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Speaker 1: waiting on reparations. Maybe two is the year. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: the year. Yeah, it is the year. You know what,
Speaker 1: like speaking of the year, like this episode, we're going
Speaker 1: to be recapping the year that we all just had,
Speaker 1: just you know, going going over some of you know,
Speaker 1: the personal things, some of the things that happened in
Speaker 1: politics and news and hip hop, you know, and just
Speaker 1: particularly a lot of accomplishments both you know, glad tidings
Speaker 1: in the political sphere as well as dope ship that
Speaker 1: we did in our own lives. Because a lot of
Speaker 1: time when we talked about the news, it's pretty bleak,
Speaker 1: it's pretty dark out here sometimes. But a lot of
Speaker 1: good stuff happened this year, and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: that as well. And I mean, the year just went
Speaker 1: by so fast. I mean, bro, I can't believe when,
Speaker 1: oh man, I've been so I've in this time I've
Speaker 1: had off. I've been sitting down every day to write
Speaker 1: about extensively about a month that happened. And like I
Speaker 1: had pages and pages and pages on just January alone,
Speaker 1: Like I haven't even I'm like on March. Like it's
Speaker 1: taken me so long because how much happens in a
Speaker 1: single month, And it's so hard for me to believe
Speaker 1: the January, for example, was only eleven months ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, none of the stuff seems like it was
Speaker 1: a terribly long time ago. I it feels like I
Speaker 1: was just living in Athens and you know, like whatever
Speaker 1: news story we're gonna talk about right now, it feels
Speaker 1: like it was just like when you think about like
Speaker 1: how long ago July was, like bro, you know, like anyway,
Speaker 1: December itself I s felt long as hell. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it definitely has um. I would have to say the
Speaker 1: longest month for me was probably I don't know why.
Speaker 1: November felt like it lasted forever. Well, honestly, as much
Speaker 1: as we're talking about twenty one right now, I think
Speaker 1: the longest month on record with April. Oh yeah, everybody
Speaker 1: had lockdown, started to go start crazy and loosen, loosten
Speaker 1: a little bit. A lot of people started to drink
Speaker 1: a lot because they're unemployed. And you know what, would
Speaker 1: you say it was April or would you say because
Speaker 1: the pen the penny like fully the penny fully like No,
Speaker 1: May it was the fastest month of all time. You
Speaker 1: think it's actually, no, that's inaccurate because the uprising started
Speaker 1: like May twenty five. For me, it was like in
Speaker 1: between the uprising and like after the first month of COVID,
Speaker 1: because I still kind of feel like at least for
Speaker 1: me my personal I still kind of feel everyone was
Speaker 1: expecting the ship to be over monthly, right, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: first month was over and it was like, oh no,
Speaker 1: this is years. Yeah, April everyone was like, you know,
Speaker 1: we were a little spoked. We're like, oh, six weeks,
Speaker 1: we'll be out of this. It's cool. And then May
Speaker 1: rolled around. I was like, I can't think it was
Speaker 1: still bad. Yeah, and then and then clearly it took
Speaker 1: it such a tall and people that probably collectively snapped
Speaker 1: and dude just completely lost in dually dually. So but
Speaker 1: like most people who got in the qua, I got
Speaker 1: into it around this is some bad stuff. But I mean,
Speaker 1: we're definitely not in this year, so we're not going
Speaker 1: to talk about like a bunch of like downer stuff.
Speaker 1: So now let's send them off into with some fond
Speaker 1: remembrances that we have had in some lessons as well. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll be back with that after the jump. Alrighty, alrighty,
Speaker 1: we are back, and as you guys are hearing this,
Speaker 1: it is going to be New Year's even Day and
Speaker 1: stuff over the weekend, right, so you know, it's only
Speaker 1: right that we recapped the year that we had. So
Speaker 1: what do. We got first. So yeah, I mean we
Speaker 1: started off with a bang in January, Uh got us
Speaker 1: off and Warnock elected to the Senate um to you know,
Speaker 1: supposedly secure a democratic majority or democratic control of all
Speaker 1: three branches of government. We had some hands on on
Speaker 1: sort of relation to that. Oh yeah, Nikolas was out
Speaker 1: here like the people we assemble, we being like myself,
Speaker 1: the mayor of Athens, couple of my fellow commissioners, Tate
Speaker 1: House Representatives, Center for I put together a team mac
Speaker 1: concluded that went out and knocked on thirties over thirty
Speaker 1: thousand doors in our city alone, which was roughly the
Speaker 1: amount of votes that they these two senators got, you know,
Speaker 1: to win them out of Athens, to win them the election. Um.
Speaker 1: And so that she was wild and so for a
Speaker 1: brief glimmer it looked very hopeful, like, oh, yes, democratic
Speaker 1: control all three house government. We're gonna in COVID, We're
Speaker 1: gonna I don't know, in child poverty, whatever. At least
Speaker 1: we're gonna beat back fascism for a time. UM do
Speaker 1: anything like that in oh my god, like at least
Speaker 1: like fifteen years, like the like the last time that
Speaker 1: I had done any sort of oh, I'm going out
Speaker 1: knocking on doors for like a political campaign. Before we
Speaker 1: did this stuff for we'reknocking us off was probably like
Speaker 1: the John Carey days and ship it has been. It's
Speaker 1: been so long that it's like in my head, I
Speaker 1: always try to like recollect, like damn, like what what
Speaker 1: was it that made me like not be like involved
Speaker 1: with like you know what I'm saying, like boots on
Speaker 1: the ground like activists, Like what was it that killed
Speaker 1: my spirit and ship? You know? I mean I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, carry ended up losing and that, but was
Speaker 1: it really that? And then you know, we did this
Speaker 1: and we go into this year and well the influx
Speaker 1: of cashion to Georgia on these elections and then that
Speaker 1: the democratic control of the legislature was on the line,
Speaker 1: Like is that a new precedent for elections that you
Speaker 1: gotta pay people and go do this, Like it's not
Speaker 1: enough to just do it on faith alone. Like sure,
Speaker 1: when Bernie Sanders running, I drove to South Carolina like
Speaker 1: four times knock on Doe brom because I was just
Speaker 1: in insane person. But but yeah, but like not like
Speaker 1: not everybody can be a believer. We got dame jobs
Speaker 1: we got like kids and it you know, we got
Speaker 1: like we're just depressed because the world is terrible. Um
Speaker 1: And even if you want the world to be better,
Speaker 1: it's like hard to get up and go knock on
Speaker 1: those doors unless you pay people. If you pay people,
Speaker 1: they'll find that spark of like that enjoyment of fighting
Speaker 1: for a cause that they believe in because materially they
Speaker 1: are supported in doing so. Um. So that was like
Speaker 1: a shift in at least Georgia politics that came out
Speaker 1: from around that election. But around the same time, low
Speaker 1: Wayne and Kodak Black were both pardoned by President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump on his last full day in office. Lo Wane
Speaker 1: had admitted to a weapon's charge back in December of
Speaker 1: twenty was facing up to ten years in jail before
Speaker 1: Trump gave him the pardon, and then Kodak was in
Speaker 1: federal prison after pleading guilty to a firearms possession charge
Speaker 1: after being detained at the Canada detained at the Canadian
Speaker 1: American border back in March of and both of them
Speaker 1: scott free least for those charges, and you know, gave
Speaker 1: their thanks to the then president for um, you know,
Speaker 1: getting their neck out the noose. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: we've you know, I think all of our thoughts on
Speaker 1: this have been clearly aired out, you know. But I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just happy, you know, any happy when anybody
Speaker 1: gets out of jail, right, only good for nobody, And
Speaker 1: it's wild how like, you know, I tend to take
Speaker 1: really bold stances on prisons and policing, but when I
Speaker 1: get out and talk to average every day folks, like
Speaker 1: a lot of people know that president is not a
Speaker 1: good place for anyone. Um, you know, like shorty, Oh,
Speaker 1: we gotta put we gotta put the most heinous criminals
Speaker 1: off us in lock them up for life. That's not
Speaker 1: the majority of people that are in jail, though, like,
Speaker 1: like not at all, like not even by like a percentage,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean most people in jailer and jail
Speaker 1: for not doing heinous violent things. And even if I
Speaker 1: mean even folks that you know have been convicted of
Speaker 1: serious crimes. They get in jail, they like brush shoulders
Speaker 1: with the worst people, you know, like, oh, fellow criminals.
