Speaker 1: Calls media. I'm opening this episode up licking my fingers
Speaker 1: cause this is left overseason. Are we good in my house? Uh?
Speaker 1: This this black Sekin house? Oh yo, yo, food don't
Speaker 1: smack like ours? Trust me, yeah, trust your turkey ain't
Speaker 1: Enchilada style, is it? You ain't got it based in
Speaker 1: it an shei Litha's because your mother in law don't
Speaker 1: know what the hell Thanksgiving means. They just saw it
Speaker 1: on TV and she was like, a turkey don't seem
Speaker 1: like it's enough going on. Why don't I make it
Speaker 1: like an anchi litha. So it's like covered in enchilada sauce,
Speaker 1: Like yo, a turkey, don't slap like mine. Me and
Speaker 1: the homies just like fried stuff. So brind that mug
Speaker 1: in occasion and then deep fry it like it's some
Speaker 1: shrimp and some old baycuz blood you don't eat like me.
Speaker 1: These collar greens. Listen, my greens. You don't want to
Speaker 1: smoke with your boy. With the greens, your boy can burn.
Speaker 1: I put my foot in them greens. The hot water
Speaker 1: corn bread next to the authorities, both the slang and
Speaker 1: the literal. You know what I'm saying, all kind of
Speaker 1: homemade silicized cuz my mother in laudo play around my swag.
Speaker 1: You don't want it with folks, you feel me. You
Speaker 1: don't want it with the mac and cheese. You don't look.
Speaker 1: You don't want it with the mac and cheese. And
Speaker 1: then to wake up with a whole bowl of pasola
Speaker 1: and to my list the next day. Cut you don't
Speaker 1: want it with my house. Aamn, yams, ain't got no
Speaker 1: dog on marshmallows on top of marshmallows, don't belong on.
Speaker 1: No yams is wrong with you. I can get to
Speaker 1: the yams, baby sweet yea ams? Sure me? Oh man,
Speaker 1: you don't want it with my house anyway. I think
Speaker 1: you do want it with my house. You want to
Speaker 1: be in myles eating my food. You can't have you
Speaker 1: can't have none of this. We not sharing nothing. I
Speaker 1: am talking about nonsense right now. Sent of the year,
Speaker 1: and oh my god, what a year there's like in
Speaker 1: this cycle of the contract. It's like, I owe, I
Speaker 1: heard two more episodes now obviously that's just on this
Speaker 1: contracting me. Praise the Lord God Almighty. We got renewed
Speaker 1: for another season. But yeah, I'm crawling into the end
Speaker 1: of the year. Just like y'all are. But what we
Speaker 1: did at the halfway mark, and I can't believe that
Speaker 1: was the halfway mark, was we did a half a
Speaker 1: year stated a Blackness address. So now coming into the
Speaker 1: end of the year, it is now the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four end of the year State of the Blackness Address,
Speaker 1: hook politics, y'all. Yeah, buddy, what a year has been? Man?
Speaker 1: What do you say? Dude? Like, So let's first let's reflect.
Speaker 1: You know, the year started off so promising. You guys
Speaker 1: may remember it started with Club Shasha and Kat Williams
Speaker 1: just setting the record straight, just being like, this is
Speaker 1: the tone. What's going on this year? Is we cleaning
Speaker 1: house and we shining? Who knew Kat Kat was? I
Speaker 1: thought I got said in the first time. I thought
Speaker 1: Kat was gonna give us the phrase we was gonna
Speaker 1: use forever, but instead he gave us the facial expression
Speaker 1: we gonna use forever. Is that man looking at you
Speaker 1: with his little drinker and just being like I tried
Speaker 1: to tell y'all, you got to tell Diddy No, who knew?
Speaker 1: No Diddy, when you want to play in your buttthole,
Speaker 1: give you five million dollars, You got to tell Diddy no,
Speaker 1: kat was trying to tell us something. That man exposed
Speaker 1: frauds inside of the comedy circuit. Some of it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you was being a little salty. Maybe you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like some of it felt like it was
Speaker 1: a little little sus because he definitely followed up with
Speaker 1: that Netflix special that I couldn't even finish. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna hold you like. I was like, ah, man, I don't.
