hats, and Eric Trump tweeted it
Speaker 1: out like a dumb fuck. So, um, fifty cents situation
Speaker 1: was a bit more. I think it's a less nuanced situation.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's serious. So as for
Speaker 1: fifty cities watching the news and heard about Biden's tax
Speaker 1: plan and proposed an increase of taxes on people making
Speaker 1: more than four New thousand ills a year, he responded
Speaker 1: with the treat tweet, what the fuck vote for Trump?
Speaker 1: I'm out for New York. The Knicks never win anyway.
Speaker 1: I don't care that Trump doesn't like black people. Are
Speaker 1: you out of your fucking mind? Yeah? So, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds like a troll to me. To like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it sounds like fifty cent doing some friendship. Whether or
Speaker 1: not it's a situation you should be playing around with
Speaker 1: when you have millions of followers, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I don't know how serious he Isn't that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not super will versed in Biden's tax policy. I
Speaker 1: am not a tax expert in general. But I feel
Speaker 1: like even millionaires, even even ice Cube, even like all
Speaker 1: of the movie stars we love and rock stars whatever,
Speaker 1: like we're still all getting screwed by the people that
Speaker 1: like ohn Sony, that own Microsoft, that own Spotify, that
Speaker 1: own Netflix, like the folks at the like the top,
Speaker 1: top top, Like I hate that this happened. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say because like Hiftes is closer to
Speaker 1: being at my level than he is to being Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 1: Like we're on the same team ultimately, But does fifty
Speaker 1: cent consider himself on the same team. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'll even ask you this. I would say that there's
Speaker 1: like millions of Americans who definitely aren't on the Jeff
Speaker 1: Bezos team, but they think that they will be. And
Speaker 1: that's the problem. Yeah, I think fifty cent would probably
Speaker 1: be one if if this is like a serious sentiment,
Speaker 1: that would put fifty cent in that category of like no, man,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm rich, and it's like, yo, you're rich.
Speaker 1: But like when people say eat the rich. They're not
Speaker 1: talking about rappers. Are you're talking about Lebron We ain't
Speaker 1: talking about David Levato, ain't talking about Chris Pratt. We
Speaker 1: are talking about We're talking about people at the very
Speaker 1: top that run the whole ship. That the reason why
Speaker 1: isn't as rich as he could be because they're taking
Speaker 1: a cut on his contract when put album on. Motherfucker's
Speaker 1: whose names you don't know, who you never saw in
Speaker 1: a music video, That's who we're talking about. UM would
Speaker 1: like it kind of brings up like another question of
Speaker 1: black celebrity, Black celebrities playing this role just in politics
Speaker 1: in general, because like I feel, you know what else
Speaker 1: is like a sheer good away at how much of
Speaker 1: a rus this is? I feel like if this was
Speaker 1: some serious ship, Like if it was some serious ship,
Speaker 1: if Trump is Trump and it's like, y'all see me,
Speaker 1: I'm Trump on the mic. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But that's that's my that's my character. Like you don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm thinking behind closed doors and ship like that,
Speaker 1: because I actively think about the black community every day.
Speaker 1: Let's just say that's what it is. I think that
Speaker 1: this Platinum plan would have involved like actual serious people.
Speaker 1: And this is no disrespect to ice Cube in the
Speaker 1: fifty cents of the world ship like that, but maybe
Speaker 1: it would have been. Hey, the Trump campaign reached out
Speaker 1: to Cornell West, you know what I mean? The Trump
Speaker 1: campaign reached out to Tissy Coats. That's not what happened.
Speaker 1: They're reaching out to rappers in boxers, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. In in Kanye West, that's who they're That's
Speaker 1: who they're getting like, because that's Trump is like that
Speaker 1: sort of old school in New York racists where it's like,
Speaker 1: oh no, those are the good ones, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. The I like basketball players, wouldn't let them
Speaker 1: date my daughter, but you know that's a good one.
Speaker 1: I like that one. So shit, I'm black and COVID
Speaker 1: and it's just got my blood pressure up. You wanna
Speaker 1: talk about some music, Okay? Let's that's some music quick. Okay.