Speaker 1: So they learned, oh this is act. This is how
Speaker 1: you could avoid getting pop for that burglary. Oh this
Speaker 1: is how you like installed silencer on your gun next time. Um,
Speaker 1: they get their hatred and social alienation, retrench because all
Speaker 1: of their connections with society are cut off. Um, But
Speaker 1: it just doesn't That doesn't make a place that's gonna
Speaker 1: make you a better person. Yeah, exactly. You know, you
Speaker 1: know there's you're when you go to jail and they
Speaker 1: come out, it's like you're already working on like the
Speaker 1: most most up of up hills to like come out
Speaker 1: of that ship as a better person, because everything about
Speaker 1: from the from the systemic way the prisoners run to
Speaker 1: just the way it's organized in that, you know, like
Speaker 1: the recidivism and you know how many people keep coming
Speaker 1: back and who you're rubbing shoulders with. Like you said,
Speaker 1: it's like everything stacked against you of coming out of
Speaker 1: jail of more experienced criminals as opposed to like somebody
Speaker 1: who's ready to turn their life around, and normal people
Speaker 1: know that. I just talked to this cat yesterday that
Speaker 1: I collaborate with on a lot of organizing projects, and
Speaker 1: he was on his way to like juvenile or to
Speaker 1: try to convince the court to not take this kid
Speaker 1: away from his parents because I don't know, it's been
Speaker 1: constealing or the able trash bassing or some ship and
Speaker 1: like you don't even gotta be explicitly like a prison
Speaker 1: abolitionist or anything to know, like having the kids taken
Speaker 1: away from their parents, it's not gonna it's not gonna
Speaker 1: make your life better. It's not gonna like their lives better.
Speaker 1: But anyway, a little February, I'm sorry, Oh yeah, let's
Speaker 1: move on the February. So um, Prince Marquis D of
Speaker 1: the Fat Boys die very sadly. Yeah, what's your experience
Speaker 1: with the Fat Boys? Zero? None? So wait you've never have?
Speaker 1: Have you ever like at least heard a song? No? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: As I was like looking into them, I like it.
Speaker 1: It was like definitely familiar. It's one of those cakes
Speaker 1: where you're familiar with someone's work without like really attributing
Speaker 1: it to them, like oh that was Fat Boys. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: they were like kind of I'm gonna like give explained
Speaker 1: one dated reference with another dated reference. But it's like
Speaker 1: the Fat Boys were doing kind of what Fresh this
Speaker 1: was doing before, you know what I mean, like a
Speaker 1: few years before a fresh Prince is doing. It was
Speaker 1: like I don't want to say like family friendly, but
Speaker 1: it was it was like the record industries, you know,
Speaker 1: really figuring out like how to market, how to like
Speaker 1: mass market some like this hip hop thing that's going on,
Speaker 1: it's like you know what I'm saying, It's like something
Speaker 1: that's preventable, presentable. It's funny, it's catchy. It was like
Speaker 1: all of all of those things that are like tropes
Speaker 1: about hip hop. At this point, it was like Fat
Speaker 1: Boys embodied it. It was like the perfect It's like
Speaker 1: the perfect like pop rap type ship. Um yeah, you
Speaker 1: know that. That's sad. Yeah. I didn't even remember him
Speaker 1: passing away until like I was looking up the end
Speaker 1: of the year stuff. But when I was doing think
Speaker 1: it was bis markis this year we did it is
Speaker 1: an understate. We'll just go off before we go further,
Speaker 1: and saying r I p to all the rappers who
Speaker 1: passed away this year, because there were many, and then
Speaker 1: also like a special like you know, keep your head
Speaker 1: up to like all the motherfucker's who got arrested, because yo,
Speaker 1: motherfucker's got arrested this year. It wasted, but some people
Speaker 1: got out. Bobby Schmarda was released after serving almost seven
Speaker 1: years in prison. Oh yeah, that's dope. Um yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't really say I'm a fan of Bobby murder. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm glad that he's out of jail. What
Speaker 1: do you think that we're doing well? He seems like
Speaker 1: he was doing a good like, you know, looking after
Speaker 1: his health, you know, rejecting society's poisons upon release. So
Speaker 1: that I was I was like, I was like, you know, Bobby,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Every time that I've seen every piece
Speaker 1: of footage I've seen of him since he's been out,
Speaker 1: he's got a smile on his face. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: always happy about that. Um. What else happened in Yeah
Speaker 1: and Deer is a big one for me because after
Speaker 1: two years of working with the descendants what we call
Speaker 1: the descendants of first descendants of Lendtown, so at least
Speaker 1: for kids that grew up in a black community here
Speaker 1: in Athens that saw that community pretty much burned to
Speaker 1: the ground. Um, it's part of urban federal Urban Renewal
Speaker 1: project to turn it into student high rise dorms. We
Speaker 1: actually passed the resolution that was the you know, the
Speaker 1: first after reparations in the state of Georgia to like
Speaker 1: apologize for what happened to them and commit to a
Speaker 1: number of measures of redress. Like I've been collaborating with
Speaker 1: them ever since I'm trying to get a Black History
Speaker 1: center funded and you know, off the ground space for that,
Speaker 1: et cetera. So that was a big deal that you
Speaker 1: know in Black History months actually like not just like
Speaker 1: lift up, oh we love be you know, m ok
Speaker 1: and let's you know, to turn the truth or whatever,
Speaker 1: but like, yo, honoring the people that were harmed in
Speaker 1: our own community because off of times, like civil rights
Speaker 1: struggles are like pasted as something that happens in other places,
Speaker 1: like oh, you know the Edmund Pettis Bridge or the
Speaker 1: March on Washington, but like every single community had a
Speaker 1: civil rights struggle of some kind, and so I think
Speaker 1: it was an important act to do in the month
Speaker 1: of February to bring new context to black history, Like
Speaker 1: black history is also something that happened here. How long
Speaker 1: did it take you to get that, just that whole
Speaker 1: proposal two years to two years? Yeah, and we're so fighting,
Speaker 1: like it's not over just because we agreed we would
Speaker 1: do these things. Now we actually got to do them
Speaker 1: because the government so oftentimes promises stuff that doesn't actually materialize.
Speaker 1: So do you mean it's not over when they just
Speaker 1: just because when they promise you things. No, no, it
Speaker 1: was not um but yeah, alright, so moving on to
Speaker 1: uh March, March April is okay, so this seem like
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sir. So yeah, March to April started to
Speaker 1: seem like everybody was gonna get vaccinated and the pandemic
Speaker 1: was gonna be over. Its gonna be like the return
Speaker 1: of hour al summer, only we could just retain that sweet,
Speaker 1: sweet naivete to day. Yeah. That's certainly not in the
Speaker 1: air around like April where it felt like, oh ship,
Speaker 1: this is over, hooray go down on like yeah, no,
Speaker 1: Like definitely around around of April March, I was starting
Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, let's go take trips, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I was. I started visiting Savannah more
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and it definitely did have Like
Speaker 1: I do remember having conversations with people back then and
Speaker 1: I would be saying, oh, man, you know back during COVID,
Speaker 1: and like were looking at me, like what are you
Speaker 1: talking about back during COVID? Do you not know what's coming?
Speaker 1: You know? It's like we transitioned from like yeah, during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, like it's over now, and then that like
Speaker 1: that like phrasing has not gone away, and in those
Speaker 1: cases are now higher than they were of January of
Speaker 1: this year. Um, I it's blowing my mind. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we thought, like, yeah, I think that's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons that we're still in The ship is just like
Speaker 1: and I don't know precisely how it is overseas, but
Speaker 1: it's like we never really locked down lockdown. I know,
Speaker 1: everybody's got it in their head, especially like the people
Speaker 1: who are like anti vacs, anti COVID regulations, stuff like that,
Speaker 1: they've got it in their head that that the country
Speaker 1: has been you know, in some strict quarantine. Ship. We
Speaker 1: were only like super duper lockdown for like two weeks
Speaker 1: real talk to it was two weeks where everyone was
Speaker 1: rinsing off their their their fruit with bleach and ship
Speaker 1: and like you know what I mean, motherfucker's were really
Speaker 1: scared about the ship. But other than that, a large
Speaker 1: chunk of people went back to life as normal, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, very shortly into the pandemic. So
Speaker 1: I don't think any of that ship helped us. A
Speaker 1: year and a half later, two years, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: be in any sort of condition where it's we're gonna
Speaker 1: be out of it and where we're Scott Clean, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's I don't think that's in the cards
Speaker 1: first with Yeah, well, we'll talk more about that towards
Speaker 1: the end as we struggle back around to this Scember.
Speaker 1: But this is when March and Aprils, when a little
Speaker 1: nos X started kind of like trolling the America real hard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he started doing the press rollout and stuff like that
Speaker 1: for his album Montenero, and that's when he did like video,
Speaker 1: what's it Montero? And um, he came out is that
Speaker 1: when the video dropped. I think that's about round the
Speaker 1: time the video dropped, and then he announced his Satan
Speaker 1: shoes that he got sued by Nike over because it
Speaker 1: copied their design. Remember you know, uh they had like
Speaker 1: a drop of his own blood in the in the
Speaker 1: tongue or something like a vial or something. Um. And
Speaker 1: the music is the video itself was highly controversial because
Speaker 1: he's like given Satan a lap dance and all this ship.
Speaker 1: But like it just won the internet for that period.
