Speaker 1: Colser Media.
Speaker 2: Blackness.
Speaker 3: Yes, it is that time of year, the bi annual
Speaker 3: State of the Blackness Address.
Speaker 1: I will be your tour director.
Speaker 3: My name is Parapaganda and this is hood politics with
Speaker 3: prop The State of the Blackness Address, Part one, twenty
Speaker 3: to twenty five. Matt dropped the track on him.
Speaker 1: Okay, welcome, welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 3: The bi Annual State of the Blackness Address twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five has been quite.
Speaker 1: A show so far.
Speaker 3: I know we all feel like this that January was
Speaker 3: such a long month and then we blinked and it
Speaker 3: was June.
Speaker 1: We're already here.
Speaker 3: So many things have happened, so let's stop and let's
Speaker 3: take a second to acknowledge.
Speaker 1: The blackness.
Speaker 3: Now, last year started out, came out swinging with Club Shaysha,
Speaker 3: and you have an unusual alliance with losers and that's
Speaker 3: not like you, you know, and all the things that
Speaker 3: your boy Kat Williams gave us.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it came out so fun. You know.
Speaker 3: We had the guy that jumped over the bench, you know,
Speaker 3: went flying to tackle the lady after he got sentenced.
Speaker 3: We had some good ones, and of course last year
Speaker 3: gave us the Fall of Drake and the Kendrick and
Speaker 3: Drake that gave us Stay Night like us and man,
Speaker 3: the culture was very strong and probably I think now
Speaker 3: we can say, like the biggest and greatest disc song
Speaker 3: in all of hip hop. I just I don't know, man,
Speaker 3: I used to think like I mean, I thought all those,
Speaker 3: all those I thought all the Kendrick songs, we were amazing.
Speaker 3: Of course, Wes West, but were they in the history
Speaker 3: of hip hop. I'm like, I think, man, I think
Speaker 3: Ether has been dethroned. I think it's it's hard to
Speaker 3: hard to defeat it. I'm realizing I'm not wearing my
Speaker 3: headphones now, That's why I don't hear myself. There we
Speaker 3: go anyway, I'm really tired because of the club real
Speaker 3: ones yesterday and shout out Ian Dude. Ian pulled up
Speaker 3: Ian producer Ian that produces a lot of these clubs
Speaker 3: clubs see cools one media shows. Ian came out with
Speaker 3: his with his lovely better half and we had us
Speaker 3: a good time. So yeah, twenty twenty five stated of blackness,
Speaker 3: let's get to it.
Speaker 1: First.
Speaker 3: You got to start off in January with the La Fires. Now,
Speaker 3: while we got to start there is because while a
Speaker 3: lot of the news was covering what was happening in
Speaker 3: the Palisades and Malibu. A lot of our local eyes
Speaker 3: were on the city of Altadena. I know, I did
Speaker 3: a small, short kind of breakdown of Altadena inside of
Speaker 3: the Block is literally hot episode when I talked about
Speaker 3: the La fires.
Speaker 1: And Altadena is.
Speaker 3: The northern part of Los Angeles County on the east side,
Speaker 3: in the foothills under the Angelus Mountains. Now the Hollywood
Speaker 3: Hills is a part of a mountain range right with
Speaker 3: a valley in between, which is how you get over
Speaker 3: to the valley. But that range kind of stretches up
Speaker 3: and it becomes like, you know, like I said, the
Speaker 3: Angelus Crest all the way over to the Azusa Mountains
Speaker 3: down to Mount Baldy and then you get out to
Speaker 3: Big Bear as you're going east or inland. But nestled
Speaker 3: at the foothills the east side is an enclave called Altadena.
Speaker 3: And Altadena was one of the few standing black communities
Speaker 3: that most likely, I think it's it's fair to say
Speaker 3: that most likely your.
Speaker 1: Grandma lived in Altadena.
Speaker 3: She probably bought a house right after the Vietnam War,
Speaker 3: because this was one of the first like middle class,
Speaker 3: like working class middle class black neighborhoods where you could
Speaker 3: you could get an affordable home working a regular ass job.
