1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:03,279 Speaker 1: Colser Media. 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 2: Blackness. 3 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 3: Yes, it is that time of year, the bi annual 4 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 3: State of the Blackness Address. 5 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: I will be your tour director. 6 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 3: My name is Parapaganda and this is hood politics with 7 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 3: prop The State of the Blackness Address, Part one, twenty 8 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 3: to twenty five. Matt dropped the track on him. 9 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: Okay, welcome, welcome, Welcome. 10 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 3: The bi Annual State of the Blackness Address twenty twenty 11 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 3: five has been quite. 12 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: A show so far. 13 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 3: I know we all feel like this that January was 14 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 3: such a long month and then we blinked and it 15 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 3: was June. 16 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: We're already here. 17 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 3: So many things have happened, so let's stop and let's 18 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 3: take a second to acknowledge. 19 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:33,320 Speaker 1: The blackness. 20 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 3: Now, last year started out, came out swinging with Club Shaysha, 21 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 3: and you have an unusual alliance with losers and that's 22 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 3: not like you, you know, and all the things that 23 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 3: your boy Kat Williams gave us. 24 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: Oh man, it came out so fun. You know. 25 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 3: We had the guy that jumped over the bench, you know, 26 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 3: went flying to tackle the lady after he got sentenced. 27 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 3: We had some good ones, and of course last year 28 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 3: gave us the Fall of Drake and the Kendrick and 29 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 3: Drake that gave us Stay Night like us and man, 30 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 3: the culture was very strong and probably I think now 31 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:20,640 Speaker 3: we can say, like the biggest and greatest disc song 32 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 3: in all of hip hop. I just I don't know, man, 33 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 3: I used to think like I mean, I thought all those, 34 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 3: all those I thought all the Kendrick songs, we were amazing. 35 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 3: Of course, Wes West, but were they in the history 36 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 3: of hip hop. I'm like, I think, man, I think 37 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 3: Ether has been dethroned. I think it's it's hard to 38 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 3: hard to defeat it. I'm realizing I'm not wearing my 39 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 3: headphones now, That's why I don't hear myself. There we 40 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 3: go anyway, I'm really tired because of the club real 41 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 3: ones yesterday and shout out Ian Dude. Ian pulled up 42 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 3: Ian producer Ian that produces a lot of these clubs 43 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 3: clubs see cools one media shows. Ian came out with 44 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 3: his with his lovely better half and we had us 45 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:16,239 Speaker 3: a good time. So yeah, twenty twenty five stated of blackness, 46 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 3: let's get to it. 47 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 1: First. 48 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 3: You got to start off in January with the La Fires. Now, 49 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 3: while we got to start there is because while a 50 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 3: lot of the news was covering what was happening in 51 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 3: the Palisades and Malibu. A lot of our local eyes 52 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 3: were on the city of Altadena. I know, I did 53 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 3: a small, short kind of breakdown of Altadena inside of 54 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 3: the Block is literally hot episode when I talked about 55 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 3: the La fires. 56 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: And Altadena is. 57 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 3: The northern part of Los Angeles County on the east side, 58 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 3: in the foothills under the Angelus Mountains. Now the Hollywood 59 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 3: Hills is a part of a mountain range right with 60 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 3: a valley in between, which is how you get over 61 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 3: to the valley. But that range kind of stretches up 62 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 3: and it becomes like, you know, like I said, the 63 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 3: Angelus Crest all the way over to the Azusa Mountains 64 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 3: down to Mount Baldy and then you get out to 65 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 3: Big Bear as you're going east or inland. But nestled 66 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 3: at the foothills the east side is an enclave called Altadena. 67 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 3: And Altadena was one of the few standing black communities 68 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 3: that most likely, I think it's it's fair to say 69 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 3: that most likely your. 70 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: Grandma lived in Altadena. 