Speaker 1: Everyone was everyone was talking about it, whether you loved
Speaker 1: it or hated. I personally thought I was hilarious. Um
Speaker 1: And in general, I've really enjoyed Little nos x is
Speaker 1: um social media presence this year. He's been quite entertaining,
Speaker 1: very hilarious, and the album Yourself was pretty good. At myself,
Speaker 1: if I do say something myself, I'd like a couple
Speaker 1: of tracks. You know, there's um, there's a few joints
Speaker 1: that they're always playing on the radio that I can't
Speaker 1: help it here, but it's just catchy. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: the thing about Little not Sex is like I think
Speaker 1: everything about Little nos X is dope. I'm just not
Speaker 1: particularly into popular. Yeah, you can recognize someone's artistry, but
Speaker 1: like also recognize that it's not for you. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: And yeah, this is a very well crafted piece of
Speaker 1: art that I don't personally like because it's not just
Speaker 1: it's just not my thing. Yeah, yeah, that part, I'm all.
Speaker 1: I'm all about that, like the kids a Teacher on
Speaker 1: his album from Elton John, like you can't like like
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, do you do you remember when I
Speaker 1: think that stuff like that's important and even you know,
Speaker 1: even just like his whole um public persona, I think
Speaker 1: all of that ship is important too, and like shifting
Speaker 1: attitudes culturally and stuff like that, even if it's incrementally,
Speaker 1: I think it matters. And even if it's you know, um,
Speaker 1: here's a question about the video. Do you think that
Speaker 1: I don't even know what qualifies as an uproar in
Speaker 1: one because it's like, you know, motherfucker's like tweet about
Speaker 1: some ship for a day and then if no one
Speaker 1: cares the next day, So I don't even know if
Speaker 1: it's qualifies as that. But do you think that his
Speaker 1: video would have gotten like the same sort of feverish
Speaker 1: response to it, whether it be negative or positive, if
Speaker 1: it was just him just giving dudes a lap dance
Speaker 1: and it wasn't the same sataness angle if he hadn't
Speaker 1: he had at all, If he had that at all
Speaker 1: expressed his sexuality anyway in any kind of music video,
Speaker 1: it would have received back last so we might as well.
Speaker 1: And he did just go all links y'all gonna like
Speaker 1: me anyway. I think I am who I am at
Speaker 1: all for you. I think the satan part was like
Speaker 1: the icing on the king for that, because he has
Speaker 1: another video that's got like Jack Harlow and all those
Speaker 1: dudes and they're in prison, then they're wearing pink and
Speaker 1: it's like hella gay and like you know what I mean, people,
Speaker 1: but yeah, but I mean people didn't like it, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't like you don't really hear about that, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like unless like that wasn't as
Speaker 1: big of like a cross worked the outrage about the
Speaker 1: Montera music video. But if it hadn't been, if it
Speaker 1: had been a standalone video, the collaborl Jack Harlow, that
Speaker 1: would have itself garnered Hue Eyer from conservatives. You know,
Speaker 1: has anybody um, has anybody like notable? Like then like
Speaker 1: a super prude about it? Benja. Yeah, within the black community, Yeah,
Speaker 1: tons of people that have been, um, I've never got
Speaker 1: my kids, let's do your music again. That's ongoing thing
Speaker 1: with Little Boozy. Yeah, he's like talking his homophobic ship.
Speaker 1: But may It was also a good year for music.
Speaker 1: J Cole came out with the new album in the
Speaker 1: off season, which was a more relaxed UM project that
Speaker 1: you know, kind of let Cole's talent shine, and then
Speaker 1: also featured some Collapse, which is new for UM. For him,
Speaker 1: a part of his like I don't know sheen or
Speaker 1: you know, like his stature has been that he liked
Speaker 1: typically never featured anyone on any of his albums as
Speaker 1: a way of just showing that he can put out
Speaker 1: an album or a series, a whole discography without the
Speaker 1: support of anyone else. What's the meme like platinum no
Speaker 1: feature or like double platinum. Yeah, yeah, yeah, um. I
Speaker 1: thought that he leveled up significantly, Like on the lyrical
Speaker 1: m on this album. I was really feeling like I
Speaker 1: just just from a technical aspect, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever it is that that that our individual rapper needs
Speaker 1: to do to like start being a lot more intricate
Speaker 1: and interesting with their word playing stuff. Jacole did that
Speaker 1: ship for this project. I think I'm kind of torn
Speaker 1: whether I feel this one or Ko d More that
Speaker 1: was the last one. I feel like this is often
Speaker 1: the case with me music, where like, even if a
Speaker 1: new piece of art is like aesthetically a higher sets,
Speaker 1: a higher bar, nothing can compete with a piece of art,
Speaker 1: an earlier piece of art that like just it is
Speaker 1: deeply nostalgic to you now, and so like Ko d Well,
Speaker 1: like It's all will always be like a really special
Speaker 1: album to me, even if lyrically Dicle kind of popped
Speaker 1: off on the off season, you know, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like he definitely stepped his game up, but
Speaker 1: like it doesn't hold a special place in my heart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like KOT and definitely from I think from a content standpoint,
Speaker 1: I think I was working with ko D a lot more.
Speaker 1: You know what, if he was rapping on ko D
Speaker 1: like he's wrapped it on the on the niche who
Speaker 1: would have been over would have been over. I would
Speaker 1: have quit the rap game. That's some God conversations right there, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: May it was also a good month for politics. Larry
Speaker 1: Krasner got re elected as District Attorney of Philadelphia was
Speaker 1: pretty lit um when he first ran in two seventeen.
Speaker 1: His story made him like a figurehead of the new
Speaker 1: progressive prosecutor movement, which I have opinions about. Um. We
Speaker 1: did a whole episode on him back and in in May,
Speaker 1: I believe, And since then, Philly has had the most
Speaker 1: violent year on record with spike was one of the highest,
Speaker 1: you know, homicide rates on record for the city. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, many large cities have seen spikes in homicides though, um,
Speaker 1: violent crime in general is down, but people were killed
Speaker 1: in Philly alone this year. But as Meek Mill put it,
Speaker 1: in defensive d A. Krasner and a tweet in April.
Speaker 1: I believe, you know, a lot of people want to
Speaker 1: blame Krasner for the crime, given his compassionate, compassionate approach prosecution.
Speaker 1: But Meek Mills said, Larry Krasner did not put three
Speaker 1: thousand ghost guns, and Billy is not the blame for
Speaker 1: the rising morder rate. We don't do three D printing
Speaker 1: in the hoods. So something happened. So I love the
Speaker 1: I love the veiled implication that like something like somebody's
Speaker 1: putting guns in the hood ship. I mean, you know what,
Speaker 1: this can also kind of be added in because the
Speaker 1: thing is, like I guess the rising rising murder rate
Speaker 1: this year, Um yeah, I think you know. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know how specifically I guess the conspiracy goes.
Speaker 1: But I can see what mean be all the same?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, um, like I don't. I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: to I'm not gonna foment conspiracy. Are you here? But
Speaker 1: what I will say is from a policy perspective, like
Speaker 1: I think it's so important to understand why things happen,
Speaker 1: and in general, there's a confluence of factors in society
Speaker 1: right now. Pandemic stress, you know, due to a number
Speaker 1: of things from unemployment to food and security, housing and security, etcetera.
Speaker 1: But like, I really wish that we I don't know
Speaker 1: if this exists in other places, but at least we
Speaker 1: had some sort of tracking mechanism in place where we
Speaker 1: sat people down and they got get brought into the jail,
Speaker 1: and we do a profile on them, uh, just the
Speaker 1: interview to understand why they did what they did, and
Speaker 1: to extrapolate patterns from those interviews to like look at
Speaker 1: like why homicides are happening at anything, like you know,
Speaker 1: an increase rate and then invest in the prevention. Like
Speaker 1: all right, all these cats killed somebody else because there
Speaker 1: was a moment of stress and they did the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: All right, how do we how do we like implement
Speaker 1: programs in the community to help people do the conflict
Speaker 1: resolution and stress better, they killed each other, etcetera. Like
Speaker 1: I we we will never really know, and various people
Speaker 1: will argue for different reasons why is the homicide rate
Speaker 1: is spiking? But until we actually ask these questions of
Speaker 1: the people doing these times, we're never we're not ever
Speaker 1: going to actually make a dent in it. It's literally
Speaker 1: outrageous that that's not already done. Perhaps it is somewhere.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I haven't done. If it is done somewhere,
Speaker 1: that's not enough. That doesn't that feels like it. That
Speaker 1: feels like that's just a given, you know what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like such a common sense, like like approach
Speaker 1: to do in this ship that it's like, man, are
Speaker 1: you are you really saying that nobody's looking in, because
Speaker 1: then all we have to rely upon is anecdotal evidence,
Speaker 1: either from the convicted individuals or people in their life
Speaker 1: or you know, guards were going to jail who talked
Speaker 1: to them day in and day out. But we need
Speaker 1: like a comprehensive like data bank, data base, scientific approach
Speaker 1: to do, scientific approach to understanding this. Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: I mean you can science scientific stuff. So um. In June,
Speaker 1: the federal government admitted to knowing about UFOs and they
Speaker 1: said they would not rule out alien activity. I can't
Speaker 1: believe aren't talking about this still, Like it was the
Speaker 1: craziest thing in the world to me when it came out.
