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Speaker 1: You're the one that I'm nervous about seeing it. Why
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Speaker 1: I think it's been fine. I mean trying to try
Speaker 1: to pivot politically having been defeated and defunding the police.
Speaker 1: I heard about that. So your proposal got voted down,
Speaker 1: and uh so, I mean it's really funny because I
Speaker 1: saw one of my talking to my friends about like
Speaker 1: task forces and how like they're this like unique kind
Speaker 1: of bureaucratic nightmare where so many good ideas go to
Speaker 1: task force to die, and that is the level of groveling.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes they even task force to kind of
Speaker 1: play dying to give you a task force. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so I'm shifting to like, okay, maybe holding out hope,
Speaker 1: but I think you can get some really dope people
Speaker 1: on this task force who are like abolitionists or like
Speaker 1: down to the police. Well, I mean it's okay, So
Speaker 1: explain because to a cat like me, it's like you
Speaker 1: know you hear free is like, ay, we're setting up
Speaker 1: a task force. We're going to discuss these issues like
Speaker 1: what does that mean in real life? Like and not
Speaker 1: like political speak, like what does the task force actually
Speaker 1: do when they set it up? So like they're given
Speaker 1: some things to think about, like some goals, Like hey,
Speaker 1: figure out these things and they kind of just shove
Speaker 1: them in a broom closet together, lights off, and then um,
Speaker 1: all the people with like really entrenched like institutional power
Speaker 1: shout over everyone. That is like normal and good. And
Speaker 1: especially if you know this task force, you know, being
Speaker 1: tasked with addressing community building in public safety. If a
Speaker 1: bunch of cops are on there just like scripping their guns,
Speaker 1: that like formerly incarcerated people trying to tell their stories
Speaker 1: of how they've been harmed by like the police. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's gonna be really great. That's what that's gonna be.
Speaker 1: Unless we can get people out here in these streets
Speaker 1: still believing that we can still win something. Seven if
Speaker 1: we lost a lot of what we wanted. That doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like good environment where you can get test them exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean something you're not are you not hopeful? I
Speaker 1: Mean what I've seen lately is that like public pressure
Speaker 1: campaigns just make elected officials really nervous and they kind
Speaker 1: of like may tuck their tail between their legs and
Speaker 1: like scurry to a corner angrily and like raise their
Speaker 1: hackles at you. If you just demand what you want
Speaker 1: in mass which is what has been happening, and so um,
Speaker 1: I don't know where to go from here. And that's
Speaker 1: the only tactic I am aware of. Its people in
Speaker 1: the streets, like and then then these people just run away.
Speaker 1: I think the next step is like because I mean,
Speaker 1: surely the people in the streets wasn't gonna last forever.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think if you if
Speaker 1: it can kind of be harnessed. I'm not saying this
Speaker 1: is even kind of over. I'm not to be in
Speaker 1: these streets, goddamn. Oh no, no, I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's over, but you know, it's definitely not a
Speaker 1: month ago. It's definitely not a month ago. Hopefully that
Speaker 1: you guys can can get some of those don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about it. I'm sound, I don't want to
Speaker 1: to talk about it. Yeah, you even took a whole
Speaker 1: bottle of moscado to the dome. So I didn't say nothing.
Speaker 1: I was just I'm just saying I felt your pain.
Speaker 1: I had the news on all weekend in the background
Speaker 1: while I was drawn. So I've been seeing this nigga.
Speaker 1: Trump just suffer implosions right before our very eyes, which
Speaker 1: I mean, I just mean the total thing. Obviously, it's
Speaker 1: still like four or five months out from the election,
Speaker 1: so anything can happen. But my god, as somebody who's
Speaker 1: been just an observer of like political theater for a
Speaker 1: long time, Nigga is doing pretty bad at it. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: e they're talking about his white power hissy fit the
Speaker 1: other day. There's mild to streal strength treason. This just
Speaker 1: the ship show. So last week we were talking about
Speaker 1: the j Cole and No Name situation, which more or
Speaker 1: less had to do with artists using their platform and
Speaker 1: voice to speak on the current situation ahead, and that
Speaker 1: started off a you know, further conversation that we had
Speaker 1: off of the mic as to whether or not artists
Speaker 1: have an inherent responsibility to use their voice and to
Speaker 1: use their art in their platform to speak out about
Speaker 1: you know, our troubled times as they are, as well
Speaker 1: as just like what there what their participation in various
Speaker 1: forms of like activism means, and like look at some
Speaker 1: of the different ways people are engaging the present moment.
Speaker 1: We wanted to start off by asking some folks on
Speaker 1: Instagram are artists responsible for using their plat forms to
Speaker 1: amplify social movements in times like these? Gone terrific says Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: artists are tuned in people who know what's going on
Speaker 1: in the world. If they're using social media to communicate,
Speaker 1: that's not a one sided act. Most people know what
Speaker 1: side they're on. Good point. So if they're not saying anything,
Speaker 1: that's saying something. Yeah, no, I can agree with that. Um.
Speaker 1: I've actually seen a couple of situations where people have
Speaker 1: commented a man, I've been waiting like weeks for the
Speaker 1: artists that I like to say something, and they they're
Speaker 1: like posted their posting about other ship and I was
Speaker 1: just like, it's like, damn, that was a really hard
Speaker 1: unfollowed because now I know where they stay. It's like,
Speaker 1: don't go putting motherfucker's on a pedestal. Always love music
Speaker 1: says only if the artist truly believes in the movement.