Speaker 3: Now as time went on, those homes became quite pricey
Speaker 3: because won their location and to their build They're these
Speaker 3: like super dope kind of break mid century modern like
Speaker 3: it just it's just a great neighborhood. You know, merce
Speaker 3: talked about how when he moved to the six to
Speaker 3: six that's where his church was. A lot of times
Speaker 3: if you lived in the rest of the spots, like
Speaker 3: down in West Covina or Baldwin Park, like you lived
Speaker 3: with the Vatos, like a lot of times your barber
Speaker 3: was up in Altadena, you know, or in Pasadena. You know,
Speaker 3: the Pasadena Rubber Rebels. You know, that's a very local reference.
Speaker 3: But the loss of that neighborhood is some thing that
Speaker 3: as far as locally has been concerned, was our focus.
Speaker 3: There was an African American library there. There was all
Speaker 3: these like kids programs that where a lot of us
Speaker 3: learned about the diaspora of Africa and drumming circles and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. Like if you wasn't going out to
Speaker 3: Lamert you know, you were staying. Lamert Park is in
Speaker 3: the Crenshaw District, which is on the West Side, and
Speaker 3: sometimes because of unfortunately because of gang festivities and activities,
Speaker 3: that's sometimes not an option. But a lot of times
Speaker 3: you were moved as a child out of those areas.
Speaker 3: But you don't want to lose what it means to
Speaker 3: have a black community, just as simple as like where
Speaker 3: to get your hair grease, not having to explain what
Speaker 3: hair grease is, you know what I'm saying, Like those
Speaker 3: things become the seasonings. I remember I was trying to
Speaker 3: make some greens. Uh one time last summer, I just
Speaker 3: needed a smoke turkey leg. Whole Foods ain't got no
Speaker 3: smoke turkey leg. I went to the rest of the
Speaker 3: grocery store around here. Y'all know I live in a
Speaker 3: Mexican neighborhood. They're like, yo, we only have smoke turkey
Speaker 3: during the holidays, during Thanksgiving. So I'm like, uh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I need to go to Altadena because I was like,
Speaker 3: I need to go where black people live because I
Speaker 3: know they're gonna have They're gonna have hamhocks, they gonna have.
Speaker 1: The things I need just to cook.
Speaker 3: So sometimes now granted this Altadena and a lot of
Speaker 3: like ethnic neighborhoods were created because of redlining and because
Speaker 3: of prejudice. But inside of that, you create a community
Speaker 3: of the things that we all need and those little
Speaker 3: things that I feel like a lot of times white
Speaker 3: people are people of the dominant culture, you know, really
Speaker 3: can't appreciate, like why other ethnicities feel even more like
Speaker 3: a fish out of water when they're in, you know,
Speaker 3: neighborhoods that don't represent them, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's little stuff like that.
Speaker 3: You know, I couldn't find the right kind of shampoo
Speaker 3: for a long time too, because that mug said you
Speaker 3: at the store and it said this is for normal
Speaker 3: hair texture.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what the hell is normal hair? Well?
Speaker 3: You know what they mean by that, don't you exactly?
Speaker 3: So little things like that where I don't have to
Speaker 3: like concern myself.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Altadena is a beautiful, beautiful city, and most of the
Speaker 3: fundraisers focused around la especially again in the black community,
Speaker 3: was around rebuilding Altadena and it's still going on. There
Speaker 3: are still links in my bios to support a lot
Speaker 3: of these families. One of the people up there was
Speaker 3: mad Lib. Mad Lib again in the state of hip
Speaker 3: hop is a behemoth of a producer, The Mad Villain
Speaker 3: album that everybody talks about with m F Doom, mad Lib,
Speaker 3: Jlib is him and Jay Dilla, you know, the champion
Speaker 3: sound stuff man mad Live is a if you are
Speaker 3: a rapper, no matter what part of the country you're from,
Speaker 3: mad Lib should be on your bucket list to get
Speaker 3: production from. Yeah, he lost his home too, you know,
Speaker 3: And there was a bunch of fundraisers that we've done
Speaker 3: in hopes to save his own and his record collections
Speaker 3: and those things. So rather than coming out swinging for
Speaker 3: black people with funniness, we came out swinging with a
Speaker 3: little bit of pain.
