1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: As much as I love, bleed and fight for the West, 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: I'm also not delusional. The center of gravity for hip 3 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: hop culture as a whole, but specifically hip hop as 4 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: we know it was in New York. It was first 5 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 1: there a center of fashion style. It was in New York. 6 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: Then enter a tall, slender young man who got the 7 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:42,480 Speaker 1: co sign of a lifetime by one of the original 8 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: West Coast artists. This tall slender young man was named 9 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: Calvin Broddess a k a. Snoop Doggy Dog, And it 10 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: was the beginning of the upper center of culture moving west. 11 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: And there was some glory times, some glory days when 12 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: the all taste, making, all direction, all sound, aesthetic style everything. 13 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: Finally we had our day in the sun and it lasted. 14 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 1: It lasted for a while. Snoop all the Death Row 15 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: stuff and dads and corrupt and dubb seeing the mad 16 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: circle West Side connection, we became the center. And if 17 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: you wanted to be an artist, you had to come 18 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 1: mess with the West. Then a beef came as to 19 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: be like who gets to be the center of culture? 20 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: And that was the Biggie and Tupac thing between Death 21 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,320 Speaker 1: Row and bad Boy. It was. It was all happening 22 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: on the coast East coast versus West coast. Little did 23 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: we know at the most important pivotal Hip Hop Awards 24 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: Source Awards event on the famous event where Sugar Knights 25 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: stood on the stage and said, if you want to 26 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: come to a label where you ain't got your executive 27 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: dancing all up in the videos, come to death, bro. 28 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: The famous event during that Hip Hop Awards we're Snoop 29 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: and Drain and Biggie and Pock and Man. One of 30 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: the most pivotal moments in nineteen nineties. I think it 31 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: was ninety six, Might I think it was ninety six 32 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: that year who won Artist of the Year was out 33 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: cast while everything was happening on the coats. It turned 34 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: out gravity was shifting. And the line from my personal 35 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: top five artists Andre three thousand, you could quote and 36 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: this is hard for me coming out of my mouth 37 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: as somebody that bleeds California, my top five artists, he said, 38 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: let me say here like this here, you know, the 39 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: South got something to say. And I would say, from 40 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: that moment on, everything changed A t L Shaudi po politics, 41 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: y'all al a t l A t l s A 42 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: t l A t L s a t l A 43 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: t l s A t l sawty a t l 44 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: s A t l A t l s A t 45 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: l A t l s A t l A t 46 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: l A t l Hey listen. I believe there's a 47 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: documentary about it where they interview Ludicrous killing Mike and 48 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: a bunch of different people from the South that was like, oh, 49 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: that was their clariton call because they weren't respected as 50 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: far as being taste makers and culture makers. Now I know, 51 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: now this scene is like the most foolish thing to say, 52 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: but the center of gravity had to change. It wasn't 53 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: always the way it is. Oh, now we know, like 54 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 1: you have to sound like the South. You the drill music, 55 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: snap your fingers, and what I want to do is 56 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: kind of for a second here track uh, track that. 57 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: Because the South had been collectively building steam, whether it 58 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: was scar face ghetto boys like the clash money foods, 59 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: and you know what was happening in New our Lands, 60 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: you know, with with with this young shooter prodigy of 61 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 1: an artist named Loel Wayne who was wrapping everybody under 62 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: the table at the time. You have to remember there 63 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,120 Speaker 1: was a man named Jermaine dupri who put out y'all 64 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: make the things going to but put out a group 65 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 1: called Criss Cross, and Gravity was shifting outcast was making 66 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: some of the greatest music in the world with Southern 67 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 1: player listed Cadillac Music and the a t Aliens, all 68 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: the tall t s in the in the in the 69 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: White Air Force once that's the South wearing throwback Jersey's. 70 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: That was the South. It was Atlanta. Lanta brought in 71 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 1: ludicrous and the style of dress, the center of sports 72 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: with Mike Vick, you know. And and it's not like 73 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: they hadn't had people like Dominique Wilkins at the you know, 74 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Hawks and spud Web, you know, and 75 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: and uh, there was always stuff going down there. But 76 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,359 Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons and Mike Vick brought in a certain 77 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: type of cool. You know. Of course his name burnt 78 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 1: with all the like, you know, the dog fights and 79 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: stuff which he has made penance for, which is pretty 80 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: cool to see how he's made penance. But it became 81 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: the center. Gravity moved to the South and after that, 82 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: after the South got ahold of it, whether it started 83 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: with Jermaine dupri all the way down to ersh your Baby, 84 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: to Ludicrous to little John to the Yin Yang Twins, 85 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: right to Future to two Chains everybody, and even now 86 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: you listen to New York rapp, they sound like the 87 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: South when you listen to some of the biggest Kendrick songs, 88 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 1: the biggest West Coast songs, and of course West Coast 89 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: is having a renaissance right now, but the center of 90 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: culture has been Atlanta. And if you don't understand that, 91 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: you being delusional or you just love your area, which 92 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: of course you should love your area. All g unit 93 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: had a moment. But Young Buck from Nashville, and while 94 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: Genuinity was having this moment, guess what they was building 95 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: down south? Why all that was happening. Wayne was dropping 96 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:50,720 Speaker 1: all these Carter mixtapes. The South became long hard fought 97 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: the center of gravity for culture, for hip hop culture. 98 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna make an argument that as of now, 99 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: because of the shifting in demographics, because Hollywood went to 100 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: Atlanta too, it was too expensive to shoot movies in 101 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: the l A. It's so expensive to shoot in New York. 102 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: Tyler Perry, y'all, you know, you could crack jokes about mydea, 103 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: but he brought entertainment industry to the out Atlanta. Atlanta 104 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: became a place where black people could be a fluent 105 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: with like it did. The everything shifted, whether it was 106 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: real estate, music, sports, television, movies, it moved to Atlanta. Look, 107 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: if you was in New York, a lot of people 108 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: they look they either moved to Florida, moved to a 109 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: man of Miami, or they moved to Atlanta because New 110 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: York is too expensive. When you was making music, you 111 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: had to have that. You had to have that. Triples 112 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: me goes that. You gotta understand the sound change. They 113 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: changed everything. The South changed everything, and at least in 114 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: the world that we live in now. But with that 115 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: became not just metaphorical but actual demographic shifts. The Atlantic 116 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:40,319 Speaker 1: Metropolitan swelled and swooped up all these other counties now 117 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: out of all the way out in Grannette, which you 118 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: may not know unless you're down there, Grannette, that's Latino. 119 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: The South even got Mexicans down shout out, my boy, uh, 120 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: my boy. Rg you know what I'm saying. Listen, our dress, 121 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: our clothes are like the industry, it moved to the South, 122 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: and because it moved, so did the demographics. Atlanta became 123 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: the place to watch to understand where culture is going, 124 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: to understand the changes in demographics, and it's happening in politics. 125 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: Atlanta is the epicenter. Let me give you some examples 126 00:09:22,880 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: as to why. Let's go. So first of all, you 127 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: have to go all the way back to like elections, 128 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 1: which brought somebody like Stacey Abrams to um the forefront, right, 129 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: you know, on a national circuit. Again, just like in 130 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: hip hop, there were people that were already popping in 131 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: the local area that the rest of the world didn't 132 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:25,319 Speaker 1: know who were popping big, and then took on the 133 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: national scene. The Bay Area is a perfect example of that. Like, 134 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: you know, by the time the rest of the world 135 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,600 Speaker 1: knew who Effort he was, he was already platinum out 136 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: the trunk, like the Bay already knew it. You know. 137 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: So you take somebody like a Stacey Abrams or specifically Atlanta. 