1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: I refused to do a Kendrick Tomorrow think piece because 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: I'm I grow very bored of think pieces, and especially 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:16,319 Speaker 1: because one of the things I love about Kendrick is 4 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: he's very I said what I said about his music. 5 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: He once he hit a certain level of stratosphere. What 6 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: the boy do is he dropped his album, dropped the 7 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: tour flyer due to tour go home. He's not going 8 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: to respond to nobody's requests, or I'm not gonna tell 9 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: you good and bad about y'alls take on my record. 10 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: I said what I said, yakahotep this as much as 11 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: you want. I said what I said. I love that 12 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: about k Dot. So no think pieces about k Dot, 13 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: but I know his name is invoked in this, and 14 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: I'll tell you why later. I'm not talking about the 15 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: k Dot of it all. I'm talking the fifty cent 16 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: of it all. Some dudes are just good at the Internet. 17 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: Other people took the opposite approach. I want to talk 18 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: about a very serious, serious plague among hip hop culture, 19 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: cloud chasing, who politics, y'all okay, welcome, welcome, welcome, three 20 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: times welcome. There are a number of vocabulary assumptions I 21 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: might have realized I might be making as I started 22 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: to put together this episode, one of which is that 23 00:01:52,280 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: you know what cloud means. And I feel like, if 24 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: I'm reaching my target demographic, I shouldn't have to explain this. 25 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: But I found that who I thought I was talking 26 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: to oftentimes it's not who I'm talking to. It's a 27 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: whole other group listening to me, which I am very 28 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: thankful the fact that anybody listens to me. So I'm 29 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 1: gonna use a tool I learned when I was teaching, 30 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 1: and it is assume nothing and just start as basic 31 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: and let the crowd tell me if they need this 32 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: or not. Right, But if they don't need it, no problem. 33 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: Just tune this part out. You use your one point one, 34 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 1: one point five two point thing to skip through the 35 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: part if you already know what cloud means. If not, 36 00:02:47,080 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: let me explain it to you. So cloud is is. 37 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: There's okay, you could look it up in an urban dictionary, 38 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:17,679 Speaker 1: you can google it, you could do that, but that's 39 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: not really going to capture the essence of what we 40 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: mean by cloud, right, because there are good and bad 41 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: assumptions to it. It's kind of crazy to try to 42 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,679 Speaker 1: like put words to something. Our definitions of something, which 43 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:34,280 Speaker 1: I know is the premise of the whole show. But 44 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: to give you a vocabulary, you know, definition of something 45 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: that we just live and kind of understand, right. I 46 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: know in Spanish there are certain words like okay, so 47 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: in I know I'm confusing the thing. But like, for example, 48 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: in like Cholo culture and like Chicano, Mexican American is 49 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: a term gatcho. Hey, don't be acting all gatcho. There's 50 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: no translation to that, but we know what it means, right, 51 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: So I'll use an in sence. I don't know if 52 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: you remember during the last World Cup when Korea was 53 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: playing and all of Mexico was cheering for Korea because 54 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: Korea needed to beat a certain team so that Mexico 55 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: could advance, right, and all the memes running around l 56 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 1: A were like, yo, I know we were weird, but 57 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: like sorry, I was acting all got your earlier. You know, 58 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: I'm very happy that you won this game, you know. 59 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 1: So it's like you're just not being right, like you're 60 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 1: being weird, like you're being a weird oh, uncomfortable, rude, 61 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: you know, and you know, speaking on things you shouldn't 62 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: speak on, and abrasive and just combative you acting all 63 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: got you a you know, Uh, it's there's no actual term, Like, 64 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: there's no actual term cloud. I think in some ways, 65 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: even if you were to read the definition, it doesn't 66 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: capture what we mean by that. Cloud has to do 67 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: with power, respect, street, cred uh, credibility, um, earning stripes, 68 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: I think in a lot of ways. Uh. You know, 69 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: in the military, when you earn stripes, that or you know, 70 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: that means you you you've accomplished certain feats, right, certain 71 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,279 