Speaker 1: Next is the Ballad of p.
Speaker 4: Diddy, y'all.
Speaker 3: This topic has clearly spanned a number of State of
Speaker 3: the blacknesses because Diddy is now finally on trial. As
Speaker 3: we've known, Diddy was one of the worst kept secrets
Speaker 3: in Hollywood, hip hop and black culture. We all knew
Speaker 3: that man was weird now unfortunately, because use homophobia is
Speaker 3: a normal, normalized thing among the black community, although black
Speaker 3: queer is also a ginormous part of our culture.
Speaker 1: So weird how we do this?
Speaker 3: People still have kind of changed pause to ah No Ditty,
Speaker 3: which is essentially a way to say.
Speaker 1: I'm not gay, like I'm not doing gay stuff.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, that the gayness was the line that the culture
Speaker 3: finally drew. But as the case is going on, we're
Speaker 3: seeing that man was even more bizarre than we all thought.
Speaker 3: The story about one of the male escorts said, no,
Speaker 3: this was Cassie's story that she was forced to make
Speaker 3: live to this male escort while Ditty was in a
Speaker 3: job with just the little eyes showing watching them get down. Boy,
Speaker 3: that man kid cutty two for two with his mentor
Speaker 3: choices because both of them went crazy cut He said
Speaker 3: that man showed up at his house and set his
Speaker 3: car on fire. Obviously he didn't do it himself. Why
Speaker 3: you set that man's car on fire? Did he look
Speaker 3: like he aged seventy two years inside of jail? Oh
Speaker 3: you know you ain't got your skincare routine and the
Speaker 3: pan Do you listen?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 3: Did he out here wildly in the state of the blackness.
Speaker 3: Maybe let's stay in hip hop before we move into
Speaker 3: other topics. The continuation of Kendrick Tamar's curb stomping of
Speaker 3: the culture moves on. While this tour that the GNX
Speaker 3: Tour that is now broken records for touring ever, and
Speaker 3: then he broke his own record as this tour game
Speaker 3: went on as far as ticket sales. The argument against
Speaker 3: k Dot apparently, which I didn't agree with, was that
Speaker 3: he don't make bops, that he don't make hits, and
Speaker 3: that the songs are not.
Speaker 1: Made for radio.
Speaker 3: That's what everybody's argument with, Like mister Morale was like,
Speaker 3: there's no there's no radio songs. He come back with
Speaker 3: these these hits with Sizz, which of which he took
Speaker 3: on tour and gave her, which what I love about
Speaker 3: it equal amount of time on stage because he's just
Speaker 3: a good man. He continues to break streaming records, he
Speaker 3: continues to break toward ticket sale records, and just continues
Speaker 3: to put the West.
Speaker 1: On the map.
Speaker 3: Now while that was happening out on the East Coast,
Speaker 3: on the Beast Coast, my homeboy Joey Badass. Now Joey
Speaker 3: is not my homeboy because I ain't never met this man,
Speaker 3: but we do share a manager, which would be like,
Speaker 3: damn man, can y'all connect this please?
Speaker 1: Anyway?
Speaker 3: What I love about this moment in hip hop is
Speaker 3: that it's kind of just for us because the rest
Speaker 3: of the people I'm about to name, unless you really
Speaker 3: tapped into hip hop, y'all know who these people are.
Speaker 3: But if you're in our culture, this has been some
Speaker 3: of the funnest few months of bringing which is what
Speaker 3: Kendrick said he tried to do. Bring that competition back,
Speaker 3: that goon competition back, the sport of hip hop, the
Speaker 3: sport of battling, of beating your chest and spinning in
Speaker 3: bars and having bought and having something to come back,
Speaker 3: having a response, the competition part of hip hop. That
Speaker 3: is about we're sparring. This is art for art's sake,
Speaker 3: this is this is battle raps for battle rap sake.