138 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: I think Atlanta is so special like that, like their 139 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: own ecosystem. You could already be a star just in 140 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: Atlanta before the rest of the world knows. But now 141 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: the world knows. I can say Senator Warnock, you know 142 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. I could say Governor Kemp, you 143 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. Like you. You know what 144 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like y'all shouldn't know these names, but we 145 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: do now Now Atlanta uh as somebody that tours and 146 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: somebody who has plenty of friends in the greater Metro 147 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: Atlanta area. Atlanta historically although progressive, progressive for the South, 148 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: this is like you you're still in Georgia. Like I 149 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: need you to remember that. You know that that the 150 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: fact that we even talking about this is proof of 151 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Because this is Joja. You understand what 152 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying. And most people who are from Atlanta, and 153 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: if you travel through Atlanta, you understand once you leave Atlanta, 154 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,719 Speaker 1: now you in Georgia. It's way it usually feels. It's 155 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: like oh yeah, this this ain't the South until you 156 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: leave there, until you leave Atlanta Metro. And what Atlanta 157 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: Metro has done, it keeps spreading because of again tech 158 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: jobs and stuff like that. So what what what was 159 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: once rural Cobb County that's like, you know, white Republican 160 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: is now a fluent black Democrat because the city just 161 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: keeps growing. And when it keeps growing, that means the 162 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: voter profile is going to change. The story was you 163 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: know back in like are we really talking about Georgia 164 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,680 Speaker 1: being a swing state? Like how did we get here? Well, 165 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: it took a while. But here's some numbers. You know, 166 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: Cobb County, Uh, in two thousand twelve, they voted forty 167 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 1: two point eight percent Democrat and in fifty six point 168 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:53,320 Speaker 1: three percent Gwinnette County, like I said before, Democrat in 169 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: two thousand twelve and percent. That's a fourteen percent change. 170 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you Atlanta is different now, Oh, 171 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: y'are different. And I think that these demographic changes is 172 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: something really to watch if you really want to understand 173 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: how to understand the map right now? As a matter 174 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,559 Speaker 1: of fact, what has taught us is throw away the map, 175 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's like we're just we're 176 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: off the grid now, like there's no this, nobody knows. 177 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 1: None of the matrix we would have used before matter anymore. 178 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: Gravity has shifted. So let's look at the governor race 179 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: right now. It's it's Brian Kemp versus Stacy Abrams. Now 180 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: this is a rematch. And I don't know if y'all 181 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: remember this. We was talking about like runoffs and such 182 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: like that, like this was a big deal. Remember four 183 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 1: years ago. This was a big old thing, like how 184 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: close this race was and if any prediction, had Atlanta 185 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 1: not become what it became, you would think that this 186 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: will be Atlanta. You're talking about a black woman running 187 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,319 Speaker 1: for now. Granted we knew that, like we already called 188 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: you know, Atlanta like black Hollywood. But it's like, that's 189 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: just Atlanta. We're talking about the governor of Georgia, like 190 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: the whole state again, when you leave Atlanta, you and George, 191 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: that is the understanding. But keep Birdly one, like just 192 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: Burly one. And that's like that's nobody looked this fooll 193 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: Burly one by maybe fifty thousand votes and you and 194 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: like when you when you talk about millions and millions 195 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: of people fifty five like that's listen, it's nothing. He 196 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: Burly won. And if you don't know Georgia politics, which 197 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 1: most of us don't, is like, if the you have 198 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: to win, you know, for it to be uh, you know, 199 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: said and done right. If not, then you gotta trigger 200 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: a runoff. And that's what we saw happening. If you 201 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: this is flashbacks to y'all. We saw this runoff between 202 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: them two, right, and it was like this how in 203 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: the world. Not only is it a Democrat, but it's 204 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: a black person. And not only is it a Democrat 205 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: black person, it's a black woman. Really got this, really 206 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: really ran up on this dude like this like this 207 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: should this a t L shouty things? Is a change 208 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: in right, and and this race really put her into 209 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 1: the national spotlight. Now it's the same camp you know 210 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: when you're going back to like election fraud and the 211 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: duty had the call that was like supposed to be 212 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: finding votes about this, this and this Like now what 213 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: Kemp did is again this is what I mean. This 214 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: The new playbook for the Republicans is you don't pope 215 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: the bear because what's crazy is out there in Atlanta 216 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: if you like like talking to the people, listening to 217 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: the people that's like on the ground reporting out there, 218 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: people ain't really they're not really talk about Trump like 219 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: they used to. Of course he's there. If you're a 220 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: Republican to play is this you don't like you don't 221 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: outright be like that's my dog, unless you Margine Taylor Green. 