Speaker 1: And then like just like the you know, natural truck
Speaker 1: bombing of last Christmas, just memory hold completely, memory hold.
Speaker 1: I've been rewatching my x files too, and it's like,
Speaker 1: what are y'all like, people aren't tripping over that ship?
Speaker 1: Let's get into As part of the nine page report
Speaker 1: released by U. S Intelligence, there was no formal way
Speaker 1: within the government to record UFO sightings until the Navy
Speaker 1: started one two thousand nineteen, and the Air Force didn't
Speaker 1: follow suit until roughly a year ago, which shows how
Speaker 1: resistant the government had been to acknowledging UFOs and implies
Speaker 1: we have a lot less sightings on record than have
Speaker 1: actually happened. As well, the number of reported UFOs may
Speaker 1: have been kept artificially low because of the stigma lung
Speaker 1: attached to reporting these sort of things. Now again, you
Speaker 1: want to talk about ship, that like sounds like it's
Speaker 1: common sense. I have no direct knowledge of any of
Speaker 1: this ship, but I've seen enough of those goddamn shows
Speaker 1: and read enough ship with people who really been in
Speaker 1: the ship. And on top of that, like just you know,
Speaker 1: come from military family, don't put anybody in blast. I
Speaker 1: talk to people and ship like that that it just,
Speaker 1: you know, the absolute skepticism of the ship is just
Speaker 1: always been ridiculous to me. So you know, I guess
Speaker 1: like even though it's it's a little late, because we're
Speaker 1: not really like UFOs don't have as much of a
Speaker 1: UFO sightings and UFO culture and UFO believers and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's not like as it's not as popular as like
Speaker 1: a you know, as it was back in the nineties
Speaker 1: and ship when I was a kid. So even though
Speaker 1: it's late that the government's acknowledging, at least they are
Speaker 1: acknowledging at the very LEAs said, hey, they're ship. That
Speaker 1: happens that with all the trillions of dollars that we
Speaker 1: spend that we can't explain what it is. All I
Speaker 1: want somebody to say, thank you. Come on, don't act
Speaker 1: like you know ship for real. Well, Jim was also
Speaker 1: a fairing months over here because now as we passed
Speaker 1: the historic budget, raised the minimum ways for city employees
Speaker 1: picking dollars an hour, including part time seasonal employees, made
Speaker 1: we will public transit. It's been fair free the whole pandemic,
Speaker 1: and we just made it free for life. UM implemented
Speaker 1: a new kind of crisis response team that is non police.
Speaker 1: As you know, if you're having mental health crisis, substance
Speaker 1: abuse issue, you didn't need a wellness check. They send
Speaker 1: in like a social worker in an empty to like
Speaker 1: treat the situation from like a public health perspective, um,
Speaker 1: and a ton of other good ship, and it really
Speaker 1: felt like I was finally hit my stride as a politician.
Speaker 1: Was very proud personally, so like, how do you get
Speaker 1: an award for that? How do you get an awards
Speaker 1: for that? Like I feel like you should well but
Speaker 1: only Yeah, I rewarded myself by like I sent out
Speaker 1: a newsletter at the end of the year, and all
Speaker 1: my haters no, I mean, it's funny. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that hate follow me, like to like catch
Speaker 1: me slipping and like, and they stay real silent when
Speaker 1: I send out like here's like twenty one amazing things
Speaker 1: I did this year. It includes like all of the
Speaker 1: ship like peep, no, not a not a it's not
Speaker 1: a pat So my reward is just living in peace
Speaker 1: and quiet. I don't want no accolades. I ain't trying
Speaker 1: to get no trophies, no special ribbons. I don't want
Speaker 1: people to leave me alone. Well, this next next topic
Speaker 1: is definitely not peace and quiet. So also going down
Speaker 1: and um June is double XCEL released. There one freshman class.
Speaker 1: Now for those of you who don't know what that
Speaker 1: is like Double Excel is a hip hop publication. I
Speaker 1: would say at this point it's the most popular one
Speaker 1: that's still in print. Do they still print Double looks Out?
Speaker 1: I don't even know any kind of magazine. I just don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, I'll put it this way. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen Double Exel in like stores and stuff where I
Speaker 1: normally would see it back in the past. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Double Exel is still print or if it's online.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I digress. Long story short. Every year they
Speaker 1: put out a list of the new Ish rappers who
Speaker 1: they think are destined to become the next top cats
Speaker 1: in the game and ship and they put out their
Speaker 1: list and we're only mentioning it because it's something that happens,
Speaker 1: and it happened this year. I cannot say that I
Speaker 1: am aware of any of the names on it. It's
Speaker 1: probably because I'm sixty five years old. But we've got
Speaker 1: forty two. Doug Moray to see Bick bixed Ian Door,
Speaker 1: I've heard Coil before heard, I've heard I've heard her,
Speaker 1: um Folly of course, um Ruby Rose. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: who that is. Shysty, Yeah, I know who that is.
Speaker 1: D d G. And I don't know how to say
Speaker 1: that last one. Okay, have you heard have you heard
Speaker 1: any of those sides for Flow Million? No? Actually, um,
Speaker 1: I mean posh. I see, like a lot of these
Speaker 1: names I'm familiar with, but as is generally the case
Speaker 1: with me, though I am like deeply you know, indebted
Speaker 1: to and fascinated by hip hop, I'm a bit slow
Speaker 1: on the come up sometimes, like even artists that I
Speaker 1: funk with, Like recently I discovered this Mick Jenkins album
Speaker 1: from thousand eighteen that I've been super obsessed with us
Speaker 1: Like why did I take? Why did it take me?
Speaker 1: This song? I love Mick Jenkins, I don't understand, I
Speaker 1: don't send. And so in fact, in previous years, I
Speaker 1: think sometimes recently actually, I went back and looked at
Speaker 1: all the Double XCEL honorees over the last like ten years,
Speaker 1: and it was like really nostalgic of like maybe not
Speaker 1: in that moment did I see the you know, like
Speaker 1: the grandeur of the artistry of people like Chance the Rapper, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, instead of like big names that have basically
Speaker 1: list previously. But I mean they're they're influence fans out
Speaker 1: in the culture, particularly like Amplified by making it on
Speaker 1: a list like this, So I think we we will
Speaker 1: definitely see these people keep moving. Move to all of them.
Speaker 1: Some of the sing the old folks fault fell off,
Speaker 1: like after that year they were on the cover and
Speaker 1: we've never heard of again. But you know, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm a nerd about these certain things. I've always been
Speaker 1: a nerd about these certain things. I wish this is
Speaker 1: one of the moments where I wish I was like
Speaker 1: a bigger media figure because just in my personal life
Speaker 1: I have called like most of who is going to
Speaker 1: be around for the Double Xcel list, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? After they come up, like once I do
Speaker 1: get to like listen to everybody. It's like I have
Speaker 1: a pretty good track record of like you know what
Speaker 1: this Kendrick of mar Kid Yeah and back Miller, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna do you know what I mean? And like
Speaker 1: I so, I don't know, I gotta list to know
Speaker 1: some more of these cats. I do. Got to give
Speaker 1: them their due diligence, but um check them out though
Speaker 1: if if you haven't, because you know, even if the
Speaker 1: batting average is low, there usually is always a diamond
Speaker 1: in the Double Excel. Let's so somebody usually blows up.
Speaker 1: It becomes that next person for like the next five years.
Speaker 1: So and then I must say Mac and I made
Speaker 1: some moves this year musically, quite exciting. I finished up
Speaker 1: an album in July that uh, I can't wait some
Speaker 1: one else, but I'm not. I can't say nothing yet.
Speaker 1: But you can't tell us what the name is yet. Na,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna not just in case I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: get in trouble. All right, we'll tell us. Tell us
Speaker 1: about its production. I don't know. So it was pretty
Speaker 1: much executive produced by my friend Reindeer Games, who's my
Speaker 1: like you know DJ when I perform. Longtime friends, very random,
Speaker 1: how we matt each other, that's like, but remain friends
Speaker 1: ever since. So he, you know, produced the album for
Speaker 1: the most part. Mac is on the album um on
Speaker 1: Um one of the songs. And then we got a
Speaker 1: lot of dope features from folks like Kishi Bashi, Jeff
Speaker 1: Rosenstock and Davis Is on their Western Rulers on there
Speaker 1: my buddy, you know, a long time collaborator um from
Speaker 1: I forgetting Oh, Kevin Barnes from Montreal. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: really cool. But I became a lipt sealed about it
Speaker 1: until we formally announced it next month. Well, in that
Speaker 1: same month, I was moving into my studio, and that's
Speaker 1: you know, I took me like that whole month to
Speaker 1: get everything moved in and and all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: once I did get moved in, I promptly started working
Speaker 1: on the albums that I have coming up. I I'm
Speaker 1: doing the two albums in one year thing. But it's
Speaker 1: like two different labels that drastically different sounds. One of
Speaker 1: them is me wrapping over a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of trap tiki taki, you know, modern beats that I
Speaker 1: don't usually wrap wrap over. And then the second project
Speaker 1: is more like an industrial rock rap sort of vibe
Speaker 1: to it. So I'm really excited about both of those
Speaker 1: about this web. Only one of them is done and
Speaker 1: the other one, i'd say is like in the stages
Speaker 1: right now. Um It's that that one's like a a
Speaker 1: pretty big task from a production standpoint because I'm you know,
Speaker 1: working with a bunch of different musicians and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get it to sound as much
Speaker 1: of like a nine inch Nails album as I can.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm very excited for it, and then in August,
Speaker 1: you finished recording that album, right, Yeah, yeah, in August
Speaker 1: I finished recording the first one. I guess I could
Speaker 1: save the name for that one. That one's going to
Speaker 1: be the one that's like the more traditional hip hop one.