71 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 3: She probably bought a house right after the Vietnam War, 72 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 3: because this was one of the first like middle class, 73 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 3: like working class middle class black neighborhoods where you could 74 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:17,280 Speaker 3: you could get an affordable home working a regular ass job. 75 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 3: Now as time went on, those homes became quite pricey 76 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 3: because won their location and to their build They're these 77 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 3: like super dope kind of break mid century modern like 78 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 3: it just it's just a great neighborhood. You know, merce 79 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 3: talked about how when he moved to the six to 80 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 3: six that's where his church was. A lot of times 81 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 3: if you lived in the rest of the spots, like 82 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 3: down in West Covina or Baldwin Park, like you lived 83 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 3: with the Vatos, like a lot of times your barber 84 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 3: was up in Altadena, you know, or in Pasadena. You know, 85 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:57,480 Speaker 3: the Pasadena Rubber Rebels. You know, that's a very local reference. 86 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 3: But the loss of that neighborhood is some thing that 87 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 3: as far as locally has been concerned, was our focus. 88 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 3: There was an African American library there. There was all 89 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 3: these like kids programs that where a lot of us 90 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 3: learned about the diaspora of Africa and drumming circles and 91 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 3: stuff like that. Like if you wasn't going out to 92 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:25,279 Speaker 3: Lamert you know, you were staying. Lamert Park is in 93 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 3: the Crenshaw District, which is on the West Side, and 94 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 3: sometimes because of unfortunately because of gang festivities and activities, 95 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 3: that's sometimes not an option. But a lot of times 96 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 3: you were moved as a child out of those areas. 97 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 3: But you don't want to lose what it means to 98 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 3: have a black community, just as simple as like where 99 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 3: to get your hair grease, not having to explain what 100 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 3: hair grease is, you know what I'm saying, Like those 101 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 3: things become the seasonings. I remember I was trying to 102 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 3: make some greens. Uh one time last summer, I just 103 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 3: needed a smoke turkey leg. Whole Foods ain't got no 104 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 3: smoke turkey leg. I went to the rest of the 105 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 3: grocery store around here. Y'all know I live in a 106 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 3: Mexican neighborhood. They're like, yo, we only have smoke turkey 107 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 3: during the holidays, during Thanksgiving. So I'm like, uh, yeah, 108 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 3: I need to go to Altadena because I was like, 109 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 3: I need to go where black people live because I 110 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 3: know they're gonna have They're gonna have hamhocks, they gonna have. 111 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: The things I need just to cook. 112 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 3: So sometimes now granted this Altadena and a lot of 113 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 3: like ethnic neighborhoods were created because of redlining and because 114 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 3: of prejudice. But inside of that, you create a community 115 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 3: of the things that we all need and those little 116 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 3: things that I feel like a lot of times white 117 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 3: people are people of the dominant culture, you know, really 118 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 3: can't appreciate, like why other ethnicities feel even more like 119 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 3: a fish out of water when they're in, you know, 120 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 3: neighborhoods that don't represent them, you know what I'm saying. 121 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: It's little stuff like that. 122 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 3: You know, I couldn't find the right kind of shampoo 123 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 3: for a long time too, because that mug said you 124 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 3: at the store and it said this is for normal 125 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 3: hair texture. 126 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what the hell is normal hair? Well? 127 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 3: You know what they mean by that, don't you exactly? 128 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 3: So little things like that where I don't have to 129 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,319 Speaker 3: like concern myself. 130 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: You know. 131 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 3: Altadena is a beautiful, beautiful city, and most of the 132 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 3: fundraisers focused around la especially again in the black community, 133 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 3: was around rebuilding Altadena and it's still going on. There 134 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 3: are still links in my bios to support a lot 135 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 3: of these families. One of the people up there was 136 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 3: mad Lib. Mad Lib again in the state of hip 137 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 3: hop is a behemoth of a producer, The Mad Villain 138 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 3: album that everybody talks about with m F Doom, mad Lib, 139 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,439 Speaker 3: Jlib is him and Jay Dilla, you know, the champion 140 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 3: sound stuff man mad Live is a if you are 141 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 3: a rapper, no matter what part of the country you're from, 142 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 3: mad Lib should be on your bucket list to get 143 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 3: production from. Yeah, he lost his home too, you know, 144 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 3: And there was a bunch of fundraisers that we've done 145 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 3: in hopes to