Speaker 3: There has been a battle going on between Joey Badass
Speaker 3: and essentially all of the West, right. Joey had said
Speaker 3: in a song a while back, in reference to a
Speaker 3: line that Jay Z said years ago, which was like
Speaker 3: it's too much West Coast dick licking right. He was
Speaker 3: making an observation that the West is up right now,
Speaker 3: the West is hot, you know, and y'all need to
Speaker 3: stop jocking this, like, don't forget the East Coast started
Speaker 3: hip hop essentially, like I feel a way that I'm
Speaker 3: not in the conversation about the top rappers of my era.
Speaker 3: This is Joey Joey Badass is a sort of premise
Speaker 3: and like y'all acting like New York don't run things still,
Speaker 3: and they don't, partially, I believe, because New York gave
Speaker 3: up its sound because it started doing drill and like
Speaker 3: the ASoP rocky stuff, the French Montana stuff. There was
Speaker 3: no way you'd know they were from New York because
Speaker 3: they don't have they don't have a sound, but Joey
Speaker 3: has that sound. Dudes like Griselda and you know, Westside
Speaker 3: Gun and all this stuff that they're doing is bringing
Speaker 3: a New York sound back. So in some stances, I
Speaker 3: feel like New York gave up its flavor, but it's
Speaker 3: cool to see it pop smoke, Like y'all didn't know
Speaker 3: he was from New York unless Mike told you. He
Speaker 3: didn't sound like it. They're they're redefining their sound anyway.
Speaker 3: In this battle, he takes shots at the West but
Speaker 3: Kendrick over it, so everybody else jumped in. Ray Vaughan
Speaker 3: is an artist on TDE also and Homie can rap
Speaker 3: rap rap, And then it became this like sort of
Speaker 3: a brawl because another man named Daylight. Now Daylight is
Speaker 3: super interesting because Daylight again comes from the battle scene.
Speaker 3: I believe Watts right. He also his ghostwriting pen is insane.
Speaker 3: He wrote a number of Drake songs. He's also very
Speaker 3: close with ab Sol. And you have to remember about
Speaker 3: the thing about ab Sol, who's also a part of
Speaker 3: Top Dog. Absol of the of Black Hippie, Black Hippie
Speaker 3: is j Rock, Kendrick, Schoolboy Qan Absole like the first
Speaker 3: the kind of the founding members of Top Dog Entertainment.
Speaker 3: Of them, Kendrick's obviously the hit maker, the star of
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 1: Jay Rock's the street.
Speaker 3: Goon, you know, and then Schoolboy is the like almost
Speaker 3: like the melodic street goon, you feel me. Absol, that's
Speaker 3: the rappers rapper, he's the that's the caviar, like the
Speaker 3: the We would be here for seven months trying to
Speaker 3: break down his lyrics, like he's the wordplay intricate, like
Speaker 3: I said I'd said before, which I love. He's like
Speaker 3: backpack rap with a gat in it, Like so it's
Speaker 3: a backpacker but he got a gun in it because
Speaker 3: he's still a street dude.
Speaker 1: But he's the caviar. Now when he got in.
Speaker 3: There's Red Bull has this thing where they do this
Speaker 3: like three sixty site for the first one I saw
Speaker 3: was of.
Speaker 1: Soul's a Mischief.
Speaker 3: But what they do is they get like three or
Speaker 3: four rappers in and they spit, you know, freestyles, not
Speaker 3: like I call freestyles, but freestyle's into this thing. And
Speaker 3: this one was Big Sean, Joey and Absol. Now Joey
Speaker 3: had already taken shots at Daylight and at Ray Vaughn.
