1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 1: As media hood politics with PRIB. 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 2: What I did plan on talking about today, first of 3 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 2: all is as you can see, I have rearranged the room. 4 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 2: We got the coffee and the records. Those are most 5 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 2: of those records are DJ effect. Those records rest in 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,319 Speaker 2: peace to the Kilipino, to b boy Penoy. If you 7 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 2: know me, you see me rap, you've seen him. I 8 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 2: had a very fun episode set up where we were 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 2: just going to pretty much make fun of the bromance 10 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 2: of Trumpet Elon and then get a little serious about 11 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 2: the One Big Beautiful Bill, which still annoys me that 12 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 2: it's called that. No, the Big Beautiful Bill Act. That 13 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 2: still annoys me. Why do you put act at the end. Anyway, 14 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 2: we was gonna talk about that and the pretzel the 15 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 2: Republicans got to turn themselves into, and how there's trouble 16 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 2: in paradise among him. Y'all in road checks that your 17 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 2: booty can't cash. You feel me, y'all in cash the 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,919 Speaker 2: in favors and they had a lot of interest, didn't they. 19 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: That's that's that's what. 20 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 2: That's this, this what the hood trying to tell you. 21 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 2: You think that Og taking care of you when he 22 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 2: do you a favor? That favor come with interest, and 23 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 2: this is what the Republicans experience and you experiencing that interest. Anyway, 24 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 2: I can't talk about that because the National Guards in 25 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 2: our streets. So that meant that I needed to fast 26 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 2: forward an episode I wanted to do with the homeboy 27 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 2: q Uh, who you will meet as soon as this 28 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 2: intro's over. But I'm gonna let him speak for himself 29 00:01:51,240 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 2: to live and die in l A. All right, theod 30 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 2: politics with prop as promised again. This artist to activist 31 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 2: pipeline is something that's really real. I've mentioned the hemmy 32 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 2: ce before so many times on the show about like 33 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 2: just the reality of like some people really doing it 34 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 2: a lot a lot of talkie talkie, you know what 35 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: I'm saying, but like to really like put you your body, 36 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, your future, your livelihood really 37 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 2: in it to action. You know what I'm saying, is 38 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 2: very rare to see. So pastor Q, welcome to the show. 39 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 3: What's up, man, man man, Thanks for having me, Thanks 40 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 3: for having me. 41 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 4: I appreciate the space you dig. 42 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, we me and be and pasted. Q go way back, 43 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: so like way back. So this is like this is 44 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 2: like a real friendship. So what I'm gonna do for 45 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 2: the show is a little bit of ces background, what 46 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 2: he been doing and what we got planned. 47 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: Now as y'all know right now, like. 48 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 2: If you're in an activist space, you real busy right 49 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:10,959 Speaker 2: about now. 50 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So we ain't gonna waste 51 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: que time, you know what I'm saying. 52 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 2: Understatement, understatement, I'm on and like we actually on our 53 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 2: way to the same event after this is over, you 54 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, So we go, We're gonna not 55 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 2: waste Yeah, we ain't gonna waste nobody time. 56 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: Uh, and get to an in. 57 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 2: Then on top of that, like the reality is like 58 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 2: on top of this just freaking military invasion we're facing 59 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 2: like I still gotta go to my aunt ethel house 60 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 2: and installed a sink, you know what I'm saying, Like 61 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 2: like real life is happening. Wow, this is still going on. 62 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 2: That's the reality of like really living in. 63 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: Like activist spaces. 64 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 2: It's like You've still gotta go check on Auntie and them, 65 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 2: like while. 66 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: You still got to moms. 67 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 2: Yeah all right, So first of all, Q, introduce yourself, 68 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 2: tell them a little bit about what you do. 69 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 4: Man, we'll go back. 70 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And so Pastor Q pastor of the 71 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 3: Church with Our Walls in skid Row, being doing that 72 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 3: for about eighteen years. In August, it'll be nineteen years 73 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 3: since we've been on the block. And when we say 74 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 3: Church with our Walls, it's literally Church with our walls, right, 75 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 3: without the physical walls, and without the political walls, and 76 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 3: without all of the other walls that come with church 77 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 3: right in terms of structure and all of that. I'm 78 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 3: also founder and director. I'm founder of the Church with 79 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 3: Our Walls. I'm also founder and director of Creating Justice LA, 80 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 3: a space where we create justice through creative expressions. Some 81 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 3: of our creative expressions are the hip hop smoothie shop, 82 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 3: a work on cooperative skid Row Coffee. We just acquired 83 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 3: a convenience stool on the corner of Fifth and Saint 84 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 3: Pedro in skid Row because you know, uh, it's a 85 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 3: social enterprise and we don't want to just rely on 86 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 3: donations to do the transformative work that we're trying to 87 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 3: do in the skid Row, so we got to bring 88 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,799 Speaker 3: in our own revenue. We we We've got about twenty 89 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:19,039 Speaker 3: people on the staff between both organizations, uh, and most 90 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 3: most of the folks are skied row residents or live 91 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 3: within the context of skid row, or whether they're poor folks, 92 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 3: or whether they're folks who are under employed and all 93 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 3: of that stuff. So we try to really stand in 94 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 3: the groove right and standing be the go between the 95 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 3: kind of help people sort they're gonna fall through the cracks. 