Speaker 1: Al Zone Media. All right, it's the most wonderful time
Speaker 1: of the year for podcasters in that season of the
Speaker 1: time of the year is rerun time. Oh yes, especially
Speaker 1: if you do like a weekly good lord, a daily podcast.
Speaker 1: Got dog, so glad I could run a rerun. So
Speaker 1: the rerun we're running is the State of the Blackness,
Speaker 1: Part one, because next week will be the full year
Speaker 1: State of the Blackness, because it's been quite a year
Speaker 1: for black people anyway. It is to Malay season. So
Speaker 1: I am going to leave this recording office, this little
Speaker 1: in the back of the crib where I record the pod,
Speaker 1: and I am going to gorge myself on to my
Speaker 1: list because I'm in Los Angeles and my wife is
Speaker 1: from Mexico.
Speaker 2: Deuces.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you just wake up and choose violence.
Speaker 1: There are so many sayings that have because of the
Speaker 1: Internet and specifically black Twitter, which will be the content
Speaker 1: of the episode following this one. But wake it up
Speaker 1: and choose violence again as a black saying that you
Speaker 1: know where we say what we mean most of the time,
Speaker 1: we choose peace to stay on point and again follow follow,
Speaker 1: follow the way that our slang works. This is very
Speaker 1: important because it's all connected you stay woke. I know
Speaker 1: y'all Inn stole the term, but what we mean by
Speaker 1: that is aware of the ways that you are being oppressed,
Speaker 1: Like don't fall asleep at the wheel the way the
Speaker 1: white people say, just let somebody else steer the ship.
Speaker 1: Like you got to stay awake. You gotta know what's
Speaker 1: happening around you. Stay aware, stay informed, and you stay
Speaker 1: on point. You be about your paper, you be about
Speaker 1: your business. You understand. So a lot of the stuff
Speaker 1: we talk about is we mean to be like yo,
Speaker 1: you stay on mission, like you don't let nobody shake
Speaker 1: you off mission. Don't let these people's foolishness detract you
Speaker 1: from the goal, from the mission, from the elevation. You
Speaker 1: do stuff for the culture, for the family, you know,
Speaker 1: and you choose peace. You choose that. But sometimes, as
Speaker 1: Kendrick say, you got to pop out and show niggas
Speaker 1: these sayings, these ways we have as a black community,
Speaker 1: they're all connected. We understand them all because they all
Speaker 1: from the same cultural experience. So all of our phrases,
Speaker 1: they're connected, but they're connected by the connected tissue of
Speaker 1: our shared experience of our culture. I hope this is
Speaker 1: makeing sense to you. These are things that you just
Speaker 1: I don't if you if you are like us again,
Speaker 1: like Kendrick said, I would not have to explain these
Speaker 1: things because you would just know. And it's not This
Speaker 1: isn't a slight, this is just a reality. There are ways. Again,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be this part I'm gonna I should
Speaker 1: probably say for again the next week about black Twitter.
Speaker 1: But it's for context for you to understand that, like listen,
Speaker 1: we are. The way we communicate in a lot of
Speaker 1: ways is we can be deeply serious about very unserious
Speaker 1: things and be dead serious about really unseerious stuff and
Speaker 1: never lose sight as to which is what and how
Speaker 1: they're both happening at the same time, and we truly
Speaker 1: understand which is which, and nobody's confused. But if you
Speaker 1: aren't confused, we understand. I tweeted this once and on
Speaker 1: my own girls was like, man, my my sister's daughter's
Speaker 1: hamster died. And my response was like, oh man, who
Speaker 1: did the body? I don't have time to explain to
Speaker 1: you why that is so funny, but everybody black would
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The reason I do this preamble is because I want
Speaker 1: to do a couple episodes around Juneteenth, you know, which
Speaker 1: is at this point coming up about blackness. I think that,
Speaker 1: especially with the celebration of Juneteenth. I think that, like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe I haven't done a full episode on
Speaker 1: what Juneteenth is already anyway. I guess partially because realizing
Speaker 1: like I needed to know who my audience was, and
Speaker 1: it was just like there's a lot of not black
Speaker 1: people listening. So I was like, Oh, we need to
Speaker 1: make sure that y'all, y'all really know what's you know.
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta some things I gotta say to you,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, sometimes I explain stuff that's black
Speaker 1: just out of solidarity with other black people, where I'm
Speaker 1: just like, dude, like this is crazy, right, it's so fun.
Speaker 1: Other times I'm like realizing that, like, oh, you you
Speaker 1: don't know this about our culture. Okay, so let me
Speaker 1: lay it out for you. So this is me laying
Speaker 1: it out and also celebrating It's both blackness. But there's
Speaker 1: something special about twenty twenty four that for some reason
Speaker 1: we have decided as a culture and a community that
Speaker 1: we just have time this year. What do I mean
Speaker 1: by that, Oh, we got time this year? Like again,
Speaker 1: usually you don't wake up and choose violence. You got
Speaker 1: to be on your mission and you ain't got time
Speaker 1: for no foolishness. On time to be messy. Messiness is
Speaker 1: for the weekend, like we you know, we'll do that later.
Speaker 1: Like if you just gonna be messy us right now,
Speaker 1: I got stuff to do on time for your foolishness.
Speaker 1: This year, however, for some reason, we all decided that
Speaker 1: we got time, and that has manifested itself in ways
Speaker 1: for which we have ducked with things in house. There
Speaker 1: were things we needed to talk about amongst ourselves, and
Speaker 1: then there was some foolishness that we were just done
Speaker 1: dealing with.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: My theory is there might be something to the fact
Speaker 1: that I think, as Black Americans we just understand the
Speaker 1: reality of our two presidential options and prepping ourselves for
Speaker 1: the four years we about to experience, and there was
Speaker 1: foolishness that we stood for early on. Then we ain't
Speaker 1: realize the depth for which the Caucasidy was gonna show itself.
Speaker 1: I think we was a little unprepared for that. Unprepared
Speaker 1: in the sense that we thought that y'all had some
Speaker 1: sense there might have been the semblance of progress. Maybe
Speaker 1: we was maybe things were not like they used to be.
Speaker 1: Maybe there was, and then the white lash happened. We
Speaker 1: was like, oh, oh, it's what we knew. We were
Speaker 1: hoping it was something else, but noah, it's what we knew.
Speaker 1: And it just seems like this year we decided, you
Speaker 1: know what, we got time, We're gonna deal with this.
Speaker 1: We said what we said, you're gonna get this work.
Speaker 1: So today, at the six month mark of the year,
Speaker 1: I think it's time to reflect on and look forward
Speaker 1: to how black people have decided in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: We got time the politics, y'all. Now, before we get
Speaker 1: into this, let me hit y'all to with the weekly
Speaker 1: roundup of We'll see it's.
Speaker 4: Kind of like this bull look is like this.
Speaker 1: Bull look is like this all right, So it's like this,
Speaker 1: you know, the Hunter Biden case jumps off and I
Speaker 1: shouldn't be smiling because the testimony went out and essentially.
Speaker 3: Hunter just ratchet like he.
Speaker 1: Was sad about his brother, and the niggas started to
Speaker 1: do a crack like it's not funny. Okay, the man
Speaker 1: got himself a gun, got yourself a gun, and and
Speaker 1: had it for eleven days till this girl threw it out.
Speaker 1: Apparently it was never loaded, and he, according to this case,
Speaker 1: lied about being on drugs and illegally got a gun. Now,
Speaker 1: according to the defense, he had a signed paper that
Speaker 1: he had gone through rehab and he was supposedly sober
Speaker 1: at the time, right that, and then you know, relapsed after.
Speaker 1: But either way, dog, y'all, they done dragged. They brought
Speaker 1: his ex girl out, his brother's girl out, his kids out,
Speaker 1: being like, nah, homie bro had problems, and they was like, look,
Speaker 1: you said it in your own book, you had problems.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta, you gotta run this fade big
Speaker 1: dog now.
Speaker 3: Poem, it's not funny.
Speaker 1: And I don't feel bad for nobody rich kid, but
Speaker 1: like I do feel bad. It's that he like, damn
Speaker 1: I Dodn't I done mess this up with my daddy?
Speaker 3: Like guys, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Now, Normally in cases like this, people bring up the
Speaker 1: gun charge as far as like you illegally attained a
Speaker 1: gun when that gun was involved in some other crime,
Speaker 1: like if that gun had a body on it, if
Speaker 1: that gun was involved in some sort of robbery or something,
Speaker 1: if some sort of crime was admitted on the gun.
