1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: Calls media. I'm opening this episode up licking my fingers 2 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:26,319 Speaker 1: cause this is left overseason. Are we good in my house? Uh? 3 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: This this black Sekin house? Oh yo, yo, food don't 4 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:41,480 Speaker 1: smack like ours? Trust me, yeah, trust your turkey ain't 5 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: Enchilada style, is it? You ain't got it based in 6 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: it an shei Litha's because your mother in law don't 7 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: know what the hell Thanksgiving means. They just saw it 8 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: on TV and she was like, a turkey don't seem 9 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: like it's enough going on. Why don't I make it 10 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: like an anchi litha. So it's like covered in enchilada sauce, 11 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: Like yo, a turkey, don't slap like mine. Me and 12 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: the homies just like fried stuff. So brind that mug 13 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: in occasion and then deep fry it like it's some 14 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: shrimp and some old baycuz blood you don't eat like me. 15 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,479 Speaker 1: These collar greens. Listen, my greens. You don't want to 16 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:21,479 Speaker 1: smoke with your boy. With the greens, your boy can burn. 17 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 1: I put my foot in them greens. The hot water 18 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 1: corn bread next to the authorities, both the slang and 19 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: the literal. You know what I'm saying, all kind of 20 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: homemade silicized cuz my mother in laudo play around my swag. 21 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: You don't want it with folks, you feel me. You 22 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: don't want it with the mac and cheese. You don't look. 23 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: You don't want it with the mac and cheese. And 24 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: then to wake up with a whole bowl of pasola 25 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: and to my list the next day. Cut you don't 26 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: want it with my house. Aamn, yams, ain't got no 27 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: dog on marshmallows on top of marshmallows, don't belong on. 28 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 1: No yams is wrong with you. I can get to 29 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: the yams, baby sweet yea ams? Sure me? Oh man, 30 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: you don't want it with my house anyway. I think 31 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: you do want it with my house. You want to 32 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: be in myles eating my food. You can't have you 33 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: can't have none of this. We not sharing nothing. I 34 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: am talking about nonsense right now. Sent of the year, 35 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: and oh my god, what a year there's like in 36 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: this cycle of the contract. It's like, I owe, I 37 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: heard two more episodes now obviously that's just on this 38 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: contracting me. Praise the Lord God Almighty. We got renewed 39 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: for another season. But yeah, I'm crawling into the end 40 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: of the year. Just like y'all are. But what we 41 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: did at the halfway mark, and I can't believe that 42 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: was the halfway mark, was we did a half a 43 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:24,640 Speaker 1: year stated a Blackness address. So now coming into the 44 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: end of the year, it is now the twenty twenty 45 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: four end of the year State of the Blackness Address, 46 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: hook politics, y'all. Yeah, buddy, what a year has been? Man? 47 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: What do you say? Dude? Like, So let's first let's reflect. 48 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: You know, the year started off so promising. You guys 49 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: may remember it started with Club Shasha and Kat Williams 50 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: just setting the record straight, just being like, this is 51 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: the tone. What's going on this year? Is we cleaning 52 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: house and we shining? Who knew Kat Kat was? I 53 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: thought I got said in the first time. I thought 54 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: Kat was gonna give us the phrase we was gonna 55 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: use forever, but instead he gave us the facial expression 56 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: we gonna use forever. Is that man looking at you 57 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,160 Speaker 1: with his little drinker and just being like I tried 58 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: to tell y'all, you got to tell Diddy No, who knew? 59 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: No Diddy, when you want to play in your buttthole, 60 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: give you five million dollars, You got to tell Diddy no, 61 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: kat was trying to tell us something. That man exposed 62 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: frauds inside of the comedy circuit. Some of it was like, yeah, 63 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: you was being a little salty. Maybe you know what 64 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like some of it felt like it was 65 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: a little little sus because he definitely followed up with 66 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: that Netflix special that I couldn't even finish. I ain't 67 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: gonna hold you like. I was like, ah, man, I don't. 68 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: It just ain't doing for me. But that interview when 69 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: he laid down that you have an unnatural alliance to 70 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: losers and it's not like you. I was like, Kat 71 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: is letting us know what the year is twenty twenty four. 72 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: We done, lion, We've done hiding. We're saying what we 73 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 1: were saying. It was such a great moment for the 74 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: culture for us. Followed like almost the next day with 75 00:05:55,839 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: the dude, the brother that jumped over the bench in 76 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: the court. You murdered a brother, the flying felon brother 77 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: jumped over the thing and tackled the lady. Y'all. That's 78 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: how the year started. The year started with Cat Williams 79 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: and then the boy jumping over the bench to tackle 80 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: the judge because she ain't she wasn't listening to what 81 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: he was trying to say. He's trying to say he 82 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: had changed man, but she wasn't. He wasn't. She wasn't 83 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: hearing it. That's how the year started. It was like, 84 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,479 Speaker 1: this is this is a wonderful way to start a year. 85 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: And it started making me think this year is finna 86 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: be black as hell. And it was like a very 87 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: exciting time for the year to be black as hell. 88 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: Because right after that, oh Man Caw Girl Carter came, 89 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: Beyonce did a country record, and of all the talk 90 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: around what it means to be a country artist, what 91 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,679 Speaker 1: country is, and let's let me let me who who 92 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: has a day job as being a musician. I understand 93 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: what it means to be multi genre. I write poetry, 94 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 1: I do hip hop. I understand also that I know 95 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: a lot of rappers right now, right now in sessions 96 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: with country artists because they're writing songs for him. Why 97 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: because there's money there. You can't look at what Jelly 98 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: Roll doing. You can't look at Shaboozi and be like, 99 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: that's Jay Kwan's song he did, It's what a lick? Right? 100 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: It is Jae Kwan's song One here comes the two 101 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: to the three to the four, everybody drunk about the 102 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: dance floor. He just changed the word from club to bar. 103 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: Everybody at the club getting tips, everybody at the bar 104 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: getting tips. It's just like, why would you not that dude. 105 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: Dack's the other black dude rapper that was on the 106 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: Corner list. And I mean, you say what you want 107 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 1: about him, but yeah, like he was on the Corner 108 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: rapper list. But I'll tell you what. He over there 109 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: in country music making his bread. Now do we have 110 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 1: the right to do that? Well? As Beyonce so eloquently 111 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: pointed out, country music is black. We were. We have 112 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 1: a right to be here because we made it. I 113 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: have a song called Gentrify on a record called Crooked 114 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: that I did in twenty seventeen. Matter of fact, the 115 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: first uh it could happen here stuff that it had 116 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: the song crooked as like the theme word the Grandpop's 117 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 1: good and fathom the Obamas is Yeah. So that was 118 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: from the album Crooked. And I'll have a song on 119 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: there called Gentrify where I'm gonna quote myself because I'm 120 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: that shallow. I ain't saying you ain't welcome. Please be 121 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: our guest just know the city limits beat in our chest. 122 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:43,839 Speaker 1: So it's not so much that we feel as though 123 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: what we create isn't for everyone. It just doesn't mean 124 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: that you get to if you're welcome into my house, 125 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 1: you just can't rearrange my furniture and start putting your 126 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: name or all my stuff. That's this. This is what 127 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you. You not allowed to. You 128 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: can't just this ain't your house. You can't just act 129 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: like it's your house. So what Beyonce did was remind 130 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 1: everybody and to highlight other black country artists that's been 131 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: there the whole time. That's like, well, we never left, 132 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 1: We've always been making country music. And then she made 133 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: a music that and she made an album that like, 134 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:36,079 Speaker 1: I mean, it's the other part that kind of made 135 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: me mad. I'm like, we is. I mean, it's pop music. 136 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: Like I don't understand why y'all so mad about this. 137 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: It's pop with a country feel. And let her live. 138 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: She did that already with the Renaissance record, which was 139 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: reminding everybody that house music, it's Chicago, queer, black black people. Man, 140 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: this our year cause And I was excited until the 141 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: worst kept secret in all of entertainment slid out and 142 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: that is Diddy, p Diddy, Sean Puffy Comb's nasty ass. 143 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: It all kind of all kind of stumbled out videos 144 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: of him beating the mess out of his girl. All 145 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: the NDA's about him diddling p Diddy diddling kids is 146 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: we still haven't confirmed whether that mug happened to Justin 147 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: Bieber and maybe us should brought him over where. It 148 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this one situation, these Diddy parties, this 149 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: one thing could take down like almost all of black entertainment, 150 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: unless you like Kendrick Lamar, which was like, I stay 151 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: in the crib, but we'll get to Kendrick later. So 152 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 1: Diddy gave us new phrases no Diddy, right, and just 153 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: the amount of people that were mixed into that thing, 154 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: Meek mill, it's still people talking about how jay Z 155 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: is paying millions to keep his name up out of 156 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: that right, I don't know. Jaguar Wright started telling everybody 157 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 1: all started telling everybody's business. The drugs that they take, 158 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: the uppers and the downers to stay in that party, 159 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: the women that they flew out there, and how and 160 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: a lot of times Didd he ain't even interested in 161 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 1: the women and just the memorable level of a thousand 162 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: bottles of baby oil. It's just this is disgusting, but 163 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: it couldn't have been more funny. Here's the thing about 164 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: black people. Just like we said in the last one, 165 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: we could be deeply unserious about very serious things, and 166 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: we could be very serious about un serious things and 167 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 1: never really lose sight as to what is important and 168 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: what was not. That man diddy House got raided and 169 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:28,679 Speaker 1: he was gone, and he left his boys. Bad. Oh 170 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: this private jet on his way to a play as 171 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: a way to a place that don't extradit. This nigga 172 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: left is getting the nigga looking like George Bush flying 173 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: over Hurricane Katrita. Why his kids is being the Oh 174 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: my god, oh my god. Speaking of which, we were 175 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 1: still on a high from Aquamane and the Montgomery brawl, 176 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,319 Speaker 1: the fade in the water. We were still on a 177 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: high from that. I'm telling you, man, this was supposed 178 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: to be our time. 179 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 2: Babe, baby, babe, Wow. 180 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: And then what happened next? Oh lord, you know what? Yeah, 181 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: you know what happened next? Margie Taylor Green decided she 182 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: wanted it with the black congresswoman, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and 183 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: and a beautiful show of solidarity among the black and 184 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: brown communities with congressmen or Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and uh 185 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: Alexandria Cassio Ortez Cortes. The thing that like, if you 186 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: have not figured this out by now, if you listen 187 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: to my show, you are not going to If you 188 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: if your ancestors is from the equator in any way, 189 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: shape or form, you are, You're never gonna roast us better. 190 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: We will always like we're gonna cook you. Why because 191 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 1: of the culture and the families for which we were 192 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: forged in You have to understand our aunties, our uncles, 193 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: Our theos are theias, our theitos are the thoughts. They're merciless. 194 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: They have that your your age don't matter. They don't 195 00:15:55,880 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: do age appropriate, like you're merciless. I understand a lot 196 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 1: of times in the Asian community it's a little more 197 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: like it's a little different. No, it's not a little different, 198 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: because I've heard from my Asian friends they're like, are 199 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 1: you walking the door? Your grandma will be like you're fat. Now, 200 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:18,239 Speaker 1: like listen, so they very direct for us. It's jokes 201 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: like she gonna say that about you, but it's gonna 202 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:28,480 Speaker 1: be a joke. Like you, I don't know how else 203 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: to say this. No one is safe in our only 204 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: No one's safe in our homes. Grandma, Grandma cook you. 205 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: You come in there wrong. Listen, listen. You happen to 206 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: walk in. You happen to bring your little white girlfriend 207 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: in here. And she insisted on bringing her vegan muffins, 208 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: like Grandma is gonna cook her like, and she gonna 209 00:16:54,880 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: cook you right after you, just like, listen, you have 210 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 1: to listen. Listen. I'm in an interracial relationship now. Granted 211 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: mine is Mexican, so it's a little different, you know 212 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And she like her granddaddy black is 213 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: hell like they from southern Mexico is different, right, And 214 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,080 Speaker 1: she looked Mayan, like my wife looks indigenous. So the 215 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: point is, we have a few more cultural Oh, of 216 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 1: course we have our differences, but we have a few 217 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,880 Speaker 1: more cultural overlaps. But listen. I still had to prepare 218 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: her last year. She said she wanted to take a 219 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: shot at making the macaroni and cheese. And I said, okay, now, 220 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: let's do a trial run. Okay, before you bring this 221 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 1: to the rest of my family. Okay, they love you, 222 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: they like you. You have to understand our meals. This 223 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: is what you understand about black people. And probably Latinos. No, yeah, 224 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: for shaw Latinos too, but specific Latino said. Look, it's 225 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 1: a little different, but with black people, it's a meritocracy. 