Speaker 1: It's called the Dope one. And yeah, that's probably looking
Speaker 1: at maybe uh may for a drop for that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I've been, I've been, you know, And like for
Speaker 1: anybody who does, you know, follow us on the music
Speaker 1: tips and you should if you're listening to this podcast.
Speaker 1: But if you do, you know, I put out like
Speaker 1: a new song every month. If not a new song,
Speaker 1: I always have something that I'm putting out. So it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not just gonna make you wait years
Speaker 1: for me to drop an album. Yeah. Um, I honestly
Speaker 1: don't feel like talking about Kanye's. I'm talking about Kanye
Speaker 1: s has gotten I mean even not talking about him.
Speaker 1: We're kind of talking about it right now. But Kanye
Speaker 1: dropped Donda and then they could camp out in the
Speaker 1: Mercedes Benz studio like a weirdo. Honestly, I just want
Speaker 1: to keep moving that Donny until you know. In August,
Speaker 1: Corey Bush also won an extension of the eviction moratorium
Speaker 1: after camping out of the steps of the Capitol when
Speaker 1: Congress went on recess to the end of July. I mean,
Speaker 1: unfortunately it was ultimately struck down again in late August.
Speaker 1: But I think it's a really inspiring example of the
Speaker 1: way that UM politicians can wield their influence as activists
Speaker 1: UM even though they are elected, like oh, people like, oh,
Speaker 1: why are you camping out? Or why are you doing
Speaker 1: this or that? Or why are you tweeting? Like why
Speaker 1: can't you just go in there and vote? But this
Speaker 1: is the power of like she called people like yo,
Speaker 1: come down to the capital camp out with me. They
Speaker 1: put pressure on him and public pressure on him, not
Speaker 1: like behind closed doors of like you know, lobby and
Speaker 1: trying to get votes, but they put pressure enough to
Speaker 1: get it to happen, and yeah, didn't. Then they have.
Speaker 1: Then some people try to dismiss it as being like theatrics,
Speaker 1: theatrics performative, like yeah, protests this theater, like I don't
Speaker 1: know what what y'all want me to say, Like you
Speaker 1: how als we're supposed to give people's attention in order
Speaker 1: to make any sort of change that And really, I
Speaker 1: think that argument is in bad faith because they just
Speaker 1: really don't want to see people fight. They want so
Speaker 1: badly for the government to lose that they're like, don't
Speaker 1: don't go over and above to make something positive happen.
Speaker 1: I would you know that this wrounts my narrative, So
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I think uh immortal technique
Speaker 1: once he had a line that kind of like described
Speaker 1: what you were just talking about. But it's like, just
Speaker 1: because you and about ship, don't project that everybody else
Speaker 1: is that way too right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like, don't don't be cynical just because you know
Speaker 1: you're not, like you ain't about that life right, just
Speaker 1: because you're sitting in your gass on the couch not
Speaker 1: doing it, it it doesn't mean you can like clap back
Speaker 1: at Cory Bush when she's out there actually trying to
Speaker 1: help people exactly, speaking of people who are fighting and helping.
Speaker 1: Uh Nina Turner that same loves Her bid for the
Speaker 1: Democratic nominee Congress in Ohio, running to replace Mercia Fudge,
Speaker 1: who was appointed head as the Housing and Urban Development Secretary,
Speaker 1: became a proxy fight between the leftmost wing of the
Speaker 1: party and the establishment democrats see, and people always want
Speaker 1: to use things like this, um, you know, inclusive of
Speaker 1: like just's a variety of progressive losses, even like the
Speaker 1: loss of Bernie Sanders in this point to my presidential election,
Speaker 1: as indicators that like progressivism isn't popular and that like
Speaker 1: progressive wins are impossible. But everyone always wants to use
Speaker 1: an anecdotal example as like definitive evidence of whatever they
Speaker 1: already believe. Um, Like we like have had numerous victories
Speaker 1: as well, like we were just talking about da Krass,
Speaker 1: they are getting reelected. Um, the fact that we have
Speaker 1: the quote unquote squad Now, UM, I think that it's
Speaker 1: a lot more complicated than that than um. Even even
Speaker 1: on the left word side of things that like progressions
Speaker 1: want to say like, oh, the establishment is stacked against
Speaker 1: us and we can't win because they cheat, And it's
Speaker 1: like that narrative isn't helpful either. All of usus have
Speaker 1: to understand that, Um, the dynamics and each race are
Speaker 1: different and are complicated, and there's no foregone conclusion to
Speaker 1: the you know, um, the sturdy andness and durability of
Speaker 1: the establishment, or the inability for progressives to get elected,
Speaker 1: or the sure fired, Uh, sure fired, like assurance that
Speaker 1: progress as well get elected. Like whatever you think is possible,
Speaker 1: whatever you think is inevitable, is wrong. Like so you know,
Speaker 1: we seem like, right, it seemed inevitable that Lena would
Speaker 1: win because she was pulling really highly early on in
Speaker 1: the race. But like you know, like national Pundance didn't
Speaker 1: know acually happened in the ground. We were out there
Speaker 1: in Cleveland walking around talking to people, and so it's
Speaker 1: just more complicated than like one side is pure and
Speaker 1: right and will always win. Like it's just it's just
Speaker 1: you know, complex confluence of factors in each in every
Speaker 1: single race. Son and did not win, No, she didn't, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: but she has her fighting though. Yeah, I'm sure she'll
Speaker 1: run for something again. But I think now one of
Speaker 1: the things I normally see her doing is she uh
Speaker 1: co ho guest host on a t y T every
Speaker 1: now and then. Oh that's nice. Yeah, well, I don't
Speaker 1: even want to say every now and then. It kind
Speaker 1: of seems like she's doing her regularly now, so she's
Speaker 1: like like actually like on the show like that, Um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a little break right there, and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back and recap the next of these
Speaker 1: uh the rest of these uh happenings over the course
Speaker 1: of the year. But um, we will be right back
Speaker 1: after the jump. All right, we are back, and we
Speaker 1: are in the month of September. Now, So September saw
Speaker 1: rapper Little Sims drop her album. Sometimes I might be introvert.
Speaker 1: The British Nigerian rappers fourth album seamlessly incorporates grime, hip hop, soul,
Speaker 1: and old school R and B. Did you really does?
Speaker 1: It really does blend the different genres together very seamlessly,
Speaker 1: in a way that I think a lot of albums
Speaker 1: could end up sounding like like a like a mission,
Speaker 1: like an awkward missmatch from people try to incorporate too
Speaker 1: many different concept styles together. But really it feels like
Speaker 1: it was flowing down the river and you like pass
Speaker 1: you know you you know, pass the banks of grime,
Speaker 1: you pass the shores of hip off and soul. Um like,
Speaker 1: it really weaves it all together really well. So she's
Speaker 1: worth checking out if you haven't heard her new album.
Speaker 1: It might have been one of my favorites from this year. Honestly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's definitely one of my favorites from the show. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that she's getting like the recognition that she's getting
Speaker 1: now because she's been around for a minute. Like you
Speaker 1: you know, I just said it was her fourth album.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I feel like when artists have this sort
Speaker 1: of blow up that, um, I don't know, people have
Speaker 1: a tendency to think, you know, not only that it's overnight,
Speaker 1: but to think that there are a new artist, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So hopefully her blowing up off
Speaker 1: of this ship is going to put some shine onto
Speaker 1: like her second album. Yeah, yeah, exactly the same way
Speaker 1: that I was talking about earlier, where like, uh, you
Speaker 1: get stuck on like a like a singular facet of
Speaker 1: someone's tystography, and it's like, oh, I love this album,
Speaker 1: and you fail to go at the times and like
Speaker 1: go back and see what other work people have created.
Speaker 1: I do also hope that people will given some of
Speaker 1: the acclaim this album has gotten, you know, go back
Speaker 1: and check out somewhere early stuck because we dove too.
Speaker 1: What else we've gotten. Oh this is just a little
Speaker 1: side thing, but I feel like it's a little relevant now. Um.