222 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But you don't outright be like, yo, 223 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: that's my dog, like I run with him. You just 224 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: kind of like you just don't talk about him. It's 225 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: like I'll neither confirm or deny, you know what I'm saying, 226 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: whether I run with him or not, because we're not 227 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 1: entirely sure how much of an asset this man is. 228 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 1: That is a change, bro, Like, that's not they're different 229 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: Atlanta difference, y'all. And that's something to watch because it's like, 230 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: wait a minute, we you you're supposed to think that 231 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: a Trump back dude, like he's supposed to be batting 232 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: a thousand these days, that that's the teflon man. You 233 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and and and and what Atlanta 234 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 1: has showing us is like, oh, well, no, I don't no, 235 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: I don't know about that there, Jake. It's like, this 236 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 1: race is interesting. It's not what it used to be. 237 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: Stacy Abrams has a chance like that shouldn't which we 238 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 1: shouldn't even be talking about. It's things are changing. And 239 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: the other race we're watching down there, which again, this 240 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: is what's so interesting, Like this is how we know 241 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 1: it's the center of the universe because we shouldn't care 242 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 1: about no Senate see, but this Senate seat would give 243 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 1: the Republicans the majority they're looking for so it's a 244 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: lot like looking like, That's what I'm saying, is city 245 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 1: like there's a lot writing on if you're a republic 246 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: it's a lot writing on this race. And you would 247 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: think that, oh, it would be a shoe in. However, 248 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 1: the Republican they're running is the herschel motherfucking Walters Walter Walker. 249 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: And why this is so funny to me and even 250 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell admitted it. He's like, YO, were having a 251 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: candidate quality problem. It's like herschel Walker let me before, 252 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: I before I thought too much here. But Herschel Walker 253 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: is uh, you know, NFL legend, Georgia tech legend. Right, 254 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,479 Speaker 1: but he lived in Texas for most of his time, 255 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,439 Speaker 1: but um kind of got recruited back to come to 256 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: Georgia to possibly run for this seat from President Trump. 257 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 1: So so he's a he's a Trump guy, Like he's 258 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: really a Trump guy. Now. The thing about him is 259 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: his insistence on the right wing sort of talking points. 260 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:09,240 Speaker 1: The only problem is the man can't talk. Oh lord, 261 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: oh lord. And then secondly, this is actually a really 262 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 1: interesting point here because it's a question. It's a question 263 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 1: about black people. Because he's running against Senator Warnock, who 264 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,480 Speaker 1: one would think would be a shoe in you know 265 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 1: why because he's the pastor of mL k's church, like 266 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: of of the church that Martin Luther King. So I'm like, yo, 267 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: a t L different. So there's something going on here. 268 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: What like this is what I mean by it's a 269 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: black people because you've got two black people running, you know, 270 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,960 Speaker 1: and when you take these black people that are Southern 271 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: sometimes that Southern conservatism even when you black, you know 272 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 1: the manners and the and the you know, the yes 273 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,439 Speaker 1: man's and the no man's. You know what I'm saying, Like, 274 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: they're not. This ain't no coast. You feel me, They're 275 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: not these Southern folks. Like again, I'm saying this is 276 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 1: look it, I'm saying a t L different, y'all. When 277 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:10,360 Speaker 1: you in the South, you would think that they don't 278 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: play all that pronoun you know what I'm saying, Like, 279 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: they're not into the they're not into the in betweens 280 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 1: unless you in Atlanta. But we're talking about a whole 281 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: senator seat like this is different. But I think the 282 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:29,359 Speaker 1: first question is like why in the world when you 283 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 1: look at somebody like herschel Walker who flashed that toy. 284 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 1: Uh that toy I can't even get it out. Badge 285 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: that that sheriff's badge. Right, My my homie sent me 286 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:47,360 Speaker 1: this clip that he saw on TikTok of this influencer 287 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: that kind of put together how some of the black 288 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 1: community feels about a herschel Walker and why the Republicans 289 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: not listen. This is just my hood, Antennis, I'm not 290 00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just I'm just I'm bringing a message 291 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:06,120 Speaker 1: why him, because like I feel like he would be 292 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,439 Speaker 1: if I if I'm trying to, like you telling me 293 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 1: like as much