Speaker 1: I refused to do a Kendrick Tomorrow think piece because
Speaker 1: I'm I grow very bored of think pieces, and especially
Speaker 1: because one of the things I love about Kendrick is
Speaker 1: he's very I said what I said about his music.
Speaker 1: He once he hit a certain level of stratosphere. What
Speaker 1: the boy do is he dropped his album, dropped the
Speaker 1: tour flyer due to tour go home. He's not going
Speaker 1: to respond to nobody's requests, or I'm not gonna tell
Speaker 1: you good and bad about y'alls take on my record.
Speaker 1: I said what I said, yakahotep this as much as
Speaker 1: you want. I said what I said. I love that
Speaker 1: about k Dot. So no think pieces about k Dot,
Speaker 1: but I know his name is invoked in this, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why later. I'm not talking about the
Speaker 1: k Dot of it all. I'm talking the fifty cent
Speaker 1: of it all. Some dudes are just good at the Internet.
Speaker 1: Other people took the opposite approach. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about a very serious, serious plague among hip hop culture,
Speaker 1: cloud chasing, who politics, y'all okay, welcome, welcome, welcome, three
Speaker 1: times welcome. There are a number of vocabulary assumptions I
Speaker 1: might have realized I might be making as I started
Speaker 1: to put together this episode, one of which is that
Speaker 1: you know what cloud means. And I feel like, if
Speaker 1: I'm reaching my target demographic, I shouldn't have to explain this.
Speaker 1: But I found that who I thought I was talking
Speaker 1: to oftentimes it's not who I'm talking to. It's a
Speaker 1: whole other group listening to me, which I am very
Speaker 1: thankful the fact that anybody listens to me. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use a tool I learned when I was teaching,
Speaker 1: and it is assume nothing and just start as basic
Speaker 1: and let the crowd tell me if they need this
Speaker 1: or not. Right, But if they don't need it, no problem.
Speaker 1: Just tune this part out. You use your one point one,
Speaker 1: one point five two point thing to skip through the
Speaker 1: part if you already know what cloud means. If not,
Speaker 1: let me explain it to you. So cloud is is.
Speaker 1: There's okay, you could look it up in an urban dictionary,
Speaker 1: you can google it, you could do that, but that's
Speaker 1: not really going to capture the essence of what we
Speaker 1: mean by cloud, right, because there are good and bad
Speaker 1: assumptions to it. It's kind of crazy to try to
Speaker 1: like put words to something. Our definitions of something, which
Speaker 1: I know is the premise of the whole show. But
Speaker 1: to give you a vocabulary, you know, definition of something
Speaker 1: that we just live and kind of understand, right. I
Speaker 1: know in Spanish there are certain words like okay, so
Speaker 1: in I know I'm confusing the thing. But like, for example,
Speaker 1: in like Cholo culture and like Chicano, Mexican American is
Speaker 1: a term gatcho. Hey, don't be acting all gatcho. There's
Speaker 1: no translation to that, but we know what it means, right,
Speaker 1: So I'll use an in sence. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember during the last World Cup when Korea was
Speaker 1: playing and all of Mexico was cheering for Korea because
Speaker 1: Korea needed to beat a certain team so that Mexico
Speaker 1: could advance, right, and all the memes running around l
Speaker 1: A were like, yo, I know we were weird, but
Speaker 1: like sorry, I was acting all got your earlier. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm very happy that you won this game, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's like you're just not being right, like you're
Speaker 1: being weird, like you're being a weird oh, uncomfortable, rude,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, speaking on things you shouldn't
Speaker 1: speak on, and abrasive and just combative you acting all
Speaker 1: got you a you know, Uh, it's there's no actual term, Like,
Speaker 1: there's no actual term cloud. I think in some ways,
Speaker 1: even if you were to read the definition, it doesn't
Speaker 1: capture what we mean by that. Cloud has to do
Speaker 1: with power, respect, street, cred uh, credibility, um, earning stripes,
Speaker 1: I think in a lot of ways. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: in the military, when you earn stripes, that or you know,