Speaker 1: Also in September, Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court he
Speaker 1: uh he issued a statement saying amongst other things, promising
Speaker 1: that the Supreme Court was not a dangerous cabal of
Speaker 1: partisan political hecks. Now what prompted him to just right?
Speaker 1: It's like when you when you say, like, don't think
Speaker 1: of an elephant. Immediately the first thing thing of a
Speaker 1: jinas like, oh, we're not a dangerous couple. They wait,
Speaker 1: why would you say, why would you even say that?
Speaker 1: What's happening in the Supreme Court? We'll given that like
Speaker 1: a month later, so they would be weighing in on
Speaker 1: the rovy way. That kind of seemed like an ominous foreshadowing,
Speaker 1: which is why a lot of people were expecting that
Speaker 1: to to just completely get stricken down in the first place. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: please ignore our dangerous cabal like us behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: I promise we are not a dangerous cabal. Uh, nicely done, simboltels.
Speaker 1: It's like when it's like when you catch somebody and
Speaker 1: they're like, I didn't do nothing. It's like, yo, I
Speaker 1: didn't even accuse you anything with the Yeah October, oh man,
Speaker 1: so my my hands sound. Favorite album of the year,
Speaker 1: well maybe not actually, okay, number two favorite album the
Speaker 1: year Maxi Creams The Weight of the World. I loved it.
Speaker 1: So much Houston rapper. He's been dominating the scene down
Speaker 1: there for like a decade now. It's been wrapped with
Speaker 1: like a rarely seen emotional clarity in his music. He
Speaker 1: just like openly reckons with the demons in his life.
Speaker 1: And also it's like his cadence, like the way he
Speaker 1: switches up its flow, it makes it sound it's like
Speaker 1: very unassuming and like disarming in the way it's like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, that was really creative, but like you don't
Speaker 1: sound like you're trying hard, Like it's not like those
Speaker 1: like not to hate on, like lyrical miracle rappers like myself,
Speaker 1: where it's like it sounds like they're like sweat and
Speaker 1: bullets to try to like compile like people like sucking
Speaker 1: what's his name logic, Like he sounds like squeeze a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff in there to make it really impressed Matt.
Speaker 1: So it's just like sitting back like with his feed
Speaker 1: up blow in your mind, like without even trying. It
Speaker 1: sounds like in the way he in his delivery. And
Speaker 1: so the way to the World I think album, I
Speaker 1: think it all comes down to style though, you know,
Speaker 1: or even I just think that like the byproduct of
Speaker 1: that is what makes your style, you know, Like I think, uh,
Speaker 1: Maxe Cream he's got He's got like a flow that
Speaker 1: sounds laid back. But I think that's just how we
Speaker 1: interpret his delivery of his style, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because it's meant to be like that. But I think
Speaker 1: he probably does sweat bullets to like to like, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, to execute that, you know, which
Speaker 1: is why it sounds impressive when he does. It is
Speaker 1: because he's so good, Whereas like somebody could just be
Speaker 1: like I mean, I don't even need to say somebody.
Speaker 1: Lots of other fucker's are like, yo, I just gotta
Speaker 1: laid back style, and then you hear it. It's like,
Speaker 1: man probably wrapped like you care because this back fire,
Speaker 1: it can backfire. But no, I really appreciate the way
Speaker 1: he sounds so easy going in his wraps. This, though,
Speaker 1: does make me think of my actual favorite rap album
Speaker 1: from this year that I hey, that did not mentioned
Speaker 1: for Jude because in Jude gold Link dropped haram Oh,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard that. Oh my god. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: so y'all were talking on my about how I really
Speaker 1: love radio Heads. It's like if radio Head made an
Speaker 1: R and B rap album. She was just like so
Speaker 1: almost in outer space, like hovering just above the atmosphere,
Speaker 1: riding around and like real stealth spaceships. Just smooth as
Speaker 1: hell dark, but like like warm dark, like when you're
Speaker 1: sitting in your bed with the covers off your face. Um.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, it's it's so I mean, it's wrapping, it's
Speaker 1: it feels. Its got an R and B feel to
Speaker 1: it and some of like the vocal like vocals, hooks
Speaker 1: and things like that. Um, but yeah, it's just really
Speaker 1: dark and creamy adventure. I got it. What's what's it
Speaker 1: called again, It's called and they are a M I
Speaker 1: am on it, I am on it. Yeah. This was
Speaker 1: the whole like end of our year to avoid the
Speaker 1: bad stories, which just it's like a music review. But
Speaker 1: in November Mac Commie drop what I would say is
Speaker 1: album of the Year Pray for Haiti and Grizona. It
Speaker 1: was number two on Rolling Stones Top ten Top t
Speaker 1: hip Hop Records of the Year. It's bonkers. It's like
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'll tell you this is what I
Speaker 1: thought about Pray for Haiti. You know how I'm always
Speaker 1: complaining about like hip hop I feel and this is
Speaker 1: all could be in my head. But I feel that
Speaker 1: hip hop doesn't get like the artistic praise until it
Speaker 1: incorporates a bunch of ships that's not hip hop into it,
Speaker 1: which there's nothing wrong with at all. That's like a thing.
Speaker 1: But it's like, if it's very rare that just a
Speaker 1: dude or a woman or whoever, just a person wrapping
Speaker 1: over beats full stop is like you know that people
Speaker 1: really looking as like, oh man, this is mind blowing,
Speaker 1: this is crazy, this is amazing, this is like, let's
Speaker 1: take to me places I've never been blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And and I want to say, the last time I
Speaker 1: saw people get like a rap act to get props
Speaker 1: like this for doing that was probably when Run the
Speaker 1: Jewels first came out. And and it's really dope to
Speaker 1: see that happening for mac Commy right now, because this
Speaker 1: is like as stripped down in bare bones as you
Speaker 1: can get. It's just it's sample based beats, sample based
Speaker 1: boom bat beats, and just a really really dope lyrical
Speaker 1: rapper going in and it it cast asides every trope
Speaker 1: that we think we need in modern hip hop, of like, hey,
Speaker 1: you don't need to have catchy hooks on every song.
Speaker 1: You know, the songs don't even necessarily have to have
Speaker 1: like a like a hard topic or concept or anything
Speaker 1: like that. And it's just it's beautiful. It's just a
Speaker 1: beautiful piece of music and a beautiful piece of rap
Speaker 1: music through and to cross over a little bit into politics,
Speaker 1: into directions and facts. It was out from Griselda Records,
Speaker 1: just based in Buffalo, New York, where Democrats socialist India
Speaker 1: Walton earlier this year won the Democratic primary for mayor,
Speaker 1: but in November was ultimately trounced by a write in candidate,
Speaker 1: the incumbent Byron Brown, who was backed by you know,
Speaker 1: establishment Democrats as well as Republicans who were really scared
Speaker 1: of a Democratic socialist becoming the mayor of Buffalo um
Speaker 1: as well, you know, to speaking speaking of prayers for Haiti,
Speaker 1: um in May, we had on Eugene per year of
Speaker 1: Breakthrough News to discuss his trip to Haiti and document
Speaker 1: that spring uprisings there. And at the time we had
Speaker 1: no idea that just two months later President Jovina Moyes
Speaker 1: Pubnel moys Um would be assassinated. Should hit the fans
Speaker 1: just when he saw things were really topsy turvy down there. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean it made a bad situation worse. Like it
Speaker 1: did make a bad situation worse. I mean it was
Speaker 1: like he was already not great, um, you know, having
Speaker 1: said things like um, you know, having done things like
Speaker 1: dismantling Haiti's leg just ad of bodies and at one
Speaker 1: point saying, after God, there is only me. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean definitely, because we definitely covered his fascist tendencies and stuff. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hiring like gangs to like do the government's violent bidding
Speaker 1: and then without a president, the gangs just turned on
Speaker 1: the community just willy nilly, and they're just out there
Speaker 1: causing terror. Shouldn't definitely make a bad situation a lot worse.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's the situation right now. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 1: pray for Haiti and ed Man for real. November had
Speaker 1: some other positive tidings, you know. Um, India Walton may
Speaker 1: have lost, but Robin Ones and Wallah Blah, who we
Speaker 1: interviewed um in August, won her election to the Minneapolis
Speaker 1: City Council. Um and yeah, just oh you know that's
Speaker 1: openly socialisty fund the police lady among many actually uh
Speaker 1: women and women in color with you know, strong left
Speaker 1: politics that won the city council. Uh. There even though
Speaker 1: at the same time, interestingly, the measure to effectively abolished
Speaker 1: the police department failed And so I've seen that held
Speaker 1: up as like indication that, like the fund of the
Speaker 1: police movement had like failed. But like, how can you
Speaker 1: say that when at the same time multiple people got
Speaker 1: elected to the City Council of Minneapolis on that very platform,
Speaker 1: And like how and and indeed how shocking it is
Speaker 1: that in a major American city of voters would opt
Speaker 1: to replace their police department with something entirely different Like
Speaker 1: that is unprecedented, even if to some it may look
Speaker 1: like a failure. Do you think, you know, glad tings
Speaker 1: all around on that is it? Do you think of
Speaker 1: the particular city might come into play on a notion
Speaker 1: like that, Because wasn't Minneapolis having issues with the Minneapolis
Speaker 1: PD for years leading up to George Floydiapolis with the
Speaker 1: ground zero of of of everything that happened last summer,
Speaker 1: and for years have been having issues with mpd uh
Speaker 1: And so I do think again, the specific context in
Speaker 1: which has happened is very important. People overlook the fact
Speaker 1: that UM earlier this year as well, UM under Mayor
Speaker 1: Sponte Mirrack up in Ithaca, New York, they passed a
Speaker 1: plan to get rid of their police department and replace
Speaker 1: it like very very I mean not quietly, like it
Speaker 1: was reported in the news, but it wasn't such a
Speaker 1: marquee moment because Minneapolis was the epicenter of the uprising
Speaker 1: last summer, and so all eyes were on it. I'm sure,
Speaker 1: like countless resources reporting on both sides to try to,
Speaker 1: you know, influence the outcome of his ballot measure, whereas
Speaker 1: very you know, relatively sneakily the city, the Common Council
Speaker 1: of Ithaca, which is like, yeah, we're doing this, what's up?