Speaker 1: It just ain't doing for me. But that interview when
Speaker 1: he laid down that you have an unnatural alliance to
Speaker 1: losers and it's not like you. I was like, Kat
Speaker 1: is letting us know what the year is twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: We done, lion, We've done hiding. We're saying what we
Speaker 1: were saying. It was such a great moment for the
Speaker 1: culture for us. Followed like almost the next day with
Speaker 1: the dude, the brother that jumped over the bench in
Speaker 1: the court. You murdered a brother, the flying felon brother
Speaker 1: jumped over the thing and tackled the lady. Y'all. That's
Speaker 1: how the year started. The year started with Cat Williams
Speaker 1: and then the boy jumping over the bench to tackle
Speaker 1: the judge because she ain't she wasn't listening to what
Speaker 1: he was trying to say. He's trying to say he
Speaker 1: had changed man, but she wasn't. He wasn't. She wasn't
Speaker 1: hearing it. That's how the year started. It was like,
Speaker 1: this is this is a wonderful way to start a year.
Speaker 1: And it started making me think this year is finna
Speaker 1: be black as hell. And it was like a very
Speaker 1: exciting time for the year to be black as hell.
Speaker 1: Because right after that, oh Man Caw Girl Carter came,
Speaker 1: Beyonce did a country record, and of all the talk
Speaker 1: around what it means to be a country artist, what
Speaker 1: country is, and let's let me let me who who
Speaker 1: has a day job as being a musician. I understand
Speaker 1: what it means to be multi genre. I write poetry,
Speaker 1: I do hip hop. I understand also that I know
Speaker 1: a lot of rappers right now, right now in sessions
Speaker 1: with country artists because they're writing songs for him. Why
Speaker 1: because there's money there. You can't look at what Jelly
Speaker 1: Roll doing. You can't look at Shaboozi and be like,
Speaker 1: that's Jay Kwan's song he did, It's what a lick? Right?
Speaker 1: It is Jae Kwan's song One here comes the two
Speaker 1: to the three to the four, everybody drunk about the
Speaker 1: dance floor. He just changed the word from club to bar.
Speaker 1: Everybody at the club getting tips, everybody at the bar
Speaker 1: getting tips. It's just like, why would you not that dude.
Speaker 1: Dack's the other black dude rapper that was on the
Speaker 1: Corner list. And I mean, you say what you want
Speaker 1: about him, but yeah, like he was on the Corner
Speaker 1: rapper list. But I'll tell you what. He over there
Speaker 1: in country music making his bread. Now do we have
Speaker 1: the right to do that? Well? As Beyonce so eloquently
Speaker 1: pointed out, country music is black. We were. We have
Speaker 1: a right to be here because we made it. I
Speaker 1: have a song called Gentrify on a record called Crooked
Speaker 1: that I did in twenty seventeen. Matter of fact, the
Speaker 1: first uh it could happen here stuff that it had
Speaker 1: the song crooked as like the theme word the Grandpop's
Speaker 1: good and fathom the Obamas is Yeah. So that was
Speaker 1: from the album Crooked. And I'll have a song on
Speaker 1: there called Gentrify where I'm gonna quote myself because I'm
Speaker 1: that shallow. I ain't saying you ain't welcome. Please be
Speaker 1: our guest just know the city limits beat in our chest.
Speaker 1: So it's not so much that we feel as though
Speaker 1: what we create isn't for everyone. It just doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that you get to if you're welcome into my house,
Speaker 1: you just can't rearrange my furniture and start putting your
Speaker 1: name or all my stuff. That's this. This is what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you. You not allowed to. You
Speaker 1: can't just this ain't your house. You can't just act
Speaker 1: like it's your house. So what Beyonce did was remind
Speaker 1: everybody and to highlight other black country artists that's been
Speaker 1: there the whole time. That's like, well, we never left,
Speaker 1: We've always been making country music. And then she made
Speaker 1: a music that and she made an album that like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the other part that kind of made
Speaker 1: me mad. I'm like, we is. I mean, it's pop music.
Speaker 1: Like I don't understand why y'all so mad about this.
Speaker 1: It's pop with a country feel. And let her live.
Speaker 1: She did that already with the Renaissance record, which was
Speaker 1: reminding everybody that house music, it's Chicago, queer, black black people. Man,
Speaker 1: this our year cause And I was excited until the
Speaker 1: worst kept secret in all of entertainment slid out and
Speaker 1: that is Diddy, p Diddy, Sean Puffy Comb's nasty ass.