96 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 4: Yeah. 97 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 2: See this why this why I don't ever want to 98 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 2: hear it from the news or any politician about the 99 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:54,400 Speaker 2: houseless quote unquote crisis in LA because I know people 100 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 2: like you. You know, I'm like, I'm a I'm a 101 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 2: pull pull back and I'm just run the highlight or 102 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 2: over the things you just said right now, Like, uh, 103 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, for eighteen years, there has 104 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,559 Speaker 2: been a church. They're not a church that serves skid 105 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 2: road that go back to the now the church that 106 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 2: got uh come on, you understand I'm saying that got 107 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 2: a budget for drive by, the drive by the drive by. 108 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 2: Nah Maam, Like we live here, you know what I'm saying. 109 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 2: It's literally on a corner. And I had it in 110 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 2: my notes to talk about the convenience store. But but 111 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 2: before I even get to that, he's like the man said, look, 112 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 2: we got a smoothie movie spot. You know what I'm saying, 113 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,600 Speaker 2: Like when you say fifth in San Pedro, unless you're 114 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 2: really from here, like I mean, people don't. 115 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: People don't even people don't even want. 116 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 2: To obeta stop signs when you get down to fifth 117 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 2: and six of San Pedro, you're trying to well do that. 118 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 3: It's not that they don't want to obeta stop side, 119 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 3: they don't obey the. 120 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: Stop right, you know what I'm saying that, Like I'm 121 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: trying to get out of here. 122 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 3: You know, the whole idea you could row in that 123 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 3: community in that area is kind of like walking from 124 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 3: your living room to the kitchen or to the bathroom. 125 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 4: Right, yeah, it's like your house. 126 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: It's the house like. 127 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 4: Op out doors. So people have that state mentality. 128 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that you said that. It's like we 129 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 2: live here. There just happened to be a street going 130 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 2: through our life like you know, and uh right, so 131 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 2: they like. 132 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: And this isn't like I love it. 133 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 2: This ain't no no dumb ass rapper coming down there 134 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 2: and handing out merch you can't sell, you know, like, 135 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 2: no fool, like. 136 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: We're we really here. 137 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 3: And then yeah, like like like one of you, one 138 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 3: like a famous rapper, came down and dropped off all 139 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 3: the White Lives Matter T shirt he. 140 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: Didn't want, they said, off. 141 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 4: To the community. We had to call him out. 142 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, you feel me, like when it's like, you know, 143 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 2: uh yeah, like now we really here, you know. 144 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 4: And yeah. 145 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 2: And then the convenience store, I know, something unique just happened, 146 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 2: like it just got passed into black owners, right. 147 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 4: Yeah. 148 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 3: For thirty years it was owned by a Korean couple 149 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:12,559 Speaker 3: and a Korean family and Danny Parks, you know, shout 150 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 3: out to Danny, who you know has been part of 151 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 3: creating justices on our board of directors. 152 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 4: All of that. 153 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 3: His family turned the business over to him, I think 154 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen, one of those and he 155 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 3: called me one day and said, hey, you know, I 156 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 3: I'm tired. I don't want to do this anymore. My pops, 157 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 3: you know, died from, you know, the stress of running 158 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 3: this business. My uncle died from the stress of running 159 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 3: you know, this business. And I don't want to end 160 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 3: up the same way. So I want to sell the market. 161 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 3: And I said, okay, so I'm gonna help you sell 162 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,439 Speaker 3: the market. And then he goes but there's a catch. 163 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 3: I want to sell it to. I want to sell 164 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 3: it to a black a black family, a black person, 165 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 3: or a black led organization. Really and then when I 166 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,439 Speaker 3: asked him why, he was like, because you know, our family, 167 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 3: we were able to buy a house through this through 168 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 3: this market, and we were able to send our our 169 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 3: our family was able to send out, you know, us 170 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 3: kids to school and so uh. And this community is 171 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 3: predominantly black, so we want to get back to the community. 172 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 3: And so we decided as our nonprofit to purchase it, uh, 173 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 3: to kind of keep the dollars recycling in the community. 174 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 3: When you talk about recycling dollars, we hear a lot 175 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 3: about that. It's a nonprofit, so their social enterprise. So 176 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 3: therefore there's no ceo going taking home a whole lot 177 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 3: of money and all of that. The money is truly 178 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 3: recycled in the community, and the people who work there 179 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:44,240 Speaker 3: oftentimes shopped there. 