Speaker 1: acts of bravery and valor. Uh, you've completed certain tasks 72 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: that gives you those stripes on your arms. So earning stripes, 73 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: I think is is more of a street term. But 74 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: that's not necessarily what I mean by cloud. But it's 75 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: adjacent to cloud, right, Uh. Building your reputation is something 76 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: cloud now when you enter into the zoomers of it all. Uh, 77 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: cloud a lot of times has to do with followers, views, 78 00:05:53,240 --> 00:06:00,080 Speaker 1: like likes on your posts, you know, um, and you 79 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: in the same way as you earn stripes, you do 80 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: certain things in hopes to gain followers, views, stripes, credibility, reputation, 81 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But those but those acts are different 82 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: than Here's where it gets harry. Those acts that you 83 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: do to glint to gain cloud don't necessarily translate to 84 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: certification or respect if it is very clear that you 85 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: were doing them for the sake of cloud. Are you 86 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: following me? Cloud has a negative tone to it, although 87 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: it isn't necessarily negative. You know, like if you were 88 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: to say, yo, hey to dude in a pen, he 89 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: got a lot of cloud. You know, a o g 90 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,479 Speaker 1: got a lot of cloud. What he's saying is when 91 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: he steps What we're saying is when he steps in 92 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: the room and he calls a shot and he says 93 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: he wants something done, He's got the earned respect to 94 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: get what he wants done. So in that context, you 95 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: gotta use context clues, and that context cloud is a 96 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: good thing because or not a good or bad. It's 97 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: just a descriptor. It's describing the way for which we 98 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: view this particular person. Yo, hey, hey, look, don't mess 99 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: with this food. You know, he got a lot of cloud, 100 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: you know, uh, or you know. A way to describe 101 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: Prop in the coffee world is yo, prop got a 102 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: lot of cloud over there. And by evidence of the 103 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: amount of coffee toys that I have that I did 104 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: not pay for, you know, and if you listen to 105 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: the Daily Zeygeys, you heard that me talking about a cupping. 106 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: And in talking about a cupping, what I was showing 107 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: you is like I earned all that cloud like I 108 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: earned my stripes. I paid my dudes. I know what 109 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You know, So all these terms paid dudes, 110 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 1: earned stripes, got my respect. I'm certified, I got that credibility. Right. 111 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: These are things that take a long time and a 112 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: lot of effort to actually develop and build. But if 113 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 1: we're gonna say this fool's just a cloud chaser, then 114 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: there's no substance to that person, there's no it's all paper. 115 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 1: Then it's all just for show, right, That is cloud chasing. 116 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: You just want the views. Right. People do stupid stuff, 117 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: stupid challenges, you know, put mad hashtags. Somebody that's like 118 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, Like you take the white 119 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 1: in launcer that showed up at like a Black Lives 120 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: Matter rally or march with a full camera crew. This 121 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: is cloud chasing. You're doing that for the Graham and 122 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: anyone who's real can spot it. There was a story. Look, 123 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: this really happened. I was out with my family during 124 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: the George Florida Frise and we went down to Hollywood 125 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: with the local Black Lives Matter chapter. My homeboy, Kendrick 126 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: Sampson heated light skin dude and uh and insecure, but 127 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: he's also like my neighbor's best friend and he's just 128 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: a real dude, such a good dude. Shout out Kendrick 129 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,679 Speaker 1: a lot, that dude. Anyway, he organized the particular march 130 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: and we all went out there with the family two 131 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: uh go support and my daughter drew a sign, my 132 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: sixteen year old, she drew a sign. You know, we 133 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 1: all we actually had a little thing get together at 134 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 1: the career where we all talked about, you know, what 135 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 1: we were out for, Like I'm never not a teacher, 136 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: We're all you know, we were talking about, you know 137 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:07,719 Speaker 1: what we're out here for, what we really want? You 138 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, what's the point of this? Why protests? 