Speaker 1: It all kind of all kind of stumbled out videos
Speaker 1: of him beating the mess out of his girl. All
Speaker 1: the NDA's about him diddling p Diddy diddling kids is
Speaker 1: we still haven't confirmed whether that mug happened to Justin
Speaker 1: Bieber and maybe us should brought him over where. It
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this one situation, these Diddy parties, this
Speaker 1: one thing could take down like almost all of black entertainment,
Speaker 1: unless you like Kendrick Lamar, which was like, I stay
Speaker 1: in the crib, but we'll get to Kendrick later. So
Speaker 1: Diddy gave us new phrases no Diddy, right, and just
Speaker 1: the amount of people that were mixed into that thing,
Speaker 1: Meek mill, it's still people talking about how jay Z
Speaker 1: is paying millions to keep his name up out of
Speaker 1: that right, I don't know. Jaguar Wright started telling everybody
Speaker 1: all started telling everybody's business. The drugs that they take,
Speaker 1: the uppers and the downers to stay in that party,
Speaker 1: the women that they flew out there, and how and
Speaker 1: a lot of times Didd he ain't even interested in
Speaker 1: the women and just the memorable level of a thousand
Speaker 1: bottles of baby oil. It's just this is disgusting, but
Speaker 1: it couldn't have been more funny. Here's the thing about
Speaker 1: black people. Just like we said in the last one,
Speaker 1: we could be deeply unserious about very serious things, and
Speaker 1: we could be very serious about un serious things and
Speaker 1: never really lose sight as to what is important and
Speaker 1: what was not. That man diddy House got raided and
Speaker 1: he was gone, and he left his boys. Bad. Oh
Speaker 1: this private jet on his way to a play as
Speaker 1: a way to a place that don't extradit. This nigga
Speaker 1: left is getting the nigga looking like George Bush flying
Speaker 1: over Hurricane Katrita. Why his kids is being the Oh
Speaker 1: my god, oh my god. Speaking of which, we were
Speaker 1: still on a high from Aquamane and the Montgomery brawl,
Speaker 1: the fade in the water. We were still on a
Speaker 1: high from that. I'm telling you, man, this was supposed
Speaker 1: to be our time.
Speaker 2: Babe, baby, babe, Wow.
Speaker 1: And then what happened next? Oh lord, you know what? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what happened next? Margie Taylor Green decided she
Speaker 1: wanted it with the black congresswoman, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and
Speaker 1: and a beautiful show of solidarity among the black and
Speaker 1: brown communities with congressmen or Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and uh
Speaker 1: Alexandria Cassio Ortez Cortes. The thing that like, if you
Speaker 1: have not figured this out by now, if you listen
Speaker 1: to my show, you are not going to If you
Speaker 1: if your ancestors is from the equator in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, you are, You're never gonna roast us better.
Speaker 1: We will always like we're gonna cook you. Why because
Speaker 1: of the culture and the families for which we were
Speaker 1: forged in You have to understand our aunties, our uncles,
Speaker 1: Our theos are theias, our theitos are the thoughts. They're merciless.
Speaker 1: They have that your your age don't matter. They don't
Speaker 1: do age appropriate, like you're merciless. I understand a lot
Speaker 1: of times in the Asian community it's a little more
Speaker 1: like it's a little different. No, it's not a little different,
Speaker 1: because I've heard from my Asian friends they're like, are
Speaker 1: you walking the door? Your grandma will be like you're fat. Now,
Speaker 1: like listen, so they very direct for us. It's jokes
Speaker 1: like she gonna say that about you, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a joke. Like you, I don't know how else
Speaker 1: to say this. No one is safe in our only
Speaker 1: No one's safe in our homes. Grandma, Grandma cook you.