Speaker 1: that means you you you've accomplished certain feats, right, certain
Speaker 1: acts of bravery and valor. Uh, you've completed certain tasks
Speaker 1: that gives you those stripes on your arms. So earning stripes,
Speaker 1: I think is is more of a street term. But
Speaker 1: that's not necessarily what I mean by cloud. But it's
Speaker 1: adjacent to cloud, right, Uh. Building your reputation is something
Speaker 1: cloud now when you enter into the zoomers of it all. Uh,
Speaker 1: cloud a lot of times has to do with followers, views,
Speaker 1: like likes on your posts, you know, um, and you
Speaker 1: in the same way as you earn stripes, you do
Speaker 1: certain things in hopes to gain followers, views, stripes, credibility, reputation,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But those but those acts are different
Speaker 1: than Here's where it gets harry. Those acts that you
Speaker 1: do to glint to gain cloud don't necessarily translate to
Speaker 1: certification or respect if it is very clear that you
Speaker 1: were doing them for the sake of cloud. Are you
Speaker 1: following me? Cloud has a negative tone to it, although
Speaker 1: it isn't necessarily negative. You know, like if you were
Speaker 1: to say, yo, hey to dude in a pen, he
Speaker 1: got a lot of cloud. You know, a o g
Speaker 1: got a lot of cloud. What he's saying is when
Speaker 1: he steps What we're saying is when he steps in
Speaker 1: the room and he calls a shot and he says
Speaker 1: he wants something done, He's got the earned respect to
Speaker 1: get what he wants done. So in that context, you
Speaker 1: gotta use context clues, and that context cloud is a
Speaker 1: good thing because or not a good or bad. It's
Speaker 1: just a descriptor. It's describing the way for which we
Speaker 1: view this particular person. Yo, hey, hey, look, don't mess
Speaker 1: with this food. You know, he got a lot of cloud,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, or you know. A way to describe
Speaker 1: Prop in the coffee world is yo, prop got a
Speaker 1: lot of cloud over there. And by evidence of the
Speaker 1: amount of coffee toys that I have that I did
Speaker 1: not pay for, you know, and if you listen to
Speaker 1: the Daily Zeygeys, you heard that me talking about a cupping.
Speaker 1: And in talking about a cupping, what I was showing
Speaker 1: you is like I earned all that cloud like I
Speaker 1: earned my stripes. I paid my dudes. I know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You know, So all these terms paid dudes,
Speaker 1: earned stripes, got my respect. I'm certified, I got that credibility. Right.
Speaker 1: These are things that take a long time and a
Speaker 1: lot of effort to actually develop and build. But if
Speaker 1: we're gonna say this fool's just a cloud chaser, then
Speaker 1: there's no substance to that person, there's no it's all paper.
Speaker 1: Then it's all just for show, right, That is cloud chasing.
Speaker 1: You just want the views. Right. People do stupid stuff,
Speaker 1: stupid challenges, you know, put mad hashtags. Somebody that's like
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, Like you take the white
Speaker 1: in launcer that showed up at like a Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter rally or march with a full camera crew. This
Speaker 1: is cloud chasing. You're doing that for the Graham and
Speaker 1: anyone who's real can spot it. There was a story. Look,
Speaker 1: this really happened. I was out with my family during
Speaker 1: the George Florida Frise and we went down to Hollywood
Speaker 1: with the local Black Lives Matter chapter. My homeboy, Kendrick
Speaker 1: Sampson heated light skin dude and uh and insecure, but
Speaker 1: he's also like my neighbor's best friend and he's just
Speaker 1: a real dude, such a good dude. Shout out Kendrick
Speaker 1: a lot, that dude. Anyway, he organized the particular march
Speaker 1: and we all went out there with the family two
Speaker 1: uh go support and my daughter drew a sign, my
Speaker 1: sixteen year old, she drew a sign. You know, we
Speaker 1: all we actually had a little thing get together at
Speaker 1: the career where we all talked about, you know, what
Speaker 1: we were out for, Like I'm never not a teacher,
Speaker 1: We're all you know, we were talking about, you know
Speaker 1: what we're out here for, what we really want? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, what's the point of this? Why protests?