180 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 2: Uh. 181 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 3: And the money recycled a couple of times just in 182 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 3: that store alone. 183 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: That's beautiful. 184 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 2: No, Now, I call everything you were saying about like 185 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 2: recite you know, money staying in the community, and really 186 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 2: like this idea of like this is the camaraderie. I 187 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 2: feel like that don't. We don't won't get a lot 188 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 2: of credit for is this this idea of this this 189 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 2: this Korean man because you know, like like while maybe 190 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 2: maybe their aunts and uncles were the ones that was 191 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 2: on the top of the convenience store shooting at us 192 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 2: at the riots, they kids was outside with us, you 193 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Like they kids was at poject 194 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 2: blow with us. You know what I'm say. Their kids 195 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 2: was in the same holding tanks and detention centers and 196 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 2: after school programs. 197 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:07,959 Speaker 1: You was in the same programs with us. 198 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 2: So as we've grown up, we was like, well, look 199 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 2: that was mom and them, Like we're we grew up 200 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 2: with you, you know, so it's it's beautiful. 201 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, yeah, creating justice man. 202 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 3: We got a book club, right and years ago, way 203 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 3: back then, you know, he had the book club and 204 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 3: we were going through a book by Richard Rosstein called 205 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 3: The Color of Law and it's about how you know, 206 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 3: redline in the United States and also covers here in 207 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 3: Los Angeles. And Danny was part of that book club, 208 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 3: right because he's been part of our our board and whatever, 209 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 3: and then he was part of that book club. So 210 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 3: a lot of just the development of relationship, the cultivation 211 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 3: of relationship, right, the planting of seeds and water and 212 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 3: those relationship And nobody had any any ulterior motives. 213 00:11:58,960 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 4: You know. 214 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 3: It wasn't like, Oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna roll with 215 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:03,600 Speaker 3: Danny and then one day I'm gonna I'm gonna ask 216 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 3: him to purchase his store. I didn't even know that 217 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 3: was gonna happen, right, Uh. And at the time, I 218 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,679 Speaker 3: didn't even know he had owned the grocery store, right, Uh, 219 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 3: it would. We were just coming into that relationship and 220 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 3: so uh. Yeah, man, it was a beautiful thing to see. 221 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 3: I like to say, how God moves uh in ways 222 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 3: that people don't expect. Right, It's not in the structure 223 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 3: of a church and all of that, But that's real 224 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 3: church stuff happening, because we know that the word church 225 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 3: was really, uh a secular word that Jesus had borrowed, 226 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 3: uh to kind of describe going to a community meeting 227 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 3: and getting ready to engage in the community, in the 228 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 3: governing of the community and all of that stuff. 229 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 4: Yeah. 230 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:52,079 Speaker 2: See, look you're dropping gyms already. Yeah, civic engagement, right, engagement. 231 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 2: So let me back up real quick on your story. 232 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 2: You are a legendary rapper. 233 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm legendary. 234 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 2: So real quick, just talk about the college boys era, 235 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 2: just real quick, you know, hip hop og og, Like 236 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 2: y'all do understand, like this is og right here, talk 237 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 2: about it a little bit and then we're gonna move 238 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 2: into what we're doing now. 239 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, man, So I think you know, just like anybody's story, right, 240 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 3: I was born in the Caribbean and then uh moved 241 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 3: to Saint cor which is the Virgin Islands, and then 242 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 3: ended up in Texas culture shot, but went to high 243 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 3: school there, right, and then after high school linked up 244 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 3: with some other cats who was still in high school, 245 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 3: you know, uh, and started Actually I was a competitive 246 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,319 Speaker 3: I was just getting into bodybuilding and I. 247 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 4: Was actually their security. Uh. 248 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,800 Speaker 3: When we go do hip hop battles at a club 249 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 3: in Houston called the Ryanstone Wrangler, because I talk to him. 250 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 4: I lived about twenty miles east of Houston, right. 251 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 3: And we had all kinds of battles with with the 252 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 3: ghetto boys and everything like that, and we out of 253 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,960 Speaker 3: twenty battle we lost only two, right, Because we would 254 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 3: do that switch rapping back in the day, that's og 255 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 3: stuff that a lot of these guys don't know about, right, 256 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 3: but OG's and you know, just doing stuff. Ended up 257 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 3: signing would wrap a lot records. We made a name 258 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 3: for ourselves, and before that, we made a name for 259 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 3: ourselves at KTSU, which is Southern Christian University in Texas, right, 260 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 3: And so you know, we made our name through the 261 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 3: college ranks, and that's why we changed our name to 262 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 3: the College Boys back in those days. And then in 263 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 3: nineteen eighty nine moved to California to get a record deal. 264 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 3: One year later we signed to Virgin Records, and it 265 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 3: was to a relationship we had with a brother named 266 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 3: John John Brown. We ended up writing lyrics for Paul 267 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 3: Abdulz scat Cat the. 268 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 4: Track you know what I mean? So yeah, all of 269 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 4: that stuff. 