226 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 1: Like you earn the dish you are. You are assigned it. 227 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: You don't get to pick it. You're assigned the dish 228 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: that you bring. I don't care if you like making 229 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: mac and cheese, my nigga, you bring in the collar, 230 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: you bring in the greens. You're better at greens. That's 231 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: what you're bringing. And look if you can't, if you 232 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,120 Speaker 1: can't cook, you just bring the drinks. It's fine, Brendana baby, 233 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 1: you brown and bring the alcohol. We'll do the cooking, 234 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: you know, because don't it ain't nobody gonna eat it, right. 235 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 1: You're gonna waste all that money, all your time, and 236 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 1: we're gonna make fun of you for bringing it. We 237 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 1: already told you not to bring that dry ass corn 238 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: bread in here. We told you not to do that. 239 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,439 Speaker 1: I don't know who told you that was okay, so 240 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: I listen, you need to prepare your melanin challenged partners 241 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:54,400 Speaker 1: prepare them. So I prepared her, and she went on YouTube. 242 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 1: She found somebody, an old woman from Louisiana that uh 243 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:02,199 Speaker 1: and when I tell you like she's I mean, my 244 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: wife's a PhD. She knows how to follow directions. She 245 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: followed that recipe to a tea and let me tell 246 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: you something. That mac and cheese was smacking. It even 247 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: had the right crust on the top of it, like, 248 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: you know, we can go get the corner, like the 249 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: corner was right, y'all, listen, I'll look, I'm not telling 250 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 1: y'all you already know. You already know the test the tests. 251 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: At that point, I was like, you can absolutely bring 252 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: this around my family because I don't want her to 253 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: feel what we felt as children. So let me bring 254 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:43,880 Speaker 1: that back to Congresswoman so Marle Marjie Taylor Green. I mean, 255 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: this was such an amazing clip. Was just running her mouth, 256 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: just leaning back, running her mouth, you know, and and 257 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 1: and just being just being completely rude and talking about 258 00:19:55,480 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: eyelashes and men and making comments about the phys appearance 259 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: of Congresswoman Jasmine and the thing about again, I keep 260 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: having a school, y'all. This's the state of the Blackness 261 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 1: address we are required to, especially as black men, or 262 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: specifically as black men, and very specifically as black women. 263 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: Specifically as black men, we have to keep our cool 264 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 1: because we'll get murdered. So're you like any show of 265 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: aggression or discontentment as a black man, you have to 266 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: really calculate, like how much I can't just lose it 267 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: like these white boys can lose it. Like we can't 268 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: just lose it like that, Like we have to maintain 269 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: a certain level of decorum because we're fighting stereotypes and 270 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: just the anti blackness, the fear that that strikes in 271 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:57,120 Speaker 1: people's hearts when we just raise our voice or even 272 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 1: are just having fun. Like there are times like you know, 273 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: it's like from the hood is thing called park day, 274 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: where like park Day it'd be I mean, it could 275 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: get rowdy, but most of the time, like we're playing 276 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 1: like Niggas is playing kickball and like you know, like barbecue, 277 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: are having a fun time. Niggas is just loud, Like 278 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: if we're playing Domino's, like we may like we just loud, 279 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And it's just for some reason, 280 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: it just be terrifying for people, Like I was having 281 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 1: this conversation even with my own wife, like about I 282 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: had to take I like taking public transit these days 283 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 1: because gas prices is crazy. But I was taking the 284 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 1: train home and I was like, yeah, nah, this train 285 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,880 Speaker 1: gets rowdy, dog And she was just like, oh, it's 286 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of young young hoodlums and 287 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: I was like, no, I'm completely comfortable around them. It 288 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: was a whole lot of old people that was yelling 289 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: at each other. Who was elderly folk hitting there and 290 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,159 Speaker 1: they wheelchairs just mad at everything. I was like, Yo, 291 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: this is getting rowdy. And the poor bus driver there's 292 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: two people in these wheelchairs, was yelling at each other. 