Speaker 3: So usually just add this thing to you add this.
Speaker 1: Type of charge to the docative charges that are already
Speaker 1: there to just kind of like you know, up the
Speaker 1: anti ad the sassa to the tacos. Usually this type
Speaker 1: of charge ain't the thing. But usually we not talking
Speaker 1: about the president's son, you feel me. And not only that,
Speaker 1: we talk about the president the current president's son brought
Speaker 1: with a federal case.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, when his daddy in charge.
Speaker 1: You feel me. So it's a lot going on right here. This,
Speaker 1: I mean, you could read this however you want. This
Speaker 1: could be a sacrificial like this could be like a
Speaker 1: sacrificial lamb, like I gotta throw my son to the wolves.
Speaker 1: This could be you know because in any other case,
Speaker 1: like you look at Trump, Trump out of way of
Speaker 1: like getting all he either get the stuff thrown out
Speaker 1: or or get the joint delayed till February thirtieth, You
Speaker 1: feel me like he figured out how to get out
Speaker 1: of all this stuff, and it just kind of it
Speaker 1: just kind of to me seemed like Biden is your
Speaker 1: run of them or Hunter Biden, your runn of this,
Speaker 1: your run of the mill rich kids you know who
Speaker 1: ain't figure out how to hit the lick as good
Speaker 1: as the other rich kids, because the Trump and didn't
Speaker 1: is they didn't figure out how to use their richness.
Speaker 3: You you just keep.
Speaker 1: Messing up and if and in his defense, it might
Speaker 1: be honestly because when he lost his brother, he just
Speaker 1: lost his mind. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Next.
Speaker 1: Look like Israel got fux hostages, they got full hostages back,
Speaker 1: that's beautiful. Were glad that y'all home and it shot
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy People on the way out were like.
Speaker 4: Come on, fail got dog man? You what do you.
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't even know how to just.
Speaker 1: You had your You had your hostages, dude, like just
Speaker 1: you had them like you their home once you shooting
Speaker 1: for never mind. And lastly, old Biden. You know, one
Speaker 1: of the first episodes I've done on iHeart was called
Speaker 1: Joe Biden from Long Beach, which got me in a
Speaker 1: little bit in trouble with some actual like gang members
Speaker 1: because they was like, you saying, here crip And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I could see how you would say that, because most
Speaker 1: Long Beach, if you black cripping. What I'm saying is
Speaker 1: he is no different than Trump, just saying it nicer
Speaker 1: and what you find out about a lot of like
Speaker 1: like take like a Vince Staples, like there's no question
Speaker 1: about his certification. Take a Snoop Dazz. These are some
Speaker 1: of the Like they're the most likable dudes. They're just
Speaker 1: super likable, intelligent, fun loving guys that are murderers. Like
Speaker 1: you can't like, there is no question about the gang
Speaker 1: banging in like they're not safe men, they're just chilling.
Speaker 4: Like you know.
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is like, don't don't let the
Speaker 1: fact that they chilling fool you, like you know. So,
Speaker 1: what Joe is doing at the border with his new
Speaker 1: immigration policy is the weirdest. It's there's there is no
Speaker 1: difference in his new policy. Then what Trump would say,
Speaker 1: The only difference is he not calling him vermit. But
Speaker 1: the policy is, Hey, we're gonna stop accepting any asylum
Speaker 1: seekers and we're gonna send y'all back within the next
Speaker 1: four days because we got too many of you. Y'all
Speaker 1: gotta stay out of here. We don't know what to
Speaker 1: do with you. You gotta go, like, we're not accepted,
Speaker 1: no more asylums. Ye what, that's what Trump says, No,
Speaker 1: it's different, niggas the same anyway, we'll unpack that much later.
Speaker 1: Now let's get to this story.
Speaker 4: Blackness, all right.
Speaker 1: Like I said, this is a reflection on the past
Speaker 1: six months where we are the state of the blackness
Speaker 1: address if you will, and just with the Queen, Congresswoman
Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett with her dropping to call this alliteration just cooking,
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor, green bleach, blonde, bad built, butch body just
Speaker 1: out which I can't even say it without laughing. First
Speaker 1: of all, it's the perfect example of us being unserious
Speaker 1: and serious at the same time. That moment, which we
Speaker 1: will build to by the end of this episode, is
Speaker 1: exactly what I mean. Her display of the sophistication, the
Speaker 1: sophistic ratchetness of what it means to be a black
Speaker 1: professional and why I will say and shout on the
Speaker 1: rooftop that our double consciousness by cultural understanding of what
Speaker 1: it means to be professional, how we can speak the
Speaker 1: king's tongue, how to play respectability politics, and how to
Speaker 1: not be one to be played with because we are
Speaker 1: from where we're from and we said what we said.
Speaker 1: How that is displayed in this one clip is again
Speaker 1: my foundational premise, which is we are more equipped than
Speaker 1: anyone else in this world to do the jobs that
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 3: Because this was perfect.
Speaker 1: It was again black people showing you, oh we got time.
Speaker 1: I'm done with all this. I got time. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna culminate with that. But what I want to start
Speaker 1: rewind the clock back to a couple moments in this
Speaker 1: year that has just made me realize, like, yeah, we
Speaker 1: just decided this year that we got time. So let's
Speaker 1: start first with how the year started. Club Sha Sha
Speaker 1: and Kat Williams. Okay, the year kicked off with a
Speaker 1: bang with this interview from comedian Kat Williams, who just
Speaker 1: now released a Netflix comedy special which I'm gonna lie
Speaker 1: to you kind of mid wasn't as funny as I
Speaker 1: was hoping it would be. That being said, this interview
Speaker 1: was one of the funniest things I've ever heard ever
Speaker 1: in my life because Kat decided he was going to
Speaker 1: spill all the tea. To understand why this is so
Speaker 1: important is you kind of have to understand who Shannon
Speaker 1: Sharp is and what he represents to us as a culture. Now.
Speaker 1: Shannon Sharp former NFL player, then he was a sports
Speaker 1: NFL commentator. He started his YouTube podcast called Club sha sha.
Speaker 1: He's got cognac in it. It's listened to us called
Speaker 1: sha sha. Now, black people are very it's a very
Speaker 1: normal like other Latinos will call the cardino, a very
Speaker 1: normal cardino that you would give our our children, where
Speaker 1: we just say they names twice you cut their names.
Speaker 1: Kai Kai says, like, that's a normal thing that we
Speaker 1: do with our children. It's just it's a it's a
Speaker 1: term of envieriment again, a cardinho, like if you speak Spanish,
Speaker 1: like there's no the translation is not direct, but you
Speaker 1: know what I mean when I say it's a cardigno. Right, So,
Speaker 1: and y'all, you know, white people should make fun of
Speaker 1: it with like honey booboo like okay, but y'all don't
Speaker 1: understand like bubo like calling our kids stuff like that.
Speaker 1: First of all, bubo is is doodoo like it's but
Speaker 1: it's also a petna is anyway, it's complicated, so Saysha
Speaker 1: is already a throwback to just very just blackness. Shannon
Speaker 1: is sharp in the way that he enunciates, the way
Speaker 1: that he articulates his facial expressions, the points he makes,
Speaker 1: even the depth of knowledge that he has about things.
Speaker 1: But yet it's said in such a country manner. Is
Speaker 1: he's collectively our uncle because it's so authentic. He's actually
Speaker 1: very well informed, very curious, knows what he's doing, super professional.
Speaker 1: But he never lost. And and I don't know him
Speaker 1: well enough to know, but everybody else that knows him says, no,
Speaker 1: that's real. That's really him. The you know him with
Speaker 1: him would have black and mild and some and some
Speaker 1: crown royal in it in you know, slapping spades, playing domino,
Speaker 1: siping cognac like he is. This is our uncle, all
Speaker 1: of it, like everything was so so his character, not
Speaker 1: in a derogatory term, but just in the person with
Speaker 1: the persona the person we're seeing on the screen, whether
Speaker 1: it's authentic to him or not, which again I believe
Speaker 1: it is. He is so familiar to us. That's unk.
Speaker 1: He unk, like you know what I'm saying, Like unk
Speaker 1: is obviously short for uncle, which is just again it's
Speaker 1: a it's a term of respect we give to older
Speaker 1: black men who aren't necessarily our fathers, right or not,
Speaker 1: like the in between, like a big homie or a
Speaker 1: big cousin, you know what I'm saying, Like a big homye.