Speaker 1: Why come out? Why is this so egregious? Anyway, So
Speaker 1: after we did that, we made all these signs. So
Speaker 1: it was you know, my immediately, my family, my children's
Speaker 1: godparents and their kids, and we was out there next
Speaker 1: to the Capitol, you know, next to the Capitol Records Building,
Speaker 1: about to start marching, and this girl, clearly dressed in
Speaker 1: a way that shows me that you do not plan
Speaker 1: to walk for a couple of miles, walks up or
Speaker 1: Saget's up to my daughter and was like, that's a
Speaker 1: great sign. Can I see it? My daughter was like sure.
Speaker 1: She grabbed a sign, turned to a camera crew, took
Speaker 1: a picture of it with it, took one as if
Speaker 1: she was holding it in a protest, and then handed
Speaker 1: it back to my daughter and said thank you, sweetheart.
Speaker 1: And we were like we actually it's real. We actually
Speaker 1: saw it. People come out here just for photos. It
Speaker 1: was like, you know they do, but like watching it,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's bizarre watching it, you know. I know
Speaker 1: that was the most Hollywood story I could have ever told.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you what happened cloud chasing. This is
Speaker 1: something that happens among rappers all the time. You have
Speaker 1: to grow buzz, right, Uh, you have to gain cred. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't want to name any particular names. Uh. I
Speaker 1: let you figure out again if you plugged in who
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. What I'm talking about. There are certain
Speaker 1: artists who are clearly functioning on social media in a
Speaker 1: way that is for the sole purpose of getting eyeballs
Speaker 1: on them. Now, what else would you be on social
Speaker 1: media for if your artists except for to get eyeballs
Speaker 1: on you? Are you not trying to sell albums? Is it? No?
Speaker 1: Press is bad press? Is that the situation? There are
Speaker 1: some people that like social media wise, are professional trolls,
Speaker 1: like and in a good way. So that's fifthy. That's
Speaker 1: what I meant by some people are just good at
Speaker 1: the Internet. Fifty is just good at trolling the way
Speaker 1: that he was trolling. Uh, Floyd Mayweather like, he's just
Speaker 1: good at it, right. He knows how to stir up stuff,
Speaker 1: pick a fight, and get the conversation about him. Right,
Speaker 1: He's just good at it. Now. Is he cloud chasing?
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I actually don't think so, because
Speaker 1: he's got enough already. He's got too highly successful television shows.
Speaker 1: The man owns vitamin water, and his and his history
Speaker 1: in hip hop is solidified. I mean the man hug
Speaker 1: hung upside down at the Super Bowl. He is solidified,
Speaker 1: full certification. Now from what I understand, who he tutored
Speaker 1: in how to function in the Internet is Takashi six nine.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna speak on that man. I don't know
Speaker 1: that man. I don't know that man situation. I just
Speaker 1: know that man knows how to use the Internet. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you'll figure that out. Cloud chasing is something
Speaker 1: very particular. It's almost like these reckless acts that our
Speaker 1: paper thin again there obviously just for the views, and
Speaker 1: they're very frustrating right now. Then there's another type of
Speaker 1: cloud chasing that is not as silly but can be
Speaker 1: very dangerous. I cite to you, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: careful when I say this, because these are real people
Speaker 1: and it's a real situation. I cite to you the
Speaker 1: Young Thug situation and the ys L crew. Now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you'all google y s L with Young Slide.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so they're facing gonna and Young Thug are
Speaker 1: facing serious prison time because of gun charges and Rico. Rico,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, is basically how the mob got
Speaker 1: taken down. You have to prove a connection, you could
Speaker 1: prove a conspiracy. So en Rico is something that the
Speaker 1: FBI isn't able to tie mob families together. It was
Speaker 1: a Rico charge, you know. It was also some of
Speaker 1: the ways that like gangs got taken out or a
Speaker 1: lot of people got sent to prison because of their
Speaker 1: associations to other people. You use, Rico, I can prove
Speaker 1: that y'all are connected, right, so Young Ug in the
Speaker 1: whole young Slide thing that you know, ysl the argument
Speaker 1: is they are bloods. Y'all might be rapping, but y'all
Speaker 1: the gang that happened to rap. And I got proof
Speaker 1: based on these amount of guns you got, right and
Speaker 1: all these other things that we've been watching you over
Speaker 1: and Thugger, Young Thug could be like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what you'all time. I've been on tour this whole time,
Speaker 1: You're talking about all this other stuff. What I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say about these hood niggas? Like what I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: say about that. I'm out here making this money. I'm
Speaker 1: a rapper. You see me everywhere I go. Now, No,
Speaker 1: Rico Ulrico, I could prove that you was a part
Speaker 1: of it. Now, what's super interesting to me about that
Speaker 1: is there are clips of clips of Wallow on the
Speaker 1: Million Dollar Boys podcasts when Thugger was on it trying
Speaker 1: to put these little dudes on game. Thug was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: you did twenty years right. He was like, yeah, I did.