139 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 1: Why come out? Why is this so egregious? Anyway, So 140 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: after we did that, we made all these signs. So 141 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: it was you know, my immediately, my family, my children's 142 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: godparents and their kids, and we was out there next 143 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: to the Capitol, you know, next to the Capitol Records Building, 144 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 1: about to start marching, and this girl, clearly dressed in 145 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: a way that shows me that you do not plan 146 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: to walk for a couple of miles, walks up or 147 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: Saget's up to my daughter and was like, that's a 148 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: great sign. Can I see it? My daughter was like sure. 149 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: She grabbed a sign, turned to a camera crew, took 150 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: a picture of it with it, took one as if 151 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:06,439 Speaker 1: she was holding it in a protest, and then handed 152 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: it back to my daughter and said thank you, sweetheart. 153 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: And we were like we actually it's real. We actually 154 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 1: saw it. People come out here just for photos. It 155 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 1: was like, you know they do, but like watching it, 156 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: it's it's it's bizarre watching it, you know. I know 157 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,079 Speaker 1: that was the most Hollywood story I could have ever told. 158 00:11:31,080 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: But I'm telling you what happened cloud chasing. This is 159 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: something that happens among rappers all the time. You have 160 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: to grow buzz, right, Uh, you have to gain cred. Now. 161 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: I don't want to name any particular names. Uh. I 162 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: let you figure out again if you plugged in who 163 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: I'm talking about. What I'm talking about. There are certain 164 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: artists who are clearly functioning on social media in a 165 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: way that is for the sole purpose of getting eyeballs 166 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: on them. Now, what else would you be on social 167 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,559 Speaker 1: media for if your artists except for to get eyeballs 168 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: on you? Are you not trying to sell albums? Is it? No? 169 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: Press is bad press? Is that the situation? There are 170 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: some people that like social media wise, are professional trolls, 171 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: like and in a good way. So that's fifthy. That's 172 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 1: what I meant by some people are just good at 173 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: the Internet. Fifty is just good at trolling the way 174 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: that he was trolling. Uh, Floyd Mayweather like, he's just 175 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: good at it, right. He knows how to stir up stuff, 176 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: pick a fight, and get the conversation about him. Right, 177 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: He's just good at it. Now. Is he cloud chasing? 178 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: I don't know, and I actually don't think so, because 179 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: he's got enough already. He's got too highly successful television shows. 180 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 1: The man owns vitamin water, and his and his history 181 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: in hip hop is solidified. I mean the man hug 182 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: hung upside down at the Super Bowl. He is solidified, 183 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: full certification. Now from what I understand, who he tutored 184 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: in how to function in the Internet is Takashi six nine. 185 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna speak on that man. I don't know 186 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: that man. I don't know that man situation. I just 187 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 1: know that man knows how to use the Internet. I'm 188 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 1: gonna let you'll figure that out. Cloud chasing is something 189 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: very particular. It's almost like these reckless acts that our 190 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: paper thin again there obviously just for the views, and 191 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: they're very frustrating right now. Then there's another type of 192 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: cloud chasing that is not as silly but can be 193 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: very dangerous. I cite to you, and I'm gonna be 194 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: careful when I say this, because these are real people 195 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: and it's a real situation. I cite to you the 196 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: Young Thug situation and the ys L crew. Now I'm 197 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: gonna let you'all google y s L with Young Slide. 198 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: But anyway, so they're facing gonna and Young Thug are 199 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: facing serious prison time because of gun charges and Rico. Rico, 200 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: if you don't know, is basically how the mob got 201 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: taken down. You have to prove a connection, you could 202 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 1: prove a conspiracy. So en Rico is something that the 203 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: FBI isn't able to tie mob families together. It was 204 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: a Rico charge, you know. It was also some of 205 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: the ways that like gangs got taken out or a 206 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: lot of people got sent to prison because of their 207 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: associations to other people. You use, Rico, I can prove 208 00:15:55,440 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: that y'all are connected, right, so Young Ug in the 209 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: whole young Slide thing that you know, ysl the argument 210 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: is they are bloods. Y'all might be rapping, but y'all 211 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: the gang that happened to rap. And I got proof 212 