Speaker 1: As much as I love, bleed and fight for the West,
Speaker 1: I'm also not delusional. The center of gravity for hip
Speaker 1: hop culture as a whole, but specifically hip hop as
Speaker 1: we know it was in New York. It was first
Speaker 1: there a center of fashion style. It was in New York.
Speaker 1: Then enter a tall, slender young man who got the
Speaker 1: co sign of a lifetime by one of the original
Speaker 1: West Coast artists. This tall slender young man was named
Speaker 1: Calvin Broddess a k a. Snoop Doggy Dog, And it
Speaker 1: was the beginning of the upper center of culture moving west.
Speaker 1: And there was some glory times, some glory days when
Speaker 1: the all taste, making, all direction, all sound, aesthetic style everything.
Speaker 1: Finally we had our day in the sun and it lasted.
Speaker 1: It lasted for a while. Snoop all the Death Row
Speaker 1: stuff and dads and corrupt and dubb seeing the mad
Speaker 1: circle West Side connection, we became the center. And if
Speaker 1: you wanted to be an artist, you had to come
Speaker 1: mess with the West. Then a beef came as to
Speaker 1: be like who gets to be the center of culture?
Speaker 1: And that was the Biggie and Tupac thing between Death
Speaker 1: Row and bad Boy. It was. It was all happening
Speaker 1: on the coast East coast versus West coast. Little did
Speaker 1: we know at the most important pivotal Hip Hop Awards
Speaker 1: Source Awards event on the famous event where Sugar Knights
Speaker 1: stood on the stage and said, if you want to
Speaker 1: come to a label where you ain't got your executive
Speaker 1: dancing all up in the videos, come to death, bro.
Speaker 1: The famous event during that Hip Hop Awards we're Snoop
Speaker 1: and Drain and Biggie and Pock and Man. One of
Speaker 1: the most pivotal moments in nineteen nineties. I think it
Speaker 1: was ninety six, Might I think it was ninety six
Speaker 1: that year who won Artist of the Year was out
Speaker 1: cast while everything was happening on the coats. It turned
Speaker 1: out gravity was shifting. And the line from my personal
Speaker 1: top five artists Andre three thousand, you could quote and
Speaker 1: this is hard for me coming out of my mouth
Speaker 1: as somebody that bleeds California, my top five artists, he said,
Speaker 1: let me say here like this here, you know, the
Speaker 1: South got something to say. And I would say, from
Speaker 1: that moment on, everything changed A t L Shaudi po politics,
Speaker 1: y'all al a t l A t l s A
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Speaker 1: l A t l s A t l A t
Speaker 1: l A t l Hey listen. I believe there's a
Speaker 1: documentary about it where they interview Ludicrous killing Mike and
Speaker 1: a bunch of different people from the South that was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that was their clariton call because they weren't respected as
Speaker 1: far as being taste makers and culture makers. Now I know,
Speaker 1: now this scene is like the most foolish thing to say,
Speaker 1: but the center of gravity had to change. It wasn't
Speaker 1: always the way it is. Oh, now we know, like
Speaker 1: you have to sound like the South. You the drill music,
Speaker 1: snap your fingers, and what I want to do is
Speaker 1: kind of for a second here track uh, track that.
Speaker 1: Because the South had been collectively building steam, whether it
Speaker 1: was scar face ghetto boys like the clash money foods,
Speaker 1: and you know what was happening in New our Lands,
Speaker 1: you know, with with with this young shooter prodigy of
Speaker 1: an artist named Loel Wayne who was wrapping everybody under
Speaker 1: the table at the time. You have to remember there
Speaker 1: was a man named Jermaine dupri who put out y'all
Speaker 1: make the things going to but put out a group
Speaker 1: called Criss Cross, and Gravity was shifting outcast was making
Speaker 1: some of the greatest music in the world with Southern
Speaker 1: player listed Cadillac Music and the a t Aliens, all
Speaker 1: the tall t s in the in the in the
Speaker 1: White Air Force once that's the South wearing throwback Jersey's.