as as much as is writing on 294 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: this man winning, like is this your king? Like they 295 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 1: running moment odds up in Philly, like are you serious 296 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: that the doctors? Yeah, But anyway, herschel Walker is according 297 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: to this matter of fact, let me get this dude's name, 298 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 1: so y'all don't get mad at me. So Leslie Jones 299 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: posted this from this brother name Thomas the villain Um, 300 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:46,720 Speaker 1: and his argument is herschel Walker is exactly what these 301 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: people think of us. He's the perfect representation of every 302 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: stereotype of a black man. He absentee father, he's sound illiterate, 303 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: he's incredibly athletic. He'll listen to whatever his master tell him. 304 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: He's abusive and violent, he's he's all the stereotypes. He 305 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 1: ain't like somebody like you Newton, like a Fred Hampton. 306 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like we're not dancing for you. 307 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like we're not sucking and driving. 308 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: I'm not tap dancing for you. I ain't playing. I'm 309 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: not I'm not safe. I'm dangerous. I stay dangerous. I 310 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: don't stay safe. They don't like, they don't like black 311 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: men like that in power, you know what I mean? Now, 312 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 1: the greatest take comes from the Good Brothers on the 313 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: eight five South podcast when he was like that nigga 314 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:43,919 Speaker 1: played football when the helmets was soft. I'm not listening 315 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: to this nigga. He just they just like this understanding 316 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: is like that nigga brain is scrambled. This is ct Like, Bro, 317 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,719 Speaker 1: why would I listen to you like now? I'm just 318 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: listen that. It's just funny. You know when you could 319 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,679 Speaker 1: take your helmet off and folded and put it in 320 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 1: your pocket. That's where he played football. Come on, y'all, 321 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: that's funny. Now. Now you take somebody like Raphael Warnock, 322 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: big dog. You you're a direct descendant to Dr King 323 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: in Spirit like you run it like you you thinking, okay, 324 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: well we're in the South. This is a pastor. Oh 325 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: but this pastor don't play nice. You could still tap 326 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: into the Southern tendencies of being like, oh well, you 327 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 1: know that's just that's social justice gospel. Right. You got 328 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: somebody like Herosha Walker who say, well, I'm a Christian too, 329 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: you know, but here Christian like like like Dave Christians 330 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: that believe that like like you know that God chose America. 331 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 1: You you feel me with a special little especially here 332 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: dance for you. You know. You know what I'm saying 333 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: that that now this this, this is the argument. Now 334 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: the question is will it work. Let me talk to 335 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: you all about split tickets. L A t l A 336 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 1: t L song a t l A t L song 337 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: a t l A t L song a t L 338 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: salty a t L sal a t l a l 339 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 1: a t l s a t L s SALTI now listen, 340 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: if you followed politics in the last ten years, you 341 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: understand like once you pick your R O O D, 342 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: you just voted down the ticket because you just like, look, 343 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 1: I may not like this, dude, but I ain't voting 344 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: for no Democrat. And but when you pulled in Atlanta, 345 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: they pulled when you they I mean, if you trust 346 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: the polls, whatever, you're gonna say, like, but when you 347 00:24:52,040 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 1: pull them, uh, it's polling. Where of the Republicans, Kemp 348 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: got a good of Republican vote. Her show got about 349 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: eighty two Republican vote. That's listen, that's in in politics. 350 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: That's big. That means that people Republicans are either gonna 351 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 1: skip your race and just be like I don't, like, 352 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 1: I can't get myself. What they're saying is I can't 353 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: get myself to vote for Warnock because he's a Democrat. 354 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: But I don't think I could for herschel Walker. I don't. 355 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think I can vote for 356 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: her schel Walker. Now, the last time we saw this 357 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 1: was when Mitt Romney was running, like you just you 358 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: when you you you skip that because it's like I 359 00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: just can't get myself to say, yeah, listen, throw away 360 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: the map, y'all. Atlanta looked crazy because Atlanta is showing 361 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: us that like, oh wait a minute, now, wait a minute, 362 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 1: people just don't vote all the way are down or 363 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: d down. If you gotta whack ass candidate, it's possible. 364 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: You gotta show improve. You can't just say just because 365 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying that your governor's Republican. 