Speaker 1: I did five in the juvenile system and in twenty
Speaker 1: in the in the penitentiary. Doug it was like, yo,
Speaker 1: so you've been due more time. Then you've been a lot.
Speaker 1: Then more I've been. I've been on this earth. And
Speaker 1: Doug was like impressed by it, and he was like,
Speaker 1: so then while it was like, see, that's why when
Speaker 1: I come to y'all, I'm not coming at y'all like
Speaker 1: a little square lay mass nick. I'm coming at y'all
Speaker 1: and like Ni, I did twenty five years. So he
Speaker 1: tells this story. He was like, yeah, you know, long dude,
Speaker 1: come up. You know what I'm saying. He got his
Speaker 1: you know I'm paraphrasing. He's like, young dude, come up.
Speaker 1: He can you know, he's got his face all tatted up.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, little gangster. And he say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: he see me on the yard. He say, hey, you
Speaker 1: know Keisha. He's like, yeah, yeah, I know Kesha. He said,
Speaker 1: that's that's my mama. And him like, man, give me
Speaker 1: call oh Keisha, that's your mama. I'll tell us, Hey,
Speaker 1: can you get real call? So he called. He called Keisha.
Speaker 1: Tell him like okay, I'm gonna look out for your
Speaker 1: little man, and he you know, and then a little
Speaker 1: dude tattoos on his face, little gangster, and he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: can you look at my papers? He said, man, I
Speaker 1: look at your papers? And he say, little little nick
Speaker 1: and say, hey, what time I'm gonna get out? How
Speaker 1: long you think I'm a beer? He say, we look
Speaker 1: at his papers. He's say, you're getting out in the
Speaker 1: year two thousand seventy three. He said, what, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm trying to give y'all reality. He was like.
Speaker 1: He goes at that point, all the gangster go away.
Speaker 1: He goes, listen, thug, listen, I'm trying to tell you
Speaker 1: in the pen, it's lonely. To the motherfucker. He's like,
Speaker 1: it's lonely because look outside, life going on, your family dying,
Speaker 1: people moving on, people getting married, people having birthdays, people
Speaker 1: having kids, people dying, and you just sitting there, you know,
Speaker 1: missing out on everything. It's lonely. He's like, I'm not.
Speaker 1: He was like, listen, man, I'm not the young I'm
Speaker 1: not scared of you young niggers. I'm not the one
Speaker 1: that's just gonna put you on a dummy mission to
Speaker 1: be like Yo, take this pistol. You know what I'm saying, Yo,
Speaker 1: take this pack. Like, I'm not gonna put you on
Speaker 1: no dummy mission. He's like, listen, if you if you're
Speaker 1: in the rap game and you don't want to wrap,
Speaker 1: you want to be a street nickl, just take it
Speaker 1: to the streets. He's like, but don't bring the dumb
Speaker 1: street shipped into the rap game. He's like, Thug, you
Speaker 1: making money. You're making money. Niggas will never be able.