Speaker 1: That was the South. It was Atlanta. Lanta brought in
Speaker 1: ludicrous and the style of dress, the center of sports
Speaker 1: with Mike Vick, you know. And and it's not like
Speaker 1: they hadn't had people like Dominique Wilkins at the you know,
Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Hawks and spud Web, you know, and
Speaker 1: and uh, there was always stuff going down there. But
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons and Mike Vick brought in a certain
Speaker 1: type of cool. You know. Of course his name burnt
Speaker 1: with all the like, you know, the dog fights and
Speaker 1: stuff which he has made penance for, which is pretty
Speaker 1: cool to see how he's made penance. But it became
Speaker 1: the center. Gravity moved to the South and after that,
Speaker 1: after the South got ahold of it, whether it started
Speaker 1: with Jermaine dupri all the way down to ersh your Baby,
Speaker 1: to Ludicrous to little John to the Yin Yang Twins,
Speaker 1: right to Future to two Chains everybody, and even now
Speaker 1: you listen to New York rapp, they sound like the
Speaker 1: South when you listen to some of the biggest Kendrick songs,
Speaker 1: the biggest West Coast songs, and of course West Coast
Speaker 1: is having a renaissance right now, but the center of
Speaker 1: culture has been Atlanta. And if you don't understand that,
Speaker 1: you being delusional or you just love your area, which
Speaker 1: of course you should love your area. All g unit
Speaker 1: had a moment. But Young Buck from Nashville, and while
Speaker 1: Genuinity was having this moment, guess what they was building
Speaker 1: down south? Why all that was happening. Wayne was dropping
Speaker 1: all these Carter mixtapes. The South became long hard fought
Speaker 1: the center of gravity for culture, for hip hop culture.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna make an argument that as of now,
Speaker 1: because of the shifting in demographics, because Hollywood went to
Speaker 1: Atlanta too, it was too expensive to shoot movies in
Speaker 1: the l A. It's so expensive to shoot in New York.
Speaker 1: Tyler Perry, y'all, you know, you could crack jokes about mydea,
Speaker 1: but he brought entertainment industry to the out Atlanta. Atlanta
Speaker 1: became a place where black people could be a fluent
Speaker 1: with like it did. The everything shifted, whether it was
Speaker 1: real estate, music, sports, television, movies, it moved to Atlanta. Look,
Speaker 1: if you was in New York, a lot of people
Speaker 1: they look they either moved to Florida, moved to a
Speaker 1: man of Miami, or they moved to Atlanta because New
Speaker 1: York is too expensive. When you was making music, you
Speaker 1: had to have that. You had to have that. Triples
Speaker 1: me goes that. You gotta understand the sound change. They
Speaker 1: changed everything. The South changed everything, and at least in
Speaker 1: the world that we live in now. But with that
Speaker 1: became not just metaphorical but actual demographic shifts. The Atlantic
Speaker 1: Metropolitan swelled and swooped up all these other counties now
Speaker 1: out of all the way out in Grannette, which you
Speaker 1: may not know unless you're down there, Grannette, that's Latino.
Speaker 1: The South even got Mexicans down shout out, my boy, uh,
Speaker 1: my boy. Rg you know what I'm saying. Listen, our dress,
Speaker 1: our clothes are like the industry, it moved to the South,
Speaker 1: and because it moved, so did the demographics. Atlanta became
Speaker 1: the place to watch to understand where culture is going,
Speaker 1: to understand the changes in demographics, and it's happening in politics.
Speaker 1: Atlanta is the epicenter. Let me give you some examples
Speaker 1: as to why. Let's go. So first of all, you
Speaker 1: have to go all the way back to like elections,
Speaker 1: which brought somebody like Stacey Abrams to um the forefront, right,
Speaker 1: you know, on a national circuit. Again, just like in
Speaker 1: hip hop, there were people that were already popping in
Speaker 1: the local area that the rest of the world didn't
Speaker 1: know who were popping big, and then took on the
Speaker 1: national scene. The Bay Area is a perfect example of that. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, by the time the rest of the world
Speaker 1: knew who Effort he was, he was already platinum out
Speaker 1: the trunk, like the Bay already knew it. You know.