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: based on these amount of guns you got, right and 213 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: all these other things that we've been watching you over 214 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: and Thugger, Young Thug could be like, I don't know 215 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: what you'all time. I've been on tour this whole time, 216 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: You're talking about all this other stuff. What I'm gonna 217 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: say about these hood niggas? Like what I'm supposed to 218 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: say about that. I'm out here making this money. I'm 219 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: a rapper. You see me everywhere I go. Now, No, 220 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: Rico Ulrico, I could prove that you was a part 221 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,560 Speaker 1: of it. Now, what's super interesting to me about that 222 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: is there are clips of clips of Wallow on the 223 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: Million Dollar Boys podcasts when Thugger was on it trying 224 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: to put these little dudes on game. Thug was like, Yo, 225 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: you did twenty years right. He was like, yeah, I did. 226 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: I did five in the juvenile system and in twenty 227 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: in the in the penitentiary. Doug it was like, yo, 228 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:05,360 Speaker 1: so you've been due more time. Then you've been a lot. 229 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: Then more I've been. I've been on this earth. And 230 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 1: Doug was like impressed by it, and he was like, 231 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: so then while it was like, see, that's why when 232 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: I come to y'all, I'm not coming at y'all like 233 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: a little square lay mass nick. I'm coming at y'all 234 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: and like Ni, I did twenty five years. So he 235 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: tells this story. He was like, yeah, you know, long dude, 236 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 1: come up. You know what I'm saying. He got his 237 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 1: you know I'm paraphrasing. He's like, young dude, come up. 238 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: He can you know, he's got his face all tatted up. 239 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, little gangster. And he say, hey, man, 240 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: he see me on the yard. He say, hey, you 241 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: know Keisha. He's like, yeah, yeah, I know Kesha. He said, 242 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: that's that's my mama. And him like, man, give me 243 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: call oh Keisha, that's your mama. I'll tell us, Hey, 244 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: can you get real call? So he called. He called Keisha. 245 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: Tell him like okay, I'm gonna look out for your 246 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: little man, and he you know, and then a little 247 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 1: dude tattoos on his face, little gangster, and he's like, hey, 248 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: can you look at my papers? He said, man, I 249 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: look at your papers? And he say, little little nick 250 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: and say, hey, what time I'm gonna get out? How 251 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: long you think I'm a beer? He say, we look 252 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: at his papers. He's say, you're getting out in the 253 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: year two thousand seventy three. He said, what, Like yeah, 254 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,679 Speaker 1: He's like, I'm trying to give y'all reality. He was like. 255 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: He goes at that point, all the gangster go away. 256 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: He goes, listen, thug, listen, I'm trying to tell you 257 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:20,439 Speaker 1: in the pen, it's lonely. To the motherfucker. He's like, 258 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 1: it's lonely because look outside, life going on, your family dying, 259 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 1: people moving on, people getting married, people having birthdays, people 260 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: having kids, people dying, and you just sitting there, you know, 261 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,479 Speaker 1: missing out on everything. It's lonely. He's like, I'm not. 262 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 1: He was like, listen, man, I'm not the young I'm 263 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: not scared of you young niggers. I'm not the one 264 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 1: that's just gonna put you on a dummy mission to 265 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: be like Yo, take this pistol. You know what I'm saying, Yo, 266 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: take this pack. Like, I'm not gonna put you on 267 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,200 Speaker 1: no dummy mission. He's like, listen, if you if you're 268 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: in the rap game and you don't want to wrap, 269 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 1: you want to be a street nickl, just take it 270 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 1: to the streets. He's like, but don't bring the dumb 271 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: street shipped into the rap game. He's like, Thug, you 272 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 1: making money. You're making money. Niggas will never be able. 273 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: You're making enough money to change your family forever. You're 274 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 1: getting money niggas wish they could get. Don't bring the 275 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: dumb ship into this game. Trying to prove that you 276 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: hard trying to prove and you could see thugs face 277 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: completely change, like oh damn, the O G giving me game, 278 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:35,400 Speaker 1: And I'm like, that's it. I don't know thug. I'm 279 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,919 Speaker 1: not saying thud cloud chasing because I don't know them, 280 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: but I am saying there are things that oftentimes rappers 281 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: do to try to retroactively have the credibility that they 282 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 1: did it as cloud chasing. That ain't you. You don't 283 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: have to be that right, you don't have to flex 284 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: on the Graham. Yeah, yeah, y'all remember when y'all remember 285 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: A fifty cent was in was in financial trouble, like 286 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:11,159 Speaker 1: he claimed bankruptcy to avoid a case, and then on 287 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: his Graham he posted all these stacks and then the 288 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: courts was like, I thought you was bankrupt, and then 289 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: fifty says, oh no, that's movie money. It's not real. 290 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 1: We just do that for social media. What so you're 291 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: putting it putting the stack to your ears? Is is 292 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:51,439 Speaker 1: that real? No? No, yo, they these people's money is 293 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 1: in banks, they have financial advisors. That's cloud chasing. And 294 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: you can tell when someone's being authentic and when somebody's 295 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:08,719 Speaker 1: cloud chasing, when somebody truly earning stripes or somebody cloud chasing. 296 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 1: Now that was twenty minutes of explanation, and it's important 297 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: because artists one oh one is be visible, be seen. 298 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Make noise about your movement, 299 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 1: get eyeballs on, you, get them streams up. That's an artist. 300 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: You have to go where the people are, right, you know, 301 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: when it was when we were on the time of 302 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,640 Speaker 1: like mixtapes and like pounding the ground, you just had 303 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: to be at everything, you know, at every show, at 304 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,640 Speaker 1: every open mic, at every you gotta freeze. You gotta 305 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: be at every at every function, every party. Right, you 306 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 1: gotta be at everything and figure out how to make noise, 307 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,120 Speaker 1: How you gonna stick out in front of the crowd. Right, 308 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: you have to make it work. Or this is why 309 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,879 Speaker 1: I invoked his name, or your k dot or your 310 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: kindred Lamar, who literally does the opposite of all of this. 311 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 1: The man drops his album and disappears, drops his album, 312 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: goes on tour, disappears. You don't hear from him? Damn 313 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 1: was five years ago. We've been asking for the new 314 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 1: album for four years. Did he respond to anybody? Nope? 315 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: He did the tour and then he went home. Granted 316 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 1: there was a global pandemic, But did you hear from him? 317 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: I didn't. I think there was a public sighting of 318 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 1: the boy once and he was fully hoodied up with 319 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: glasses and his mask on, and he was at a 320 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: Who's at a protest? That was it? No cameras, he 321 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: just they just happened to run into him. And we 322 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 1: didn't stop talking about him, did he? Did? We? And 323 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: the man dropped this album with of us a weak notice, 324 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: and then dropped a single that wasn't even on the record. 325 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: He did everything you're not supposed to do. Why because 326 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: he's certified, Because we already trust him. I've already earned 327 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: the right to say what I say, and I also 328 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: believe again I'm saying this. As an artist, you teach 329 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: people how to interact with you. Drake taught us two 330 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,959 Speaker 1: accept singles to not really be excited about albums from 331 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 1: Drake because Drake's albums are a bunch of singles. We 332 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,880 Speaker 1: need hotline blings. We need just hold on them going 333 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: home as we need, you know, God's plans. That's where 334 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: we get from Drake. We don't get opus is. But 335 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 1: he taught us that. Drake, you taught us how to 336 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: interact with you. So to Kendrick, what does this have 337 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 1: to do with politicians. We'll talk about it after the 338 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: break of politics. All right, we're back midtterm elections. You guys, now, 339 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 1: campaigning is something that's you have to campaign, right. You 340 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:53,199 Speaker 1: gotta run commercials, you gotta you gotta get eyeballs on 341 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 1: you all the way back to doing you know, political stunts, 342 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 1: uh uh, fireside chats. And then President Obama being what 343 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: they would call the first like internet president when he 344 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 1: logged onto Twitter and he was a politician that learned 345 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 1: how to use Twitter. But we all know don't nobody 346 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 1: use Twitter better than Donald Trump as a politician. Let's 347 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: be real. But with anything that desires that needs eyeballs, 348 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:35,719 Speaker 1: there is always the possibility of in authenticity. Hence the 349 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: cloud chasing. And I think we've all seen it. You've 350 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: all seen our politicians, especially in our Congress, and then 351 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: even more when you're watching presidential debates or whatever whatever 352 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,919 Speaker 1: the race is watching, watching the debates, when these people 353 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 1: clearly ain't talking to the people in the room, You 354 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: clearly not answering the question that's being asked of you. 355 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,479 Speaker 1: You're aiming for the CNN, the Fox News clip at 356 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: the end of the night. You're aiming for the viral, 357 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 1: you know, video that's gonna shoot out among the Internet. 