Speaker 1: So for the music discussion today, given that we're talking
Speaker 1: about rappers turned Republican are working with the Republicans, We're
Speaker 1: gonna examine just some lines and a couple of songs
Speaker 1: or two just kind of dealing with that sentiment, you know,
Speaker 1: lines that kind of stand out as having sort of
Speaker 1: a conservative bend to them. You know, it's gonna kind
Speaker 1: of be a light one because we had that whole
Speaker 1: episode on abortion where we found abortion lines, so you
Speaker 1: could pretty much consider any of those anti abortion lines
Speaker 1: from that episode would probably fit in this. And my
Speaker 1: ass is gonna find something progressive about it because I
Speaker 1: just can't help up progressive eyes hip hop because I
Speaker 1: want so desperately far our culture to be the bank
Speaker 1: pard of like revolution. That again I said, I wanted
Speaker 1: that's really for our culture to be the Vancord revolution,
Speaker 1: even what it isn't. Well, Um, the first track we've
Speaker 1: We've mentioned this line briefly before in another episode, but
Speaker 1: it's from the DJ Khaled song I'm on One, and
Speaker 1: it's from the Drake verse. Let's listen to this line.
Speaker 1: All I care about his money in the city and
Speaker 1: I'm from Mamma sipp And all I care about his
Speaker 1: money and the city that I'm from Heresy. Hey, I
Speaker 1: care about my city, Go Savannah saying O Athens too,
Speaker 1: I love you. I love everybody, but no, no, it's
Speaker 1: I think that every all the intentions of the line
Speaker 1: were completely pure. If you can say that, I believe
Speaker 1: it's true. I don't. I don't think there's anything nefarious
Speaker 1: in the line and show like that. I'm just talking
Speaker 1: about the sentiment of those words. All I care about
Speaker 1: is money in the city that I'm from. I remember
Speaker 1: when the song came out and I heard that just
Speaker 1: I couldn't help thinking it was like, damn, yo, this
Speaker 1: song is hot. If I was like thirteen. I mean,
Speaker 1: you hear a lot of whack ship in hip hop,
Speaker 1: and you hear, especially when you're like a real like
Speaker 1: kid listener, you hear a lot of like you know,
Speaker 1: messages and values and stuff that you probably are getting
Speaker 1: exposed to too early or whatever the argument is for it.
Speaker 1: But it's like, I think about the person that I
Speaker 1: am now, in the beliefs that I have, and I
Speaker 1: just think, like if my favorite rapper was telling me, yo, money, money, money,
Speaker 1: something about money, get that paper, Get that paper, and
Speaker 1: it is you know, the song is kind of the epitome.
Speaker 1: That line is kind of the epitome of a sentiment
Speaker 1: that's always been around in hip hop. But I guess
Speaker 1: there's something about how soul full in real it is
Speaker 1: a good job on Aubrey and making making that just
Speaker 1: feel so so real, but for real, not just that line,
Speaker 1: lines like it and other sentiments. You know, you have
Speaker 1: to wonder what what type of value system it's shaping
Speaker 1: in people, if any you know, maybe it's maybe it
Speaker 1: is just entertainment. I just think about I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: roasted for this so hard. I'm sounding I'm sounding like
Speaker 1: a fucking Trump supporter. But both parties are capitalists. Neither
Speaker 1: Democratic party or neither major party nominee wants to overthrow capitalism.
Speaker 1: Is not going to overthrow capitalism. I care about his money, like,
Speaker 1: of course. Like that's not even a Republican that's not
Speaker 1: even a Republican line. That's an American line. True, of course,
Speaker 1: But you know, again, it's just let's not make false equivalences.
Speaker 1: If capitalism was cocaine, then Democrats have a bad coke
Speaker 1: habin and Republicans are smoking all of the crack. Okay,
Speaker 1: what if Baron Trump as he gets older, he discovers
Speaker 1: SoundCloud and starts making SoundCloud. Little Nick doesn't have no SoundCloud,
Speaker 1: isn't he like he's like fourteen or fifteen? Yeah, SoundCloud?