293 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:13,880 Speaker 1: One of them was having like a delusional moment where 294 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 1: she was like, they say, I'm a murderer. I can't 295 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,439 Speaker 1: even get out of my chair right. I was like, Yo, 296 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: it's getting hectic in here. I'm a whole bunch of 297 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: like Now, granted I'm not delusional, I understand, like I 298 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: got Antenna's, but generally, if a bunch of like a 299 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: bunch of actos, a bunch of like, you know, young 300 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 1: black dudes, get on, get on the train, I'm like, nigga, 301 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: ain't me like you know what I'm saying. Like I 302 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 1: don't know, like that doesn't But anyway, if they're being loud, 303 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: I'm not scared. I'm annoyed, you know what I'm saying, 304 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: because I'm like, nigga, put your headphones on, okay, like 305 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: you do't like what is you doing? Homie? Like you know, 306 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 1: and it's more like as a big hummy, like you 307 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: know what these people think of you? You feel me 308 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: like you're gonna be targeted, but scared so and with 309 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: black women probably which you know, an extension to all women, 310 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: but I'm not talking about all women. I'm talking about 311 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: black women. They got attitudes, they difficult, you know, and 312 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: if she likes show her rage, then she's an angry 313 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: black woman, you know what I'm saying. So you got 314 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: to really calculate and like you got to really get 315 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: us there, because to get to the level of Congress, 316 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 1: like Congresswoman Jasmine had to like really know how to 317 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: control herself and the things for which she needs to say, 318 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: because you got to be able to move in areas 319 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:55,719 Speaker 1: that are very foreign to us and don't understand our 320 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: ways of communication. So but Margie Taylor Green ain't got 321 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: to worried about that, so she popping off. Sister. Oh man, 322 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: y'all remember this. She said, Okay, we're talking about bodies. Well, 323 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: it is it appropriate if I call if I say 324 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: this this bleach blonde, bad built, butch body, like you, like, 325 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 1: did you have to understand that that comes from decades 326 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 1: of training and that like it is. It is fifty 327 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 1: percent possible that she thought of that off the head, 328 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: that she just looked at her right there like oh 329 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,239 Speaker 1: you're trying to oh you got something to say, and 330 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: that alliteration bleach blonde, bad built, butch body just flew 331 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: out of her soul just because we just had that 332 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: kind of training. Or it's fifty percent possible that she 333 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 1: thought that the first time she saw her. It just 334 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: had been holding it because it's inappropriate to talk about 335 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: somebody's body parts on the Congress floor. But either way, 336 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: she lit that girl up. And at that point I 337 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: was like, oh, nigga, this is our year. I was like, yeah, 338 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,919 Speaker 1: this is doll this this is the blackest year on record. 339 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 1: This made me so happy. But the only thing that 340 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: could top that was the light skinned Canadian had the 341 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: nerve to pop off and the People's champ corn Roll, 342 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: Kenny Pullitzer, Kenny jumped on the tape with Future in 343 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: Metro Blooming and was like, it's not about the Big three. 344 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:53,679 Speaker 1: Nigga is the big Me and that's set off. And 345 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 1: now you know what I'm gonna include. I'm gonna include Draking. 346 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: This Drake hav black. He counts this, although he proved 347 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 1: he not really part of our culture, but that he 348 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: loves the culture. But you know what he gave us. 349 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 1: You know what they gave us something we have not 350 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 1: had in a long time. A really good hip hop 351 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 1: battle that didn't end in death. That wasn't petty. It 352 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: was the sophistication. And I'm gonna give because it can 353 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 1: only be a battle. If if Drake wasn't a hit maker, 354 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: this wouldn't have worked. This wouldn't have brought our culture 355 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: the joy that it brought us, if Drake wasn't the 356 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: villain that he is, which made basically the hip hop 357 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,719 Speaker 1: Avengers and X Men wrapped in one come around and 358 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 1: show y'all the very premise of what I mean by 359 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: this show, which is, if you understand the hood, you 360 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 1: understand politics, you