358 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 1: Either that's going to get a lot of people cheering 359 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 1: you on or getting a lot of hate posting where 360 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: somebody quote tweets your video and then writes state diet tribe. 361 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 1: But how dumb they thought it was, or how dangerous 362 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: you are, or hey, look how funny that is. It's 363 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: a tried and true practice. It's it's cloud chasing, unless 364 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,160 Speaker 1: it's genuine, Unless it's not. And that's what's so beautiful 365 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: about cloud chasing is y'all almost can't tell it's it's 366 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: quite a tool. I can't tell if you're being genuine 367 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: or not. But there are some clues, one of which 368 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: is the one I already told you earlier when you 369 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:10,960 Speaker 1: didn't really answer the question. Or there's a certain amount 370 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: of you be an extra that becomes like so painfully 371 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: obvious and awkward. Who's probably the best and worst of this? 372 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,360 Speaker 1: And you hear me talk about it all the time. 373 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 1: It's senator to a Cruz. You're like, he's clearly child 374 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: cloud chasing. You're clearly trying to make it to a 375 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: Tucker Crossing thing or a CNN thing where we're we're 376 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: on CNN. They just gonna drag you. You don't tuck across, 377 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,400 Speaker 1: and they're gonna tell you amazing whatever it is. You're 378 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: clearly trying to do that, and you and and what 379 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:57,680 Speaker 1: happens is he just looks lame on both channels. That's 380 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: the funny part to me. He looked dumb to everybody 381 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: because it's so paper thing. It's like, why are you 382 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: so bad at this? Remember in the video about or 383 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: not in the video in the In the episode with 384 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: bridget about the art of cap, I mean, he's the 385 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: kid like he's he's so cap. It's like, bro, what 386 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: is you doing? First of all, that man lost all 387 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: credibility when Donald Trump made fun of that man wife, 388 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: and he's still backed him. I'm like, oh, bro, I 389 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: don't know how anybody, even in your party could back 390 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: You're like, y'all supposed to be the party that's rescuing 391 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: masculinity and you let that man make fun of your 392 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: wife and you still backed him. I don't know, homie, 393 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: like using your own rules us, Like using your own 394 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: rules of masculinity. Bro, you look like you simping homie. 395 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: That's the beta. You know what I mean? Bro, you 396 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: you can talk to Kevin Samuels rest in peace. I 397 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: guess he had difficult He had difficult character for me too, 398 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: because I mean it's like, on the one hand, yeah, brother, 399 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: get your stuff together is kind of trying to teach 400 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: young men to get their stuff together. On the other hand, 401 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: he had some wild takes that I was like, big, homie, 402 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: what what is you talking about? Either way, I'm no 403 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: Kevin Samuels. The point I'm trying to make is if 404 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: you don't know about the Manho sphere, like good you 405 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: don't want to know about the Manho sphere. The point 406 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:50,719 Speaker 1: I'm making is cloud chasing can be a little tricky 407 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 1: to catch if you don't know what you're looking for. 408 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: You know, this is kind of bad at it is. 409 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi, she's the like it just never works, like, 410 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: you know, except for the idea of like we're going 411 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: to make fun of you. You know, no press is 412 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: bad press, but it's not cloud. But it's clearly you're 413 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: chasing it. So it's like this didn't work. You know. 414 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: Her little uh, her little can take cloth joint was 415 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: just like man, what Joe saying? No, we're good. You know, 416 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 1: it is kind of good at it. Marger Taylor Green 417 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: she good at cloud chasing because the stuff she'd be 418 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: saying sometimes it's like, I don't know how you're saying 419 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,600 Speaker 1: this with a straight face that no way in the 420 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 1: world you actually believe it stuff. It's working though I'm 421 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,400 Speaker 1: talking about her, you know, Uh, Greg Abbott, he good 422 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 1: at it. Uh De Santos down there in Florida, he 423 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: good at it because some of the stuff he talked about, like, yo, 424 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:09,719 Speaker 1: you're gonna take FAM. You're about to take Disney's like 425 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: tax exempt zone thing because you don't like what they 426 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,720 Speaker 1: said about your law, Like who is this for? You 427 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: understand that when you do that, you don't raise the 428 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: taxes of all of Orlando. They're gonna have to cover 429 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 1: the shortfall. I'm gonna get to that story at some point. 430 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 1: But like, bro, this is an adult, but like this, 431 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: this ain't a move, Like you didn't raise the taxes 432 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: for everybody that you you have authority over because you 433 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: just salty at Disney because they said they don't agree 434 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 1: with you, like FAM, you like this not this a 435 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: strategic my nigga, Like this is you chasing cloud. You're 436 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 1: trying to impress somebody that's not in the room, because 437 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: the people in the room would be like nah, FAM, 438 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 1: like na let them do? They like, oh no, I 439 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: don't want to cover their costs. So you're clearly not 440 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,479 Speaker 1: talking to who in the room you're talking to. You're 441 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: talking to me like that move. I'm like, you're talking 442 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: to us in California because you ain't talking to Florida. 443 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: Because that's a dumb move for Florida. You know what 444 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Unless you talk about certain parts of Florida 445 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: that just that you just won't clout with because it's 446 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: not smart financially, but it's good for your rep y'all 447 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 1: follow me, y'all understand it cloud now if you don't 448 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: understand the story I just told. Basically with the don't 449 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 1: say gay law, you know, which is a character of 450 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: the law, but once you read through it, it's like, 451 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,080 Speaker 1: no nigger, that's what you're saying. Basically, this this you 452 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 1: law about the teaching of any lgbt Q stuff two 453 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: kids is banned. And Disney, you know, Disney that little 454 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: there's like a certain square mile radius. I don't know 455 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 1: if you've ever been down to like Disney World down 456 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: there in Florida, the area that all of their um 457 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: theme parks are on. It's got its own like tax exemption. 458 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: So with that said, they have their own fire department, 459 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 1: their own police, their own paramedics, they have their own 460 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: it's like their own little space. And they pay like 461 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: a fee to the city and the state to be 462 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 1: able to do that right. So they're covering all that 463 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,840 Speaker 1: costs to be able to do that right. So that 464 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 1: means that again the state doesn't have to offer any 465 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: services to them. You know, it's a it's a great system. 466 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: So everybody else is in Florida date taxes are super 467 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: low because this is big old swap that they don't 468 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:10,799 Speaker 1: have to take care of. Disney didn't like this like 469 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: law that the Santos said, and they didn't start no protest. 470 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 1: They were just like, ah, we don't. We're not with it. 471 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,480 Speaker 1: We think that that's a it's a silly law. He's 472 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: we don't agree. Santos was like, well, then let's remove 473 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: their tax exemption. In like word, so if you remove 474 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 1: their tax exemption, then now the state does have to 475 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:42,360 Speaker 1: pay for their paramedics, their police, their fire department. So 476 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,360 Speaker 1: who's gonna foot foot that bill? The rest of the 477 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 1: taxpayers in Florida. This was a Cloud move because it's 478 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 1: not financially smart. You just felt disrespected. You ain't once 479 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,840 Speaker 1: seeing like no hunk to the people you're trying to impress, 480 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,479 Speaker 1: even though it's gonna hurt them very people you're trying 481 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,839 Speaker 1: to impress day taxes gonna go up, but it's cool 482 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: because you got Cloud. Oh yeah, yeah, no, No, Disney 483 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,400 Speaker 1: need to know I got Cloud. You can't just be 484 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:25,520 Speaker 1: talking about me cloud chasing good at it though, you know. 485 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 1: And finally, probably my favorite part of this new cloud 486 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: game is seeing these people on TikTok You thought it 487 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:45,880 Speaker 1: was cringey to see politicians on Twitter. Boy, wait you 488 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 1: see them on TikTok yo. Airs was crazy. For some 489 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:57,600 Speaker 1: of them, it's working. Some of them are getting actual 490 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,479 Speaker 1: engagement with people. There's a amazing story in New York 491 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:06,320 Speaker 1: Times by uh let me see and uh, come Humpetty, 492 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: come Hampety, come Humpetty. That's I think I said. Uh, 493 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,920 Speaker 1: I want to respect her name. But she wrote this 494 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:23,239 Speaker 1: article about back in March, about foods on TikTok right. 