Speaker 1: A lot of times is a little closer to your age,
Speaker 1: but like your unk, like he a little older, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like you know a few years ago,
Speaker 1: it would be like the dude with the you know,
Speaker 1: with the bluetooth with the with the funny looking bluetooth
Speaker 1: in his ear, like he just oh, heah, what's up, chuck,
Speaker 1: Like the Spice Adams character. Like now that person has
Speaker 1: gotten a little older, a little more older. Like our
Speaker 1: unks now are again more like Shannon Sharp. They little
Speaker 1: more style, They got a little They don't dress like seventies,
Speaker 1: you feel me, Like they dress the way he dressed.
Speaker 1: He a little younger. He still be outside, he still
Speaker 1: be courtside, you know what I'm saying. But like y'all
Speaker 1: seen them clips where he looked back at homeboy that
Speaker 1: really wanted to wanted to smoke with him where he like,
Speaker 1: I'm still willing to. I'll dance with you, young boys.
Speaker 1: I'm still willing to get down. Like my knees are
Speaker 1: still okay. You know. The old heads, like the Spice
Speaker 1: Adams characters, they needs don't they needs ain't working, you
Speaker 1: know you spraying the juke on. These boys are still
Speaker 1: in the club a little older than us. So that's unk.
Speaker 1: You feel me right that the girls they bringing around
Speaker 1: probably got a got grown children, you all saying, and
Speaker 1: maybe like a one or two year old grand baby.
Speaker 1: But mama still Grandma's still bad. She's still kind of young.
Speaker 1: You know, she's still bad. She's still out party. That's
Speaker 1: who unck bring around. Like, so he already that to us.
Speaker 1: And then you add in Kat Williams. Now Kat Williams
Speaker 1: a legendary black comic, but he loved odd. He always
Speaker 1: has been a little odd. He decided to absolutely eviscerate
Speaker 1: every other black comic short of a fuel and he
Speaker 1: was like, you gonna not disrespect Bernie Max's name. You
Speaker 1: gonna not disrespect D. L. Hugeley's name because he like
Speaker 1: they put in the work. But he's like, I want
Speaker 1: all the smoke. I ain't got no respect for no,
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, for no, said the entertainer. I'm saying that
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart's an industry plan. Like he just lit everybody up.
Speaker 1: And then then he talked about faise on Love, which
Speaker 1: was gave us the quote of what I thought was
Speaker 1: gonna be the quote of the year, where he said
Speaker 1: nobody knew that you know a minor was coming yet,
Speaker 1: but at the time when he said you have a
Speaker 1: strange alliance with losers and that is not like you,
Speaker 1: he was talking about the fact that like Faisan who
Speaker 1: played Big Worm and Friday has never had no specials
Speaker 1: and just never that he because he's his point is
Speaker 1: the man's not that funny.
Speaker 3: This happened and he was.
Speaker 1: Making all these kind of like wild outlandish claims, and
Speaker 1: then video started surfacing where he was basically saying said
Speaker 1: being stealing jokes this whole time. He stole the whole
Speaker 1: show from Mark Curry, who we all loved, from Michelle
Speaker 1: called Hagem and mister Cooper, and then all these clips
Speaker 1: of said the entertainer actually ripping off jokes and it
Speaker 1: was like wow, like wait a minute, none of us
Speaker 1: ever thought of that. And then he's making claims about
Speaker 1: him being able to run like a four point four
Speaker 1: forty yard dash, and then the video come out like
Speaker 1: that man really running that fast, and it was like
Speaker 1: nobody like just he wanted all. He came hot and
Speaker 1: Uck couldn't keep up with him. So it set the
Speaker 1: tone for the entire year. And sometimes like people say,
Speaker 1: like people say this all like again in the black spaces, like, yo,
Speaker 1: we blaming this whole year on Cat Williams. Cat Williams
Speaker 1: was like, I'm spilling all the tea. I'm ready to
Speaker 1: be messy. Kat decided he had time and he's out,
Speaker 1: and I will argue this. He definitely set the tone
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. Now, I can't blame
Speaker 1: everything else on him, but I tell you what, that
Speaker 1: was prophetic. We should have known this year black people
Speaker 1: have decided we got time and we're gonna deal with
Speaker 1: our own here. There needed to be a reckoning with that.
Speaker 1: Now what he said about Kevin Hart, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't know that part of the industry,
Speaker 1: but I do know that we was like, yo, this
Speaker 1: is a much better way of starting this year than
Speaker 1: we expected to or you know, cause were like, look,
Speaker 1: there a potential for January sixth, Part two, an electric
Speaker 1: Boogoaloo January sixth. The potential is here. So he was
Speaker 1: already on edge, and I think that that might be
Speaker 1: a part of why we was like, all right, look, no,
Speaker 1: we're not playing around. So Kat Williams set us off.
Speaker 1: The next thing was Sean p Diddy, Puffy Combs, my
Speaker 1: GoF next, all right, we're back. Let me back up
Speaker 1: a second to the me too movement. Now, remember, first
Speaker 1: of all, me too movement black woman who first coined
Speaker 1: the phrase. Just make sure let's remember that, because again blackness.
Speaker 1: The discussion among my world was the fact that me
Speaker 1: too hadn't touched hip hop yet. And when it does,
Speaker 1: my lord, that was you know, around the time that yeah,
Speaker 1: like me to first kicked out, kicked off with the
Speaker 1: you know, Harvey Weinstein and came with everybody that you know,
Speaker 1: dropped off, the Matt Lawers of the world, all this
Speaker 1: stuff that was about powerful white dudes in corporate situations,
Speaker 1: you know, Bill Cosby, of course, R Kelly, of course.
Speaker 1: But those were ones that like, yeah, we kind of
Speaker 1: already knew that's blackness, but I hadn't hitten hip hop yet.
Speaker 1: One could argue that like R Kelly, but R Kelly
Speaker 1: A's an R and B singer that's not specifically hip
Speaker 1: hop influence, is not hip hop okay. But because of
Speaker 1: the way that misogyny has played such a huge role
Speaker 1: in rap music and the history of how black women
Speaker 1: have bore the brunt of the the emotional and spiritual
Speaker 1: heavy lifting within the black community have been the first
Speaker 1: to protect black men, most of the time to their
Speaker 1: own detriment. Don't. I try not to get into the
Speaker 1: battle of the sexes. But it's just that's just the reality.
Speaker 1: This isn't to drag black men. Listen, that's not what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm talking specifically about the experience of black women,
Speaker 1: whether we're looking at Megan thee Stallion situation, which the
Speaker 1: reality is, the more that we understand about kind of
Speaker 1: what happened, she lied, of course out front, but she
Speaker 1: lied to protect Tory as in Tory Lanes, because she knows,
Speaker 1: like all black women in Memoriam, that if you turn
Speaker 1: black men over to them white people, they not gonna
Speaker 1: show them no mercy. And Megan from the streets, so
Speaker 1: like you know, you just don't. You don't snitch on
Speaker 1: the homies. You deal with it in house.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: This point I'm making as far or is like the
Speaker 1: historical precedence and trauma of saying if we pop off
Speaker 1: about about these black men, they're gonna lynch him. They're
Speaker 1: gonna deal with this in a way that's gonna cause
Speaker 1: more damage to our community. So a lot of times
Speaker 1: black women in hopes to protect our children, to protect
Speaker 1: our community, and even to protect them is like they
Speaker 1: they take on, they take on a lot of the suffering. Also,
Speaker 1: we get so beat up as black men when we
Speaker 1: go outside by this dominant white culture, this white supremacist culture.
Speaker 1: We get beat up. By the time we go home,
Speaker 1: we ain't got nothing left, and who's nursing us to
Speaker 1: health and a lot of times taking up brunt of
Speaker 1: us not being able to express ourselves fully when we outside,
Speaker 1: like we we I'm saying we because I'm talking about
Speaker 1: black men. We take it out on our ladies, super
Speaker 1: you know, fraudulent, coming at them sideways, finding our our manliness,
Speaker 1: our masculinity, in our violence and in our sexual prowess.
Speaker 1: Like this is just this is just historical Black experience.
Speaker 1: This is kind of just what it's been like. This
Speaker 1: is one of our maladies. Now, of course I'm speaking
Speaker 1: in a type of generality, but understand that like these
Speaker 1: are some of the pieces of trauma and PTSD that
Speaker 1: kind of sits in our bones and sits in our community.
Speaker 1: That being said, when we make our music, there is
Speaker 1: an understanding a lot of times that look, we just
Speaker 1: out here that the music is the escape. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: the expression of what we're going through, and other times
Speaker 1: it's the escape or the hope of what we wish
Speaker 1: we were going through. Like when you take like the
Speaker 1: old school early hip hop rappers that were like Shaddy
Speaker 1: Coop the Vial back then lay Back Coop the Vial,
Speaker 1: it's like, you don't these brothers lived in the projects.