can't move the way Drake moves and 361 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 1: expect people to come to your defense. That's why nobody 362 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 1: came to his defense. Kendrick showed you you be a 363 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 1: man of your word. You stick to your guns, you 364 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,159 Speaker 1: go to work, you go home. You keep your integrity, 365 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:19,679 Speaker 1: and you let your work do to talking. And for 366 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:27,360 Speaker 1: a span of two weeks, we got really to witness 367 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: two of the best, two of the top. Like, think 368 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: about this for a second. The two top in what 369 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:39,120 Speaker 1: sport is it really and truthfully, the two best teams 370 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: make it to the finals. This was truly the two 371 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 1: best artists in hip hop for the decade. We got 372 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 1: to witness them go to head to head. And what 373 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 1: all of us predicted who was in the culture was, 374 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: first of all, you don't want it with k Dot. 375 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: We already told y'all you ain't want it with k Dot. 376 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: But the fatal mistake was the AI two pac. That's 377 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: where Drake went wrong, because that went from Drake to 378 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 1: Kendrick to Drake to the West coast. You made this 379 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: a coastal thing by invoking our heroes. Not only was 380 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 1: it corny, it just wasn't good. But when you do that, 381 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: you've set in motion. You woke a sleeping giant, you 382 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 1: poked a bear, and at that point, the run from 383 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 1: Euphoria to Meet the Grams to six sixteen in it's 384 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: just the raps that we got from that, all culminating 385 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 1: dropping on Sinko Demio Da Da Da Da. They not 386 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: like us, They not like us, They not like us. 387 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: The man gave us the song like this year will 388 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: This year is gonna go down in history because it 389 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: gave us an anthem of the ages, DJ Mustard, the 390 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: anthem of the ages, y'all, the brother streak of the 391 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: Everybody screenshot it. Kendrick has seven tweets this year, and 392 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,959 Speaker 1: they're only just links to the songs and videos, and 393 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: then the announcement that I'm also performing in the super Bowl. 394 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: How do you like? What the how do you knock 395 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 1: a year out? The part work. We didn't even got 396 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 1: to his album that just dropped. I haven't even screamed 397 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: my side yet. What a year, What a year for 398 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: the coast, What a year for black people. But it 399 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: wasn't all good. We'll talk about the next things that 400 00:30:23,400 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: weren't all good next. All right, we're back. This year 401 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: also brought us, obviously, the fall of Diddy, like we 402 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 1: talked about before, a reckoning that absolutely needed to happen, 403 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: and was long overdue. But we also found out that 404 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 1: we can now play R Kelly music again. Why is 405 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 1: that because all of the money from playing his music 406 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: and streaming his music goes to his victims. So like, 407 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: hey guys, you can listen to R Kelly again. Now 408 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: we also had some deaths, oh I forgot about. The 409 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: good thing is like the Kenny and Friends pop out 410 00:31:53,040 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 1: on Juneteenth where he actually brought one hundred different hoods 411 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: and united them on one stage to bring peace to 412 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I've never seen anything like this. It was 413 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: almost like this was Pok's dream. He did it. This 414 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: was Nipsey's dream. Nipsey and Pac walked and ran, so 415 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 1: Kendrick can fly. It was just absolutely beautiful. But we 416 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: lost some heroes. Man, we lost James Earl Jones. Now, 417 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: for you white people, that's the voice of Darth Vader. 418 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 1: But for the rest of us, he is the royal 419 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: king of Zamunda. He is Prince Takim's father. I'm not 420 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: even gonna explain that to you. For the rest of us, 421 00:32:50,880 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 1: he's sold his royal oats. Words would fail me to 422 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 1: tell you the ways for which we are connected to 423 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 1: James Earl Jones We lost John Amos, who was the 424 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 1: adult version of Kuntikine, and then was James Evans. Yeah, 425 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 1: John with James Evans on good Times, America's favorite Black, 426 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: America's favorite daddy from the ghet To. You may not 427 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: know what good Times is, but you ever heard somebody 428 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: say diin't no mind. That's from the show. That was 429 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 1: JJ Walker and he was junior on good Times? Do 430 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: do good Times in it time? You need a permit? 