Speaker 1: You're making enough money to change your family forever. You're
Speaker 1: getting money niggas wish they could get. Don't bring the
Speaker 1: dumb ship into this game. Trying to prove that you
Speaker 1: hard trying to prove and you could see thugs face
Speaker 1: completely change, like oh damn, the O G giving me game,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, that's it. I don't know thug. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying thud cloud chasing because I don't know them,
Speaker 1: but I am saying there are things that oftentimes rappers
Speaker 1: do to try to retroactively have the credibility that they
Speaker 1: did it as cloud chasing. That ain't you. You don't
Speaker 1: have to be that right, you don't have to flex
Speaker 1: on the Graham. Yeah, yeah, y'all remember when y'all remember
Speaker 1: A fifty cent was in was in financial trouble, like
Speaker 1: he claimed bankruptcy to avoid a case, and then on
Speaker 1: his Graham he posted all these stacks and then the
Speaker 1: courts was like, I thought you was bankrupt, and then
Speaker 1: fifty says, oh no, that's movie money. It's not real.
Speaker 1: We just do that for social media. What so you're
Speaker 1: putting it putting the stack to your ears? Is is
Speaker 1: that real? No? No, yo, they these people's money is
Speaker 1: in banks, they have financial advisors. That's cloud chasing. And
Speaker 1: you can tell when someone's being authentic and when somebody's
Speaker 1: cloud chasing, when somebody truly earning stripes or somebody cloud chasing.
Speaker 1: Now that was twenty minutes of explanation, and it's important
Speaker 1: because artists one oh one is be visible, be seen.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Make noise about your movement,
Speaker 1: get eyeballs on, you, get them streams up. That's an artist.
Speaker 1: You have to go where the people are, right, you know,
Speaker 1: when it was when we were on the time of
Speaker 1: like mixtapes and like pounding the ground, you just had
Speaker 1: to be at everything, you know, at every show, at
Speaker 1: every open mic, at every you gotta freeze. You gotta
Speaker 1: be at every at every function, every party. Right, you
Speaker 1: gotta be at everything and figure out how to make noise,
Speaker 1: How you gonna stick out in front of the crowd. Right,
Speaker 1: you have to make it work. Or this is why
Speaker 1: I invoked his name, or your k dot or your
Speaker 1: kindred Lamar, who literally does the opposite of all of this.
Speaker 1: The man drops his album and disappears, drops his album,
Speaker 1: goes on tour, disappears. You don't hear from him? Damn
Speaker 1: was five years ago. We've been asking for the new
Speaker 1: album for four years. Did he respond to anybody? Nope?
Speaker 1: He did the tour and then he went home. Granted
Speaker 1: there was a global pandemic, But did you hear from him?
Speaker 1: I didn't. I think there was a public sighting of
Speaker 1: the boy once and he was fully hoodied up with
Speaker 1: glasses and his mask on, and he was at a
Speaker 1: Who's at a protest? That was it? No cameras, he
Speaker 1: just they just happened to run into him. And we
Speaker 1: didn't stop talking about him, did he? Did? We? And
Speaker 1: the man dropped this album with of us a weak notice,
Speaker 1: and then dropped a single that wasn't even on the record.
Speaker 1: He did everything you're not supposed to do. Why because
Speaker 1: he's certified, Because we already trust him. I've already earned
Speaker 1: the right to say what I say, and I also
Speaker 1: believe again I'm saying this. As an artist, you teach
Speaker 1: people how to interact with you. Drake taught us two
Speaker 1: accept singles to not really be excited about albums from
Speaker 1: Drake because Drake's albums are a bunch of singles. We
Speaker 1: need hotline blings. We need just hold on them going
Speaker 1: home as we need, you know, God's plans. That's where
Speaker 1: we get from Drake. We don't get opus is. But
Speaker 1: he taught us that. Drake, you taught us how to
Speaker 1: interact with you. So to Kendrick, what does this have
Speaker 1: to do with politicians. We'll talk about it after the
Speaker 1: break of politics. All right, we're back midtterm elections. You guys, now,
Speaker 1: campaigning is something that's you have to campaign, right. You
Speaker 1: gotta run commercials, you gotta you gotta get eyeballs on
Speaker 1: you all the way back to doing you know, political stunts,
Speaker 1: uh uh, fireside chats. And then President Obama being what
Speaker 1: they would call the first like internet president when he
Speaker 1: logged onto Twitter and he was a politician that learned
Speaker 1: how to use Twitter. But we all know don't nobody
Speaker 1: use Twitter better than Donald Trump as a politician. Let's
Speaker 1: be real. But with anything that desires that needs eyeballs,
Speaker 1: there is always the possibility of in authenticity. Hence the
Speaker 1: cloud chasing. And I think we've all seen it. You've
Speaker 1: all seen our politicians, especially in our Congress, and then
Speaker 1: even more when you're watching presidential debates or whatever whatever
Speaker 1: the race is watching, watching the debates, when these people
Speaker 1: clearly ain't talking to the people in the room, You
Speaker 1: clearly not answering the question that's being asked of you.