Speaker 3: But because they're all friends, right, AB finally or not? Yeah,
Speaker 3: ab Soul finally addresses it in this circle where he
Speaker 3: was like, listen, Joey, you put me in this predicament
Speaker 3: that like, I know me and you are friends. But
Speaker 3: it's not like I'm not gonna stand with my syndicate.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: He's takes so he's taking shots at at Joey standing there,
Speaker 3: and then when it's Joey's turn, Joey taking shots at
Speaker 3: Ab standing there. So for a few weeks reason Daylight,
Speaker 3: Ray Vaughn, Joey Badass. These are like, again, you're not
Speaker 3: in the culture. These are rappers, rappers, right, They are
Speaker 3: spitting because GENA views is part of the show called
Speaker 3: effective immediately with DJ head gena Is was like, I'm
Speaker 3: get off the internet and get in the booth, like
Speaker 3: nigga rap.
Speaker 1: Why are y'all not rapping rap?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: And guess what niggas is rapping.
Speaker 3: The beauty of this is everyone agrees in this that
Speaker 3: we are having fun. As vicious and cutting as these
Speaker 3: words are, this is almost like black people getting to
Speaker 3: be black without the white gays. How do we talk
Speaker 3: when y'all not around, when we don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about things being misinterpreted. This is what's happening inside of
Speaker 3: hip hop right now when we ain't got to explain.
Speaker 1: There's no New York Times.
Speaker 3: I don't have to explain to you why BBL drizzy
Speaker 3: is funny, Like I don't like. This is one of
Speaker 3: those things where it's like cool, we get to just
Speaker 3: speak our own language. We ain't gotta translate and just
Speaker 3: enjoy what's happening in hip hop right now. That's what's
Speaker 3: going on right now, man, and it is fun and
Speaker 3: they're all talking about how fun it is. The Hommy
Speaker 3: Curtis King was like, listen, bro, if we were gonna
Speaker 3: if you're gonna hop online and play two K or
Speaker 3: Madden with your friends. You gonna talk trash. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to win, like I like, I am truly trying. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to destroy you. This is the same a hip hop.
Speaker 1: This is what I love.
Speaker 3: This is what I felt love about battle rap is
Speaker 3: after telling someone the worst possible things you could ever
Speaker 3: say to somebody, we all left and went to Denny's.
Speaker 3: This stuff isn't personal. This is fun with somebody. If
Speaker 3: you was slapboxing with your friends outside that there's rules,
Speaker 3: but we're still being physical. I'm gonna get slapped in
Speaker 3: the face, and I feel like I want you to try.
Speaker 1: Like that's the thing.
Speaker 3: Like if you playing pickup ball, like that's a lot,
Speaker 3: that's another way to clate battle rap like this.
Speaker 1: It's like street ball, Like you know, these are pickup games.
Speaker 3: There's gonna be more elbows, it's gonna be a little
Speaker 3: more aggressive, but you gotta hold your mud.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You gotta stand your ground, you gotta spit back, and
Speaker 3: the best bars win. This is also what's beauty about
Speaker 3: beautiful about this moment. It's like without the gaze of
Speaker 3: pop culture talking about numbers and streams and all that
Speaker 3: good stuff that's not a part of the conversation because
Speaker 3: these artists have not poked into mainstream or pop culture.
Speaker 1: These are rappers. So all this is about is bars.
Speaker 3: And it's been good to enjoy this with hip hop
Speaker 3: because this is something we needed. You know, you get
Speaker 3: Mac Miller's death, you get Pop Smoke's death, you know
Speaker 3: Triple X at Tassion, all these like really sad stories.
Speaker 3: You got young thugs, all these rappers going to jail.
Speaker 3: You know, just not a good look. This was a
Speaker 3: moment we all needed, moving out of hip hop. Let's
Speaker 3: go to this little more politics next, all right, for
Speaker 3: some reason, the desire that for some reason this year
Speaker 3: it kind of worked where black people got real solidified
Speaker 3: over Target. And I think partially because Target took such
Speaker 3: serious strides towards being present for us in supporting black businesses.
Speaker 3: And then when DEI was attacked, they removed their DEI program.