270 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: Yeah y'all, y'all, did y'all hear what he just said? 271 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 4: Right now? 272 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: Come on fam status? 273 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 4: Yeah? 274 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, and and and and our first 275 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 3: record was called Victim of the Ghetto, right, it was 276 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 3: always hit record. Uh And and funny thing is that 277 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 3: record actually was about my life in particular, right because 278 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 3: I was the one who was a neighborhood pharmaceutical dealer. Right, 279 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 3: come on, man, got to clean it up for them 280 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 3: if they catch it, if you know, you. 281 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 4: Know right, get it. 282 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 3: So I always had that entrepreneurship spirit man, and and 283 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 3: wanted to be a hip hop mobile. We used to 284 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 3: do our own shows in Texas. We made our own way. 285 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 3: There was no social media. We would rent the fireman's 286 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 3: hall and throw all of these these get downs right, 287 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 3: and really saved enough money to move to California. And 288 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 3: like I said, a lot of people come to Cali 289 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 3: and they never make it right. God bless their soul, 290 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 3: because you know, I feel it when people have the 291 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 3: hunger to make something up themselves but it doesn't work out. 292 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 3: So I feel for those but we were we were 293 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 3: blessed to be able to do that within one year 294 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 3: after we got here. 295 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 4: In the rest of history, that's tope. 296 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 3: Man. 297 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 2: I feel like you even you even hit the nail 298 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 2: on the head moving into like what's going on right now, 299 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 2: which is like the thing about coming to California, Like 300 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 2: y'all this outside perception of just like these transplants with 301 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 2: you know, their yoga pants and their erawon, you know, 302 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 2: smoothies that they think we soft right, And I'm like, 303 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 2: so I'm like even obviously us born and raised here 304 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 2: like we're already like, well, you're not talking about us, 305 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 2: Like we know you're not talking about us. But but 306 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 2: the grit it takes to get here and stay, whether 307 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 2: it's like in an entertainment space or even in an 308 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 2: immigrant situation, like it's really. 309 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: It's really, really, really hard. So you have to understand. 310 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 2: I'm even going back to like Great migration, like you 311 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 2: if you if you you know, if you was a 312 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 2: black person from Texas or you know, Oklahoma, Arkansas, like 313 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 2: that's like the trajectory like of the Great Migration, like 314 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 2: you know, if you was further east, they went north, 315 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 2: like but from Texas and west. 316 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: So most of us are like are are our roots? 317 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: Are our Texas? 318 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 4: Right? 319 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 1: Uh? We different? 320 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 2: Like we're like listen, I'm not gonna stay up under this, 321 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 2: Jim Crow. You're not finna like you're not gonna treat. 322 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,160 Speaker 1: Us like this. You under said what I'm saying. 323 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 2: So then to get here, which was my granny in 324 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 2: them story, to get here and then be dropped right 325 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 2: in the in the middle of Watts and then to 326 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 2: have like that that that racist police brutality happened in 327 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 2: It's like no, man, we just now we just left this. 328 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: You're not finna do this to us. 329 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 3: Well, you know, I grew up listening to stuff like 330 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 3: I'd rather be a free man than Mike Eve than 331 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 3: living as a puppet on sleeve. 332 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 4: You know. 333 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 2: Come on, see, we build different NATO community. You gotta 334 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,200 Speaker 2: understand these, these the zootsuit rioters where it's just like these, 335 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 2: the brown berets, like you're not feel like even our 336 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 2: queer community like we not. 337 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: You don't play with us like this. It's already hard 338 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: enough to be here. 339 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 2: You instead, I'm saying so like and to quote and 340 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 2: to quote one of our patron saints, like we might 341 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 2: fight amongst each other. 342 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: I promise you this. You know what I'm saying. I 343 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 1: promise you this, bro. 344 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. You feel you know what 345 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,119 Speaker 3: I'm saying. Yeah, I mean it kind of reminds me 346 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 3: of of the Joint, right where my man says, I 347 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 3: think it is a Jacob. He says, you mad because 348 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 3: the city's on fire, but you quiet when my. 349 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,360 Speaker 2: People die, right exactly, I don't want to hear, Yeah, 350 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 2: I don't want to hear nothing about I don't want 351 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 2: to hear nothing about the National Guard. Right when y'all 352 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,399 Speaker 2: are when the Jay January six folks, y'all to the 353 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 2: actual capital, Like you said, like we're we're literally defending 354 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:09,680 Speaker 2: our aunties and uncles. 355 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 4: Yeah. 356 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 3: One of the things too, we we gotta also remember 357 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 3: is that they no longer control. There's no more there's 358 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 3: no more just a couple of great, huge media companies 359 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 3: controlling the narrative. As much as I hate social media oftentimes, uh, 360 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 3: there's also a good thing about social media is that 361 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 3: we become. 