Speaker 1: You're aiming for the CNN, the Fox News clip at
Speaker 1: the end of the night. You're aiming for the viral,
Speaker 1: you know, video that's gonna shoot out among the Internet.
Speaker 1: Either that's going to get a lot of people cheering
Speaker 1: you on or getting a lot of hate posting where
Speaker 1: somebody quote tweets your video and then writes state diet tribe.
Speaker 1: But how dumb they thought it was, or how dangerous
Speaker 1: you are, or hey, look how funny that is. It's
Speaker 1: a tried and true practice. It's it's cloud chasing, unless
Speaker 1: it's genuine, Unless it's not. And that's what's so beautiful
Speaker 1: about cloud chasing is y'all almost can't tell it's it's
Speaker 1: quite a tool. I can't tell if you're being genuine
Speaker 1: or not. But there are some clues, one of which
Speaker 1: is the one I already told you earlier when you
Speaker 1: didn't really answer the question. Or there's a certain amount
Speaker 1: of you be an extra that becomes like so painfully
Speaker 1: obvious and awkward. Who's probably the best and worst of this?
Speaker 1: And you hear me talk about it all the time.
Speaker 1: It's senator to a Cruz. You're like, he's clearly child
Speaker 1: cloud chasing. You're clearly trying to make it to a
Speaker 1: Tucker Crossing thing or a CNN thing where we're we're
Speaker 1: on CNN. They just gonna drag you. You don't tuck across,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna tell you amazing whatever it is. You're
Speaker 1: clearly trying to do that, and you and and what
Speaker 1: happens is he just looks lame on both channels. That's
Speaker 1: the funny part to me. He looked dumb to everybody
Speaker 1: because it's so paper thing. It's like, why are you
Speaker 1: so bad at this? Remember in the video about or
Speaker 1: not in the video in the In the episode with
Speaker 1: bridget about the art of cap, I mean, he's the
Speaker 1: kid like he's he's so cap. It's like, bro, what
Speaker 1: is you doing? First of all, that man lost all
Speaker 1: credibility when Donald Trump made fun of that man wife,
Speaker 1: and he's still backed him. I'm like, oh, bro, I
Speaker 1: don't know how anybody, even in your party could back
Speaker 1: You're like, y'all supposed to be the party that's rescuing
Speaker 1: masculinity and you let that man make fun of your
Speaker 1: wife and you still backed him. I don't know, homie,
Speaker 1: like using your own rules us, Like using your own
Speaker 1: rules of masculinity. Bro, you look like you simping homie.
Speaker 1: That's the beta. You know what I mean? Bro, you
Speaker 1: you can talk to Kevin Samuels rest in peace. I
Speaker 1: guess he had difficult He had difficult character for me too,
Speaker 1: because I mean it's like, on the one hand, yeah, brother,
Speaker 1: get your stuff together is kind of trying to teach
Speaker 1: young men to get their stuff together. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: he had some wild takes that I was like, big, homie,
Speaker 1: what what is you talking about? Either way, I'm no
Speaker 1: Kevin Samuels. The point I'm trying to make is if
Speaker 1: you don't know about the Manho sphere, like good you
Speaker 1: don't want to know about the Manho sphere. The point
Speaker 1: I'm making is cloud chasing can be a little tricky
Speaker 1: to catch if you don't know what you're looking for.
Speaker 1: You know, this is kind of bad at it is.
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi, she's the like it just never works, like,
Speaker 1: you know, except for the idea of like we're going
Speaker 1: to make fun of you. You know, no press is
Speaker 1: bad press, but it's not cloud. But it's clearly you're
Speaker 1: chasing it. So it's like this didn't work. You know.