Speaker 1: You come in there wrong. Listen, listen. You happen to
Speaker 1: walk in. You happen to bring your little white girlfriend
Speaker 1: in here. And she insisted on bringing her vegan muffins,
Speaker 1: like Grandma is gonna cook her like, and she gonna
Speaker 1: cook you right after you, just like, listen, you have
Speaker 1: to listen. Listen. I'm in an interracial relationship now. Granted
Speaker 1: mine is Mexican, so it's a little different, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And she like her granddaddy black is
Speaker 1: hell like they from southern Mexico is different, right, And
Speaker 1: she looked Mayan, like my wife looks indigenous. So the
Speaker 1: point is, we have a few more cultural Oh, of
Speaker 1: course we have our differences, but we have a few
Speaker 1: more cultural overlaps. But listen. I still had to prepare
Speaker 1: her last year. She said she wanted to take a
Speaker 1: shot at making the macaroni and cheese. And I said, okay, now,
Speaker 1: let's do a trial run. Okay, before you bring this
Speaker 1: to the rest of my family. Okay, they love you,
Speaker 1: they like you. You have to understand our meals. This
Speaker 1: is what you understand about black people. And probably Latinos. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: for shaw Latinos too, but specific Latino said. Look, it's
Speaker 1: a little different, but with black people, it's a meritocracy.
Speaker 1: Like you earn the dish you are. You are assigned it.
Speaker 1: You don't get to pick it. You're assigned the dish
Speaker 1: that you bring. I don't care if you like making
Speaker 1: mac and cheese, my nigga, you bring in the collar,
Speaker 1: you bring in the greens. You're better at greens. That's
Speaker 1: what you're bringing. And look if you can't, if you
Speaker 1: can't cook, you just bring the drinks. It's fine, Brendana baby,
Speaker 1: you brown and bring the alcohol. We'll do the cooking,
Speaker 1: you know, because don't it ain't nobody gonna eat it, right.
Speaker 1: You're gonna waste all that money, all your time, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna make fun of you for bringing it. We
Speaker 1: already told you not to bring that dry ass corn
Speaker 1: bread in here. We told you not to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't know who told you that was okay, so
Speaker 1: I listen, you need to prepare your melanin challenged partners
Speaker 1: prepare them. So I prepared her, and she went on YouTube.
Speaker 1: She found somebody, an old woman from Louisiana that uh
Speaker 1: and when I tell you like she's I mean, my
Speaker 1: wife's a PhD. She knows how to follow directions. She
Speaker 1: followed that recipe to a tea and let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. That mac and cheese was smacking. It even
Speaker 1: had the right crust on the top of it, like,
Speaker 1: you know, we can go get the corner, like the
Speaker 1: corner was right, y'all, listen, I'll look, I'm not telling
Speaker 1: y'all you already know. You already know the test the tests.
Speaker 1: At that point, I was like, you can absolutely bring
Speaker 1: this around my family because I don't want her to
Speaker 1: feel what we felt as children. So let me bring
Speaker 1: that back to Congresswoman so Marle Marjie Taylor Green. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was such an amazing clip. Was just running her mouth,
Speaker 1: just leaning back, running her mouth, you know, and and
Speaker 1: and just being just being completely rude and talking about
Speaker 1: eyelashes and men and making comments about the phys appearance
Speaker 1: of Congresswoman Jasmine and the thing about again, I keep
Speaker 1: having a school, y'all. This's the state of the Blackness
Speaker 1: address we are required to, especially as black men, or
Speaker 1: specifically as black men, and very specifically as black women.
Speaker 1: Specifically as black men, we have to keep our cool
Speaker 1: because we'll get murdered. So're you like any show of
Speaker 1: aggression or discontentment as a black man, you have to
Speaker 1: really calculate, like how much I can't just lose it
Speaker 1: like these white boys can lose it. Like we can't
Speaker 1: just lose it like that, Like we have to maintain
Speaker 1: a certain level of decorum because we're fighting stereotypes and
Speaker 1: just the anti blackness, the fear that that strikes in
Speaker 1: people's hearts when we just raise our voice or even
Speaker 1: are just having fun. Like there are times like you know,
Speaker 1: it's like from the hood is thing called park day,
Speaker 1: where like park Day it'd be I mean, it could
Speaker 1: get rowdy, but most of the time, like we're playing
Speaker 1: like Niggas is playing kickball and like you know, like barbecue,
Speaker 1: are having a fun time. Niggas is just loud, Like
Speaker 1: if we're playing Domino's, like we may like we just loud,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And it's just for some reason,
Speaker 1: it just be terrifying for people, Like I was having
Speaker 1: this conversation even with my own wife, like about I
Speaker 1: had to take I like taking public transit these days
Speaker 1: because gas prices is crazy. But I was taking the
Speaker 1: train home and I was like, yeah, nah, this train
Speaker 1: gets rowdy, dog And she was just like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of young young hoodlums and
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I'm completely comfortable around them. It
Speaker 1: was a whole lot of old people that was yelling
Speaker 1: at each other. Who was elderly folk hitting there and
Speaker 1: they wheelchairs just mad at everything. I was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this is getting rowdy. And the poor bus driver there's
Speaker 1: two people in these wheelchairs, was yelling at each other.