Speaker 1: They didn't have they were driving o Coop the Vill's nigga.
Speaker 1: They was on the bus, the gold chains and all
Speaker 1: that stuff like this is us finding ways to find value.
Speaker 1: We understood in that sense that like Yo Black Memo
Speaker 1: was a part of this. Nowack women expressing their sexuality
Speaker 1: and and they're they're expressing themselves, whether it's twerking or
Speaker 1: the booty shaking and stuff like that. Like back down South,
Speaker 1: they used to call it pussy popping. That was just
Speaker 1: a name, that was just what it was called, right,
Speaker 1: you know, and then he turned into the term twert
Speaker 1: But like black women expressing themselves, you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: salt and pepper being like very sexualized for jj fad like,
Speaker 1: they expressed themselves just like everybody else does. And that
Speaker 1: was again an understanding in hip hop. But then we
Speaker 1: started then It got weird because there was still a
Speaker 1: type of misogyny in the concept of hip hop. Bitches
Speaker 1: ain't shit but hose and tricks, right, like not send
Speaker 1: suck that deck, It ain't no fun if the hommies
Speaker 1: came ha none and girls singing along now, granted with
Speaker 1: an understanding that like you bet, and I wish nigga
Speaker 1: would say that to me, like you bet, not actually
Speaker 1: ever say that to me? Yeah, like the fact that
Speaker 1: like Rhap City just put an album out and she's like, look,
Speaker 1: let me tell you why I'm not in your top
Speaker 1: five argument. It's because I don't have we make we'd
Speaker 1: like everybody else. There are other they're seventy cents to
Speaker 1: the dollar in hip hop, like women who are rapping,
Speaker 1: Like why why isn't Latifa, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown MC light,
Speaker 1: Why are they not in the arguments for Mount Rushmoorris.
Speaker 1: You know people talking about Nikki now NICKI owe her
Speaker 1: career to Little Kim, Like, let's be real, there would
Speaker 1: be no Megan's, there would be none of that. It
Speaker 1: would be no Cardi B's if it wasn't for somebody
Speaker 1: like a Little Kim.
Speaker 3: And then you take rhaps City.
Speaker 1: Who for me, I'm like, oh, I don't know nobody
Speaker 1: rapping like rhap City right now. Like there's again she
Speaker 1: The argument is she is right, she should be in
Speaker 1: the top five. We still have a problem with Massogi.
Speaker 1: We still have a problem with patriarchy. We still don't
Speaker 1: understand this. That being said, it was understood and kind
Speaker 1: of like nobody's saying the quiet thing out loud. I
Speaker 1: feel like Charlamage and the God may have brought this
Speaker 1: up once that like wait till Me two hits the
Speaker 1: hip hop community. It's because the music industry, specifically in
Speaker 1: hip hop, it's some weird, weird stuff that goes on,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it has to do with in
Speaker 1: my mind power. Before I get to that, there was
Speaker 1: an interview with IRV Gotti or no, with Ashanti about
Speaker 1: IRV Gotti, you know, over at Murder Inc. And some
Speaker 1: of this just horrible things he would say to her,
Speaker 1: like I made every nigga in the world. Won't a
Speaker 1: fuck you mind? I made you You're not even that cute,
Speaker 1: like just trash, just just things you would never say
Speaker 1: to a person, like unless you're a pimp. And then
Speaker 1: some of these niggas since they were kingmakers, just like
Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein and them, like they were untouchable. You couldn't
Speaker 1: there was nothing you could say because if they blacklisted you,
Speaker 1: you was done. But finally somebody spoke of and it
Speaker 1: was Cassie p Ditty's girl, who was, first of all,
Speaker 1: is twenty years younger than him, So there's that right.
Speaker 1: But that being said, Cassie brought the indictment. But in
Speaker 1: the indictment, it brought a cascade of so many other
Speaker 1: things to the point to which Diddy's house was rated.
Speaker 1: Now this happened again because black people decided we had
Speaker 1: time today. This happened at the same time that Beyonce
Speaker 1: dropped the country out and we was like, listen country
Speaker 1: black too.
Speaker 3: I'm tired of letting you, y'all because we got.
Speaker 1: Tired this year. I'm tired of letting y'all think that
Speaker 1: this your music. No, no, no, no, no, that's black too.
Speaker 1: Beyonce said, I'm reclaiming my time for all of us
Speaker 1: country music. Black do your homework. I got time. I'm
Speaker 1: making an album and I'm proving to y'all that's not
Speaker 1: your music. And look, Higo, one hundred other black country
Speaker 1: artists for you to check out who been putting in work.
Speaker 3: I'm here for them.
Speaker 1: This is all happening while we realizing what's going on.
Speaker 3: With p Diddy, that that man was whooping her tail.
Speaker 1: And what was so interesting about that is, like Diddy,
Speaker 1: he was the worst kept secret. Everybody knew this, you
Speaker 1: just don't say nothing about it. Black people decided they
Speaker 1: had time this year. I don't know, it's somewhere in
Speaker 1: the spirit, like we heard the spirit talking. Ezekio saw
Speaker 1: the wheel my nigga man, that is a Black church reference.
Speaker 1: What was the church reference? But like Ekyo Ezekielo saw
Speaker 1: the wheel way up in the middle of the air.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel saw the wheel way in the middle of the air.
Speaker 1: If you know, you know now in this moment, it
Speaker 1: was not only what he was doing to her, but
Speaker 1: what was happening in his relationship to other young rappers,
Speaker 1: whether it was Meek Mill Usher. So now the rumors
Speaker 1: started started just going all over the place where Diddy
Speaker 1: was either making them commit sexual acts or they were
Speaker 1: like for him to watch, or he was actually doing
Speaker 1: it to them. It was understood that Diddy got cameras
Speaker 1: all over his house, and the understanding is he got
Speaker 1: cameras all over his house, be so that nobody talks
Speaker 1: because I got you on camera. Now, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: this story firsthand from one of my homies. I was there,
Speaker 1: so firsthand from his story. You'd be at one of
Speaker 1: his parties, somebody tap you on the shoulder and it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's probably you might want to go ahead and leave now.
Speaker 1: And as you seeing who coming in, that's your clue, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we should probably bounce on me.
Speaker 3: Like this stuff and like thank God for that food.
Speaker 1: That's like, look, it's time for you to go, because
Speaker 1: things got real hectic after that. Now inside of that
Speaker 1: indictment is now, I mean there's photos of like you know,
Speaker 1: being like making young men force their penetration on other men,
Speaker 1: like all kind of stuff that was happening. It was
Speaker 1: like nature was like curing itself. Because again, if you
Speaker 1: were in the music industry, you knew all this. You
Speaker 1: knew that these were the type of things that he did.
Speaker 1: But what we didn't know was what he was keeping
Speaker 1: quiet about his girl. Then CNN decided to be the
Speaker 1: shade rule, Like it's so crazy, CNN, I like, I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe this. I saw a comedian just talk about this.
Speaker 1: What wait, what's the home girl name? Hold on, y'all,
Speaker 1: Monika Sanders, that's her name. She was like, listen, CNN
Speaker 1: decided that y'all don't watch the news anyway, y'all don't
Speaker 1: care about stuff that really that really go on, so
Speaker 1: we might as well show you TMZ of it all.
Speaker 3: Just let's get messy.
Speaker 1: She was like, they on some nigga shit, which is
Speaker 1: hilarious because it's kind of true.
Speaker 3: Why is Diddy on CNN?
Speaker 1: And then, as a bonus for all of us real ones,
Speaker 1: somebody messed up and booked Cameron.
Speaker 3: To come talk about this thing.
Speaker 1: And apparently y'all forgot about Cameron on Bill O'Reilly, but
Speaker 1: they put her up against a black commentator on CNN.
Speaker 3: That was like, and Camron does what he does?
Speaker 4: He don't, Oh my.
Speaker 3: God, he's the most so hard. Look y'all gotta go
Speaker 3: look at this clip of Cameron on.
Speaker 1: See it there he in Vegas City? Like you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, you know, I don't speak on Like,
Speaker 1: I don't really know Diddy, so I wasn't even there.
Speaker 1: I was talking about like did you Because the lady
Speaker 1: was like, yo, Is this the Diddy you recognize? And
Speaker 1: he's like, got here, I ain't zoomed into the photo
Speaker 1: to see if I recognize him this Diddy? I mean no,
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't condone none of them actions,
Speaker 1: but all that like other stuff like I don't I
Speaker 1: wasn't there. He ain't doude. I don't know that stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know Diddy like that. She was like, were
Speaker 1: you was there a reputation around the industry about his behavior.