Speaker 3: Here's where this becomes complicated. They still sold the products,
Speaker 3: the black products that they already had, they just decided
Speaker 3: to stop being upfront about it.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: It's not so much that we care as black people
Speaker 3: about the name DEI. It's the principle of it in
Speaker 3: the sense that you stood up for us, and when
Speaker 3: the white supremacists came to tell you to stop doing it,
Speaker 3: you just folded, and I know you folded in a
Speaker 3: way that was supposed to be looking at us and
Speaker 3: winking saying we're still there.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna you know.
Speaker 3: But when you just wink and look over there and
Speaker 3: say I'm still gonna do it, but I'll still please
Speaker 3: you by changing this name, you still give them a
Speaker 3: win because they still believe that they have the authority
Speaker 3: to bully you, and that perception, the visual and the
Speaker 3: belief is all they need because then they're gonna come
Speaker 3: do it again, and then you're gonna change the name
Speaker 3: again and try to figure it out. Either way, you're
Speaker 3: still taking a submissive position to a group that needs
Speaker 3: to understand.
Speaker 1: The principalities of the thing. So black people.
Speaker 3: Decided some of it was organized through church, others was
Speaker 3: just organized through social media, that we were just gonna
Speaker 3: not shop at Target.
Speaker 1: No more than the businesses that were in Target. They
Speaker 1: all got websites.
Speaker 3: We'll still support y'all. You don't have to lose money
Speaker 3: because it is so we still buy a products. We're
Speaker 3: just not shopping at Target. Target, they took a massive
Speaker 3: l Black people used to spend twelve million a day
Speaker 3: at Target.
Speaker 1: That's gone.
Speaker 3: They made that CEO get a fifty percent pay cut
Speaker 3: because black folks decided when we was done shopping there.
Speaker 3: It's crazy that when we actually decide, when we finally done,
Speaker 3: when you get to the go ahead, chief, you got
Speaker 3: a champ when we get to that, like when we're done,
Speaker 3: we're done, which is what's going on with Kanye.
Speaker 1: We're done. That's why not on the news no more.
Speaker 1: We're done.
Speaker 3: Sell your swastikas, go ahead. Br niggas is over it.
Speaker 3: It's one thing I do enjoy about us is we
Speaker 3: are long suffering. We will stick with you for a while.
Speaker 3: But when we're done, I said, because it's all you, you.
Speaker 4: Got a chief.
Speaker 3: Sticking in the politics section, Larry Hoover, founder of the
Speaker 3: Gangster Disciples, Leonard Peltier, freedom fighter from the sixties, political prisoner,
Speaker 3: and believe this, NB A Young Boy all got released
Speaker 3: from prison, Larry Hoover specifically, and NBA Young Boy got
Speaker 3: they sentence commuted, commuted from a dut Trump organization. Now,
Speaker 3: no one could have imagined this timeline that this would
Speaker 3: happen commit black people.
Speaker 1: Y'all get it? What the lick read? The lick is
Speaker 1: to exploit the divide.
Speaker 3: Of gender among the black community because we're having some
Speaker 3: sort of some sort of a civil war among us,
Speaker 3: and Trump is making strides in gaining support with black men.
Speaker 3: Part of that is because we're trying to get this
Speaker 3: money and we just want to be getting money, Muff,
Speaker 3: because you understand what I'm saying, but it's complicated. And
Speaker 3: then when you start doing stuff like this, because we
Speaker 3: understand prison reform, we understand our need to like a
Speaker 3: lot of young brothers have been put in jail, you know,
Speaker 3: on some untrumped up charges. So this is supposed to
Speaker 3: feel good. Now, this is not to be little any
Speaker 3: of the things that Larry Hoover has done it better himself.
Speaker 3: I'm not putting that aside. I'm talking about Trumps rereading
Speaker 3: Trump's lick because this man may do these gestures to
Speaker 3: try to make us feel better, but this is the
Speaker 3: same man that's ending head Start programs, the same man
Speaker 3: that looked at our Haitian brothers and sisters and was
Speaker 3: like they eating pets, literally eating cats and dogs. That's
Speaker 3: what they said about our brothers and sisters in the diaspora.