362 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 4: Our own citizens media, right, Uh. 363 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 3: And we get to also and they say certain things 364 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 3: or they push certain narratives, we get to push back 365 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 3: against their narratives. 366 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:44,679 Speaker 4: Uh. 367 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 3: And we got people who are following us and different 368 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 3: folks and all of that, so we get to create 369 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 3: our own echo echo chambers to actually combat what they're saying. 370 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 3: Back in the days, we couldn't do that because they 371 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 3: owned all the media facts. 372 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:03,280 Speaker 2: I know, anytime I'm outside, whenever there's a mass, you know, 373 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 2: organization organizing to resist, I always run into you, which 374 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 2: is like it's always been, which is why can't nobody 375 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 2: tell me nothing about what you're doing over there? Because 376 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 2: I'm like, well, I I know when I go I 377 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 2: see it you know what I'm saying. There's a lot 378 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 2: of people I don't see. 379 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 380 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 2: But now, granted it might be hundreds of thousands of 381 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 2: people outside, but you still kind of like are you 382 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 2: Like I don't know, bro, Like I check to your neighborhood. 383 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: Don't nobody know you? You know what I'm saying, Like 384 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: like you feel me? 385 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,920 Speaker 2: Like here, I can always say, no matter what the 386 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 2: cause was, which is what I like, what really resonates 387 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 2: with you where it's not just a Black Lives Matter thing. 388 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: It's not just the homes thing. 389 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 2: It's it's where, it's it's gaza, it's you know what 390 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 2: I'm saying, It's all kind of stuff. And right now, 391 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 2: you know, our immigrant brothers and sisters are the ones 392 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 2: that's like, you know, kind of leading leading away. So 393 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 2: we like, all right, let's go where we're going. What's 394 00:20:58,040 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 2: the link, you know, Let's go on a mission. So 395 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:04,640 Speaker 2: like yesterday was one of the Today's Monday of this week, 396 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:06,959 Speaker 2: this is gonna drop with his day, Yesterday was one 397 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 2: of the more intense confrontations. So from what I know 398 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 2: and see is what we saw in twenty twenty and 399 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 2: what we saw in ninety two with the riots, which 400 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 2: was we were not the aggressors, right, you know, the 401 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 2: aggressors were the military force, right, So was that your 402 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 2: experience too? 403 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 4: Yeah? 404 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 3: Man, Well when you look at what happened this weekend, right, 405 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 3: we know that Donald Trump has a plan, right, and 406 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 3: we know his plan is to escalate. Everybody knows if 407 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 3: you can see it coming. He wants martial law. He 408 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 3: hates California because California didn't vote for him, and we 409 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 3: resist him and we don't like him, and he knows that, 410 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,400 Speaker 3: and he loves to be liked. 411 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:58,040 Speaker 4: So what he did was. 412 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 3: And things escalated, was that I started you know, throwing, 413 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 3: you know, gassing people, right, yeah, And that's violent. You 414 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 3: might call it non lethal, but it's still violent, right Yeah. 415 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:16,119 Speaker 3: And then when you go into an elementary school and 416 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 3: you're trying to break up an elementary school graduation, that's violence. 417 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 4: On top of that, Prior to that, prior to. 418 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 3: All of this, you already went into a school or 419 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 3: went into a facility and deported or home and deported 420 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 3: you know, a child who was going through cancer treatment, 421 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 3: so you don't care if she dies or not, and 422 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,399 Speaker 3: you deport her while she's going through cancer treatment for 423 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 3: brain for brain cancer. Come on, man, you already violent. 424 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 3: You have already violated the code. You already went over 425 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 3: the line. So I want nobody talking about, well they 426 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 3: burning this day, burning that, whatever, whatever. Hey, if you 427 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 3: are not going to speak up against that type of violence, 428 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 3: I don't want to hear you talking about your stuff 429 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 3: and your property that's burning because human life, human life 430 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 3: is more important than property. I'm not going to run 431 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 3: around burning property. But at the same time, I understand 432 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 3: right why people would do it. Doctor King said, what 433 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,400 Speaker 3: riots are the voice of being heard? And I really 434 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 3: don't call them riots. I call them uprisings. Except for 435 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 3: January sixth. 436 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 4: That was a riot. 437 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 1: That riots, Yes, you know. 438 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 3: What I'm saying. They were like, we want power even 439 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 3: though we lost, we want to take it by force. 440 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 4: Love. 441 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 1: We don't o this. 442 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 4: Boy, something happened in a spirit. Oh, I was having. 