Speaker 1: He's like, are you really hang with Diddy like that?
Speaker 3: Then he SIPs this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he SIPs this alixir that like in
Speaker 1: New York that's like a thing you go get these
Speaker 1: like little like uh tincture, little juices that you would sip,
Speaker 1: and he goes, I'm sorry, I'm about to get some
Speaker 1: cheeks later, so I gotta I gotta, I gotta siff this.
Speaker 1: And then he's like, yo, who's the talent agent? Why
Speaker 1: you got me on here? Speaking on Diddy?
Speaker 4: Just in it a.
Speaker 1: Disaster, But but it's so Cameron.
Speaker 4: That's how he be. He forget him on bill o'readdy?
Speaker 4: Oh you mad?
Speaker 1: Oh you mad? You big mad? That's where we got
Speaker 1: that from, you mad bro? It was Cameron on the
Speaker 1: bill O'Reilly show. Oh my god, just greatness they got
Speaker 1: because let me back up. There was footage from a
Speaker 1: hotel where Diddy grossly abuses this young lady. She's trying
Speaker 1: to leave her hotel room. She's at the elevator. He
Speaker 1: follows her in a towel, no less, just nasty work,
Speaker 1: grabs her by the head, throws her down, kicks her,
Speaker 1: grabs her back.
Speaker 3: Just horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 1: Horrible, this inexcusable. There's time where he sits down, he
Speaker 1: throws something at her. Nasty work, diabolical in a towel.
Speaker 1: Just hell is your problem? The word is he had
Speaker 1: paid that hotel fifty thousand dollars to make sure that
Speaker 1: that don't go out. It got out. CNN got it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they got it, but they got it,
Speaker 1: and then they aired it. It was just funny because
Speaker 1: we were like, I was like, of all the people
Speaker 1: to get this in the air, it CNN y'all supposed
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 4: I thought, y'all was.
Speaker 1: The serious stuff this is we're doing now we shave
Speaker 1: room right, which is hilarious, but the brud needed to
Speaker 1: be aired out. It's been going on too long. Black
Speaker 1: people decided this year we got time now. He the
Speaker 1: next day puts up his apology. That was hard because,
Speaker 1: first of all, in his defense, he owned it all.
Speaker 1: There's no excuse. Well, I mean, what could you do.
Speaker 1: I mean you could be like Trump and be like
Speaker 1: that wasn't me, or it y'all don't got the whole picture.
Speaker 1: You didn't see the whole situation. He was like, nah,
Speaker 1: that's inexcusable. There was nothing I was wrong. I was
Speaker 1: the darkest place I've ever been, and essentially like, well,
Speaker 1: of course I tried to cover it up because it
Speaker 1: was dirty work and I'm ashamed, and yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: want it to get out because it would destroy me
Speaker 1: and it's embarrassing and it's wrong and I'm wrong. He
Speaker 1: said he's gone to therapy since and tried to make
Speaker 1: himself a better person, which you could discuss amongst yourselves
Speaker 1: how you feel about that. Maybe he did. I don't
Speaker 1: know him personally, and maybe it was like this was
Speaker 1: a dark moment. I just don't know personally how you
Speaker 1: can get to those moments. Aren't just isolated, like you
Speaker 1: build to that type of violence. It happens like my
Speaker 1: mom used to say, it's the little foxes. It's the
Speaker 1: little things. You know, you don't pull them little weeds earlier.
Speaker 1: You don't deal with them little things before they become
Speaker 1: big things, and then little things. Is the commentary that
Speaker 1: I want to talk to y'all about. As somebody who
Speaker 1: understands politics and you being from the hood, you know,
Speaker 1: there's some people and I think this was a prime
Speaker 1: example of that. They get off on power. Now him
Speaker 1: doing a lot of the gay stuff. I'm calling it
Speaker 1: that because I'm trying to speak hood. That's not what
Speaker 1: I mean by it. But follow me has converted the
Speaker 1: term pause to no didty. So if you say something like, oh, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I was banging that fool hard no diddy like you're
Speaker 1: it's it's a homophobic phrase. Pause is already homophobic. It's
Speaker 1: when you say something that sounds like, you know, sexual
Speaker 1: towards another man. You're supposed to be like pause, which
Speaker 1: is a visual which is a verbal representation of what's
Speaker 1: supposed what was supposed to be happening visually. That's where
Speaker 1: pause kind of came from. It's like when you accidentally
Speaker 1: say like, nah, I get it. You know, they want
Speaker 1: me to cut my message in half and give you
Speaker 1: the six inch, but I'm gonna shove the whole foot
Speaker 1: long down your throat. You're supposed to like stop and
Speaker 1: look at each other with like big eyes, which is
Speaker 1: like pause, Like wait what I just say? Did that
Speaker 1: sound gay? So pause? Is already that? So now that's
Speaker 1: been and I think Mace coined it, which is its
Speaker 1: own funniness to be like nah no Diddy. So that's
Speaker 1: the homophobicness that's in our culture already. But sit that aside, okay,
Speaker 1: because it sucks that. That's the one thing that niggas
Speaker 1: really got mad about was the gayness, not all the
Speaker 1: other stuff. The gayness. But now that the video came out,
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, fellas, like we really got it,
Speaker 1: like this some bullshit and in our defense the general understanding,
Speaker 1: of course, this isn't the case with everything. If you
Speaker 1: like a real nigga, like I keep saying nigga because
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get you'll understand the way we talk
Speaker 1: like among our neighborhoods, A real man don't put their
Speaker 1: hands on no female stuff like that gets you. That
Speaker 1: gets you packed out, like you don't put your hands
Speaker 1: on no female like you're not a man. It's just
Speaker 1: so like there are certain things you don't You don't
Speaker 1: touch no kids, and you don't hit no female like
Speaker 1: you just we just don't accept that. But the point
Speaker 1: I'm getting to here is niggas being like, oh if
Speaker 1: you just gay, you gay nigga, like you just on
Speaker 1: the gates, like just just you know, all a nigga gay?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like why you front? Like look, nigga,
Speaker 1: you gay?
Speaker 4: You gay?
Speaker 1: It's like, listen, I don't think you understand what's going
Speaker 1: on here. It's power some people. And understand this for
Speaker 1: your politics because if you understand this about people and
Speaker 1: about a person you talk to, you understand, then you
Speaker 1: can understand they moves and what they doing. You get
Speaker 1: off on power. So if you know you hold a
Speaker 1: person's career in your hands, that you can make or
Speaker 1: break them, then it's just it's almost erotic. It's like
Speaker 1: it's an arousal to flex that power. Because at that
Speaker 1: level of celebrity, you have essentially had sex with every
Speaker 1: prom queen in every city. You've had sex with every
Speaker 1: beauty pageant winner across the world. You' there is no there,
Speaker 1: There is no box you haven't visited. So it's like
Speaker 1: a beautiful woman just doesn't do it for you no more.
Speaker 1: Like it's the law of diminishing returns a lot of
Speaker 1: times with these people like it, don't do it, Like,
Speaker 1: there's what's the drive? The drive was to be famous.
Speaker 1: I'm already famous, okay. The driver was to bag the
Speaker 1: baddest chick. I've bagged the baddest chick and everything, Like
Speaker 1: what else is there? What else is it? Money? I'll
Speaker 1: never be able to spend the amount of money that
Speaker 1: I have now, I'll never be able to do it.
Speaker 1: Stuff don't get you off no more. And what gets
Speaker 1: them off is power is telling a young man who
Speaker 1: produced an amazing track that like, I'm not gonna put
Speaker 1: it out unless you suck my homeboys, Dick, and I
Speaker 1: just want to watch it happen because I get off
Speaker 1: not on not on the homo eroticism, but on the power.
Speaker 1: Dudes get off on power, on the fact that I
Speaker 1: can say what I want to say to you and
Speaker 1: you're not gonna do nothing because you know I'm a
Speaker 1: shot caller. You know I'll run the business, you know.
Speaker 1: So that turns them on because like, how why would
Speaker 1: you put your hands on somebody you love, especially especially
Speaker 1: if you're a strong man on a young fee. Why
Speaker 1: would you date somebody that much younger than you. It's power?
Speaker 1: Power to why else? Because that's what turns that's what
Speaker 1: he enjoys. I'm not saying he did he because I
Speaker 1: don't know him, But I'm saying this is the type
Speaker 1: of behavior that that displays when people what they love
Speaker 1: is not the job, it's not that.