Speaker 1: It's honestly frustrating watching people post, slash repost things if
Speaker 1: they're not actually doing the work themselves. By work, I
Speaker 1: mean educating both themselves and those around them outside the
Speaker 1: social media bubble. Who cares if it's not part of
Speaker 1: your actual dialogue in real life. I feel that too, though,
Speaker 1: I mean I would rather someone like and I guess
Speaker 1: We'll get into this later in the show, like what
Speaker 1: I think real solidarity looks like it is, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're faking it, fuck you, fuck you. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: what's gonna be a recurring thing that I'm going to
Speaker 1: say all episode is? In times like these, I think
Speaker 1: authenticity is pretty important too. So on one hand, I
Speaker 1: do understand, you know, that line of if your fans
Speaker 1: or if people just in general see you not saying anything,
Speaker 1: then they take your silence as a cue for where
Speaker 1: you saying. I'm not wanting to stay silent and having
Speaker 1: people think that you don't care that you're not you know,
Speaker 1: I think that your position is something it isn't. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, I'm an artist too,
Speaker 1: and it is your art to make of it what
Speaker 1: you want to. So if you don't feel like expressing that, hey,
Speaker 1: that's on you. Like whether I agree with the message
Speaker 1: or not, if the message isn't genuine, then it's just propaganda,
Speaker 1: not really a message. And I feel like this gets
Speaker 1: into somewhat of something someone else said. Action brand owner
Speaker 1: said mixed if they have the ability to convey the message, yes, no,
Speaker 1: because not all artists are created equal, but use the
Speaker 1: word artists who loosely these days and expect those who
Speaker 1: entertainers that have something viable to say. I think it
Speaker 1: all comes down to people wanting to be entertained by
Speaker 1: their favorite personality. Do I want talent police speaking on
Speaker 1: current issues? Yes? Do I want Mike Tyson speaking on
Speaker 1: current issues? The reason I think this is interesting Nina
Speaker 1: Simone's voice amplify the movement and Cap Colagway's amplified the culture.
Speaker 1: So some people really just shouldn't speak on should Maybe
Speaker 1: I agree same, you know, if some people just really
Speaker 1: shouldn't speak on should. You ever heard the Day Chappelle
Speaker 1: stand up bit jaw Rule where he's watching like I
Speaker 1: think MTV or something or the news or something after
Speaker 1: nine eleven, and they're they're talking to jaw Rule and
Speaker 1: he's thinking, damned, I really want to hear what jow
Speaker 1: Rule has to say at a time like this. It's like,
Speaker 1: where's jaw I mean, I get that it's funny at
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, just personally speaking, I gotta
Speaker 1: admit that a lot of my political interests was unlocked
Speaker 1: by listening to like Iced Tea and Ship when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. So I do think that somebody here
Speaker 1: in their favorite artists or favorite rapper what they you know,
Speaker 1: what they have to say about an important issue of
Speaker 1: the day. I do think it kind of makes a
Speaker 1: difference to be sappy with it. That kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of what event Tire said. He says, I think
Speaker 1: artists are always responsible for that, though sometimes the movement
Speaker 1: can be as simple as reminding people what joy feels like,
Speaker 1: which can be pretty radical. And I think especially in
Speaker 1: like times like these, where people are facing such economic
Speaker 1: austerity and like health concerns and just like real unsure
Speaker 1: futures like it can be some welaboratory just to be
Speaker 1: able to forget that for a little while. They should
Speaker 1: as long as they know what they're talking about and
Speaker 1: know how to effectively communicate the message. Recent releases from
Speaker 1: people like Kimba or Morning a Black Star great, But
Speaker 1: if you're going to give me another montage of celebrities
Speaker 1: with a week let's dream of a better world bullshit,
Speaker 1: get the funk out. And that I cannot agree more with.
Speaker 1: And I mean, if you look historically, like back during
Speaker 1: the Civil rights era, like nine like, we can think
Speaker 1: about some of the precursors and previous movements of like
Speaker 1: black artists, like what their response has been as like
Speaker 1: a precedent for where we are now. You still have
Speaker 1: folks like Marvin Gay creating hits like What's going On
Speaker 1: and slying the family Stone with songs like everyday people.
Speaker 1: They might not have like an explicit like policy thing
Speaker 1: to it or anything, it still resonates as songs of
Speaker 1: struggle all these decades later. I feel, how would you
Speaker 1: described the difference between the art and the platform, Like
Speaker 1: are those two different things? Are we just generally speaking
Speaker 1: on the same because the art is like the music
Speaker 1: and the songs and the music videos and stuff, and
Speaker 1: then the platforms like uh, I just got taco ballot
Speaker 1: for I am, but a thousand people still see that
Speaker 1: even if it's not your art anymore. And so there's
Speaker 1: the social media component to it. But I'd like to
Speaker 1: talk a lot about I think I said earlier, like
Speaker 1: solidarity and what it looks like because like there's a platform,
Speaker 1: and then it's like, as a celebrity, what do you
Speaker 1: do with your time and your money and like your
Speaker 1: physical presence for people as well, because you have like
Speaker 1: access to weird amounts of influence, but also like cash.
Speaker 1: Also you can do really interesting things with your time
Speaker 1: to draw attention to these movements, and so like all
Speaker 1: of those different ways of like engaging with them. So
Speaker 1: let's talk the a bit about who's been out in
Speaker 1: the streets, and I specifically when to talk about this
Speaker 1: is I think one of the most important ways that
Speaker 1: like artists can engage with the movement, because I mean
Speaker 1: everyone has their part to play, from telling petitions to
Speaker 1: like you know, amplifying messages on social media, to making
Speaker 1: really large donations, which you can do with your famous
Speaker 1: which I have different feelings about. But when you're putting
Speaker 1: yourself in harm's way with the people, it's like really powerful.
Speaker 1: It's like really democratizing in a way because it puts
Speaker 1: you on the same playing field as the people that
Speaker 1: respect to you so much. Um, So you're no longer celebrity.
