WEBVTT - Introducing: Hood Politics with Prop S3

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<v Speaker 1>Yo, West West. Everybody my name is propaganda or prop

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<v Speaker 1>for short. I mean, I'll answer to any of it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'ma give y'all some game real quick. I want to

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<v Speaker 1>put you on to my podcast called Hood Politics, and

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<v Speaker 1>black people always want to do something real quick. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>let me tell you where I'm coming from. I firmly

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<v Speaker 1>believe that if you understand hood life, gang life, you

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<v Speaker 1>understand geopolitics, because politics is gangbanging in night suits. Let

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<v Speaker 1>me tell you what I mean. Dig this. We're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>cover all kinds of hot topics that are in our

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<v Speaker 1>news and in our daily zeitgeist, and even concepts that

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<v Speaker 1>maybe take a little more to understand, kind of like

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<v Speaker 1>how the January sixth insurrection could be understood as like

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<v Speaker 1>the hood boss given a green light that was clearly

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<v Speaker 1>a green light. Kind of like how Vladimir Putin's foreign

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<v Speaker 1>policy is basically Tupac stance, which is, I ain't a killer,

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<v Speaker 1>but don't push me. You know what I'm saying. How

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<v Speaker 1>the GOP had to make a calculus when Trump was

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<v Speaker 1>leaving office to be like, am I gonna ride with

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<v Speaker 1>the boss or ride with this? Because bosses come and go,

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<v Speaker 1>but the Hood lasts forever. It's all politics, it's just

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<v Speaker 1>hood life, it's gangbanging. You understand it, and if you don't,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll show you how our politicians tend to talk to

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<v Speaker 1>us like this, like alien language, and it make you

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<v Speaker 1>feel like you supposed to just trust what they're saying.

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<v Speaker 1>But I think inside all of us we're kind of

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<v Speaker 1>saying to ourselves, I don't know, man, I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>if I trust y'all because what I'm experiencing is quite

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<v Speaker 1>different then what you saying. I'm experiencing, what you're doing

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<v Speaker 1>is so much different than what you saying you doing

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<v Speaker 1>somehow or another deep down inside of us were like, no, what,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I understand this, But this kind

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<v Speaker 1>of looks familiar to me. I want to lean into

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<v Speaker 1>that feeling of familiarity. Okay, little background on me. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>from south central Los Angeles. I moved all over the

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<v Speaker 1>LA surrounding areas, and before I did music full time,

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<v Speaker 1>I used to teach high school and when I was

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<v Speaker 1>in the process of getting my teaching credential in history

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<v Speaker 1>and social science, I kept stumbling over the last part

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<v Speaker 1>of the test, which is the economic part, and it

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't that I didn't know what I was talking about

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<v Speaker 1>because economics, in my mind are real simple because I'm

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<v Speaker 1>from the hood, scared money, don't make money, right, don't

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<v Speaker 1>spend money you don't have right, But I didn't understand

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<v Speaker 1>their terms. I am of the belief that most of

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<v Speaker 1>us are like that, where we know what we're talking about,

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<v Speaker 1>we just don't know the way you want us to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about what we're talking about. But again, if you

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<v Speaker 1>understand hood life, you actually understand all this stuff. Can

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<v Speaker 1>I give you some more examples? Well, I'm going to anyway.

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<v Speaker 1>How about this. If a person wants to expand their

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<v Speaker 1>business to a neighborhood next to them, you gotta pay

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<v Speaker 1>for that. You have to pay that block to be

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<v Speaker 1>able to sell there. But if you feel like you're

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<v Speaker 1>being charged way too much, and that neighborhood wants to

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<v Speaker 1>sell a product on your block, you're gonna charge them

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<v Speaker 1>a high price. You're gonna sell on my block, It's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna cost you. So what does that mean for the consumer? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>it means that it costs the seller way more than

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<v Speaker 1>it normally would. So what they gonna do? You think

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<v Speaker 1>they're gonna keep the price to say? No, they raised

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<v Speaker 1>the price all of a sudden what you used to

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<v Speaker 1>be able to buy, but ten dollars now cost twenty dollars.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's like, who's being punished here? Turns out that's

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<v Speaker 1>called a tariff. And what I just explained was a

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<v Speaker 1>trade war. You're looking around like, all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 1>the cost of illuminum foiled and tripled. Why is because

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<v Speaker 1>we got beef with China. We had a trade war

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<v Speaker 1>with China. The government done raised the tariffs on aluminum.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody in the city already understood it. You just didn't

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<v Speaker 1>know that's what it was called. HIC go on another one.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, Vietnam War, Korean War, Those are called proxy wars.

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<v Speaker 1>Turns out a proxy wars, real simple. It's just two

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<v Speaker 1>dads that kind of don't like each other and their

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<v Speaker 1>sons are on rival. Pop Warner teams. Turns out mixed.

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<v Speaker 1>McConnell's moves are actually real simple. He needed, as judges,

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<v Speaker 1>Trump was just the lick. Are we really ever confused

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<v Speaker 1>as to why, despite this not being in your own

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<v Speaker 1>best interest, you always vote along party lines? Well, because

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<v Speaker 1>the hood comes first, as the great profit of our time,

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<v Speaker 1>Kendrick Lamar said, democrypts, rebludikins. It's all the same. Ride

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<v Speaker 1>or die, loyal to your soil. I could go on

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<v Speaker 1>for hours, and I'm going to fill the busters, cease fires, workers, unions,

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<v Speaker 1>It's all there. You actually already understand this stuff here.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't stress this enough. You don't have to be

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<v Speaker 1>just from the hood to understand this. If you navigate

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<v Speaker 1>an eighth grade, if you ever had to figure out

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<v Speaker 1>which of the lunch table you can sit at during lunch,

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<v Speaker 1>you understand geopolitics. So join me every week. This is

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<v Speaker 1>what we're gonna do. We're gonna go through the news,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe go through a concept that's going on in the news,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe something that takes a little more background to understand.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna show you how you could use what you

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<v Speaker 1>already know to understand what you think you don't. We're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna laugh, We're gonna have fun. I don't take myself

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<v Speaker 1>too seriously, but I do want you to feel empowered.

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<v Speaker 1>These people ain't smarter than you. They just use a

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<v Speaker 1>different language. Yo. If you're feel in real froggy, go

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<v Speaker 1>ahead and check out. Like some of the old episodes,

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<v Speaker 1>they still in the feed. I'm saying kind of get

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<v Speaker 1>yourself a primer as to what's going on in here.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to tell y'all something. Dig this because politics

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<v Speaker 1>is just gang banging in nice suits. So tap in

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