366 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 1: That means that you're gonna get your Republicans said, I 367 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:34,240 Speaker 1: don't mean it. It's it's tricky. It's not it's not 368 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 1: that like a t L. Different, y'all, and it's continuing 369 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: to be different. Listen, it wasn't. You didn't have big 370 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 1: stars and hundreds of tons of thousands of millions of 371 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: dollars being dumped into an Atlanta Senate race. That ain't 372 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: what they used to. It's like now that they Atlanta, 373 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,639 Speaker 1: they didn't say, didn't d cded Florida. You know understand 374 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like Florida, Ohio used to be like 375 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 1: the center of like NAIs a t L. Shaudi people 376 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 1: coming down there? Why because so much is writing on 377 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 1: this Stacy Abrams became the face of fighting voter suppression. 378 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:17,160 Speaker 1: That's that's a national good God, that's that's like, Look, 379 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 1: we're different down these these black people different down here. 380 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:30,399 Speaker 1: And uh herschel Walker might possibly be the fifty first 381 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: Senator for the Republic. You will you might actually like, 382 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: do you think about this? I am a Laker fan, 383 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: as you know, and right now it pains me to 384 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,160 Speaker 1: say it, but we gotta let go of Russell Westbrook, 385 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 1: the brother guy I like, he is my he from 386 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: the city, our respect is gangster. What he did for 387 00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: when Nipsey passed. Like he's funny, he's talented, and he 388 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 1: will go down in the annals of history as a 389 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. But that being said, he got the yips. 390 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,239 Speaker 1: Do not put the ball in this man's hand at 391 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: the end of this game. We gotta trade him. He 392 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 1: he gotta go. I can't imagine put the ball in 393 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: the bronze hand when the game's on the line. He 394 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 1: just did this recently. The game was on the line. 395 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: This fool pulled up or a jumper. He's over for eleven. Nigga, 396 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 1: Why are you shooting like I was furious? Nigga, the 397 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 1: ball is not falling for you. Fam Now, I'm not 398 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: saying Russell Westbrook is herschel Walker. I'm just saying I 399 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: don't know if this is who I want to have 400 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: the ball. I don't want to put the whole game 401 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,040 Speaker 1: on his shoulder. Right now, he not the strong on 402 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: gets candidate at this moment. That's where they are see 403 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: because split tickets again, let me let me. I can't 404 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: stress this enough. Split tickets tells you a lot about 405 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: where our country is going. And it also says that listen, 406 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: I love you, but you're not putting up numbers. That's 407 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: what it says. I love you, but you ain't putting 408 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: up numbers. The times are changing, and what's going on. 409 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: What's happening in Atlanta gonna tell us a lot about 410 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 1: what's going on and what the rest of the country 411 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 1: is doing. We ain't like, we ain't seeing those They 412 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: don't split tickets. It hasn't been since two thousand twelve. 413 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: Like that's not been a thing we talked about. You 414 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:48,959 Speaker 1: gotta put up some champions. If you're not gonna throw 415 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: up some champions, this is what it shows us. If 416 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: you're not putting up champions, you can't just trust just 417 00:29:54,600 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: because you got that initial behind your name. It's not 418 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 1: that I'll vote for the other team. I just won't 419 00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: vote for you. Is what happens. Foot will skip it. 420 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: I have staying you know what I'm saying. So I'm 421 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 1: not saying we out of our our silos here. But 422 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: I am saying, oh, you can't just you can't just assume. 423 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: You gotta give us, you gotta give me something to 424 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: work with here. That's not And look a t l y'all. 425 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:36,760 Speaker 1: Things is changing like and and I'm saying this in 426 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: the opposite Stacy Abrams shouldn't she shouldn't have a shot, 427 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,480 Speaker 1: but she there. This race is so close, it was 428 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 1: so close last time. And on the other side, he 429 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,240 Speaker 1: should walkers shouldn't have a shot. You shouldn't have a gentfent. 430 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: Things is changing. Takes it to look things is changing. 