Speaker 1: You're just a regular person to any of the regular
Speaker 1: people for justice. And I think that like that's the
Speaker 1: hardest thing for people to do. Uh, And so like
Speaker 1: showing up for the movement in that way, uh means
Speaker 1: a lot for the people who are there, who are
Speaker 1: you know, also doing the hardest work, and so um
Speaker 1: it just means a lot to me when people actually
Speaker 1: get out there, I agree to reiteray is like when
Speaker 1: you have a platform and eyes are on you, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it just creates an opportunity for you to
Speaker 1: bring awareness to issues that people generally wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to or wouldn't be open to paying attention to. Like
Speaker 1: you use the example of going to Taco Bell. You
Speaker 1: could have people know that you went to Taco Bell.
Speaker 1: So think if you were like using that to draw
Speaker 1: attention to something that's importantly Yeah, you have a lot
Speaker 1: of people were like posting about it. But then you
Speaker 1: have the fact that like j Cole went to protest
Speaker 1: in North Carolina and Faytteville and May thirtieth, but he
Speaker 1: was spotted, he was spotted by folks um and then
Speaker 1: he actually declined to speak on camera. And I think
Speaker 1: that like that sort of presence especially, I mean, people
Speaker 1: are gonna know you're there, You're fucking Jacole whatever. But
Speaker 1: but like just making yourself one with with people and
Speaker 1: it makes it it makes it not about you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like it's just a really humbling thing that I'd like
Speaker 1: wish more people, dude not But also I've seen the
Speaker 1: same thing you're saying of using like your presence to amplify,
Speaker 1: to like draw people into this sense of like, oh
Speaker 1: I could be that could be me. I could be
Speaker 1: out there. Well yeah, I mean the next person about
Speaker 1: to mention California rapper YG just in terms of keeping
Speaker 1: a low profile, he did the exact opposite, where he,
Speaker 1: in collaboration with Black Lives Matter and Build Power, ended
Speaker 1: up bringing tens of thousands of people to Hollywood Boulevard
Speaker 1: and they were blasting his music and it was it
Speaker 1: was all like a peaceful protest, but it did seem
Speaker 1: like he was front and center of it, you know,
Speaker 1: but into a position of leadership and these things exactly.
Speaker 1: You know, that sort of that fits his persona as
Speaker 1: a as an artist. So that's authentic, you know. And
Speaker 1: I feel like j Cole to like just show up
Speaker 1: at a protest and not really be front center and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to speak and just kind of be incognito.
Speaker 1: I think that fits his persona too. Yeah. Oh the
Speaker 1: thing about YG though, I almost missed this, So he said,
Speaker 1: they hear FTP and they think I'm gonna com and
Speaker 1: burned my city. So we showed up and we did
Speaker 1: it right, you proved them wrong. You're on this on Instagram. Um.
Speaker 1: But then later on Instagram he said, all of us
Speaker 1: protesting on the same side here, instead of questioning each
Speaker 1: other's active activism should be directing the energy of the
Speaker 1: confident government and helping create change you want to see.
Speaker 1: So I just feel like those conflicting messages here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I can see that. I mean, but although
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think that, you know, calling for a
Speaker 1: unity amongst the activists and trying to direct anger towards
Speaker 1: the government and the police is necessarily synonymous with let's
Speaker 1: burn this ship down. Though that's not among protests none
Speaker 1: at all. Um. Even Little Yadi was leading the peaceful
Speaker 1: protests in Atlanta. He had as a bullhorn talking about
Speaker 1: we gotta stand for something or will fall for anything,
Speaker 1: you know, doing a little thing. Hey, it's even even
Speaker 1: rappers who aren't known for speaking about social change or
Speaker 1: social justice or anything like that. The more of voices
Speaker 1: on the subject, but better so brought vote a little Yadi.
Speaker 1: Oh and I saw a thread on Instagram via twenty
Speaker 1: three year old Alabama rapper Chica Um. She posted some
Speaker 1: Instagram stories and Instagram videos just documenting her experience in
Speaker 1: one of the protests, she ended up getting arrested entertained.
Speaker 1: I think her manager got locked up in in helping
Speaker 1: or defending her managers. Yeah, we need celebrities getting arrested.
Speaker 1: That's what we need, the celebrities getting arrested, because you
Speaker 1: know who's going to be fine and then get arrested.
Speaker 1: Fucking Beyonce beyonest, she'd be in jail right now and
Speaker 1: everybody who's in the cell. Beyonce was gonna probably be fine.
Speaker 1: To everybody in the I'll be fine. So yeah, now
Speaker 1: we need more celebrities getting arrested. That's what we need
Speaker 1: right now. I recently come to terms with my potential arrest.