save his own and his record collections 146 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 3: and those things. So rather than coming out swinging for 147 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 3: black people with funniness, we came out swinging with a 148 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:53,439 Speaker 3: little bit of pain. 149 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: Next is the Ballad of p. 150 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 4: Diddy, y'all. 151 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 3: This topic has clearly spanned a number of State of 152 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 3: the blacknesses because Diddy is now finally on trial. As 153 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 3: we've known, Diddy was one of the worst kept secrets 154 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 3: in Hollywood, hip hop and black culture. We all knew 155 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 3: that man was weird now unfortunately, because use homophobia is 156 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 3: a normal, normalized thing among the black community, although black 157 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 3: queer is also a ginormous part of our culture. 158 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: So weird how we do this? 159 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 3: People still have kind of changed pause to ah No Ditty, 160 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 3: which is essentially a way to say. 161 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: I'm not gay, like I'm not doing gay stuff. 162 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 3: Unfortunately, that the gayness was the line that the culture 163 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 3: finally drew. But as the case is going on, we're 164 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 3: seeing that man was even more bizarre than we all thought. 165 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 3: The story about one of the male escorts said, no, 166 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 3: this was Cassie's story that she was forced to make 167 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 3: live to this male escort while Ditty was in a 168 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 3: job with just the little eyes showing watching them get down. Boy, 169 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 3: that man kid cutty two for two with his mentor 170 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 3: choices because both of them went crazy cut He said 171 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 3: that man showed up at his house and set his 172 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 3: car on fire. Obviously he didn't do it himself. Why 173 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:34,959 Speaker 3: you set that man's car on fire? Did he look 174 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 3: like he aged seventy two years inside of jail? Oh 175 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 3: you know you ain't got your skincare routine and the 176 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 3: pan Do you listen? 177 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 2: Oh? 178 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 4: Man? 179 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 3: Did he out here wildly in the state of the blackness. 180 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 3: Maybe let's stay in hip hop before we move into 181 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:04,839 Speaker 3: other topics. The continuation of Kendrick Tamar's curb stomping of 182 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 3: the culture moves on. While this tour that the GNX 183 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 3: Tour that is now broken records for touring ever, and 184 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 3: then he broke his own record as this tour game 185 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 3: went on as far as ticket sales. The argument against 186 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 3: k Dot apparently, which I didn't agree with, was that 187 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 3: he don't make bops, that he don't make hits, and 188 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 3: that the songs are not. 189 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 1: Made for radio. 190 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 3: That's what everybody's argument with, Like mister Morale was like, 191 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 3: there's no there's no radio songs. He come back with 192 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 3: these these hits with Sizz, which of which he took 193 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 3: on tour and gave her, which what I love about 194 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 3: it equal amount of time on stage because he's just 195 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 3: a good man. He continues to break streaming records, he 196 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 3: continues to break toward ticket sale records, and just continues 197 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 3: to put the West. 198 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: On the map. 199 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 3: Now while that was happening out on the East Coast, 200 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 3: on the Beast Coast, my homeboy Joey Badass. Now Joey 201 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 3: is not my homeboy because I ain't never met this man, 202 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 3: but we do share a manager, which would be like, 203 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 3: damn man, can y'all connect this please? 204 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: Anyway? 205 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 3: What I love about this moment in hip hop is 206 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 3: that it's kind of just for us because the rest 207 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 3: of the people I'm about to name, unless you really 208 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 3: tapped into hip hop, y'all know who these people are. 209 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 3: But if you're in our culture, this has been some 210 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 3: of the funnest few months of bringing which is what 211 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 3: Kendrick said he tried to do. Bring that competition back, 212 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 3: that goon competition back, the sport of hip hop, the 213 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,960 Speaker 3: sport of battling, of beating your chest and spinning in 214 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 3: bars and having bought and having something to come back, 215 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 3: having a response, the competition part of hip hop. That 216 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 3: is about we're sparring. This is art for art's sake, 217 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 3: this is this is battle raps for battle rap sake. 218 