Speaker 1: So I don't know, um, just about back in the
Speaker 1: present moment, December Body James Alchemist dropped super Techmobo, which
Speaker 1: I think is an excellent album as well that sounds
Speaker 1: range from like spooky, get a little early two thousands
Speaker 1: radio wrapping. There you get something like booming, bludgeoning, thunderous basse,
Speaker 1: and then you got Boldi James telling dead pan like
Speaker 1: pretty much horror stories about telling drugs. I mean that's
Speaker 1: not let's not beat around the bush. Boldi James and
Speaker 1: Alchemists have like successfully carved out like a whole new
Speaker 1: sub genre of hip hop that is thriving, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like they are doing their thing, and
Speaker 1: I mean it's not really like it's not quite gangster rap.
Speaker 1: It's coke rap. I mean it's it's I mean when
Speaker 1: just about every word on every song is about like
Speaker 1: the day to day nuts and bolts of like the
Speaker 1: drug trade. It's just this is a different experience to
Speaker 1: listen to and like the abstract way they go about
Speaker 1: doing it. It's it's fresh man, I dig it again.
Speaker 1: This is all the sort of things where it's like
Speaker 1: all the dusty niggas out there who are always complaining
Speaker 1: about hip hop this and the young worersvers and the
Speaker 1: jeans are too tight, blah blah blah. Calm down, Calm down.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of good ship out there. There's plenty of
Speaker 1: different stuff out there. You just gotta look for it,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, don't don't get mad because the
Speaker 1: stuff that you want to listen to isn't like on
Speaker 1: TikTok and Ship, you know what I mean, It's not
Speaker 1: supposed to be like going band camp and go download
Speaker 1: that Boldy James Alcholists supported Nick is doing the ship
Speaker 1: that you like, God damns rather than riding off the
Speaker 1: entire genre and culture. Is hereable Lord of mercy. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Boldi James and Alcolm has has always been one of
Speaker 1: my favorite producers, just saying what yeah, um, I hate
Speaker 1: we We've got to make sure not to end on
Speaker 1: a bummer note. So we're gonna go through this last
Speaker 1: two things and then let's talk maybe about some stuff
Speaker 1: looking forward to two because I hate to announce that.
Speaker 1: In December, Elon Musk was named Person of the Year
Speaker 1: by Time magazine. Oh my God, like essential workers, Hello, anyone,
Speaker 1: the labor movement, strike Shelberg anything, No, you're gonna give
Speaker 1: it to like the billionaire who inherited his plans from
Speaker 1: a blood Emerald diamond South you know mine in South Africa,
Speaker 1: Like go fund yourself. Okay, Look, so we we might
Speaker 1: we might have to check this out or reapproach this
Speaker 1: on another date or something, or dive deeper into this.
Speaker 1: But part of his you know tour, like press tour
Speaker 1: for the I won the Time magazine, he did a
Speaker 1: interview with what was it called bumble b or some
Speaker 1: ship like that bumble something. It's like some right wing
Speaker 1: Twitter media comedy thing of the jig. He did an
Speaker 1: interview with them, and in this interview he made some
Speaker 1: news because not only was he going after Elizabeth Warren
Speaker 1: and talking about birth rates and space and all sorts
Speaker 1: of ship, but he also stated that wokeness is the
Speaker 1: biggest threat to modern civilization and that at its heart
Speaker 1: will go nos is divisive and hateful. YadA, YadA YadA.
Speaker 1: Some think something critical race theory. Look, I think that
Speaker 1: that's not good. Like I think that that's like something
Speaker 1: that needs to be addressed. And I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know how to like, I don't know why I think
Speaker 1: so as hard as maybe, like I said, we'll deal
Speaker 1: with it, we'll talk about this later. But I feel
Speaker 1: like that's a bigger deal then it then the press
Speaker 1: that it got because like for better or worse, and
Speaker 1: it's most likely for worse. But Elon Musk, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of fucking stupid people out there who like, thank
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is literally Tony Starks from iron Manship, like
Speaker 1: for real, for real, and like they think everything he says,
Speaker 1: he's like a genius and everything is like right and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. So for me, it's just like, man,
Speaker 1: you got this like super rich, kazillionaire dude who's got
Speaker 1: like a fucking almost like fanatical following out there, and
Speaker 1: there's nothing, there's nothing that Elon Musk can think about
Speaker 1: that happened in the last five years. That's like a
Speaker 1: threat to society other than effectively, because when you really
Speaker 1: go into the context of what he was talking about
Speaker 1: in the interview, the biggest threat to society is that
Speaker 1: some people wrote mean comments about de Chappelle's comedy special yea,
Speaker 1: essentially what he's talking about. Excuse me again, it's not
Speaker 1: the it's not the it's not the topic that I
Speaker 1: care about. The guy has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1: It's just the people who are saying these things because
Speaker 1: like they're allegedly supposed to be real smart leaders and
Speaker 1: gatekeepers of society and ship, right, So why would someone
Speaker 1: like even you know, why would he say something so
Speaker 1: stupid unless there was like an insidious like intent behind it.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like the idea of so plastic terrorism,
Speaker 1: where like someone says something inflammatory that then inspires acts
Speaker 1: of violence. They themselves didn't drop, you know, order a
Speaker 1: drone strike on someone, but then you get the l
Speaker 1: passa shooter spraying up of spraying up a Walmart because
Speaker 1: they Latino people because of Donald Trump and so like,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's quite that insidious with Elon Musk
Speaker 1: and that like he does, Like it's not like he's
Speaker 1: going out like you know, kill trans people or anything.
Speaker 1: But there's there's all there's a couple of steps between
Speaker 1: wokeness is wokeness is sucked up. And I don't like
Speaker 1: the don binary people to like someone taking that and
Speaker 1: running with it, like well, like you know, I killed
Speaker 1: everyone at the Trans Day of Remembrance visual because I
Speaker 1: go biomission though, you know what I'm saying, Like what's
Speaker 1: happened in the last five six years? That okay? Like Elon, Like,
Speaker 1: how come Elon Musk didn't come out and say, hey man,
Speaker 1: whatever Dylan Ruth believed in that ships like a threat
Speaker 1: to modern civilization? Like what how we didn't come out
Speaker 1: after the Apostle shooter. Hey, you know what, whatever the
Speaker 1: funk that dudes into that ship's a real threat to
Speaker 1: modern civilization. I think at its core, it's really hateful
Speaker 1: and divisive and we gotta do something to stuff. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, so he's like, it's like for me,
Speaker 1: the omission is is is the thing that's like a
Speaker 1: red flag to me. And then also, like you just mentioned,
Speaker 1: it's really not shocking that like a fucking descendant of
Speaker 1: apartheid is talking about wokenness is the biggest thread right,
Speaker 1: and so unlike unlike other major figures, like let's think,
Speaker 1: for example, politicians who feel beholden to comment on you know,
Speaker 1: current events, like you know, in the aftermath of like
Speaker 1: the Charleston you know church shooting or the All Passo shooting,
Speaker 1: you know, issuing statements of condemnation or recently talking about
Speaker 1: a mod are very He's not accountable to anyone, so
Speaker 1: he can just chime in when it like feeds his
Speaker 1: ego and just stay out when like I shouldn't have
Speaker 1: an opinion on that, because I don't because I'm not
Speaker 1: a good person. Um, just the contrast there's really interesting
Speaker 1: to me. I just feel that it's the whole My
Speaker 1: last bit I'll say in it, it's just the whole,
Speaker 1: like anti woke debate, regardless of how you fall personally
Speaker 1: on it. It is like right wing game, like you
Speaker 1: gotta you know what I'm saying, like at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, that's what it is. So for me,
Speaker 1: like people who are on that ship, you're either susceptible
Speaker 1: to like right wing propaganda or you're like in on it,
Speaker 1: either one of those things. I can't fuck it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? So I don't funk with us
Speaker 1: that no, um. And then before we move on to
Speaker 1: our hopes injurienso me, I gotta stop and address where
Speaker 1: we're at with a macron right now, man. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier in the show, numbers case numbers
Speaker 1: are I have shattered you know, previous records, including for
Speaker 1: earlier this year when we thought we were at the
Speaker 1: height of like a winter surge. Danny wins, she's gotta
Speaker 1: she's got covid right to get the sons like I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't like open my phone without getting a new
Speaker 1: text message from someone that has gotten covid. Um and
Speaker 1: show for New Year's Eve this year. Yeah, I'm probably
Speaker 1: chilling hard um. And this comes just as uh, the
Speaker 1: CDC has revised his recommendations with regards to quarantine. Now
Speaker 1: it's somewhat complicated and tiered based on whether you're symptomatic
Speaker 1: or not. But effectively shortening the recommended quarantine in time
Speaker 1: from ten to five days, and it has become very
Speaker 1: explicit in interviews with senior officials involved in these conversations.