Speaker 1: I was brought to my attention that I hadn't been
Speaker 1: getting a permit for these caravans. I've been had it
Speaker 1: and some city manager called me. It was just like yeah,
Speaker 1: permiant and you know it's organized by many people, so I,
Speaker 1: you know, did say I would pass the information on
Speaker 1: to the organizers, but like it's not a protest. Did
Speaker 1: you ask did you for did you forget or you
Speaker 1: were just like oh no, I mean like I forgot,
Speaker 1: but also like you don't ask for permission to happen,
Speaker 1: and so the cost might be less nice um in
Speaker 1: future ones. But you know, the tactic, the tactics with
Speaker 1: I shouldn't talk about it's not Yeah, okay, well it's
Speaker 1: gonna be fine. It's all I want to say is
Speaker 1: that it's gonna be fine. Are you mentally Have you
Speaker 1: ever been arrested before? Yeah, I've been arrested before. Okay, alright, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have my ship way more together this time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that the last time it wasn't for any
Speaker 1: day important. No, I was still in fucking boost. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I can steal an alcohol. Yeah, Shore when
Speaker 1: I used to get arrested in high school for the
Speaker 1: same reasons it was when I was living in Cameroon,
Speaker 1: which is why I haven't been arrested since I've been
Speaker 1: living in the States as an adult, because it's like,
Speaker 1: once you've been in a Cameroonian jail, you're good on
Speaker 1: all that jail ship. On June seven, Kendrick Lamar was
Speaker 1: protesting and Compton he kind of did the same thing
Speaker 1: that j Cole did, where you know, he showed up
Speaker 1: in cognito. Wasn't too much fanfare around. It didn't draw
Speaker 1: too much attention to himself. Again, I like that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Kanye also showed up to a Chicago protest
Speaker 1: on June four, but also he donated two million dollars
Speaker 1: to support the family and legal teams of George Floyd, Brown, Taylor,
Speaker 1: and Ahmad are very um. Some of the money donated
Speaker 1: with food cover college tuition for George Floyd's six year
Speaker 1: old daughter, Gianna. But I don't know how I feel
Speaker 1: about kanye're doing anything. What are your initial what are
Speaker 1: your initial feelings? Well, I feel like fucking money, Like
Speaker 1: throwing your money around is like the least, Like charity
Speaker 1: is a problem. Charity is like shouldn't exist, Like everybody
Speaker 1: should just have all the stuff they need, like I
Speaker 1: guess as a socialist, Like that's how I always feel.
Speaker 1: So like Kanye shouldn't have enough money that he can
Speaker 1: give two million dollars someone because they're their dad got
Speaker 1: murdered by police. Just have a world. People will get
Speaker 1: murdered by police and everybody because we don't have the
Speaker 1: crazy amount of wealth inequality we have his country. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I just don't any money to charity, I feel you,
Speaker 1: But I mean the fact remains that we do have
Speaker 1: a world where people have that much money? I mean,
Speaker 1: what is Kanye doing to like to like redistribute his wealth.
Speaker 1: I mean, we should do we should do a deep
Speaker 1: dive and you know what, let's not get sidetracked because
Speaker 1: we should probably do a deep dive into Kanye on
Speaker 1: an episode the complicated politics of Kanye West or some ship.
Speaker 1: But I did want to look at, um, what Lebron
Speaker 1: James is doing a little bit, And I mean, I
Speaker 1: know he's an athlete, but I figured the hip hop
Speaker 1: tie in is that for the last seventeen years, Lebron
Speaker 1: James has had this almost symbiotic relationship with mainstream hip
Speaker 1: hop and mainstream rappers. I mean, he's been referenced in
Speaker 1: countless songs. He's fringe with a bunch of rappers. Uh.
Speaker 1: He even executive produced to Chain's latest album. Nine times
Speaker 1: out of ten, there's no mainstream rapper that we're not
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about that doesn't have some sort
Speaker 1: of connection to Lebron James. So that's the hip hop
Speaker 1: tie in. But um, he's actually taking the initiative of
Speaker 1: starting an organization called More Than a Vote. Per the
Speaker 1: New York Times, he started the More than a Vote,
Speaker 1: which was initially funded by James and his business manager,
Speaker 1: Maverick Carter, while ESPN commentator Jalen Rose, as well as
Speaker 1: current basketball stars Trey Young and Skylar Diggin Smith are
Speaker 1: also involved in the organization. The nonprofit will team up
Speaker 1: with voting rights groups to register black voters. James said
Speaker 1: he will use his large social media following to draw
Speaker 1: attentions to the efforts to suppress the vote in racial minorities.
Speaker 1: James said the death of Floyd pushed them to consider
Speaker 1: taking more action, and that was starting with Tuesday after
Speaker 1: he saw the bullshit that went down with the Georgia
Speaker 1: primary election. So with calls to voting, I mean, we
Speaker 1: hope that we can circumvent another catastrophe like we had
Speaker 1: in the Georgia primary when it comes to November. And
Speaker 1: I think that definitely boosting youth turned out and the
Speaker 1: black vote is really critical to ushering in a different era.
Speaker 1: But like helping but all that and getting people involved
Speaker 1: in the many kinds of civics that are possible, because
Speaker 1: even if Democrats win in November, we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: push them on things like Medicare for all, on dismantling
Speaker 1: the president industrial complex. That's not They helped architect and
Speaker 1: they're gonna need to be pushed left on those issues.
Speaker 1: And so um, as long as like calls to action
Speaker 1: around voting are coupled with like education on how voting
Speaker 1: is a part of a broader spectrum of actions, I'm
Speaker 1: down with it. I just don't want people to get
Speaker 1: caught up on like, well, this is the only way
Speaker 1: to participate. Agree with that. Yeah, So we've got calls
Speaker 1: to vote, We've got people taken to the streets. I've
Speaker 1: got people using their platforms retweeting or posting pictures of
Speaker 1: them at these events, themselves at these events to help
Speaker 1: bring awareness to the ongoing you know, the the mainstream
Speaker 1: media wants to say this is pretty much it's all over,
Speaker 1: But we can actually get that reporting from on the
Speaker 1: ground of people of prominence who are spreading that awareness
Speaker 1: and this is still happening. Helps like renew that fight
Speaker 1: by bringing more people into it. And then you have
Speaker 1: you know, earlier we're talking a little bit about charity.
Speaker 1: Kanye West had donated money to the legal teams and
Speaker 1: families of George Floyd and others, and so I talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about My problem with charity how it
Speaker 1: still maintains the power structure that we still have black
Speaker 1: capitalists at the top making money off slave labor for
Speaker 1: you know, people building their fashion brands in Bangladesh. They're
Speaker 1: essentially take the whole loaf of bread and giving slices
Speaker 1: back to the people make rather than make sure everyone
Speaker 1: has bread in the first place. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: what I felt about them, not controversy, but like the beef.