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 3: There has been a battle going on between Joey Badass 219 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 3: and essentially all of the West, right. Joey had said 220 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 3: in a song a while back, in reference to a 221 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 3: line that Jay Z said years ago, which was like 222 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 3: it's too much West Coast dick licking right. He was 223 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 3: making an observation that the West is up right now, 224 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 3: the West is hot, you know, and y'all need to 225 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 3: stop jocking this, like, don't forget the East Coast started 226 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 3: hip hop essentially, like I feel a way that I'm 227 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 3: not in the conversation about the top rappers of my era. 228 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 3: This is Joey Joey Badass is a sort of premise 229 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 3: and like y'all acting like New York don't run things still, 230 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 3: and they don't, partially, I believe, because New York gave 231 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 3: up its sound because it started doing drill and like 232 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 3: the ASoP rocky stuff, the French Montana stuff. There was 233 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 3: no way you'd know they were from New York because 234 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 3: they don't have they don't have a sound, but Joey 235 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 3: has that sound. Dudes like Griselda and you know, Westside 236 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 3: Gun and all this stuff that they're doing is bringing 237 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 3: a New York sound back. So in some stances, I 238 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 3: feel like New York gave up its flavor, but it's 239 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 3: cool to see it pop smoke, Like y'all didn't know 240 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 3: he was from New York unless Mike told you. He 241 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 3: didn't sound like it. They're they're redefining their sound anyway. 242 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 3: In this battle, he takes shots at the West but 243 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 3: Kendrick over it, so everybody else jumped in. Ray Vaughan 244 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 3: is an artist on TDE also and Homie can rap 245 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 3: rap rap, And then it became this like sort of 246 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 3: a brawl because another man named Daylight. Now Daylight is 247 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 3: super interesting because Daylight again comes from the battle scene. 248 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:14,919 Speaker 3: I believe Watts right. He also his ghostwriting pen is insane. 249 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 3: He wrote a number of Drake songs. He's also very 250 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 3: close with ab Sol. And you have to remember about 251 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 3: the thing about ab Sol, who's also a part of 252 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 3: Top Dog. Absol of the of Black Hippie, Black Hippie 253 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 3: is j Rock, Kendrick, Schoolboy Qan Absole like the first 254 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 3: the kind of the founding members of Top Dog Entertainment. 255 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 3: Of them, Kendrick's obviously the hit maker, the star of 256 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 3: the show. 257 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 1: Jay Rock's the street. 258 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 3: Goon, you know, and then Schoolboy is the like almost 259 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 3: like the melodic street goon, you feel me. Absol, that's 260 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 3: the rappers rapper, he's the that's the caviar, like the 261 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 3: the We would be here for seven months trying to 262 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:09,439 Speaker 3: break down his lyrics, like he's the wordplay intricate, like 263 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 3: I said I'd said before, which I love. He's like 264 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 3: backpack rap with a gat in it, Like so it's 265 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 3: a backpacker but he got a gun in it because 266 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 3: he's still a street dude. 267 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: But he's the caviar. Now when he got in. 268 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 3: There's Red Bull has this thing where they do this 269 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 3: like three sixty site for the first one I saw 270 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 3: was of. 271 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 1: Soul's a Mischief. 272 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 3: But what they do is they get like three or 273 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 3: four rappers in and they spit, you know, freestyles, not 274 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 3: like I call freestyles, but freestyle's into this thing. And 275 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 3: this one was Big Sean, Joey and Absol. Now Joey 276 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 3: had already taken shots at Daylight and at Ray Vaughn. 277 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 3: But because they're all friends, right, AB finally or not? Yeah, 278 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 3: ab Soul finally addresses it in this circle where he 279 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 3: was like, listen, Joey, you put me in this predicament 280 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 3: that like, I know me and you are friends. But 281 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 3: it's not like I'm not gonna stand with my syndicate. 282 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 283 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 3: He's takes so he's taking shots at at Joey standing there, 284 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 3: and then when it's Joey's turn, Joey taking shots at 285 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 3: Ab standing there. So for a few weeks reason Daylight, 286 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 3: Ray Vaughn, Joey Badass. These are like, again, you're not 287 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 3: in the culture. These are rappers, rappers, right, They are 288 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 3: spitting because GENA views is part of the show called 289 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 3: effective immediately with DJ head gena Is was like, I'm 290 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:52,919 Speaker 3: get off the internet and get in the booth, like 291 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 3: nigga rap. 292 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 1: Why are y'all not rapping rap? 293 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:56,360 Speaker 2: Right? 