Speaker 3: This the shithold country's man. This the same man that's
Speaker 3: removing the medicaid, that's making medicaid hard.
Speaker 1: For my DNM. That man don't love you.
Speaker 3: And I feel like we understand this because I have
Speaker 3: a lot of the similar memories you have when the
Speaker 3: pusher come through the city or come through the neighborhood
Speaker 3: in the Cadillac you start handing out twenty dollar bills
Speaker 3: or taking us off to the ice cream truck. You know,
Speaker 3: doing backpack drives you feel me. But that man is
Speaker 3: why your auntie strung out. That man is while you
Speaker 3: went to your cousin's funeral last week. He may tell
Speaker 3: you sorry and promised to take care of you, of
Speaker 3: you and your mother, you and your auntie, your cousin,
Speaker 3: your auntie. He promised to take care of him, But
Speaker 3: I tell you what, he also got him killed. So
Speaker 3: I need you to remember that this man is really
Speaker 3: not on your side. That being said, welcome home the NBA,
Speaker 3: young boy, and Larry Hoover. Now I brought up Leonard
Speaker 3: Peltier because can you believe it? Do your googles all right?
Speaker 3: Next is our continual war with state sponsored violence Rodney
Speaker 3: Hiitton Junior. This happened out there in Cincinnati, Ohio, where
Speaker 3: a young man and his friends stole a car and
Speaker 3: were pursued by the police. One of them hopped out
Speaker 3: the car. The cop says he saw a gun. The
Speaker 3: guy dropped the gun and run ran. The little boy
Speaker 3: took four shots to his back and died. After the
Speaker 3: little boy's father got to see the police surveillance video,
Speaker 3: he was so distraught that the next day he drove
Speaker 3: his car into an officer who was directing traffic. The
Speaker 3: complications of this story puts the reality of radicalization into
Speaker 3: focus even more because this is a sad story for
Speaker 3: all parties involved. It's a clear case of temporary insanity.
Speaker 3: But also it is what I've been trying to tell
Speaker 3: y'all about Palestine. It's that state sponsored violence always creates terrorism.
Speaker 3: As I don't know of any terrorist group that wasn't
Speaker 3: a response to state sponsored violence. So the continual insurgent
Speaker 3: force that is the police department in America towards or
Speaker 3: at least what it feels like towards black people, is
Speaker 3: gonna eventually drive us to these types of actions. So
Speaker 3: this man was like, listen, you not gonna see justice.
Speaker 3: These people killed my son and now they protecting the
Speaker 3: man that killed my son. I don't know if you know,
Speaker 3: but Derek Chauvin is getting out also by the same
Speaker 3: administration that freed Larry Hoover. So don't think this man
Speaker 3: is full of us. Derek Chauvin is the person that
Speaker 3: killed George Floyd. So Rodney was on trial. Rodney hidden
Speaker 3: Junior and gave us one of the most epic moments
Speaker 3: where thirty officers showed up for this trial for his uh,
Speaker 3: for his first arraignment, and that man chin up full
Speaker 3: of pride, like you're not gonna have me down. You're
Speaker 3: not gonna have me sad. I stood up for my son.
Speaker 3: I found justice for my son because I know you
Speaker 3: would never do this for me. So he kept his
Speaker 3: head up. Now, I'm sure you're not asking me this
Speaker 3: because you listen to the show and you know what
Speaker 3: it is that I am not giving a defense for
Speaker 3: vigilanteism or murder. I'm not I'm saying I understand it.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying. I am a father.
Speaker 3: And sometimes watching movies and I'm seeing somebody's child. If
Speaker 3: you see the if the if the parents are part
Speaker 3: of the storyline, and you see somebody's child going through
Speaker 3: some suffering, if you.
Speaker 1: Care about your fathering.
Speaker 3: You, it's hard for me to see that without feeling
Speaker 3: like deep feelings and emotions and sometimes rage like I'm like, boy,
Speaker 3: I wish a mother, I wish you would talk to
Speaker 3: my daughter like that. I wish you would put my
Speaker 3: child's life in danger.