Speaker 1: A couple of days ago between make Meek Mill and
Speaker 1: Trey Songs, they were going back and forth in each
Speaker 1: other on Meek's Instagram about who's donated more to charity. Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't even hear about Yeah, And Trey commented on
Speaker 1: Meek's account of him a picture of him holding several
Speaker 1: hundred dollar bills um asking Meek to donate to a
Speaker 1: good chot Uh, donate to a good cause. He used
Speaker 1: to take some of them bands and accept the feed
Speaker 1: your Community challenge, And so they kind of went back
Speaker 1: and forth about how much money that they've donated. You know, Oh,
Speaker 1: I've donated to Philadelphia schools. I helped raise fifty million
Speaker 1: dollars for reform. You know, Meek Mills has been more
Speaker 1: involved in the reform alliance, will be mentioning that in
Speaker 1: future Yeah, I'm just gonna come up in a future episode.
Speaker 1: But man like, yeah, no, there's something about the at
Speaker 1: that's like, really, it feels kind of disconnected, don't you think,
Speaker 1: especially given the exact moment of time that we're in
Speaker 1: where we're under this hard to hit economic recession. It's like,
Speaker 1: even though I understand they're talking about money being put
Speaker 1: towards things that are I guess good causes, but still
Speaker 1: there's there's something almost inherently gross about well, I dropped,
Speaker 1: I raised fifine, like inherently a little gross. But like,
Speaker 1: you know, we all pay taxes, we all pay taxes,
Speaker 1: trade songs pay taxes, make male pay taxes. Probably, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming they all pay taxes. I kind of pay
Speaker 1: my taxes, but like, make the government fund these things.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't be like groveling to celebrities to like feed
Speaker 1: our communities and fund our schools. Like we all pay
Speaker 1: into the system, we should all be getting in equal
Speaker 1: benefit from it, which I guess is why I wish
Speaker 1: people would spend more time on like calling for us
Speaker 1: to to fund the fucking police than we do bickering
Speaker 1: over who donates more money to those organizations that could
Speaker 1: use that police funding instead. Yeah, I mean it's kind
Speaker 1: of like, yeah, the saying that people say, like go
Speaker 1: fund me shouldn't have to be a people's health care
Speaker 1: plan exactly. All right. So for the music discussion, I mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, speaking of music, did you get a
Speaker 1: chance to watch any of the b t yours. I did. Um.
Speaker 1: I saw you know, Anderson Pack shouting out the black
Speaker 1: trans victims at the b t R A to thought,
Speaker 1: I was dope, way to use your platform, because black
Speaker 1: trans folks are definitely, i mean, like have the highest
Speaker 1: rate murder rates of any population, and definitely when we
Speaker 1: talk about saying their names, their names don't get said
Speaker 1: as much because there's still a lot of like transphobia
Speaker 1: and homophobia in the hip hop community, in the black community,
Speaker 1: and then especially me to like haven't highlighted like that.
Speaker 1: What do you think? I mean, I thought it was cool.
Speaker 1: There was there was a lot of interesting things. It
Speaker 1: was kind of odd. You know, it's still odd watching
Speaker 1: these awards shows that are kind of live streamed now
Speaker 1: with social distancing and stuff, it's it takes some getting
Speaker 1: used to, but I thought there was some cool stuff.
Speaker 1: I like that remix if you want to call it that,
Speaker 1: or update of Fight the Power that they did. That's
Speaker 1: what we are actually going to be going a bit
Speaker 1: more in depth into the song Fight the Power of
Speaker 1: the Public Enemy song Fight the Power. But at the
Speaker 1: bat He Awards they did a rendition of it that
Speaker 1: had partially the original song with Chuck the and Flavor Flavor,
Speaker 1: but then they added in a verse from nas Rap
Speaker 1: City Black. Thought y g it actually turned out really dope.
Speaker 1: I liked it, um, but that just got me thinking
Speaker 1: for the music discussion for this episode. You know, with
Speaker 1: everything that's happened in the last month and some change,
Speaker 1: there's actually been a good amount of music that's been
Speaker 1: made either directly about the George Floyd murder or the
Speaker 1: protests that have been going on ever since. So that's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna be taking a look at today, which
Speaker 1: you know, we might as well start with the Anderson
Speaker 1: Pack Lockdown song. Let's check this out, sleep you Don't
Speaker 1: eat screens when we kitchen feet down. Yeah, So Lockdown,
Speaker 1: I think itself it addresses a number of intertwining political
Speaker 1: crises that are in Gulf in the nation right now,
Speaker 1: from the pandemic to rising unemployment rates, it's both uprising itself.
Speaker 1: So lockdown here, could you used to refer to the
Speaker 1: pandemic shutdowns of you know, businesses, bars, restaurants, et cetera,
Speaker 1: or curfew is being put in place to stop people
Speaker 1: from exercising their First Amendment rights. But I feel like
Speaker 1: of the songs that we look at today, it's one
Speaker 1: of the more incisive descriptions of the moment I've heard
Speaker 1: because of its kind of all encompassing nature. But then
Speaker 1: in describing you know, looting in first person, you speak
Speaker 1: in some real ship about protest safety. When he says,
Speaker 1: little to your gas, clear the whole place out, I'll
Speaker 1: be back with the has Matt for the next round.
Speaker 1: He was trying to protest and the fires broke out.
Speaker 1: Look out for the secret agents. They'd be planted in
Speaker 1: the crowd, Like this is some real ship Adan for vokaturs,
Speaker 1: Anderson Pack is always dope, yo. I mean for me,
Speaker 1: it's like I thought you didn't like those Singing rappers.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of the Singing Rappers,
Speaker 1: but I kind of look at Anderson Pack Moore as
Speaker 1: with a singer, so in that in that regards, this
Speaker 1: seems more like he's a singer who is rapping, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, which kind of makes the rapping
Speaker 1: more impressive because it's like, oh man, he's like pretty
Speaker 1: good for a guy who's how do you feel about
Speaker 1: him making looting seem really cool in the song? It's interesting.