495 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:28,000 Speaker 1: And it's super interesting piece of theater here because, like 496 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 1: we said, some of it's kind of genuine, some of 497 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,800 Speaker 1: it's catchy, some of it is just proof that you 498 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:39,520 Speaker 1: got really good uh interns. Uh that boy Uh Tim Ryan, 499 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,360 Speaker 1: he had one that went viral. He said his teenage 500 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,759 Speaker 1: daughter Bella got him on, got him on TikTok doing 501 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,799 Speaker 1: dances with him. So he's like, oh, I just thought 502 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:53,919 Speaker 1: it was fun. Right then he started doing montages of himself, uh, 503 00:36:54,239 --> 00:37:00,439 Speaker 1: grand standing on the on the on the Senate floor, right. 504 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:10,319 Speaker 1: But I think that's something to watch. I think I 505 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,919 Speaker 1: want to ask, y'all. I want to do, y'all, ask 506 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:19,960 Speaker 1: y'all momwork go find politicians on TikTok and do me 507 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,960 Speaker 1: a favor you. But you gotta look through a lot 508 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:28,239 Speaker 1: of them though. Okay, all of it, of course is 509 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,480 Speaker 1: cloud chasing in some ways because it's I don't just 510 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,279 Speaker 1: don't know how authentic it is for a sixty or 511 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,480 Speaker 1: seventy year old to be on TikTok. Like it's just 512 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,680 Speaker 1: not authentic, you know what I'm saying. Uh, But at 513 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:44,399 Speaker 1: the same time, you gotta go where the people are, 514 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,120 Speaker 1: you know, you gotta you gotta tap into the next generation. 515 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 1: You've gotta make noise for yourself. You know, you gotta 516 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,239 Speaker 1: go where the people are. If that's where the people are, 517 00:37:55,280 --> 00:38:02,799 Speaker 1: you should go there. So no shade there. But yeah, y'all, 518 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:16,600 Speaker 1: y'all go sharpen y'all antennas who cloud chasing? Who's having 519 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:21,759 Speaker 1: authentic engagement? Who do you think actually runs the accounts? 520 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,200 Speaker 1: Do you think any of them like actually run their 521 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 1: account who's the lawmaker, who's the who's the politician? That's 522 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: more like Kendrew. They just go do their job, you know, 523 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,520 Speaker 1: and then come out with and come out with heat. 524 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:46,680 Speaker 1: And I know it's like it's not a one to 525 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,719 Speaker 1: one ratio, but there's an authentic there's an authenticity there 526 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:57,200 Speaker 1: that when you see them, they're putting in work. And 527 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 1: I know in the world that we live in that 528 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:05,160 Speaker 1: don't always equal numbers. You can't just like put your 529 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:12,680 Speaker 1: head down and do the work. You know, maybe putting 530 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:17,840 Speaker 1: your head down and doing the work is what we 531 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 1: all hope is the ideal, But how do you how 532 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,080 Speaker 1: do you get people to find out you're doing the work. 533 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,480 Speaker 1: I'll give this to a c That's what she did. 534 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,360 Speaker 1: She pound the ground, she put her head down and 535 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:39,359 Speaker 1: did the work. And she the youngest senator we ever had. 536 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 1: You know what it was that, I'd say, Stacy Abrams 537 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,720 Speaker 1: put her head down and did the work. I'm pretty 538 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,600 Speaker 1: sure there's people on the right that are doing that too. 539 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,840 Speaker 1: I just don't know him. I ain't really tapped in 540 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,920 Speaker 1: like that with chalk, But I ask you in this 541 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 1: next midttern hey who earned stripes and cloud chasing? Or 542 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 1: maybe they're the same person, maybe they're different persons. Maybe 543 00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 1: everybody can be a little bit of all of it. 544 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,760 Speaker 1: All I'm saying is use your antennas, because when somebody 545 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 1: talking to you and it's clear they're not talking to you, 546 00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:22,680 Speaker 1: they're talking to people that ain't in the room, call 547 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,280 Speaker 1: um on it. You don't need that type of cloud chasing. 548 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,400 Speaker 1: I need you to keep real with me so I 549 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:55,200 Speaker 1: know what I'm dealing with. 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