Speaker 1: I know. So I'm saying, let's say he discovers and
Speaker 1: he's like yo, I was meant to be a rapper,
Speaker 1: and like Baron Trump is making like rap songs, He's like,
Speaker 1: all I care about his money in the city that
Speaker 1: I'm from, doesn't it hit different or no? I think
Speaker 1: that I have slight more tolerance for black capitals on
Speaker 1: the white capital. So yes, it hits different, um, but
Speaker 1: both have to be abolished. Though, all right, there you go.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about, Like by no means make
Speaker 1: my ship any sort of like endorsement or like I'm
Speaker 1: not drinking the kool aid. I'm not on Team Blue
Speaker 1: as it were. But you know, I'm not working with
Speaker 1: the Nazis, man, Like, That's pretty much what it make
Speaker 1: very clear in this episode that I also am not
Speaker 1: working with the Nazis. You know, there's like shades of
Speaker 1: grain what I'm saying that might be concerning this and listeners,
Speaker 1: I am not. They know you though you've done You've
Speaker 1: done too much work for anybody to its interm with
Speaker 1: that and hilarious, and it came out that I was
Speaker 1: it's like this whole time, just like I know where
Speaker 1: it's coming college prisons. Also, Hail Hiller, what the thing
Speaker 1: is I don't want I don't like getting in in
Speaker 1: discussions like this and dismissing how people feel, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, or like acting like, yo, my way
Speaker 1: is right, in your way is wrong. It's just not
Speaker 1: I just think you're wrong, and I think I'm right,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But it's not like I
Speaker 1: don't think that it's ridiculous for people to make these
Speaker 1: points and stuff like that. And it's just I find
Speaker 1: as I guess someone who you know, I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: I consider myself to be, you know, a leftist and
Speaker 1: ship and it's like I find myself having conversations and
Speaker 1: it's just like the people who are really in that
Speaker 1: NA the Democrats are sucked up. The Democrats are sucked up.
Speaker 1: The Democrats are sucked up. It's like, yo, we all
Speaker 1: know that, but like, are you seeing that ship over there?
Speaker 1: And it's almost like they treat it like it's ridiculous
Speaker 1: for you to bring that up, you know. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: I think I think you can fairly say that one
Speaker 1: side's worse, you know, I don't think that's that's controversial.
Speaker 1: Also saying that I'm not like saying it, but like
Speaker 1: I mean it. Um the next one that the next
Speaker 1: one talking about is the jay Z song The Story
Speaker 1: of o J. Now that's not it's not that it's
Speaker 1: not that the song is promoting Republican values. There's just
Speaker 1: it's just there's just something about it overall that just
Speaker 1: has like a feeling like, yeah, nigga, who are you
Speaker 1: talking to? Let's listen to I could have brought a
Speaker 1: place in dumbled Be four was dumble for like two millions,
Speaker 1: that same building today it's worth Yeah, It's like I
Speaker 1: don't know, it feels like, um, you gotta be talking
Speaker 1: to like an NBA player or like a nigga that
Speaker 1: works for Goldman Sacks or some ship to for them
Speaker 1: to like really relate to that ship. I mean, niggas
Speaker 1: is out here. They need like job training and G E.
Speaker 1: D s and ship And you're talking about flipping fucking buildings.
Speaker 1: There's nothing inherently wrong with like black people behind land.
Speaker 1: I think that's great. I think we should. Um, I
Speaker 1: am skeptical of like when people are like, oh, we
Speaker 1: need you know, to invest in black homeownership are like
Speaker 1: land acquisition to like build generational wealth where it's like
Speaker 1: I want a world where like generational wealth doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 1: And so it's like, okay, buying your whole block to
Speaker 1: transform it. It's kind of cool. But then being like,
Speaker 1: want to buy my whole block because it's worth four
Speaker 1: meal right now and in twenty years of worthy five
Speaker 1: And then what isn't that called gentrification? Buy your whole block?