294 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: And guess what niggas is rapping. 295 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 3: The beauty of this is everyone agrees in this that 296 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 3: we are having fun. As vicious and cutting as these 297 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 3: words are, this is almost like black people getting to 298 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 3: be black without the white gays. How do we talk 299 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 3: when y'all not around, when we don't have to worry 300 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,399 Speaker 3: about things being misinterpreted. This is what's happening inside of 301 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 3: hip hop right now when we ain't got to explain. 302 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 1: There's no New York Times. 303 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,959 Speaker 3: I don't have to explain to you why BBL drizzy 304 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 3: is funny, Like I don't like. This is one of 305 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 3: those things where it's like cool, we get to just 306 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:37,439 Speaker 3: speak our own language. We ain't gotta translate and just 307 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 3: enjoy what's happening in hip hop right now. That's what's 308 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 3: going on right now, man, and it is fun and 309 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 3: they're all talking about how fun it is. The Hommy 310 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,280 Speaker 3: Curtis King was like, listen, bro, if we were gonna 311 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 3: if you're gonna hop online and play two K or 312 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 3: Madden with your friends. You gonna talk trash. I'm trying 313 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 3: to win, like I like, I am truly trying. I'm 314 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 3: trying to destroy you. This is the same a hip hop. 315 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:04,880 Speaker 1: This is what I love. 316 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 3: This is what I felt love about battle rap is 317 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 3: after telling someone the worst possible things you could ever 318 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 3: say to somebody, we all left and went to Denny's. 319 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 3: This stuff isn't personal. This is fun with somebody. If 320 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 3: you was slapboxing with your friends outside that there's rules, 321 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 3: but we're still being physical. I'm gonna get slapped in 322 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 3: the face, and I feel like I want you to try. 323 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: Like that's the thing. 324 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 3: Like if you playing pickup ball, like that's a lot, 325 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 3: that's another way to clate battle rap like this. 326 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: It's like street ball, Like you know, these are pickup games. 327 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 3: There's gonna be more elbows, it's gonna be a little 328 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 3: more aggressive, but you gotta hold your mud. 329 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. 330 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 3: You gotta stand your ground, you gotta spit back, and 331 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 3: the best bars win. This is also what's beauty about 332 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 3: beautiful about this moment. It's like without the gaze of 333 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 3: pop culture talking about numbers and streams and all that 334 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 3: good stuff that's not a part of the conversation because 335 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 3: these artists have not poked into mainstream or pop culture. 336 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,480 Speaker 1: These are rappers. So all this is about is bars. 337 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,680 Speaker 3: And it's been good to enjoy this with hip hop 338 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:19,880 Speaker 3: because this is something we needed. You know, you get 339 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 3: Mac Miller's death, you get Pop Smoke's death, you know 340 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 3: Triple X at Tassion, all these like really sad stories. 341 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 3: You got young thugs, all these rappers going to jail. 342 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,919 Speaker 3: You know, just not a good look. This was a 343 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:41,440 Speaker 3: moment we all needed, moving out of hip hop. Let's 344 00:22:41,440 --> 00:23:29,439 Speaker 3: go to this little more politics next, all right, for 345 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 3: some reason, the desire that for some reason this year 346 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 3: it kind of worked where black people got real solidified 347 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 3: over Target. And I think partially because Target took such 348 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 3: serious strides towards being present for us in supporting black businesses. 349 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 3: And then when DEI was attacked, they removed their DEI program. 350 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 3: Here's where this becomes complicated. They still sold the products, 351 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 3: the black products that they already had, they just decided 352 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:07,479 Speaker 3: to stop being upfront about it. 353 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: Now. 354 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 3: It's not so much that we care as black people 355 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 3: about the name DEI. It's the principle of it in 356 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 3: the sense that you stood up for us, and when 357 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 3: the white supremacists came to tell you to stop doing it, 358 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 3: you just folded, and I know you folded in a 359 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 3: way that was supposed to be looking at us and 360 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 3: winking saying we're still there. 