Speaker 1: It's it makes it not preachy, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's not preachy. He's just like I'm on the I'm
Speaker 1: on the boat, I'm on the boardwalk, I'm on the boulevard.
Speaker 1: I'm putting the mannekins in my in the backshop, back
Speaker 1: of my car. Like I mean, obviously I don't know
Speaker 1: what he's thinking. I doubt that he means it literally,
Speaker 1: but like yeah, I mean like for the art, it's
Speaker 1: like you get get yourself in the mind frame of
Speaker 1: the character that you're playing. I get that. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: still really powerful. What I perceived are probably fishings before
Speaker 1: songs like Milk and Honey where he describes like, you know,
Speaker 1: taking all this money from this sugar mama and then
Speaker 1: like getting busted and going to jail with bricks. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: like you know, like, hey, yeah, it's a dope story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a dope story. Yeah yeah. Speaking of dope, the
Speaker 1: next joint is front Lines by Conway. The Machine's killing
Speaker 1: black people. Don't Caroline, don't get charged taking normal just press.
Speaker 1: Griselda are always bringing that. He what did you think
Speaker 1: about this? I thought this was interesting because it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a mixture of this like a regular flex
Speaker 1: rap in like the first verse, and then in like
Speaker 1: the second and third verses he kind of gets into
Speaker 1: like describing what he's seen on the news, and the
Speaker 1: third verse he describes a black man getting pulled over
Speaker 1: in the predicament of blackness in the situation, so like
Speaker 1: if he reaches for his ID, they think it, they'll
Speaker 1: think he's reaching for a gun. He puts his hands up,
Speaker 1: it's still he runs away. They shoot him in the
Speaker 1: bag um. And so like I thought that was interesting,
Speaker 1: like how it's just sort of like seamlessly put into
Speaker 1: this track that other watch it's about banging. It was
Speaker 1: that's like that's like their usual style with Griselda, I mean,
Speaker 1: and that's how the song kind of has that format
Speaker 1: where it's like the first half of it, it's like
Speaker 1: a typical you know, Griselda song, shoot him Up, bars flexing,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm fly like that sort of stuff. But
Speaker 1: Conway always has like a style where it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a stream of consciousness sort of vibe to it.
Speaker 1: So for me, you know, with the way that his
Speaker 1: topics and subject matter normally just like go from one
Speaker 1: thing to the next, for for him to just like
Speaker 1: have a point in the verse where it's just dedicated
Speaker 1: to this where it's like it goes from describing the
Speaker 1: George watching the George Floyd tape to like then describing
Speaker 1: the situation, you know, the conditions of black people and
Speaker 1: believe it's just like you really, you know, he really
Speaker 1: felt it. Especially as a fan who's listened to a
Speaker 1: bunch of his music before, it's like, oh man, yeah
Speaker 1: that this ship was really on his mind, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean you just had to put that into the
Speaker 1: song like that. And I'm also noticing with this this
Speaker 1: in this, and it's in a lot of the other
Speaker 1: songs that we have, is um you're kind of seeing
Speaker 1: the effects of like how the media coverage of this
Speaker 1: is kind of like affecting some of the music because
Speaker 1: everybody is using samples from Yeah, this one, he samples
Speaker 1: a newscaster describing the Third Precinct getting burnt down in Minneapolis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you'll see that as a trend in a lot
Speaker 1: of the other songs that we have to So then
Speaker 1: up next we got Cupcakes Lemon Pepper, which is a
Speaker 1: pretty standard ratchet track from this Chicago Spider. Let's check
Speaker 1: it out down telling me great for an old wait,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's dope that half proceeds are
Speaker 1: going to the Ministry so to Freedom Fund to help
Speaker 1: bail out those arrested over protests for George Floyd's murder.
Speaker 1: I think it's an earnest gesture to me, because it's like,
Speaker 1: like we're talking about earlier the questions, not everybody is
Speaker 1: going to have the right words or even the desire
Speaker 1: to speak directly on the situation. But if you want
Speaker 1: to party and still contribute to the costs, help out
Speaker 1: and contribute to it in some way, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: I think the heart's in the right place. Yeah, for sure, definitely. Definitely.
Speaker 1: Up next, we got probably, I would have to say,
Speaker 1: just from what I've been seeing, is probably the most
Speaker 1: popular song out of this crop of songs have been
Speaker 1: made yeah, the bigger picture of violent a rapper a
Speaker 1: little baby. Let's let's hear that real quick. That should
Speaker 1: be were your thoughts on that? Um? So, I really
Speaker 1: like this track because it's really uncomplicated lyrically, Unlike a
Speaker 1: lot of political or conscious hip hop, which tends to
Speaker 1: turn people off with some of its density. Um, it
Speaker 1: gives off a defiant ambiance and tells a story or
Speaker 1: like a train of thought that's fairly easy to follow.
Speaker 1: And so, like, I think it's really powerful in its simplicity.