Speaker 1: Let everybody. He didn't say whether or not it's gonna
Speaker 1: keep let everyone keep living there. If I could, if
Speaker 1: I were the Tsar of Athens, if I had a
Speaker 1: billion dollars, I would just buy my whole district and
Speaker 1: just let all the people who have generationally lived here
Speaker 1: just like everybody gets to have a house and you
Speaker 1: don't have to pay mortgage and you're good. So I
Speaker 1: think the end goal, I mean, he does say. And
Speaker 1: the thing is he says, oh, in like a couple
Speaker 1: of years is gonna be worth twenty five meal. So
Speaker 1: he's looking at it as an like an asset for
Speaker 1: himself rather than thinking about acquiring land for the sustenance
Speaker 1: of the community. But I feel like there's a colonel
Speaker 1: in there where you can twist it be like that's
Speaker 1: not totally bad. It's not it's not really bout and
Speaker 1: you know, there's mad parts of the song that are like,
Speaker 1: you know, good point. I'm just I'm just saying there's
Speaker 1: a sentiment to it. And we we've talked about this before,
Speaker 1: that like black capitalist thing where it's like, Yo, what's
Speaker 1: really gonna fix it is if there's more black billionaires.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Now, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: if I got to choose between a black billionaire and
Speaker 1: a white billionaire, actually a black billionaire, but that is well,
Speaker 1: at least just in my opinion, that's not ultimately the goal,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, we're not gonna like
Speaker 1: things aren't gonna be solved if like the corporate boardrooms
Speaker 1: are just diverse, but they're still doing all their fucking
Speaker 1: grubby corporate ship. You know what I'm saying, Like that
Speaker 1: doesn't help anything. The last line is from Pastor Mace.
Speaker 1: His hit song Feels So Good Back in the Day
Speaker 1: is on that that Rush Hour soundtrack. But he had
Speaker 1: this line that and this is this kind of scarred
Speaker 1: me when I was a Kid's always gonna stick with me,
Speaker 1: but it'll be talking funny people show. Now there's like
Speaker 1: a whole there's a whole song before that you have
Speaker 1: to hear. But I remember my older brother who was
Speaker 1: like seventeen eighteen at the time, and I remember one
Speaker 1: time we were watching the video and that line habit,
Speaker 1: and my older brother was like, Yo, he's gonna make
Speaker 1: a lot of motherfucker's bad at him with that lie.
Speaker 1: Just something about the way he said. He was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: that is not cool. Like I've heard a lot of
Speaker 1: rappers brag about money before, but your fuck you, what
Speaker 1: the is up with that? I mean, I was reflecting
Speaker 1: on the fact that when we talk about like republican bars,
Speaker 1: all of the examples you come up with are essentially
Speaker 1: capitalist bars. That's because that's mine, I mean. And then
Speaker 1: we did did the episode on like abortion, there's plenty
Speaker 1: of abortion raps, w pro gun wraps, and so it's
Speaker 1: just interesting that, like, it's interesting to me that they're
Speaker 1: they're seen as the hyper capitalist corporatist party. Though again,
Speaker 1: I feel like that I would say, I would say
Speaker 1: that that's it is then, I mean, it's kind of
Speaker 1: not scientific to just be like, Yo, every reference to
Speaker 1: money that I've heard in hip hop is like, you know,
Speaker 1: akin to their right wing agenda. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: really like that it's it's all just it's all just games.
Speaker 1: But I do think that when I do have that
Speaker 1: feeling about the about hip hop not being as progressive
Speaker 1: as we might think it is, it does stem from
Speaker 1: that aspect of it, the materialism, the consumerism aspect of it,
Speaker 1: the fact that hip hop is so in bed with
Speaker 1: corporate America and that it's almost like that that was
Speaker 1: the goal, Like you know, when when Nike started doing
Speaker 1: in reebok and stuff started doing like deals with rappers
Speaker 1: like Yo, like hip hop made it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like we're officially that ship. And that's dope
Speaker 1: because a lot of people are eaten and that's dope.