361 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: We're just gonna you know. 362 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 3: But when you just wink and look over there and 363 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 3: say I'm still gonna do it, but I'll still please 364 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 3: you by changing this name, you still give them a 365 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:50,679 Speaker 3: win because they still believe that they have the authority 366 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 3: to bully you, and that perception, the visual and the 367 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 3: belief is all they need because then they're gonna come 368 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 3: do it again, and then you're gonna change the name 369 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 3: again and try to figure it out. Either way, you're 370 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 3: still taking a submissive position to a group that needs 371 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 3: to understand. 372 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 1: The principalities of the thing. So black people. 373 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 3: Decided some of it was organized through church, others was 374 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 3: just organized through social media, that we were just gonna 375 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 3: not shop at Target. 376 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,719 Speaker 1: No more than the businesses that were in Target. They 377 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:27,679 Speaker 1: all got websites. 378 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 3: We'll still support y'all. You don't have to lose money 379 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 3: because it is so we still buy a products. We're 380 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 3: just not shopping at Target. Target, they took a massive 381 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 3: l Black people used to spend twelve million a day 382 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 3: at Target. 383 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: That's gone. 384 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,679 Speaker 3: They made that CEO get a fifty percent pay cut 385 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 3: because black folks decided when we was done shopping there. 386 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 3: It's crazy that when we actually decide, when we finally done, 387 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 3: when you get to the go ahead, chief, you got 388 00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 3: a champ when we get to that, like when we're done, 389 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 3: we're done, which is what's going on with Kanye. 390 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 1: We're done. That's why not on the news no more. 391 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 1: We're done. 392 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 3: Sell your swastikas, go ahead. Br niggas is over it. 393 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 3: It's one thing I do enjoy about us is we 394 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 3: are long suffering. We will stick with you for a while. 395 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 3: But when we're done, I said, because it's all you, you. 396 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 4: Got a chief. 397 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 3: Sticking in the politics section, Larry Hoover, founder of the 398 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 3: Gangster Disciples, Leonard Peltier, freedom fighter from the sixties, political prisoner, 399 00:26:53,880 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 3: and believe this, NB A Young Boy all got released 400 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 3: from prison, Larry Hoover specifically, and NBA Young Boy got 401 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 3: they sentence commuted, commuted from a dut Trump organization. Now, 402 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 3: no one could have imagined this timeline that this would 403 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:19,919 Speaker 3: happen commit black people. 404 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,399 Speaker 1: Y'all get it? What the lick read? The lick is 405 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: to exploit the divide. 406 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 3: Of gender among the black community because we're having some 407 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 3: sort of some sort of a civil war among us, 408 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 3: and Trump is making strides in gaining support with black men. 409 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 3: Part of that is because we're trying to get this 410 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 3: money and we just want to be getting money, Muff, 411 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 3: because you understand what I'm saying, but it's complicated. And 412 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 3: then when you start doing stuff like this, because we 413 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 3: understand prison reform, we understand our need to like a 414 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 3: lot of young brothers have been put in jail, you know, 415 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 3: on some untrumped up charges. So this is supposed to 416 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 3: feel good. Now, this is not to be little any 417 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 3: of the things that Larry Hoover has done it better himself. 418 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,880 Speaker 3: I'm not putting that aside. I'm talking about Trumps rereading 419 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 3: Trump's lick because this man may do these gestures to 420 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,959 Speaker 3: try to make us feel better, but this is the 421 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 3: same man that's ending head Start programs, the same man 422 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 3: that looked at our Haitian brothers and sisters and was 423 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 3: like they eating pets, literally eating cats and dogs. That's 424 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 3: what they said about our brothers and sisters in the diaspora. 