Speaker 1: I think, even though like it's basic in terms of
Speaker 1: rhyme schemes and stuff, he's flowing consistently throughout it. And
Speaker 1: I mean I always think that, like you just said,
Speaker 1: the biggest problem with sometimes when rappers are trying to
Speaker 1: get across a message with songs, and sometimes they try
Speaker 1: to pack a little bit too much information into the
Speaker 1: lines and it kind of takes away from the song
Speaker 1: sounds to someone's ear. So with this, it's just like
Speaker 1: I was even just listening to this just for like
Speaker 1: to write some notes on it. It's like I just
Speaker 1: the next thing I knew I had listened to it
Speaker 1: like twelve times in a row. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is really I dig it just because again, whenever it
Speaker 1: feels real and it feels like it's honest, that's when
Speaker 1: I really like, Yeah, you can really feel a little
Speaker 1: baby working through. You know. He talks about like why
Speaker 1: not start here? Why not start now? He might not
Speaker 1: have always been involved in this kind of work, but
Speaker 1: now he's here, and now he's showing up. Um, he's
Speaker 1: working through various things. He thought some lines I saw
Speaker 1: you pull out corrupt police been a problem where I'm from,
Speaker 1: But I'd be lying if I said it was all
Speaker 1: of them, just like an example exactly. It's a conflicted
Speaker 1: nature just coming out there on the song, because like
Speaker 1: he probably could have thought about that message a little
Speaker 1: bit more like if you if you thought about if
Speaker 1: he was thinking about it and thinking about what people thought,
Speaker 1: he probably would have been like, man, maybe I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say something good about the cops are. But he's presenting
Speaker 1: a nuanced perspective that is like not always commonly found.
Speaker 1: You found a lot of anti cops songs within the
Speaker 1: hip hop literature, But to have a kind of a
Speaker 1: nuanced perspective like that, to acknowledge that a lot of
Speaker 1: people in our communities do trust the police or some
Speaker 1: of them or see their utility, Like, I think it's
Speaker 1: a needed counterpoint in this moment, even if I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily agree. And then it's dope. On top of all
Speaker 1: this that proceeds from the bigger picture are going to
Speaker 1: the National Association of Black Journalists to be on A.
Speaker 1: Taylor's Attorney, the Bail Project, as well as Black Lives Matter.
Speaker 1: That's really dope. Yeah. Um up next we have um
Speaker 1: de Smoke featuring Sir with the track let Go de
Speaker 1: Smoke is the winner of the I Believe Rhythm and
Speaker 1: Flow the netflace. Oh yeah, yah, yeah, I'm gonna check
Speaker 1: this out. How are you supposed to protest with no
Speaker 1: chest a big hot but they closed down at the
Speaker 1: chance which you have. Yeah, that should smooth you know.
Speaker 1: It's like an emotional ride where you go from hearing
Speaker 1: him wax poetic about the black condition in the first verse,
Speaker 1: and then in the second verse he's like it's really
Speaker 1: well wrapped. It's like a personal account of him being
Speaker 1: pulled over by the cops. He even mentions how he
Speaker 1: wrote the song. He wrote this verse on the day
Speaker 1: that George Floyd died. Then the third verse he's like
Speaker 1: a lot more animated, and he's like, funk this, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, kind of going in on the condition.
Speaker 1: So it has that sort of build to a climax
Speaker 1: that was really dope. I'm next, we got Dreys captured
Speaker 1: on an iPhone, so this is Florida based Dre of
Speaker 1: Cool and Dre, not to be confused with Dr Dre,
Speaker 1: who dedicates this song to folks whose murders weren't filmed,
Speaker 1: the folks that don't become hashtags. Like Will Smith said,
Speaker 1: I think in two thousand sixteen, racism isn't getting worse,
Speaker 1: it's getting filmed. It's just nice team that dropped somebody.
Speaker 1: WI should ful for the soul is anything. So I
Speaker 1: really love that he samples Girls Got Heron's The Revolution
Speaker 1: will not be televised on Lockdown. Actually Jay Rock and
Speaker 1: his feature talks about how the Revolution will not be televised,
Speaker 1: and so I feel I'm like, I'm really stoked that
Speaker 1: people are hearkening back to like the revolutionary roots of
Speaker 1: spoken word that Gil kind of helped boost into the
Speaker 1: mainstream back in his day. Like I'm glad we're kind
Speaker 1: of circling back around to those ideas Now it's interesting
Speaker 1: as well that Drey sizes his inspiration for the track
Speaker 1: that he's a huge fan of m W. A Ice
Speaker 1: cute public enemy in Tupac and that you know, they
Speaker 1: spoke truth of power in their music and he felt
Speaker 1: compelled to do the same. Interestingly, he takes a different
Speaker 1: stance on violence against cops than some of us IDOL
Speaker 1: host when he says, in search for more than just
Speaker 1: a message here, how about I send one spend the
Speaker 1: block like the precinct up and hit a cop. You're crazy,
Speaker 1: you're talking about killing cops? Fuck that all? I see
Speaker 1: his ops popping iced tea in the drop, so like
Speaker 1: he's like, no, niggas, don't be out here killing cops.
Speaker 1: And he's very right. I interpreted that is not necessarily
Speaker 1: a declaration, but again like one of those internal monologues,
Speaker 1: because even it almost sounds like the you crazy, you're
Speaker 1: talking about killing cops. You have a different voice to it.
Speaker 1: You cops, you talking about killing cops. It's like the
Speaker 1: Angel and the devil. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, So
Speaker 1: I really am excited to talk about My favorite track
Speaker 1: in this whole crop is Terroris Martin featuring Denzel Curry Daylett,
Speaker 1: and Kamassi Washington, as well as Chiparico, Pig Feetigee, so
Speaker 1: fucking dope. Let's check this out, White Life, Stock Into Twilight,
Speaker 1: sing Hot Prey, catch up with Mott You Mitchell, don't mind? Okay?