Speaker 1: One of them was having like a delusional moment where
Speaker 1: she was like, they say, I'm a murderer. I can't
Speaker 1: even get out of my chair right. I was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: it's getting hectic in here. I'm a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: like Now, granted I'm not delusional, I understand, like I
Speaker 1: got Antenna's, but generally, if a bunch of like a
Speaker 1: bunch of actos, a bunch of like, you know, young
Speaker 1: black dudes, get on, get on the train, I'm like, nigga,
Speaker 1: ain't me like you know what I'm saying. Like I
Speaker 1: don't know, like that doesn't But anyway, if they're being loud,
Speaker 1: I'm not scared. I'm annoyed, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because I'm like, nigga, put your headphones on, okay, like
Speaker 1: you do't like what is you doing? Homie? Like you know,
Speaker 1: and it's more like as a big hummy, like you
Speaker 1: know what these people think of you? You feel me
Speaker 1: like you're gonna be targeted, but scared so and with
Speaker 1: black women probably which you know, an extension to all women,
Speaker 1: but I'm not talking about all women. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: black women. They got attitudes, they difficult, you know, and
Speaker 1: if she likes show her rage, then she's an angry
Speaker 1: black woman, you know what I'm saying. So you got
Speaker 1: to really calculate and like you got to really get
Speaker 1: us there, because to get to the level of Congress,
Speaker 1: like Congresswoman Jasmine had to like really know how to
Speaker 1: control herself and the things for which she needs to say,
Speaker 1: because you got to be able to move in areas
Speaker 1: that are very foreign to us and don't understand our
Speaker 1: ways of communication. So but Margie Taylor Green ain't got
Speaker 1: to worried about that, so she popping off. Sister. Oh man,
Speaker 1: y'all remember this. She said, Okay, we're talking about bodies. Well,
Speaker 1: it is it appropriate if I call if I say
Speaker 1: this this bleach blonde, bad built, butch body, like you, like,
Speaker 1: did you have to understand that that comes from decades
Speaker 1: of training and that like it is. It is fifty
Speaker 1: percent possible that she thought of that off the head,
Speaker 1: that she just looked at her right there like oh
Speaker 1: you're trying to oh you got something to say, and
Speaker 1: that alliteration bleach blonde, bad built, butch body just flew
Speaker 1: out of her soul just because we just had that
Speaker 1: kind of training. Or it's fifty percent possible that she
Speaker 1: thought that the first time she saw her. It just
Speaker 1: had been holding it because it's inappropriate to talk about
Speaker 1: somebody's body parts on the Congress floor. But either way,
Speaker 1: she lit that girl up. And at that point I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, nigga, this is our year. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is doll this this is the blackest year on record.
Speaker 1: This made me so happy. But the only thing that
Speaker 1: could top that was the light skinned Canadian had the
Speaker 1: nerve to pop off and the People's champ corn Roll,
Speaker 1: Kenny Pullitzer, Kenny jumped on the tape with Future in
Speaker 1: Metro Blooming and was like, it's not about the Big three.
Speaker 1: Nigga is the big Me and that's set off. And
Speaker 1: now you know what I'm gonna include. I'm gonna include Draking.
Speaker 1: This Drake hav black. He counts this, although he proved
Speaker 1: he not really part of our culture, but that he
Speaker 1: loves the culture. But you know what he gave us.