443 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 5: Preach when I came to deliver discusses today to the 444 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 5: spirit of a race that's into White House, told kill 445 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 5: me since in spirit for warf ben. 446 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: I h Then I'm gonna praak for breaks at all. 447 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 4: I do. 448 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 6: I'm gonna preak, so I'm gonna put up my famers 449 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 6: from food. From the end of my se people were 450 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 6: a plenty were like lies, you have me know. 451 00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 4: That? And p. 452 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I mean you you nail so many things 453 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 2: because first of all, like the reality is a lot 454 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 2: of these cases these people like you're disincentivizing these people 455 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 2: to follow the rules because especially that cancer treatment person, 456 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 2: like they applied to all the paperwork, like we did 457 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,360 Speaker 2: the paperwork. If you tell me, I have you tell 458 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 2: me I need to follow the rules. Okay, So I 459 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,360 Speaker 2: set a court date and I go to the immigration 460 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 2: office and you arrest me. 461 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 4: But it's a child. 462 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:49,640 Speaker 1: It's a child. 463 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 3: But what I'm trying, it's an elementary age child. They 464 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 3: I mean, even if you got laws, there's a greater 465 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 3: law that operates with thins you. 466 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 4: That's why the scripture says. 467 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 3: I no longer want you to put, you know, the 468 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 3: law on a wall in school, on stones or whatever. 469 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 4: I need it on your heart. 470 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:09,400 Speaker 1: I need it on your heart. 471 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,360 Speaker 2: And I'm just like I'm just saying, even just from 472 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 2: a practical standpoint. So what you're telling me is don't 473 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 2: go to my don't go to court. What you're telling 474 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,879 Speaker 2: me is don't show up. That's what you're telling me 475 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,360 Speaker 2: like I tried to follow the rules, and when I did, 476 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 2: you still arrest me. 477 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: So you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna not 478 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: follow them. 479 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just like that'll make it like and. 480 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 2: And then going back to your violence point. On one 481 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 2: of the other shows on our network, it's called Weird 482 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 2: Little Guys. It's a great show. It's just about like 483 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 2: how it turns out a lot of these uh right 484 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 2: wing extremists in our country turns out to just be 485 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,360 Speaker 2: just weird little guys, you know what I'm saying, once 486 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 2: you get into who they are. But on that show, 487 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 2: Molly talked about the case of Dishaunte and Pinder, which 488 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 2: is essentially it stood up in in court many times 489 00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 2: that the police really have no obligation to protect us, 490 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 2: like like if they don't have to get in the 491 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 2: line of they don't have to. Matter of fact, like 492 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 2: the only their only obligation is if they we are 493 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:19,240 Speaker 2: in their custody or to protect us from danger. Is 494 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: if we are in their custody, or if they set 495 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 2: up the problem. But if there's a riot going on, 496 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 2: especially like right now, Like so if if if Trump 497 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 2: flew to National Guard down here, right, and then they're 498 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,359 Speaker 2: clashing with us. The police don't have to intervene, no, 499 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 2: because they're like, well we didn't cause we didn't cause this, right, 500 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 2: So not only did the feds bring the violence, the 501 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 2: LAPD has no obligation to stop it. 502 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,880 Speaker 3: Well, but but but look at what they did do though, right, 503 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 3: we have to check out their actions right now, what 504 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 3: they say, but the actions. 505 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 4: We're supposed to be a sanctuary city, and what did they. 506 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 3: Do LAPD even last night was tear gasing and shooting 507 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 3: rubber bullets at protesters. I thought we were a sanctuary city. 508 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 3: And what are you doing helping the federal forces. You're 509 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 3: supposed to be protecting the people from the federal forces. 510 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 2: Which for and what's crazy is like the tradition for 511 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,400 Speaker 2: la has been say what you want about the LAPD. 512 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: They are a gang, they are violent. 513 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, but the traditions and all of them, all of them, right, 514 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 2: But the tradition has always been, but we don't really 515 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 2: get into the immigration thing because we can't do our 516 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 2: job if you're afraid to talk to us because you 517 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 2: think you're going to get deported. So the tradition has 518 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 2: always been like, oh yeah, now we don't won't enforce 519 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 2: none of that. And then finally I saw today the 520 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 2: city of Glendale said, all right, we're going to we're 521 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 2: going to terminate our deal with US Borders Customs. They said, 522 00:28:58,440 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 2: They're like, they're like, we're not going to do it. 523 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 2: We don't we don't want to work with y'all. No more, 524 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 2: y'all keep y'all money. We don't want our contract with 525 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 2: ICE anymore. You cannot have a detention center here. So 526 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 2: it's like that's great, Like Glendale was like, did what 527 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 2: they said? It's like, you know what, we don't need this. 528 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 2: We don't need this, this y'all's issue. We don't agree 529 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 2: with it, we don't believe in it. 530 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: This y'all's issue. 531 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 2: Not to mention, which is a different narrative here we 532 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 2: could talk about later, but like, well, Glendale's Armenian, right, 533 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 2: the city Armenia. And I'm like, and they they're different, 534 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 2: they are different. 