Speaker 3: What they get off on is power.
Speaker 1: And when you understand people like that, what makes them,
Speaker 1: what drives them crazy is when they lose power, is
Speaker 1: when they can't control the situation. When you become ungovernable,
Speaker 1: they can be mad all they won't like. Listen, if
Speaker 1: I'm in a room, I write a dope hug for
Speaker 1: somebody and he say, hey, we're not gonna do this.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Unless you diddle this dude's booty,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna unplug my laptop and leave. And it's fine.
Speaker 1: It's okay if I'm not a start black lists me.
Speaker 1: I don't need this. So when you remove their oxygen
Speaker 1: tank of power, when they when they see that they
Speaker 1: don't have it, they either they either black list, you
Speaker 1: block you off, or it makes them freakishly angry and
Speaker 1: they lose it. If Cassie left, he would lose power,
Speaker 1: and he desperately because no, we're still not talking about
Speaker 1: why Shine is in prison.
Speaker 3: All go do your googles.
Speaker 1: Power. So when you understand that about your politics, about
Speaker 1: what's happening across the world, about your Benjamin Nett and
Speaker 1: Yahoo's about all these different things happening, like when people
Speaker 1: just it's power. That's the drug, that's the aphrodijiac. So
Speaker 1: when I had to tell one of these OG's, I
Speaker 1: was in this conversation with like one of these all heads,
Speaker 1: and I was like, look, nigga, it's not I'm not
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think he's necessarily gay. First
Speaker 1: of all, there's such thing as bisexual, which blew this
Speaker 1: all hands mind. It was like, wait, I'm like, yes, nigga,
Speaker 1: that's a thing you could be attracted to both. Because
Speaker 1: to the old head, if you like men's booties, you gay.
Speaker 1: That's just it to them. But I'm like, you can
Speaker 1: like a lot. But my argument is he's not attracted
Speaker 1: to booties or titties.
Speaker 3: He's attracted to power.
Speaker 1: That's what gets in oflved and then after we explained it,
Speaker 1: he was like, dang, yeah, I get it because dudes
Speaker 1: go to jail. How do you when you're raping another
Speaker 1: man in jail? It's not because you're expressing dominant and
Speaker 1: black people. Was done dealing with this. We needed the
Speaker 1: nature to heal itself. It's too much at stake right
Speaker 1: now for y'all to be active crazy. The next person
Speaker 1: that had time this year, which I don't need to
Speaker 1: get too deep into, is Kendrick Lamar. We've already done
Speaker 1: a three episode, now four episodes about how again it
Speaker 1: called to deciding we had time. It's okay, listen. Why
Speaker 1: I say this year was the year was because you
Speaker 1: have to remember, this is a ten to twelve year
Speaker 1: feud and apparently it involved the entirety of rap music. Everybody.
Speaker 1: Everybody had a problem with Drake. The only person that
Speaker 1: ever says something slightly nice was twenty one Savage and
Speaker 1: what he said was like, man, I'm friends with both
Speaker 1: of them, which is when you are like, that's the reality.
Speaker 1: When you family with everybody like that's your stance you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be. You like, look, man, like this ain't
Speaker 1: my fight. I'm friends with both of them. I hope
Speaker 1: they work it out, you know, and you could be
Speaker 1: truthful like Drake do some sideway stuff. I don't know
Speaker 1: Kendrick the way I know Drake. I hope they could
Speaker 1: work it out and it worked out. We have successfully
Speaker 1: identified what we mean by a culture vulture, by a colonizer,
Speaker 1: and we decided this year we just not gonna stand
Speaker 1: for it. You're not gonna cosplay. And that's so crazy
Speaker 1: that like that's essentially what happened. It was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know what, we got time this year. I'm addressing
Speaker 1: the cosplayer, I'm addressing the colonizer. We kicking this shit
Speaker 1: out of the culture. And Drake has become jaw Rule.
Speaker 1: Apparently we had time this year. Now we'll see how
Speaker 1: Drake comes back. Maybe we'll see what he does.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how this turns out. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: this is a midyear reflection. And lastly, which is what
Speaker 1: made me decide to do this whole show, was the
Speaker 1: bleach blonde, bad built butcher body next. Okay, now, in
Speaker 1: a moment that would probably go down in black Twitter history,
Speaker 1: were it still a thing, if Elon didn't break the app.
Speaker 1: I mean, this would this would be like at the
Speaker 1: level of Meet Me in Temecula the Nigga Navy, which
Speaker 1: was really my favorite. Yeah, that was probably my favorite
Speaker 1: black Twitter moment. This would go on in there. Do
Speaker 1: you guys know what the House Oversight Committee is? It's
Speaker 1: actually very important to the messiness of the story and
Speaker 1: why black people finally decided to add and how that
Speaker 1: is completely manifested in Sweet Sister Jasmine. So when you
Speaker 1: become a congressman, congresswoman and you join, when you join
Speaker 1: the House of Representatives, you you have to join. You
Speaker 1: don't just get to be there. You got to join
Speaker 1: a clique. You have to join a committee you know,
Speaker 1: which I'm calling a click that serves on that serves
Speaker 1: different roles in the government for the actual use of goverment.
Speaker 1: Like that's what your job description is. You got to
Speaker 1: join a particular committee. So it's like that's the particular
Speaker 1: clique that you work with. It's like, look your group project, right,
Speaker 1: So there's the finance one. You know. Then you know
Speaker 1: they have you've you've heard things like like the Black
Speaker 1: Caucus and stuff like that. That's not what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about I'm talking specifically about being in the House of
Speaker 1: Representatives or a congress person. This one is called the
Speaker 1: House Oversight Committee, and the Oversight Committee. Their job is
Speaker 1: it's is exactly how it sounds. This is supposed to
Speaker 1: be for accountability among each other. Right, they provide oversight
Speaker 1: for the actions of elected officials and task force that
Speaker 1: have been put together, right, So they're a panel. So
Speaker 1: whenever you're seeing fools get grilled by like you seen
Speaker 1: on the news, when you're seeing fools get grilled by
Speaker 1: the Congress, it's it's this They put together subpoenas. They're
Speaker 1: able to say, Yo, you need to come in. You
Speaker 1: need to testify as to like you know, what the
Speaker 1: hell was going on? Like you need to tell us
Speaker 1: what happened was and what your thinking was for why
Speaker 1: this was happening. Some of the more historical ones was
Speaker 1: around you know, the nine to eleven attacks, right, somebody
Speaker 1: had to talk to what was going on with like
Speaker 1: the Abu Grand prison, Like how were there any leaks?
Speaker 1: Did anybody know what was going on? Stuff around Hurricane Katrina?
Speaker 1: Like why is there why did FEMA move so slowly?
Speaker 1: Like tell us, tell us what happened here, right, So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things wwe was investigated by them,
Speaker 1: Like so you just we just need to know if
Speaker 1: it's a national situation, is there really a case here?
Speaker 1: And we could subpoena people to come talk to the
Speaker 1: government to just for us to know the people Michael
Speaker 1: Cohen had to sit in front of this is the Senate,
Speaker 1: this is the House Oversight Committee for us to know,
Speaker 1: like how do we keep all this stuff accountable? Like now,
Speaker 1: like everything else, it's become freakishly partisan. If you can,
Speaker 1: as your party control who's in charge of what in
Speaker 1: the committee, then you get to pick the cases and
Speaker 1: how those come now right now, the majority in the
Speaker 1: Oversight Committee is Republican. The guy that sits as the
Speaker 1: chair is a man named James Comer from Kentucky who
Speaker 1: really a substitute teacher, looking head ass like bruhs just
Speaker 1: everything he feels like he's he got dad jokes just
Speaker 1: like right out on the tip of his tongue at
Speaker 1: all times. But I'm gonna save the roaster for later anyway. Oh,
Speaker 1: another thing I could say too about the the Senate
Speaker 1: or the House Overside Committee is like on the sixteenth
Speaker 1: of May, like so this just happened, right, They are
Speaker 1: holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for
Speaker 1: refusal to comply with any subpoena issued by the Committee
Speaker 1: of Oversights.
Speaker 3: So this just happened. So they get the right to.
Speaker 1: Do stuff like that, like, Yo, we subpoenaed you. You saying
Speaker 1: no about it? Like we get to hold you in content,
Speaker 1: which is what this meeting we're about to talk about. Now.