Speaker 1: So you take somebody like a Stacey Abrams or specifically Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I think Atlanta is so special like that, like their
Speaker 1: own ecosystem. You could already be a star just in
Speaker 1: Atlanta before the rest of the world knows. But now
Speaker 1: the world knows. I can say Senator Warnock, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. I could say Governor Kemp, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. Like you. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like y'all shouldn't know these names, but we
Speaker 1: do now Now Atlanta uh as somebody that tours and
Speaker 1: somebody who has plenty of friends in the greater Metro
Speaker 1: Atlanta area. Atlanta historically although progressive, progressive for the South,
Speaker 1: this is like you you're still in Georgia. Like I
Speaker 1: need you to remember that. You know that that the
Speaker 1: fact that we even talking about this is proof of
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Because this is Joja. You understand what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And most people who are from Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: if you travel through Atlanta, you understand once you leave Atlanta,
Speaker 1: now you in Georgia. It's way it usually feels. It's
Speaker 1: like oh yeah, this this ain't the South until you
Speaker 1: leave there, until you leave Atlanta Metro. And what Atlanta
Speaker 1: Metro has done, it keeps spreading because of again tech
Speaker 1: jobs and stuff like that. So what what what was
Speaker 1: once rural Cobb County that's like, you know, white Republican
Speaker 1: is now a fluent black Democrat because the city just
Speaker 1: keeps growing. And when it keeps growing, that means the
Speaker 1: voter profile is going to change. The story was you
Speaker 1: know back in like are we really talking about Georgia
Speaker 1: being a swing state? Like how did we get here? Well,
Speaker 1: it took a while. But here's some numbers. You know,
Speaker 1: Cobb County, Uh, in two thousand twelve, they voted forty
Speaker 1: two point eight percent Democrat and in fifty six point
Speaker 1: three percent Gwinnette County, like I said before, Democrat in
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve and percent. That's a fourteen percent change.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell you Atlanta is different now, Oh,
Speaker 1: y'are different. And I think that these demographic changes is
Speaker 1: something really to watch if you really want to understand
Speaker 1: how to understand the map right now? As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, what has taught us is throw away the map,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's like we're just we're
Speaker 1: off the grid now, like there's no this, nobody knows.
Speaker 1: None of the matrix we would have used before matter anymore.
Speaker 1: Gravity has shifted. So let's look at the governor race
Speaker 1: right now. It's it's Brian Kemp versus Stacy Abrams. Now
Speaker 1: this is a rematch. And I don't know if y'all
Speaker 1: remember this. We was talking about like runoffs and such
Speaker 1: like that, like this was a big deal. Remember four
Speaker 1: years ago. This was a big old thing, like how
Speaker 1: close this race was and if any prediction, had Atlanta
Speaker 1: not become what it became, you would think that this
Speaker 1: will be Atlanta. You're talking about a black woman running
Speaker 1: for now. Granted we knew that, like we already called
Speaker 1: you know, Atlanta like black Hollywood. But it's like, that's
Speaker 1: just Atlanta. We're talking about the governor of Georgia, like
Speaker 1: the whole state again, when you leave Atlanta, you and George,
Speaker 1: that is the understanding. But keep Birdly one, like just
Speaker 1: Burly one. And that's like that's nobody looked this fooll
Speaker 1: Burly one by maybe fifty thousand votes and you and
Speaker 1: like when you when you talk about millions and millions
Speaker 1: of people fifty five like that's listen, it's nothing. He
Speaker 1: Burly won. And if you don't know Georgia politics, which
Speaker 1: most of us don't, is like, if the you have
Speaker 1: to win, you know, for it to be uh, you know,
Speaker 1: said and done right. If not, then you gotta trigger
Speaker 1: a runoff. And that's what we saw happening. If you
Speaker 1: this is flashbacks to y'all. We saw this runoff between
Speaker 1: them two, right, and it was like this how in
Speaker 1: the world. Not only is it a Democrat, but it's
Speaker 1: a black person. And not only is it a Democrat
Speaker 1: black person, it's a black woman. Really got this, really
Speaker 1: really ran up on this dude like this like this
Speaker 1: should this a t L shouty things? Is a change
Speaker 1: in right, and and this race really put her into
Speaker 1: the national spotlight. Now it's the same camp you know
Speaker 1: when you're going back to like election fraud and the
Speaker 1: duty had the call that was like supposed to be
Speaker 1: finding votes about this, this and this Like now what
Speaker 1: Kemp did is again this is what I mean. This
Speaker 1: The new playbook for the Republicans is you don't pope
Speaker 1: the bear because what's crazy is out there in Atlanta
Speaker 1: if you like like talking to the people, listening to
Speaker 1: the people that's like on the ground reporting out there,
Speaker 1: people ain't really they're not really talk about Trump like
Speaker 1: they used to. Of course he's there. If you're a
Speaker 1: Republican to play is this you don't like you don't
Speaker 1: outright be like that's my dog, unless you Margine Taylor Green.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But you don't outright be like, yo,
Speaker 1: that's my dog, like I run with him. You just
Speaker 1: kind of like you just don't talk about him. It's
Speaker 1: like I'll neither confirm or deny, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: whether I run with him or not, because we're not
Speaker 1: entirely sure how much of an asset this man is.