535 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 1: They're different. 536 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because because what about the guy who makes 537 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 3: our record check Check. I used to say, call him, 538 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 3: we used to call him check from the Armenian Project. Yeah, 539 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 3: matter because he because he makes some ice cubes records 540 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 3: and everything, but he also makes our record. 541 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 4: He's in Glendale and. 542 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: They don't they they different like fam. 543 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, So let's move into what we're doing July third, 544 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 2: you know, because again I want to hold you to 545 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 2: a third. 546 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 4: Is. The is, The is the Moses to get out. 547 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 3: So you know, we can't give we can't get too 548 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 3: much details on it because we know that they listening 549 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 3: to us. We know that they got us under surveillance, right, 550 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 3: we know they got volunteer and all of that stuff, 551 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 3: all that stuff that they use to you know, the 552 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 3: whole cointelpro and all of that stuff. So we know 553 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 3: they listening. But on July third, we want folks to 554 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 3: save the day because on July third, we're doing what's 555 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 3: called the Freedom Cruise and Rally, and it's gonna be 556 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 3: h It's called death Justice. Death stands for uh, kind 557 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 3: of like death jams, so it stands for diversity, equity, 558 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 3: and freedom. So it's the Freedom Cruise and Rally. Uh, 559 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 3: and we're gonna shut ish down right. 560 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 4: Uh. You know what I mean. You know it's a cruise. 561 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 3: It's happening somewhere in in Los Angeles County, you know 562 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 3: what I mean. 563 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 4: And it's gonna be crazy. 564 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 3: I think we got a couple of car clubs that 565 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 3: are on deck. We got artists who're gonna be on deck. Uh, 566 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 3: prop gonna be on deck. Right, we got some stuff happening. 567 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 3: We already got some folks from some of the unions 568 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,640 Speaker 3: or who are gonna. 569 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 4: Be on deck. 570 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 3: And and yeah, man, if you got a car and 571 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,800 Speaker 3: you got an issue you care about, we say, bring 572 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 3: your car and bring your issues. 573 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 4: UH. July third some of the demands we have. 574 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 3: By the way, you can guess why we chose July third, 575 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 3: because you know, we know fourth of July ain't really 576 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 3: uh and meant for all of us uh. And they yeah, yeah, yeah, 577 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 3: so what we and so on July third, when we 578 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 3: we some of our demands. Of that, California gives sends 579 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 3: over six hundred billion dollars to UH, to the federal government, 580 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 3: and we spent we we only received. We we received 581 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 3: eighty billion less than what we send them. So basically, 582 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 3: we were sending them an additional eighty billion dollars and 583 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 3: a lot of that money goes to Red states and 584 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 3: supporting welfare and all of that other stuff. Right, they 585 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 3: hate California, but they love our money. We know we 586 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 3: got the fourth largest economy in the world. Right, that 587 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 3: just happened not too long ago. 588 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 4: And so. 589 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 3: We are calling on the governor to actually not push 590 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 3: back against the Trump administration because they started it. So, hey, 591 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,480 Speaker 3: let's not Let's let's find a way not to send 592 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 3: them that eighty billion dollars. Right, let's wit hold that 593 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 3: eighty billion dollars. If you all want to play, if 594 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,720 Speaker 3: you want to take it to court, let's go to court. 595 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 4: Let's do what we got to do. Right, That's what 596 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 4: it demands. The right demand is that The other. 597 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 3: Demand is that ICE must unmask, Right, they must unmask. 598 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,440 Speaker 3: You can't come into our communities like gangsters. We don't 599 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,719 Speaker 3: know who you are. We can't prove who you are. 600 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,640 Speaker 3: It's unsafe for our community. Get out of our community unmasked. 601 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 3: The third and the third heard uh demand is to 602 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 3: abolish ICE. Those are national Uh. The eighty billion is 603 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 3: sort of a state strategy. The abolish ICE obviously is 604 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 3: a national strategy. 605 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 4: Uh. 606 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 3: And the last demand is to impeach Donald Trump. Impeach 607 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,479 Speaker 3: the president. Right, So that's our demands and and uh, 608 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 3: part of our and and the follow up is that 609 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 3: we are trying to divest from plantation capitalism and reinvest 610 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 3: back into local communities like some of the stuff we're 611 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 3: doing in Skid Role. We talked about the market and 612 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 3: all of that. We ought to be doing that in Chinatown. 613 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 3: We ought to be doing that. In Korea Time, we 614 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,239 Speaker 3: ought to be doing that. In Little Tokyo, we ought 615 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 3: to be doing that in Ball Heights. Come on, man Compton, Lynnwood, Yeah, 616 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:47,800 Speaker 3: I mean Watts wherever. 617 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 2: Uh. 618 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 3: We need to We need to start focusing away from 619 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 3: these corporations and were already taking down Tesla. They're going 620 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 3: down hard right now, and Walk and Target is going now. 621 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 3: We need to continue to keep that going. Uh, and 622 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 3: not just strife, but we need to actually start diverting 623 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 3: resources from these organizations. 