Speaker 1: But I just wonder culturally, if we'll look back in
Speaker 1: fifty years, you know what I mean, when there's some
Speaker 1: whole when there's some new thing that's dominating and hip
Speaker 1: hop isn't that thing, but we're just looking back at it.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna look at that turn when hip hop
Speaker 1: went so mainstream that it was just like this with
Speaker 1: corporate America is not gonna be like a good decision
Speaker 1: that we made that we embrace that as like a culture.
Speaker 1: I think that an era when hip hop is no
Speaker 1: longer the like primary genre of music within the mainstream.
Speaker 1: I like to believe that it also be an era
Speaker 1: where capitalism no longer dominants, and so it'll be an
Speaker 1: interesting time capsule of the ideology of their well MEANOK,
Speaker 1: back on it. We'll look back on it like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's so cute. We used to think that kind of stuff. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: for real, I wonder what, um, I wonder what just
Speaker 1: full scale not ironic like socialist hip hop sounds like. Well,
Speaker 1: hopefully in the upcoming episodes we can explore them. I mean,
Speaker 1: I like to believe my hip hop, but particularly within
Speaker 1: the recent months, has become very badly socialists. I talked
Speaker 1: about joining the d s A, talk about general strikes,
Speaker 1: boycotting Amazon, Like, I don't know if I might be
Speaker 1: the only socialist rapper I know, though, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I've ever made a reference to buying something in
Speaker 1: a rap song. I'm really trying to think of a
Speaker 1: moment in any of my songs that I said I
Speaker 1: bought this, or you know what I mean, Like I
Speaker 1: talk about having bad money sometimes. I talked about having
Speaker 1: bad money sometimes just because it's fun and easy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I always wondered that, like what if I was
Speaker 1: in a different subgenre of hip hop, Like, like what
Speaker 1: if I wrapped about diamonds. You can imagine how ill
Speaker 1: my punch lines would be about diamonds if I was, Like,
Speaker 1: it's never too late to reinvent yourself and hopefully in
Speaker 1: your oultra bars this week you maybe can drop something
Speaker 1: gems Well, ladies and gentlemen. Next week, what more can
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Speaker 1: chilling in my beat. Boy stands to fucking watching bet
Speaker 1: boys dance some beat supply pressure letting a need more hands,
Speaker 1: even though I thought I never stood a decoy's chance.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, grains, I'm going against
Speaker 1: when I was young, I float for the show, now
Speaker 1: control when I spit Now. I always put the milage
Speaker 1: on the soul of my tims because I don't want
Speaker 1: to see your seller have to show my prints. That
Speaker 1: ain't it? Tyson to me? Doing life in the being
Speaker 1: like could be like a prize fight with Tyson the ring.
Speaker 1: I'm a little back, How real is that? What I'm
Speaker 1: trying to sing is eat the prums, to play every
Speaker 1: slice of the thing that's got to beat barriers. Let
Speaker 1: the steam carry you through the beef grief and survive
Speaker 1: the leech area, and scared of you rise in your
Speaker 1: moment of defeat, even when it hands you Lemon's dog.
Speaker 1: You know you gotta eat like glass. I should should
Speaker 1: un um shift all right, Uh fuck um, it's the
Speaker 1: International Spider with the passport. I will never give you
Speaker 1: fuss anything you ask for. When I'm in your tape,
Speaker 1: never put the ship on fast forward, or I'm in
Speaker 1: your crib, You're like, why you got that mask for?
Speaker 1: Ask for? The fucker's in the back. Mayby losing, of course,
Speaker 1: just some rap synth nicas will be using the forest.
Speaker 1: I write rhyms like I do it for sport. I
Speaker 1: like domes. Let me cruise. They Porsche. They got through
Speaker 1: a divorce, Mada door. I killed the bullshit quickly. The
Speaker 1: more I show out, the more kids diss me. Bess
Speaker 1: out yere and my shore fIF fifty less I care.
Speaker 1: It's like the more y'all miss me ship please. I'm
Speaker 1: a real African American mixed breed, so you fuss gotta
Speaker 1: be aware of my technique. Araman accident. When I just
Speaker 1: speak to win the booth, I don't have to spit.
Speaker 1: I could just breathe dope, the dope. This is dope night.
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