Speaker 1: That is a change, bro, Like, that's not they're different
Speaker 1: Atlanta difference, y'all. And that's something to watch because it's like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we you you're supposed to think that
Speaker 1: a Trump back dude, like he's supposed to be batting
Speaker 1: a thousand these days, that that's the teflon man. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and and and and what Atlanta
Speaker 1: has showing us is like, oh, well, no, I don't no,
Speaker 1: I don't know about that there, Jake. It's like, this
Speaker 1: race is interesting. It's not what it used to be.
Speaker 1: Stacy Abrams has a chance like that shouldn't which we
Speaker 1: shouldn't even be talking about. It's things are changing. And
Speaker 1: the other race we're watching down there, which again, this
Speaker 1: is what's so interesting, Like this is how we know
Speaker 1: it's the center of the universe because we shouldn't care
Speaker 1: about no Senate see, but this Senate seat would give
Speaker 1: the Republicans the majority they're looking for so it's a
Speaker 1: lot like looking like, That's what I'm saying, is city
Speaker 1: like there's a lot writing on if you're a republic
Speaker 1: it's a lot writing on this race. And you would
Speaker 1: think that, oh, it would be a shoe in. However,
Speaker 1: the Republican they're running is the herschel motherfucking Walters Walter Walker.
Speaker 1: And why this is so funny to me and even
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell admitted it. He's like, YO, were having a
Speaker 1: candidate quality problem. It's like herschel Walker let me before,
Speaker 1: I before I thought too much here. But Herschel Walker
Speaker 1: is uh, you know, NFL legend, Georgia tech legend. Right,
Speaker 1: but he lived in Texas for most of his time,
Speaker 1: but um kind of got recruited back to come to
Speaker 1: Georgia to possibly run for this seat from President Trump.
Speaker 1: So so he's a he's a Trump guy, Like he's
Speaker 1: really a Trump guy. Now. The thing about him is
Speaker 1: his insistence on the right wing sort of talking points.
Speaker 1: The only problem is the man can't talk. Oh lord,
Speaker 1: oh lord. And then secondly, this is actually a really
Speaker 1: interesting point here because it's a question. It's a question
Speaker 1: about black people. Because he's running against Senator Warnock, who
Speaker 1: one would think would be a shoe in you know
Speaker 1: why because he's the pastor of mL k's church, like
Speaker 1: of of the church that Martin Luther King. So I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: a t L different. So there's something going on here.
Speaker 1: What like this is what I mean by it's a
Speaker 1: black people because you've got two black people running, you know,
Speaker 1: and when you take these black people that are Southern
Speaker 1: sometimes that Southern conservatism even when you black, you know
Speaker 1: the manners and the and the you know, the yes
Speaker 1: man's and the no man's. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: they're not. This ain't no coast. You feel me, They're
Speaker 1: not these Southern folks. Like again, I'm saying this is
Speaker 1: look it, I'm saying a t L different, y'all. When
Speaker 1: you in the South, you would think that they don't
Speaker 1: play all that pronoun you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: they're not into the they're not into the in betweens
Speaker 1: unless you in Atlanta. But we're talking about a whole
Speaker 1: senator seat like this is different. But I think the
Speaker 1: first question is like why in the world when you
Speaker 1: look at somebody like herschel Walker who flashed that toy.