431 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: Good Times time? You be afreed any time. We're out 432 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 1: from Manda. So, yeah, so we lost him. We lost 433 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: the dude that played candy Man, Tony Todd, you know 434 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: the scary movie candy Man. We lost him, y'all. We 435 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:12,800 Speaker 1: lost Quincy Jones this year, the greatest songwriter of all time. 436 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 1: You could quote me. Where do you where? You want 437 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 1: to start with Quincy Jones? We are the world. You 438 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 1: want to start with Lionel Richie. You want to start 439 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 1: with Michael Jackson? Where you want to start Quincy Jones. 440 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 1: You may have known them as you may have known 441 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,479 Speaker 1: him as Rashida Jones daddy, but we know him as 442 00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: the responsible for Thriller and Billy Jean. There is no 443 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 1: Michael Jackson without Quincy Jones, y'all. I would love for 444 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 1: you to, at some point today or over the over 445 00:34:56,640 --> 00:35:04,319 Speaker 1: the holidays, just google Quincy Jones's catalog of song of 446 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: songs he's written, and just you know, good luck, good 447 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: luck finding time to listen to anything else that was 448 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: tough and hip hop. We lost DJ Kark Kent do 449 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: your googles, ca, y'all. We lost rich Homie Kwan Dang, y'all. 450 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,760 Speaker 1: We lost Frankie Beverly in the maze or not the maze. 451 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: We just lost Frankie Beverly. Uh, you don't know Frankie 452 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: Beverly is. You don't know what maze is? You ever 453 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,800 Speaker 1: seen black people do the electric slide? You know what 454 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: song came on that immediately made us do the electric slide? 455 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 1: Dun Dun do do do Dune Dun dun whoa before 456 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:03,239 Speaker 1: I let go? That's it's Frankie Beverly. We had a 457 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 1: good time. I'm gonna make sure them righter. Oh you know, 458 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:16,799 Speaker 1: oh you know Beyonce's version done and dun dunk. Yeah, 459 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:21,879 Speaker 1: it's Frankie Beverly. We lost Frankie Beverley. We lost Fat 460 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,840 Speaker 1: Man Scoop. Here we go now, here we go now, 461 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:33,000 Speaker 1: fat Man, scoop y'all. Tito Jackson as in Michael Jackson's brother, 462 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: d Kimbamo Tumbo, the wag Finger. Come on, man, kim 463 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:49,080 Speaker 1: Bemo Tumbo, one of the greatest sinners in all basketball history. 464 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:54,799 Speaker 1: We've lost some giants this year, man. We've also had 465 00:36:54,840 --> 00:37:01,279 Speaker 1: some tragedies when the continuation of police brutality in the 466 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:09,280 Speaker 1: police state just now is reported that twelve men in 467 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:14,719 Speaker 1: a Virginia state prison self motified themselves, Like yeah, I 468 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:22,280 Speaker 1: said that weird self emole emulation. They set themselves on fire. 469 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 1: In twelve of them. They were in solitary confinement. The 470 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:36,400 Speaker 1: first two were in solitary confinement, and they said it 471 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:46,319 Speaker 1: was the egregeous, exhausting amount of racism that they had 472 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 1: to deal with. They were there for two months solitary confinement, 473 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:59,719 Speaker 1: shouted at food spit in just a horrendous experience, so 474 00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:07,200 Speaker 1: much much so that they set themselves on fire in protest. Guys, 475 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,120 Speaker 1: We've had some good times, but we've had some bad 476 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:49,280 Speaker 1: times this year. This year. In one of the episodes, 477 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,080 Speaker 1: I told you who child let me put you on 478 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:59,400 Speaker 1: I'm cops in Minnesota, or nam cops in Mississippi and 479 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,960 Speaker 1: tied up up, tied up two men. They went in there, 480 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:04,719 Speaker 1: they called him. They was like a team. They went 481 00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,279 Speaker 1: in there on purpose to tie up these these people 482 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,120 Speaker 1: in torture them tie up these black people in torture. 483 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,800 Speaker 1: That lady that had that that got shot up because 484 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,840 Speaker 1: the cop thought that he was he was scared she 485 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:19,360 Speaker 1: was gonna throw boiling water on her. Things still happened 486 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:24,040 Speaker 1: to us all the time. Now, while this was going on, 487 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:31,160 Speaker 1: so was the presidential election. And there was a moment 488 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:36,880 Speaker 1: where I thought this episode that I'm doing right now 489 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:45,799 Speaker 1: might end with us having a black female president. This year, 490 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:54,719 Speaker 1: we did see a black woman. She's black and Indian, 491 00:39:56,040 --> 00:40:02,200 Speaker 1: I know, but like you also know, oh black woman 492 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:15,759 Speaker 1: be on the top of the ticket for president. Ye'ah. 493 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,279 Speaker 1: We could have had a black woman president. But it 494 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:24,279 Speaker 1: didn't end that way for a million reasons that I'm 495 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:33,000 Speaker 1: pretty sure you've heard. But it didn't happen, and it 496 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,880 Speaker 1: was for the for the culture. Was a little disappointing. 