Speaker 1: Her little uh, her little can take cloth joint was
Speaker 1: just like man, what Joe saying? No, we're good. You know,
Speaker 1: it is kind of good at it. Marger Taylor Green
Speaker 1: she good at cloud chasing because the stuff she'd be
Speaker 1: saying sometimes it's like, I don't know how you're saying
Speaker 1: this with a straight face that no way in the
Speaker 1: world you actually believe it stuff. It's working though I'm
Speaker 1: talking about her, you know, Uh, Greg Abbott, he good
Speaker 1: at it. Uh De Santos down there in Florida, he
Speaker 1: good at it because some of the stuff he talked about, like, yo,
Speaker 1: you're gonna take FAM. You're about to take Disney's like
Speaker 1: tax exempt zone thing because you don't like what they
Speaker 1: said about your law, Like who is this for? You
Speaker 1: understand that when you do that, you don't raise the
Speaker 1: taxes of all of Orlando. They're gonna have to cover
Speaker 1: the shortfall. I'm gonna get to that story at some point.
Speaker 1: But like, bro, this is an adult, but like this,
Speaker 1: this ain't a move, Like you didn't raise the taxes
Speaker 1: for everybody that you you have authority over because you
Speaker 1: just salty at Disney because they said they don't agree
Speaker 1: with you, like FAM, you like this not this a
Speaker 1: strategic my nigga, Like this is you chasing cloud. You're
Speaker 1: trying to impress somebody that's not in the room, because
Speaker 1: the people in the room would be like nah, FAM,
Speaker 1: like na let them do? They like, oh no, I
Speaker 1: don't want to cover their costs. So you're clearly not
Speaker 1: talking to who in the room you're talking to. You're
Speaker 1: talking to me like that move. I'm like, you're talking
Speaker 1: to us in California because you ain't talking to Florida.
Speaker 1: Because that's a dumb move for Florida. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Unless you talk about certain parts of Florida
Speaker 1: that just that you just won't clout with because it's
Speaker 1: not smart financially, but it's good for your rep y'all
Speaker 1: follow me, y'all understand it cloud now if you don't
Speaker 1: understand the story I just told. Basically with the don't
Speaker 1: say gay law, you know, which is a character of
Speaker 1: the law, but once you read through it, it's like,
Speaker 1: no nigger, that's what you're saying. Basically, this this you
Speaker 1: law about the teaching of any lgbt Q stuff two
Speaker 1: kids is banned. And Disney, you know, Disney that little
Speaker 1: there's like a certain square mile radius. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever been down to like Disney World down
Speaker 1: there in Florida, the area that all of their um
Speaker 1: theme parks are on. It's got its own like tax exemption.
Speaker 1: So with that said, they have their own fire department,
Speaker 1: their own police, their own paramedics, they have their own
Speaker 1: it's like their own little space. And they pay like
Speaker 1: a fee to the city and the state to be
Speaker 1: able to do that right. So they're covering all that
Speaker 1: costs to be able to do that right. So that
Speaker 1: means that again the state doesn't have to offer any
Speaker 1: services to them. You know, it's a it's a great system.
Speaker 1: So everybody else is in Florida date taxes are super
Speaker 1: low because this is big old swap that they don't
Speaker 1: have to take care of. Disney didn't like this like
Speaker 1: law that the Santos said, and they didn't start no protest.
Speaker 1: They were just like, ah, we don't. We're not with it.
Speaker 1: We think that that's a it's a silly law. He's
Speaker 1: we don't agree. Santos was like, well, then let's remove
Speaker 1: their tax exemption. In like word, so if you remove
Speaker 1: their tax exemption, then now the state does have to
Speaker 1: pay for their paramedics, their police, their fire department. So
Speaker 1: who's gonna foot foot that bill? The rest of the
Speaker 1: taxpayers in Florida. This was a Cloud move because it's
Speaker 1: not financially smart. You just felt disrespected. You ain't once
Speaker 1: seeing like no hunk to the people you're trying to impress,
Speaker 1: even though it's gonna hurt them very people you're trying
Speaker 1: to impress day taxes gonna go up, but it's cool
Speaker 1: because you got Cloud. Oh yeah, yeah, no, No, Disney
Speaker 1: need to know I got Cloud. You can't just be
Speaker 1: talking about me cloud chasing good at it though, you know.