Speaker 1: Uh that toy I can't even get it out. Badge
Speaker 1: that that sheriff's badge. Right, My my homie sent me
Speaker 1: this clip that he saw on TikTok of this influencer
Speaker 1: that kind of put together how some of the black
Speaker 1: community feels about a herschel Walker and why the Republicans
Speaker 1: not listen. This is just my hood, Antennis, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just I'm just I'm bringing a message
Speaker 1: why him, because like I feel like he would be
Speaker 1: if I if I'm trying to, like you telling me
Speaker 1: like as much as as much as is writing on
Speaker 1: this man winning, like is this your king? Like they
Speaker 1: running moment odds up in Philly, like are you serious
Speaker 1: that the doctors? Yeah, But anyway, herschel Walker is according
Speaker 1: to this matter of fact, let me get this dude's name,
Speaker 1: so y'all don't get mad at me. So Leslie Jones
Speaker 1: posted this from this brother name Thomas the villain Um,
Speaker 1: and his argument is herschel Walker is exactly what these
Speaker 1: people think of us. He's the perfect representation of every
Speaker 1: stereotype of a black man. He absentee father, he's sound illiterate,
Speaker 1: he's incredibly athletic. He'll listen to whatever his master tell him.
Speaker 1: He's abusive and violent, he's he's all the stereotypes. He
Speaker 1: ain't like somebody like you Newton, like a Fred Hampton.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like we're not dancing for you.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like we're not sucking and driving.
Speaker 1: I'm not tap dancing for you. I ain't playing. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not safe. I'm dangerous. I stay dangerous. I
Speaker 1: don't stay safe. They don't like, they don't like black
Speaker 1: men like that in power, you know what I mean? Now,
Speaker 1: the greatest take comes from the Good Brothers on the
Speaker 1: eight five South podcast when he was like that nigga
Speaker 1: played football when the helmets was soft. I'm not listening
Speaker 1: to this nigga. He just they just like this understanding
Speaker 1: is like that nigga brain is scrambled. This is ct Like, Bro,
Speaker 1: why would I listen to you like now? I'm just
Speaker 1: listen that. It's just funny. You know when you could
Speaker 1: take your helmet off and folded and put it in
Speaker 1: your pocket. That's where he played football. Come on, y'all,
Speaker 1: that's funny. Now. Now you take somebody like Raphael Warnock,
Speaker 1: big dog. You you're a direct descendant to Dr King
Speaker 1: in Spirit like you run it like you you thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: well we're in the South. This is a pastor. Oh
Speaker 1: but this pastor don't play nice. You could still tap
Speaker 1: into the Southern tendencies of being like, oh well, you
Speaker 1: know that's just that's social justice gospel. Right. You got
Speaker 1: somebody like Herosha Walker who say, well, I'm a Christian too,
Speaker 1: you know, but here Christian like like like Dave Christians
Speaker 1: that believe that like like you know that God chose America.
Speaker 1: You you feel me with a special little especially here
Speaker 1: dance for you. You know. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: that that now this this, this is the argument. Now
Speaker 1: the question is will it work. Let me talk to
Speaker 1: you all about split tickets. L A t l A
Speaker 1: t L song a t l A t L song
Speaker 1: a t l A t L song a t L
Speaker 1: salty a t L sal a t l a l
Speaker 1: a t l s a t L s SALTI now listen,
Speaker 1: if you followed politics in the last ten years, you
Speaker 1: understand like once you pick your R O O D,
Speaker 1: you just voted down the ticket because you just like, look,
Speaker 1: I may not like this, dude, but I ain't voting
Speaker 1: for no Democrat. And but when you pulled in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: they pulled when you they I mean, if you trust
Speaker 1: the polls, whatever, you're gonna say, like, but when you
Speaker 1: pull them, uh, it's polling. Where of the Republicans, Kemp
Speaker 1: got a good of Republican vote. Her show got about
Speaker 1: eighty two Republican vote. That's listen, that's in in politics.
Speaker 1: That's big. That means that people Republicans are either gonna
Speaker 1: skip your race and just be like I don't, like,
Speaker 1: I can't get myself. What they're saying is I can't
Speaker 1: get myself to vote for Warnock because he's a Democrat.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I could for herschel Walker. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think I can vote for
Speaker 1: her schel Walker. Now, the last time we saw this
Speaker 1: was when Mitt Romney was running, like you just you
Speaker 1: when you you you skip that because it's like I
Speaker 1: just can't get myself to say, yeah, listen, throw away
Speaker 1: the map, y'all. Atlanta looked crazy because Atlanta is showing
Speaker 1: us that like, oh wait a minute, now, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: people just don't vote all the way are down or
Speaker 1: d down. If you gotta whack ass candidate, it's possible.
Speaker 1: You gotta show improve. You can't just say just because
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying that your governor's Republican.