624 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,400 Speaker 2: Some notes about ice. A few things that are older 625 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 2: than ice. So when we talk about abolishing it, so uh, 626 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 2: the song Skater Boy by Avril Levine, Okay, that's older 627 00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 2: than ice, right, mister. 628 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 1: Elliotts, if it's worth it, let me work it. That 629 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: song is older than ice. 630 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 4: Exactly, Okay. 631 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 2: HoTT in Her, Yeah, hotten Here by Nell Nellie. Nelly's 632 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 2: song hot in Here is older than ice. So you 633 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 2: can't tell me. This is an institution, a long standing 634 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,360 Speaker 2: and these things. These songs are older than Ice exact, 635 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,960 Speaker 2: so like don't don't tell me and don't tell me 636 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 2: you can't do it. But I wanted to also put 637 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,400 Speaker 2: a put a put a pin on one of the 638 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 2: demands when you were saying, well, why don't we just 639 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:27,440 Speaker 2: withhold funds because I'm like, that's what Trump says all 640 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:27,759 Speaker 2: the time. 641 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,440 Speaker 1: You don't do this, we won't send you the federal money. Okay. 642 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 3: It's just is just a pushback for him for what 643 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 3: he's talking about, right like okay. 644 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 1: Well, okay, word is that that is that? 645 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 3: The game? 646 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 1: Is that the play? 647 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,040 Speaker 2: Look, you made the rules, you said that's the play. 648 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,600 Speaker 2: You said you ain't gonna send the money. 649 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 1: Okay, work, then we won't send the money exactly exact exactly. 650 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 4: They need the money money more than we do. 651 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:55,440 Speaker 1: Trust facts. 652 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 2: Yes, I'm like, man, we say all the time like 653 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,600 Speaker 2: like bru a lot of times, like man, you tell me, 654 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,359 Speaker 2: you told me what it was. You know, I came 655 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,160 Speaker 2: in here with just like in this protest, like we 656 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 2: came in here being like following all the rules telling 657 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,120 Speaker 2: you because we understand we don't done through We didn't 658 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:14,920 Speaker 2: been through this before. 659 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying we know the rules. We 660 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,360 Speaker 1: know to stay across the street. 661 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 4: We know. 662 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, we know all these 663 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 1: rules right and it's on now. 664 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:32,320 Speaker 2: I'm saying like, yeah, qute, drop all the like ways 665 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:37,160 Speaker 2: for which the audience can stay in contact with you 666 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 2: with y'all. I get asked all the time like what 667 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,480 Speaker 2: are the what are the outlets you can you could 668 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,440 Speaker 2: check on? That's gonna give you that real rap. You 669 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,680 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, You're one of the ones l 670 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:50,920 Speaker 2: a Taco. There is like a big one that like 671 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,239 Speaker 2: no doubt, no outside and they real you know what 672 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,520 Speaker 2: I'm saying, So like, how can people stay in contact 673 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:55,759 Speaker 2: with you? 674 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:56,200 Speaker 4: Yeah? 675 00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 3: Most definitely create on IG, create Justice underscore, Create Justice 676 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:07,880 Speaker 3: Underscore on IG, our website creating Justice dot la. On email, 677 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,759 Speaker 3: you can hit me at q that is CUI at 678 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 3: Creating Justice dot l a q at Creating Justice dot La. 679 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,840 Speaker 4: That's three ways you can reach me. 680 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,080 Speaker 3: I gave you the email, I gave you the IG, 681 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:22,960 Speaker 3: and I gave you the website. 682 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 4: So hit us. 683 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 3: You know, we got a whole lot of other stuff, 684 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:27,560 Speaker 3: but if you can catch me on one of those, 685 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,280 Speaker 3: you know you can get the rest of the stuff. 686 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:30,080 Speaker 4: Yeah. 687 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,640 Speaker 2: And if you're in the city, like and you going 688 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,680 Speaker 2: to any of these things, you going see you gonna 689 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 2: see Q right here. 690 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:39,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And we opened. 691 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,880 Speaker 3: We also got a Piece and Hilling Center in schedule 692 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:47,520 Speaker 3: one sixteen East fifth Street on the Nickel And so 693 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:53,800 Speaker 3: we uh, we definitely opened today for protesters and folks 694 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,320 Speaker 3: who are on the street who want to refresh or 695 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:57,280 Speaker 3: regroup or whatever. 696 00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,840 Speaker 4: Come through the Piece and Hilling Center. 697 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,080 Speaker 3: Get you something to drink, cool out for a minute 698 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 3: in the in the ac do you know, do what 699 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 3: you gotta do before you do what you gotta do. 700 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,719 Speaker 2: That's man, that's right. Look you you no use to 701 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,600 Speaker 2: us exhausted, you know. Yeah yeah, So like people always 702 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,520 Speaker 2: ask me, like how do I how do I stay balanced? 703 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:18,880 Speaker 4: How do this? 704 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,719 Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm no use to the movement if I'm exhausted. 705 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,560 Speaker 2: So like, you know, get your food, take care of yourself. 706 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:27,600 Speaker 4: You gotta take care of ourselves. 707 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,000 Speaker 2: Man, to take care of yourselves. Yeah, all right, you 708 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 2: appreciate you, man, appreciate your time. 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