Speaker 1: Instantly it gives me a rage against the machine kind
Speaker 1: of vibe for work. But then commosity of Watchington with
Speaker 1: the Sacks also puts this layer like seventies black sportation
Speaker 1: film score in it. You know what that Sacks reminds
Speaker 1: me of? Um, have you ever seen Spike Leaves Malcolm X. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the score was done by Terrence Blanchard, and it has
Speaker 1: like that sort of crazy, wildly jazz sax to it
Speaker 1: that really reminds me of that. I thought that that
Speaker 1: was the almost I wonder if that was the field
Speaker 1: that they were going forward. Yeah yeah, but um yeah
Speaker 1: another song is really good Daylights Verse, very impressionistic, like
Speaker 1: I kind of don't know what the fun he's talking about,
Speaker 1: but I feel it. I feel it though, so and
Speaker 1: then I like how you know? In the first first
Speaker 1: of Zel refers to the class of Snoop Dog line
Speaker 1: for Dr Dre's ninety two Little Ghetto Boy, when he
Speaker 1: talks about murder. Was the case that gave me another
Speaker 1: throwback to some O G some O G lines, Um,
Speaker 1: what do you think about? So? Like, in contrast to
Speaker 1: the devil on either shoulder in the dre song the
Speaker 1: Cool and Cool and dre Um, this one. In the
Speaker 1: intro woman is hurt, screaming because I'm not in person
Speaker 1: which has killed on the police. And then halfway through
Speaker 1: the song her voice is hurt again and the man
Speaker 1: is heard calling for it, told me to swing the
Speaker 1: car around, and him cocking a gun for revenge again.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think that everything that every depiction is advocacy,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So just because a song
Speaker 1: is bringing for at that point of view, I don't
Speaker 1: think that the instant message for that is, oh, let's
Speaker 1: get a gun and go fight, you know, shoot shoot
Speaker 1: cops and get revenge. It's just it's just painting, like
Speaker 1: a mind frame and like, you know, a state of
Speaker 1: mind that people are in. People are hurting, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, people are angry, people are upset, and that's
Speaker 1: what art is for, you know. I mean, that's just me.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't believe that. I don't believe that
Speaker 1: share that controls your brain. I know better than that.
Speaker 1: That's game. And then of course we've got to talk
Speaker 1: about r t J four, which was already slated to
Speaker 1: come out and then dilated to come out a little
Speaker 1: bit later, but they released it early, and they released
Speaker 1: it kind of for free where you could just stream it,
Speaker 1: you can get it. So but they've already I've always
Speaker 1: embraced this revolutionary aesthetic, if not like over you know,
Speaker 1: I mean just listening to it. You hear you hear
Speaker 1: lines and gems throughout the album where you're like, damn,
Speaker 1: this motherfucker's right the shoot like now you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Right, they've kind of been about that life.
Speaker 1: I mean, like it's it's a brutal contrast between what
Speaker 1: Kilor Mike had to say in his press conference with
Speaker 1: Atlanta Mayor Kisha Lance bottoms Um when violence was starting
Speaker 1: to break out in Atlanta Um urging people to you know, vote,
Speaker 1: urging people to not burn stuff down because of all
Speaker 1: the black businesses in Atlanta, versus this nigga has been about,
Speaker 1: Like when you nigga's going to unite and killed the Polis.
Speaker 1: Motherfucker's for like years, and so like I just have
Speaker 1: to take it with a grain of salt. It's like
Speaker 1: you think I want to put on and like Bob too,
Speaker 1: as I like get hyped up to go out in
Speaker 1: the streets and stuff. But like I mean, I hear you.
Speaker 1: This is another one of those instances where it's like,
Speaker 1: I think rappers have the freedom or artists have the
Speaker 1: freedom to not be literal and everything that they do,
Speaker 1: you know. But also it's like the music clashing with
Speaker 1: the realities of real life. I don't know. Maybe we
Speaker 1: can ask him about this one day. We'll ask him
Speaker 1: one day. We'll ask him one day. My favorite line
Speaker 1: on r t J four though, is when he is
Speaker 1: when Mike goes, I support the sex workers unionized and
Speaker 1: their services. Shout out of the sex worker. I know
Speaker 1: it's hard times in a pandemic for y'all. Hazard pay.
Speaker 1: The main reason that the RTJ is honorable mention there
Speaker 1: is just because of when it was made. Because a
Speaker 1: lot of as a matter of fact, I think all
Speaker 1: of the songs that we actually put on the list,
Speaker 1: we're actually written and reported in this last month. So
Speaker 1: and with that is our episode best it you feel
Speaker 1: like rapping of course I feel like rapping you guys
Speaker 1: want to hear us rap. Of course you want to
Speaker 1: hear his rap. Let's get a beat. Oh yeah, yeah, dope,
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Speaker 1: for substenance, more like some squash it. But I'm not
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Speaker 1: but at the west move. So the assumption is the
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Speaker 1: for as up in my kitchen, A senting then the
Speaker 1: great and sending the Hey, yo. This is the story
Speaker 1: y'all about how the Knife came up with a new
Speaker 1: lifestyle that you like. Wow, I'm try of seeing u
Speaker 1: y style. I'm sucking pissed. I ain't trying to be
Speaker 1: too nice now. It all started at age six, when
Speaker 1: I came to hate this makeshift made trix I'm talking
Speaker 1: about fake ship. Then I became eight bitch like I
Speaker 1: got a facelift the grapes Hip, and then I got
Speaker 1: the urge to say ship thirteen. I went crazy and
Speaker 1: thoughted to hear things. I thought I could rebel a
Speaker 1: bit if I get in a piercing ear ring. I
Speaker 1: didn't give a damn with my pierced thing. And then
Speaker 1: I got crazy, started thinking the weird things, like being
Speaker 1: on a motherfucking podcast where I could grab the microphone
Speaker 1: and hear the bomb bass talk Helen ship like a
Speaker 1: militant still equipped. The wrapper is rapping like you were literate.
Speaker 1: I've been dope since I was a little kid. Now
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting here, wrapping until I'm skinny with the
Speaker 1: little ribs. I'm eating so many rappers. I need to
Speaker 1: get a bib. We're about to end. To see you next.
Speaker 1: We can hear our ship. See you next week. My
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