Speaker 1: UM information that has come to light about lobbying UM
Speaker 1: by the CEO of Delta with regards to shortening the
Speaker 1: quarantine time that this is not a public health based decision.
Speaker 1: This is based on I mean, by their own word,
Speaker 1: in their own words and their words of CDC director
Speaker 1: I think her name is Winsley, Robin Winsley or something
Speaker 1: or I don't remember. UM that like they are about
Speaker 1: they're trying to balance public health, the interests of public
Speaker 1: health and the interests of not impacting society. Now if
Speaker 1: they really wanted, if they were, I mean, because on
Speaker 1: its face, I can sound like, oh, we don't want
Speaker 1: grocery stores to close because they're understaffed. We don't want
Speaker 1: the buses to stop running because the bus drivers are sick.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, y'all could implement mitigation like strategies to
Speaker 1: make that not a thing. Like in Vietnam, Like they
Speaker 1: are just like the National Guard or whatever equivalent in Vietnam.
Speaker 1: It's just delivering food to people's houses. So they ain't
Speaker 1: even gotta go the grocery store. Like, if we were
Speaker 1: really serious about protecting public health, we could. We could.
Speaker 1: We can mandate testing and every work site that's in
Speaker 1: person um, all sorts of We can implement another shutdown,
Speaker 1: surrogate breakers, shot down three weeks or whatever, give everybody
Speaker 1: a two dollar check waited out. They literally are just
Speaker 1: like I mean, the fact that they could and aren't
Speaker 1: doing that is what shows you that this is more
Speaker 1: about appeasing uh corporate um gangsters over like actually protecting
Speaker 1: the same in lives. I mean the ship I'm worried about,
Speaker 1: and maybe I'm just I'm not supposed to be worried
Speaker 1: about it because maybe the chances are too low. But
Speaker 1: it's like, what happens if this ship mutates into something worse?
Speaker 1: I think we're on a trajectory for them, but like,
Speaker 1: what will the what will the anti vactors say that
Speaker 1: wells never got it when it when it turns into
Speaker 1: something that like is more deadly, you know, or when
Speaker 1: the day comes. The last thing I'll say, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be a dum or when the day comes,
Speaker 1: because like I've heard interviews with like I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're virologists, so they study like you know, you
Speaker 1: know essentially I've heard I've listened to interviews with scientists
Speaker 1: talking about the role of deforestation in driving you know,
Speaker 1: animal to human transmitted pandemics like these that the more
Speaker 1: that we disturb these ecosystems and things like that are
Speaker 1: driven into urban centers where then they take a ship
Speaker 1: on the you know, sushi that you buy from the
Speaker 1: market or whatever. Then suddenly we have a pandemic on
Speaker 1: our hands. What we're really looking in addition to this
Speaker 1: continuing to mutate is um is parallel pandemics of like
Speaker 1: COVID not going away, and then the news ship shows them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I'm sorry, but that is like they won't be
Speaker 1: increasingly likely as like ecosystems get thrown into chaos both
Speaker 1: by climate change and by man made disruptions in terms
Speaker 1: of like development of cities, etcetera. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: they should just they should harp on that aspect of
Speaker 1: the like push to get people to get vaccinated. That
Speaker 1: it's like, well, there's the there's the protecting your fellow
Speaker 1: man ship and all that stuff that you should just
Speaker 1: like want to do anyway, But like they should really
Speaker 1: like harp on even if I don't care what percentage,
Speaker 1: if it's point one one percent, I don't know what
Speaker 1: the chances, but they should harp like Yo, the more
Speaker 1: unvaccinated people they're out there, the like war room that
Speaker 1: this ship has to turn into something worse. Now. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if that would help with the way
Speaker 1: people are active. I don't know all we can do,
Speaker 1: all we can do to be you know, to transition
Speaker 1: warmly into the end of the show's it look after
Speaker 1: each other. You know, ultimately we do have a lot
Speaker 1: of collective power, um to help keep each other afloat,
Speaker 1: you know, mutual aid networks and things like that. It
Speaker 1: just really stresses the importance of knowing your neighbors, looking
Speaker 1: out for each other where you can, and strengthening our
Speaker 1: neighborhoods just through just community outreach, just like knowing who
Speaker 1: lives around you and supporting them and leaning on them
Speaker 1: for support when you need it. And um, increasingly it
Speaker 1: looks like the main way ever gonna get out of this.
Speaker 1: In addition to you know, like we're looking forward you
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm excided from album come out, Um, I'm
Speaker 1: excited hopefully finish my inssertation and be dumb a fucking school.
Speaker 1: I hate it. It's so terrible. Um, why am I
Speaker 1: geting this degree? Um? So all that, and you know,
Speaker 1: political projects of mine that have seated, you know, bearing fruit,
Speaker 1: getting this community garden off the ground, hopefully getting a
Speaker 1: cure violence esque program implemented Athens. I've talked about a
Speaker 1: couple of times in the show, but you know, public
Speaker 1: safety something night. It's a very passionate issue of mine.
Speaker 1: So addressing some of that through some of the things
Speaker 1: that I've been working on for the last couple of months.
Speaker 1: So it's could be a tough year, give me a
Speaker 1: exciting and rewarding year, though, I think so I feel
Speaker 1: like someone optimistic, if not a little bit daunted. But
Speaker 1: what about you? What's you looking forward to? Um? Oh um,
Speaker 1: obviously looking forward to putting out the new album. Um
Speaker 1: if covid, If COVID keep backing up, you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: it can calm down, because I'm definitely looking forward to
Speaker 1: touring more. You know, didn't tour, didn't tour the whole
Speaker 1: even though other people were. But you know, hopefully that
Speaker 1: can that can be a possibility next year. And um,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to doing more work with my local
Speaker 1: anti fascist groups and movements around. Um, that's probably it's
Speaker 1: probably like the topic of like most concerned to me
Speaker 1: right now at this point in my life. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to getting more involved in that. So,
Speaker 1: you know, anti fascism and rap music sounds like a
Speaker 1: good way. It sounds like some good goals for two
Speaker 1: for me, So that's what I'm about speaking of Next week,
Speaker 1: we are after you guys come back from celebrating New
Speaker 1: Year's and everything, we are going to be recapping the
Speaker 1: events on the anniversary of January six, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: be talking with known anti fascist Christopher Goldsmith about some
Speaker 1: of the things that he does to prevent our veterans
Speaker 1: from being seduced into right wing extremist groups. But yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for listening this year. We'll see you
Speaker 1: in the next one. And with that, yall want to
Speaker 1: want you want to wrap a limit? Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be our last raps one for the show. So
Speaker 1: we gotta kick it off right, all right, I gotta
Speaker 1: listen to Vocal Cards, get everything loose. You ready, Let's
Speaker 1: hit it all right, Joe, Let's do it. Oh uh
Speaker 1: huh uh huh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, picture perfect. I'm
Speaker 1: paint the perfect picture. These niggas thrown the capitol. They
Speaker 1: probably work with hit. Let's spell my name with double
Speaker 1: capitals to put it on a scripture. I need you
Speaker 1: will to go and spare point like I'm the witch
Speaker 1: of the pandemic hit and everyone's grandpap the shelter, and
Speaker 1: then we thought it was over, and then we ran
Speaker 1: the delta record, heat wave, ice caps im and melt you.
Speaker 1: The social contracts a bad hand that you dealta us,
Speaker 1: the whole system fun. You really need of a failsafe.
Speaker 1: Democrats suck. These niggas can't even fail straight. I see
Speaker 1: the world through some bloodshot eyes. And you might call
Speaker 1: him Antifa, but that's just my guys, real ship. Take
Speaker 1: a load office for the new year, Go up to
Speaker 1: a party and maybe get you a few beers. Pull
Speaker 1: some liking out for your home. Uson she had a
Speaker 1: few tears Lingua franca h two whol you know my
Speaker 1: cup's here, I'm dope knife. We are waiting on reparations
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