Speaker 1: That means that you're gonna get your Republicans said, I
Speaker 1: don't mean it. It's it's tricky. It's not it's not
Speaker 1: that like a t L. Different, y'all, and it's continuing
Speaker 1: to be different. Listen, it wasn't. You didn't have big
Speaker 1: stars and hundreds of tons of thousands of millions of
Speaker 1: dollars being dumped into an Atlanta Senate race. That ain't
Speaker 1: what they used to. It's like now that they Atlanta,
Speaker 1: they didn't say, didn't d cded Florida. You know understand
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like Florida, Ohio used to be like
Speaker 1: the center of like NAIs a t L. Shaudi people
Speaker 1: coming down there? Why because so much is writing on
Speaker 1: this Stacy Abrams became the face of fighting voter suppression.
Speaker 1: That's that's a national good God, that's that's like, Look,
Speaker 1: we're different down these these black people different down here.
Speaker 1: And uh herschel Walker might possibly be the fifty first
Speaker 1: Senator for the Republic. You will you might actually like,
Speaker 1: do you think about this? I am a Laker fan,
Speaker 1: as you know, and right now it pains me to
Speaker 1: say it, but we gotta let go of Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 1: the brother guy I like, he is my he from
Speaker 1: the city, our respect is gangster. What he did for
Speaker 1: when Nipsey passed. Like he's funny, he's talented, and he
Speaker 1: will go down in the annals of history as a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. But that being said, he got the yips.
Speaker 1: Do not put the ball in this man's hand at
Speaker 1: the end of this game. We gotta trade him. He
Speaker 1: he gotta go. I can't imagine put the ball in
Speaker 1: the bronze hand when the game's on the line. He
Speaker 1: just did this recently. The game was on the line.
Speaker 1: This fool pulled up or a jumper. He's over for eleven. Nigga,
Speaker 1: Why are you shooting like I was furious? Nigga, the
Speaker 1: ball is not falling for you. Fam Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying Russell Westbrook is herschel Walker. I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is who I want to have
Speaker 1: the ball. I don't want to put the whole game
Speaker 1: on his shoulder. Right now, he not the strong on
Speaker 1: gets candidate at this moment. That's where they are see
Speaker 1: because split tickets again, let me let me. I can't
Speaker 1: stress this enough. Split tickets tells you a lot about
Speaker 1: where our country is going. And it also says that listen,
Speaker 1: I love you, but you're not putting up numbers. That's
Speaker 1: what it says. I love you, but you ain't putting
Speaker 1: up numbers. The times are changing, and what's going on.
Speaker 1: What's happening in Atlanta gonna tell us a lot about
Speaker 1: what's going on and what the rest of the country
Speaker 1: is doing. We ain't like, we ain't seeing those They
Speaker 1: don't split tickets. It hasn't been since two thousand twelve.
Speaker 1: Like that's not been a thing we talked about. You
Speaker 1: gotta put up some champions. If you're not gonna throw
Speaker 1: up some champions, this is what it shows us. If
Speaker 1: you're not putting up champions, you can't just trust just
Speaker 1: because you got that initial behind your name. It's not
Speaker 1: that I'll vote for the other team. I just won't
Speaker 1: vote for you. Is what happens. Foot will skip it.
Speaker 1: I have staying you know what I'm saying. So I'm
Speaker 1: not saying we out of our our silos here. But
Speaker 1: I am saying, oh, you can't just you can't just assume.
Speaker 1: You gotta give us, you gotta give me something to
Speaker 1: work with here. That's not And look a t l y'all.
Speaker 1: Things is changing like and and I'm saying this in
Speaker 1: the opposite Stacy Abrams shouldn't she shouldn't have a shot,
Speaker 1: but she there. This race is so close, it was
Speaker 1: so close last time. And on the other side, he
Speaker 1: should walkers shouldn't have a shot. You shouldn't have a gentfent.
Speaker 1: Things is changing. Takes it to look things is changing.
Speaker 1: So we'll see see how Trump backed candidates do. And
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is, at least in Atlanta or George's
Speaker 1: name really don't matter that much. Listen to anybody out there,
Speaker 1: and by reporting out there his name don't matter that much.
Speaker 1: That's wow. Okay, you don't poke the bear, you don't
Speaker 1: diss him, but you also don't need to bring him up.