431 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: So we'll see see how Trump backed candidates do. And 432 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is, at least in Atlanta or George's 433 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 1: name really don't matter that much. Listen to anybody out there, 434 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: and by reporting out there his name don't matter that much. 435 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: That's wow. Okay, you don't poke the bear, you don't 436 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: diss him, but you also don't need to bring him up. 437 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,840 Speaker 1: You know what you talk about now if you're Republican, Oh, 438 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: you talk about crime, We're back to normal. You talk 439 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: about crime, you talk about you talk about coming out 440 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: of the pandemic early that you wouldn't you wasn't wearing 441 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: no mask. You talk about the vote police, that's what 442 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:43,239 Speaker 1: you're talking about. If you if you would your Democrat. Oh, 443 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: you talk about abortion, you talk about reproduction rights, you 444 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 1: talk about justice in equity. Yeah, we're not even we're 445 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:55,719 Speaker 1: not even talking about it. We'll see though, If Trump's 446 00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:00,160 Speaker 1: candidates like do well, we'll know what gonna look like. 447 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: It's good, candidates do terrible, we'll know what looks like. 448 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: Or if he's just inconsequential where it's all over the 449 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,320 Speaker 1: map like some so many wins, some of his candidates win, 450 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 1: some of those candidate's lose. That also tells us what's 451 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: going on in the future. What does that have to 452 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 1: do with us. Here's my last point is it doesn't 453 00:32:54,560 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: have to be a foregone conclusion that your party can 454 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: count on your vote. It don't have to be like that. 455 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: You know you can. It's okay if you don't rock 456 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: with a dude, it don't mean you gotta rock with 457 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: the other guy. It just means you don't rock with 458 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 1: that one. They need to know that. And lastly, is 459 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 1: an X factor that I need to throw in here 460 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 1: in relation to Atlanta politics, and his name is Killer Mike. Listen, 461 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,600 Speaker 1: Killer Mike's a new version. That's not something people have 462 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 1: calculated for Now, let me make this case as to 463 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 1: why Killer Mike is so important. Hip hop, you have 464 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: to remember, is maybe fifty years old. It's it's still 465 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 1: a young genre in relation to a lot of other 466 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 1: big cultural movements. We don't have a lot of like 467 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 1: Bonnos if you will, people who have transcended, people who 468 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,480 Speaker 1: have became presidents. But Jay Z s Arbano, like he's 469 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,759 Speaker 1: there's one who's hit a level of stratosphere. We have 470 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 1: people that gone into entertainment obviously with like an iced 471 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: Tea or Will Smith the ice Cube, who have transitioned 472 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 1: out of just wrapping in hip hop into being mainstays 473 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:26,320 Speaker 1: in dominant culture. And they have somebody like Kanye you 474 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:31,919 Speaker 1: know who. We already talked about Kanye. But we don't 475 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 1: have no politicians except for Killer Mike. Killer Mike is 476 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:46,800 Speaker 1: a grassroots organizer and is really not want to mess with. 477 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:53,880 Speaker 1: He's brilliant, he's nonpartisan. He will meet with whoever he 478 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,879 Speaker 1: needs to meet with. Think about a matter of fact, 479 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,439 Speaker 1: there was this there was this article in a huff 480 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 1: Post about him being more Dane Riss then Kanye because 481 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:09,960 Speaker 1: his presence and his word gives legitimacy too. Somebody to 482 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,279 Speaker 1: a to a to a candidate right him meeting with 483 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,400 Speaker 1: Governor Kemp. The article was was critiquing that by being like, bro, 484 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 1: why would you meet with this man knowing full well 485 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:25,239 Speaker 1: like verifiably he suppressed black votes. And the first thing 486 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 1: I thought of was Dr King meeting with Lyndon B. Johnson. 487 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going here too. I'm here in 488 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,920 Speaker 1: the same way he's a raised here. I'm here for 489 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 1: everybody black. You have to somebody like killing Mike is like, listen, 490 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: this is transactional. I'm here for black flourishing. That's the 491 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,800 Speaker 1: type of man that was like, move your money away 492 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,880 Speaker 1: from those banks. Put him into black banks. He was like, 493 00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:01,919 Speaker 1: by black grocery stores, support black businesses, and vote people out. 494 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 1: If you remember, he got on stage on camera during 495 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,399 Speaker 1: the George Floyd uprising and was like, vote these people 496 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 1: out of here. It's time to strategize and organize. But 497 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: the critique was like, why would you even meet with 498 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,480 Speaker 1: somebody like herschel Walker? Why would you even give this 499 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:25,840 Speaker 1: person legitimacy, which to me is an understanding really of 500 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:30,879 Speaker 1: how much power grassroots organizing has because Killer Mike could 501 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 1: sway a vote. He is street dude, he's a rapper, 502 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:41,359 Speaker 1: but he has actual political pull. The ability to even 503 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:47,360 Speaker 1: get a meeting with the governor shows a t l 504 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:54,040 Speaker 1: different y'all. Even the rappers organized. It's it's a new 505 00:36:54,120 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 1: day everyone, and how you let them know you gotta vote? 506 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:18,120 Speaker 1: Man Little politics, Yeah, it's here. 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