Speaker 1: The meeting got off late because a lot of the
Speaker 1: old Trump heads was up in New York trying to
Speaker 1: defend you know, his cheeto seal in his situation. So
Speaker 1: they was up in New York. The rest of the
Speaker 1: homies was on this City House I keep calling it Senate,
Speaker 1: this House Overside committee, talking about can we hold Merrick
Speaker 1: Garland in content? So you're supposed to go back and
Speaker 1: forth about like are we down with this? Now? Enter
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green. Now, if you know her, which you should,
Speaker 1: I mean, she is a fully she's the fully evolved
Speaker 1: pokemon of white woman privilege. Like she's the I'm sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: she is the avatar of this. She worked the system
Speaker 1: to the system work for her because I really, honestly
Speaker 1: don't really know what she believes or feels. I just
Speaker 1: know she's the queen of the wild takes extreme maga Republican,
Speaker 1: like to the point of where what she say don't
Speaker 1: make sense, like this ain't even conservative, this is just like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what you're talking about. She has
Speaker 1: very little decorum because if you and this is just factual,
Speaker 1: because if you go back to the last two State
Speaker 1: of the Union's address, she booing, she popping off, she's
Speaker 1: interrupting the dude, like just she pop off at all times.
Speaker 1: She's looking for the hot takes. She's always looking for
Speaker 1: a zinger. A lot of times she be incredibly conspiracy
Speaker 1: theory pilled, but she pop off because she got the
Speaker 1: back end of the big Homy y'all know what I
Speaker 1: mean by the big hom and people a lot of
Speaker 1: times let hers live because she famous like she's I mean,
Speaker 1: she's hot right now. She's like, let's be real, like
Speaker 1: in the world, she hot right now, and she's been
Speaker 1: hot for a while. Remember the whole fifty dig ya
Speaker 1: thing I talked about a long time ago, and I
Speaker 1: was like, none of y'all counted for Margie Taylor Green,
Speaker 1: the girl knows how to get a headline, and how
Speaker 1: she does this is in these meetings that are supposed
Speaker 1: to be rather boring and procedural. She pops off, it's
Speaker 1: been real late they at this meeting, and she continue
Speaker 1: to interrupt the meeting, asking questions that really ain't got
Speaker 1: nothing to do what we talking about? So she out
Speaker 1: of nowhere asked this question of the panel, are any
Speaker 1: of the Democrats employing Judge Marshaan's daughter? Who is Judge
Speaker 1: Marshaan doesn't matter for the story because it don't matter
Speaker 1: for the hearing either. Now you hear what obviously is
Speaker 1: a black woman, which which you can safely assume is
Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett off camera because this is all this is
Speaker 1: all recorded because it has to be so it's off camera.
Speaker 1: You hear what is clearly a black woman say, please
Speaker 1: tell me what this has to do with with Mary Garland,
Speaker 1: essentially like half of what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1: And then you hear, which is the funniest one of
Speaker 1: the second funniest thing in this clip, is you hear
Speaker 1: James Comer. Remember I told you substitute teacher head ass
Speaker 1: like goes? Is she a porn star?
Speaker 3: Like what and people it's all like is he advising it?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What is she talking about? Like you can hear the
Speaker 1: sound of blackness being like, what is this bitch?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What do you know what we're here for? Does she
Speaker 1: know what we're here for?
Speaker 3: Like just like can you believe this?
Speaker 1: Half? Like what is you talking about? So, but she's
Speaker 1: on mike because it's just like, what's happening right now? What?
Speaker 1: So that was strike one. So then Marjorie pops off
Speaker 1: with her finger. Oh, oh you know, do we know
Speaker 1: what you do? You know what you're here for? She goes, no,
Speaker 1: do you know what you're here for? Then she makes
Speaker 1: her fatal mistake. I think your fake eyelashes is getting
Speaker 1: in the way. And then that's when the gavel hits
Speaker 1: old order Order Order, So they like, mister chairman, can
Speaker 1: you get a hold of your community?
Speaker 3: Can you get your girl? Because she talking out.
Speaker 1: Her neck and the whole room's like, oh, like, yo,
Speaker 1: what is why are you popping off? And Marjorie real
Speaker 1: proud of herself, like oh boom roasted, like she proud
Speaker 1: of herself at this moment.
Speaker 3: It's kind of funny watching.
Speaker 1: All the clerks come and wild the guy that's supposed
Speaker 1: to be in charge.
Speaker 3: He needed to check the playbook.
Speaker 1: Like wait, can you are you allowed to say this?
Speaker 1: Can you talk like that? Do we need to strike this?
Speaker 1: I wait, what are the rules right now? Like the
Speaker 1: nigga confused cuz cause he like, I don't know what
Speaker 1: we supposed to do right now?
Speaker 4: What? Right?
Speaker 1: And then the whole girl, the hall girl, Jenny from
Speaker 1: the block, you know what I'm saying. The hall girl,
Speaker 1: AOC is like hot, jumps in and is like, yo, hey,
Speaker 1: do we got.
Speaker 3: Like a point of order?
Speaker 1: Like? Yo, do we got a point of order? And
Speaker 1: then one white boy kind of steps in and he's
Speaker 1: asking about finance and stuff, which really was him trying
Speaker 1: to get his bars off too, and AOC you hear
Speaker 1: her in the back like, yo, that's that's disgusting. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely disgusting. She goes, you know what, actually, I have
Speaker 1: a point of order like a person who actually understand
Speaker 1: how the rules work. She finally started talking. She was like, listen,
Speaker 1: I removed my point of order is that the parliamentarian
Speaker 1: strikes the words of Congresswoman Marjor Taylor Green because that
Speaker 1: is disgusting. You not allowed to talk about somebody's body
Speaker 1: like this man strike this from the record. She like,
Speaker 1: that's absolutely disgusting, Marley Treyley Treen popping off like oh
Speaker 1: are your feelings hurt?
Speaker 3: All like just completely out of pocket.
Speaker 1: But again, stay with me now, most of the time
Speaker 1: we ain't got time for none of this. So when
Speaker 1: she's like, oh are your feelings hurt? Ao was like,
Speaker 1: oh girl, baby, girl, Like basically like, girl, you listen,
Speaker 1: if you only knew I just did this show. This
Speaker 1: is a side note, but it's very important. I just
Speaker 1: did this this show at Joseph Harp Correctional Facility President Okay,
Speaker 1: see performed out there, and I was talking to the
Speaker 1: brus about about having inner piece, about like what's going
Speaker 1: on in your own head and that you know you
Speaker 1: deserve to have that type of piece and whatever work
Speaker 1: you gotta do, man, I encourage you to do that
Speaker 1: work right to get that piece inside your head because
Speaker 1: a lot of times people see us and they think,
Speaker 1: and especially you, because y'all are here, they think y'all crazy.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you only know what I tell you
Speaker 1: if you like you don't know what I don't say,
Speaker 1: Like if y'all knew, if y'all knew what I was
Speaker 1: keeping on myself. Oh baby, you wouldn't. You don't know
Speaker 1: half of the crazy. So essentially, what AOC is saying
Speaker 1: is like, oh, baby girl, oh if you only knew
Speaker 1: how much I hold back. Like look and right now,
Speaker 1: who she was talking who who Margie was talking about
Speaker 1: was Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. She was talking about her black woman,
Speaker 1: young black lady. She was talking about her. But AOC
Speaker 1: jumps in and was like, hell, oh hell no, right,
Speaker 1: and the white boys still can't figure out how to
Speaker 1: get ordered right, which is so funny to me. But again,
Speaker 1: none of them can control Marjorie. She do whatever she won't.
Speaker 1: But yeah, AOC like, listen, baby, don't even play like,
Speaker 1: don't play with me. You have to understand for a
Speaker 1: person of color, if a woman of color, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say specifically black or Latina, if she say don't play
Speaker 1: with me, right, you need to stop. Kendrick had a
Speaker 1: song on Damn that said stop playing with me for
Speaker 1: I turn you to a song he's talking about Drake,
Speaker 1: stop playing with me. That for black people, that's your
Speaker 1: last warning when when white people say you're on thin
Speaker 1: ice bucko that's that is the black version of that.
Speaker 1: Stop playing with me. That means you understand what it means.
Speaker 1: So Ao's like, hey, don't play right. So somebody seconds
Speaker 1: the motion that like I second the motion that those
Speaker 1: words are struck, and the people running it is still confused.
Speaker 1: That's the funniest part. They looking at documents like, wait,
Speaker 1: what are we supposed to do? How do we do
Speaker 1: this right? They have lost all control of this. Mug
Speaker 1: Alc is like, I'm not having it. That is unacceptable.