Speaker 1: Like you feeling froggy than jump. So I think I
Speaker 1: understand that. And lastly, in the State of the Blackness.
Speaker 3: The memes, Ladies and Gentlemen twenty Drew Hills, Now, a
Speaker 3: father saw his son being disrespectful to his mother.
Speaker 1: And if you understand.
Speaker 3: Something about the black nuclear family, won't play not about
Speaker 3: our wives. Ain't nowhere in the world you're gonna let
Speaker 3: your child be disrespectful today.
Speaker 1: Mother.
Speaker 3: That's something we just don't that's not not we don't
Speaker 3: abide by that, and especially if it's your boy.
Speaker 1: Now I have daughters, so that's a different story.
Speaker 3: But black men and their sons when it talks about
Speaker 3: how when you think about how you want your boys
Speaker 3: to treat they, Mama, boy, you been not in my presence,
Speaker 3: I bet not ever catch I bet not ever see you.
Speaker 1: Be out of pocket with your mother. That's it. We don't.
Speaker 3: That's that's not something we play around with. So a
Speaker 3: lot of men I've seen my homeboy Triune makes they
Speaker 3: kid do. He used to make his son, his step
Speaker 3: son do laps, so he would go to the high
Speaker 3: school on the court and he go make him run laps.
Speaker 3: The homy La Cree used to have his kids do
Speaker 3: wall sets. Right, we're trying to break these generational curses
Speaker 3: of whipping our children.
Speaker 1: Okay, so forgive us. But this man said, we're doing
Speaker 1: twenty Drew Hills.
Speaker 3: Now, if you know nineties R and B, you already
Speaker 3: know exactly what he talking about. It is a dance
Speaker 3: from a video that has a step and a jump
Speaker 3: and it's almost a burpie. Because when he said I
Speaker 3: gave my son twenty Drew Hills, we all knew exactly
Speaker 3: what he meant. And then the video cut to his
Speaker 3: son do it.
Speaker 1: Cause it's a workout.
Speaker 3: One man said twenty Drew Hills. And lastly, one hundred
Speaker 3: men versus one gorilla. You may or may not know,
Speaker 3: but that whole discussion actually came out of black Twitter.
Speaker 3: Now I know there is no such thing as Twitter anymore,
Speaker 3: but it actually comes from black Twitter can now is
Speaker 3: a stand in term just for black. Social media started
Speaker 3: off on Reddit a long time ago, got brought back
Speaker 3: via the Black social media Pipeline, and then spilled out
Speaker 3: to the rest of the world, charting out some of
Speaker 3: the greatest moments of extra ness about stuff that don't
Speaker 3: matter people right now charts bringing in anthropologists and people
Speaker 3: who study apes just sometimes we just need some fun.
Speaker 3: Another trend in social media, which has to do with
Speaker 3: sort of all of this, is how, for the most part,
Speaker 3: a lot of the anti Trump rallies don't have no
Speaker 3: Black people there. A lot of the anti fascism ones
Speaker 3: don't really add to black people there. Let me tell
Speaker 3: you why, because we try to tell you we fought
Speaker 3: all we could. Nobody y'all ain't we told y'all about
Speaker 3: this man. Ain't nobody We tried.
Speaker 1: We tried.
Speaker 3: We did a whole movement in twenty twenty, got laws changed,
Speaker 3: really saw some results, just for y'all to put this
Speaker 3: man back in charge again.
Speaker 1: You know what, y'all got it. Y'all got it. That
Speaker 1: is not so much that we don't want to stand
Speaker 1: in solidarity with you. It's that this is yo.
Speaker 3: Turn my feet hurt. Been trying, but I tell you what,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go on to this brunch and Mimosa's. You
Speaker 3: let me know how it goes.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: I can say.
Speaker 3: The state of the blackness is strong. We still got
Speaker 3: the rest of the year ago. We're gonna see the
Speaker 3: complete fall of Diddy and hopefully we keep the city
Speaker 3: laughing because that's how we handle things.
Speaker 5: Good politics.
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