Speaker 1: You know what they gave us something we have not
Speaker 1: had in a long time. A really good hip hop
Speaker 1: battle that didn't end in death. That wasn't petty. It
Speaker 1: was the sophistication. And I'm gonna give because it can
Speaker 1: only be a battle. If if Drake wasn't a hit maker,
Speaker 1: this wouldn't have worked. This wouldn't have brought our culture
Speaker 1: the joy that it brought us, if Drake wasn't the
Speaker 1: villain that he is, which made basically the hip hop
Speaker 1: Avengers and X Men wrapped in one come around and
Speaker 1: show y'all the very premise of what I mean by
Speaker 1: this show, which is, if you understand the hood, you
Speaker 1: understand politics, you can't move the way Drake moves and
Speaker 1: expect people to come to your defense. That's why nobody
Speaker 1: came to his defense. Kendrick showed you you be a
Speaker 1: man of your word. You stick to your guns, you
Speaker 1: go to work, you go home. You keep your integrity,
Speaker 1: and you let your work do to talking. And for
Speaker 1: a span of two weeks, we got really to witness
Speaker 1: two of the best, two of the top. Like, think
Speaker 1: about this for a second. The two top in what
Speaker 1: sport is it really and truthfully, the two best teams
Speaker 1: make it to the finals. This was truly the two
Speaker 1: best artists in hip hop for the decade. We got
Speaker 1: to witness them go to head to head. And what
Speaker 1: all of us predicted who was in the culture was,
Speaker 1: first of all, you don't want it with k Dot.
Speaker 1: We already told y'all you ain't want it with k Dot.
Speaker 1: But the fatal mistake was the AI two pac. That's
Speaker 1: where Drake went wrong, because that went from Drake to
Speaker 1: Kendrick to Drake to the West coast. You made this
Speaker 1: a coastal thing by invoking our heroes. Not only was
Speaker 1: it corny, it just wasn't good. But when you do that,
Speaker 1: you've set in motion. You woke a sleeping giant, you
Speaker 1: poked a bear, and at that point, the run from
Speaker 1: Euphoria to Meet the Grams to six sixteen in it's
Speaker 1: just the raps that we got from that, all culminating
Speaker 1: dropping on Sinko Demio Da Da Da Da. They not
Speaker 1: like us, They not like us, They not like us.
Speaker 1: The man gave us the song like this year will
Speaker 1: This year is gonna go down in history because it
Speaker 1: gave us an anthem of the ages, DJ Mustard, the
Speaker 1: anthem of the ages, y'all, the brother streak of the
Speaker 1: Everybody screenshot it. Kendrick has seven tweets this year, and
Speaker 1: they're only just links to the songs and videos, and
Speaker 1: then the announcement that I'm also performing in the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: How do you like? What the how do you knock
Speaker 1: a year out? The part work. We didn't even got
Speaker 1: to his album that just dropped. I haven't even screamed
Speaker 1: my side yet. What a year, What a year for
Speaker 1: the coast, What a year for black people. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't all good. We'll talk about the next things that
Speaker 1: weren't all good next. All right, we're back. This year
Speaker 1: also brought us, obviously, the fall of Diddy, like we
Speaker 1: talked about before, a reckoning that absolutely needed to happen,
Speaker 1: and was long overdue. But we also found out that
Speaker 1: we can now play R Kelly music again. Why is
Speaker 1: that because all of the money from playing his music
Speaker 1: and streaming his music goes to his victims. So like,
Speaker 1: hey guys, you can listen to R Kelly again. Now
Speaker 1: we also had some deaths, oh I forgot about. The
Speaker 1: good thing is like the Kenny and Friends pop out
Speaker 1: on Juneteenth where he actually brought one hundred different hoods
Speaker 1: and united them on one stage to bring peace to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I've never seen anything like this. It was
Speaker 1: almost like this was Pok's dream. He did it. This
Speaker 1: was Nipsey's dream. Nipsey and Pac walked and ran, so
Speaker 1: Kendrick can fly. It was just absolutely beautiful. But we
Speaker 1: lost some heroes. Man, we lost James Earl Jones. Now,
Speaker 1: for you white people, that's the voice of Darth Vader.
Speaker 1: But for the rest of us, he is the royal
Speaker 1: king of Zamunda. He is Prince Takim's father. I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna explain that to you. For the rest of us,
Speaker 1: he's sold his royal oats. Words would fail me to
Speaker 1: tell you the ways for which we are connected to
Speaker 1: James Earl Jones We lost John Amos, who was the
Speaker 1: adult version of Kuntikine, and then was James Evans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: John with James Evans on good Times, America's favorite Black,
Speaker 1: America's favorite daddy from the ghet To. You may not
Speaker 1: know what good Times is, but you ever heard somebody
Speaker 1: say diin't no mind. That's from the show. That was
Speaker 1: JJ Walker and he was junior on good Times? Do
Speaker 1: do good Times in it time? You need a permit?