Speaker 1: We're striking that. That is no way in the world
Speaker 1: that's going in the record. But they're like, but they
Speaker 1: don't know how to do it. So they're like, oh okay,
Speaker 1: So they get the director. The leaders get the directors
Speaker 1: like do you agree to strike your words from the record?
Speaker 1: Margie Taylor Green was like I get like, I still
Speaker 1: have four minutes of twenty second, which, as a side note,
Speaker 1: was like, nigga, you've been talking this whole time and
Speaker 1: none of it has been your time, so what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Right?
Speaker 3: But forget that part.
Speaker 1: She goes, yeah, yeah, I agree to strike it. ALC's like,
Speaker 1: you need to apologize you were out of line, and
Speaker 1: she's like I ain't apologizing, Like no, if they could cuss,
Speaker 1: it had been like, no, bitch, you need to apologize,
Speaker 1: Like I can hear those words in there. It's not
Speaker 1: happening there because somebody trying to be a professional. And
Speaker 1: then Margie Taylor.
Speaker 3: Was like, why don't you debate me?
Speaker 1: AOC was like, uh, it's evan and you ain't got
Speaker 1: the intelligence for that, like and they, and so this
Speaker 1: is all happening while while the white boys is still
Speaker 1: trying to get ordered. Hey, like I haven't even recognized you.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Right, so all this has happening. They don't know how
Speaker 1: to work. They don't know how the laws work, they
Speaker 1: don't know the rules. It's too confusing. We never been
Speaker 1: in this situation. So he finally he's like, okay, okay, everybody, okay,
Speaker 1: calm down, misscreen, we got two points of order. Everybody
Speaker 1: popping off. We want to strike AOC's word. We wanna
Speaker 1: stark margin tar. We got two points of order, y'ata.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, everybody, every dight calmed down. Everybody, everybody
Speaker 1: shut up, shut up, shut up, shut u shut up.
Speaker 1: Do you agree humanimously to strike your words Margie Taylor Green. Yes,
Speaker 1: but I'm not apologizing these people be heard off words.
Speaker 1: He's like, ma'am, oh my god, do you agree to
Speaker 1: just strike the word? That's all I need from you,
Speaker 1: and then here go to order.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do this.
Speaker 1: Then we're gonna give you. You're gonna agree to this,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna give you four minutes. She's like, okay, word.
Speaker 1: Then you hear Jasmine speak up, which I bet you
Speaker 1: y'all listen, if I could only have been sitting next
Speaker 1: to her at this time, let me tell you how
Speaker 1: hard we be laughing right now. So she says, my
Speaker 1: request for you right now is to just take a
Speaker 1: second and do your googles about miss Jasmine Bona Fides
Speaker 1: to just know how unbelievably intelligent this woman is. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: I have a point of order. They was like, who
Speaker 1: this jazz? Okay, Miss Crockett, she said, I just need
Speaker 1: some clarity. I just want to know if someone were
Speaker 1: to start talking about a bleach blonde, bad built, butch body,
Speaker 1: that that would be a point of contention, Like, am
Speaker 1: I allowed to say that.
Speaker 3: Jake's cobra go?
Speaker 2: But what now?
Speaker 1: Listen, First of all, the alliteration number two. It's an
Speaker 1: alliteration that was probably off the head that she probably
Speaker 1: just thought of right there like that. Because the asylum
Speaker 1: that black people was raised in. If there's anything we
Speaker 1: do well, is we gonna roast the hell out of you.
Speaker 1: You have no chances when it comes to getting roasted
Speaker 1: with us. We are just too good at this. This
Speaker 1: is our You have to understand the way we was
Speaker 1: because we get it from every angle. You get roasted
Speaker 1: from your cousins younger than you, You get roasted from
Speaker 1: your mama, your aunties, your uncles, your granddaddy, your grandma.
Speaker 3: Every We we know how to clap back.
Speaker 1: There is never a situation where I'm not gonna figure
Speaker 1: out a way to clap back at you.
Speaker 3: We are too good at this.
Speaker 1: And again, what I keep trying to say to you
Speaker 1: when we say because AOC started it like don't play,
Speaker 1: is you don't understand what I'm not saying to you.
Speaker 1: You have no idea because of the angry black woman thing.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing that happens as an angry black
Speaker 1: man because of that's that stereotype. The amount of control
Speaker 1: we have to have, the amount of biting of tongue
Speaker 1: because when you get to pop off as much you want,
Speaker 1: but when I defend myself or when I pop off,
Speaker 1: I'm an angry black person. But sometimes we got time.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's time for you to learn a lesson. You
Speaker 1: remember the fade in the water, the Montgomery, Alabama situation.
Speaker 1: We had time that day. There are times that we
Speaker 1: have time that is like, no, you know what this
Speaker 1: is gonna stop today. You gonna you're gonna stop playing
Speaker 1: with me. So that's what seriously has happening. But she
Speaker 1: does it. Like I said, how black we can be
Speaker 1: very unserious about serious things and be serious about it.
Speaker 1: So what she gonna say is like, Okay, you got
Speaker 1: an issue with my eyelashes. You don't understand how hot
Speaker 1: I could get on your girl. I could cook you
Speaker 1: so bad right now. You don't even know like there
Speaker 1: was a be missing obviously, because we know how to
Speaker 1: control ourselves.
Speaker 3: But your little tail. If we're gonna start talking about bodies,
Speaker 3: and they were like whoa whoa you out of?
Speaker 1: Like she's like, look, I'm just trying to understand cause
Speaker 1: she gets to talk about she gets to talk about eyelashes.
Speaker 1: I just want to know what's appropriate or not cauz,
Speaker 1: So do I need to apologize? So I should apologize
Speaker 1: about that? Right?
Speaker 3: Is that the decorum? Is that what we're doing here?
Speaker 1: So essentially it's like, listen, ma'am. And this is the
Speaker 1: lesson that I cannot tell you how often in every household,
Speaker 1: if you a real one and you got children, you've
Speaker 1: had to tell your younglings. Do not dish out what
Speaker 1: you cannot take. If you can't take it, don't give it,
Speaker 1: because oh I'm a serve it full for you. So
Speaker 1: do not dish out what you can't take. Black people decided.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm about done with you. You coming into
Speaker 1: my playing field right now. You not allowed to pop
Speaker 1: off no more because if you pop off again, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna roast you even worse. You think I'm worried about
Speaker 1: these white boys, ma'am, stop playing with me. And you
Speaker 1: see the senator sitting next to.
Speaker 3: Sitting next to James Cover.
Speaker 4: Trying not to laugh, laugh, ho, this is amazing.
Speaker 1: But then the white lady gets to the white lady
Speaker 1: get to be like listen, calm down, calm down. She
Speaker 1: get to call us the angry one, and she's like no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: you want to smoke, trying to get some clarification. Can
Speaker 1: we talk like this is we allowed to because you
Speaker 1: wasn't apologizing. You don't think you're wrong. So I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to understand if this where we go and if
Speaker 1: we're gonna get down, we're gonna get am and again
Speaker 1: the white boys the lost control and Margie Screen is
Speaker 1: still popping off like calm down, I can't hear you
Speaker 1: of your anger. She's still popping off about AOC and
Speaker 1: then AOC come back and like, hold up. I moved
Speaker 1: to strike her words a second time because of the
Speaker 1: derogatory thing she's saying about a second person. Listen, black
Speaker 1: and brown unity out this mug.
Speaker 3: That's how we roll, y'all.
Speaker 1: Listen, we got time this year, so they can't even
Speaker 1: get the whole thing. And AOC gotta explain the rules
Speaker 1: to the guy that's supposed to be a charge. She's like, listen,
Speaker 1: I know you saying that she recognized for her four
Speaker 1: minutes and twenty seconds. The problem is she can't talk
Speaker 1: yet because you don't know the rules. There is a
Speaker 1: motion to strike her words the second ones. She's still
Speaker 1: popping off about me that needs to get struck before
Speaker 1: you can recognize her.
Speaker 3: You have to acknowledge this. How come? Why am I
Speaker 3: explaining the rules to you?
Speaker 1: Usually you just let pettiness be pettiness because we keep
Speaker 1: our eyes on the prize. But sometimes you gotta pop
Speaker 1: out and show me. We got time this year and
Speaker 1: it's only this is only June, and I cannot be
Speaker 1: more proud. How these black and brown women are showing up.
Speaker 1: So let's just see man. Hope hopefully we keep this
Speaker 1: same energy. You know, this is the look.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: We got time this year politics. Y'all. All right, now,
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