Speaker 1: You know what you talk about now if you're Republican, Oh,
Speaker 1: you talk about crime, We're back to normal. You talk
Speaker 1: about crime, you talk about you talk about coming out
Speaker 1: of the pandemic early that you wouldn't you wasn't wearing
Speaker 1: no mask. You talk about the vote police, that's what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. If you if you would your Democrat. Oh,
Speaker 1: you talk about abortion, you talk about reproduction rights, you
Speaker 1: talk about justice in equity. Yeah, we're not even we're
Speaker 1: not even talking about it. We'll see though, If Trump's
Speaker 1: candidates like do well, we'll know what gonna look like.
Speaker 1: It's good, candidates do terrible, we'll know what looks like.
Speaker 1: Or if he's just inconsequential where it's all over the
Speaker 1: map like some so many wins, some of his candidates win,
Speaker 1: some of those candidate's lose. That also tells us what's
Speaker 1: going on in the future. What does that have to
Speaker 1: do with us. Here's my last point is it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be a foregone conclusion that your party can
Speaker 1: count on your vote. It don't have to be like that.
Speaker 1: You know you can. It's okay if you don't rock
Speaker 1: with a dude, it don't mean you gotta rock with
Speaker 1: the other guy. It just means you don't rock with
Speaker 1: that one. They need to know that. And lastly, is
Speaker 1: an X factor that I need to throw in here
Speaker 1: in relation to Atlanta politics, and his name is Killer Mike. Listen,
Speaker 1: Killer Mike's a new version. That's not something people have
Speaker 1: calculated for Now, let me make this case as to
Speaker 1: why Killer Mike is so important. Hip hop, you have
Speaker 1: to remember, is maybe fifty years old. It's it's still
Speaker 1: a young genre in relation to a lot of other
Speaker 1: big cultural movements. We don't have a lot of like
Speaker 1: Bonnos if you will, people who have transcended, people who
Speaker 1: have became presidents. But Jay Z s Arbano, like he's
Speaker 1: there's one who's hit a level of stratosphere. We have
Speaker 1: people that gone into entertainment obviously with like an iced
Speaker 1: Tea or Will Smith the ice Cube, who have transitioned
Speaker 1: out of just wrapping in hip hop into being mainstays
Speaker 1: in dominant culture. And they have somebody like Kanye you
Speaker 1: know who. We already talked about Kanye. But we don't
Speaker 1: have no politicians except for Killer Mike. Killer Mike is
Speaker 1: a grassroots organizer and is really not want to mess with.
Speaker 1: He's brilliant, he's nonpartisan. He will meet with whoever he
Speaker 1: needs to meet with. Think about a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: there was this there was this article in a huff
Speaker 1: Post about him being more Dane Riss then Kanye because
Speaker 1: his presence and his word gives legitimacy too. Somebody to
Speaker 1: a to a to a candidate right him meeting with
Speaker 1: Governor Kemp. The article was was critiquing that by being like, bro,
Speaker 1: why would you meet with this man knowing full well
Speaker 1: like verifiably he suppressed black votes. And the first thing
Speaker 1: I thought of was Dr King meeting with Lyndon B. Johnson.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm going here too. I'm here in
Speaker 1: the same way he's a raised here. I'm here for
Speaker 1: everybody black. You have to somebody like killing Mike is like, listen,
Speaker 1: this is transactional. I'm here for black flourishing. That's the
Speaker 1: type of man that was like, move your money away
Speaker 1: from those banks. Put him into black banks. He was like,
Speaker 1: by black grocery stores, support black businesses, and vote people out.
Speaker 1: If you remember, he got on stage on camera during
Speaker 1: the George Floyd uprising and was like, vote these people
Speaker 1: out of here. It's time to strategize and organize. But
Speaker 1: the critique was like, why would you even meet with
Speaker 1: somebody like herschel Walker? Why would you even give this
Speaker 1: person legitimacy, which to me is an understanding really of
Speaker 1: how much power grassroots organizing has because Killer Mike could
Speaker 1: sway a vote. He is street dude, he's a rapper,
Speaker 1: but he has actual political pull. The ability to even
Speaker 1: get a meeting with the governor shows a t l
Speaker 1: different y'all. Even the rappers organized. It's it's a new
Speaker 1: day everyone, and how you let them know you gotta vote?
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