Speaker 1: And finally, probably my favorite part of this new cloud
Speaker 1: game is seeing these people on TikTok You thought it
Speaker 1: was cringey to see politicians on Twitter. Boy, wait you
Speaker 1: see them on TikTok yo. Airs was crazy. For some
Speaker 1: of them, it's working. Some of them are getting actual
Speaker 1: engagement with people. There's a amazing story in New York
Speaker 1: Times by uh let me see and uh, come Humpetty,
Speaker 1: come Hampety, come Humpetty. That's I think I said. Uh,
Speaker 1: I want to respect her name. But she wrote this
Speaker 1: article about back in March, about foods on TikTok right.
Speaker 1: And it's super interesting piece of theater here because, like
Speaker 1: we said, some of it's kind of genuine, some of
Speaker 1: it's catchy, some of it is just proof that you
Speaker 1: got really good uh interns. Uh that boy Uh Tim Ryan,
Speaker 1: he had one that went viral. He said his teenage
Speaker 1: daughter Bella got him on, got him on TikTok doing
Speaker 1: dances with him. So he's like, oh, I just thought
Speaker 1: it was fun. Right then he started doing montages of himself, uh,
Speaker 1: grand standing on the on the on the Senate floor, right.
Speaker 1: But I think that's something to watch. I think I
Speaker 1: want to ask, y'all. I want to do, y'all, ask
Speaker 1: y'all momwork go find politicians on TikTok and do me
Speaker 1: a favor you. But you gotta look through a lot
Speaker 1: of them though. Okay, all of it, of course is
Speaker 1: cloud chasing in some ways because it's I don't just
Speaker 1: don't know how authentic it is for a sixty or
Speaker 1: seventy year old to be on TikTok. Like it's just
Speaker 1: not authentic, you know what I'm saying. Uh, But at
Speaker 1: the same time, you gotta go where the people are,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta you gotta tap into the next generation.
Speaker 1: You've gotta make noise for yourself. You know, you gotta
Speaker 1: go where the people are. If that's where the people are,
Speaker 1: you should go there. So no shade there. But yeah, y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all go sharpen y'all antennas who cloud chasing? Who's having
Speaker 1: authentic engagement? Who do you think actually runs the accounts?
Speaker 1: Do you think any of them like actually run their
Speaker 1: account who's the lawmaker, who's the who's the politician? That's
Speaker 1: more like Kendrew. They just go do their job, you know,
Speaker 1: and then come out with and come out with heat.
Speaker 1: And I know it's like it's not a one to
Speaker 1: one ratio, but there's an authentic there's an authenticity there
Speaker 1: that when you see them, they're putting in work. And
Speaker 1: I know in the world that we live in that
Speaker 1: don't always equal numbers. You can't just like put your
Speaker 1: head down and do the work. You know, maybe putting
Speaker 1: your head down and doing the work is what we
Speaker 1: all hope is the ideal, But how do you how
Speaker 1: do you get people to find out you're doing the work.
Speaker 1: I'll give this to a c That's what she did.
Speaker 1: She pound the ground, she put her head down and
Speaker 1: did the work. And she the youngest senator we ever had.
Speaker 1: You know what it was that, I'd say, Stacy Abrams
Speaker 1: put her head down and did the work. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure there's people on the right that are doing that too.
Speaker 1: I just don't know him. I ain't really tapped in
Speaker 1: like that with chalk, But I ask you in this
Speaker 1: next midttern hey who earned stripes and cloud chasing? Or
Speaker 1: maybe they're the same person, maybe they're different persons. Maybe
Speaker 1: everybody can be a little bit of all of it.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is use your antennas, because when somebody
Speaker 1: talking to you and it's clear they're not talking to you,
Speaker 1: they're talking to people that ain't in the room, call
Speaker 1: um on it. You don't need that type of cloud chasing.
Speaker 1: I need you to keep real with me so I
Speaker 1: know what I'm dealing with. Little politics, y'allah. Yeah, that's here.
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