497 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:41,080 Speaker 1: Now granted, you know, obviously you take a guess who 498 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:44,080 Speaker 1: I voted for. But she wasn't a perfect candidate, you 499 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,080 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. She had her flaws, she had. 500 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:55,080 Speaker 1: They ran a campaign that was frustratingly doing its best 501 00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:59,320 Speaker 1: to Playcate the right rather than just standing on business, 502 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,040 Speaker 1: which I wish she would have done. But you know 503 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:09,719 Speaker 1: what do I know? But it was a beautiful thing. 504 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna hold you. It was a beautiful thing 505 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:16,560 Speaker 1: to hear, you know, wipe me down in the background 506 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,040 Speaker 1: at her headquarters. It was kind of cool to be like, 507 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,120 Speaker 1: this is sorority sister that went to Howard University. It 508 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,080 Speaker 1: was pretty dope to see stuff like it was dope 509 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,480 Speaker 1: to see you know that her silk press, you know 510 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,160 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like it was, it was dope to 511 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,040 Speaker 1: see it. It was dope to see the culture on 512 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:36,880 Speaker 1: display and at the level that she could. But she lost, 513 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,560 Speaker 1: and I thought that that's what was going to be 514 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,880 Speaker 1: the death knell in the blackness of the year until 515 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:54,439 Speaker 1: until squabble up, Squabble up, squabble up, get the gout 516 00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,719 Speaker 1: my fires. Until Kendrick Lamar came to save the day 517 00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:17,160 Speaker 1: against so black people. We got us an anthem, We 518 00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:24,360 Speaker 1: defeated a Canadian. The dark Skins is back up. Lebron 519 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,839 Speaker 1: actually had to practice some nepotism. It was kind of cool. 520 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,440 Speaker 1: To see black people do the nepotism thing by putting 521 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:34,080 Speaker 1: Brownie into a game that boy average point one points 522 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:38,080 Speaker 1: a game. He definitely needed to go to the G League, 523 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,040 Speaker 1: but it was really cool to see this time. For example, 524 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,719 Speaker 1: you know, a black man bringing his unqualified child into 525 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,120 Speaker 1: a position that he shouldn't have. That felt good to me. 526 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:59,280 Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying? We got us an anthem, 527 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:04,719 Speaker 1: We got us a super Bowl, we got us a 528 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,839 Speaker 1: fiery discussion as to whether Lil Wayne has the right 529 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:14,360 Speaker 1: to be mad or not. We got bleach blonde, bad built, 530 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:22,360 Speaker 1: butcher body. But also we got Phoebe l drizzy. What 531 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,400 Speaker 1: a year, y'all hood politics. 532 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:52,040 Speaker 3: And then the year kept giving because oh man, the Canadian. 533 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:59,840 Speaker 1: Drake, drake suing his own label, y'all the state of 534 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:03,279 Speaker 1: the blackness. I don't want to blame it on his 535 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:08,440 Speaker 1: light skindidness because that's not fair, because look, you know 536 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:13,560 Speaker 1: who ain't corny, Steph Curry. He don't be doing corny 537 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,080 Speaker 1: stuff like this. But here's the argument, as we know 538 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:22,680 Speaker 1: of so far, his argument is it was time for 539 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,120 Speaker 1: him to renew his contract with umng umg ain't want 540 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,200 Speaker 1: to pay him. This is his argument ungng ain't want 541 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:29,920 Speaker 1: to pay him what he feels like he worth, and 542 00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,120 Speaker 1: a way to make sure that they don't have to 543 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:37,080 Speaker 1: pay him as much as he's asking for. They was like, well, 544 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:41,480 Speaker 1: we need to just like you know, lower his brand value. 545 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,640 Speaker 1: And how we lower his brand value is we push 546 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,360 Speaker 1: Kendrick's value up. So what he's saying is like, y'all 547 00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,759 Speaker 1: ran the bots to run up the numbers on not 548 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,480 Speaker 1: like us. I'm suing that's not real. And where he 549 00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,760 Speaker 1: got this data from was because some dude on Academics 550 00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:01,160 Speaker 1: stream said he got paid five hundred hours to run 551 00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:07,560 Speaker 1: up the streams plus some points on the album. Do 552 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,320 Speaker 1: you know how points on the album means, like percentage 553 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,880 Speaker 1: of ownership of the song. What you're telling me is 554 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:18,439 Speaker 1: Universal Music Group was willing to rather than just pay 555 00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:24,200 Speaker 1: their own artist what these words, they was willing to 556 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:33,600 Speaker 1: tank their own artists and then pay some rando's ownership 557 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:39,120 Speaker 1: of the song to make sure that his numbers would 558 00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,680 Speaker 1: run up so high as to lower Drake's value so 559 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,680 Speaker 1: they don't have to pay him what he's asking. That's 560 00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:50,600 Speaker 1: what the lawsuits saying. Now, if that's the case, that's trash. 561 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:55,720 Speaker 1: I just can't I'm just saying, I don't understand why 562 00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:06,319 Speaker 1: a label would shrink the artists numbers. I don't know 563 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:22,120 Speaker 1: either way. 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