Speaker 1: Good Times time? You be afreed any time. We're out
Speaker 1: from Manda. So, yeah, so we lost him. We lost
Speaker 1: the dude that played candy Man, Tony Todd, you know
Speaker 1: the scary movie candy Man. We lost him, y'all. We
Speaker 1: lost Quincy Jones this year, the greatest songwriter of all time.
Speaker 1: You could quote me. Where do you where? You want
Speaker 1: to start with Quincy Jones? We are the world. You
Speaker 1: want to start with Lionel Richie. You want to start
Speaker 1: with Michael Jackson? Where you want to start Quincy Jones.
Speaker 1: You may have known them as you may have known
Speaker 1: him as Rashida Jones daddy, but we know him as
Speaker 1: the responsible for Thriller and Billy Jean. There is no
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson without Quincy Jones, y'all. I would love for
Speaker 1: you to, at some point today or over the over
Speaker 1: the holidays, just google Quincy Jones's catalog of song of
Speaker 1: songs he's written, and just you know, good luck, good
Speaker 1: luck finding time to listen to anything else that was
Speaker 1: tough and hip hop. We lost DJ Kark Kent do
Speaker 1: your googles, ca, y'all. We lost rich Homie Kwan Dang, y'all.
Speaker 1: We lost Frankie Beverly in the maze or not the maze.
Speaker 1: We just lost Frankie Beverly. Uh, you don't know Frankie
Speaker 1: Beverly is. You don't know what maze is? You ever
Speaker 1: seen black people do the electric slide? You know what
Speaker 1: song came on that immediately made us do the electric slide?
Speaker 1: Dun Dun do do do Dune Dun dun whoa before
Speaker 1: I let go? That's it's Frankie Beverly. We had a
Speaker 1: good time. I'm gonna make sure them righter. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: oh you know Beyonce's version done and dun dunk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Frankie Beverly. We lost Frankie Beverley. We lost Fat
Speaker 1: Man Scoop. Here we go now, here we go now,
Speaker 1: fat Man, scoop y'all. Tito Jackson as in Michael Jackson's brother,
Speaker 1: d Kimbamo Tumbo, the wag Finger. Come on, man, kim
Speaker 1: Bemo Tumbo, one of the greatest sinners in all basketball history.
Speaker 1: We've lost some giants this year, man. We've also had
Speaker 1: some tragedies when the continuation of police brutality in the
Speaker 1: police state just now is reported that twelve men in
Speaker 1: a Virginia state prison self motified themselves, Like yeah, I
Speaker 1: said that weird self emole emulation. They set themselves on fire.
Speaker 1: In twelve of them. They were in solitary confinement. The
Speaker 1: first two were in solitary confinement, and they said it
Speaker 1: was the egregeous, exhausting amount of racism that they had
Speaker 1: to deal with. They were there for two months solitary confinement,
Speaker 1: shouted at food spit in just a horrendous experience, so
Speaker 1: much much so that they set themselves on fire in protest. Guys,
Speaker 1: We've had some good times, but we've had some bad
Speaker 1: times this year. This year. In one of the episodes,
Speaker 1: I told you who child let me put you on
Speaker 1: I'm cops in Minnesota, or nam cops in Mississippi and
Speaker 1: tied up up, tied up two men. They went in there,
Speaker 1: they called him. They was like a team. They went
Speaker 1: in there on purpose to tie up these these people
Speaker 1: in torture them tie up these black people in torture.
Speaker 1: That lady that had that that got shot up because
Speaker 1: the cop thought that he was he was scared she
Speaker 1: was gonna throw boiling water on her. Things still happened
Speaker 1: to us all the time. Now, while this was going on,
Speaker 1: so was the presidential election. And there was a moment
Speaker 1: where I thought this episode that I'm doing right now
Speaker 1: might end with us having a black female president. This year,
Speaker 1: we did see a black woman. She's black and Indian,
Speaker 1: I know, but like you also know, oh black woman
Speaker 1: be on the top of the ticket for president. Ye'ah.