425 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 3: This the shithold country's man. This the same man that's 426 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 3: removing the medicaid, that's making medicaid hard. 427 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: For my DNM. That man don't love you. 428 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 3: And I feel like we understand this because I have 429 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 3: a lot of the similar memories you have when the 430 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 3: pusher come through the city or come through the neighborhood 431 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 3: in the Cadillac you start handing out twenty dollar bills 432 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 3: or taking us off to the ice cream truck. You know, 433 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 3: doing backpack drives you feel me. But that man is 434 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 3: why your auntie strung out. That man is while you 435 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 3: went to your cousin's funeral last week. He may tell 436 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 3: you sorry and promised to take care of you, of 437 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 3: you and your mother, you and your auntie, your cousin, 438 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 3: your auntie. He promised to take care of him, But 439 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 3: I tell you what, he also got him killed. So 440 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 3: I need you to remember that this man is really 441 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 3: not on your side. That being said, welcome home the NBA, 442 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 3: young boy, and Larry Hoover. Now I brought up Leonard 443 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 3: Peltier because can you believe it? Do your googles all right? 444 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 3: Next is our continual war with state sponsored violence Rodney 445 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 3: Hiitton Junior. This happened out there in Cincinnati, Ohio, where 446 00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 3: a young man and his friends stole a car and 447 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 3: were pursued by the police. One of them hopped out 448 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 3: the car. The cop says he saw a gun. The 449 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 3: guy dropped the gun and run ran. The little boy 450 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 3: took four shots to his back and died. After the 451 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 3: little boy's father got to see the police surveillance video, 452 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 3: he was so distraught that the next day he drove 453 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 3: his car into an officer who was directing traffic. The 454 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 3: complications of this story puts the reality of radicalization into 455 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 3: focus even more because this is a sad story for 456 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 3: all parties involved. It's a clear case of temporary insanity. 457 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:49,920 Speaker 3: But also it is what I've been trying to tell 458 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 3: y'all about Palestine. It's that state sponsored violence always creates terrorism. 459 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 3: As I don't know of any terrorist group that wasn't 460 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 3: a response to state sponsored violence. So the continual insurgent 461 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 3: force that is the police department in America towards or 462 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,640 Speaker 3: at least what it feels like towards black people, is 463 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 3: gonna eventually drive us to these types of actions. So 464 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 3: this man was like, listen, you not gonna see justice. 465 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 3: These people killed my son and now they protecting the 466 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 3: man that killed my son. I don't know if you know, 467 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 3: but Derek Chauvin is getting out also by the same 468 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 3: administration that freed Larry Hoover. So don't think this man 469 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 3: is full of us. Derek Chauvin is the person that 470 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 3: killed George Floyd. So Rodney was on trial. Rodney hidden 471 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 3: Junior and gave us one of the most epic moments 472 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 3: where thirty officers showed up for this trial for his uh, 473 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 3: for his first arraignment, and that man chin up full 474 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,880 Speaker 3: of pride, like you're not gonna have me down. You're 475 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 3: not gonna have me sad. I stood up for my son. 476 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 3: I found justice for my son because I know you 477 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 3: would never do this for me. So he kept his 478 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 3: head up. Now, I'm sure you're not asking me this 479 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 3: because you listen to the show and you know what 480 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 3: it is that I am not giving a defense for 481 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 3: vigilanteism or murder. I'm not I'm saying I understand it. 482 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying. I am a father. 483 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 3: And sometimes watching movies and I'm seeing somebody's child. If 484 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 3: you see the if the if the parents are part 485 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 3: of the storyline, and you see somebody's child going through 486 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 3: some suffering, if you. 487 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 1: Care about your fathering. 488 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 3: You, it's hard for me to see that without feeling 489 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 3: like deep feelings and emotions and sometimes rage like I'm like, boy, 490 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 3: I wish a mother, I wish you would talk to 491 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 3: my daughter like that. I wish you would put my 492 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 3: child's life in danger. 493 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: Like you feeling froggy than jump. So I think I 494 00:33:32,840 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 1: understand that. And lastly, in the State of the Blackness. 495 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 3: The memes, Ladies and Gentlemen twenty Drew Hills, Now, a 496 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:38,479 Speaker 3: father saw his son being disrespectful to his mother. 497 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,720 Speaker 1: And if you understand. 