Speaker 1: We could have had a black woman president. But it
Speaker 1: didn't end that way for a million reasons that I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure you've heard. But it didn't happen, and it
Speaker 1: was for the for the culture. Was a little disappointing.
Speaker 1: Now granted, you know, obviously you take a guess who
Speaker 1: I voted for. But she wasn't a perfect candidate, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. She had her flaws, she had.
Speaker 1: They ran a campaign that was frustratingly doing its best
Speaker 1: to Playcate the right rather than just standing on business,
Speaker 1: which I wish she would have done. But you know
Speaker 1: what do I know? But it was a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna hold you. It was a beautiful thing
Speaker 1: to hear, you know, wipe me down in the background
Speaker 1: at her headquarters. It was kind of cool to be like,
Speaker 1: this is sorority sister that went to Howard University. It
Speaker 1: was pretty dope to see stuff like it was dope
Speaker 1: to see you know that her silk press, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like it was, it was dope to
Speaker 1: see it. It was dope to see the culture on
Speaker 1: display and at the level that she could. But she lost,
Speaker 1: and I thought that that's what was going to be
Speaker 1: the death knell in the blackness of the year until
Speaker 1: until squabble up, Squabble up, squabble up, get the gout
Speaker 1: my fires. Until Kendrick Lamar came to save the day
Speaker 1: against so black people. We got us an anthem, We
Speaker 1: defeated a Canadian. The dark Skins is back up. Lebron
Speaker 1: actually had to practice some nepotism. It was kind of cool.
Speaker 1: To see black people do the nepotism thing by putting
Speaker 1: Brownie into a game that boy average point one points
Speaker 1: a game. He definitely needed to go to the G League,
Speaker 1: but it was really cool to see this time. For example,
Speaker 1: you know, a black man bringing his unqualified child into
Speaker 1: a position that he shouldn't have. That felt good to me.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying? We got us an anthem,
Speaker 1: We got us a super Bowl, we got us a
Speaker 1: fiery discussion as to whether Lil Wayne has the right
Speaker 1: to be mad or not. We got bleach blonde, bad built,
Speaker 1: butcher body. But also we got Phoebe l drizzy. What
Speaker 1: a year, y'all hood politics.
Speaker 3: And then the year kept giving because oh man, the Canadian.
Speaker 1: Drake, drake suing his own label, y'all the state of
Speaker 1: the blackness. I don't want to blame it on his
Speaker 1: light skindidness because that's not fair, because look, you know
Speaker 1: who ain't corny, Steph Curry. He don't be doing corny
Speaker 1: stuff like this. But here's the argument, as we know
Speaker 1: of so far, his argument is it was time for
Speaker 1: him to renew his contract with umng umg ain't want
Speaker 1: to pay him. This is his argument ungng ain't want
Speaker 1: to pay him what he feels like he worth, and
Speaker 1: a way to make sure that they don't have to
Speaker 1: pay him as much as he's asking for. They was like, well,
Speaker 1: we need to just like you know, lower his brand value.
Speaker 1: And how we lower his brand value is we push
Speaker 1: Kendrick's value up. So what he's saying is like, y'all
Speaker 1: ran the bots to run up the numbers on not
Speaker 1: like us. I'm suing that's not real. And where he
Speaker 1: got this data from was because some dude on Academics
Speaker 1: stream said he got paid five hundred hours to run
Speaker 1: up the streams plus some points on the album. Do
Speaker 1: you know how points on the album means, like percentage
Speaker 1: of ownership of the song. What you're telling me is
Speaker 1: Universal Music Group was willing to rather than just pay
Speaker 1: their own artist what these words, they was willing to
Speaker 1: tank their own artists and then pay some rando's ownership
Speaker 1: of the song to make sure that his numbers would
Speaker 1: run up so high as to lower Drake's value so
Speaker 1: they don't have to pay him what he's asking. That's
Speaker 1: what the lawsuits saying. Now, if that's the case, that's trash.
Speaker 1: I just can't I'm just saying, I don't understand why
Speaker 1: a label would shrink the artists numbers. I don't know
Speaker 1: either way. What a year of y'all other politics? All right, now,
Speaker 1: don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen
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Speaker 1: to you. If you understand urban living, you understand politics.
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