498 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:45,280 Speaker 3: Something about the black nuclear family, won't play not about 499 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 3: our wives. Ain't nowhere in the world you're gonna let 500 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,360 Speaker 3: your child be disrespectful today. 501 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 1: Mother. 502 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,239 Speaker 3: That's something we just don't that's not not we don't 503 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 3: abide by that, and especially if it's your boy. 504 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 1: Now I have daughters, so that's a different story. 505 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:02,800 Speaker 3: But black men and their sons when it talks about 506 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,320 Speaker 3: how when you think about how you want your boys 507 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 3: to treat they, Mama, boy, you been not in my presence, 508 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,319 Speaker 3: I bet not ever catch I bet not ever see you. 509 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,840 Speaker 1: Be out of pocket with your mother. That's it. We don't. 510 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,799 Speaker 3: That's that's not something we play around with. So a 511 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 3: lot of men I've seen my homeboy Triune makes they 512 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,440 Speaker 3: kid do. He used to make his son, his step 513 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 3: son do laps, so he would go to the high 514 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 3: school on the court and he go make him run laps. 515 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,840 Speaker 3: The homy La Cree used to have his kids do 516 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 3: wall sets. Right, we're trying to break these generational curses 517 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:39,680 Speaker 3: of whipping our children. 518 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 1: Okay, so forgive us. But this man said, we're doing 519 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:44,440 Speaker 1: twenty Drew Hills. 520 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,719 Speaker 3: Now, if you know nineties R and B, you already 521 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 3: know exactly what he talking about. It is a dance 522 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 3: from a video that has a step and a jump 523 00:35:56,080 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 3: and it's almost a burpie. Because when he said I 524 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,400 Speaker 3: gave my son twenty Drew Hills, we all knew exactly 525 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 3: what he meant. And then the video cut to his 526 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 3: son do it. 527 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,880 Speaker 1: Cause it's a workout. 528 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,960 Speaker 3: One man said twenty Drew Hills. And lastly, one hundred 529 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,440 Speaker 3: men versus one gorilla. You may or may not know, 530 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:31,320 Speaker 3: but that whole discussion actually came out of black Twitter. 531 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,880 Speaker 3: Now I know there is no such thing as Twitter anymore, 532 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,480 Speaker 3: but it actually comes from black Twitter can now is 533 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 3: a stand in term just for black. Social media started 534 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 3: off on Reddit a long time ago, got brought back 535 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 3: via the Black social media Pipeline, and then spilled out 536 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,080 Speaker 3: to the rest of the world, charting out some of 537 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:03,560 Speaker 3: the greatest moments of extra ness about stuff that don't 538 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:10,480 Speaker 3: matter people right now charts bringing in anthropologists and people 539 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:17,360 Speaker 3: who study apes just sometimes we just need some fun. 540 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:22,400 Speaker 3: Another trend in social media, which has to do with 541 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 3: sort of all of this, is how, for the most part, 542 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 3: a lot of the anti Trump rallies don't have no 543 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,399 Speaker 3: Black people there. A lot of the anti fascism ones 544 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,920 Speaker 3: don't really add to black people there. Let me tell 545 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 3: you why, because we try to tell you we fought 546 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:46,720 Speaker 3: all we could. Nobody y'all ain't we told y'all about 547 00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,080 Speaker 3: this man. Ain't nobody We tried. 548 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:49,720 Speaker 1: We tried. 549 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:56,719 Speaker 3: We did a whole movement in twenty twenty, got laws changed, 550 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,440 Speaker 3: really saw some results, just for y'all to put this 551 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:01,760 Speaker 3: man back in charge again. 552 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:07,040 Speaker 1: You know what, y'all got it. Y'all got it. That 553 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,600 Speaker 1: is not so much that we don't want to stand 554 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,239 Speaker 1: in solidarity with you. It's that this is yo. 555 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:17,680 Speaker 3: Turn my feet hurt. Been trying, but I tell you what, 556 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,040 Speaker 3: I'm gonna go on to this brunch and Mimosa's. You 557 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,440 Speaker 3: let me know how it goes. 558 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:25,279 Speaker 2: So. 559 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:27,880 Speaker 1: I can say. 560 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:33,799 Speaker 3: The state of the blackness is strong. We still got 561 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 3: the rest of the year ago. We're gonna see the 562 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 3: complete fall of Diddy and hopefully we keep the city 563 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,920 Speaker 3: laughing because that's how we handle things. 564 00:38:50,440 --> 00:39:01,800 Speaker 5: Good politics. 565 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 3: All right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod. 566 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,239 Speaker 3: You better listen to these credits. 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